Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders 1x4

1. Hello, everyone, I'm Mr. Anime

2. and boy, do I have a show for you?

3. You could say that he was one of the first influencers.

4. I've hit 1,000 subscribers.

5. Becoming a filmmaker, it's a big idea for a small town.

6. This is just one of those little one minute videos that will make you smile.

7. YouTube begin, and now you could share your opinions with complete strangers.

8. But there was so much darker lurking below the surface.

9. We had no idea what we were walking into.

10. You think, it won't happen to me, but sometimes it does.

11. There was a sense in the air that something was wrong.

12. Majorly wrong.

13. I was the chief of police in Waller, Texas.

14. We received a call to do a welfare check.

15. I put on my bulletproof vest, and looked around the house.

16. That's when I saw a person inside on the floor covered with blood,

17. and I knew we had a real problem.

18. The sleepy little community of Waller, Texas,

19. had woken up and realized that something horrible had happened.

20. Everybody knew the Sesler family.

21. They were members of the local church in Waller

22. and loved by a lot of people.

23. There was Lawton, the father,

24. Rhonda, the mother,

25. Mark, the older brother,

26. and Trey, the baby brother.

27. They were very close.

28. Lawton was a teacher in the community

29. and seemed to be very loved,

30. not only by the students but the students' families.

31. Rhonda Sesler worked at The Waller Times,

32. she was out meeting people, delivering papers,

33. and just interacting with her community every day.

34. Rhonda and Lawton did feel it was very important for their sons

35. to have a good career and a good life.

36. Rhonda was valedictorian herself,

37. during her time at school, and I believe that

38. that really motivated Mark to have a great education.

39. Mark was progressing nicely on the path

40. that most people want to see their kids go down.

41. Education, career,

42. about to go out into the world.

43. Trey had dreams and aspirations

44. that were maybe more unique.

45. He wanted to make movies.

46. Trey was unusual in that he, like, had a camera

47. and was already shooting things before people really had these things.

48. I began teaching video technology back in 2005.

49. He started hanging out in my class

50. and, and making films and working with me.

51. I don't know what kind of rumors you've heard.

52. I even acted in some of his films.

53. The town didn't really like people of my, of my kind.

54. Your kind?

55. That's actually how I met Trey's mother and I think his brother.

56. Please enjoy your stay

57. however, the rooms are pretty messy.

58. Oh, don't worry about that. I just need a place for the night.

59. She was supporting him.

60. Actually helping him with the films.

61. This is just one of those little one minute videos that will make you smile.

62. Trey was into making funny videos,

63. slapstick stuff...

64. and horror films.

65. I told him pay more attention to the story than special effects.

66. Of course, the high school kid,

67. he wants to do the special effects.

68. I never saw Trey more excited

69. than when he had an idea of something to film.

70. It's all this element of fantasy and kind of just living

71. in this other reality for a moment.

72. Fools! How dare you say my name.

73. A lot of people in our friend group

74. were probably what you'd call like more on the nerdy side of things.

75. A lot of people like the anime thing, the magic cards,

76. Dungeons and Dragons.

77. Making his little films and skits

78. was just a great form of entertainment

79. that didn't get you in trouble.

80. Prepare to die.

81. Filming became Trey's main thing.

82. It was a good way for him to kind of come out of his shell

83. with that camera, it's like, now you have a reason to speak to somebody.

84. In junior high, I met Trey at a dance

85. towards the end of the school year.

86. I actually asked him to dance.

87. I hadn't danced a lot at many prior dances,

88. and we were kind of awkward together.

89. And towards the end of the night, he said,

90. "Does this mean we're boyfriend and girlfriend?"

91. And I thought, "Well, okay, sure."

92. So we sort of made it official that night

93. that we were going to be boyfriend and girlfriend.

