So, that being said, we talked to her and she gave us a totally different story than than what you and Michelle were giving us. And honestly, I think that's what happened, man. I think I think that it got to a point where she wasn't respecting you. She'd be disrespectful. She's defiant. She's she's telling you she likes her daddy more than you. She doesn't love you. She doesn't love Michelle. All that. And you snapped me. >> Yeah, I think you snapped. Actually, let me rephrase it. I know you snapped. I know you snapped. Okay. >> October 18th, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida. At around 4:30 in the morning, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office officers are sent to a home on the city's west side. A child is unresponsive. She is 5-year-old Zakaria Robinson. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue rushes her to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Four people were inside the apartment that night. Zakaria, her six-year-old sister, their mother, Michelle Canamore, and Canmore's boyfriend, 26-year-old Jonte Harris, who had moved in with the family that summer. The adults explanation is that Zicaria fell in the bathtub. But the doctors treating her find severe head trauma, injuries in various stages of healing, and marks that appear to be adult bite marks. That same morning, at 11:34, Jonte Harris sits down in an interview room at Jacksonville's police memorial building, across from two homicide detectives. for them. The medical evidence is already speaking. What they need now is someone from that apartment willing to explain it. >> Okay. All right. Um, [clears throat] anytime I speak to anybody downtown, we've got to complete uh uh these constitutional rights. Okay. It's just part of our policy. It's just a important part of the process. Um, a place I'm going to put PMBB. That's just the police memorial building. Okay. >> It's just the abbreviation. Today is 10:18 of 2018 and the time is uh 11:34 a.m. Okay. So, so basically we brought y'all here cuz we're trying to get a better understanding of what happened uh at the house. >> Okay. >> Can you let's just start from the Do you work anywhere? No, I go to Coastal Woods. >> You go to Okay. Coastal. Okay. Um, what time did you go to school yesterday? >> No. >> Okay. So, were you home all day? >> Yes. >> Okay. And then say about 5:00 um p.m. Were who all was at the house? >> We all be home. >> Everybody was there. Okay. So, at what [clears throat] point did y'all go to bed? Uh, usually, well, some days Michelle work I usually go to bed right after she goes to work. She usually goes to work around 9:00. >> Okay. >> And I go to bed around 11:00. >> Okay. Okay. So, did she go to work last night? >> Yes. >> She came home early. Okay. What What time does she go to school? About I mean, not school, but work. >> She goes to work. She catches uh the 16 around 9, I want to say. >> Okay. 94. And so she goes to work. What time does she come back home? >> It varies between like 4 >> last night. What time did she come home? >> Okay. Uh >> 3. Okay. >> She came home early earlier. >> Okay. She came home about 3:00. And why did she come home early? Did she say? >> No. >> Okay. She just came home. >> Yes. >> Okay. So she got home at 3:00. Um where were you at at that time? Were you sleeping? >> No, I was in the living room watching TV. >> Okay. Um so you in the living room watching TV. Where where were the girls? >> Was in her room in the front with me. >> Okay. Um was she watching TV with you? >> No, she was laying down. >> She was sleeping. Okay. What time about What time did she go to sleep? >> I can't tell you. >> I wouldn't know. I wouldn't pay attention like not to her sleeping. >> So [clears throat] when she when she's in there, she's on the couch, I guess. >> Yes. >> So she's on the couch and she'll watch TV with you till she falls asleep. >> Yes. >> Okay. So you're not sure what time she actually fell asleep, but she's watching TV and all that. And then the other daughter was in the or the other uh little girl was in the back in her bedroom. Is that is that normal? Is that normally the way that >> No. Okay. >> It it's sometimes uh when school she'll stay up. >> Okay. >> School. So she just be up whenever she falls asleep. She just falls asleep. >> Okay. And she so she'll um she'll sleep on the couch sometimes, but she'll also sleep in her room sometimes. Okay. And then Michelle got home. Then what happened? >> Um Michelle got home. Everything was still normal. We was chilling, you know. Um the I was already still in the living room. Michelle went and told her that's when she got the medicine and all that. Then Michelle told her to go to the bathroom. >> What What medicine you talking about? >> I don't know the name of it. Okay. But >> uh one of the officers went to the house and it's in a orange bottle. One of the bottles, her bottle's gone, but not the same exact bottle. >> Okay. >> They both got prescribed the same thing. >> Okay. >> Um after that, after she gave her the medicine, she took her to the she took her to the bathroom. >> On the couch. >> She peed on the couch. >> Okay. >> And she took her to the bathroom. Once all that was done, she was taking a bath. They normally do that. I don't I don't >> So after every time after she she pees herself or pees the bed or the couch. >> Yeah. that when they go take a >> that avoids from us whooping whooping them. So they [clears throat] know like don't do it but you also need to be clean cuz they pissed to be strong, >> right? >> So >> okay. So they're so they're in the bathroom. Both of them are in the bathroom. >> No, no, no. Just her. This was Ron the same time Michelle got off for work. >> Okay. So Michelle comes home, finds out that she had peed on >> the couch. >> Gets her up, takes her into the bathroom. Then what happened? That's where I got lost. I'm sorry. >> Okay. When she took her in the bathroom, she was already in the tub. She ran the uh the water was running in there. She was washing. >> Okay. >> Now, when we was in the living room, she came back. Michelle didn't eat dinner. When we came back, she said she heard I didn't know what the hell she was talking about. Me, I wasn't It's not like I wasn't paying attention. It was like, I'm paying attention, but who would you know what I'm saying? Something that's normal, right? >> You know what I mean? So when she heard that, we both rushed there and we seen her. The way she fell, she fell up. She must be fell up under the water cuz her whole face was like this. So when we grabbed her, I seen suds come out of mouth. I already know how things are. So I told Sh call the ambulance. So when we both got on the phone, they told showed us how to do the uh the CP CPR thing. >> Okay. >> So when she's in the when she's in the bath, Michelle comes out cuz she didn't eat dinner. She was going to get some food or something. >> Yes. >> Okay. And that's when she heard the thud or the the noise and she told you, "Hey, do you hear that? Something's wrong." And then y'all went into the bathroom. >> Yes. >> And you saw her. She was so She was laying in the bathtub facing >> the water uh spigot thing. Okay. >> The tub. And you have the faucet like this. >> Uhhuh. >> She's laying like this, >> like >> face down with the water coming down her >> to her shoulder or onto her face. her face, >> her head. >> This is the faucet. This is towards the bathroom door. >> Okay. >> And her arm like this. And she's like this. >> So, we grabbed her out the tub and when we flipped her over, you can see suds coming out her nose and out her mouth. >> So, she had water all up in her. Okay. >> How long [clears throat] do you think from when you heard the the thud did you guys make it into that room? When I say 15 minutes because Michelle had just came home around >> 15 minutes between when you heard >> before she