Small Town Murder - The Thirsty Killer Kings Mountain North Carolina

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

This week, in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, a rural dirt road is the scene of a bloody attack on two people, after a year long fight, between neighbors. The neighbors had been messing with each other, tearing up the community road, cursing, stalking, fist fighting, and pointing guns at each other, until one morning, when it all spins out of control, ending in cold blooded murder! Will the jury buy a self defense claim?   Along the way, we find out that you can have a beach, just about anywhere, that adults shouldn't fight with neighbors, while at work, and that it's much easier to move, than it is to go on trial for murder!!   New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!!   Donate at patreon.com/crimeinsports or at paypal.com and use our email: [e-mail] Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!   Follow us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/smalltownpod   Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

Hello everybody and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express. Yay! Choochoo! Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy. Yay indeed. My name is James Petrogalo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wiseman.

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North Carolina. Oh. It's up in the hills. This is, yeah, King's Mountain. By the way, Kings, no apostrophe, no possessive on that. Yeah, I mean, plural. It's just Plural Kings. Kings Mountain.

Yeah, it doesn't belong to the Kings. It's just after the Kings. There's a whole bunch of them up there. Yeah, a lot of them like that. This is southwestern North Carolina down there. It's right in the beginning of that Western Panhandle that it goes out to there. About 40 minutes to Charlotte, about only 50,000. 15 minutes to our last episode, Gastonia, North Carolina, episode 587, Confessions of a Monster.

That, by the way, was a wild-ass episode. North Carolina's got some crazy murder going on here. This is in, it borders Cleveland and Gaston counties, which is weird because this is not a huge place. So they feel like they could have fixed that somehow. Area code 704, population of this town, 10,775 in this area. Now, the place we're going to talk about is a real rural place on the edge of town, gravel road and all that kind of thing. So we'll talk about that. Median household income here.

Now, in the rest of the country, it's about $69,000. Here it is $42,336. Good Lord. That is a third under the average. More than a third. That's a lot. That's not great. Near half.

Near half. Yeah. Then median home cost here, it's lower than the national average, but still not that great. $202,100,100. So they're going to get, there's a lot of houses that have a lot of land attached to them, is why. You have two slogans here, two mottos, whatever you want to call it. One is, quote, the historical city. Yeah.

And then the next one they have is the exact opposite of that, which is hilarious. Their two mottos are the historical city and the city of progress. It's brand new. I don't know what to say about that. We're historical, but moving forward with Augusto. Wow. History of this town, the original settlement was called White Plains, you know, like by Yonkers there, same thing. But it was incorporated in 1874 and the name was changed.

Kings Mountain, they thought would be more appropriate for the town as a name because the community was close to the site of the historic Battle of King's Mountain in 1780, which was in York County, South Carolina. line close to there, which was a big turning point in the American Revolutionary War. So they named their town after that. Few reviews of this town, because what do we know? We've never been there. Here we go. Reviews. I don't know.

Shit. Here's five stars. King Mountain is a, King's Mountain is a great town. Everyone in the Kings Mountain area is connected by family or mutual friends. That just sounds like everybody's. That's going to say. That doesn't sound. Don't perpetuate a stereotype in your review.

if you're giving five stars is what we're saying here. Or I'm nuts, whatever. So mutual friends, which makes it an atmosphere where everyone can communicate and get along like friends. Well, half of you are related, and it's even easier. The community is amazing, and you almost always feel included. Almost always. Sometimes not so much.

All I ever want out of life is to not be included, so that sounds awful. Let's see, here's five stars. Best High School and Wonderful Good. Wonderful good. Best High School and Wonderful good. That's the whole review. Fantastic. Wonderful with a capital W for some reason.

I think they meant wonderful food, yeah? I don't think. Maybe it's wonderful good. I mean, the G and the F are next to each other. That's possible. But the W and Wonderful is capitalized, but not the B in best high school to start the sound. So that's fascinating.

Fascinating. And then here's two stars. I have frequently seen crimes being committed. I have also heard. of many more from other people. Ooh, I've heard of crimes taking place. And I watched them. Generally speaking,

it does not seem like a very safe place and police do not seem visible in the area. They're invisible. See, oh, that's why they're good. You don't know where they are because they're in the trees, see, they come down on crime. Some crimes are happening, boom, cop falls

out a tree, tackles everybody. That's how it goes. They're not just good. They are wonderful good. Wonderful good. two stars here and again this this ties into the five star review people here tend to stick with their families again perpetuating stuff and don't spend too much time helping others oh they say they're mind their own business and worry about their own families good i like that uh things to do here okay there is the beach blast festival yeah i know the question you're going to ask me where the fuck is the beach that was my question apparently there There's a river that goes through here somewhere. Oh. I love when people on the river go, this is the beach. It's not a beach.

Technically, sure, but no. Yeah, that's loose dirt, but that's not sand. It happens to be wet, but no. So the Beach Blast Festival here, it is the, it's August that's happening right now, actually. Yeah. There's a whole lot of stuff going on. There is the, it opens with DJ Mike Hayes. Hell yeah.

And the golf cart parade. right away. Then there's a watermelon eating contest, not eating, eaten, watermelon eating contest. That happens. Oh, boy. A kids' pavilion,

pirate port. I don't know what that's about. The motley tones will be performing. That's a band. Oh, boy. The deaf tones that play motley crew? Either that. We play only crew and deaf tones.

That's it. We play, we play motley crew, and we fucking scream it. We are shouting at that devil. We play home sweet home first, right, just to get people going. And then we do like three deaf tone songs. And then when they ain't expecting it, we play Wild Side.

So that's how it works. And people, they seem to take to it. And then smoking in the boys' room. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. A deep cut on that Dr. Feelgood album. Oh, man.

Gotta have that. See, I like that one because it ain't popular, see. I'm not going to play Kickstarter. my heart. That's what people want to hear. I want you to know that I really have the album. I know my crew. The shadow players will be performing. Don't know what that is. The totally tied contest beats me. Tidei-d-I-probly? Totally tied. T-I-D-E like the detergent. Oh. Who's got the cleanest shirt? I don't know. Who does laundry the best? The hula hoop contest, a limbo contest. This is starting to sound like a

like a bar mitzvah. Like, we're going to have a limbo contest and a hula hooping. Well, they stopped finding things to do in 1957. Yeah. I don't know. Get it. And then they're going to have a repeat of everything. They'll be roaming pirates and mermaids.

Yeah. And entertainment by Ross Ron's cartoons. Okay. Sure. There's also the band of Oz. Too Much Sylvia is another band. Too much Sylvia. Get fit her all on the stage.

Gary Louder and Smoking Hot. Yeah. Smoking hot. And then 6 p.m. Chairman of the Board will be there. So either Frank Sinatra or was a carrot top. Was in that movie? Couldn't remember was him or Yahoo! Serious, one of the two.

It may have been Yahoo! Yeah. No, it was Caratop. Yahoo! Series is homeless now. That's not good. I just saw a thing. No.