94. In junior high,

95. Trey was very charming and humorous.

96. He was light.

97. He gave me a Valentine's gift.

98. It was this heart he had made with lights.

99. It's so nice and unexpected.

100. I thought that he was a very sweet guy.

101. Once I got to high school, I started going over to his house.

102. I met his family.

103. He was a little, I guess,

104. spoiled by his parents, but very loved,

105. and they just wanted the best for him.

106. Trey did seem to look up to his older brother, Mark.

107. He seemed more serious than Trey.

108. But still, he had a sense of humor,

109. and they acted more like best friends.

110. Mark was an influence for Trey to become

111. interested in anime and film projects.

112. They were often working on films together.

113. Trey wanted people to see his films.

114. Where'd they go?

115. But becoming a filmmaker, I can only imagine

116. would come across as extremely challenging

117. and almost like, it might seem impossible.

118. It's a big idea for a small town.

119. YouTube began in 2005.

120. Social media was just starting to become a part of our lives.

121. We were sort of, uh...

122. the first ones to really get exposed

123. to this brand new technology.

124. I figure the best way to enjoy this movie from my— from a fans...

125. I created my YouTube channel,

126. and my username was called Aikoarisaka420.

127. Even though I didn't know what 420 meant at the time.

128. Oh, hi, everybody.

129. My name is Trey Sesler.

130. I founded LensCapProductions in 2004.

131. I didn't know much about YouTube at all.

132. But I didn't know at the time that he was on YouTube.

133. The main purpose of this video is basically an introduction

134. to the LensCapProduction channel.

135. Everybody can do it and get yourself out there and get seen,

136. and that's why YouTube, it worked for him.

137. So I also do special effects tests that could help you in your homemade movies.

138. You could share it with like-minded people

139. from different parts of the world,

140. and that was what made it very... exciting.

141. I guess I'll see you on Episode two

142. of special effects with Trey Sesler.

143. Initially, Trey's channel had a fairly slow start,

144. but over time, it was building up.

145. And gradually he was getting more and more views.

146. But some of Trey's earlier videos,

147. some of his skits, some of his attempts at comedy

148. were actually getting quite a lot of negative comments.

149. Being the target of hateful comments would be upsetting for anybody.

150. Are you tired of always being depressed?

151. Always letting the enemy get you down.

152. But I think arguably even more so for a teenager

153. because they're still developing their self-confidence

154. and their self-esteem.

155. Because we were all new to this,

156. some of us handled it better than others.

157. Some people did not take it very well.

158. I'm sure there were some trolling comments that may have gotten to him.

159. So I'm just gonna hold this lamp over my head.

160. And maybe that will help things a little bit.

161. But Trey didn't allow this negativity

162. to prevent him to continue making more and more content.

163. I was about 15 years old

164. when I started doing projects

165. after school with him and I was in his room

166. and he would be editing videos.

167. This would have been the first time that we were alone together.

168. I didn't know he had started a YouTube channel.

169. But he would mention scenes he was going to do

170. that involved prop swords or prop guns.

171. When I would watch them,

172. I noticed sometimes they were darker and more violent.

173. One time I was watching Trey edit a video

174. and he said, "I want to try this out."

175. He got out ropes...

176. I thought were for maybe scenes,

177. and he was testing them out on me.

178. But he just said,

179. "You know, we're going to try this...

180. and see how bad it hurts you."

181. I was tied up.

182. Just like my hands behind my back.

183. It wasn't common for him to test...

184. anything out with me.

185. I wasn't into it

186. and I did kind of notice,

187. it was, it was a little odd.

188. But he said it was completely normal and it was fine.

189. My first impression I ever had of him was like, he was generous in giving

190. and kind and I wanted to think that he was still a nice guy.

191. Hello, everyone,

192. I'm Mr. Anime and boy, do I have a show for you.

193. Over time, Trey's channel became focused on anime reviews.

194. There you go.

195. He developed a character called Mr. Anime.

196. Today we're going to be reviewing a show

197. that had a very large impact on audiences all around the world.