came home and when she did that. >> Okay. But what about when you y you >> Oh, how long how long it took us to get to her when we heard the noise? >> Oh, ASAP. >> Yeah. A couple seconds at most. Okay. Um All right. So, you guys pull her out, you call 911. Um they tell you how to do CPR. Uh are both y'all doing CPR? >> Yes. Okay. Uh, she started first and then I think the person on the phone told her to go unlock the door. So I started and she was like, "Count, count with me, count me, count me." Then Michelle came back and did it. She was doing it, then I blew her nose and then we switched cuz she was opening the door and that's when the pair of masks came. >> Okay. Okay. Um, so when y'all pulled her out of the the bathtub, she didn't have any clothes on or anything [clears throat] cuz she was in there shower and all that. And was she standing up? Was she taking a shower or she taking a bath? >> A bath. >> Okay. Do you know how much water was in the in the bath there? >> Okay. So, she would >> It shouldn't have been a lot, but the tubs usually stop up. So, >> Okay. >> I don't I can't really call cuz I didn't. Not realistically. I didn't see it. >> You didn't see it. You weren't paying attention to that part. Okay. Um, so just just so I understand, again, I want to make sure I understand it really well. Michelle came home from work about 3:00. She comes in, realizes that uh she peed that she peed the couch there. Tells her, "Get on up. Go in there. We're going to clean up." So, they both go into the bathroom together. Um get her in the bathtub. And then Michelle comes back out um to get dinner or what have you. And then here's a a thud or a boom. And y'all go immediately running back in there and see that she is uh face down kind of up against the wall of the bathtub and the water's coming down and hitting her face, nose, mouth, all that area. >> Um y'all reach, grab her out, pull her out, and she's she's not responsive, right? Did she respond that time? Is she breathing? >> It was it was like a slow breath cuz I had put my ear to her mouth and then I had put my ear to her heart and I I thought I was hearing a heartbeat. Okay. >> So, and then I heard you know I'm saying I'm seeing but when I start seeing the suds come out her nose I was thinking like logically like oh that's probably like the same thing as blood. So call the ambulance. I don't know. >> Okay. Okay. Um so y'all try CPR then the EMTs get there and they they scoop her up and take her away. >> They grab her quick. >> Okay. [clears throat and cough] >> Okay. And then um the do y'all go outside as a as a little family group? go outside and Michelle said something about that y'all that y'all run that y'all exercise and what have you. Does she take part in the exercise? Does she enjoy the running and stuff? >> No, she doesn't. >> I don't enjoy running either. >> She does. Some days she enjoy, like I said, when we playing like, "Oh, come on, Chase. Whoever beat me to the house, she'll give you some chips and then she'll do that." But if we just on some exercising, if it was just me and Michelle and then Michelle be like, "Oh, no. Get the girls cuz they can't stay in the house." And when we were running, the last time she ran, it was like the worst. >> Okay. Is she she just didn't want to run? >> No. >> Was she What What did she do? How did she react to um to that? >> She was running first. Usually she runs fast like this, but I figured something was going on cuz she was and I was like, "Come on, mom. Come on. Come on." And then all of a sudden she pick her up. She started running again. and she started running again. Then she >> slid. That's how she got her bruises. And then >> okay, >> the last run that same day we was coming from the store going around the block. There's a I forgot how the doctor said it. Uh but it's something in the road on Lake Shore. The sidewalk goes like this and then it goes in and then it comes back up and they have like a cone right here. >> Okay. And the parts of it that come out when she was running, she must be tripped cuz we all Well, I didn't trip, but we all tripped her, Michelle, and they fell and we picked her up. Then I seen bruises like this on her on her arms. So I was like, "Come on, come on, come on." This was want to say last week. Want to say Friday or Thursday. >> Okay. Thursday or Friday, last week. >> And we were more on some Well, I was scared. Sh was scared of course. And I was like, "Well, maybe we should call the doctor." She was like, "She seems fine. It just bruises." So, she went to go to 7-Eleven and just buy the little creams and stuff to put on her to calm the bruises. >> And when you say bruises, were they like black and blue or were they like scrapes on your knee or whatever? >> They these were scrapes, but when she hit her face, her face, this part, >> she got bruises up here. >> Yeah. >> What about on her eyes? Anything >> right here? >> Yeah. Did she have anything like you? >> No, I didn't see that. >> Nothing there. Just it was on the side right there. Okay. >> Okay. Okay. And that you said was last Thursday or Friday when y'all was running? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Um any to your knowledge has she has she hurt herself any other times? I mean broken any bones, twist broken any bones, but she usually like she'll do a little stuff to hurt herself like biting biting her tongue. I used to hear her do the >> I'll be like Yeah, that's what it sounds like. >> You said she would bite her tongue. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Like to make her tongue bleed or just bite it? >> Not to make it bleed. I never seen just >> like this. >> Okay. Just the tip of it in her teeth. >> Like how girls like this stick their tongue out. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But she she doesn't do it all the way. >> Okay. >> Like a little bit and then she like this and then she goes >> Okay. >> It was a habit. >> Okay. Does she she the daycare ever bite other kids or anything like that or she just like biting her tongue? >> I I I never know. >> I'll never know. Okay. But she [clears throat] doesn't bite her sister or try to bite y'all or anything like that. Okay. >> She ever bite herself? >> Not that I know of. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Was she hitting her head or was she hitting her arms or >> like I said when she fell on that one that little thing that's like that? That's what I saw. I saw her hit all this >> when she tripped and fell. >> Yes. Okay. >> Uh before No. other than tonight. I mean, well, ear uh yes, um last night from the heads and all that cuz the doctor had just put us up on information about her having damage in her brain. We never knew that. >> Now, when the when the kids act up, what's done? You know, when they're not following directions and they're and they're >> like getting in a corner and she doesn't I uh I tell her, "Oh, you're not going to eat." And then she eats late or she doesn't eat her favorite food which is she likes to eat pizza, pancakes, chicken or eating what we eating. And then the worst thing is the night or no TV. >> Okay. >> So she and she she responds to that, you know, by saying, "Hey, you're going to eat later. You're not going to get your favorite food or no TV." >> She has the older sister. She gets right. just tell Sher like it's this had to be something wrong with her cuz she been like on some like zoning out lately like way before all this happened. It was like she been was on some zoning out. I used to think it was like seizures or something. I don't know. That's why I say epileptic. I don't know what's going I'm just spitballing things cuz I don't I don't I don't know. >> I'm with you. I'm with you. So with her, you said that she goes in the corner. >> Mhm. >> Um what about past that? What if she's in the corner and she doesn't she won't stay there? She keeps talking back or whatever. >> She doesn't talk back. Uh when she she uh when she's in the corner, she usually if she's zoned out or she goes from being like this and then she goes to being like this and then she starts swinging around doing this and then she start doing this and I'll be like >> So she'll respond back when you holler at her. