Officer Adam Trammel reports to a non-emergency call from the Boynton residence at Ashford Place on Ashford Way, in Griffin, Ga. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best.
Police Interrogation and Confession of Matthew Boynton, Wife - YouTube 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. That is not a reaction that I can relate to.". "Police department!" That's the bottom line for me. Here's where things get blurry. With his gun raised and arms poised, he holds his weapon out in front of him with both hands. It's locked. "In looking at this, this does not have the appearance of a suicide to me. 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. They're forced to kick it in. There's no way I could have shot myself in the top of the head and not kill myself. When facts are wrong, evidence altered to fit theories and threats made, how does the GBI remain the last word on the case? They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. A lot, she said, doesn't add up. By June 6, Matthew returned to full duty with a new service weapon in his holster. Six months later, everything would changefor everyone. I just came up the stairs, two rounds," Boynton says on the recorded call. 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.
Matthew Boynton: The evidence and investigation that led to his arrest GRIFFIN, Ga. Standing inside her closet, wearing tan slippers adorned with fur, black yoga pants and a red T-shirt, Jessica Boynton contemplates what to wear. John Hayesto turn in many articles of womens clothing and other personal property including an orthodontic retainer. I left a message with the lady that answered for her to call me. At that exact point the interviewing officer detected something fishy, forced him to stop giving himself away and ended the interview and therefore night of investigation. [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. She spoke to the GBI, from her hospital bed. Officer Boynton hung up and did not respond to multiple messages, while the GBI refused to talk about the closed case. But asking those questions resulted in a threat. (whit his baton I would guess) ..is every person in the police department total idiots? She's still breathing. While Jessica believes someone tried taking her life from her, she refuses to allow anyone to take her kids away from her. Stay outside.. Im not sure if it was slightly before or slightly after. He said that she was so distraught that she was doubled over, and he said that she stood, closed the door in his face and then at that point he went ahead and left.".
HLN's 'Real Life Nightmare' episode focuses on Georgia cop, ex-wife Did he cause his estranged spouse's injury? The next action noted in the case occurred nearly two months later. It appears she's been shot in the head. If America is really a first-world country, it will enact legislation that takes this issue seriously, and fund more studies and programs to preventing domestic violence and identifying and protecting victims. "I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. "Happy," said the neighbor. Matthew's fellow officers try to shield him from the sight of his gravely injured wife. Furthermore, he said, it's his observation that self-inflicted gunshot wounds are very unusual among women. He later tells investigators that he heard Tyler crying, and then, POP-POP!, Jones advises Matthew over the radio, Stay outside. On May 11, Will Sanders met withYancy and Sgt. It could have been simply that um, all his, he left his stuff there. She wants to give her new employers the right impression, since tomorrow is her first day at a chiropractor's office. She also thinks Matthew read her diary and realized she was documenting his extramarital affair and secretly plotting to get full custody of their little boys. And he said 'Yeah, we did.'". "Very explicit conversation," said the neighbor. By the time Jessica was twenty, she'd had enough of Matthew, and their crumbling marriage had driven her to a dark place. The shocking discovery comes when he shaves her head looking for bullet holes. He assigns another officer to standby at the door until the rest of the apartment is cleared. He then said the GBI has not indicated to him that the investigation will be reopened. No, never. "I think I was hit over the head with something.". It appears it was self-inflicted. But it was used after Matthew had said he left the apartment in fear of his life, and did not return. She told the agent, they were at home when they argued about his mistress and the photo that Jessica found on his phone that night. Her ex-husband and former Griffin police officer Matthew Boynton was investigated in the case, but was only charged with making . Her body is on the floor, just behind the door. This all follows a Georgia Bureau of Investigation case that ultimately ruled Lester had attempted suicide in April 2016. That's what Jessica and Matthew Boynton thought would happen when they said "I do.". Trammel records the 10:53 p.m., incident report from April 14. The neighbor believes Matthew Boynton discovered the divorce diary and simply snapped. The dispatch operator notified Matthew on Facebook, Browning says. But it's what those body cameras don't record that's raising eyebrows. I was scared to death, because I couldnt find [Tyler]that she would shoot me, I mean shoot him, shoot me, and then kill herself..
Griffin police officer wife Jessica Boynton shot | 9news.com "To help cover his tracks.". Furthermore, she said, there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent a text like that. "It's just inconvenient. Stephen Kruspe, 65, appears at his first appearance before a judge after the March 27, 2017, shooting of his wife, Pamela, at a Boynton Beach assisted living facility. And Sanders was beyond fascinated by this one. The paramedic begins accessing her head wound, but they're having a hard time finding it through her hair and thick blood. 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. Mass shooters. 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? GBI/Griffin Police Dept. an officer questions the others.
Who shot Jessica Boynton? A new podcast investigates | kcentv.com The babys muffled cry echoes, getting louder as the officers sweep their guns back and forth, searching for the shooter. Published: 7/28/2017 6:16:14 PM.