Yeah, yeah. I saw he's like homeless in New Zealand or something. Oh, my God. I have a spare room, Yahoo. You're welcome here anytime. There's also the Mountaineer Days Heritage Festival. Okay. Which has a lot of bands.

Casey Ray Band, Megan Das Band, Sweet Potato Recipe Contest. A beard mustache and goatee competition. A pumpkin-eaten contest. All right. And sack races and an egg and spoon race. So this is all like field day at your local elementary school. They ran out of things to do in 1950s. Holy shit.

Just keep doing it over and over. They're going to have a Jacks competition over here? Just a bunch of kids bouncing shit and playing. That's so weird. A hopscotch competition we got going on. Double Dutch we're going to be doing. It's pretty wild. Let's say, let's talk about some murder, everybody.

Let's do it. Okay. We have to go to the location here and describe this, because this is the most important thing. It's called Mann Court, M-A-N-N-N-Cort. This is the street that it's on. Now, this is a one-lane dirt road. Oh.

It's in the middle of fucking nowhere. This is not in the town, you know, all, you know, right around anything. This is an insular little neighborhood out on its own here. Okay. One-lane dirt road that the county doesn't even care for. The residents pay to maintain the road. Oh, boy. So that's how rural this is.

Private, yeah. Yeah, they're not even, no one helps. It's way out on the edge of town. It's all it is, though. It's a court makes it sound like there's like a cul-de-sac and, you know, but it's not. It's just a one-lane dirt road. About 200 yards long. Okay.

And it has some houses on it. There's, you know, a handful of houses scattered on this 200-yard-long dirt road, essentially. So things are going fine in man court. Everybody's happy. Then in fall of 2014, there's some new neighbors in the court here. Great. Now, this has to be for a neighborhood like this that's so insular and so close and you know, you guys have to like chip in to fill a pothole and stuff like that.

New neighbors, that's got to be scary because there's not a lot of people around here. So if someone comes in and then someone you don't like, you're stuck with these people now. Sure. And really out there. So this is Jeffrey Wayne Oaks here and his wife, Myla. Now we'll talk about them. Jeff here, Jeff Oaks. He's born in 1963.

He's 41 in 2014. Oh, I'm sorry, 51, not 41, right? Born in 63, 40 years, that would be, yeah, he's 51. Okay. Yeah. In North Carolina here. He was born in Cleveland County, North Carolina, which is what this borders on. And he spent his whole life in this area.

Everybody in this story spent their whole life in this area, essentially. Wow. So his parents are Virgil and Diana Oaks. And so that's his stepmother and his mom's name was Patricia, but she died. A lot of big family he grew up in. Big old Brady Bunch family. Two sisters, three brothers. So six kids altogether.

Sisters are Christy and Dana. Brothers are Brad Joe and Buster. There it is. Buster. I just picture Buster Bluth and that's all I can think of when I hear that name. Buster. Or that Murdoch kid. Or him.

Yeah, maybe that's a common name down south. I don't think, I don't know if that's his real name. That's this kid's real name. Right. But I mean, I don't know if that's the possible murderous ginger kids. Yeah. Is that a name? It must be a name they use a lot.

It's got, I mean. It has to be. It's regional. Has to be. How many Busters down there? Do we have any Busters listening? Please hit us up and say, I'm Buster and I'll be thrilled. There was a, wasn't there a catcher for the Giants, Buster Posey?

Yeah, Buster Posey. Yeah, absolutely. That's his real name. But he's a baseball player, so I thought that was a nickname. You know what I mean? Buster. I think that's his real name. That might be his real name.

I think it is. It doesn't matter. Okay. It doesn't matter. We're not doing it. Maya Nicole Ellis is his wife. She's born Maya Nicole Ellis. She's Maya Nicole Oaks now.

I'm sorry, not Maya Mila. M-Y-L-A. Myla. She's born in 19833. So 20 years younger than her husband. Okay. here. She's born in Gaston County. Her parents are, I love her dad's name. It's my favorite. Manuel Effin Ellis. Eiffin Ellis. Eiff, F-N-E-F-F-N-E-E-F-N-E-Lis. And you don't fuck with me, pal.

That feels like his parents have been on purpose. This goddamn effing little kid. Fine. There. What's his last name? Ellis. Effin Ellis. That's M-F-N-Ellis. I love it. M-F-N-Ellis. That is a amazing. And his mother's name is Lena Pizzoli. So she's her mother. So she's half Italian this one, it looks like. She grew up in this region. Great fucking name.

Isn't that the best? Great effing name. Excuse me. Yeah, that's the best. I saw that name and I was like, we're doing this story just because of this guy's last name. Middle name. I love it so much. So her family's pretty close-knit. She's got a brother named Chris. Now, Mila's known for being very lively and very

friendly. And But by 2014, everybody talks about how she loves going to church and she likes helping other people and things like that. People always say, oh, she loved everybody. She also had some problems leading up to this. It happens, yeah. Minor arrests that I found, tons of them. I mean, a lot of them were in the non, it just said not specified in the records I found. So I don't know what they were for, but there was a shitload of incidents of things.

The gal with a long rap sheet is fascinating. Yeah, but it's all like petty stuff. Yeah, it usually is. The ones I found are like shoplifting, value $1,000 or less. So, you know, she stole a shirt or something. That was, uh... She's Vicki Valancourt. Yeah, that was in like 2007.

And then simple possession of marijuana I found in 2007 when she was living in Laundale, North Carolina. So things like that. She's had some... She didn't steal LT's car or any shit like that. Yeah, no, no, no, no. She didn't burn a church down or anything. she's okay so now they have two sons as well uh Jeffrey junior got to have one of those he's born in about 2005 and then they have Aiden who's a couple years younger now the family

was active in church the Westwood heights Baptist church they went to Jeff was a truck driver for years and years and so he always had a steady job driving trucks and he also would work part time in a in an auto shop fixing cars too so he's he's hustling to make some some dough here. Canico Drive's truck is fascinating. It seems like I would be... That's a busy man. Shit.

No shit. Well, I think, too, with the truck driving, if you're over the road, you have like a week off at times. You're gone for two weeks. You're home for a week. So that's how he fills it in. He makes some extra money. Outta boy.

Now, Myla owned a business that I don't know what they did and can't figure it out, called Oaks Southern Charm. I don't know. That could be fucking anything. A charm school, a... A, uh, a... A, uh, a... party planner thing.

Whatever. Whatever Chip and Joanna Gaines are doing? I don't know. Maybe that. That's crazy. Who the hell knows? I'm not sure. So she owned that for a while.

It's probably like a small shop, right? No, it's, I don't know. It's, I don't know, like, physical thing for it. A little dress or anything? Oh. I don't know what that is. Interior design. I have no idea.

