This video is Janine Gonzalez interrogation for the murder of Ashley Bocanegra. See transcript below
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Janine Gonzalez Video Transcript
0:00Sorry, I just cursed. You’re fine. Okay. I slipped up earlier.
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Okay. So, what’s he told me? I was just like tell her it’s girl code. You know, right?
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You seem kind of athletic. You play sports when you’re in school. No, no, no, no. Okay. Yeah. Do I really look athletic?
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Yeah, you do play. Yeah. You got some some shoulders on you. She sat in the interrogation room smiling, actually laughing while detectives questioned her
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about a fatal assault that left a 30-year-old mother deceased. 17-year-old Janine Gonzalez thought filming the attack made her innocent. She thought being a teenager would protect her.
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Thought holding the camera instead of throwing punches meant she’d walk free.
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Her lawyers painted her as a bystander caught up in someone else’s rage. She never touched Ashley Bokeenegra. They claimed she was just there watching
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while her sister-in-law defended her family’s honor. The jury was listening, but then prosecutors played the video.
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The footage Gonzalez recorded herself and everything changed. I will murder you.
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I will murder you. I will murder you. I will murder you. I will murder you.
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What you’re about to see is the moment Janine Gonzalez realized that filming an assault doesn’t make you innocent. The moment she understood she wasn’t going
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1 minute, 14 secondshome. Not that day. Not for decades. A 30-year-old mother was dead. And the proof of what really happened in that apartment complex parking lot was
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1 minute, 23 secondscaptured on video by the very person claiming she did nothing wrong. This is the chilling case of the 17-year-old who thought documenting an attack would
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protect her from prosecution. And every single detail I’m about to show you has been verified through court testimony,
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police interrogation footage, trial records, and the video evidence the attackers recorded themselves. If you’ve never heard this story before, prepare
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yourself because what happened in Buford, Georgia on August 11th, 2022 will challenge everything you think you know about jealousy, teenage arrogance,
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and how filming your own crime becomes the evidence that destroys you. There was something prosecutors discovered on that cell phone video that would prove
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crucial. Something Janine said while her victim struggled to breathe. Something that would turn a simple assault case into felony murder. August 11th, 2022.
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Thursday afternoon, an apartment complex near Buford Drive in Gwinet County,
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Georgia. 30-year-old Ashley Bokanra arrived expecting to meet her boyfriend.
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Daniel Gonzalez had texted her. He was getting kicked out of his apartment because of their relationship. He needed to see her. At least that’s what the
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text messages said. But Daniel Gonzalez wasn’t awake. He was sleeping in the apartment he shared with his 27-year-old fianceé, Antetta Stevens, their two young sons, and his 17-year-old sister,
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Janine. While Daniel slept, Antineta had stolen his phone. She’d gone through every message, every call log, every photo. The confirmation of what she’d suspected for weeks was all there.
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Daniel was having an affair with his manager at work, Ashley Bokeenegra, a 30-year-old mother from the Bronx who’d moved to Georgia for a better life for
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her 7-year-old son. Antoneta didn’t wake Daniel. She didn’t confront him.
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Instead, she sat with Janine and typed out messages to Ashley using Daniel’s phone. Come to the apartment complex.
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Daniel needs you. It’s urgent. Ashley believed she was meeting the man she’d fallen in love with. The man she’d been secretly dating for months while working
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night shifts together at Floor and Decor. She pulled into the parking lot.
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Antoneta Stevens was waiting. So was Janine Gonzalez. Where she at?
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She’s walking by the park. Pulled the phone. By the what?
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By the pool. Oh boy. All right, bro. Where are we going?
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Look right there. Right there. Guess what? That was me. You know,
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and Janine had her phone out ready to record. What happened next is very disturbing. Want to get up? Get off me. Get off my hair. I’mma you up.
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Let me go then. Get off me. Say hi to Daniel. Get off me. Say hi to Daniel. Get the off.
