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What's going on everybody? I'm Marah. And I'm Taz. And welcome back to Sisters Who Kill. Happy end of Pride Month everybody. I hope you had a cheery gay time. I know I did. What about you Taz? I did all right. You're just cheery and gay all year long. Well the story we have for you today is quite a doozy. And so from Sisters Who Kill to you, happy Pride.

Our players this week are Tiffany Wilson, Lakiria's girlfriend and our victim, and Lakiria Dowdy, our murderess.

LaCaria Dowdy was born May 27th, 1994 to her mother, LaTarsha Barksdale, and her father, Jarvis Dowdy. Now she is from West Baltimore. I tried to look up as much as I could about her because she had a social media presence. And I do know that she's not a fan of chocolate. That's something that she tweeted quite a few times. Don't like chocolate cake. Don't like chocolate brownies. None of that.

And where she was in Baltimore. Now, Taz and I, are you familiar with Baltimore at all other than what we see on the internet? Just the wire. Just the wire. Okay, that's...

That's more than me because I don't even watch The Wire. But apparently in Baltimore, just like everywhere, honestly, in any place that you go, there's a subculture there of folks that like to ride. And I just know that part because Meat Meal be riding. And you remember they tried to send Meat Meal back to jail for popping wheelies.

We're getting ahead of ourselves. But yeah. So in Baltimore, there's this huge subculture of people that like to ride. And what they do is they ride dirt bikes on the street. Some kids will ride like pedal bikes, like bicycles, like we know.

Some kids will be riding the four wheelers, two wheelers. And these bikes are actually technically for dirt, but they ride in them on the street. Now, now, LaCuria, her dad was a part of this, like rode a little bit, but she also liked to ride. She was on pedal bikes when she was younger before she really got an engine behind her. Even her dad was like,

you're going to have a bright future ahead of you, girl. Something about my daughter is special. She loved her dad, and of course her dad loved her. In the biking world, this is mostly male-dominated. There's a very well-known group called the 12 O'Clock Boys, and you wanted to ride with the 12 O'Clock Boys, and it's 12 o'clock because it's how you want a two-wheeler.

And you got one wheel at six, one wheel at 12. And you are leaning back and you riding that. Everybody's doing this around Baltimore. I mean, still to this day. But Lacuria, her dad passed away in 2009 from an aneurysm. Now, from what I sleuth on her page and comments and things, it looks like her dad's nickname was Porky. And after her dad's death, like she was hurt. She was confused. Those aneurysms, they come sudden. They come quick.

And you don't really know what to do. For her, like, she loved her father. So this really was a blow to her system. And from there, she started acting buck wild, bro. Like, you couldn't tell her nothing. She was a mad kid. 2009, what's that? She was born in 94 like we were. 2009, that's the end of ninth grade? Come on.

come on and you lose your dad, your best friend. And so from that, that really made her sad. And she didn't get on a bike for a while after that. Until one day, some of her homeboys was like, come on, why don't you come out and ride with us? Like, yeah, take the pedal bike. Come on, ride with us. Come on, do your thing. And she said, okay.

And from there, her life really changed. Like she found community with the bikes. She was good at it. She was able to do tricks and she was constantly advancing in her skill. Now, after she graduated from high school, she got herself a job working at a senior care facility. Maybe she's a CNI. I'm not really sure. Maybe she was just working in the laundry room because she took a picture saying like pulled up at my old job, whatever. I don't really know. And in her adolescent years, they were really good. She did fine.

fine in school. She didn't have any run-ins with the police.

And she really started riding. Now, her mom wanted her to ride because, like, she was around more positive influence. She wasn't acting out as much. But there's still a danger to riding. And her mom, like, after she started staying on the straight and narrow, her mom was like, all right, you ain't got to ride as much or you're going to get yourself hurt. She's like, no, no, I'm not going to get myself hurt. So in 2013, she got herself hurt. At one point in time, my mother actually had, like,

problem with it because I had lied to her one day about how I knocked my wrists out of place because I had recently just got hit at the age of 14 off a big dirt bike up Drew Hill Park so I lied she told me don't get back on the bike I got on the four-wheeler and actually knocked my whole wrists out of place and I just walked home and

And she made me walk down to the hospital because the simple fact she told me not to get on there. So it's like it all comes from support for real. Which is something that my mom would make me do. I told you not to go riding. Now you got your wrist out of place. Walk your ass down to urgent care. Your legs are fine. Hold that wrist and go down there. Take the insurance card.

Just like any activity where black people are having fun and people come out to see and we're being amazing and naturally talented, doing things that white people would normally get paid for, but we just do it for fun on the street. The police are like, it's giving illegal.