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Um, [clears throat] do do you ever have to discipline her, spank her, anything like that? >> I spanked her a few times, like once or twice, but her mom spanks her. >> Okay. Her mom's the the one that discipline. >> Why is that? >> Uh, because of the fact of peeing. Last time I spanked her was when she used the B. She bow moved on the floor. >> Okay, >> that was it. But my mom, her mom, her, and her dad was like, "No, this and that." And I said, "I understand cuz I have a son and he's been in the situation with >> my uh baby mother and her boyfriend whooping him with a belt." And I was like, >> you know what I'm saying? Don't be a contradictor cuz >> Right. I'm with you. Yeah. I I completely understand. I just want to get your your opinion on it. So So it's mom, it's Michelle that usually does a disciplinary spanking. Um tell me about that. How how does she do that? What does she use? Hand. What does she use? >> Hand. Um on the butt. >> Okay. Hand on the butt. Does she ever use a belt or >> She use a belt. She She doesn't use it like full out or from the buckle to the long. She doesn't whoop like that in the butt. She folds about twice. Same thing like she does with her hand. Not too >> The reason we're here, I'm I'm going to cut through the chase. The reason we're here is uh basically there's injuries >> to the child that aren't consistent with falling in the shower. Okay. There's a lot lot more that's happened, a lot more that's gone on. >> Yeah. Just the doctor said, >> there's a lot more bruising that's there that is not consistent with anybody's story. >> Uh we're trying to figure that out. We're trying to determine what happened and we're [clears throat] trying to to get to the bottom of it to figure out who's who's causing these injuries. Now with her, let me ask you this. Uh if somebody is physically causing harm to this child, >> what do you think should be done to that person? >> Um the person needs to be figured out >> needs to be figured out. Okay. >> Um why >> why you're doing okay. Um punishment wise, what do you how do you think they should be punished? I would leave that up to the lawmakers. I wouldn't want to be a judgment. I wouldn't know what >> if it was your child. >> If it was my child, >> you got you have a son or daughter. >> I have a son. Okay. Who's your son? >> I would want to be honest. I would want to get re revenge for my child. >> Okay. >> That's just being honest. I wouldn't use law enforcements. I know that sounds crazy. I'd probably be in either dead or in jail somewhere thinking like that. But I've been in a situation like that before where my son got whooped. So if it was my child, >> what about what about those little girls that live in your house? I mean, obviously you care for I can tell by looking at you. >> So if somebody's intentionally hurting those children, >> I would want to find out. >> You'd want to find out. Is it a revenge situation or is it something you think law enforcement should put them in jail? Tell me what are you what are you thinking? I need you to be honest with me. Okay. Um something's going on in the house. Okay. And you and Michelle and the two girls were there last night. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. It was just just you guys. >> Nobody nobody else there. And we something happened in that house last night and it's been happening in that house that the medical evidence is going to be very clear. there's going to be no doubt um of what happened and what occurred. Not only with the injury to the head, not consistent with falling in the shower and you know getting an injury there. Uh there's other injuries that are on her um that don't make sense. They don't make sense at all. And we will get to the bottom of it, but it depends depends where you want to be in this whole thing. Well, like I said, me and Michelle, we don't do no crazy stuff like that. Like, that's what I know for sure. Now, as far as her falling and her injuries that we seen, that's what we saw. I didn't even know that the baby had uh other injuries around her, little bite marks. I don't want to blame nobody, but I'm ashamed of what the hell is going on. You feel me? Um, >> so you you're the one that brought up the bite marks on her. >> I brought up uh the fact that >> Right. No, I'm I'm who's biting her? Cuz you you told me that her sister don't bite her. >> I don't bite her. >> She doesn't bite herself. >> Uh Michelle doesn't I don't I never seen Michelle bite her. I haven't bite her. Um I never seen bite her. I don't know if she bit herself. I don't know if another adult bit her. Some sometimes sometimes we get in situations with kids and you have kids. >> Yes, I do. >> Um where you get so frustrated that you lose control. >> Yeah. >> That and you go too far. I can tell you an example with me and my son specifically where he had a handprint on his behind cuz I was so upset. And that never should have gone that far. >> But it did cuz I was she had a bruise >> that I never whooped her before like that. She has a bruise on her on her butt. Now, she did have one bruise on her butt that came from a woman, but Carrie, I don't know. I like I said, I don't want to blame it on nothing. I'm not making no excuses, but she I don't know if it was her skin diseases or she had a skin disease. I don't know. When she was falling out, she hit her head before, like when we was running. That's what I was saying. um the bite marks. The doctor said he didn't even know what that was, but he was gonna get to the bottom of it. And that's why I was looking at Michelle. We was crying because I never seen it. >> You feel me? I never seen it. Um >> let me ask you this. When >> last night before this all happened, did she have marks on her eyes >> right here? >> Yeah. >> And uh No. I don't know if it was from I didn't see I didn't see it. Did she have bruises on her arms and legs? >> She had the bruises. She She had the She had uh >> Not the skin marks. I'm talking like >> the bruises on her on her You saying on her on her face? And >> there was on her face, on her arms, on her legs. >> The bruises. That's what she had. That's her ribs. That's I didn't see her stomach on her butt. I didn't see the um I seen them on the butt. I seen the little uh the gash, right? Uh I don't know if it's a gash that is what you call it. I seen that. And I seen this one over on this side. I seen those. >> What are those from? I don't know. I don't know if those scrapes. >> Have you Have you ever seen Michelle lose control? >> No, I don't. >> Have you ever lost control with >> I have lost control yelling loud. >> I never I never I never ever ever I don't have no history of violence. I don't have no history of hurting kids. I don't believe in that. I wouldn't understand that. And I have a a great sense of mind. >> I I mean obviously you know that when you come in here we run your background, all that. >> Yes. I don't see anything that jumps off at me with you. Nothing at all. And that that's what that's what concerns me cuz right now we're trying to figure out who the suspect is and who the witnesses are. The bathtub story is now under real pressure. A fall in the tub might explain one injury. It cannot explain bruising across a child's face, arms, and legs, or bite marks. Harris admits he saw the bruises, but insists that he and Michelle don't do no crazy stuff like that. The detectives haven't accused him yet. They're testing something simpler, whether his account can survive what the