198. Trey was one of the very first people to review anime in the US.

199. Today's review is Cyber Team in Akihabara.

200. He was silly, he was funny, but it didn't seem forced.

201. It seemed like he was seeing the real him.

202. Hi, everybody, I'm Mr. Anime.

203. And I'm Mark Sesler.

204. Trey clearly had a passion for anime,

205. and whether he intended to or not at the beginning,

206. eventually, he found this untapped community on the internet.

207. And today I'm going to be talking about some of the best

208. and most influential faces and anime reviewers on YouTube.

209. Next on the list, Akiosaka420.

210. I don't think anyone does anime like him.

211. I do remember him saying that about me.

212. The guy cheers me up and makes me laugh with each anime review.

213. His style of reviewing

214. was actually kind of similar to my own.

215. We were both very analytical.

216. I got to say this show was beautifully directed.

217. It was written kind of confusing,

218. but if you were able to follow it, then it was pretty good.

219. Aside from contacting each other

220. through YouTube's messaging system,

221. the other way that I got in contact with Trey was through Skype.

222. Most of the time, it was group chats.

223. We would just get into all sorts of fun little group discussions.

224. Trey was one of us.

225. He was a geek like us.

226. He was into the same things as us.

227. The anime community was very supportive.

228. He had more of a presence than I did.

229. His videos were definitely of better quality.

230. He uploaded more frequently.

231. Consistency and quality are what help you grow in YouTube.

232. This is pretty much a landmark for LensCapProductions.

233. I've hit 1,000 subscribers.

234. He definitely had quite a following.

235. His popularity and his reach was growing.

236. I'm very, very happy.

237. Yeah!

238. Trey was starting to thrive in terms of his YouTube channel.

239. But offline and behind closed doors,

240. his behavior was becoming more troubling.

241. Whoa!

242. During the several years that I dated Trey,

243. he did a lot of, um,

244. really... things that I should have taken as a red flag.

245. I made excuses in my head for all of those things.

246. There was a point when I was 16

247. that he'd asked me to do things that...

248. were sexual.

249. He would say, "You know, people play all kinds

250. of weird games and things behind closed doors and experiment."

251. One time I do remember being on the floor.

252. My hands were above my head, duct taped together and...

253. he had duct tape over my mouth.

254. Then he had his body over me,

255. where, you know, I didn't feel like I could move.

256. His eyes were darker, and he wasn't smiling or anything,

257. this was not just a game.

258. That was the first time I even considered

259. he might do something violent to me.

260. That was the point that, you know, I felt that...

261. we couldn't really be together.

262. And when Trey and I separated,

263. he never said anything about that.

264. I don't think that he really questioned it verbally to me.

265. I did fall into a depression.

266. Looking back, that was the motivator to switch schools.

267. I remember that specifically being the complete cutoff,

268. um, with Trey and me.

269. I lost touch with Trey after high school.

270. The group did naturally kind

271. of just disperse, and you know,

272. everybody kind of went their own ways for the most part.

273. Trey really didn't have any jobs.

274. He worked for the grocery store a little while.

275. And I understand that he went to Blinn College,

276. which is a small like community college.

277. But he dropped out of Blinn college.

278. I think that was a source of some contention in the family.

279. Them having a more traditional plan

280. and outlook for his future than maybe he had for himself.

281. Being a YouTube personality or an influencer

282. hadn't become part of the mainstream yet.

283. And so probably, if I had been a parent at that time,

284. I would have been like "He's just wasting his time."

285. He needed to get a community of people,

286. and he found this online.

287. And he found it a thousand times over,

288. 'cause he had like thousands of people listening to him.