Matthew Boynton arrested | 11alive.com The remaining items such as a hope chest, clothing and other miscellaneous items were returned to Jessica. "You know, you're trying to match up times of where he is getting these text messages or how he's responding to them, that he has to be in the kitchen. But Griffin Police are treating this as a suicide attempt. "I would want to know how he did it and how does he live with himself every day knowing that he did something like this," said Jessica. Jones shouts as he travels deeper insidehis weapon drawn. That's the last thing the 19-year-old remembers. He tells Trammel he left Walmart without Jessica. She had always kept it hidden, but now, there it is for everyone to see. provided images. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. He enters, checking the master bedroom. In it, she logs Matthew Boynton's every move, including his unexplained disappearances with their two boys. Jessica was a blushing bride, excited to spend the rest of her life with the man she loved. Jessica and Matthew's neighbor, who wishes to remain anonymous for her own safety, sees the lights from her apartment and runs outside. "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. . Credit: GBI/Griffin Police Dept. Updated: 11:14 PM EDT July 28, 2017. A DISGRACE! He bangs on the locked closet door. 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. 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. "I can't do this anymore," the message read. 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. They wanted me to come back Friday for orientation for the job, she said. There was a question of what was and was not community marital property, so that took some doing to sort that out, also, Yates said, adding that many of the items reported as stolen including the clothing, computer and household items had been cited as community property during the couples divorce. 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. It's like some of my family they hear all these people say, 'Oh I think he did it and it was planned.' Despite what many think is a smoking gun, the GBI agent asking questions proceeds as if Jessica shot herself. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. And that's all I needed, so I was on cloud nine.". A lot of times its two or three or more days, Yates said. Do you think Matthew did something? he asked her bluntly. No bullet entered her body anywhere. Do you know what she used? asks one of the emergency responders in the room. It sounded like a gunshot. Reliving his steps inside the apartment after he heard gunshots fired, he says, My whole upper body went numb. Matthew Boynton along with Lee Boynton, Josh Guthrie and Courtney Callaway moved all of my personal belongings from the residence. He was going to clean his gun and he asked me to go get it for him. Matthew, 20, quickly called 911 and said he had received an alarming text message from his wife, claiming she was going to commit suicide, cops said. Dispatch notifies Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam, who is also Matthew's grandfather and police notify Jessica's family that she has died. But long hours on the force took its toll on his marriage. "Well I don't know. That phone never got back into the officer's hand. GBI agents, however, have closed her case. "I hope she didn't shoot my kids," he says to one officer. But Jessica's trauma surgeon, a 30-year veteran in the field, had a few thoughts of his own about what could have happened and what likely did not happen that night. They turn her over from her stomach to her back. Domestic violence has always been a precursor to violence in other areas. Matthew met Jessica during her sophomore year of high school at open house in 2012. Will Sanders also has questions about a crime scene photo showing Matthew's cellphone. Jessica Boynton, 19, was a stay-at-home mom to 8-month-old Tyler and 2-year-year old Tollin. Cops now know what was behind that closet door -- but the true mystery is just about to begin. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best. A text message is sent to his phone from Jessicas phone. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. Aft.
Who shot Jessica Boynton? A new podcast investigates | kiiitv.com But she doesn't buy it, especially since her head was perfectly laid on a pillow, she said after watching the bodycam footage. Agent DeMarco approaches Meagan Browning, who's joined by Eric Kshywonis, at 61 Ashford Waythe apartment just downstairs from Jessica and Matthew. Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton has been arrested and charged with two felonies. "I'm guessing Matthew," said Jessica. 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. 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. Once the investigation was closed, reporter and publisher, Sheila Mathews, investigated the shooting for her newspaper, The Grip. I didn't try to wash my hands, anything, because I knew GSR and all that would be involved.. McCune also had Lester write a victims statement. I do not have any other items of Jessicas.. What did Matthew do that he needed covering up? "I have occasional headaches, but other than that everything's good," Jessica Boynton said. He said the description of a self-inflicted gunshot wound didn't fit, noting her pristine and unmarked hands and calling it a very unusual direction in which to point the gun at one's self with the intention of committing suicide., First of all, the wound that she suffered was toward the vertex of her skull on the right side of her head; this would imply that she shot herself with a gun pointed downward near the top of her skull., The second most striking observation he said he made while assessing Jessica was neither of her hands had any evidence of any gunpowder stippling from gunpowder blowback.. corrupted cops, he and his grandfather! The neighbor claims she had been with Jessica just hours beforehand, and says her friend would never have tried to take her own life. Jessica, on a few occasions, hit and slapped him, he tells the GBI. What are my kids going to do? he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion. said Sheila Mathews. I was looking for a job and I finally found one. She made a full recovery, but doesnt remember a thing. Unfortunately, the only person who may be able to answer that question is Jessica, and she was in a coma. Her marriage had been crumbling, and she and her husband of six months Matthew Boynton, 20 . The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. I was at