And police really started cracking down on dirt bikes in the city, dirt bikes, anybody that was riding for real, for real. So what happened is in the year 2000, there was a pretty tragic bike accident, but there was a couple of casualties. So the city was like, listen, this is illegal. We don't want people riding up and down the street at all the city council meetings. All the white people, everybody is like, it's dangerous. And they're running red lights and everything.

We don't know where they're coming from. You need to ban the dirt bikes. Which is really crazy because you know what an alternate solution to that would be? Open up a park. Put some money into the interest of your constituents. Yeah. Wouldn't that be crazy? A specialized park. Yeah. You can't have kids around there. And that was the thing. People would follow them. Like, the kids would be... Like, she was known around the neighborhood. The 12 o'clock boys are known around the neighborhood. Kids would be like, oh, y'all not riding today? We coming out to see y'all ride. Y'all gonna...

Papa Willie, Papa Willie. This became an interest of everybody in the community. But a lot of people saw it as dangerous. And sometimes I think their argument is everything we do is dangerous. Just a biker's argument? I mean, that's one of their arguments. Like everything that we do is dangerous. A car accident. Things happen. They are just accidents. And so Lakiria, she actually started a YouTube channel where she was showing...

herself doing tricks and things like that. And she was really advocating for the police to really just chill out because they had hit her off of her bike because the police were starting to be corrupt. They were stealing people's bikes off the street. They were hitting them on purpose. She said she was up on North Fulton Avenue.

on her bike and out of nowhere a police came and just hit her right from the side pushed her off the bike she said she had a huge gash on her lip she needed stitches from it the police hit you and you can't do nothing about it by June of 2013 she had been practicing and practicing she went to this place called Carroll Park where they were like really learning how to ride and she said

At that point, that's when she really popped her first wheelie and her first wheelie was really, really good. You know what I'm saying? She also said that she learned a lot from popping that first wheelie because that first wheelie that she popped, she scratched her butt, which is what I always think about when I see people riding. Like, your backside not fucked up? But a lot of people, I guess it's the risk. I don't know. Not that balanced, right, I guess.

Yeah. Also on her YouTube page and a big argument that she had when she did a lot of interviews is that you can look at her YouTube page. She's stopping at red lights. She's like, I'm stopping at red lights. I don't want to get hit. Like, what do you mean? Everybody can stop at red lights. And granted, not everybody stops at red lights. Sure, we can start cracking down on that. But a lot of people do. There is still danger to the fact that you're on a dirt bike on top of asphalt. You're not on dirt. Right.

And she was really posting stuff on internet. The subculture was really starting to get out there and she was really starting to get noticed on the internet because A, she was the only girl out there doing what she was doing. The

The only one. She was a stud. At the time, she had her hair cut like she had a little fro, but she would always wear a shirt that had her merch on it and on the back of it would say, I'm a girl. And also the Internet was really starting to pick up on what was going on. There was a documentary about the 12 o'clock boys that came out in 2014 that really took the world by storm. And that one followed back.

This boy that was like 12 followed him for three years in his journey with the 12 o'clock boys. Now in 2015, she was starting to get featured everywhere. Like she was starting to get flewed out places. People were really, really liking to see that she was a, a girl in a sport, a male dominated sport B. She was good as hell in the sport.

And see, she had that swag. It was all about control, balance, and swag. And I got all that. Yeah, she was definitely picking up. In 2014, she started selling merch saying, I support Willie Queen and I'm a girl.

She was featured in The Baltimore Sun in 2015. She and her bike were featured in SportsBikeIncMag.com. In February of 2016, a trailer for The Wheelie Queen came out, which was a movie about herself, and she teased it to the public, but a film date was never released. And at this rate, was the film even released? Because we can't find it.

I don't think it was. But also, like, I think because 12 O'Clock Boys, it was such a big hit. I think that it probably was legit in the works and maybe somebody was planning on taking it to festivals. And she might have dodged a bullet because maybe they weren't going to sell the rights to her life like they did Pug, who was the center focus. And he barely got any money off of doing that because people come and they take advantage of talented black kids everywhere.

and exploit them and don't give them any money. And then famous Black people like Jada Pickett Smith and Will Smith will buy the rights to your life and then make a whole movie based off of aspects of your life. Her career starts taking off and one of the goals for her brand, she created another brand, hashtag the system.

She wanted them to grow larger in the Baltimore area and even past the Baltimore area. She started making connections in Atlanta, started street riding in Atlanta, got connected in the TV and film industry out here, and was part of that era when Atlanta was starting to be called the Black Hollywood. Yeah. In the summer of 2017, the police task force really started to crack down on bikers and

They are violating people's probation. They are sending niggas to jail. They don't want to see y'all ride y'all bikes. It sounds so simple, like, but...

