HEAR PARENTS' ANGUISH, tot shot DEAD after trike veers into neighbor's yard

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Five-year-old Cannon Hinnant is riding his bike in front of his family's North Carolina home when a neighbor shoots him in the head. Darius Sessoms, 25, is charged with first-degree murder. The question remains: Why was Cannon shot? Sessoms and father Austin Hinnant had been neighbors for eight years. The two men even had dinner and drinks together the night before Cannon's murder. Cannon's parents are calling for the death penalty in the case. Joining Nancy Grace today:Austin Hinnant - Cannon's Father Bonny Waddell - Cannon's MotherRandy Zelin - NY Criminal Defense Attorney Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills; Follow Dr. Marshall on InstagramSheryl McCollum - Forensics Expert & Cold Case Investigative Research Institute FounderDr. Katherine Maloney - Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Erie County Medical Examiners office, Buffalo, New YorkBryan Mims - WRAL TV News Reporter

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your
0:28.4	favorite podcast.
0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:40.0	A five-year-old little boy is riding his bike on a Sunday afternoon around, I guess it was about
0:50.0	5.30 in the afternoon. Everybody's gone to church, they've had a lunch. You know that feeling
0:56.7	on a Sunday afternoon when everything is still and quiet, until the sound of gunshots ring out.
1:04.8	Little Cannon is dead. Why? According to reports because he veered his bike into the neighbor's yard,
1:15.2	I want justice.
1:18.3	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories with me and all-star panel. Joining me is Brian Mims WRALTV,
1:33.7	Dr. Catherine Maloney, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Eerie County Medical Examiner's Office in Buffalo,
1:40.8	Founder of the Cold Case Research Institute, Ballistics, Forensics, Expert, Cheryl McCollum,
1:45.8	Psychoanalysts joining me out of Beverly Hills, Dr. Bethany Marshall, New York Criminal
1:52.2	Defense Attorney Randy Zellan, but first to special guests, the mother and father of Little Cannon,
2:01.4	with me Bonnie Wadell and Austin Hinnett. Bonnie, first to you, you know, every morning when I wake up,
2:12.7	the first thing I think about is what I can do for my twins who are 12. I race up every morning
2:21.0	to get their breakfast, get them packed for school, and all day long they're on my mind.
2:28.2	What happened the day five-year-old Cannon was shot?
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