Will Sanders also has questions about a crime scene photo showing Matthew's cellphone. Which is very off that this happened, because I never, ever had any thoughts like this before. "I know what happened," said the unidentified neighbor. Geez, im no cop , no investigator and know absolutely nothing on how investigations are even done but if the doctors say she wasnt shot what more do they need..that little punk got away with it.please tell me im missing a story and he has been arrested for the attempted murder of his wife.please.and please tell me that every stupid ass cop that had any involvement with this case is no longer a cop..oh and his Grandpa, well i think he needs a little jail rehabilitation as well..i could go on and on, but obviously they wouldnt understand anyway..what a disgrace to all REAL POLICE OFFICERS, https://the-grip.net/2016/10/18/gbi-completes-boynton-investigation-requested-by-gpd/ this says she was SHOT!!! Jessica Boynton, once declared dead, is alive and talking. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. "I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. ", Following that phone call, Mathews, perceiving that she was threatened, called the GBIs director of professional standards to file a formal complaint and to gain clarity about what he meant by, Were gonna have a problem.. Matthew sends another text to his mistress, a Spalding County dispatcher, Give me a few. provided images. 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. Matthew met Jessica during her sophomore year of high school at open house in 2012. At about 10:45 p.m., he continues, he thought he heard a gunshot while they were lying in bed. 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. Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. With his gun raised and arms poised, he holds his weapon out in front of him with both hands. Cops do find Jessica's DNA on the gun. Jessica was still in a coma with a traumatic brain injurytubes stemming from her brain to alleviate pressure and fluid. Reliving his steps inside the apartment after he heard gunshots fired, he said, My whole upper body went numb. RELATED: Who shot the officer's wife? HERE IS THE NEWS STORY OF THE SHOOTING.. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/trigger-over-and-out/85-8ab82530-da07-492b-9a3c-c20d5e7f50b3. 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. To text back long story I'll tell you later.. "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 attempted to contact Jessica Boynton via telephone to advise her that this is a civil matter. Waiting for your permission to load facebook comments. GRIFFIN, Ga. Who shot the officers wife? "He felt that perhaps it was maybe an anxiety attack. He grabs his police radio, stationed and charging on top of the white microwave in the kitchen, and leaves his phone on the counter. They investigate further and find a gun underneath Jessica's limp body. Jones removes the gun, which has a tactical flashlight attached to the bottom of its barrel, and places it on the kitchen counter and heads outside. Her neighbor, who asked us to protect her identity, says she knows the motive: Jessica had uncovered Matthew's dark secret. They turn her over from her stomach to her back. Officer Matthew Boynton has never been charged with anything in connection with this case, but the Georgia Bureau of Investigation did question him. Matthew makes it back to the apartment before help arrives and hears baby Tyler crying -- and then heartbreak. She rebukes the text message that came from her phone to Matthew's that night and said she didn't have a lock on her phone, so anyone could've sent it. And neither is Will Sanders, the truck driver spearheading the drive to get justice for Jessica. He drove back to the apartment, he tells Jones, but it was too late. And he called the girlfriend, so Mays said to Mathews. "The only thing that I can tell you is that Matthew Boynton's account of events are not correct.". Her husband, Matthew Boynton, was at a nearby restaurant when he got a text from Jessica that read like a suicide note. Jones eyes a small child sleeping on a bottom bunk bed in the back bedroom. Of course the Grandfather could not be reached for a comment, he had it covered up. They hoist her inside. Ive seen no evidence to indicate that would be necessary, but that does not preclude the GBI or anybody else from doing it if they choose. She agreed to provide those items to Sanders, who then turned them in to the Griffin Police Department. Her marriage had been crumbling, and she and her husband of six months Matthew Boynton, 20 . The remaining items such as a hope chest, clothing and other miscellaneous items were returned to Jessica. "He said 'What's wrong? Ashamed the FBI hasnt picked up on this yet . I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. Minutes later, just as Matthew pulls into the Waffle House parking lot, he says he receives a chilling message from Jessica, what he calls a "suicide text," that says: "I can't do this anymore. I just came up the stairs, two rounds be advised I smell gun smoke, and I can't get an answer at the door, he says out of breath and panicked. What he finds turns this case of a suicide upside down. "The Walmart surveillance camera shows that they did exit the building together, and it does show her re-entering and, it shows her leaving again later," said Sheila Mathews. During my stay is when my personal belongings were taken and Matthew Boynton (3842) refuses to give them back, Lester stated. Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton has been arrested and charged with two felonies. Immediately following that flip, Mathews said, DeMarco asked if she was recording their conversation. 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. 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. A tactical sweep finds an 8-month-old baby screaming. That's what they're all assuming, Matthew said. Having previously learned of the new evidence that was turned in to the Griffin Police Department May 11 and the Internal Affairs investigation that resulted, The GRIP on July 7 submitted an Open Records request for information in the case. Jessica Boynton, 19, was found lying in a pool of her own . Inside the closet they also discover Jessica's red "divorce diary." "I left the location, I'm back en route, I'm on Carver Road right now. Once established as her personal belonging, this one piece of physical evidence contradicted Boyntons January written civil statement in which he denied possessing any of Lesters property. A lot, she said, doesn't add up. As she continues to tinker with clothes, she notices that her red and black composition notebook, which is usually carefully tucked under a pile of clothes inside her closet, has been left on top of the clothes. If I could have been there 10 minutes earlier I could have jumped in front of the gun and try to get it from her man., Where did she shoot herself at? She made a full recovery, but doesnt remember a thing. Its a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boyntons wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon, inside the master bedroom closetlocked from the inside. We asked retired homicide detective Tim Miley to review Jessica's entire case file and every crime scene photo. But what about that 911 call Matthew made just minutes before the shooting, claiming he got a text from Jessica saying she was going to kill herself? The air is thick with the trepidation, as officers approach the locked closet. It could have been simply that um, all his, he left his stuff there. How did Jessica react when she saw those messages? Before he leaves, Matthew says Jessica makes a bizarre request: She asks him to call an ambulance. With his gun raised, holding it out and in front of him with both hands, Jones passes by a framed portrait hung on the wall. Its one of their owna police-issued .40-caliber Glock. Moments later Matthew's fellow officers from the Griffin, Georgia Police Department arrive on scene with body-cameras recording. And he said 'Yeah, we did.'". Did investigators look for a blunt object? I know eventually the chief would eventually like to get his officer back as well as his service weapon back as well, so we're going to try to expedite this as fast as possible, and when I mean expedite you know, within the next few weeks to a month, the agent said. Who does she think hit her over the head? Her marriage had been crumbling, and she and her husband of six months Matthew Boynton, 20 . I figured out what happened. Two shots have been fired from her husbands service weapon. "I don't want to put all the blame on him but he's the only person that could have done it," said Jessica Boynton. Sanders says there are a few things that really stand out: The red sweatshirt Matthew offered police to test for gunshot residue. I was scared to death, because I couldn't find [Tyler]that she would shoot me, I mean shoot him, shoot me, and then kill herself.. Matthew runs inside to the closet where he keeps his service gun. The second bullet hole is more of a mystery. She's moaning.. And their "War of the Roses" was about to explode. John Hayesto turn in many articles of womens clothing and other personal property including an orthodontic retainer. "If they put out a report I spend a lot of time fact-checking it and making sure what they're telling is the truth," said Sanders. I just came up the stairs, two rounds be advised I smell gun smoke, and I cant get an answer at the door, he says out of breath and panicked. provided images. Boynton in January denied being in possession of any of Lesters personal property. My kids are at home with her, so I'm trying to hurry up and get back there., I'm driving. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon . It appears she's been shot in the head. But he's also texting her before he called 911," said Sanders. "It's just inconvenient. "That's the way we're gonna play this game, Sheila. They hit the top of the stairs knowing somebody's got a gun. The next action noted in the case occurred nearly two months later. 