Uh, let's get him over there and do a search. Um, ma'am, are you in a relationship with her? Not no. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I I messed up. The heck was he going to get my pizza? On August 19th, 2022, officers responded to a residence in reference to a domestic dispute. This one's a bit messy. Allegedly, the husband's been cheating on his wife with someone at work. Now that his mistress is showing up at his family's doorsteps, he decides to pull a gun out and shoot. Also, he's a convicted felon, so he shouldn't have a gun in the first place. My car right now. Oh, you good right there. I just want to double check you one if one second if you don't mind. Okay. You're being cooperative with me and stuff like that. Make sure you ain't got no gun on you. Okay. Mind if I check right here in this immediate area right here? You good? Just going to double check the stand. What was your name, sir? My name Frank Butts. Okay. What you doing? Yes, sir. What's going on, sir? This woman, I don't know. She's a C or I hate I got involved with this woman. I work with this woman, but this woman is is is bipolar and she cycle. Look, and then she got unwanted pictures of me. I won't talk D about that in her phone. Look, I contacted booters were 10 point. I'm going to show you all these textes she just been doing this morning. All the text. Look, that's her. Look, look, look, look. There. Go. Scroll down. Scroll down for the top, sir. And then scroll down. Okay. Let me do this real quick. All right. Let's kind of bring this in where you can see it all. Okay. There we go. See that? One of my I want a picture right there. Look at that. Yeah. But just read all the textes. All them textes. just just knowing they can't just just came I'm in my house trying to sleep trying to sleep from working at night and then she just bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam and knowing I'm married you know what I'm saying and I want to take a TP or out on her I want to take a TP I don't want her nowhere around me no more you know what I'm saying and then I really can wish that someone can be doing about I want a picture that she got of me inside her phone because that's not right because that uncle sent it and you know and you doing that that's not right. Hey Frank, I'm Officer Elmore. I was the one who talked to you on the phone. Tell me what's going on. Ma'am, you know what I'm saying? I really truly made a a terrible mistake by getting involved with this um bipolar female. You know what I'm saying? To be honest, because like I say, I am a married man. Been married 16 years. And this woman, she been harass me. Look at all she saying all the textes in my phone right now. So, she came to my house being on the door. Be on the door. And then, like I say, she got I wanted pictures of me and her phone. And I asked her to delete those pictures and she don't want to delete them. So I need something to be done about it. Have you filed any reports against her for harassment communication? I need to I want to do it right now. Okay. So on previous incidents you haven't though. No ma'am. Okay. Have you gone down to the courthouse talk about a tpo or anything like that? No ma'am cuz he really you know what I'm saying? I ain't no I had even go this far. All right. So what happened this morning? The only thing that happened this morning is the the psycho came to my house and kept beating on my door and I told her to get You say psycho. Who you referring to? Geneva. All right. Yeah. Came to my house. Yeah. I came to the house. I told her um she would like she gave me $100 um yesterday. Really? Cuz you know, really just on the strength. But then she came to my house like the man um give me $100 back. I ain't got no money to give you. And I gave her her money and told her get the hell out my yard. I told her get the hell out my yard. You know what I'm saying? She told my a gun or somebody. I did not point no gun at that woman. I did not shoot no gun at that woman. You know what I'm saying? Oh, no. No. You normally keep a gun on you? No. I No. No. No. No. I'm God's son, man. I got a tattoo on something. You search your vehicle for a gun? I just started check. Yes. I do not have no gun. You know what I'm saying? The woman just Yeah. She keeps on keeps on like trying to get money out of stuff like that. Harassing me. I almost text me. Here you go. Harassing me. I'm glad he I got more D on my phone. She probably got so many voice messages on my phone. Do you have any Do you have any text messages or or voicemails that would corroborate anything else that might have happened today earlier today? Outside of this right here, she tell me about money and she saying all this in the phone. You know what I'm saying? And talking about where she going to go on my wife's job, arrest my wife. You know what I'm saying? You know, she just she trying to start confusing because I don't want to deal with her. