He's not a cop or even a private investigator. They hoist her inside. I mean he might have grabbed my arm before, but I don't think he would intentionally do anything to hurt mebut like I said, he's changed so much here, lately, she said. If the phone was found by the GBI in the kitchenif the phone is on police body camera footage sitting on the counter by the microwave, and he was outside never returning insidehow is it possible for Matthew to text his girlfriend, while he's calling in shots fired while outside of the apartment? In partnership with She's still breathing. He's asked me to go get it out before. Matthew's fellow officers try to shield him from the sight of his gravely injured wife. Example video title will go here for this video. Matthew says that he told Jessica, I'm not happy anymore and I can't. For the next three and a half weeks, Jessica remains in a coma with a traumatic brain injurytubes protruding from her brain to alleviate pressure and fluid. "I said 'It's Jessica isn't it?' It seems both Matthew and Jessica were secretly stockpiling ammunition for a bitter custody fight. He hears a baby crying as he carefully steps into the bedroom where a dark brown crib is situated. I never wanted to hurt myself before, she said, going on to say that she's never handled a gun, nor shot one. Matthew makes it home and races to the breezeway of his apartment and enters, checks the master bedroom and bangs on the locked closet door. The dispatch operator notified Matthew on Facebook, Browning says. The only person who truly knows what happened behind that closet door was jessica -- and she's now out of her coma. Thats what took so long to get it sorted out.. Matthew sends another text to his girlfriend, a Spalding County dispatcher, Give me a few. There's so many useless words thrown in there, then there's so many words left out, she said. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. Matthew met Jessica during her sophomore year of high school at open house in 2012. She agreed to provide those items to Sanders, who then turned them in to the Griffin Police Department. I told him, You're going to have to go get it, because I cant get it out of the case., Do you know how it was that you got shot?, Have you ever had any type of thoughts about hurting yourself?. "I don't really know what happened in the closet, I just know that I did not try to kill myself," said Jessica Boynton. How did Jessica react when she saw those messages? Its one of their owna police-issued .40-caliber Glock. Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. The agent had that phone, I think DeMarco, Chris DeMarco had the phone and they was [sic] trying to get in the gate, and, uh, he accidentally hit, I guess, the last number dialed, called or whatever. Griffin Police officer Matthew Boynton was cleared in his wife's shooting, but his interrogation still cost him his job. "Police department!" Here recently she did confirm that the second baby's not mine. I don't know if it's just his job or what, but like I said I don't think he would intentionally hurt me.. Officer Robert Brian Jones is also dispatched to the Ashford Way apartment building. Despite what many think is a smoking gun, the GBI agent asking questions proceeds as if Jessica shot herself. It's one of their owna police-issued .40-caliber Glock. Her neighbor, who asked us to protect her identity, says she knows the motive: Jessica had uncovered Matthew's dark secret. I had a friend who was a girl, or is a girl, he answers, further admitting that the relationship had become sexual. When asked if Boynton had explained why he allegedly kept his ex-wifes belongings, Yates said, No. Will Sanders also has questions about a crime scene photo showing Matthew's cellphone. Im not sure about that. A tactical sweep finds an 8-month-old baby screaming. The agent who told Mathews, Were gonna have a problem, apologized to the reporter and told her that he was answering questions about a case file that he had not reviewed for months. I didnt know if I was dealing with a possible active active scenario where she still had the gun and she had shot Tyler, he replied. Her complaint, which she checked on, was never filed. According to the report, GBI investigators never conducted a re-canvass of the apartment complex, and did not talk with the immediate next door neighbor for four and a half months, despite reports from other residents that they heard a single gunshot hours earlier than the officers call claiming shots had been fired. When asked to confirm that a July 26 appointment with Lesters orthodontist was pivotal in the Internal Affairs case, Yates said it was. The ceiling fan's light shines down on Jessica's eyes. BREAKING | Matthew Boynton, who was under investigation and cleared by the GBI last year for his wife's shooting, was