doctors are finding. >> What I'm what I'm trying to caution you with is which one do you want to be and where do you want to be in this in this process? I don't >> because I know that >> I know by by talking to you that this is concerning you. This bothers you. >> Yes, it does. >> And you're trying to decide the right thing to do of how how to work this out. And >> as a as a as a family man, I don't want to see myself in jail or prison. I don't want to see Michelle in jail or prison. I don't want to I didn't even want in situations that she's in that. I don't want to see mom losing her stepdad because their dad's not >> I don't want to see her sister and then I have my own family. I'm in school. I'm going to get ready to graduate in a month. You know what I mean? So it's like >> and you going to make good money work doing welding and all that stuff. There's good money in that. So you need to think about yourself. Think about your son. >> Yes, sir. >> And think about what the right thing to do is. Okay. and make the right decision that if you know something, you need to share it with me because >> when the investigation's done, it's going to be very clear of what happened, when it happened, and where it happened. That's the good thing about these medical things. Yes, sir. >> There's no question. You know, we've got doctors upon doctors upon doctors over there doing examination, x-rays, and figuring stuff out. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. We work directly with the state attorney. She comes in and she talks to us in these cases to figure out which way am I going to go and what's going to happen. >> Yes, sir. That way she can get a clear understanding of what happened and what went on. And I can guarantee you that people that cooperate and tell us the truth, she can look at that and understand it better. >> Yes, sir. >> Than people that don't >> tell us the truth. They look at it. Well, the medical evidence shows this. This is exactly what happened. How the hell did he not know that? >> Yes, sir. >> And she's going to think that you're lying. You're a bad guy. You're not a bad guy, are you? >> No, sir. >> No. And I don't think you are either. By talking to you, I don't think you are. >> But if you know something, you need to think about yourself. I'm I'm thinking about myself. I'm thinking about everything that's going on. I don't know nothing. I have lost control. I have screamed. She has lost control. She has screamed. But we never ever took it to the point where we will want to like harm them or kill them or >> neither one of you have >> been excessive with discipline with either one of those kids. No, I know she I know from the doctor saying that the bruising that you saying about like the ribs and things like that. We don't know where that come from. >> Okay. >> You know what I mean? Um this I know. See, I'm sorry. >> No, no, I interrupted you. I apologize. Keep going. >> These I seen for sure. You know what I mean? Hit the concrete. For sure. For sure. I seen that. The these right here. know because that would sound like I I never seen that. I don't know like I don't know if that came from hitting the concrete or not. I don't know. I never seen it from her like sleeping and stuff. She sleep so I I can't imagine um bags or anything like that or some something strong. And then the doctor said she had like uh blood behind her eyes or something like that. So I don't know if if it's from that. Um, what did the doctor tell you today at the hospital, you and Michelle, when y'all were in that room? >> The doctor said, uh, she has a bite mark. Uh, she went in cardiac arrest. Um, she had blood behind her eyes. Uh, and that was it. He didn't never say nothing about the ribs or the bruising. That's why I've just heard that from from you. >> Did he say anything about what's going to happen point forward like he expects? He said, uh, probably she's looking she's her heart was beating. Um, they had on a breathing machine. She's looking for it, but he don't know if she's going to make it. >> That's how he's >> Okay. So, it's pretty serious injuries is what we're talking about here. >> Yes, sir. >> We're not talking about spankings or falls. >> No. >> Um, was a difficult child for Michelle to control or understand. >> Kind of. Tell me what you mean by that. >> Um the stubbornness from what he's put out there to me. Um >> not listening as far as like go get in the corner like the swing. Just little stuff like that >> for us. Uh just one of her dad normal things. That's about it. Nothing. Nothing. Oh, and the running. Not not exercising. Does is Michelle is that her first child? >> That's her second. >> That's her second child. How many children does she have total? >> She has two. >> Okay. Two. So, okay. Um and she's obviously the one she has a little more difficulty with. So, she's different than the first child. >> Yes. >> Do you think deals with her appropriately discipline wise? >> You said do you think she >> does does Michelle does she know how to parent? She do a good job. >> Yes. To me. >> To me. >> Okay. >> As a mother. Yes. She doesn't she doesn't she doesn't do, like I said, she doesn't do anything to the screen. It's not like cuz my kids be around, so that's judgment already. >> Um, no, she doesn't do anything out of the norm. >> Cuz here's here's what we're running into. Okay, >> this is and this I'm going to try to kind of show you what we're looking at from our perspective so you can understand why we're asking what we're asking. We've got two children, two adults taking care of those two children. >> Yes, sir. >> Um, one kid responds normally to discipline. Doesn't sound like much of a problem at all. I saw her today. She seemed like a happy golucky little kid. The other kid, for whatever reason, we don't know why, has some problems. uh responding to discipline or responding to what she's supposed to be doing, >> you know, if his parents are there to tell him what to do. >> She has a problem >> doing what she's supposed to do. Part of it is probably part, you know, problem socializing. But either way, is she's not an easy kid to discipline. It doesn't sound like. >> So, a lot of times what happens is if a little bit of discipline is not working, you do more discipline. Just like some people think if you're giving somebody a little bit of medicine, well, I'll give them more medicine to make them better. It doesn't always work that way. More discipline is not always the answer. Um, but parents don't know that always. She's a young mom. She's an inexperienced mom and she's dealing with an unusually difficult child. What we need to understand is how what happened cuz there's only four people in there that we know of and we're going to talk to everybody that we can. What happened normal and it's not right. She has enough injuries where she may not make it is what she just told me. Right? That's why we're sitting here. This isn't the time to worry about anybody else. This isn't the time to worry about you and Michelle. What's going to happen to her? What's going to happen to you? We just need to know the truth. >> Yeah. >> Cuz right now, I don't know. What you and Michelle are telling me so far is not adding up to what I've seen preliminarily. like what I've already seen injuries wise, just a few minutes I spent at the hospital doesn't make sense. So, usually when things don't make sense in my world, somebody's not telling me the truth. Now, do I think you're lying to protect yourself? I don't think so. I don't think you did anything. Do I think you may not be disclosing something that Michelle's doing that's not that's not a good thing? Maybe. Now, did you do anything to cause these injuries? >> No, sir. >> Very serious injuries. >> I know they're serious. Life or death? >> Yes, I know that. That's what I'm >> You understand there's only two people in that apartment