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You know he said I could come out here and you up, right? Okay, good. You know that, right? Uh-huh. He’s in the house with our son. Okay. Well,
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she said I could [ __ ] you up. Yep. This is what we do. If I get mad and he knows I’m leaving, he feels sad. He says, “I up.” That’s what I’m doing. You up.
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All right. Tell me everything. You got to get off. Nope. You ain’t got You don’t get my man, right? I want to be in front of my man,
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right?
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Right. You his manager. I’m getting you fired. That’s bias. That’s a conflict of interest. I’m showing this to the job. You’re my while he’s on the clock.
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going there trying to ruin his family. He has a whole son. You’re mad for him. Okay.
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Get up. Get the off. Yeah.
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But it was captured on video. And that video would become the prosecution’s most damaging evidence. The video that Janine Gonzalez filmed herself. It was
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clear Steven started the attack. She confronted Ashley about the affair. The argument escalated. Stevens threw the
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first punch and then more punches, all while being egged on by Janine. Then,
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according to police testimony presented in court, Stevens turned to Janine and asked, “Do you want any of this?”
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Janine’s response was caught on her own recording. “I do.” She didn’t just watch, she joined in. According to police testimony presented in court,
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Janine participated in the assault, striking the victim multiple times.
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The audio was chilling. Police testified about what could be clearly heard on the recording. I will murder you.
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I will murder you. I will murder you. I will murder you. I will murder you.
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Steven said it five times according to testimony. Five separate threats caught on audio. Keep this audio evidence in mind. It becomes critical when comparing
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it to what both women would tell the police. Ashley attempted to defend herself during the confrontation with both women, who, according to testimony,
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had significant size advantages. Court records indicate the assault resulted in serious injuries that later became fatal. Following the altercation,
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Stevens directed Gonzalez to take Ashley’s cell phone.
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They were going to use it to text her fianceé, Julian Reyes, who shared custody of their son, informing him of her infidelity. Then they went back to their apartment. Behind them was Ashley,
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injured, still trying to recover her phone. My face. Get my phone.
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Nope. You’re not getting it. You’re jumping both of us for your phone. We’re Come on. Let’s go. Let’s go.
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No.
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Witnesses were the ones who phoned the Gwinet County police. Investigative efforts quickly began, but for Ashley,
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it was already too late. At the hospital, Ashley’s condition worsened. Despite emergency medical intervention,
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she passed away later that day. The medical examiner’s report was presented as evidence in court. What investigators discovered about how this attack was
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planned would show premeditation. And what Janine told police during interrogation would reveal just how little remorse she had for what she’d
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done. Ashley Bokanra had moved from the Bronx to Buford, Georgia with her young son. She was building a new life, working as a manager at Floren Decor,
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co-parenting with her fianceé Julian in an arrangement that worked for both of them. She was described by family and friends as loyal, supportive,
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tremendously loved. She didn’t know that a workplace flirtation would cost her everything. Daniel Gonzalez worked the night shift at Floor and Decor. So did
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Ashley. They started talking about their relationship struggles. Both were in complicated situations with partners they had children with. The friendship
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became more. They started dating secretly. Daniel was engaged to Antetta Stevens. They’d been together for years.
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They had two sons together, ages 3 and nine. They shared an apartment in Buford. Daniel’s teenage sister Janine
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lived with them too. Daniel managed to keep the affair saw hidden. His fianceé didn’t know, at least not at first, but
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teenage girls talk, and Janine Gonzalez was close with Antoneta. When Daniel confided in his 17-year-old sister about his relationship with Ashley, Janine
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didn’t keep it to herself. She told Antetta everything. The two women bonded over the betrayal. Antoneta’s fianceé
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was cheating. Janine’s brother was a liar. And the woman responsible for it all was Ashley Boenegra. On August 10th,
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2022, one day before the murder,
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Antoneta went to the QuickTrip convenience store near Florent. She saw them together. Daniel and Ashley walking during his lunch break. The same day, he
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told Antoneta he couldn’t get a break from work. She confronted them right there. An argument erupted. Did she talk to you about it afterwards?