289. Little did I know. I knew nothing about this at the time.

290. You've reached 2,000 subscribers.

291. Two thousand subscribers?

292. That's incredible.

293. He had quite a reach in the anime community.

294. I want to thank you for staying with me through all these years.

295. I love your support.

296. And it's actually opened up the ability for Google to monetize my videos.

297. He's definitely one of the only ones that spoke of

298. YouTube monetization at the time.

299. He seemed happy with where he was going,

300. because being approved was definitely a huge thing.

301. You made money based on how many views you got.

302. Now, I can make money so I can get a high definition camera.

303. Today, he absolutely would be considered an influencer.

304. And LensCapProduction has many more in store for you for this great year.

305. He wasn't going anywhere in his real life.

306. He was going somewhere on the Internet.

307. With most of his friends moving on and leaving town,

308. and him being stuck behind

309. in this small town in his family home,

310. the tone of Trey's videos has shifted.

311. Today I'm ranting on something a little bit anime unrelated.

312. I'm ranting on all the shootings that have been happening.

313. It is a little bit disturbing to know

314. that you could be a victim in something like this

315. at these times, all the people that were victims,

316. you think, it won't happen to me,

317. but sometimes it does.

318. This concern, this anxiety he has about gun violence.

319. I think it is quite natural to to be worried about it

320. and to want to talk about it.

321. But just two months later, the tone has changed again.

322. Personally,

323. if an army invades and starts walking down the city,

324. blowing people up,

325. - I... ga-ga... will be firing at them.

326. and I imagine that everyone else with a gun would be too.

327. One of the most glaring contradictions is that in the first video,

328. he is very much against gun violence,

329. whereas in the second video he's holding a huge gun

330. and he's almost advocating ownership of guns.

331. I didn't really think much of it because he was living in Texas.

332. But I did wonder

333. why he was saying these sorts of things.

334. Countries that ban citizens from having guns...

335. In a relatively short space of time,

336. we're seeing paranoia creep in.

337. being able to protect themselves from invading countries.

338. Countries that allow their citizens to have guns...

339. boom, shoot each other.

340. I think the rest of the family,

341. they didn't know about his YouTube channel.

342. Maybe he wasn't able to share with them

343. because they might criticize it.

344. Trey Sesler signing out.

345. But I think that was when he decided,

346. "I'm gonna be real Trey now."

347. My grandmother passed away a while ago.

348. And now, uh, I moved in.

349. When Trey was 21, his grandmother had passed away,

350. so he moved into her empty house in a neighboring town.

351. This would be the first time that Trey had independence, autonomy.

352. The first time that he was living away from home.

353. This is it behind me.

354. The house is actually featured in my new film.

355. And while I think it might actually be haunted...

356. That's where he had a darker turn in his life.

357. Whatever supervision he was having in Waller

358. with his family,

359. it did help him to some degree to stay on the right path.

360. Now that was gone.

361. At that point,

362. one of Trey's brother Mark's friends needed a place to stay

363. for a short period of time, and Trey kindly offered up his home.

364. To me, I wonder whether some sort of mental illness is developing.

365. Something like depression or bipolar.

366. The very fact that he's freaking out his friends,

367. people that know him really well, is a huge red flag.

368. And things start getting even darker.

369. Oh, how you doing, everyone? It's Mr. Anime.

370. Or you can call me Trey.

371. You can call me the guy who does the video game reviews

372. or you can call me the guy that does all the gun stuff now.

373. Uh, what I have here today to show you is a Hi-Point.

374. Now, for those of you who are familiar with Hi-Point,

375. you might have a very low opinion of them,

376. or you might have a high opinion of them.

377. I have a very classic—

378. He's drunk.

379. It shoots nine millimeter rounds.

380. Ten-round magazine comes standard with it.

381. - And you— - Was he reviewing the gun?

382. Was he, like, uh—

383. Like, was he doing this to test the pros and cons or like that?

384. No, it was just him shooting stuff

385. while under the influence.

386. As Trey is posting more and more videos about guns,

387. as he's appearing inebriated,

388. you can see a level of concern from his fans

389. in the comments sections of his videos.