If you give them a place to do it, it'll probably be less issue. That's what I'm saying. I think she was in an interview, and she was like, your first offense, you get 30 days. Second one, you get 60 days. After that, you get 90 days, and it just keeps going up from there if you pop a willy in the street. Because, you know, like, country people, they'll take the dirt roads and fields and go ride, but you don't have that in a city. And so...

that don't mean they don't want to ride. And so same way you build skate parks and racetracks or whatever, like, if that's such a big culture of the city, I think that's definitely something that could come about. You know what I'm saying? It seems so simple. Around the 2016-17 era, La'Keria starts getting into a little issues. She's usually chill, laid back in most situations, but she was known to have a temper.

And sometimes it got the best of her, especially when it comes to her mother and her younger brother. One day she realized her younger brother was being bullied, so she goes down there and she handled it. She got arrested, she got charged and was put on probation, but she handled it. This delayed her move to Atlanta because, like we said, she's trying to be a part of black Hollywood and she had to continue her probation.

But she keeps on grinding, keeps putting her name out there. Around 2017, 2018, an A&E commercial comes out and she has an interview with them and they're promoting this interview. She's getting exposure like she's looking for. 2018, she's on the news. WJZ 13 CBS Baltimore. She's got more clothing.

Got a champion G-Star Raw clothing campaign. It's just more dirt bike riding clothes. She's making front pages again. She's helping with the STEM program, using that to build kids' interest in dirt bikes. Her big opportunity comes in 2020. Will and Jada decide to produce a movie about riding bikes in Baltimore.

And they put her in it. And this movie goes on to air on HBO. Like, HBO, that's a nice check. I would assume. I would assume HBO's got a nice check for you. So, like, this is really a nice step in the right direction. So, it's really interesting how this came about because that film is taken from the 12 O'Clock Boys documentary that came out in, what, 2014? Yeah.

Like I said, it follows this dude named Pug, and he's 12. It's like 12 to 15, 16. And it's his entire story. It's about how his brother passed away. It's about how he used to just love animals and wanted to grow up to be a veterinarian. It's about how the...

streets are. It's about how he found community with the bikers. It's about how he felt like he needed to be a man at such a young age. Pretty much most of what you know Charm Kings to be. So the filmmaker of the documentary sold the rights to Will and Jada and had his mom sign away your life rights. We have rights to our story, our life story. And if you sign them away, they're gone. And so it's

If you make a wrong move and you sign the wrong thing, people can profit off of the story of your life and you get nothing, which is wild. And it's crazy because you cast people from that area like you cast her and she's from there. So why would you not cast more local writers? So the moral of the story is if you have talented kids and white people are trying to record them, make sure that you have a lawyer pay for it.

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I don't know who she was dating. She definitely kept that off of social media. Her social media was strictly for promoting her next project, showing off her skills, ad campaigns. She was starting to get a lot of those. But, I mean, she was cute. So she wasn't without a woman on her arm. And at some point after the film came out, or maybe during the film coming out, or somewhere in the 2019-2020, she met...

Tiffany Wilson. Now Tiffany was born in 1987. Folks say that she was just a beautiful person. She was caring. If you needed something and she had it, she gave it to you. Her mother's name was Tanya Douglas and her and her mom were actually very close. Now I'm not sure, like I said, when they met or how they met. I couldn't really nail down that in our research, but I do know in 2020, LaCaria tweeted that

my old bitch of Honda, my new bitch of Bentley. So maybe that was about Tiffany and Tiffany's the Bentley, right? Now there was a bit of an age gap between them. At this time, Lucuria was 26. Tiffany was 33. And I just feel like I am 30 right now and I couldn't imagine dating a

25, 26 year old. But you know, to each his own. Especially if they seem like they get... It's feeling very young at this point in my life. I just, I can't do it at this point. But also, like, La'Keria was really... Her life was on track, honestly, from the outside looking in.

Things were really coming through. She had money. She was making it on her own. She clearly set herself up properly. And she was open to opportunity. So maybe that was a maturity level in her. Maybe it was just the bag was big. I don't fucking know. But they were together. And they were together together. And at the end of 2020, it was actually New Year's 2020, Tiffany's mom was having a New Year's Eve party at her place. So, of course, Tiffany and LaKyria were...

should be going to the party, right? That's what I would expect if my mom was having a New Year's Eve party. I would expect my significant other to come with me

But La'Keria was like, nah, I don't think I want to go to that party. And she was like, okay, so where you want to go? And she was like, I think I'm going to go to this other New Year's Eve party. And she's like, you want to go to another New Year's Eve party? Turns out the other New Year's Eve party was La'Keria's ex-girlfriend. So how the fuck you going to your ex-bitch's party and you not going to come to my mama's party when we together? You not with that bitch, we together.