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No. The only thing she said is, “Why would you do this to me?” And I told her like we we’re not like the love the love
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interest is gone everything. Like I told her this yesterday when she saw me walking with the girl.
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Then I stopped her. I was like you’re not going to you’re not going to fight her because of what we’re going through.
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It’s not it’s not her fault. You know did she message Ashley from your phone pretending to be you? Yes.
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But the damage was done. Antoneta’s suspicions were confirmed. She knew who her competition was. She knew what her fianceé had been doing. Then
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9 minutes, 47 secondsinvestigators found something that changed everything. Police arrived at the apartment complex on Buford Drive around 1:00 p.m. The leasing office had
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called. A woman had been seriously injured in the parking lot. Her fianceé had rushed her to the hospital. When officers arrived at Stevens and
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10 minutes, 3 secondsGonzalez’s apartment, both women were there. They had a story ready. Can they come out?
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10 minutes, 10 secondsThe females that are in there, the females there are fighting. Yeah,
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10 minutes, 14 secondsthis girl, she came to my house. She’s going to sleep on my fiance.
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10 minutes, 18 secondsShe works over there. She’s his manager and she keeps on forcing him to have sex with her after he been cut it off or she’s going to fire him. And we ended up
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10 minutes, 26 secondsfighting right there because she approached my home. This is my home. She lives all the way over there.
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10 minutes, 31 secondsOkay. Is everybody in the house right now? Oh, just me. I’m the only one at fault. Just me. The girl she left.
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10 minutes, 36 secondsBut she conveniently left out one crucial detail. She had lured Ashley to the complex, using Daniel’s phone to pose as him, texting Ashley to come meet
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10 minutes, 45 secondshim. This wasn’t self-defense. This was a planned ambush. But here’s what destroyed the defense completely. The
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10 minutes, 52 secondsvideo. The cell phone footage that Janine Gonzalez had recorded during the attack. Police obtained the Yiddi video they reviewed every second, enhanced the
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11 minutes, 1 secondaudio, documented every threat. The footage showed Antetta Stevens starting the fight. It showed Janine Gonzalez joining in. It captured the kicks, the
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11 minutes, 10 secondspunches, the relentless assault on a woman who’d come expecting to meet her boyfriend. And the audio was devastating. I’m going to murder you.
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11 minutes, 18 secondsRepeated five times. Are you ready to die? I could do worse. These weren’t statements made in self-defense. These
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11 minutes, 25 secondswere threats. Premeditated violence caught on camera. Then police discovered another piece of evidence. A text message Ashley had sent to Daniel before
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11 minutes, 33 secondsshe died. One of the last messages she would ever write. There’s there’s about what happened to
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11 minutes, 40 secondsyour sister kicked me in the back by my heart and chest. Yes. And I know she has heart problems.
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11 minutes, 46 secondsLike this is like crazy to me. Like like it’s not like this is fresh. Like I’m over here cheating on this woman. I’m not we’ve been like this has been a
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11 minutes, 54 secondstoxic environment and she’s just been trying to figure out what to do and I’ve been trying to figure out what to do but but she doesn’t want nobody to leave.
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12 minutes, 3 secondsThink about that for a moment. Ashley Bokenra used her final moments of consciousness to tell someone what happened to her, to identify who heard
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12 minutes, 10 secondsher, to make sure Janine Gonzalez’s name was on record. Investigators also examined Daniel Gonzalez. His account of events was scathing.
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12 minutes, 19 secondsListen, we’ll come back here and talk to you. I understand you got kids, so we’ll just leave you here for now with your kids. Um, we’re going to take her up and talk to her and your sister’s going to go.
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12 minutes, 28 secondsSo, just two cars. So, one more car. That’s it. And then we’ll go from there. Okay. Yes, sir. Um, how long have you lived here?
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12 minutes, 36 secondsAbout like a year. About a year. Yeah. Um, do you know Ashley? Yes, sir. How do you know Ashley?
