Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek

Lavasar. So today we're picking up with part two of the J.C. McGee case. I'm going to give you a quick

rundown on what we already covered on the morning of July 11th, 2002, 16-year-old Alyssa McGee called

911 reporting that her father, J.C. McGee, had been shot inside their home. Just minutes later,

J.C.'s nephew, who lived next door,

Omar Faustin, made his own frantic 911 call, claiming the four men had broken into his house,

tied up his mother, Pearl, and his girlfriend Kim Smith, and held them hostage. When police arrived, they found J.C. McGee, dead from a gunshot wound, and

Omar's home ransacked. Pearl and Kim told investigators that the intruders were armed,

dressed in black, and demanding money and drugs. Both women were tied up, beaten, and doused

in rubbing alcohol, while the men threatened to set them on fire.

Because their faces were covered, they didn't see much of what happened to Omar,

but they could hear him being beaten and taken outside.

And moments later, they heard a gunshot.

That's when Kim was able to free herself, hit the panic button in the kitchen,

which called the police, and this was just as the attackers fled, allegedly. Now, despite the brutality of the attack, neither Pearl nor Kim

could explain why their home had been targeted. We talked about this last episode. Pearl was like,

hey, we don't have money. We don't live in like a wealthy neighborhood. Why us, even though she had $2,000 in a suitcase from a recent vacation, why would we be the target of this home invasion? Well, my question to Pearl would be, why do you have a panic button in your kitchen if you didn't kind of suspect something like this might happen? But Pearl and Kim, their stories remained mostly the same

throughout multiple interviews. We know that Pearl initially told police that there had been

one person in her room with Omar when she woke up and this person was holding a gun to

Omar's head. And then later she told the police that there was actually two individuals in

the room with

Omar. One was holding a gun on him. One was holding a gun on her. But other than that,

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