Like, you could fucking name a million things and it could possibly be that. So they move in and right away they start having some fun. Yeah. I think this is why they moved out to a rural area like this so they could have some fun. First of all, the dirt road, they are going up and down and all the time. Riding ATVs on it. Tearing their car back and forth, doing donuts at all hours of the night, they said. We pay for that road, you bastards.

They're just doing donuts in the middle of the night. So they were upset. The road would be able to wake up in the morning. roads all fucked up and torn up and then they got to go out and rake it and do all that shit. So they were pissed off. The residents, the other neighbors kind of got together and said, what do we do about this? Well, let's try talking to them. Maybe they'll understand.

You know what I mean? They haven't lived here. Yeah, yeah. So they go, they try talking to them. Nothing. Nothing. Also, they complain that Jeff and Mila fire weapons at all times of the night and morning outside. Just fucking shots off, which is also interesting.

They said not at anyone, just, not even. Even at targets. Just random gunfire. They'll go out at four in the morning and just buck off a shotgun three times out into the woods and then go back in the house. Just to piss the neighbors off, it seems like, to them. Because it's like, it's that, it's that random. They're setting alarm. It's 11 a.m.

Do you fire your weapons today? Jesus. People are going to still be sleeping. God damn it. Not only that, they just go out and shoot it into the air. Just, it's, you know, not. It's dangerous. Yeah.

It's a rural area, so the gunfire isn't that weird, but at 3 a.m., it's a little annoying. You know what I mean? Nobody wants that. So, Myla also really pisses everybody off with her stereo system. She bumps that shit, like, loud. I don't know what kind of system set up she has, but people say that it fucking would rattle the windows of houses that are a quarter mile away. It would be rattling windows.

And you could hear it like the way it was. if something was loud there, it would echo around the trees and be even louder. Yeah, yeah. So they said it was fucking horrible people, couldn't, their kids couldn't sleep. It was, because this is at all hours of the night. At two in the morning, she's blasting, I'm on my way. Oh, sweet. She's doing that shit.

Just bang, bang, bang. Oh, fucking firing shots off into the air. Wow. I mean, sounds like they're having fun. I'll tell you a lot, but. Did they win some lottery or something? A scratchy gave him some redneck lottery, you mean? Everybody, welcome back.

On a scratch off and they chose to do this. To the Hillbilly lottery where when you win, you get your own private dirt road. You can ride an ATV up and down, fire weapons indiscriminately in the middle of the night, and play music as loud as you want. All right. Let's see what the first number is. Oh, here we go. Double zero.

This is unbelievable. So enter their neighbor. Robert Bridges. His middle name is Chad, and he chooses to go by Chad. for some reason. No one should ever... No one should choose Chad ever as a name. Oh, man.

He's born in June of 1977. So he's kind of right in between the two of them, basically, in terms of age. He's lived up here for a long-ass time. Yeah. Long time. He's lived in the town for a long time, and he's lived in this court for years now. So, like I said, all through the town, he's the guy that they really lock horns with, the Oaks family. He has a fiancé named Leslie England as well that lives there. So him and his

fiancee and then you got Jeff and Mila Oaks over here. Okay. Now according to Justin Cunningham, who is Leslie, his Bridges Chad's fiance son. Sure. He said before the Oaks is moved into the area, it was a quiet neighborhood. Everybody got along, peaceful. He said after the Oaks arrived, shit change. Yeah, exactly. So he said the first time I heard about them was with the water bar. Okay. Do you know what a water bar is? No. Okay.

There was an addition of a water bar, which is a gravel hump made to divert water from the road. Okay. So just a drainage system. Yeah, a little drainage system. I'm not sure who was upset about what, but that caused a beef. That's the first time that this kid was aware of this. beef. God damn water bar.

Goddamn water bar. And this kid, Cunningham, said that, you know, him and all the other neighbors, too, not just him. He's just the one that was quoted here, said that Mila Oaks, the wife, would speed down the small dirt gravel road, yelling profanities and making rude hand gestures at people who are outside. You know what that one is. Yeah. He's like, she's like the mailman from Funny Farm, basically.

Like when she comes through, you dive out of the fucking web. letters come flying out. But why? Why's she doing it? I don't know. But that sounds like, that does sound like fun. That's, well, when I get to your house every time, that's what we do. We take your ATVs up the road and I yell and scream at your neighbors and you make hand gestures at them.

And that's how we do it. Flip them off and tell them go fuck themselves. Yeah, then we drive back and record a show. That's it. We go make a show. So Chad gets pissed off and starts documenting this stuff. Okay. He starts putting security cameras all over.

over the house. And they show Jeff and Myla shining their headlights into his windows at night while honking their horn and screaming threats at him. We're talking two in the morning. She's kind of badass, huh? You know what I mean? Yeah, she's kind of badass. You got a couple of pops in you at 2 a.m.

You're sitting there like, you know what we should do. Let's get in the car. We'll drive to the neighbor's house down the road there and we'll just shine the flashlights and tell them what we fucking think of them. What we effing think of them. I'm sorry. Just tell them all we need to know. The horn is working.

Perfect. Perfect. That's a check one. That's perfect. We're going to need that to wake him up. So he saves everything. He has files labeled and videos and, you know, documentation. It's crazy.

So while this is going on, imagine being the other neighbors. Yeah. Because, I mean, it started out with everybody kind of is pissed off. at the Oaks and now it's specifically Chad and the Oaks are at war and you have to watch this go on all the time like oh shit this is not going to be good so here's one neighbor

Roy Blackman he lived on the corner where Mancourt meets another road and he says he sees everything and he said he described Jeff and Mila as threatening unruly and vulgar to everyone on the street they came in don't tell us what to do

yeah yeah so between January 1st, 2015 and January 27th, 2016, just over a year. Yeah. Jeff and Mila Oaks call 911 21 times on Chad.

What the shit? Chad calls 911 13 times on them. Oh, now. After the third call, yeah. What the copcha done has gathered everyone involved on a lawn and beat the living shit out of all of them.

I don't give a fuck. Who's in, I I don't care who's at fault. I don't care who's wrong, who's right. If I get one more fucking call from you people about neighbor disputes, I swear to God, I'm coming back with my gun. Do you everybody understand? Thank you. Out here on man court.

I swear to God, I will run you motherfuckers over. I'm not doing this anymore. Like, I would lose my mind as a car. How do you keep coming to the same fucking people? Adults that are arguing about a street. It's just crazy. You're adults and being fucking weird. Yeah.

There's like seven houses on the road. And they come to 36 or 34 times in a year they have to come out here. Wow. The deputy started not showing up anymore. Yeah, eventually it's. We're not going back out there. You're crying wolf. You people are nuts.

And it's like it's a drive out there too. It's like you got to go all the way the hell out there to say, oh, he's shine your flashlight, his headlights in your window and you got to make a document to this. She called me a motherfucker. Yeah. And by the time they get there, the shit's over anyway. So what are you going to do? It's loud music. and threats and property shit.