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12 minutes, 44 secondsI do not even have any emotional relationships. Okay.
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12 minutes, 48 secondsSo, they had the altercation earlier this afternoon. Yes, sir. Which you don’t know anything about?
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12 minutes, 53 secondsNo. I was informed that while I was sleeping, she went in my phone, took my phone, and yes, she deleted the messages. I’m not even going to lie. She
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13 minutes, 1 secondgave me back my phone. It was like seemed like it was untouched. Yeah.
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13 minutes, 4 secondsText the woman said, “Hey, she she basically act like she was me.” I know she probably I swear she probably still asked her. So, um she texted me and she
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13 minutes, 13 secondswas like, “No, she act like she was me and she said, “Hey, my wife kicked me.” um she’s not my wife, but she said that.
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13 minutes, 19 secondsI guess that’s what she said when it came out in love. So, she kicked me out and come meet me. She used basically her her her emotional the way she feels towards me to get her over here.
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13 minutes, 30 secondsAnd when she got her over here,
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13 minutes, 32 secondshey, call. Go ahead and just take them over by your car. What’s going to happen? Just go ahead and take them over, please.
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13 minutes, 40 secondsWe are. Hold on one second. So then she came over. So she asked her to come over. She was pretending to be you. Yes, ma’am. And then what?
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13 minutes, 46 secondsShe fought her. She had to cuz the wave went out.
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13 minutes, 50 secondsI literally woke up and was like all you say she fought her like she had to fight because they had to fight or get in an altercation because
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13 minutes, 58 secondswhen like when I heard this like I literally woke up and I’m like what the heck and all I hear is them yelling to my sister and her you know I guess like hyped.
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14 minutes, 7 secondsSo Ashley came here to your door because they took her phone I guess she had they took her phone cuz I got to get it back. Oh they took her phone?
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14 minutes, 14 secondsYes. her cuz she was going to text I guess her and like you know she was pretty she was hurt. So but she knocked I wake up and
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14 minutes, 22 secondsI’m like I’m like oh there’s knocking that door but I hear bickering. So I’m like yo y don’t hear this door. I’m like what the heck? I open the door and I
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14 minutes, 30 secondsjust see and I just closed it immediately.
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14 minutes, 33 secondsHow did she look when you when she opened the door? I don’t know. I’m not going to lie.
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14 minutes, 42 secondsShe looked up. Yeah. Okay.
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14 minutes, 44 secondsBut he was cooperative, allowing officers to look through his phone and even download the text messages they found there. However, the outburst came when he was informed of his lover’s death.
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14 minutes, 54 secondsIs she hurt?
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14 minutes, 56 secondsNo, she like real bad. So,
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15 minuteshonestly, I’m I’m not going to make a show. I’m not going to go and yell and I’m not going to go call her. I just just want to know.
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15 minutes, 7 secondsWell, yeah. We got a call from the hospital a while ago and she actually passed away from Bro, stop playing with me. Please. Seriously, please stop playing with me.
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15 minutes, 15 secondsPlease stop playing with me. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Please stop playing with me. Sh. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
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15 minutes, 25 secondsBreathe. Please stop playing with me. Breathe. Breathe. Look at me. Look at me. Always always.
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15 minutes, 32 secondsThe timeline was clear. Antoneta had stolen Daniel’s phone while he slept.
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15 minutes, 36 secondsShe and Janine had planned the confrontation. They’d lured Ashley to the complex. They’d attacked her together. They’d filmed it. They’d stolen her phone afterward. Ashley
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15 minutes, 45 secondsBokanaggra arrived at the hospital with life-threatening injuries following the assault. Despite emergency medical care,
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15 minutes, 51 secondsshe passed away hours later. An autopsy later confirmed she died as a result of severe injuries sustained during the attack. She left behind a 7-year-old son
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16 minutesalong with three other children from earlier in her life, a total of four children who would never see their mother again. What prosecutors would reveal during court proceedings would
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16 minutes, 8 secondsshow that this case wasn’t about self-defense or a fight that got out of hand. It was about jealousy, rage, and two women who decided murder was an
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16 minutes, 16 secondsacceptable response to infidelity. That same evening, police returned to the apartment, but Steven’s response was not exactly contrite.