We go together. Tell them niggas we go together. New Year's Eve, while La'Keria was out, she was posting pictures of herself. And, I mean, she was dressed nicely. It was a New Year's Eve party. She had on, like, a Louis belt matching Louis chain. She had on some off-white sneakers. I hope you're proud of me. I could recognize that they were off-white sneakers without asking you, Tassie. I was like, let me look at it and see.

It's on her Twitter. Yeah, those are the Jordan 4s. See? I wanted those. Well, she was wearing them. And you're going to post a picture of you dressed up all nice or whatever. I have to go see your ex, bitch, while I'm still here at my mama's party that you were supposed to be at with me. Now, at the party...

According to Tiffany's mom, Tiffany was in good spirits at the beginning of the party. She might have been frustrated, but of course everybody's going to try and cover it up. They were having fun. They did the countdown to midnight. And then Tiff's mom started noticing that Tiffany was just a little irritated, a little agitated. And she was agitated because she was on her phone like texting back and forth messages.

So much. And of course, the person on the other side of the phone was the carrier. Tiffany's like, fuck you. You want to play in my face like that? You supposed to be here with me, but you want to go see that bitch? How about how about you give me the key back to my apartment? Yeah, I said at my apartment. Come give me my key and get your shit because I'm done with you.

And both of them was arguing back and forth. She's like, fuck it, I'll bring you your key too. I don't give a fuck. Now, there was a lot of exchanging, a whole bunch of fuck yous. And then it ended with a whole bunch of like, I love you, but I'm gone. Like, it's good. This has been a good run. But we're done here. Right. Now, Lacaria pulls up at Tiffany's mama's apartment to return the key.

She pulls up, tells Tiffany to come outside. Tiffany don't come outside. She knock on the door. Tiffany say, don't nobody open that door. Like, bitch, I'm here to give you the motherfucking key. So LaKira's like, well, fuck it. I'm gonna go get my shit at the apartment. How about that? And she then gets in her vehicle and she rides to their apartment of the 1200 block of North Stricker Street. All right, so I was now transitioning to January 1st, 2021. It's like 3.30 in the morning, pushing four o'clock, right?

Lakiria is at the apartment. She done double parked her car 'cause she ain't got time for this shit. She got the hazard lights on. She was like, "Oh, this shit get my shit and we going. I can't do this shit no more. I'm tired of this shit." Frustrated, you start muttering to yourself. She go upstairs. She unplugs her phone charger 'cause this my charger. She ain't taking my charger. And I know that's right. We gonna do a head count over these chargers.

She grabbed two trash bags and she starts filling them up with clothes. Now Tiffany is mad. Tiffany is drunk. Tiffany, who was at her mama's house, is like, fuck this shit, I'm going home. Now Tiffany's mama is like, oh Lord Jesus, my baby drunk. She asked one of her nephews, go follow Tiffany home. Make sure she make it there, all right? Because you know it ain't no talking to her. So just make sure she get there.

So one of Tiffany's cousins goes and follows her to the house, but I'm guessing they don't follow her in the house. They just made sure she got there. And maybe they don't know what Lucuria's car looks like. But anywho, Tiffany goes in the house. Lucuria, she's still packing her shit. She's still on her shit. She goes downstairs. She stops. She starts tying the bags. She's got the two trash bags with her. She starts tying the bags. And unbeknownst to her, Tiffany is there.

Tiffany comes up from behind her and grabs her by the head and slashes her left leg with a knife. Okay, now everything from here on out, of course, is Lakiri's side of the story because we don't have another side. She slashed her left leg with a knife. From that point, this girl's like, oh, shit. Was she being kidnapped? Like, what was happening? She don't know. Some...

Force has come from up behind her. What is this force? So she's screaming out in pain. She turns around. She sees Tiffany. Tiffany grabs Lakiria by the shirt with her left hand. And in her right hand, she got a knife. And she dragging Lakiria into the kitchen. And Lakiria got Tiffany's right hand and her forearm just holding it, trying to control this knife. And they move closer to the sink. Tiffany is grabbing Lakiria.

on Lakiria's shirt, trying to snatch her, pull her around, drag her around. Lakiria rips her shirt away from Tiffany's grasp, and now they're pulling into opposite directions. So Lakiria falls back onto the ground, and Tiffany, being drunk and all, she stumbles into the counter while still holding the knife. Next thing Lakiria see is blood squirting everywhere from Tiffany's side, and Lakiria realizes, oh, my girl's hurt.

Lucuria calls 911. She's frantic. Hello, hello, operator, help me, help me, please. The operator's like, what's happening? What's going on? Lucuria says that somebody came into the apartment and stabbed Tiffany. She's like, please help me. I'm performing CPR. They said, ma'am, is she breathing?