It's all bullshit. It's all shit you take reports for. It's nothing that you can arrest anybody for. Yeah. It's a civil matter for the most part. So Chad at one point told his attorney's paralegal. The police don't come anymore. They won't help us.

It won't come. September 4th, 2015. Okay. Jeff Oaks is at work at a car dealership where he's doing automotive shit, right? Right. Somehow Chad ends up there. I don't know if he's in the market. for a used, you know, fucking Hyundai or something, or if he came there to talk to Jeff,

specifically. We don't know exactly what happened, but we know a fist fight ensued at the auto dealership. At his job. So I'm going to blame Chad for this one because Jeff's at work. Right. If I'm at work and you come to my work and we fight, it's your fault. I was at work. You know what I mean?

Also, kind of ballsy to show up to a place where a man's got shitload of weapons. Yeah. I guess the wrenches are. easy to grab for anybody, but they get... The big one swing hard. Oh yeah. They get in a fist fight and Jeff Oaks

gets a cut under his eye. They're both pretty big guys, but Chad's a fucking real heavy set. A lot of man. He's a lot of dude. They're both a lot of dude, but Chad is really fucking big looking.

So he gets a response or he gets the cut under his eye. So, Myla decides she's got to get involved now too. Yeah. So she, when Chad gets home,

Mila's there threatening to kill both Chad and Leslie. I'll kill you both. Oh boy. You punch my fucking husband. I'll kill you both. How dare you do that kind of shit? So, Myla, by the way,

while Chad's been documenting his whole case, Mila has been documenting her whole case on her side too. Okay. Okay. So on her phone, there's a video of her son, Jeff Jr., and she's coaching him on how to, talk about how he's scared of the neighbors.

Literally, she goes, tell me again why you're upset and crying. And he says, the neighborhood feud. That's how kids talk. Yeah, well, guys say the neighborhood. The neighborhood. Yeah, they don't say adults are loud and scaring me. The neighborhood feud.

But that's, yeah. So there's obviously, there's been a lot of coaching there. She also says on the video that, listen, I don't care what happens with, this guy. We're Christians and we love everybody. And after what, quote, what they did to your daddy, meaning the fist fight

at the dealership, that we're just going to let the law handle it. That's what we're doing. Like, she acts like this was a, like a video that was taken, you know, surreptitiously of her consoling her son and telling her what's going on here. Like, why would

that... Just on the ring doorbell cam as comes home sad. On her phone and selfie mode. Like, What are we talking about? Why are you doing that? We're going to let the Lord and my maglite and my big mouth handled. That's all it is. Oh, and the law too, obviously.

Now, by now, both Leslie England and Mila Oaks have filed for court orders against each other as well. Restraining orders, things like that. The Leslie England's filing says, I am in fear of Mila Oaks's actions because I have already taken out a warrant and she still continues to harass me. Taking out a warrant? I don't even know what that means. What the fuck are you talking about me? Maybe that's possible somewhere.

Maybe in mountain towns are like, did you take out a warrant? And you're like, what? I don't have any fucking idea how that works. Maybe that's a regional thing. I'm not sure. I don't know. I mean, we have a historically it means somebody. Yeah.

Well, we have a North Carolina attorney that we know very well that listens. Hit us up, please. And tell, ask. Can I take a. out a warrant against you? Jimmy, I'm taking out a warrant on you. You know that? I'm calling the North Carolina attorney and telling her to watch her back.

I got a warrant. I got warrants on you. So, Chad's security cameras, he has footage and he labels them in folders of the footage. Now, one folder is called, quote, bitch stalking me while I build doghouse. That's one folder. Bitch, stop. The dog or somebody? Yeah, you're building the dog house, of course.

He's going to want it. And then another file is bitch stops in front of the house. So apparently, Mila is bitch, according to the chat. And there's just hours and hours and hours that he has documented of them with the horn and them yelling at him and being on his property and all this type of shit. So obviously. So, Ellis, MF and Ellis is 51. How old is the other guy? Robert? Ellis is Mila's father.

Oh, okay. M.F. and Ellis. Jeff Oakes is their husband. Jeff Oaks. Yeah. Jeff Oaks. Yeah. He's like 51 at this point. Okay. And Chad is in his 40s? Chad is 14 years younger. So he's 37 at this point. These are both very full grown adults. This is very dumb. Very adult men we're talking about here. So then because all this is going on, you know, bitch stalking me while I build a dog house.

bitch and stops in front of my house that Chad's documenting Jeff Oaks files charges obviously the other guy so yeah yeah in this claim here Jeff files charges it's about the fight

yeah that they had came to his job yes apparently it's fucking ridiculous they during all this I guess a gun was found under because Chad tried to say he got in a fight because I was threatened by him.

Jeff said he came to my work and punched me, so how the fuck? I didn't come to him. And then it got muckier because Chad said something about a gun, and then a gun was found under Jeff's seat in his car, which, I mean, this is the hills of North Carolina. That's just a North Carolina seat warmer, they call it down there. Keep a gun on D.C. That's all that is.

Yeah, when it's cold outside, they don't fire as well, so you got to keep your ass on it. Keep it, you know what I'm saying? Keep it steaming in there. So Chad and Leslie file charges again against Maya now for communicating threats and stalking. Okay. So, yeah. So Jeff's saying you should arrest Chad for him hitting me and him saying you should arrest Jeff for pulling a gun on me even though there's no evidence of that.

And then... And then Chad and Leslie file charges against Mila and Jeff for threats and stalking. It's a mess. Somebody needs to move. Dude. Pack your shit in the... First way. Couldn't be more obvious. So Thanksgiving 2015.

Yeah. Chad says that he's too scared to leave his house to go celebrate Thanksgiving with his family. Too scared for turkey. Too scared. Nope. I guess he got invited to Knoxville, Tennessee for the family holiday. And his niece said, I got a call from him saying they weren't going to come. He was afraid the oaks would burn down his home.

Oh, I can't leave this house. He's afraid to leave. Yeah. For more than 20 minutes, they'll burn my shit down. Gasoline matches everywhere. That's how it works. A Candace Pullman, who worked for Chad's lawyer, said that Chad would call her several times a week, stating that he was scared that the Oaks's were going to do something to him or his property. She said, I told him if he was in fear for his life, he should call the police.

And then he said, I call him and they don't come no more. They won't help. And so during all this, she said that Chad was upset, scared and angry. angry when he would call. By December of 2015, we got restraining orders now. Uh-oh. Chad allegedly points a shotgun at Mila. Yeah. Okay. Now, there is also, there was a rumor that Mila pointed a shotgun at her, too.

So there's been multiple gun pointings going on now, apparently, allegedly in court. I pointed it at Chad? Leslie. Oh, okay. Because the women are going to fight. It's a mixed doubles, you know. It's like a mixed doubles tag team match. When a woman tags in, you tag the other woman in.