charged with one felony count of false statements and writings, and one felony count of violation of oath of office. To text back long story I'll tell you later.. Trammel records the 10:53 p.m., incident report from April 14. "Next thing I remember was I wake up and I'm in a hospital.". This stinks, and the fact remains, it appears he tried to kill his wife, so what are you guys going to do?? Cops finally reach that locked closet door. On May 11, Will Sanders met withYancy and Sgt. Jessica Boynton was just 19 years old when she was found inside a locked closet with a gunshot wound to her head. But the story is far from over: Jessica now claims the April 15 incident was a staged suicideconstructed by her husband. Why did no one ask about the comment Matthew made about the kids being in the closet too? I thought he hadnt gone inside the apartment until backup arrived, so how would he know Jessica was in the closet unless he put her there? "They did not. But asking those questions resulted in a threat. Her mouth covered with a breathing apparatus and several machines attached to her monitoring her condition. Jones eyes a small child sleeping on a bottom bunk bed in the back bedroom. When they finally shove their way in, tragic heartbreak is lying in front of them. Boynton was placed on administrative leave Thursday, July 28, and the Chief said his intent was to terminate the officer, but Boynton resigned before that process could be completed. So I'm trying to hurry and get back home just to make sure that nothing's going to happen to them.. [] of this document: BREAKING NEWS: GPD Officer Matthew Boynton arrested, charged with two feloniesM Matthew Boynton: The evidence and investigation that led to his arrest Matthew Boynton criminal []. His tone changes. Most of the cases that he would have made or would be involved in would also have, or should have, body worn camera video, car video, things of that nature, so the fact that his statement to us was compromised would not necessarily taint everything else. Matthew's attorney, however, told the court that Jessica was the one who shot the gun and that initially, Matthew believed that she was shooting at him. Moments later Matthew's fellow officers from the Griffin, Georgia Police Department arrive on scene with body-cameras recording. the GBI agent posed a return question. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon . Matthew reads a text from Lt. Curtis Keys, look for police car.. Crime Watch Daily's security team tracked the email address, only to find it was from an anonymous server. 478-993-3053. Lester recovered from the shooting but doesn't remember any of it. Armed with bodycams attached to their uniforms, the officers burst through the door, quickly passing Matthew's phone, a black and grey Verizon LG smartphone, on the kitchen counter. I said 'Is she still alive?' But Griffin Police are treating this as a suicide attempt. The GRIP has reported extensively on seeming inconsistencies and irregularities in that GBI investigation. [Im] gonna have to kick that door in Jones relays to the other officers standing on the other side of the closet, barreling through it in just two swift and deliberate kicks. A paramedic frantically fights to save Jessica's life. Jessica's husband and high school sweetheart is Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton. Shortly afterward, Matthew begins texting Jessica about going to Walmart to pick up baby formula. The next door neighbor interview was conducted after Matthew returned to full duty. She told me to take care of the boys, so I'm trying to hurry up and get back home just to make sure nothing is going to happen to them. Ironically Jessica first met that man while she was out scouting for a wedding venue to marry Matthew. Immediately following that flip, Mathews said, DeMarco asked if she was recording their conversation. A lot," said the neighbor. But did something else happen that spring night in 2016? If not, get on a plane and go HOME.". Furthermore, she said, there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent a text like that. The remaining items such as a hope chest, clothing and other miscellaneous items were returned to Jessica. Making his way outside, seconds later, he calls for assistance over his radio. He's meeting his buddy at the local Waffle House. Dispatcher: Any weapons inside the house? Then he drops a shocker, claiming he wasn't the only one cheating, "She finally told me, she said 'Yeah, I had an affair,'" Matthew Boynton says in the GBI interview. But where's the second round? He reads another text from his girlfriend, while driving 90 mph. To stage a suicide," said the neighbor. Jessica, on a few occasions, hit and slapped him, he tells the GBI. Her shoulder-length, blonde hair was saturated in crimson. said Sheila Mathews. It