She said, yeah. She was like, just stop performing CPR, girl. And she was like, okay, well, I'm just trying to save her life. What do I do? Like, you're trying to do chest compressions, and that is not helping. Yeah. She was like, yeah, stop that. She's like, come on, Tiff, stay with me. Stay with me, please.

They're like, maybe you want to put some pressure on the room? Maybe that's what you meant to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, just tell me what to do. I got to say, my baby, I ain't mean it. I'm so sorry. When I say she ain't mean it, like, I ain't mean, I was done with you. You know how we get make up to break up to make up again. So dispatch, they send out police. Police arrive. They get there. Tiffany is bleeding out. And at 4.15 on New Year's Day, she was pronounced dead.

The fatal wound was a four-inch stab wound to the left side of her body underneath her arm. Now, the police, of course, they immediately start investigating the scene, and they're like, hmm, there was some ruckus going on in this apartment. The furniture's all displaced. There's scuff marks on the wall. There's hair and jewelry kind of sprawled all over the place, and it's giving forcefully removed, not, I took it off as I was walking in. They talking about they got eyelashes on the stairs,

It's just, it's looking a little rough in here. It's giving us all. They look in the kitchen where Tiffany's located and they see a significant amount of blood, blood evidence, a large knife. And the knife looks like it's got blood on the blade and the handle. So the cops, of course, they want to talk to Lakiria and...

She's talking to him. She was like, I just came here and I found her on the floor. And she just had this stab wound and she was holding a knife. We was having an argument and then she just stabbed herself, I guess. Like, I don't know, just crazy. Wasn't the knife in Tiffany's hand? I don't know if it was still in her hands. I think it was. I think it was still inside her or inside her hand or something. I think it was in her hand. Like, it was in her hand.

Now, when they talked to LaKaria, of course, she was like, no, we didn't have an argument. No, we were a-okay. Actually, everything is just fine. And they're like, okay, well, we went through your phone and it looks like you guys had an argument. It looks like Tiffany kept saying, give me my key back, give me my key back. And she also kept saying that she would get the key back from you tomorrow, but you insisted to give the key back today. So what's up? And LaKaria's like, I mean...

Were we romantically involved? Sure. But, like, we have a good relationship. Did you read all of our text messages? Like, we've been in love. And then the police are like, okay, we also have these people that have said that you guys usually get into it all the time. Y'all bitches be fighting. Like, what's going on? And she's like, no, no, it's not even like that. Like, I mean, we love each other, so we argue. And, of course, we were about to break up that night, but that don't mean I stabbed her. Like, she...

Look at my wounds. She came on to me and she everything happened so fast. She fell in her knife and they're like, yeah, well, here's the thing. We got enough evidence to at least see what a jury says about this. So let me go ahead and arrest you. Thank you. She was charged with first and second degree murder. She was charged with first and second degree assault and assault with a deadly weapon.

She went down to the Central Booking and Intake Center and they reviewed her charges, had a bail hearing. Now, the prosecution says she needs to be in there. She's dangerous. But her defense was like, look, she does great things for the community. She is somebody that you can turn on the TV. You can Google her. Everybody knows that she is a good person. This is just a really unfortunate situation. And she plans on defending herself properly. She offers to teach her

young girls how to ride motorcycles because that was her thing. She didn't want to no longer be the only girl in a male-dominated game. She wants to help the next generation. She's a good person. She's a good person. If anything, my client believes that she did nothing wrong. And what we will see is that this wound, as unfortunate as it is, is self-inflicted. And since it's self-inflicted, my client here...

should not have to stay in jail while awaiting this trial. If anything, there shouldn't be any charges whatsoever. Right.

So the judge said that they would, of course, consider everything, consider the prosecution saying that it was first degree, that it was premeditated, the defense saying everything about how good she was as a person. Had to take that into consideration. This wasn't regular court time. This happened at the bottom of 2020, the top of 2021. So they really had to make a decision on what they were going to do because COVID was still very rampant, especially in the jails. And the judge decided that she would go ahead and stay in jail and be held with

bail. And this also delayed the trial and delayed the wheels of justice quite a bit because she's in jail. COVID backed everything up, as we all know. And Tiffany's parents were starting to be

really frustrated. When you're waiting on justice, it takes a lot of time and it's frustrating. Her mom said one time to the media, she said, quote, I cry every night. I try not to let the kids see me cry, but it affects me a lot. Since Tiff's been gone, I'd had a stroke. I'm blind in my left eye. Imagine New Year's trying to celebrate it. The holiday, it's horrible. And to anyone out here who's lost one, I'm a prime example that it can kill you, which I do think that grief can't.

can kill a person personally. And Tiffany, not only that, Tiffany was a mom. She had a daughter. And now Tiffany's mom is left to raise her granddaughter with her health not being very good. She said to the media, someone needs to change it, change it fast. We're losing our babies to the streets. Really? It's unbearable. And while Lucuria was in jail, spending all

all of her HBO money on her lawyer, she got ready to... The trial begins on Monday, June 20th of 2022. On Tuesday, June 21st, Lakira is offered a plea deal

for a charge of second-degree murder with a 20-year prison term. She says you can take that deal and you can shove it up your ass. Her defense attorneys, they make a counteroffer of involuntary manslaughter with a 10-year prison sentence, but the state's attorney office says you first. You shove it first.

