Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 9:30 AM
The witness, Alex Coleman, was apprehended at the home of Lacy
Borders and
taken into custody for questioning. The interview was conducted at the
Yoknapatawpha Sheriff's Department and recorded on a portable tape
recorder
with the witness's knowledge and consent.
Detective Samantha Murphy
Detective Ted Armstrong
Alex Coleman
Detective Armstrong: Here are your choices, you can
either sit yourself
down in this chair or we can find a nice little cell for you to sit in.
What's
it going to be?
Alex Coleman: I told you I'd come out, why did you have to
barge in and drag
me out like that?
Detective Armstrong: You were headed to the rear of the house;
we thought
you were making a run for it.
Alex Coleman: Nah, I said I'd come out and I would've. I just
wanted a cold
one first.
Detective Murphy: Please state your name and address for the
record.
Alex Coleman: I'm Alexander Jay Coleman and my mailing address
is 222
Country Club Road, my parents' house.
Detective Murphy: Mailing address. Do you live there or
not?
Alex Coleman: Well, I do and I don't.
Detective Armstrong: Kid, we do not have time to play stupid
little head
games with you, answer the question.
Alex Coleman: Ok, ok. Don’t have a heart attack. I guess I do,
it's just
that I got into an argument with my extremely over-protective mother
and left a
few weeks ago. She doesn't know that I was staying with Lacy.
Detective Murphy: What did you argue about?
Alex Coleman: It was always the same thing with her. She
treats me like I'm
16 or something. She wants me home at midnight. Can you believe that?
I’m 24
years old! I just got sick of it. So I left.
Detective Armstrong: All that aside, where were you on the
morning of May
thirteenth?
Alex Coleman: I have no idea. I don’t carry a pocket calendar
with me and
jot down my every move. Where is it you want me to have been?
Detective Murphy: A man was killed that morning Alex. We
have reason
to believe that you hit him with your car and then left the scene.
Alex Coleman: WHAT? I didn't kill anyone! Don't you people
know that I
haven't had my car for about a month now?
Detective Murphy: How would we know that Alex? Did you
report it as
stolen or something?
Alex Coleman: I didn't mean that you knew. I'm
sorry.You just
got me a little upset there for a minute. My car was stolen but I
didn't report
it. I just figured it would show up. It's not like it was anything
anyone would
want to keep. It was a piece of crap when I got it.
Detective Armstrong: Was it missing in January, too, Alex?
Alex Coleman: What…no. I had it in January. Why?
Detective Armstrong: We'll ask the questions Alex. We have
discovered that
your car was involved in another accident in January, a hit and run
against
Blake Jenson.
Alex Coleman: I know Blake Jenson. I was never involved in any
accident with
him.
Detective Murphy: Did you or did you not take your car to
Kenny's Body Shop
for repairs in January Alex?
Alex Coleman: Oh that. Yes I did. It was a rainy, sleety
night and I
ran off the road and hit a tree. I have never been in a real accident;
I've
never even had a ticket.
Detective Armstrong: Do you have anyone who can back that
story up?
Alex Coleman: Yes…yes I do. My bud Brent was with me when I
ran off the
road.
Detective Armstrong: Did you set your car on fire to try and
destroy
evidence of a crime?
Alex Coleman: You found my car? Someone burned it up? I wonder
if my
insurance covers that.
Detective Murphy: Do you have coverage for theft?
Alex Coleman: Aren't you the funny one. I didn't report it as
stolen I told
you.
Detective Armstrong: Why would you? I don't think
it was ever
stolen to begin with.
Alex Coleman: Well it was.
Detective Armstrong: So you are telling us that you didn't hit
Blake Jenson
and you didn't hit John Fitzgerald and leave the scene in both
accidents?
Alex Coleman: That is exactly what I am telling you! I've had
about enough
of this crap, either arrest me or let me go. I'm done talking.
Detective Murphy: We aren't going to arrest you Alex, but we
are going to
see if your story pans out. What is your bud Brent's last name please?
Alex Coleman: Woods.
Detective Murphy: What is his address or telephone number?
Alex Coleman: Find it yourself. This is unbelievable. I'm
outta here!
Detective Murphy: Wait Alex, one more question. Did anyone
else drive your
car besides you?
Alex Coleman: Yeah, sure. My Mom drove it occasionally and I
have let
friends use it in the past. Do you think maybe one of them hit that man
and
killed him?
Detective Armstrong: Alex, do NOT leave town. We will be
talking with you
again, count on it.
Alex Coleman: Yeah, whatever.
Interview ends:10:02 AM |