Atlanta Medical Center for a month. This screams cover up. It is unknown what effect his arrest may have on Boyntons criminal cases. I don't know, he said. If that's what you want to do. Since both sides have their theories of what happened that night, Crime Watch Daily brought in an independent investigator to give us his unbiased opinion. The quiet is broken when the baby begins to mumble from the other room. Boynton in January denied being in possession of any of Lesters personal property. "No they did not because they assumed I was shot, because that's what Matthew said," Jessica said. That piece of evidence was a photo showing Matthew's cell phone next to the microwave inside the apartment. Jessica's husband and high school sweetheart is Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton. Sanders says there are a few things that really stand out: The red sweatshirt Matthew offered police to test for gunshot residue. giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weekly. Her complaint, which she checked on, was never filed. And its assigned to Matthew. "Being in the closet," said Jessica. He drove back to the apartment, he tells Jones, but it was too late. Jessica Boynton, once declared dead, is alive and talking. Privacy Policy | Haha I'm sorry I didn't think about that lol, he sends to her after receiving a text from her after his text from Jessica. 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. They are 50% more likely to commit police brutality. Im not sure about that. December 20022 so heartless to show this right before Xmas. "I left the location, I'm back en route, I'm on Carver Road right now. Jessica Boynton was initially . Who does the neighbor think sent that text message to Matthew's phone from Jessica's? He's asked me to go get it out before. Her bright blues eyes glisten as they well with emotion. 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?. Jones approaches Matthew to find out what happened. His phone is pretty active tonight. A message to Matthews phone is received and marked as read, from his girlfriend--from inside the evidence bag. The specific items Lester alleged Boynton had stolen included a Toshiba laptop valued at $500; clothes valued at $300; jewelry valued at $50; kitchen items valued at $500; and a retainer valued at $150. In 2016, something terrible happened to Jessica Boynton, a 19-year-old mother of two. However, he did not confirm that sequence. They're my everything. $5 plus $5 parking. The agent asked her if she had ever held her husbands service weapon. Griffin Police officer Matthew Boynton was cleared in his wife's shooting, but his interrogation still cost him his job. 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. Get him downstairs, one of the officers whispers to another. Excessive force. Still peering down at his phone, Matthew also sends a text to his girlfriend, a Spalding County dispatcher. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon . And Jessicas trauma surgeon was not interviewed by the GBI until July 20. 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. 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. She thinks he found it before the incident. Matthew makes it back to the apartment before help arrives and hears baby Tyler crying -- and then heartbreak. Everything, he says, led to him wanting out of the marriage. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon . I didn't, I didn't, I didn't try to brush off anything. provided images. "Nobody would shoot themselves like this," said retired homicide detective Tim Miley. It's possible, but I mean it's very doubtful, because he's never hurt me before. They were calling me the miracle child Because what I went through, not a lot of people survive through it, she told 11Alive's Brendan Keefe, nearly six months after the incidenther golden blonde hair now growing back. She loved me. Guthrie calls Matthew and they chat for two minutes. How did his phone get in there and how was there activity on his phone if he was not in the kitchen with his phone?" A tactical sweep finds an 8-month-old baby screaming. Then-Griffin Police Department officer Matthew Boynton was arrested on July 28, 2017, for giving a false statement to his own department stating he was not i. So Crime Watch Daily went out and got one of the best in the business. "That was when approximately 24 minutes into the conversation, his demeanor changed and everything flipped," she recalled. When the officers pull Jessica's body out of the closet, they find Matthew's gun right underneath her, a .40-caliber Glock. "It doesn't sound like anything I would say," said Jessica Boynton. 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. Dispatch notifies Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam, Matthews grandfather,and police notify Jessicas family that she has died. It could, but it wont necessarily do it, Yates said.
Behind the closet door: Crime Watch Daily investigates the Jessica 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. "She was actually happy, she was thrilled because she finally got that closure that she needed," says the neighbor. The next door neighbor interview was conducted after Matthew returned to full duty. I figured out what happened. Ironically Jessica first met that man while she was out scouting for a wedding venue to marry Matthew. The officer says he left it in the kitchen and ran outside. It doesn't sound like anything I would say. He checks the closet where he keeps his police-issued firearm, but the door is locked. And the second bullet went up at 25-degree upward angle 1'10 off the floor. Matthew sends another text to his mistress, a Spalding County dispatcher, Give me a few.
Griffin police officer wife Jessica Boynton shot | 11alive.com ! his girlfriend texts him. 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? Since his bodycam wasn't charged, it doesn't record this call. That's right. Just have a soul here please please please. "I know for a fact that Jessica was not suicidal," said the neighbor. The subsequent investigation was short-lived, with it having been deemed a "civil matter." Jessica's husband and high school sweetheart is Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton. Jessica Boynton was just 19 years old when she was found inside a locked closet with a gunshot wound to her head. Thank God she fought and he was in there with her. Crime Watch Daily investigates what really happened to Jessica Boynton, something even Jessica herself wants to know. 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.