390. People would definitely be asking

391. "What is going on?"

392. Like, "Are you okay?"

393. And not just that.

394. "Why do you have a gun while you're drunk?"

395. I wouldn't want to be sitting on that couch right now.

396. But despite this, he is still growing in popularity on YouTube.

397. People didn't seem to want to look away.

398. Ah, five out of ten.

399. Living by himself, without parental supervision,

400. his alcohol and drug use slowly starts to rise.

401. There seems to be both meth and cannabis use.

402. Different substances have different effects on the human psyche.

403. But both cannabis and methamphetamine

404. are renowned for increasing agitation and paranoia.

405. My favorite part of the day,

406. comparing my ratings to other anime reviewers.

407. Cracks are starting to appear. People are starting to notice.

408. As time went on,

409. we did see less videos from him.

410. But, you know, we were more concerned about your health.

411. You know, take care of yourself first.

412. Worry about the videos later.

413. It's quite tragic to see somebody

414. decline like this right in front of our very eyes.

415. This is somebody that's at a pretty high risk of harming themselves.

416. Plus, he's got access to guns.

417. After living by himself for over a year,

418. all these social issues, all these difficulties

419. that Trey is facing build up.

420. He's had enough. He calls his parents sobbing.

421. He begged them to come around and help him.

422. I don't think they had a real knowledge of YouTube.

423. They had no clue Trey was putting this kind of thing online.

424. His parents are clearly concerned about him,

425. given that he's alone,

426. he's got guns all over the house.

427. That was the turning point for when Rhonda and Lawton

428. agreed for Trey to come back and live in the family home.

429. For them to bring him back into their home could show many things.

430. There's a vicious monster over there in the woods.

431. - Could you take care of it? - Of course.

432. Maybe as long as they could keep him in the home,

433. keep him under wraps, things wouldn't get worse.

434. They were trying to love him the only way they knew how.

435. So once again, you had the four members of the family

436. under the same roof.

437. Mark was working. He finished his education.

438. But he was still living at home for a while.

439. We know that around this time, 2011, Trey was regularly seeing a psychiatrist.

440. He's being prescribed medication.

441. This helped him to a degree

442. because his father eased off him.

443. There was less pressure for him to try and find a job as Trey was recovering.

444. But that's not how Trey saw things.

445. He felt that his father had almost given up on him.

446. The first thing I see is probably intoxicated.

447. And secondly, Trey was really letting his viewers in on the fact

448. that whether or not he felt that way about himself,

449. he realized that society felt that way about him.

450. He probably had a bit of an inferiority complex

451. because he was struggling in life

452. and his friends and his brother were moving on.

453. He was taking a cocktail of drugs.

454. He was isolated, he was marginalized.

455. So all of these things would have massively increased

456. the risk of deliberate self-harm or suicide as well as violence.

457. 2011, I decided to reach out to Trey on Facebook.

458. And I personally believed that,

459. you know, I would ask Trey about our prior relationship.

460. I did, sort of, want to talk about that myself.

461. I'm not sure if he wanted to.

462. We actually made plans

463. and exchanged numbers.

464. There's definitely a part of me

465. that didn't know what to expect.

466. So I felt a little anxious about meeting Trey.

467. Right before we were about to meet, Trey called.

468. He just sort of said, "By the way, I'm sorry for being a monster to you.

469. And I'm sorry.

470. I don't know if any of that was consensual."

471. It just, sort of, surprised me

472. because it was a question that, kind of, popped up out of nowhere.

473. I don't think I had any doubts

474. that it was sincere at the time.

475. He did seem remorseful.

476. It did seem different,

477. uh, surprisingly different, uh, from the previous Trey.