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16 minutes, 27 secondsI know that that was the girls that were walking. They went to Quick Trips. Hey. Hi,
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16 minutes, 35 secondsI’m Detective Carter with Waret County Police. Are you your internet? Yes. Hi.
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16 minutes, 39 secondsHey, this is Detective Poppy. Sergeant Poppy. Hi. Nice to meet you. We know that there was like an incident. Yeah. That happened earlier today. Has anyone called you about it since?
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16 minutes, 48 secondsNo. Was somebody supposed to? Well, we just got another call about it.
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16 minutes, 53 secondsSo, I guess the girl went to the hospital. Okay. And she died. She died.
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16 minutes, 58 secondsShe’s dead. So, but we know that there was like an altercation that happened before him. Yeah. was mutual and she came here.
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17 minutes, 6 secondsYeah, we understand that. So, but we because of it I wasn’t going to kill anybody. I’m not that person. I get it.
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17 minutes, 12 secondsBut because of that, we have to kind of talk to you guys and get a more formal statement.
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17 minutes, 16 secondsTrue. Okay. Um, wow. I’m so sorry about that. Um, that was not my intention.
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17 minutes, 22 secondsUm, I’ve been mentally going through a lot. Um,
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17 minutes, 26 secondsI have bipolar depression and I’m just going through a lot right now. when you know I came here from up north um with my fiance. That’s him.
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17 minutes, 36 secondsHey, how you doing? I came here with my fiance.
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17 minutes, 41 secondsYeah. Um so I came here the sister. His sister.
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17 minutes, 44 secondsUm I came here with my fiance um to start a new life, buy a house,
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17 minutes, 49 secondseverything like that. And I never expected him to basically cheat on me with someone at the workplace. You know what I’m saying?
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17 minutes, 58 secondsSo, we would like to get like a formal statement. So, we’re going to ask that you come up to our headquarters and talk to this. It’s just right up the street. Okay. All right.
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18 minutes, 6 secondsI hear kids. Is there someone else here that can There’s someone here with them. Okay.
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18 minutes, 11 secondsPolice brought both women in for questioning. The interrogation footage would later go viral for all the wrong reasons. Janine Gonzalez laughed during
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18 minutes, 18 secondsquestioning. She smiled. She seemed completely unaware of the severity of what she’d done.
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18 minutes, 24 secondsSo after that,
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18 minutes, 29 secondsshe’s kicking Daniel or whatever. She don’t want to live with him no more.
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18 minutes, 32 secondsIt’s either he going to leave or she’s going to leave. And you know, she got to leave with the kids, everything. So it would make sense if he just left. So
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18 minutes, 40 secondshe’s getting kicked out, whatever. And then I guess I guess she was coming to see
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18 minutes, 47 secondshim cuz he was getting kicked out. Oh, I don’t know. I was in his messages. I’m not sure what’s that, but I guess she was coming to see him cuz he was getting
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18 minutes, 55 secondskicked out and I saw the messages. So, she decides
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19 minutes, 4 secondslike, “Yeah, now she’s about to come see you. Now I’m about to beat her up cuz I just you you just saved me from her the other day.” No, you know, that’s how it
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19 minutes, 11 secondswas. So, she’s coming. So Antoneta and me, we go to we go and she comes to the house, you know,
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19 minutes, 21 secondsbig fight. It’s big fight. So, uh, after the fight,
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19 minutes, 29 secondsum,
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19 minutes, 32 secondswe took her phone. We were going to call her husband to let her know that, you know, just to th.
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19 minutes, 38 secondsThroughout the interview, Janine displayed bizarre behavior. She treated the interrogation like it was a casual conversation, like she was explaining a schoolyard argument, not a murder.