That's how it goes. You can't have it. It's tennis. You got to volley that fire. Intergender. Yeah, fighting here. So that's how that goes. Now, Monday, January 26th, or 25th, I'm sorry,

2016. They're back in, they're all in court this day. Oh, boy. Myla tweets, by the way, a lot about this shit. She's always tweeting about the neighbor. Really? She's got some bitch I live next to. She's tweeting about the neighbors and she's tweeting about the court hearing and all that kind of shit.

Basically, resolved nothing in court. Nothing. There was criminal charges of communicating threats and misdemeanor stalking were pending against Maya at the time. And Leslie, England and Jesus Christ, Jeffrey Oakes also each have a charge of communicating threats pending against them as. well and Chad has pending charges of assault by pointing a gun and simple assault against him. All four people have charges pending against them for this. Stop. Just stop.

This is, it's not even, oh, it's them and it's them and no, it's your fault. You all have charges against you. And there's gunplay involved already. There's already gunplay. People just fire indiscriminately into the air. I mean, Christ Almighty, there's loaded weapons everywhere. So Myla and Leslie. have been in a civil dispute all year.

Records say that Leslie filed a domestic order for no contact on Mila Oaks. In the no contact order, she detailed incidents between the two families of harassment and all of that shit. So Myla also has other problems here. One of her friends said she had recently closed her business, which was a consignment show. Now, I don't know if that was the Southern Oaks Charm or Oaks Southern Charm or whatever. some kind of consignment show that she would do and was looking for work. Now, apparently,

Myla has a job interview set up for Wednesday of this week. Her friend said, and I homeschool my boys, so she was asking me about that and how she had a passion for that in her heart too, how she just wanted to better her family. Yeah, it's so weird. She just wants to better her family one minute,

and then the next minute. She's flipping people off and ripping guns off. firing guns off indiscriminately. Yeah. Well, blasted Motley Cruit to in the morning. So Tuesday, January 26th, the next day. Myla tells one of her neighbors or friends or something that she's going to the sheriff's

office tomorrow. She said she's going to end this once and for all and get this taking care of and get it resolved in some way, shape, or form with the sheriff tomorrow. I'm not leaving until y'all fix this. Either put me in jail or arrest somebody. Lock them up. Log them up. So that same day.

Chad tells his paralegal about my uh that myla shoots guns and makes threats that's when the paralegal says you should call the police dummy so wednesday january 27th 2016 yeah milas got a job interview today otherwise things are going normal 7 a.m now okay here we go jeff gets his 12 year old son jeff junior ready for school they get into jeff's car for a drive to the end of the dirt road. Oh, to the bus stop. He's going to, to the bus stop. It's where the bus comes.

So he's driving his son essentially like 150 yards. Okay. Now, Chad at this point is getting ready for work. He's got to leave soon and two. Now, he sees Jeff's car driving toward the end of the road. But he thinks it's going too slow. He's not just driving toward the end of the road. He's, he's, he's creeping, basically.

Yeah. So Chad gets out and gets in his truck and pulls out. He ends up behind Jeff because Jeff's going so slowly down the dirt road. So he ends up behind Jeff in a narrow one-lane dirt road here. Okay. Now, there's multiple versions of the events. Jeff Jr., from in the car, says that his dad started swerving the car in a zigzag pattern across the road to prevent Chad from passing. He's going five miles an hour and he won't let dude pass him behind, which is just a dick move.

It's just childish. It's just childish. I mean, that's just silly. It's silly is what it is. It's deliberate. And that's Jeff Jr. saying that too. That's not, you know, whatever.

So that's what's going on. And Chad said that Jeff was easing up the road pretty slow. And Jeff wouldn't let me pass him. So, okay, that lines up those two stories. So, okay. Now, at some point, Chad. I don't know if it's an accident or he loses his temper or whatever, but he fucking rams into Jeff's truck.

He's had it. Or in a Jeff's car. He's had him with his truck. The truck's left front fender hooks on to the car's right rear quarter panel, which is awful. What is he driving that's so fragile? It's a car of some, there's a regular car. So Jeff's car spins out and ends up perpendicular to the truck. Okay.

Now, both vehicles are now stopping. on the dirt road, they're in a way where neither of them can go. Because they've messed it up so bad. Is he facing the kid's side or the dad's side? The dad's side, I believe, if I'm not mistaken,

the way it worked out. Yeah, I would have, yeah, okay. Now, there we go. It is 705 a.m. at this point. Number one, too early for this bullshit. Seven in the morning for road rage. I don't give a shit what you do at seven in the morning. You can pass me.

You can fucking. I don't give a shit. I'm barely awake. It's taken all my faculties to keep control of my vehicle at this point and not fall asleep. So do whatever you want. Okay. Now, that's how this goes. Jeff, Jr.

moves from the front passenger seat to the back seat. Oh, he's scared. Exactly. So Jeff and Chad get out and start arguing. Oh, boy. No blows are thrown here. This is just arguing. They're screaming and yelling and screaming and yelling.

And this is the whole, fuck you, and your wife's a fucking bitch and your fat twat, bitch fucking, you know it, right? So I'm letting it all out. Jeff reaches in his pocket, pulls out his phone. Okay. Pulls out his phone. Now, Chad sees Jeff pulling out his phone and Chad says to him, call the law. Actually, he didn't say that. He said, quote, call law.

Which I think in that region is like, call law. law. That kind of sounds like there's a the in there. Call law. I don't care. One of those things. So the call law. So Jeff goes, all right, and dials and calls Mila. Not the law. Yeah. Within two minutes, here comes Mila tearing up to the scene. Oh, Jesus. Joining the argument, boy. I mean, and she's right in there and fuck you and you're a scumbag and your fucking wife and we'll fuck you. And now it's a couple arguing with a grown man in the street. All of this. while a 12-year-old huddles in a back seat five feet away. Scared to death. Yeah. Scared to death. They argue for five whole minutes.

What the fuck? Five. Just think about arguing with someone you hate in the street for five fucking minutes straight. And not calling law? And not even doing a call law, nothing. Wow. So the bus is going to be here soon. Chad walks back to his truck in the middle of this argument.

he opens the door and reaches in and then pops back out and now he's holding the gun. So Jeff Jr. is watching all this out the window, horrified, obviously. He pulls the gun, starts pointing at Jeff Sr. and Mila start to run away from here because they know that I think that Chad has had enough, essentially. You're on your own, Jr.? Yeah, this fight, whoever's at fault, it doesn't matter. Everybody's had enough. and one guy has a gun, so this is going to be bad. So they run away. Chad waits five whole, a fucking five count. Yeah.

Which is a long time if you think about it. Five seconds doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a lot of time for people to be running away while you hold a gun. One, Mississippi, two Mississippi, three. It's not a grab-the-gun start shooting. It's five whole seconds, and then he starts shooting. Oh, my word.

after five seconds. The first shot hits Mila in the head. She goes down. Jeff turns toward Mila and then kind of turns back. He doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know whether to attend to her, attack Chad, or run away. Yeah. So he's standing there for half a second and Chad shoots him twice in the head.