478. But then he said he's not good for people and we can't meet.

479. Then we didn't really talk after that.

480. Well, hi, everybody. It's Mr. Anime here.

481. I got more subscribers than ever.

482. I have more views than ever.

483. Trey had 4,000 subscribers on YouTube.

484. Pretty big numbers for that time.

485. But we all know that in the background,

486. there's a lot going on with Trey.

487. This is just an update video to let you guys know that, uh,

488. I'm gonna reward myself with probably a two or three-week break.

489. "Mr. Anime is planning something."

490. Planning what, exactly?

491. It's very vague.

492. So you'll have to bear with me.

493. It was very telling.

494. Looking back at it now,

495. something big was going to happen,

496. and none of us were prepared for it.

497. Thanks for watching my channel.

498. Shortly after lunch, two members of the Sesler family

499. came by the Waller Police Department

500. and informed one of my, uh, officers

501. that they were unable to make contact with the Sesler family.

502. For the second day now,

503. there's no answer on any of the cell phones.

504. I had requested that one of the officers

505. that knew the family come to the house.

506. As soon as I stepped out of my vehicle,

507. there was a sense in the air that something was wrong.

508. Majorly wrong.

509. You couldn't see in the house because all the blinds were drawn.

510. In the back of the house, there was a small window,

511. and the blinds on that particular window were slightly open.

512. I crawled up on a bench and looked in,

513. and that's when I saw a person inside on the floor covered with blood.

514. And I knew we had a... a real problem.

515. The first thought that I had was that maybe we were dealing with a suicide here.

516. We just knew we had a body.

517. And there was a lot of blood. A lot of blood.

518. It was shocking what we found when we made the entry into the house.

519. We had no idea what we were walking into.

520. The house looked like a bomb had gone off in it,

521. and it was just totally destroyed.

522. As we went down the hall, and we found the bathroom

523. where I had seen the body through the window,

524. the officer was able to identify

525. who that person was on the floor.

526. He said, "This is Mark. This is, uh, Mark Sesler."

527. It became pretty apparent pretty quick

528. that there was some type of struggle that had ensued here

529. because there's bullet holes everywhere.

530. We went from possible suicide

531. to now we may actually encounter a killer.

532. That's a totally different frame of mind.

533. And then as we made our way through the house,

534. we discovered a man's body on the bed.

535. The officer was able to specifically say that that was Lawton Sesler.

536. We went out in the garage and...

537. there was, kind of, a blue plastic tarp.

538. And I lifted it up, and it was, uh...

539. turned out to be Rhonda.

540. Shot multiple times.

541. We went back in the house.

542. That's when we started realizing that

543. the knives stuck in the cabinet.

544. Or the countertop with the apple.

545. And all the different things written on the cabinet doors.

546. That's when we realize we're not just looking for a killer.

547. We're dealing with something evil here.

548. By the writings we were starting to read

549. that were etched into walls,

550. we're building a pretty strong case

551. that Trey would be a definite person of interest.

552. The final thing that led me to firmly believe

553. that he needed to be located as soon as possible

554. was the inquiry about the body armor.

555. My officer at that time had said

556. he had received a phone call from Trey

557. a few weeks prior to that that was inquiring about

558. whether a civilian could buy body armor.

559. If you add that to what we see in front of us,

560. and it would be an indicator that he had other plans,

561. and that it was going to meet with resistance.

562. There was a very strong possibility for further violence.

563. It was an urgency in locating Trey.

564. When news broke that the Seslers had been murdered,

565. everybody was scared, everybody was talking about it.

566. Where is Trey?

567. Is he lurking somewhere?

568. Is there going to be worse things that happen?

569. All hands were on deck to find Trey

570. and make sure that the community was safe.

571. We located Trey's car,

572. which was not in Waller County,

573. but in the county, uh, next to it.

574. The local Sheriff's Department sent out their tactical team.

575. We don't know what we're dealing with.

576. He may possibly be armed and dangerous.

577. We arrive on location and surround the house.

578. When Trey stepped out on the front porch,

579. he had his Glock in his hand.