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19 minutes, 48 secondsJust go through basically since I wasn’t there and I’m I’m playing casual basically. So what happened?
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19 minutes, 55 secondsSo like let me start to where it leaded. Okay.
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20 minutesOh, okay. So like since I’ve been down here, they they haven’t been on good
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20 minutes, 7 secondsterms. So, you know, arguments back to back. So, like we just came back from Florida like not too long ago from her
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20 minutes, 15 secondsmom’s wedding and we left on bad terms with everybody cuz my brother got into a you know incident with her stepdad.
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20 minutes, 25 secondsSo, ever since that happened and we left Florida,
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20 minutes, 29 secondsit just been rocky rockier. It’s just been worse arguments and so yeah. Sorry, I just cried. You’re fine. Yeah.
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20 minutes, 36 secondsYeah. I [ __ ] up earlier. Okay. So,
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20 minutes, 40 secondslike you know they’re arguing or whatever. So,
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20 minutes, 45 secondsmy brother, him being a man cheats like always. You know, he’s feeling less than. He thinks it’s okay to cheat. So,
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20 minutes, 55 secondsyou know, he tells me. So, he tells me who is he cheating with and stuff. Now,
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21 minutes, 2 secondsme and my steps sister, I mean, not my step sister, my sister-in-law. We’re very close. Like, so close. Like, you understand? Like, she’s more of a sister to me than my brother’s a brother to me,
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21 minutes, 13 secondsyou know? Yeah.
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21 minutes, 15 secondsSo, like we’re very close. So, once he told me, I was just like, I want to tell her. It’s girl code, you know.
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21 minutes, 23 secondsYes. Right. So, especially when right after he told her after he told me what what he was doing, he wanted to do it
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21 minutes, 30 secondswith her. So, I was just like, I’m about to tell her.
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21 minutes, 33 secondsTwo days prior before this day, um, we were just chilling. She was working and
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21 minutes, 40 secondsDaniel did something to her to make her upset. So, we were talking or whatever.
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21 minutes, 45 secondsAnd I was just like, “Oh, I forgot to tell you.” No, I didn’t forget, but I still, you know, so I was like, um, tell
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21 minutes, 53 secondsher what happened. He explained, you know, cheated or whatever. She was like, “Oh, really?” And she’s upset, whatever.
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21 minutes, 58 secondsI was like, “Don’t tell him that you cuz he’s going to be mad at me, right?” Okay. So, after that,
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22 minutes, 5 secondsum, he explained how the girl looked to me though and you know, curly Puerto Rican skinny girl. So, I was like, “All right.” So, then I explained it to Antoneta. So, the next day after that,
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22 minutes, 17 secondswe went to the store last night. Last night,
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22 minutes, 21 secondswe went to the store last night and we were walking to [ __ ] Trip. [ __ ] Trip is right there. You know, I thought I saw y’all walking earlier.
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22 minutes, 28 secondsI thought that was you guys.
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22 minutes, 30 secondsOkay, so we walked to Quick Trip. As we’re walking to [ __ ] Trip, both of them are walking together from Quick Trip. So
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22 minutes, 38 secondsthey’re just now leaving and we’re just now coming. So Antoneta is like, “Is that Daniel walking?” So now she runs to him like, “Who is this?” So he’s like,
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22 minutes, 47 seconds”Oh, this is my work.” Whatever. Whatever. Mind you, before we walk to K,
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22 minutes, 52 secondswe asked him, “When you go on your break, can you take this to the store?” He said he couldn’t leave on his break. So when we stopped walking, it was like,
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23 minutes”You just said you couldn’t leave on your break. Now you walk her to the store.” Detectives asked her about the fight, how long it had lasted.
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23 minutes, 7 secondsOh, okay. So we closed the door. She started banging on the door like crazy cuz you know we got her phone. She wants her phone back.
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23 minutes, 14 secondsYeah. So Daniel gave her her phone back and then I don’t know what the hell happened after.