So they proceed with the trial. Now, jury selections were made that evening. They were supposed to be there at like 9.30, but the people who were supposed to get Lakira to court because she's in jail did not take her to court. They had to wait for her to get there. This was pushing out the trial time, so they needed the judge to be available Friday or Monday, and the judge that she had was not. So they assigned Circuit Court Judge Gregory Sampson to preside over her trial.

The prospective jurors, they come into the courtroom a little after 2 p.m. Judge Sampson is asking them a series of questions, trying to weed out who has biases, who will be good and fair and impartial for the jury. And he typically has a standard set of questions that he likes to ask, but he had a few extras for Lakira's case. He asked them, have you ever seen Charmed City Kings? Do y'all recognize this woman? And one woman stands up, yeah, yeah, I heard of the movie. I done seen it.

He also asked, does anybody have any stronger feelings about same-sex relationships, considering the crime? And nobody stood up for that. So he was like, okay, at least we don't have any of those type of biases here on our jury. And lastly, he says, does anybody have any knowledge about this case? Anything that you may know?

going into here. And one juror was like, okay, I have heard about this case. I am familiar with her name and the crime that she did and the date that she did it on. And so they weed out, they get a good jury together, and they start the trial. Her trial lasted three days. Her defense attorney's name was Andy Draculski, and the assistant state's attorney's name was Sondria Hanna. The prosecution said that

Lacaria premeditated this murder, that she thought about it, she planned it out, she came in there with attention, and the defense said, you know what, that's really a reach. Like, the two of them were arguing. There is evidence to show that Tiffany pulled out a knife on Lacaria, that she was the main aggressor in this. And throughout this tussle, an unfortunate thing happened. Tiffany accidentally stabbed herself. Now, Lacaria took the stand in her own defense, and she said that...

Tiffany and her were arguing. And in that argument, she stabbed herself during the confrontation. She said that they were arguing. They were pushing each other back and forth. Tiffany hit the counter. And from the counter, she stabbed herself through that kind of fall. And from there, she rolled off of the counter. Blood sprang everywhere. And Lucaria just did not know what to do. She was so scared.

It's hard for her to see those text messages because those text messages from the night that we break up don't depict what our entire relationship was like, but it does definitely show what it was in its final days. Now, one of the big things that the prosecution said to La'Karia was like, at the beginning of this, you lied. Like 9-1-1, you said that somebody stabbed, you called your mama, you called your ex-girlfriend while you were in the police car and whatever.

there's cameras in police cars so you probably shouldn't be calling people like that you lied to the homicide detectives you said that it was a mysterious person and now we all know that it was you that was in the house and she's like yes but you have to understand that I was scared and honestly everything happened so fast it could have been somebody else but it wasn't I was there I knew what happened now the medical examiner came forward and took the stand and said that Tiffany died from a four inch piercing that went between her rib cage and the left side of her body they said that

that the blade punctured her lung and it damaged her heart. Interesting thing about this is that the medical examiner says that in their findings, it is not consistent with what a self-inflicted wound would look like. And the doctor actually ruled it a homicide. But when cross-examined by doctors,

The defense, the medical examiner also said that if the person fell on the knife, like they were holding the knife, maybe they hit the counter and they fell on top of the knife. It could give that force that is needed for that four inch puncture. And it could actually be self-inflicted if that was the way that it all played out.

Now, there was also a cut on Tiffany's thumb. When they asked the medical examiner about that, the medical examiner said it seemed more of like a defensive wound. Maybe she cut her hand with the knife. Now, also...

There were teeth marks, like Tiffany was biting her lip on her mouth. Now, the medical examiner said that could be from blunt force trauma. Like if you're holding your lip and you're falling or if you're holding your lip and you get hit, you can definitely have those imprints. So the jury has to decide how did everything get there. Did you find any subscriptions that you forgot about and subscriptions that you paid for twice and you didn't realize it? You probably did.