that could have caused these injuries? >> Well, from tonight, that's what you're saying. Yes, sir. >> What happened tonight? >> Yes, sir. >> Potentially caused her death. >> Now, if you're looking at it from my perspective, something happened in that apartment. The evidence is going to show us something happened there that caused her to to be injured enough where she may pass. Only two people were there. What do you think happened? >> I know. >> And I don't know is not a real great answer right now where you're sitting. >> Uh I I I haven't like I said to you and him, I never I never did anything. I never she never I never seen her do anything. We only spanked. And even when these things come back, I have no room to lie. It really hurt. It's really hurting. >> I can see it. >> You feel me? And I have never ever seen like anything in this situation. Never been in this situation before in my life. You know what I'm saying? And like I said, you you said some real like the discipline things. I don't know. Like I have yelled, I have spanked. I never never hit. We never We never hit. We never be on. We never hit. We never um [clears throat] It's only yelling, spanking with a belt, spanking with the hands. That's it. >> What do you think happened? I'm I'm thinking that her injuries came from when she was running and we delayed on coming to you guys earlier before. I'm thinking um from her probably exercising at an accelerated race and she's falling is probably causing all that. That's the only way my my mind is pitching to that. Uh as far as the bruising is going right back to that. I don't know where the uh what do you say she had? Um >> ribs or abdominal >> ribs? Ribs. I don't know if they're broken or or or not. I don't I don't know. I never seen like I said me hit her. I never seen her hit her. I don't hit. >> So, you said and you've said that a few times. I'm kind of keen on something you're saying. You said you've never seen her hit her. >> No. >> Have you ever suspected that she hit her? >> No. Well, I I'm not paying attention. >> Well, there's a key. There's a way I phrase it the way I did cuz I just asked you if you suspected that she did. >> No, I Well, no. I don't want to even second guess myself. No, I I never suspected. I >> You never were sitting there thinking, man, she she might went overboard whenever she did her this time. Cuz this isn't something We've been doing this a long time. I've dealt with a lot of child abuse cases. Tons. Yes, sir. >> This isn't something that happened last night. the worst thing happened last night because it got her in the condition she's in now. But there's a pattern that happens before it gets to this point. Just like with a domestic abuse between a husband and wife, a boyfriend or girlfriend, >> he doesn't all of a sudden just one day stabber her. It leads up there. There's a long history of one little bit worse than the last time. A little bit worse than last time. And it doesn't seem bad until you're sitting here in this chair and it all of a sudden got to this point >> to where it's the worst it could be. >> So what we're asking about are the little things that might have led up to this. We need to get a good picture of that before those reports come in from you so that we can show that you're cooperative and you're giving us everything that you have. >> Yes, I am. >> So tell me about what led up to today. um in the last couple of weeks very defiant. She hasn't been listening to me or her mom. She told her mom she didn't love her. She told me she didn't love me when she did socialize. She said she wanted to go back to her dad. She missed her dad. She wanted to go to her nana. I put her in the corner. I told her, "You can't be like that. You your mom loves you. Your mom's not doing anything to you. Michelle, she works at night. I'm the only one that's at the house. And when he said, "Think about me." That's the only thing I'm thinking about cuz that scaring the [ __ ] out of me. I don't want to be in a situation where, you know what I mean? >> Okay. >> Where I'm more, it's not that I'm protecting her. It's really on me cuz if you working at night and then I'm the only one left with the baby, then the thing's going to point at me. I don't want I don't want I don't want that on me. I have a that is makes my conscious bad. >> So tell me what you know. >> I'm telling you what I know. That's what I know. And like I didn't suspect no injuries cuz she was fine. She was like she was swaying. That's all I ever seen her do. And before any of this stuff happened, she she already was doing I don't know what you would call this in a child. I don't know the actual doctor term. But for you to be like this and all this and you and you shake, that's what you you've been doing. You know what I mean? And this was with both of us. I don't know if it's from the yelling. It wasn't from me hitting her. It wasn't from her hitting her. I never I never seen her do like this like that and then her She was always like this, but she was responding. She was responding tonight. I I like I said, I don't know what the hell was going on. >> Listen to how the explanation keeps moving. First, a fall in the bathtub, then falls while running. Now, a new detail. Canore works nights, and he is often the only adult at home with the girls, which he admits means suspicion will point at him. Meanwhile, the medical picture keeps growing. a bite mark bleeding behind her eyes. A child who may not survive. Every new injury leaves fewer innocent explanations. >> Just one thing I'm going to flip back on. She that stood out to me. She went to the bathroom before defecated on the floor. It sounded like what you said when she pooped on the floor. >> Yes, sir. >> So, how did that happen? Was that an accident? Did she intentionally like take her pants down and go to the bathroom before cuz she's mad? Tell me a little bit about that. No, I uh put her in a corner. And when I usually put her in the corner, this is how she shows her disobedience and rebellion. She never She pissed before on the floor. Like I said, go to your room. She'd go to her room. She'd be in She'll be in the corner. Then she'll get out the corner. I was like, "Okay, sit down." She's sitting down. She knows how to get up and use the bathroom. So she I get in there, piss on the floor. go to the bathroom. She get up. Yes, sir. No, ma'am. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. That's what her words were. When she used to say no. That's when I knew it was a problem. Okay, now you're not listening. Then the bowel movement thing was when she was in the she had her panties on when she doodoo. She doodooed all the way down. I say it was on the floor because it was coming down her, but she had a whole, you know what I'm saying? whole draw swoop. >> Mhm. >> And when was that? >> That was this weekend. >> And how did you discipline her for that? >> I spanked her and put her in the corner. >> And Okay. I said, "Listen, why did she just walking around when that happened? Was she sitting on the couch?" >> No, she was standing She was already standing like >> She was already in the corner. >> She was already in the corner. >> She was already in trouble for something. >> Yes. >> What was she in trouble for? >> Disobeying. Just not rebelling. Uh I mean rebelling. not not listening, being stubborn, her mom asking her to do things like little things like, "Come on, just eat." And I'm like, "Come on, eat." She's not listening. Neither one of us. Goes back to that. >> I think I had a couple of the brain. You said something about brain damage. Did you say that she had brain damage or you thought she did or what was that? >> The doctor said that the baby had a lot of brain injuries and I'm using I just said damage to replace injury, but it's just the same thing. And he said, >> "What doctor? What was that doctor's name?" Or where