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23 minutes, 23 secondsOh, she gave her phone back. literally like she left right after. I I don’t know what I don’t know how she left.
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23 minutes, 30 secondsLike I wasn’t watching after that cuz my brother was mad as hell and you know he don’t want me in the business. I was already in it too much. Like he’s like on my ass. So I’m just like okay.
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23 minutes, 40 secondsSo I don’t know what happened after she left but literally right after she left a third party called the police. They
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23 minutes, 47 secondscame, you know, made a report and then after that it was over, whatever.
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23 minutes, 55 secondsAnd then just know you guys came. Yeah, that’s that’s all I know.
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24 minutes, 3 secondsWhen you guys uh fought, how long did that fight last?
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24 minutes, 11 secondsUh 3 2 minutes. Okay. Yeah, it was it was early,
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24 minutes, 18 secondsbut yeah, that’s about it. Uh, have you ever been in fights before? Me? Yeah.
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24 minutes, 24 secondsYeah. Oh, you seem kind of athletic. You play sports when you’re in school? No. No. No. No. Oh, okay.
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24 minutes, 31 secondsYeah. Do I really look athletic?
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24 minutes, 34 secondsYeah, you look athletic. You got some some shoulders on you.
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24 minutes, 38 secondsIt was clear from Janine’s tone that she felt Ashley had deserved what had happened to her. Where was she? I know you said you you said earlier she came looking for him.
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24 minutes, 47 secondsShe She came because he was moving. He was getting kicked out and she wanted to be a little writer. Mhm.
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24 minutes, 54 secondsWhen she knows she a side chick and she got a husband at home, girl, I know she’s breaking up a happy home. But where was she at? Like, no, she has a husband as well.
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25 minutes, 2 secondsYeah, I know. But where was she at? Um, what do you mean?
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25 minutes, 6 secondsJanine’s attitude suggested she genuinely believed she wouldn’t be charged with murder. She thought filming the attack somehow made her less culpable. That being 17 would protect her. She was wrong on both counts.
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25 minutes, 17 secondsRobbery. What? Robbery? Yeah.
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25 minutes, 23 secondsWe didn’t steal her phone. We took it so she could come to the house. Oh, you took it? Yeah, she got she got her phone back.
25:31
25 minutes, 31 secondsI told you she wasn’t leaving unless she got We gave her back her phone. We just did it so we could call her husband, but we changed her mind. Okay.
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25 minutes, 37 secondsGave the phone to Daniel. She got her phone back. Did she say it was okay for you to take it? No.
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25 minutes, 42 secondsOkay. Yeah, that’s a robbery. Um, other charge is uh murder. Murder? Yep. You’re being charged with murder. Me?
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25 minutes, 50 secondsYep. That’s That’s That’s too bad. That’s deep, right? Yeah. That’s That’s insane.
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25 minutes, 58 secondsYeah. No, no, no, no. What? Murder.
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26 minutes, 4 secondsI really laid hands on her. All I did was pull her right here. Police presented the evidence to prosecutors. The video showing active participation,
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26 minutes, 12 secondsthe audio capturing threats, Ashley’s text message naming Janine as her attacker, the stolen cell phone, the planned ambush using Daniel’s phone to
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26 minutes, 20 secondslure the victim. Investigators determined that both women were equally responsible. Antoneta Stevens had initiated the attack, but Janine Gonzalez had joined in willingly,
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26 minutes, 30 secondsenthusiastically even. Both were arrested. Both were charged with aggravated battery, robbery, and felony murder. Felony murder doesn’t require
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26 minutes, 39 secondsproving intent to kill. It requires proving that a death. It requires proving that a death occurred during the commission of another felony. In this case, robbery and aggravated battery.
26:49
26 minutes, 49 secondsProsecutors established that the defendants had committed robbery by taking Ashley’s phone and aggravated battery through the assault. Under
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26 minutes, 57 secondsGeorgia’s felony murder statute, when a death occurs during the commission of certain felonies, all participants can be charged with murder regardless of who
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27 minutes, 4 secondsdirectly caused the fatal injury. In court, the video Janine recorded turned out to be the biggest piece of evidence.
