Sword and Scale - Episode 179

Episode Date: February 7, 2021

Markeith Loyd was not there for his first two children, but Sade Dixon gave him another chance at being a father. With God’s guidance, Markeith believed that there was no way he could mess it up this time around. That was until his visions from heaven led him onto the U.S. Marshall’s most wanted list, after the death of four innocent people.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences Listener discretion is advised So I'm looking at her body literally jumping off the ground from bullets, of course He's unloading he's he shot at her at least five or six more times as she's on the ground ground. Welcome to season 8 episode 179 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst Welcome back, thank you for joining us. Today we have a story that goes very deeply against the narrative set by 2020 that all cops are bad. Yes, some of you might hate it, actually.

Because, you know, ideology. But, have a listen. And if you still have no emotions at the end of this episode, well then, go back to your life and your ideology. Or you can open your mind a little bit and hear a human story with lots of moving parts because reality isn't

black and white. In any case, enjoy! On January 7, 2017, Master Sergeant Deborah Clayton had just begun her 7am shift. She stopped at an Orlando wall mark to grab some grapes. Master Sergeant Clayton's thoughts must have been preoccupied that day. She made her way to the checkout line and failed to notice the man checking out a few feet away from her. The man was Marquith Lloyd. His face was when Deborah Clayton should have recognized. His photo was on every news channel around the clock. He was a dangerous, wanted man. On this particular day, Lloyd wore a black security jacket

and pushed a heavy cart full of groceries. Deborah paid for her grapes and walked to her cruiser. Unaware of the turn her morning was about to take. Less than a minute later, a woman in the Walmart checkout line spotted Lloyd. She recognized him immediately from television. The woman hurried out of the store pretending to be ignorant of Lloyd's presence when she noticed a familiar smile in the parking lot. She ran to master Sergeant Clayton and warned her about the

fugitive inside. Just as she picked up her radio to contact dispatch and alert them of the sighting, Lloyd exited the Walmart. Here's Walmart employee Monica Pridgen recounting what she witnessed that day. And Miss Deborah, as she's walking towards the store, that's what I heard her say, hey you and to me all hell broke loose. That's when I stood up and I heard her say, hey you. Master Sergeant Clayton commanded Lloyd to stop, but he pushed his shopping cart at her and ran to take cover behind a pole.

And I literally watched Marquit Bloy all I seen was him run around the pole and I seen a pole is gun out and they were shooting at each other like a western movie Miss Deborah I want to say let off about six to seven shots. I don't know exactly. It was crazy that morning and Mr. Markeef pretty much was trying to unload his gun on her He was really trying to get rid of her. I give it something personal Deborah was unaware of how dangerous Markeef Lloyd was But you don't become a wanted man for any small crime. She had just come face to face with a cold-blooded killer.

42-year-old Marquit Floyd was not always a one-and-man living in the streets and having shootouts with police officers. Marquit was born on an Air Force Base in South Dakota. Marquit's father died shortly after Marquit was born from a drug overdose, leaving him in the care of his mother and siblings. After the death of his father, the family moved to Orlando, Florida, at a young age Marquith started to show strange behavior. He would sit in front of the TV and watch the miniseries Roots excessively. The show Roots follows a 15-year-old African boy

who was captured and sold into slavery. You may recognize the main character who was played by Lavar Burton who later became Jody LaForge on Star Trek the next generation. Yep, I'm a nerd. In any case, this pre-reading rainbow show was very controversial at the time. It showed the cruel treatment of slaves in a way that was considered graphic and had never been done before. Marquith's Sister Tanya explains what it was like for Marquith to become entrenched in an obsession with the show. It put him in a bad place almost as if when he would watch it, it would become as if he was the one being oppressed in that very moment, as if he could feel every lash that they did. It was almost surreal for him, almost like he was there. Around the age of nine, Marquith was taken to a mental institution for displaying strange behavior. Although he was only

there for a few days, it was clear he was suffering from delusions. By the time he reached the age of 15, Marquith began selling drugs and also stealing in order to feed himself and his siblings. Two years later, when he was 17, he chose the wrong car to steal. He unknowingly attempted to steal a vehicle owned by a powerful Orlando drug dealer. I remember my mom got the phone call to come to come and get him and take him to the hospital. And initially thought it was a, you know, maybe he just got into a fight or something, but when we got to him, he was unrecognizable. They had held him for over 24 hours and tortured him. They let him go in the woods and was shooting at him as he ran away. So he finally, he saw