Oh, my God. another bullet he fired because he fired four total one bullet pierces the window of Jeff's car and almost hits Jeff Jr. He's aiming at the kid, right? I don't know if he's aiming at the kid or the way the angles were, but it almost hit Jeff Jr., this poor kid in the car. So at 7.11 a.m., Jeff Jr. waits till it's all quiet, runs out of the car, runs up to his mother, who he doesn't realize is dead yet. Yeah. Because he's a child and he just thinks that she's hurt, reaches in and gets her phone out and calls 911. Oh, boy.

That's, this kid's got balls. Jeff Jr., you are a fucking. He's a smart kid. Yeah. Just a, it's impressive for a small child to be like, I'm going to, a 12-year-old to 11-year-old. I got to do something, yeah. To run out into the carnage and try to help something. So a lot of kids would have just sat in the back of the car and hid until someone came for him.

Sure. So he does that. he can't get it to work. He can't get the phone to work. I don't know if he doesn't know how to do the... It's the code. Bub, blah, blah, blah, bop on the side, the five taps to get it to go automatically to it or whatever.

His hands are shaking. There's blood everywhere. Who knows? At this point, the school bus arrives. Oh, God. Run, Jeff, run. So Jeff Jr. runs up to the school bus. School bus driver opens the door.

He runs up, goes up the steps and says, my daddy's been shot. Yeah. He said, they're right there. parents as he's crying and screaming please help me please help me he said he pulled out a gun and started shooting I hope they're okay so the driver

fucking slams the door shut and guns it she's not looking for we gotta go we gotta go now and calls 911 immediately on her cell phone now there's also 911 calls coming in from the neighbors as well sure could I think this yeah everybody did it's right there so Roy Blackman who we talked about

before he called both before and after the gun shots, by the way. Oh, he saw it all happening. It was like, y'all got it. Y'all got to get here fast. You got to get here fast. Then he goes, well, I guess y'all could slow down a bit, but send ambulances now. Conserve the gas.

Yeah. He said, wow, he said, quote, I was watching the news this morning and saw the headlights in our living room. I heard arguing and called 911 around 7 a.m. After that, I heard a pop, pop, pop, and then called 911 again.

The sheriff also said, just before the shooting, a neighbor called 911 to report a dispute between the victims and bridges who were neighbors. A few minutes later, another 911 call was placed after the neighbor heard gunshots. And Blackman said, we heard gunfire about five shots.

We called back to 911, and they told us, and quote, they tell us to get away from the window. Yeah, how about that? Number one, get away from fucking windows. Get behind something solid. Get in the bathtub and wait. There you go.

doorways and bathtubs people 716 the first responders arrived So five minutes Yeah Some already coming from the first call So that helps too So patrol officers arrive And they spot a man and woman

lying on the ground bleeding all over the place Right So they immediately start looking for the shooter Around where's he The one deputy said that At of nowhere here comes Chad Walking toward them just drinking a can of Coke What

They said, put your soda down, put your hands behind your back. And he did, and they took him in with no incident. Wow. Yep. He surrenders immediately, tells the deputies that Jeff blocked the road. So I, quote, bumped his car. He said Jeff pointed a gun at me, and I shot Jeff in self-defense. There's no evidence that the gun is out of the car, though.

Jeff's gun is still under his seat. It's under his seat, though. So most people don't take a gun out, point it at someone, then put it back under the seat. Throw it back under the seat. And run. Once it's out, it's out, usually. You know what I mean? It's like your dick.

Once you take it out, you're doing something with it, you know? Yep. It's right enough of folks. Something's going to happen. So he tells them where he put his gun, which is in a neighbor's yard. Oh. He went and stashed his gun. That doesn't look good. Yeah, if it's truly self-defense, you stand there with the gun on the ground next to you and wait for the cops.

That's what you do. I mean, yeah, you put your hands behind your back because you're about to be arrested. Oh, you know that. You're going to jail for that. Hands up, but you're like, self-defense, I did it. There's the gun. You know, you want it to be up and up. So, Mila is pronounced dead at the scene.

One gunshot wound to the head dead. They said that it was delivered from more than likely several feet away. Jesus Christ, he's a great shot. Oh, yeah. That's frightening. These people probably shoot a lot. I mean, this is. Yeah, but with a handgun while somebody's running, that ain't easy.

No, it's not easy at all, especially with them they're running. They're moving and bobbing up and down. Jeff Oaks is still breathing when they get there. Oh really? Barely. He's shot in the head twice. Wow. They airlift him to a medical center in Charlotte. Now the crime scene here, they mark the whole basic,

they just end of the street is crime scene. The whole street's a crime scene. There is three trucks, three vehicles here, Chad's truck, tee-boned into Jeff's car, and Mila's truck behind them, essentially. So they called in the accident reconstruction team to determine how it has. who hit who, who was the aggressor.

Also, they collect three cell phones, one from Mila, one from Jeff, one from Chad. Only Mila's phone has any evidence on it. That includes the video of her coaching Jeff Jr. About the neighborhood feud and all that kind of thing. For some reason, they were unable to extract data from Jeff or Chad's phone. I can't understand how you couldn't extract data from that. I don't know, but. rural ass North Carolina.

Maybe they were just going, just yelling at Siri going, give data. And it wouldn't do it. I don't know. This bitch won't do nothing for me. It doesn't plug in to MS. Doss. I can't get it. How do I get my three and a half inch floppy in here?

How does that work? I don't know. There's only one little hole on the bottom where the charger goes. It doesn't even have a thumb drive port. This is bullshit. So Jeff, by the way, is taken to the hospital. he survives. What?

Shot twice in the head, but he's never going to be able to walk, talk, or care for himself again. Oh, Jesus. He wishes he was dead probably. He vegetableized Jeff, essentially. God, dang it. So he was in the hospital.

A friend of Milas said they couldn't get them, the bullets, about the bullets, she said they couldn't get them out. It would cause more damage to remove them than to just leave them there. He's going to run around with those things in his head. He ain't going to be running anywhere. He's going to be,

wheeling around with those things. So the witnesses, Roy Blackman said, quote, it's sad that it's sad that neighbors can't settle their arguments and disagreements. And another neighbor on the court described Jeff and Myla as aggressive, threatening, and confrontational. And they described Chad as someone who was pushed to his limit. So the neighbors are on Chad's side. They're saying, I get it.

I'm not saying I, you know, condone it. But I get it. That's what they're saying. You could call them shit neighbors. Yeah, but they deserve to be shot in the head in front of their son. It has a little much, I think. So the physical evidence, there is testimony on the recovery of the murder weapon. Chad admitted to using it and placing it in a neighbor's yard.

So there's no dispute there. Also, the Jeff's gun, and that supports Chad's claim that Jeff had a weapon, although it being under the seat makes it so you know how did you know that weapon is even there? Yeah. So they said the testimony also from the highway people confirms the presence of all the vehicles and the way it went. And they said they noted that Jeff's car was perpendicular to Bridge's truck after the collision with Chad's truck having struck the right rear quarter panel of Jeff's car causing it to spin out. So he pitted him basically. So they also said it teaboned into Jeff Oaks's car and then Mila's truck.