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27 minutes, 10 secondsIt showed everything. Stevens asking Janine if she wanted to join in. Janine saying yes and actively participated in
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27 minutes, 17 secondsthe assault. Prosecutors presented evidence that Janine’s actions during the confrontation contributed to the victim’s fatal injuries. They had the
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27 minutes, 24 secondsaudio, the threats, statements that suggested intent, not bystander behavior. In one of her final text messages, Ashley documented what
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27 minutes, 33 secondshappened, identifying her attackers and the nature of the assault. That message would become crucial evidence. Defense attorneys argued for involuntary
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27 minutes, 41 secondsmanslaughter. They claimed Janine didn’t intend for Ashley to die, that the kicks weren’t meant to be fatal, that she was just defending her brother’s honor after finding out about the affair.
27:50
27 minutes, 50 secondsProsecutors countered with the evidence.
27:52
27 minutes, 52 secondsJanine had actively participated. She’d recorded the attack, capturing her own threats on video. She’d kicked a woman who was already injured and struggling.
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28 minutes, 2 secondsShe’d stolen the victim’s phone. This wasn’t involuntary anything. This was felony murder. Death during the
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28 minutes, 9 secondscommission of robbery and aggravated battery. In 2023, both women made a decision. Rather than face trial and the
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28 minutes, 16 secondspossibility of life in prison on felony murder charges, they would accept plea deals. Antoneta Stevens pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and robbery by
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28 minutes, 24 secondsforce. The prosecution agreed to drop the felony murder charge. Janine Gonzalez made the same deal. Plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and
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28 minutes, 32 secondsrobbery by force. Avoid trial. Avoid the possibility of a life sentence. Both women were sentenced to 20 years in prison. For Ashley’s family, justice
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28 minutes, 40 secondscouldn’t have come any sooner. Her four children would grow up without their mother. Her fianceé would raise their son alone. And Daniel Gonzalez, the man
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28 minutes, 48 secondsat the center of the love triangle, was left to deal with the aftermath. His fianceé was going to prison. His sister was going to prison. His girlfriend was
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28 minutes, 56 secondsdead. His two young sons would grow up with their mother incarcerated. The judge handed down the sentences. 20 years each. No parole eligibility until
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29 minutes, 5 secondsthey’d served significant time. Antoneta Stevens and Janine Gonzalez were both sent to Arendelle State Prison. Their
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29 minutes, 12 secondsrelease date is set for August 2042. By then, Stevens will be in her late 40s.
29:17
29 minutes, 17 secondsGonzalez will be in her late 30s. 20 years of their lives gone. Ashley Bokan’s children will be adults by then.
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29 minutes, 24 secondsHer 7-year-old son will be 27, old enough to have his own children.
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29 minutes, 29 secondsChildren who will never meet their grandmother. The family created a GoFundMe to raise money to return Ashley’s body to New York City for
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29 minutes, 37 secondsburial, to pay for funeral expenses, to help support the children she left behind. Friends and relatives spoke about Ashley after her death. They
29:46
29 minutes, 46 secondsremembered her loyalty, her dedication to her children, her dream of building a better life in Georgia.
29:52
29 minutes, 52 secondsCousin Brianna Jameson spoke to reporters after the arrests. According to news coverage, she said she was very angry with both women, that they were
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30 minuteslucky the police got to them first. She was beautiful inside out, Jameson said about Ashley, according to testimony.
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30 minutes, 7 secondsSo, I can see why they were jealous. And jealousy is the ugly trait to have. That jealousy cost Ashley Bokanra her life.
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30 minutes, 14 secondsIt cost Antineta Stevens and Janine Gonzalez their freedom. It left four children without a mother and two young boys without theirs. All because a
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30 minutes, 22 seconds30-year-old woman fell in love with someone else’s semi-aranged partner. All because a 27-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl decided violence was the answer.