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. This all follows a Georgia Bureau of Investigation case that ultimately ruled Lester had attempted suicide in April 2016. They are 50% more likely to commit police brutality. "Being in the closet," said Jessica. I never wanted to hurt myself before, she said, going on to say that she's never handled a gun, nor shot one. Her condition.. "According to my interview with Griffin police chief, that second shot had to have been fired while the gun was either on the floor or almost on the floor very close to that wall.". Guthrie calls Matthew and they chat for two minutes. Griffin Police Capt. However, the GBIs own photographs, search warrant and evidence log all corroborate that the officers phone was on the kitchen counter after Matthew had already left the apartment. "Police department!" And Sanders was beyond fascinated by this one. Man, look, she's still breathing. He advised that he does not have any of the items listed in this report.. giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weekly. I dont have the authority under our charter to hire or fire; it has to go to the city manager, so when you move toward a termination, it has to go through a process. They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. Crime Watch Daily investigates what really happened to Jessica Boynton, something even Jessica herself wants to know. They call in Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam, who happens to be Matthew's grandfather, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The chain of custody on that stuff is messed up. The shocking discovery comes when he shaves her head looking for bullet holes. Excessive force. Officer Robert Brian Jones is also dispatched to the Ashford Way apartment building. Boynton was released from the Spalding County Jail Friday night on a $4,806 cash bond. Jessica Lester-Boyntons property has already previously been returned to her by my step dad (Charles McDaniel Jr.) shortly after Jessica got out of the hospital. She's having suicidal thoughts," he says calmly to the dispatcher. 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. She's even fighting with EMS, dude, the fellow officer tells Matthew. "She was actually happy, she was thrilled because she finally got that closure that she needed," says the neighbor. 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. Just one minute later, Matthewcalls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. It's one of their owna police-issued .40-caliber Glock. 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? Meet at the Visitor Center. He's hoping if the case gets reopened, any possible clues will be preserved. 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. He was going to clean his gun and he asked me to go get it for him. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. She alleged that many of Lesters belongings remained in Boyntons residence. "Well, how do you come to that conclusion?" Jessica Boynton's head is perfectly positioned on a blood-soaked pillow. "I was scared to death that she would shoot me and then kill herself," Matthew tells investigators. "The Officer's Wife" is a new podcast that will examine the evidence in the 2016 shooting of a 19-year-old mother and ask: Who pulled the trigger? When the officers pull Jessica's body out of the closet, they find Matthew's gun right underneath her, a .40-caliber Glock. [] 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 []. A Griffin cop finally arrives to take Matthew's formal domestic violence complaint. At the time of the shooting Jessica was looking to make a new start for herself and two young sons. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. OMG this is a total disgrace to the Uniform.I have looked over several different articles and maybe im missing something here but, in all that i had seen it states that he was questioned in his wifes shooting what the hell folks.SHE WAS NOT SHOT!!!!! "Nobody would shoot themselves like this," said retired homicide detective Tim Miley. The neighbor says Jessica started documenting all the sordid details of the affair in her secret red "divorce diary." I was looking for a job and I finally found one. That's right. And the doctor in the emergency room didn't find any bullet holes. 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 questions Matthew about once he's out of the apartment. 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. If that's what you want to do. Uh, just my service weapon, he responds. As he drove he received a text message from Jessica's phone. Jessica's alive, but barely. DeMarco pressed Mathews. Dispatch notifies Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam, who is also Matthew's grandfather and police notify Jessica's family that she has died. To text back long story I'll tell you later.. "He didn't know if her intent was to kill their child, kill him and then commit suicide," said Sheila. That is not a reaction that I can relate to.". This couldn't happen man. The notification was made following an April 15, 2016, shooting incident - ruled by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to be a suicide attempt - at the home of Jessica Boynton and her now-estranged husband, Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton. A key piece of evidence was photographed inside the kitchen after officers arrived on the scene. She grabs his arm with her left hand, while her other arm falls to the ground. She had an appointment Monday.. 