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I got a call at my house about 3:30 one morning.

The detective on the confession · The Thin Blue Line (1988)

I got a call at my house about 3:30 one morning.

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One of the patrolmen in my department called...

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1I got a call at my house about 3:30 one morning.
2One of the patrolmen in my department called...
3and said, "We just arrested this boy named David Harris...
4"and he won't even tell us his name . He said he wants to talk to you."
5They told me something that really made me interested . He'd been shot.
6David had initially told me that he had gone to a bar in Houston...
7and was flirting with a young lady and her boyfriend became upset...
8and chased him out with a pistol, shooting at him.
9We knew that wasn't true.
10I said, "David, I know you're lying to me.
11"We go through this all the time , all my dealings with you in the past.
12"I don't know what you've done just yet.
13"I know you were shot.
14"I know you were shot doing something that you shouldn't have been...
15"we know you burglarized a gun shop. We know you were driving drunk .
16"Got witnesses who can identify you, who can identify your truck."
17I said, " You're caught . So tell the truth ."
18And David said, "Okay, I killed him."
19Their home was entered while he and his girlfriend were there alone.
20The man was sent into the bathroom at gunpoint and told to stay there.
21David took the girl and was starting to leave.
22The man exited the apartment with a gun.
23The man fell to the ground , or near the ground...
24holding onto a pole there in the parking lot of the apartment complex...
25and these last, whether it be two, three, or how many shots...
26I don't know, were fired at point-blank or near point-blank range.
27David thought that the one that was really at fault that night...
28was the guy that got killed. He said, "That guy's crazy.
29"He came after me with a gun."
30I told him, "David, you'd broken into his house...
31"you abducted his girlfriend, what was he supposed to do ?"
32He said, "Man shouldn't come out with a gun.
33"That dude 's crazy. He should have been killed."
34When we went to retrieve the pistol...
35I had to go into the water to get it.
36It was a bayou and it was grassy, snaky-looking area.
37I was not real pleased about being there myself...
38but David enjoyed watching me have to go down there and look for the gun.
39I'd been searching several minutes, he was up on the bridge...
40and probably 25 feet from me...
41 directing me to where he thought that the gun had landed in the water.
42He was handcuffed.
43Traffic would come by, and he would turn around...
44and show them his handcuffs and holler at them, "Help me!
45"The officials will throw me in this water and drown me."
46Just anything he could do to make a joke and cut up out there.
47He was just really having a good time.

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