580. He had his Glock in his hand.

581. He just threw the pistol on the ground and surrendered.

582. Why don't you sit right here, okay, Trey?

583. Um...

584. He leveled with the investigators, with the Rangers

585. and told them what he had done.

586. It's very disturbing, the lack of remorse,

587. as you're recounting how you've just murdered

588. the woman that gave birth to you,

589. your father and your big brother.

590. While Trey was in custody,

591. there were so many things that we were discovering at the crime scene.

592. Handwritten notes,

593. some journals that he had made.

594. We found this ammo in the trunk of the car.

595. Rounds and rounds of different caliber ammunition.

596. Now there was the realization

597. that he had a much bigger plan.

598. The curtains were ripped back,

599. and you could have a better glimpse into the mind of Trey Sesler.

600. It was truly terrifying.

601. He explained how he was going to use these different caliber weapons,

602. should he ever commit a mass shooting like this.

603. His intention was to do the biggest mass shooting at a school

604. that had occurred thus far in history.

605. We prevented a horrific act.

606. We arrested him that night, and he couldn't do it the next day.

607. That's fact.

608. These are the notes I made the very first time I watched Trey's confession.

609. I wrote down two words and I put them in quotes,

610. "Desires attention."

611. That was realization that he had quite a...

612. a life that we didn't know anything about.

613. He made a specific point to let the Rangers know

614. they could see his videos all over YouTube.

615. Most people who commit horrific offenses

616. can be pigeonholed in some ways.

617. Either they have a clear psychiatric diagnosis or they fit a profile,

618. or they have understandable motivations.

619. But to me, Trey is extremely unusual

620. because it's just really hard to fit him into any box.

621. But I do think that there were numerous risk factors.

622. He was young, he was male.

623. He was clearly quite paranoid.

624. He probably had a relative degree of mental illness.

625. He's got an obsession with guns.

626. He's taken a cocktail of drugs,

627. he's already quite marginalized and socially isolated.

628. Dig deep with me today into the recessions

629. and crevices of the dark human mind.

630. So all of these things would increase the risk factor

631. of somebody acting out violently.

632. He is charged with gunning down his school teacher father,

633. his mother and his older brother.

634. I'm reading on here saying that he—

635. That not only did he—

636. I— I can't even say this stuff.

637. Nobody wants to believe that the people they're friends with,

638. the people they know, the people they love

639. could ever turn out to be a monster.

640. To hear that someone who inspired me to be where I am now did this,

641. it just leaves me with a really bad feeling.

642. No matter how much you know someone online,

643. you only see a certain part of them.

644. I remember just being shocked,

645. just completely shocked that it was him.

646. And knowing that it could have been so much worse, too.

647. And, and, you know, it's such a small town

648. that we're all well familiar with.

649. I mean, it was...

650. I think it was... I think it hit hard.

651. I think everybody believed at school

652. that the violent side that Trey portrayed in films was just a character.

653. He had a lot of people fooled.

654. I try to think of all the events that occurred

655. and was there ever any...

656. anything that we could have done

657. to prevent this and protect them.

658. Because I felt a real responsibility

659. as the chief of police of that town

660. to protect the people who live there.

661. Of course, there's no answers.

662. I live with it.

663. I live with it. I've got the questions that can't be answered.

664. I just wish somebody would have brought Trey's YouTube channel

665. to our attention and said, "Hey.

666. He's here. He's among you.

667. Watch out."

668. If we're going to live in an online world,

669. then the world is gonna have to take on greater responsibility

670. tor the things that they see online.

671. Trey is responsible for what he did.

672. But I became a teacher to make a difference.

673. I was talking with my...

674. I am gratified and feel blessed

675. by the opportunity to help the kids I was able to help.

676. I feel bad about this one going the way this went.

677. Thank you. Thank you.

678. I'll see you around.

679. I couldn't help him.