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. The neighbor says Jessica came over to her apartment with the kids, clearly upset about the fight. Nearly four years later, questions persist about what happened to the young. Privacy Policy | It's possible, but I mean it's very doubtful, because he's never hurt me before. And I could have been the next target.. "She's like, 'This is exactly what I need to get my divorce from him.'". The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. He lied about the lock then he says he kept his gun in there hmmm. "Be advised I smell gunsmoke, and I can't get an answer to the door," Boynton says on the call. She said there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent it. Did you all have sex?' After just six months of marriage, the Boyntons' one-time neighbor says she saw their young love grow toxic. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best friend, Officer Joshua Guthrie--leaving his service weapon at home, in its holster and in the closet. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. I had a friend who was a girl, or is a girl, he answers, further admitting that the relationship had become sexual. "Really somebody just needs to look at it, somebody of great knowledge of things like this, and then let them tell me what they think," said Jessica Boynton. Jones eyes a small child sleeping on a bottom bunk bed in the back bedroom. Yeah, if we've got to get the clothes, obviously we'll bring you back up to the apartment for you to get some clothes obviously, says the agent. Do you think Matthew did something? he asked her bluntly. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. A text message is sent to his phone from Jessicas phone. I never wanted to hurt myself before, she said, going on to say that shes never handled a gun, nor shot one. Now she lives in terror every day because she can't remember who attacked her. A message to Matthews phone is received and marked as read, from his girlfriend--from inside the evidence bag. "What you're saying to me, that's not, you know, I don't see anything he did wrong by saying that," Fred Mays told Mathews. ! his girlfriend texts him. The paramedic begins accessing her head wound, but they're having a hard time finding it through her hair and thick blood. "I left the location, I'm back en route, I'm on Carver Road right now. She was hit over the head. After getting Matthew's phone records, Sanders discovers during that same time Matthew was making calls to 911, he was texting his mistress. "It's believed that Jessica entered the closet, closed the door, locked it, turned with her back to the door facing the back wall of the closet, that she held the gun to her head, pulled the trigger," said Sheila. But DeMarco insisted to Mathews during their phone conversation, that the timeline was not relevant. The next door neighbor interview was conducted after Matthew returned to full duty. Until recently, Matthew's grandfather, Wendell Beam, reigned as Spalding County sheriff. Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton tells dispatch he has no idea what's happened to his wife or their two young sons. It's a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton's wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon,. "The second shot that was fired, it entered the back wall of the closet approximately a foot, no more than a foot off the ground. GBI didn't report finding any blood spatter on the closet wall. McCune also had Lester write a victims statement. He assigns another officer to standby at the door until the rest of the apartment is cleared. And it's assigned to Matthew, her husband, the cop. Are you having trouble breathing?'" But many believe Jessica holds the only key as to what really happened inside that closet. I don't know why. Once he arrives on the scene, Trammel makes contact with Matthew, who tells him that he and his wife got into an argument. "I'm guessing Matthew," said Jessica. He says, he got out of the shower and asked her for his phone back several times, but she refused, he says, until he admitted to her that he was cheating on her. ", "There are two theories in this case, the first is that she shot herself and on the way to the ground she accidentally fired the gun a second time. They did not swab me or Matthew, nor did they take his clothes," said Jessica. When facts are wrong, evidence altered to fit theories and threats made, how does theGBI remain the last word on the Jessica Boynton case? 