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to deal with her. What's the $100 she's talking about? What's that $100 she's talking about? $100. Well, she came by my house. You know what I'm saying? She gave me $100 yesterday. She gave me $100 yesterday on the strength. You know what I'm saying? I didn't even ask her for the money. She gave to me cuz she said she knew where my she knew what my check was. Hey, my man. Do you happen to know what's going on between your dad and some female out here? Does your dad live here with you? Yeah. You mind putting that down for him? Appreciate it. What's going on with them? Have you heard anything out here? They did they get an altercation in the last like 20 minutes or so? I did getting up. You been getting up? Yeah, until waking up. Okay. So, you haven't seen your dad when he was out here or anything? No. No. Your dad own a firearm at all? No. Not that I know of. Not that you know of. Does he have any issues with a female or anything that we'd be getting a call back? Yeah. I I wouldn't know about that. Okay. You know who? Okay. If you don't mind hang out with her real quick. Yeah. I'm just s I'm just sitting down here. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. We'll come over here and sit. How often do you guys uh shoot off fireworks over here? Oh, all the time. All the time. Yeah, he keep fireworks. Oh, yeah. I know. Every time we get a fireworks complaint out here, I'm like, "Come on now." Yeah. Just having a good time. Yeah. He's cheap. He keep She knew what my check was. She said, "I can help you. I give you $100 and you can get right." But then she came to my house with the man. So, I gave her $100 back and I told her, "Let me get get Why?" I said, "Get my yard." You know what I'm saying? I said, "You know, you don't ain't supposed to be in my yard like that." Did that occur up there at your house this morning? Mhm. Why did you come here? Because I came here to buy me some some alcohol, but you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I came here to buy Is there anybody else that was out there with you this morning? No. All I can say I was at home in the bed asleep. Yeah. I was at home in the bed asleep. Do you have a ring camera, a security camera, anything at your house that might have caught that? No. Nope. I got a camera, but it's it's it's not it's not really right. Is there anybody in your neighborhood that might have one? He's like, I want to get both sides of the story. I want to find out the truth. Right. So, you got your side, she's got her side. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. I'm trying to get to that where the truth is. The truth is that luckily a neighbor of his has a camera at her front door and officers are currently looking through the footage. That's a motion sensor. So, I'm watching him walk out. You know what I'm saying? I really don't deal with my neighbors, man, because I don't even really, you know what I'm saying? I work at night and I come home. I play my game board. You know what I'm saying? And I just try to, you know, really I play my game board to myself. Not cuz my brothers don't stay with me no more. I play the cornhole. I go up and down. Is there anybody that lives with you there? My son. But he's not there. Ain't nobody. You know what I'm saying? Nobody's supposed to be there right now. No. Nobody that was with you earlier this morning. No, ma'am. I've been popping all sorts of firecrackers. Haven't you? Yeah, man. It's a lot more. You buy them every other day. Every other day. Yeah. What is this? Like a like a hobby? An obsession? Like what? I think it's just an obsession, I guess. Who's buying them all? Dad. Your dad? Yeah. He loved them. He love for real. The neighbors don't get mad about that, man. They probably do what you see. He He got But that those neighbors, they love them and she don't mind. Everyone's got their vice. I guess his is firecrackers. That's I'm saying though, I wouldn't want to be a neighbor. You know, I'm saying Well, sure. You say you wouldn't want to be the neighbor, but you got to put up with it, too, cuz you live here, right? Not bug you, man. Good [ __ ] man. His wife, you should see how she, you know, she don't like work, but he do. He love him. Love him, man. Your wife is is at work and your son is I don't He probably be with his girlfriend. I don't know, man. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I was, you know, I didn't take I was in came home and tired tired from previously night before last because I had got like one hour worth of sleep yesterday taking care of business with me and my wife and stay up all day yesterday. I don't even know how you just want to spend your money and keep spending your money on those things every week up in the air. Up in smoke. Can I point out the irony real quick? What this? Up in smoke. Hey, he spending like I don't pay for like a pack of these maybe $4. He be like $400 every trip for them fireworks. And that's a whole that's a check. Somebody check. All they just had to go to work last night. I was one hour and came home. I guess cuz she felt like that I didn't want to spend time with her, be with her that morning. She went and got a none. Nothing. No. Cuz I want to go home and and and rest and rest. And you said that you you're married? Yes, ma'am. 16 years. You live with your wife? Yes, ma'am. You never lived with Miss B? Oh, no, ma'am. You stay stay with her? No. No. No. No. No. Ma'am, are you in a relationship with her? Not no. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I I I messed up. You know what I'm saying? I I I commit to y'all that I I messed up by getting involved that crazy woman. You know what I'm saying? Well, as for in the relationship, that what she know that you can't have. You know what I'm saying? And then just as soon as if if I'm not at her home in the morning time or whatn not, oh, I'm this and that. I'm tricking off. I'm tricking off. I know you're tricking off. I know. Basically, what you're telling me is that because you guys aren't having sex anymore, she's coming around saying, "Hey, man, give me money." My He I got you. All right. You hang tight right here. I'll be right back. So, uh, how long you known her? Well, we've been working together now for about maybe we've been working together cuz I've been working at the job for about two years. So, she s Yes, sir. Y'all work the same shift? Yes, sir. When y'all supposed to be back at work again? Um, tonight we go to work tonight. What time? We go to work tonight by um I have to be to work at 9:45. She has to be to work at 10:15. All right. Have you uh you might want to contact your job, let them know this she's accusing you of. Yes, sir. That way they can keep y'all separated. Yes. Yes, sir. Go ahead. One half domestic a followup from a domestic from earlier. Yes, ma'am. You can hold it. Yeah. So, she came to your house this morning. Mhm. And you didn't even step outside and you stayed at the door. Mhm. And I told her I told No, I came and gave her her money. Did you walk out to the car and give her money? Yeah. Uh-huh. I gave her money. Told her I told her I said leave. I said, "Will you please please leave my my house?" I said, "Please leave my house." Yeah. I said, "Please leave my house." I said, "I heckle your money." I said, "Heckle of your money." Yeah. Cuz don't think that, you know what I'm saying, that you got that over my head. You know what I'm saying? Because I ain't ask you for it anyway. Yeah. You volunteer to give me that. You know what I'm saying? Cuz you knew what my what my check was. Yeah. And you volunteer to give me that. But then I said, "Well, listen." I said, "Well, you know, I ain't going to go a pay you back until about like the end of the month." And she said, "Okay." Okay. You know what I'm saying? But now that I can't go and spend time with her this morning, you know what I'm saying? She you see all the harassing text though the unwanted pictures she got all and there's no and there's no back there's no back from you. I'd recommend you not even responding back to her from now on. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Uh this officer here will tell you how to get how to get a TPO. Yes, sir. You know where she lives at? Yes, sir. Where at? Um she stayed on And what did you say your dad's name was? Frank. Frank. Uhhuh. So you're you're Frank and he's Frank. Yeah. Yeah. Frank Senior and Frank Junior. Oh yeah, that's cool. You and her met at war? Yes, sir. That's how y'all had Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And like I said, I hate I You know what I'm saying? I hate I even dig that. That one of the regrets that I I I really It's a a regret that I'm I'm dealing with within. You know what I'm saying? That's a regret that I'm dealing with within. Yeah. Well, I don't want to have nothing else to do with her own. I want her to stay I want her to stay around away from my house. And you know what I'm saying? I know we have to work together. You know what I'm saying? You need to let your job know. Yes, sir. And they already know how crazy she is sometime because she acted out on me on my jaw. They know how she still get fruity. Yeah. She get the alcohol in then she just got done get fruity. I hate I got his ball there. Did she Did she pull into your driveway? Nope. Take him. He popped around in the air. He did? Yep. Uh hold on. I'm trying to rewatch. We're watching it again. So pulls it out of his right bottom pocket. Rack racks around. Shoots one in the air. Yeah. She pull like on the side. Yeah. Yes, sir. Pulled down into your driveway. Yes, sir. How close was she to your front door? Um, she weren't that close to my But she came knocking on my front door. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, she was like from here to your vehicle. Yeah. She came knock baming on my Not in the road. She didn't get out of the car or the road. She came baming on my front door. That woke me up. That woke me up. I was in there trying to sleep. It looks like he pulled the gun out to the door. 104. It looks like he pulled the gun back out. When he got back to the door and we're trying to get to it to see if he ever actually pointed it back at her. Um when he comes back to the door, they're arguing and everything and he said, "Hold on a second." Pulls out the gun again as she's arguing and then um tries to rack another round and then the video cuts out again. Um, so we 100% have that he cranked off one round and he pulled it out a second time. So, um, we can't the the one that I can verify that he shot was directly in the air. I The video cuts out. Uh, I'm getting arrested. Hold on. Just face the car. [Music] Well, I'm getting arrested. Hold on. She's going to explain it to you. Explain anything to you about a gunshot wreck. under arrest for aggravated assault terroristic threats. Read you something and we're going to talk further about this. Do you understand? Do you understand? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. You turn around Facebook. That's fine. All right. You have the right to remain silent. You understand these rights. I've read them to you. Having these rights in mind. Are you the one to talk? Having these rights in mind. We got to talk, man. Okay. So tell me from the time that you showed up to your house, walk me through that. All I know, ma'am, is that I was in the bed sleep. I heard baming on my door. You know what I'm saying? Baming on my door. And like I say, when I heard baming on my door, I came to my door. And that when she went acting out about money and I went back in my car and gave her her money and gave her her money. Okay. Yes. And told her, "Get get the hell out of my yard." Tell me about that interaction. The interaction is uh when I just put the money in when she was sitting her car by throw the money over there on the passenger side and said there go your money right there. I said we please leave out my yard. I said we please leave out my yard. I said I'm going to call the police. You know what I'm saying? Where I would pretend like I was going to call the police where never they call the police thinking that I still can't leave out my yard. You know what I'm saying? And that's all that was. And like I said, I showed him all the crazy text messages in my phone, man. You know what I'm saying? You know, all of this would have never occurred out at in in my house. Sleep. All right. So, let's back up. So, you gave her the money and then you told her leave. Leave, right? Leave. Is that before or after you pull the gun out? It's one before. I gave her her money. So, you did pull the gun out? No. At what point did you pull the gun out? I ain't pull no gun out. None whatsoever. No. Okay. Do you have any guns? No. Well, if he doesn't own a gun, he probably borrowed this one from someone. Can you air drop it to him? Yes, that would work great cuz when she sends it to me, it it's all blurry blurry cuz I got to stamp on So that was after. Yeah. Yes, that was after the shot. It picked up some minutes later. Okay. So she didn't just divvy out immediately. Just shot a gun at me because I came from a yard but I'mma pull out. But he just got a car going. Who's talking right there? That's the lady in the car. Oh, it's picking her up. Yeah, that good. Wow. I'm 395. I'm still in pull out. But he just shot a gun. Oh, thank you for showing us this. You being cooperative. My wife My wife have a gun, but I don't have any gun. What color your wife got? She got a shotgun. What does it look like? She got a black shotgun. Okay. What else does she have? That's it. What else do you have? That's nothing. Nobody else has a gun in the house. All right. Well, based on the information that we have, there was in fact a firearm involved. So, you are under arrest for aggravated assault. There is fire the gun. Yeah. He's got a gunshot resue. Uh, let's get him over there and do a good search. Um, do you want to ask for Can I please Will you allow us to park the car? Is that okay with you? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, you give me consent to have this vehicle move by one of us? Yes, ma'am. Okay. We'll then we'll take the key so that way you have that in your property. Okay. Part of it. Mr. Butts, would you mind if we went back through your car and just checked it again? Make sure there's no guns in there. Who do you want to turn the car over to? Uh, well, my wife will come get my car. I called my wife. I cannot let them know that my wife will come get You going to let me back it in here? Yes, sir. That good with you? Yes, sir. You gave us permission for Can I let them know? You can see me sticking all this money in your wallet. You see that? Okay. And we're going to take your ID out cuz we'll need that. Pin here while we search the car cuz you can Yeah, that's fine. All right. All that's going to be in there. Nothing's going to be touched. We going to hang on to this. You can turn around here and stay right here so that way you can walk. Okay. I know you kind of trick on that side. I just looked right here up under maybe up under the seat. So I looked in that trash can up front. I know there's some more out back. Hey sir, can I call my wife? Not right now. Give us a minute. You can ask this. She's the arresting officer. You can ask her, but she'll probably have the same answer. You got a you got a bee around your head. There you go. I don't want you to get stung. Yes, sir. I like to give everybody