So I don't know how because Mila came later. So I don't know how that would happen. But that's what the North Carolina Highway Patrol accident reconstruction team said. Those are the people that can't get something. Apparently, yeah, they can't get that out. So the police said that, you know, this is, they knew about this ongoing fight that's been going on. They said this has been an ongoing situation between the individuals. We don't know who's right and who is wrong as far as that, as far as a possible public vehicle area dispute.

It was a common driveway that was shared and an early indication. is that it stemmed from months ago where there was a disagreement and continued to grow and led to a tragic incident this morning. Now, Myla's friends, her friend Emily, says she never expected, I'm sure, to walk out of that door and expect her life to end over a road. Right.

She said that, quote, her smile would light up a dark room. A dark one. It wasn't really a meme yet. So, that's, you know, her love and passion for people was shown and said that they had all sorts of things in common, especially that they both had boys and had older husbands. She said, quote, we often joked about how we tried

to find a husband that was older and more mature and that the men don't grow up. You have to find one who's a lot older than you. She said she learned about her friend's death on Facebook. That's where you want to find out. She said, I thought to myself, this can't be. This can't be the Mila I know. And sure enough it was.

She said the hate that's shown in this situation is what's blowing all of our minds, that even something so petty could drive you to the point of killing someone. So Chad is charged with for a while they don't know what to do, and then they end up charging him. They charge him with first degree murder, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, and discharging a firearm into occupied property, meaning the gun or the caught with the kid in it. He's held without bond at first here. His attorney described him as very remorseful and a decent man who never wanted this to happen. He said, people should not have a rush to judgment in this case. I'm going to go out on a limb here. It sounds like everybody was wrong, but one person took it too far.

Yeah, everybody was wrong for sure in every situation. In this one, there's one person that's wrong. He saw that dude leaving. That's his ride to school in the morning. That's my favorite thing in the world is taking my daughter to school. He knows that there's a kid in the car. Yeah, he knew. He knows that also.

And he brought a gun while knowing full well that he was going to follow him down the road. That's first-degree murder, man. That's what I'm saying. It can be nobody's fault until somebody escalates it to a gun, and now it's your fault. No matter what stem from it, now it's your fault. Self-defense exists, and it's certainly a thing. But a man swerving to not let you pass is not worthy of gunshots. He's just being a dick.

Right. You can't shoot someone for being a dick. You just can't. That's not gunfire worthy. No. So February of 2016, there is a fundraiser. And the Sentinels of Hope Gastonia hosts a barbecue sale and fundraiser for the family, for the Oaks's. Yeah.

Hoping to assist them in covering funeral expenses as well as medical bills for Jeffrey and counseling for the children. The school that the kids go to also raises money. There's an elementary school where the youngest son goes to school and they said one of the relatives said that they said they had something they would like to present with me and inside it was an envelope with over $1,000 in there. This was from the teachers and parents of the school. Just trying to help with the kids. They said it's unbelievable. This is, I believe, Jeff's mom. It was unbelievable. to know that somebody has stepped up to show support and love and this community

has really surrounded us with love. Now, April of 2016, he's trying to get bail, Chad. So he and Leslie testify before a judge that the Oaks' constantly fired guns at their home just across the street. They said that Mila Oaks

followed them and blocked their driveway. Leslie testified that Mila once told her that Chad was a dead man, quote unquote. They said they put hidden cameras around their home and captured videos of harassment and all this stuff. Now, her friend, Mila's friend Emily, said, quote, I don't believe it. No? No, but it's all video.

It's on video. So it's kind of hard not to believe at that point. Myel's, her friend Emily also said the Oaks's had filed their own restraining orders, claiming Chad did the same thing to them and even assaulted Jeff Oaks, which we know about from the auto dealership. Emily said she simply couldn't understand why he kept getting aggravating, why he kept aggravating them so much. So they're both like, I don't understand why this person, why these people keep fucking with me.

Both sides are saying that to other people. Chad is released on $500,000 bail. Wow. Not sure where he got that from, but he's released on. That's the wow. He's got it? I think a lot of the other neighbors pitched in too.

Like as they were on his, a lot of the neighbors seem to be on his side. It's weird. So pre-trial, right before jury. selection, the state offers a plea bargain to Chad. Really? If he accepts

the deal, he gets 32 years in prison. 32? 32 years in prison. If you take this deal. Wow. He says, rolling them bones, going to court. Fuck this. Going to trial. 32's too much. 32's too much. Not going to do it. Okay. So, yeah, October of 2018,

they're still waiting for the trial to start. It's been two and a half years now. This is Mila's mother, Lena Pizzoli, says, Our life can't start until this is done. Our family has spent two years and nine months going through the motions of life. Yeah, you know you have this big thing looming. Now, the trial comes up. Chad's whole defense is self-defense.

It's all self-defense. The prosecutor said this is murder. Simple as can be. It's a property dispute that escalated until he executed his neighbors. That's all. He shot an unarmed woman while they ran away. While she was running away. He shot Jeff twice in the head.

Even if he said Jeff was armed, which his gun was under the seat, either way, you shot him twice in the head. And he's running away. He said it wasn't self-defense. It was an execution. The defense said Chad was a man terrorized by violent threatening neighbors for over a year. Root shattered the piece of the neighborhood. He said Jeff Oaks carried a gun and had threatened Chad repeatedly. That morning, Jeff Bloss.

the road and pulled his weapon. And he also says that he shot them out of fear because he said, Myla shined a flashlight in his face and he thought that was the signal to kill him. So he needed to, meanwhile, it's just not light out yet. So he said he defended himself. They said, Mila's death was tragic, but it happened in the heat of legitimate self-defense. fence. So like she's just collateral damage, but whatever. Now they bring in Mila's videos and they're trying to, the prosecution's trying to show from the videos that Mila doesn't want any beef, basically. They said the video recording begins with Mila instructing Michael to explain to her again why he's upset and crying. Michael states that the neighborhood feud frightens him. And Maya said after what he did to your daddy, we're going to let the law handle it. And mentions intending to visit the sheriff's office and providing context. for her presence at the scene after Jeff's call and all of that kind of thing.

So the prosecution's going to say, look, see, she said that she's a Christian and they were going to the sheriff. Right. Which is fine, but it's also a little bit disingenuous because you know that she's also been baiting them. Like there's no, this is not a one side thing. It's not. It's just not. Both sides are involved in this. So Jeff's mom testifies here and she described Jeff being at this point,

bedridden and only able to mutter some words on occasion. She said, quote, I say I love you, Jeff, and he says, I love you too. That's all he can do. Chad testifies. He's got it. It's self-defense. You claim self-defense. You've got to testify.

