Case Statement

Case Number: 30058

Case Report: Sonny Jenkins Murder/Suicide

Location: North Valley

Name of Confidant: Deandra Jose

Police Officer: State your name and age.

"Deandra Jose, D-E-A-N-D-R-A J-O-S-E, 20 years old."

Police Officer: What's your relation to Sonny Jenkins?

"He's my bestfriend."

Police Officer: How well you know him?

"He's a good person, I don't think he would kill himself. He loves what he's doing, he was love by everyone."

Police Officer: Before we head to that point, how long have you known each other?

"Years."

Police Officer: Give me a number.

"I don't know, ten to twelve years? We've been bestfriend since gradeschool."

Police Officer: He had a good life ahead of him right.

"Yeah, we didn't know that he will become this famous author that everybody loves."

Police Officer: Do you support him being an author?

"Of course, more than you can think of."

Police Officer: What about the other bestfriend, Todd Ramon? How long have you known him?

"We met him in high school."

Police Officer: How Todd became friends with you and Sonny?

"I don't know."

Police Officer: You don't know? He's your friend, you supposed to know that.

"I really don't know, maybe because we think we'll be fun with each other."

Police Officer: Okay, I get it. When you heard about him?

"Dead? When it's all over the local news."

Police Officer: You know it on news, you're his bestfriend, how come you didn't know it early before the new spread out?

"We have been stop seeing each other—I mean, we didn't talk, that's why I didn't know."

Police Officer: How is that happen?

"We had a fight."

Police Officer: Also with Todd Ramon?

"Yes."

Police Officer: Tell me more what happened.

"A fight that starts when he didn't wanted us to be on his book signing."

Police Officer: And why?

"I don't know, he doesn't want us to be there."

Police Officer: Then what did you do?

"We still come to his book signing and then he was angry then after that we didn't talk."

Police Officer: Why would not want his bestfriends on the book signing?

"I don't know."

Police Officer: I hope you know.

Police Officer: Do you ever wonder why Sonny Jenkins dead?

"Yes."

Police Officer: Do you think of any person who would do that to him?

"So you're looking it for murder?

Police Officer: Yes.

"Actually, I have no idea."

Police Officer: Okay, do you think it might be his fans or relatives?

"I don't know, officer."

Police Officer: Okay, then tell me about the facebook post.

Police Officer: It is the main reason why you're here, Miss Jose.

"I don't know why she do that."

Police Officer: Can you confirm that person in the picture is you?

"No. I'm not."

Police Officer: Then how it happen the tagged photo was you in it and the captions were pertaining you were slut, whore and making out with your professor. Can you confirm if any of that is true.

"No, it isn't."

Police Officer: Then why you commented on that post to take it down.

"Because it is humiliating me. What the post said wasn't true."

Police Officer: Are you denying the accusation of making out with your professor?

"Yes."

Police Officer: But why the post intend to tell that you are the killer?

"Because they were trying to accuse me of something I didn't even do!"

Police Officer: Why would they do that? Did you do something that Miss Yuan?

"Nothing."

Police Officer: So help me Miss Jose to clear this out, how all of the person commented in that photo are somehow connected to Sonny Jenkins?

"Because there is a group—because I know some of those people."

Police Officer: How?

"Because of Sonny."

Police Officer: Are you sure what you are saying Miss Jose?

"Of course, I would not lie to an officer."

Police Officer: One last thing before we end this.

Police Officer: Are you a part of why Sonny Jenkins dead?

"No. I'm not."

Police Officer: I hope that true, Miss Jose. But I'm glad for your cooperation, thank you.

"Thank you, officer."