this courtesy, and I've already given you a pretty good search, but um I do tell everyone that if you're unaware, if you take any contraband that shouldn't be in the jail into the jail, that is an instant charge from the jail, that's not me, that's them. So, if you got anything shoved anywhere weird or anything that we should know about before we get there, it's better we address it here before you get to the jail. Is there anything anywhere that it shouldn't be? Hey, this is the u it's a a a fake a fake $100 bill in there that I found in my in my in my thing. It's um little folded up in here. Yeah. Rad somewhere. Okay. I found it in in in the pan on the jaw face. I was going to play a prank on somebody. It's all right. It says motion picture use. It says copy on it. So that's that's not illegal to have. I'm going to stick it back in your wallet. I appreciate you telling me that though. That's that's good. I appreciate that. It's the gist of it, right? That's all of it, right? That's nothing else. No, no, nothing like that. Okay. Okay. I just I try to warn everybody. Try to let them be honest with me before we get there cuz there's been a few times we make it through that threshold and it's a bad bad day for them or a worse day, I guess. I'll get the yard in. Do you have a uh I I have one in my in my car. Is there any way I can call my wife and let her know what's going on? Yeah, you could have done that just now. I asked him. All right, I'll get a bag for your stuff in the meantime. I do ask. Just don't tell her to drive up here or anything like that right this second. We don't We don't need none of that drama up here in the parking lot. Oh yeah. We usually don't let people use their phones once already in these handcuffs, but she's being nice to you. So pull off. Okay. Yeah, I got him. He's about to pull off. Let's walk over to my car. While you do that, we'll walk over here to this uh less nice car than hers. You got about 30 30 seconds to a minute on that phone call, then we're going to go ahead and go. Okay. Thank you. Hey, look. They f to lock me up for um terroristic threat and aggravated assault. You know what I'm saying? because that crazy ass goddamn woman came to my house and got them I tried to tell her to get the you know what I'm saying she telling everybody that I shot a gun at her and and something I don't know it's a crazy but um and when I talk to the police but I'm down here to bootlegger and the jeep going to be at bootlegger so when you get a chance you come get the jeep from bootleg okay so why it's aggravated assault and terrorist threat baby goddamn Geneva got crazy that came to the house but I just come get the car and I'll talk to you more about it. Okay. All right. All right. So, look, this is going to be sealed up. You know that that all that money got put in your wallet is sealed up in this bag. It's going to go in the back of my car and you will get it back when we get to the jail. Okay. Anytime there's any cash involved, I'd like to make sure that you see that and it's going to go right in there. We're going to get you to have a seat right here. Okay. All right. So, put your butt in first here. Let me move that trash bag out. Actually, sorry. I pulled this off the road just a minute ago for stuff in the roadway. Yeah. Going to put your butt in first and then push yourself backwards. Okay. Yep. And just push yourself back. And if you want to lean your back up against that, you can. Do Do you want me to put a seat belt on you? You don't have to. No. Okay. Yeah. If you want to lean your seat up lean your back up against that seat right there or up against the door. It's much more comfortable. All right. We're about to take off. Did you hear the shot? Were you asleep? I had I literally just came home. I walked in the door at 1:14. So you weren't even here. So they're knocking on the door and you're saying Yeah. Cuz I was in the shower. I was like, "Nobody supposed to be here." And then I just jumped out and I looked and I was like, "The police." Oh, okay. Okay. So, and then Yeah. I hate Mr. Frank cuz he I mean he nice. Yeah. But you can't go around doing that, can you? Yeah. Yeah. Cuz Yeah. Yeah. And I have a little baby four. So, yeah. Nah. I hate it. But at the end of the day, Right is right, wrong is wrong. The suspect's son informed officers that he had the oven on this whole time, so they went on a quick side mission. Okay. And the kids ain't right at all. Okay, we're just going to go in literally just turn it off and then walk back out. Okay. Does he want this? That thing's done. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. I want to get I want to get the man his pizza. Use like a good rag, not paper towels. I got like two. Okay. Well, how in the heck was he going to get the pizza? Look, man. We tried to take care of you. I was smelling it and I was like, that thing is done. Thank you. I appreciate it. No problem. As always, check the pin comments for updates. The suspect was booked for aggravated assault, terroristic threats and acts, possession of firearm by convicted felon and reckless conduct.