were you at? >> What's this hospital? >> That was just now today. >> Today? >> Yes, sir. Y >> Okay. I mean, like I said, we we've we're here. We're giving you opportunities to kind of come forward with stuff. Um, we're going to be here for a little bit longer. If you think of something you need to tell us, you got to let us know. If there's anything you're holding back that's going to come out later, it's going to bite you. Don't think it's not. >> Trust me, I I I don't I never been in a situation like this. Never been incarcerated. Never been down the line. So, it's more >> I know. That's a pretty good accomplishment, don't you think? >> Yes. >> Staying out of trouble. >> Yes. >> So, it's You've probably given up a lot in order to keep yourself out of trouble throughout the years. >> You probably given up friends. You probably given up relationships >> just to keep yourself out of jail and not live that life. You're not about No, I'm not trying to be about that. Like I done been all I do is do my music and I do school. >> So we want to keep you out of that too. We don't want you get caught up in something to where you're going to get in trouble cuz when it comes to kids >> it's serious. That's >> and everybody takes it serious. We take it serious. The state takes it serious. The judges take it serious. And guess what? Jury's take it serious. >> Think about sitting on a jury. >> I am. >> And you were looking at what we're looking at. >> I am. I I am looking like all the situations. I I don't I don't even know what to say, man. >> If you were on the jury and you knew that there was only two adults in that house and knew what was going on, would you believe being a juror, would you believe that one didn't know what the other was doing? >> You both live there. You're the only ones. >> Not if they was in a relationship. Yeah, they're relationship. They're li they're they're living together. >> Even though they may not be paying attention, maybe watching the TV, maybe trying to zone out on what's happening, what's going on, >> you still know what's going on underneath your roof. You still know what's happening in your house. You should. Yeah. >> You should pay attention to it. And saying, "I wasn't listening. saying, "I wasn't paying attention." All that is not an excuse that a juryy's going to listen to, especially when you deal with a 5-year-old child that will probably die. I mean, you understand that, right? >> Yes, I do. >> I mean, you know what kind of detectives we are? >> No, >> we're homicide. >> Homicide detectives. >> Yeah. >> That's why I >> That's we we And when we do when we do cases, you got two of us here. You got the state attorney here. You got two sergeants watching. You got a lieutenant paying attention. You got Department of Tombs family service involved. You got three ETs and a detective talking to a judge right now and you've got two at the scene. We don't play games. >> We want to get to the bottom of it. >> Yes, sir. >> We've got doctors, like I told you before, they're examining the baby right now to figure out what happened. >> Yes, sir. >> And I don't like these cases. This is the worst case that I could ever work as a child. >> You understand that, right? >> Yes, I do. And if I find out who did this, I I want to put them under the jail. Okay? And I find out you knew about it and you didn't share it with me, I want to put you under the jail, okay? And you should want to put yourself under the jail cuz you said if it was your child, you would want revenge. >> Think about that. If you know what's happening, what's going on, and you don't share it with me and we go all this full route and we find out that you knew the entire time or it was you, there's going to be problems. Hey man, mistakes happen. I've made mistakes with my kids and my kids would tell you I've made mistakes. My wife would tell you I've made mistakes. I never I never I I made a mistake uh whooping her, but I never hit her. >> Right? And that and that >> I never hit her. And that that may be what's happening, but I'm telling you, if you know what happened, you need to man up and tell us. Okay? I'm I'm not I know we've gone through that 18 times. I don't plan on going through all that again. >> Yes, sir. >> But we're going to step outside. There's anything you want to share with us, now's the time. >> I am, sir. I am. I I I didn't suspect anything from Michelle. >> I didn't I never I never hit her. All I did was spank her. >> Then you ne you never saw Michelle. Hit her with a stick. >> No sir. No sir. >> Hit her with the broom, push her down, sir. Kick her against the wall. >> No sir. No sir. No sir. >> How old are your kids? >> My kids are uh eight and seven. >> Boy and girl. >> Which one's eight? >> The girl. >> The girl. >> Good. All right. Give us a little while. Okay. Hey, listen. A couple things we need to do. First, uh, it's been a while since we've been in here, so I want to make sure that, uh, your constitution rights. You remember us going over those? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Do you have any questions about any of those? You want to read through them again or I've seen it. >> You've seen it. Okay. Do you have any questions about any of those? >> Um, I don't uh, no. >> Okay. It's the same thing that you signed before. I just want to make sure that because it's been it's been a little while since we've been in here. um that you still understand that you're you're held to these, you know, these rights. You have, you know, the right to remain silent. Anything you say could be used against you in court. Uh you have the right to talk to an attorney before we ask you any questions or to uh have attorney present um before questioning. Um if you're not a Florida attorney, will be appointed to you before any questioning begins. And if you decide to answer questions now, you can stop at any time and consult an attorney. You understand those? Okay. >> I had just had asked the dude. I didn't know what was going on, but I was like, "Uh, could I had contact my mom?" Cuz I I didn't know. >> We just been investigating. We've been investigating, talking to people all day. >> Oh, I didn't I don't even know what time I didn't know. >> It's It's uh 7:40 right now. >> Okay. So, I know it's been a long time. Like I said, we had a lot of work to do. We did a lot of work today. We talked to a lot of people. So, that's what we're here to kind of go over again to explain it to you. And then one one of the things we got to do is we we want to get uh get your consent for a cheek swap to for the blood that's in the house and things like that that we can you know validate whose blood's what blood and all that. Okay. Do you have any issues with that? You want to read through that real quick? >> No, I don't have an issue. Is everything okay? >> We're trying to figure that out. Um while we've been while we've been out of the room uh you know we've been we've been talking to a lot of people doing a lot of investigation. Okay. Let me get this sealed up real quick and then I'll uh I'll explain to you a little bit what we've done. Um [clears throat] we were able I told you we were that we were going to talk to or have her explain a little bit for us of what happened, what went on. She's able to provide us information. We're able to uh talk to the doctor too that does the forensics or criminal investigation into injuries. Okay. >> Um and all that to give us a better understanding of the injuries that occurred and injuries that happened there. >> Okay. Um, and to be honest with you, the the story that y'all were giving us, it it stood for a little while, but just based on investigation and talking to people, it doesn't make sense. Okay. And so, we're trying to get to the to the bottom of it. We're trying to get to the truth cuz when we go I mean, we've been It's 7:00 at night now. >> Yes. And you