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. Her mouth covered with a breathing apparatus and several machines attached to her, in an effort to monitor her condition. Tyler, the 8-month-old baby, is the result of a relationship Jessica had with a mechanic while she and Matthew were temporarily separated. Jessica Boynton was initially . But someone else did. Because she owned the retainer prior to her marriage, it would not be considered community property. Thats what took so long to get it sorted out.. Matthew Boynton, 21, had just started work as a Griffin police officer. That's the last thing the 19-year-old remembers. "Her hands appeared to be pristine, but also he noted that she had no gunpowder burns.". Furthermore, he said, it's his observation that self-inflicted gunshot wounds are very unusual among women. 'We're not going to do this in Georgia anymore' | Prosecutor fighting to stop animal abuse, NASCAR star Chase Elliott hurts leg in snowboarding accident, Forecast | Cooler air moving in for the weekend, Metro Atlanta, north Georgia hit with widespread damage after storms produce powerful winds, calls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. Despite Jessica Boynton's fiery allegations, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation closed her case, clearing Matthew to return to work. She would never have done this. You want to start recording me, and started quoting me, you'd better let me know ahead of time, or we're gonna have a problem. There's no way I could have shot myself in the top of the head and not kill myself. With the suicidal text message and Jessica's DNA found on her husband's gun, less than a month after her hospital bed interview, Matthew was verbally cleared by the GBI, according to the chief, and as of June 6, Matthew returned to full duty with a new service weapon on his hip. In partnership with That was the subject of his charges his statements and writings that we were able to prove were false, Yates said. Which I knew that.. Like, how hours after the shooting, the phone was put into an evidence bag, sealed and logged into GBI evidence, it was still calling Matthew's girlfriend. "I said 'It's Jessica isn't it?' No, never. One of those bullets went through the roof, the other lodged into the baby's bedroom wall. Show the world how smart you are and uncover what the Wannabe investigative reporters couldn't figure out. If someone from the GBI does not reopen this.. well, I have to get my ducks in a row before I open another huge can of worms.. I just came up the stairs, two rounds," Boynton says on the recorded call. Two shots had been fired. So just one?" 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. It appears to be either an assault or maybe something accidental," said Miley. He's a truck driver. Agent DeMarco approaches Meagan Browning, who's joined by Eric Kshywonis, at 61 Ashford Waythe apartment just downstairs from Jessica and Matthew. While sifting through pages and pages of the report, a GBI evidence photo caught her attention. So I'm trying to hurry and get back home just to make sure that nothing's going to happen to them.. A phone that text messages were sent and received to/from following his recollection of hearing,POP-POP! and running out of the apartment. Jessica Boynton is found unconscious, her body on top of her husband's service revolver. nd police notify Jessicas family that she has died. Here's where things get blurry. The ambulance pulls away with Jessica in critical condition, to the fire station located on Carver Road, where the medical helicopter picks her up and takes her to an Atlanta hospital. "There was no testing done on his clothing," said Sheila Mathews. I can't keep doing this.. "The neighbors [said] somewhere around 11 p.m., and he is the only one who hears the gunshots at 1 a.m., and he calls it in," said Sanders. His phone is pretty active tonight. "I don't really know what happened in the closet, I just know that I did not try to kill myself," said Jessica Boynton. Absolutely, Matthew assures the agent. "It doesn't sound like anything I would say," said Jessica Boynton. Hahaha you about have me a heart attack freak!! "Well I don't know. Photos | Jessica and Matthew Boynton wedding. Stay outside.. "I think it was in the heat of the moment, he was angry with me. The baby's muffled cry echoes, getting louder as the officers sweep their guns back and forth, searching for the shooter. This is abuse of power. While Jessica believes someone tried taking her life from her, she refuses to allow anyone to take her kids away from her. 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. When asked to confirm that a July 26 appointment with Lesters orthodontist was pivotal in the Internal Affairs case, Yates said it was. They wanted me to come back Friday for orientation for the job, she said. "I didn't know if I was dealing with a possible active scenario where she still had the gun, and she had shot Tyler, and then I could have been the next target," Matthew says in the interview. After three weeks, she woke up. A Griffin Police Officer's wife herself, the reporter called DeMarco, on Sept. 28, the investigator who was in charge of the investigation for the GBI, to question him about the case and the photo that nagged her, and that for her, called into question how anything they investigated was trustworthy. She wants to give her new employers the right impression, since tomorrow is her first day at a chiropractor's office.
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