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rocketmoney.com slash sisters. I had homicide detective Frank Miller come and testify and he read the text messages aloud and it was giving a very messy New Year's Eve. When going through the text message thread, Tiffany asked for her keys back about 30 times. But every time LaKira made plans to like return the key or carry out the plan to return the key, Tiffany wouldn't follow through. She wasn't cooperating.

As they're talking through this time, it's a bunch of conversation, a bunch of back and forth. And through this time, both of them agreed that the relationship was over, but they did exchange in the messages. They both said, I love you very much giving. I love you, but this ain't gonna work. This ain't gonna cut it. I can't do this no more.

Everybody starts preparing their clothing. The defense is saying that Lakira is not a murder. This is just an unfortunate accident. The state's attorney, Shondria, she said, oh, no, no, no. She said, y'all got very good reason to be skeptical. She said it is implausible to think that Tiffany would stab her own chest. She said nothing points to this being an accident.

And y'all be careful calling yourself believing Lucuria. She is a liar. Now, the state has the burden of proof, so they have the last say. So they closed out. It says they closed out with one more testimony by DNA expert Christy Salibaugh, a DNA analyst with the Baltimore Police Department. And the DNA is showing that only Tiffany's DNA is on the handle of the knife.

which the defense is like, okay, there's no question who had the knife. Tiffany had the knife. That's clear. Like y'all don't see the cure's DNA on the handle. Y'all just see hers. And they was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they do see the cure's DNA on the blade of the knife.

but LaQuerra's lawyer is like, that corroborates her story that she was cut with it. Now, they identified underneath Tiffany's fingernails of her left hand. They got a little DNA under there, and LaQuerra's lawyer is like, okay, well, she's got scratches on her chest, and again, this follows the story of when Tiffany grabbed her shirt. She scratched her chest. She probably got a little skin underneath her nails. Now, there was one strand of DNA found on the

knife that could not be identified. They could not determine who the DNA belonged to. And the prosecution is like, listen, Tiffany was bleeding so profusely that her blood probably covered up the DNA that was present here. It was masked, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. And she has like the DNA expert testifying to that being plausible.

Right, because skin cells are weaker than blood cells as far as testing goes. With that, both sides close out and they hand it over to the jurors. And the jurors deliberate for nine hours between Thursday and Friday. One of the alternate jurors were dismissed on Thursday since she wasn't needed for the deliberation. And it seemed like the jury was leaning towards a conviction, right?

They were like, based on the nature of the room, the location, and the angle and the depth, it could go that way. On Friday of June 24th, 2022, the jury could not come to a unanimous decision on murder, and a mistrial was declared. This meant the prosecution had to go back to the drawing board. Did they want to drop the charges? Did they want to try again? Did they want to do a possible plea deal?

Which at this point, like, ooh, I'd be like, please drop the charges. Please, sir. Please don't make me do this again. Don't make me do it again. Now, the media reached out to some of the jurors and some of them did come forward to talk about the case. Many of them came forward anonymously. And the jurors said, listen, it was just way too many unanswered questions. They couldn't do it without a reasonable doubt. Well, there was too much reasonable doubt. They said that everybody dismissed the fact that it was premeditation. Everybody knew that this wasn't premeditated evidence.

But there were eight jurors that were in favor of conviction considering second degree murder and the weapons defense. But for the jurors, they were like,

What the defense is saying is possible. That during the course of whatever was going on in that house, she could have fallen on that knife. It really is a reality of possibilities that could have happened. Of course, Tiffany's family, they are disappointed with the outcome. State's attorney disappointed with the outcome. And they had to figure out what they were going to do. And the state's attorney said, you know what? We're going to fucking try again. So...

This year, in January of 2024, Lakira had her newest trial. In January 2024, the new trial went underway. Same evidence and stuff was brought up with a new jury and a new judge. And this jury comes back and finds Lakira. Drumroll, please.

guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing of the death of her girlfriend three years ago. Now, the jury, they did acquit her of murder. They said that they do think that her actions were partially justified by self-defense.

And they deliberated about this for two days. They thought real long and hard about it. But on January 24th of this very year, they said, you know what, we've come to a decision and we're going to drop it down, but she's still going to have some responsibility.

So, at this point, the judge is Judge Althea M. Handy, and she decides to sentence Lakira on the same day. And she gets sentenced to 10 years in prison, the maximum penalty for manslaughter. She's now 29 years old. She speaks out into the court, and she expresses her condolences to Tiffany's family. Her defense attorney spoke out to the Baltimore Sun, saying that Lakira still maintains her innocence, but she's glad that at least there's a resolution for everybody.

She is now at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women, and she intends to appeal her conviction. So she's got 10 years, but she's been in there for, what, three years? It's not long. Just a nice time out. Yeah. Just a nice time out. And that is the story of LaKeria Doughty. Do you think she did it, or do you think...