can be inferred that approximately half or more cops are abusive husbands/wifebeaters. I don't know why. Matthew Boynton allegedly deprived ex-wife Jessica Lester of her belongings and lied to the authorities about doing so, Griffin police Lt. Michael Natale said in a statement. And I could have been the next target.. (South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS) I'm sure as you've heard, I'm getting a divorce. That's fine. They discover two shell casings and two bullet holes in the closet wall. Even though doctors were able to save her life, they couldn't save her from what was about to happen to her familylosing custody of her children. While she places a blood pressure sleeve around her arm, an officer stands over her, shining a flashlight on Jessica's face, revealing that it's covered in blood. The shocking discovery comes when he shaves her head looking for bullet holes. "In looking at this, this does not have the appearance of a suicide to me. Unfortunately Matthew Boynton didn't have anything to say. The neighbor claims she had been with Jessica just hours beforehand, and says her friend would never have tried to take her own life. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best. "It was. "I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. This activity on his cell phone had to have taken place inside the kitchen inside his apartment," Mathews said to DeMarco in a recorded phone conversation. Running across the parking lot and up the stairs, responding officers, Keys, Jones and Gresham head toward the apartment. The July 29 arrest of former Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton stemmed from a theft report filed Dec. 19, 2016, by his former wife, Jessica Lester. Eventually, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation concluded what they believe happened inside that closet; Matthew Boynton was never charged with any connection in harming his wife. He's asked me to go get it out before. It was actually from him. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. Matthew makes it home, jumps out of his truck, races through the breezeway of his apartment building and bolts up the stairs. [I miss] getting to see them every day and getting to watch them grow more and more into the boys and men that they're going to be someday, Jessica said sobbing. "He does report an incident that would be considered domestic violence, that she was poking him in the chest with her finger," said Sheila Mathews. "Here's where her head was laying. While GPD Chief Mike Yates said he is unable to release specific information due to the criminal nature of the case, he did confirm information The GRIP provided during a July 31 interview. "Well listen, if you're going to start quoting, you gonna start recording these things, you need to let me know ahead of time before you do, before I'm starting answering questions," DeMarco ordered the reporter. I wouldn't trade those two boys for anything," she said, swiping away tears streaming down both cheeks. After you got on the radio and you were outside communicating on the radio, you never went back in to actually check, check on the kids, the agent questioned Matthew about once he removed himself from the apartment. Man that young girl deserves justice, it really smells like the cop snapped and tried to kill her, especially during the night of interview when he starts talking fast and over explaining his actions like I didnt even wash my hands. A Griffin police officer who was investigated in his ex-wife's shooting was charged Friday, July 28, 2017, with making false statements and violating oath after officials say he took her belongings, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. GBI agents, however, have closed her case. SHE WAS NOT SHOT.and do they really think that she would have hit herself hard enough with any object to cause the damage that was done? After Jones pushes the gun away from underneath Jessica's bodyplacing it inside the bedroom, he and Officer Josh Howell move Jessica from the closet to the bedroom floor next to the foot of her bed so that EMS can begin working on her. He has been charged with false statements and writings and violating his oath of office. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. It was sitting out in the open, caught on police body-camera when cops kicked in the closet door. A text message is sent to his phone from Jessicas phone. Chris DeMarco, GBIs assistant special agent in charge, arrives on the scene and meets with Griffin Police Chief Michael Yates for a briefing. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon, Jessica and his sleeping sons at home. He was going to clean his gun and he asked me to go get it for him. "Be advised I smell gunsmoke, and I can't get an answer to the door," Boynton says on the call. The doctor was not contacted by the GBI until July 20. "I would say broken, distraught, damaged," the neighbor says. If that's what you want to do. No bullet fragments were recovered from her head. Domestic violence has always been a precursor to violence in other areas. The neighbor says Jessica started documenting all the sordid details of the affair in her secret red "divorce diary." Just days after running into Officer Boynton, I received a threatening email that reads in part: "Are You An Intelligent Enough Investigative Journalist To Know When You Are Being Conned or Do You Have To Be Spoon Fed? The odd thing is a few pages have been ripped out. He's hoping if the case gets reopened, any possible clues will be preserved. He calls out for Jessica, but no answer. But she doesn't buy it, especially since her head was perfectly laid on a pillow, she said after watching the bodycam footage. She had always kept it hidden, but now, there it is for everyone to see. The purpose of it, is when you're fighting with somebody to keep the weapon from coming out of your holster, but it's certainly easy to take it out under most cases. Once the investigation was closed, reporter and publisher, Sheila Mathews, investigated the shooting for her newspaper, The Grip. Despite their problems, Matthew tells investigators he still loved Jessica and the boys, and he offers an explanation for why he didn't run in the apartment that terrible night to save them. Matthew Boynton along with Lee Boynton, Josh Guthrie and Courtney Callaway moved all of my personal belongings from the residence. Unfortunately, the only person who may be able to answer that question is Jessica, and she was in a coma. The GBI needs an overhaulclean house. "Another reasonable explanation is that there was a fight over the gun and during the course of that she was injured, Matthew thought she was dead and put the gun underneath.". And based on the totality of circumstances, all the facts and circumstances, all the forensics, and the conclusion of the case, as well as the GBI's and the district attorney's recommendation, is no, he did not cause her injuries, Yates concluded in an interview with 11Alive for"Trigger: Who shot the officer's wife.". Click here for "Trigger: The Last Word" | And we talk to Jessica Boynton again here: "Trigger: Free as a Bird" | Anda story when the officer was arrested and kicked offthe force (but not for shooting his wife ). I have been suffering for a while now and no one has noticed. Shame shame. Example video title will go here for this video. She had a job interview and it was going to be her first step to freedom. Blood pressure.. ', Do you know how it was that you got shot?, Have you ever had any type of thoughts about hurting yourself?. He's a truck driver. A woman who lived across from the couple, who works with law enforcement, agreed to a Crime Watch Daily interview if we protect her identity. Matthew Boynton, 20, discovered his wife Jessica, 19, lying in a pool of blood in a closet. I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. "I left the location, I'm back en route, I'm on Carver Road right now. He drove back to the apartment, he tells Jones, but it was too late. Griffin, Georgia is the kind of small Southern town where high school sweethearts stay married forever. Matthew claims they returned home just after 11 p.m. His proof? She also says she couldn't have written the text because it said "I love you.". Yates said, Yes, but that doesnt overcome the civil side of it whether it was or was not marital property, and even if it was, it would have been a misdemeanor as opposed to the two felonies.. I didn't wash may hands, nothing like that either, that way for GSR., There's a possibility that we might collect your clothes, OK. Dr. Vernon Henderson, chief of Trauma and Critical Care at Atlanta Medical Center was on-call the morning Jessica came in and treated her for the next month while she was in the hospital. Matthew Boynton is clearly hysterical. I told him, 'You're going to have to go get it, because I can't get it out of the case. But, Jessica said regardless of her knowledge of guns, she had every reason to live. Still lodged in Jessica's skull? There's so many useless words thrown in there, then there's so many words left out, she said. Matthew's hands were not tested for gunpowder either. "He believed that the shots he heard fired were fired from his duty weapon," said Sheila Mathews, publisher of The Grip. RE-open the case Georgia!!!!!! Matthew begins calling his brothers in blue, telling them Jessica is physically abusing him -- not a standard way of reporting domestic abuse. GRIFFIN, Ga. Who shot the officers wife? Her husband is cheating on her with another woman, reveals Browning, who said, they called dispatch a few nights earlier because he took the kids. How does Jessica explain the "suicide text" sent from her phone less than 10 minutes before her husband Matthew called 911 in a panic? Jessica Boynton's head is perfectly positioned on a blood-soaked pillow. And that's all I needed, so I was on cloud nine.". Reliving his steps inside the apartment after he heard gunshots fired, he says, My whole upper body went numb. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. According to a press release issued by the Griffin Police Department, Boynton was on Friday arrested without incident and transported to the Spalding County Jail. He says she started poking him in the chest with her finger, telling him that he had to admit there was another woman. Jones checks on a locked closet door between the master bedroom and hallway, across from the bathroom. FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE FOR YOURSELF, CLICK HERE. Listen. And the second bullet went up at 25-degree upward angle 1'10 off the floor. "That was when approximately 24 minutes into the conversation, his demeanor changed and everything flipped," she recalled. Jessica, then-19, had just put her two young sons to bed and was getting her clothes ready in the closet for the next day. What Sanders found most alarming was the time frame Matthew Boynton says he heard those two gunshots. As part of that case, Lt. Karen Yancy, who leads the GPD Criminal Investigation Division, spoke with Boynton and on Jan. 5, reported, On Dec. 19, 2016, I spoke with Matthew Boynton about these items. UPDATE: This story was originally published in November 2016. Once the scene is secure, investigator Misty Gresham checks on Tollin, who's sleeping, and Tyler, who is awake and still crying in his cribboth unharmed. The ceiling fan circles on high speed. The doctor said the second most striking observation while assessing Jessica was that neither of her hands had any evidence of gunpowder. Her head wound has soaked into the green and white pillow her head is resting onher blood is contained to that one stain and a few nearby drops. "I believe it's both, it's sloppy and a cover-up," said Jessica. Matthew admits to having an affair. GRIFFIN, Ga. - Matthew Boynton was arrested by his fellow Griffin Police officers and taken to the Spalding County Jail on . Video shot outside in the parking lot shows Jessica getting in a black truck with Matthew and the kids, then leaving. He also reported hearing two gunshots and. "Well, how do you come to that conclusion?" I didn't, I didn't, I didn't try to brush off anything. She told me she loved me right before she did it," Matthew says, sobbing, as the paramedics roll her gurney into the ambulance and slam the doors shut. However, she was NOT shot. However, this does not surprise me how they covered this up and they wonder why good citizens dont come forward when a crime takes place.HUMMMMM, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/what-if-your-abusive-husband-is-a-cop. Jessica Boynton, once declared dead, is alive and talking. Sheila Mathews publishes The Grip, an independent newspaper in Griffin. That bullet ends up toward the top left of the closet. That stuff apparently, from what we were able to discover through our investigation, went through several different peoples hands, which taints our chain of custody, Yates said. Jessica Boynton's husband says he gets a suicidal text from his estranged wife, so he rushes home, only to hear two gunshots. This, Matthew says to Trammel, is the precursor to an argument the couple also had at Walmart later that night, just after 10 p.m. Once outside, he tells Trammel Jessica refuses to get into the car to go hometelling him she would find another way home and walked back into Walmart. But DeMarco insisted to Mathews during their phone conversation, that the timeline was not relevant. And they said yes. provided images. He assigns another officer to standby at the door until the rest of the apartment is cleared. She found a photo on Snapchat of another woman wearing nothing but a towel, with the caption: Shower time.. $5 plus $5 parking. Henderson said in the letter, that he did not believe that Jessica's head injury was the result of a gunshot wound, and furthermore, questioned how she got the injury at all. 2023 Telepictures Productions Inc. They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. Her head shaved. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service. "I can't do this anymore," the message read. After establishing her retainer was not community property, Boynton was arrested on two felonies false statements and writings and violation of his oath of office. The gun then landed underneath," said Tim Miley. Still inside, some of the officers look closer and find two bullet holes inside the closet.
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