guys and you guys got here at what, like >> 3, 4:30? >> That's when it first started. Everything started. You got in here with me probably about 8:00, 9:00, somewhere around there is when we started. So almost 12 hours. >> Yeah. >> That we that we've been going and investigating. And like I told you, with the the team we have, we got a team of people, you know, that two sergeant, state attorney. I went and saw a judge today. Um, one of my partners went and saw a judge today. So, it's not just me and Detective Devo. It's a whole team of us doing stuff. Um, we've had [clears throat] people interviewing kids that specialize. That's their job responsibility. That's all they do is interview kids to get a better understanding and to to uh to work with them. So, we've done a lot. She a pretty good kid. You said that she she pretty you threaten her with, "Hey, I'm going to take your TV away." And she whatever you say >> just stuff like that. >> So, what about in school? Is she a good student? >> Uh, yeah. Usually she Well, she she just been getting A's recently. >> Okay. >> So, that's I mean that's good. Are the teachers pretty uh um >> pretty responsive? I mean, does she listen to what they say and does what she's supposed to do? And with y'all, she does what she's supposed to do for the most part. You only have to tell her once and she gets it done right now. What about um what about just does she ever tell stories? You know, little kids tend to tell stories or or what have Is she usually pretty truthful kid, you know, comparatively to others? >> Uh, usually she doesn't I mean she doesn't be around a lot usually. She does the same thing as zoning out as far as like when watching TV and I doing she like nothing stuff like that. Nothing more than like >> she's not she's not telling telling big lies or saying that she's getting you know in trouble at school getting fs beating up other kids. >> No, she doesn't get into fights. She doesn't, >> but she's not say she's not saying any of that. She's not she's not telling any stories. >> She tells you something, you believe her? >> Most most of the time. She doesn't really too much talk about much, but when she does, Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, when she does tell you something, you no reason not to believe her. >> Okay. I do my investigation as well. >> Okay. [clears throat and cough] So, that being said, we talked to her and she gave us a totally different story than than what you and Michelle were giving us. Okay. And that's [clears throat] what we want to figure out. Basically, our investigation's done. We we've done everything that we need to do. There's still steps we need to do, but we to a certain extent, we know what happened. Uh we know where it happened. We know when it happened, which is different at the time that you're telling us that everything happened. Um to a certain extent know how happened. We just don't know the why. And we haven't put it together to why why these things all came together. why got injured to the point where she was, you know, today. And we think we figured it out, you know, we we we think we know why it happened, you know, back in the in their head, but really the only person that can answer that is is you and Michelle. Okay. So, I know I have kids >> and I have some defiant kids and some that don't listen to me. They get very frustrated with them. I get very upset with them. And sometimes, you know, we get in those situations, we lose control and we do things that we don't want to do, we don't mean to do. And, you know, we can't control ourselves. And honestly, I think that's what happened, man. I think I think that it got to a point where she wasn't respecting you. She'd be disrespectful. She's defiant. She's she's telling you she likes her daddy more than you. She doesn't love you. She doesn't love Michelle. All that. And you snapped >> me. Yeah. I think you snapped. Actually, let me rephrase it. I know you snapped. I know you snapped. Okay, >> this is the turning point. After nearly 12 hours of investigating, the detectives have come back with more. The doctor's findings and an interview with Zikura's six-year-old sister, whose account they say is completely different from the adults. They are no longer asking whether Harris hurt her. They're asking why. What follows is the hardest confrontation of the night and the closest Harris comes to accepting responsibility. >> They call him a homicide team. >> You think there's a higher detective division within the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office homicide? >> No, >> there's not. You got dudes that chase dope. You got people that deal with people robbing people. You got burglaries. I deal with people killing people. There ain't nothing worse than that. Okay, so don't play games. >> I'm not playing games. >> Okay. Well, I don't believe that you don't hit her. For example, I know that you hit her. >> Okay. >> All right. I know there's no chance. What I need to know is why you hit her. Did you lose control? >> I didn't lose control when I spanked her. I I spanked her like I told you before. I hit on her back. I never hit her. >> I never hit her up here. >> Stop here. This isn't a spank. This is hitting somebody in the face. >> No. >> Hitting a 5-year-old little girl in the face. Don't lie to me. I'm not concerned. >> If you lost control, if you fell apart, >> we can work with that. We can work on that. But if you sit here and lie to me, what do you think's going to happen when I go to a judge with the evidence that I've compiled? Listen to me. Listen to me. >> When I've gone to the evidence that I've compiled, >> from doctors that say what happened, >> from interviews that I've done, not only with Michelle, >> with her daughter. Yes, sir. >> Who you just said wasn't a liar. >> Yes, sir. >> Who other people that are involved in your life? >> Yes, sir. other baby mamas, all that. Putting that together to find out what type of person that I'm talking to. >> Yes, sir. >> And I've got all that. And I take it before a judge and jury. A judge and jury. This is what I got. What did he say? He said he don't know nothing about it. How does that look, man? >> It looks like I'm a a liar. It looks like I'm a Looks like you cold blooded. >> Looks like you looks like you meant to do what happened. >> No, sir. I'm not I'm not You need to be honest. So, we're going to take that story you said before, wipe it clean, forget you told us anything, and start over. >> I'm not a coldblooded person. I I >> No, take a second to take in what I just said. I don't think you understood what I just said. That story you told us earlier >> about >> doesn't exist >> about >> doesn't exist. The story you told me earlier. Gone. Doesn't exist anymore. Tell us what really happened. when we were I don't I don't >> What would your mom tell me if I talked to her? >> My mom would tell you uh I'm not a I'm not a I'm not a bad person. I'm not uh I'm a good I'm a good kid. I never been incarcerated. This would shock the out of her. Uh she never seen me do this with my own children. >> Would she tell you that uh you have an anger issue? Not not necessarily not an anger issue as far as uh losing control all the time. >> What about what about being able to control your emotions? >> No. >> You think she she wouldn't say that. >> Oh, no, no, no. She would that's what I'm saying. >> She would say that you have a hard time controlling your emotions. >> My emotions as far as how I feel about certain things. Um >> but it was never out of >> intentions of anger to harm or to hurt. It was always to speak my mind. >> Okay. speak my mind not to provoke anyone because I'm not a fighter. >> Okay. Is there ever a time that you and Michelle go out and hire a babysitter for the girls to watch the girls? >> Um, no sir. They always be with us. Like I said, Shell uh was taking her