Tiffany stabbed herself on accident. I think that I would have helped the jury be hung because I do think that it is in the realm of possibilities that if you have a knife and my only thought is to keep the knife away from me and I push you and you fall on said knife, it absolutely could happen. Or I push you and maybe you tripped over something and you fall on said knife. Like I could...

I have weaponry all the time and I'm like, be careful, Mara. Because I trip over air. Trip over air, you will kill yourself. Yeah. I think it's in the realm of possibilities. As soon as the medical examiner said, yes, it's possible and it could be consistent that she could have fallen on a knife and been stabbed like that, it's over with. Especially just how the blood was on the knife. Like, the blood came...

The blood was falling down because the blood was very prominent on the handle, of course, very prominent on the blade. And that wouldn't have, I don't think that the blood would have been that prominent on the handle if it was like a normal stand up stabby stabby, you know what I'm saying? That blood needed to travel. Gravity helped that blood really get all over that knife. So that's why I think that it is in the realm of possibilities. But I do think that them arguing about,

and them putting their hands on each other, which they both were, led up to the crime. So there has to be some type of punishment there. I don't necessarily think that she deserves a weapons charge because it seems like that wasn't her weapon. Yeah, or that she even introduced the weapon into the situation. Right, exactly, exactly. And I definitely don't think that either one of them wanted to end up with them dying, especially because I would have really leaned into the fact that both of them were like,

All right, we're done. I love you. Bye. Like, because there's gonna be a whole bunch of fuck you's in between that. Obviously, it's always gonna be a whole bunch of fuck you's. But at the end of the day, I do love you. All right, cool. But we just can't be together. We can't be friends. I don't think she should have lied as much as she did. Yeah, I think that was fear. Yeah. All right, y'all, it's time for... Well, I'm not black. I'm OJ.

I didn't do it, but if I did, this is how I would have got away with it. I didn't do it, but if I did, I wouldn't have lied so much. Once you start, like, for them to put her on a stand and be like, okay, so we have documented that you told five separate lies and we can pinpoint them. So it really leaves it down to what makes us believe the rest of your story. Yeah, I think that...

I do agree. And the fact is that like she, of course, if you lie to the police initially, like, I don't know what happened, but then you called your mom, you called your ex-girlfriend from the police car. It was on your phone, but from the police car, those are always recorded. Everything you do with the police is recorded.

Just walking that with that assumption. I think she was trying to cover her ass, but she really didn't know what to do. And that fucked her up in the long run. I ain't do it, but if I did, I don't know. This is hindsight, because I think I definitely would have done the same thing. If I pulled up and you, cause you said you wanted your key. And every time I come to try to pull up and you tell me you want this key, you tell me, no, I'm just going to get my shit and I'm gonna leave it. I'm gonna leave the key outside in the bushes or some shit. And I think she, that's what she was trying to do, which in all honesty is what I would do.

I don't know. I think I would have done that. I think I would have. She definitely did good in calling the police right away and not trying to flee the scene. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think 10 years is bad, man. I mean, good luck with your appeal, but...

You you're not facing life. They didn't get you on a first degree. I don't think you deserve first degree. But I mean, at least you dodged that because it's definitely it's definitely rolling the dice to take it to trial. And they gave you a plea, but that plea was for 20 years. So obviously you made that right call because you only got 10. So, yeah, it's weird. I just feel like I feel like 10 years is enough. Obviously, she has a community that's backing her. That's been with her for a while.

Of course, there is going to be always people that are against her. But I think once she gets out, she'll probably step right back onto a bike. Hopefully step right on back to the screen. You never know. I don't know. They got like that cancel culture in Hollywood today. Like they'd be like, drop them. We don't want no association. But maybe, maybe girl. But yeah, who knows? Maybe when she comes out, she'll make her documentary.

Yeah, maybe. And it won't be the last. I don't think this is going to be the last that we hear of her. We won't hear from her in about seven years, but this won't be the last that we hear from her. Listen, I guess it depends on how hard prison was on her. True. True. Because she wasn't a huge troublemaker, and she also has a temper. Yeah. She's also got a temper temper and was in anger management for that. So we'll see. You've got all these connections. Like you said, cancel culture, but hopefully somebody is like...

Looking out for your best interest. If you spend all your money on a lawyer, hopefully somebody is helping you invest it properly. Parole or no parole? I definitely think yes. I mean, even if they paroled her early for good behavior, I'd probably let that rock. What do you think? I'd parole her if she's doing the right things in there. I'd parole her.

Because honestly, it really feels like wrong place wrong time. It's the fact that you went home. Nobody was there. You were packing your shit. You didn't show. It wasn't giving I'm looking for a fight. It's looking like a fight came to me. And unfortunately, I finished it. So y'all can parol her. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

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