And you've got to be believable. So he describes what he calls 16 months of hell. Late night gunfire, threats, music. Bitch stalking me while I build a doghouse, all that shit. He said about September 4th, 2015, yes, he hit Jeff, but only after Jeff threatened him. Which to me, why are you at his job, though? That's the difference. You went to where he works.

So you, that's it. If he escalates it, it couldn't have escalated if you weren't there. You're spoiling for a fight every day. Yeah. December 2015, he says he pointed a gun at Mila only after she threatened his life. So a woman threatens him, so he points a gun at her, which is not a, No, I'm sorry. Then he said, the morning of the shooting, Jeff blocked the road.

Jeff had a gun. He feared for his life. He said he was easing up the road pretty slow. And he said that he was prompting him to attempt to pass, like go around me and then he would swerve. So he said, I thought he was letting me around. That's why I hit him. Okay. He also said that he crashed into Oaks because he was trying to get to work on time.

And obviously, the best way to get to work on time is to have a car accident on the way. That's how I get there. Can't get around them, go through them. You know what I do? I leave the house and I'm like, I am running late. Cross my fingers for a flat tire this morning so I can get there on time. It makes no sense.

He said Jeff was in the middle of the road and I went to the left to try to get around him. He said that Jeff drew on him first, prompting him to fire six shots at them, by the way. Not five. Six. He emptied that shit. He said he then walked to another neighbor's home, threw the gun on the ground and asked them for something to drink. Y'all got a Coke?

To which they were like, here you go. I am parched. Let me tell you something. I was arguing for five whole minutes. He said, It makes your mouth dry. Oof. He said, unless you have murder makes you thirsty.

Murder thirst. That's a good name for this show. That's a good one. Thirst. Yeah. I got a thirst only a Coke can murder. Only a Coke and five gunshots can cure. Coke and bloodlust can murder.

That's it. He said on the stand, unless you have someone blocking your driveway trying to kill you, you don't know how it feels. Okay. On cross-examination, they asked him, why didn't you just walk away? Yeah.

You could just got back, walked away. He said he wasn't going to walk away from his property or the scene of a wreck. She kept asking him, why didn't you just remove yourself from the altercation and not engage with the couple if you were so afraid of him? You could have taken two steps back and called the cops and said, I'm not doing shit till the cops get here. I'll be in my house.

when they get here, let me know. He said, I didn't know what else to do. At one point, he got tired of the cross-examinations and shouted, I'm done. You're testifying. This is part of it. That's all the time you get. That's it.

I'm done. Done with you. Now, that's the point of why it's a risk to testify because then they get to ask you all sorts of shit on the cross-examination. It could be days, man. And then he tried to walk off the stand. He said, I'm done and just tried to get up and walk away. His attorney stopped him from leaving and said, no, no, no, no, no.

And the judge said, we're going to have a brief recess. This is crazy. You've got to talk to your client. I can explain testifying to this guy. Yeah. So he said, that's how it worked. He said that I saw the gun from him. So I got back and got my own gun.

And, you know, that was that. So he said, I cooperated. I surrendered peacefully. I, you know, whatever. Not a bad guy. closing arguments, the prosecutor said The killing of another human being is the most extreme recourse to our inherent right of self-preservation

and can be justified in law only by the utmost real or apparent necessity. He said, was it necessary to shoot Mile in the head? Was she a threat running away unarmed? Was it necessary to shoot Jeff twice? And fire more shots? His defense said he never wanted this to happen, quote unquote. They said that the system was failed.

He failed. System failed. They said between these two parties, 34-9-1-1 calls, multiple restraining orders. The system failed. Yeah. He said Jeff Oaks had a gun. Jeff Oaks was violent.

Chad acted in a moment of reasonable fear. It's a tragedy. You know what it's not? It's not a murder. Not a murder. I knew it was a rule. I didn't know it was a law. So the jury takes multiple days of deliberations.

Is that right? Multiple days. And they, well, jury of his peers means these people are rural too and they want to be murder if somebody's doing this to them. That's what I mean. They like, they like, they like, but also I like, you know, fucking harsh sentences. So this is crazy. So I'm torn. It's a real cadundrum.

They find him guilty of second degree murder. Uh-huh. Guilty of attempted first degree murder of Jeff Oakes, guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and flage. serious injury and guilty of discharging a weapon into occupied property. Whoa, well, well. Okay. During sentencing, victim impact, manual F& Ellis takes to stand. Because let me tell you about this effing guy right now. He said, I look at you and you look at me and I see evil in your eyes.

His sister, I guess the aunt, Jeff's aunt, or Mila's aunt said, I haven't heard my sister say, I love you in two years and nine months. It's Mila's sister, sorry. Her sister also said, you should be thankful to be alive, to be able to tell your family you love them. I haven't heard my sister say it in that long. Myla's mother said, no parent should have to bury a child. My only solace is that my daughter's legacy will live on through her sons. They go, Chad, anything to say for yourself?

And this is the point where you say, I'm so remorseful and I never wanted this to happen. And this is just, he goes, nope, I'm good. I'm done. I'm done. I said, do you hear me on the stand? the judge says, quote, how do you claim self-defense when you shoot an unarmed woman in the head?

You, sir, may fuck off. Here we go. 276 to 344 months for second-degree murder. 180 to 228 months for attempted first-degree murder. 83 to 112 months for assault with a deadly weapon and 73 to 100 months for discharging a weapon into occupied property with all a bunch of these running consecutively. You, sir, may fuck off 38 to 47 and a half years.

We're not even going to add up all those months. We're going to give you all the time to do that. Let's do it. Enjoy. I know you ain't good at it. He had 32 offered and he's going to do 40 fucking years now. Yep, that's it. So the public reaction is really mixed, by the way, in the area.

One resident said someone who fears for their life attempts to flee. There was no attempts to flee on his part. While another guy shrugged and said, everyone has a breaking point. Don't test me. The kids now, Jeff and Aden, are sent to live with relatives while Jeff is sent to a nursing home. Oh, Jeff. After multiple surgeries, he spent the first six months in a nursing facility unable to walk or feed himself or speak sentences with the right side of his body, completely paralyzed.

Oh my God. December 8th, 2021, Jeff dies in a nursing home at 58. Oh, shit. So fucking sad. He lived there for years.

His sons would visit him when they could, and he just, he was like, he was like the fucking Metallica One video. He was just, you know,

just there. Yeah. So Jeff, our Chad remains in prison at the Alexander Correctional Institute in Taylor'sville, North Carolina.

If you'd like to write to him, he's Robert Bridges 7-5. 2038, Alexander CL, whatever that is. 633 Old Landfill Road. That sounds lovely. They just kick him out back when they die in there.

Good God. Old Landfill Road. Taylor'sville, North Carolina. He's eligible for parole when he's 80 for the first time. And if you saw him, though, he ain't living in 80. And Mila is buried at the Sunset Cemetery in Shelby, North Carolina. So there you go, everybody. that is Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

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