before and then she took her out of that. >> You took her out of that cuz she wasn't social. >> Yes sir. >> Is that the reason? Okay. >> That's what she told me. >> Okay. Um Okay. So previous Okay. Yes, sir. uh when the doctors go through and they look at her, she has 50 separate injuries to her body, >> which doesn't which means that it's not a one-time thing. It's not a two-time thing. It's that she requires more discipline than other kids. But we're taking the discipline >> to an extent >> to an extent. Okay. And that's what we need to understand and grasp. Okay? Because everybody we talked to said that this isn't a one-time thing. But this one you you really lost control and you got enraged and maybe used a little bit too much discipline, but the other times like >> So you had to take care of her >> during August. It wasn't it wasn't no problems with her, nothing that cuz she just had came back from her dad. September was the worst month for us because we just got her sister out of the house. Uh she left with her son. Um, and that's when problems start more more and more and more and more and more and more happening with her and with me trying to discipline cuz I used to tell Shell no I don't want to discipline because like I said I never wanted a man disciplining my son and I used to tell her don't allow me >> to discipline not because of my anger or my >> emotional detachment or whatever however you can use I don't know Um, it was nothing like that. It was based off of the fact of respect. We go to the corner. Go to the corner. She get in the corner. Don't do what we say. Do your homework. Don't do her homework. Eat your food. Don't eat her food. Piss on the ground. >> Just define. I mean, just sounds like she's just define. She got something going on that makes her rebel against y'all. And [clears throat] it sounds like Michelle was trying hard >> and it just wasn't working. You know, it wasn't. That's why I used to tell her, "Just hurry up and send her to her dad. Send her to her dad cuz that's what she wants. She wants to be with her dad. Send her to her dad." She was like, "I don't want to lose my baby." And I said, "It doesn't make you feel like you're less of a mother. It's not going to make you feel like cuz you going to always have her image and you going to always have her. It's not like you're going to lose her. You're going to have her. It's just and it's not like she's going with anybody. It's her dad. Let her go." So those 50 injuries he mentioned, could anyone else have done that? Because you we you told us about who takes care of the child. It's just you and Michelle. >> So could anyone else besides you have done those injuries? >> Just me and her, >> right? But I'm I'm asking about you. You think Michelle caused any of those injuries? >> Two. Uh not well probably from some of the whoopings, but I know the ones. >> So like I said, those are we've only talked about probably six or seven specifically that you've said. Yeah, I did that. And it may be because you just don't remember. But like I said, there's a bunch of those bunch that are there. They exist. Are they from you? >> Did not from like I said, I didn't uh I remember the doctor saying, "Did somebody punch her or kick there?" That's why I was like, "No, no punching, no kicking." >> All right. So injuries from this. >> She's in your care. She's not in daycare. She's not in school. No one else watches her. >> She has these injuries. Tell me how they get there. >> Um, >> any of them? >> I mean, she did whoop. She did whoop. And >> how does she whoop them? >> She whoops with a belt as well. >> Where did she hit them? >> She turns them on their stomach and she whoops them with a belt >> on their buttocks, their back, their legs, >> butts and back. I remember one time we had two together because >> So other than the belt marks that are on her butt, back and legs, could any of those injuries been for Michelle? Other than those >> other than those we just said the belt marks. >> No. >> So everything else we'll um we're going to go out talk a little bit and we'll move back in. Um we asked you a question earlier. I'll ask you again now that we've kind of been what um we asked you what should happen to the person that did this. >> Say it again. >> I asked you earlier. He asked you earlier what should happen to the person that did this. What do you think should happen to you now? >> The same thing he said he would get revenge and bury me. Well, do you think you should go to jail? >> Yes, sir. >> How long How long's enough to pay for what happened for a 5-year-old's life? >> Oh, she passed. >> What do the doctors tell you? You know what we know? The doctor said she's not going to recover. >> Um, you know, this is this, like I said, I never been incarcerated. Uh, I would leave that up, be gentlemen. I don't >> You don't You don't have an opinion? I mean, I don't I don't want to spend my whole life in jail for a stupid mistake and I messed up. >> Um, >> you think you can spend your whole life in a grave because of this? >> No sir, it's not fair. No sir, it's not fair. From a from a stupid mistake. From a stupid mistake. No sir. I don't feel like I was I was in here praying to myself and I kept hearing uh I was more scared of a life for life. What do you mean? >> Doing life. >> You were worried about spending the rest of your life in prison? >> Yes. Cuz I don't I'm not that guy, man. I'm not that guy, man. I'm not that guy. And I don't want to lose my kids. >> Okay, that's it. All right. Give us a couple minutes. Okay. You need anything? You good right now? You got some water in your chips and all that still? So, if you want to eat, you can. >> Yes. It's just I'm so sorry, you guys. >> All right. Give give us some time. Okay, we'll be right back. >> In the footage you've just watched, Jonte Harris never describes what happened to Zikaria. His account shifted from a fall in the bathtub to falls while running to spankings he insisted went no further. What the detectives placed in front of him was harder to explain. A 5-year-old, they said, had 50 separate injuries in the care of only two adults. By the end of the night, Harris told them he didn't want to spend his whole life in jail for a stupid mistake and said, "I messed up." Both adults were arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse. According to the arrest report, as reported by News 4 Jax, Canmore told police Harris had been abusing Zicaria since August and that on October 17th, he hit her repeatedly until she lost consciousness. Harris told police he became enraged because she was being disrespectful. Prosecutors later described that night in detail. Zakaria was left unresponsive on the couch while Canmore went to work. And after she came home, the couple waited four more hours before calling 911. Zakaria never recovered. She died the following day. On October 29th, 2018, the charges against both adults were upgraded to murder. In July 2019, a Duval County grand jury indicted Jonte Harris for first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and aggravated child abuse. In November 2019, Michelle Canamore pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child. Harris went to trial in February 2024. On February 8th, a jury found him guilty on all three charges. On March 15th, 2024, Judge Mark Burllo sentenced Jonte Harris to life in Florida State Prison and sentenced Michelle Canmore to 30 years. Zicaria Robinson was 5 years old. Her grandmother, Almarie Doyle, remembered her as a sweet little girl and said simply, "My granddaughter did not deserve to go this way." At 5, she should have been safe in her own home. Today, we remember Zicaria Robinson. This has been Stay Alert Interrogation. We document real interrogations carefully, checking the record and remembering the victims. If you value that, subscribe and stay alert for the next case.