a light and ran towards the light and ended up making his way to my grandmother's house. So we, so when we did get back there to see him, I guess that he was unrecognizable. After his kidnapping, Markeeth's mind developed an unnatural level of paranoia. That paranoia and combination with his growing delusions led him to believe that God was speaking to him. God allegedly sent Markeeth messages about men that wanted to hunt him down and kill him. God also sent him guidelines on how to live. An example of one of those rules was to stop eating meat, but God sent Markeeth that message in

an unusual way. Basically, like I said, I don't believe in death. I believe God created animals the same way He created us, flesh and blood, and even the word says that. So, and then, like, I follow signs, but when I stop eating, when I stop eating meat, I would use the restroom and my face was green. So I'm looking down, now I've been wrong so long, now when I got right, I'm thinking,

so I'm like, what's wrong with me? And so I'm always searching. So I start back, I start back eating me to see what it does and I start back talking to my feces brown. So I start back eating me and I start about turning green. It depends on how healthy I'm eating.

I think I read something or I've seen something to you, what a doctor said, what says your feces mean something. So I was searching, I think about my feces, my feces dream. That's right. God spoke to him by changing the color of his feces. That's right. God spoke to him by changing the color of his feces. We've all heard stories of God sending signs through rainbows or burning bushes, but through the habits of Marquitos bowels,

that's quite a new one. And then he hit me. I'm like, damn, so I feel like God was sending me the sign like this is what it is. So he hit me. When nature is alive is green, the grass in the trees. When nature is dead it's brown and they say you are all what you eat. So you really are what you eat. So if you take in death, death go follow. When you

start eating how God created you to eat your feces going to come out green it appears on how you eat Because the grass and leaves they just don't go from green to brown They'll go from a lighter green with two yellow to a brown. I go to die. No So I follow science from God Marquith's strange religious ideation was not something he was taught as a child He developed his connection with God all on his own. It was very much different from how we were raised. Most of it I don't really understand,

because he and I don't, we never really talked about it too often. He expressed some of his differences from what we were raised with, versus what he believed in now. So, I'm not much that I can really discuss. Marquith went on to have two children, but he wasn't a present parent for very long. After his second child was born, Marquith was arrested on 20 separate occasions. Yes, 20, to zero. One of those arrests sent him to prison for the first time.

It was for battery on a police officer. I was driving the car. I was going to use the restroom. It had no tag on the car. I just bought the car for one of my wife's. So I was driving the car around the corner with the bathroom and the police got behind me. So when he got behind me, I seen comments,

I've been a few corners, I parked and I jumped out the car. When I jumped out the car, I could have just ran, but I ain't feel like running out the house with the bathroom anyways. So I started walking back towards him and he came. He came, he got out the car. He came up to me, I was the only one to help. So he was like, where your license is at.

I said, I'm like, license for what? I'm not driving. He was like, where your life, I'm like, license for what? I wasn't driving. So he grabbed my hand. So he's like, put your hand behind your back. I'm like, all right, man, but just be careful. A few days before this traffic stop,

Markeeth had gotten into a fight with his second child's mother. Markeeth cocked his arm back to hit her, but before he could, she whipped out a kitchen knife. He assumed, as he probably had many times before, that she was all talk and continued to take a swing at her. That was until she took a slice out of his palm with the knife. He grabbed my hands like my arm and just be careful, my hand fucked up. So he went to squeal and twist in my hand, telling me he don't give a fuck.

So I hit him in his sheet, we start fighting. And then, like, got him up all of me, I try to run. He was running, he ran behind me, he pulled out his stick, he swung his stick, I jumped back, I start back running again, but I hadn't had just started smoking weed that time in my life. So I was like, probably like, 2022, I had just started smoking weed.

So I couldn't really be good. So I couldn't even run that far. So I just want to hit the lathe down, but he jumped on my back and mason. And I ended up going to jail. In the midst of Marquette's trial for battery on this police officer, he was indicted on felony-level drug charges. Marquette's home was raided by police where large amounts of crack cocaine were found. While in the courtroom for the battery charge, the FBI stormed through the doors. They arrested Marquette right then and there, in front of the judge and jury.

Needless to say, the jury was quick to find Marquith guilty of the battery charge after watching him be arrested for another crime. And of course, he was sent to prison. Marquith started to become very disillusioned about the criminal justice system, deepening his paranoid belief that the police were out to get him. Mark Heath Lloyd was released from prison in 2014 and decided to turn his life around. It's challenging to get hired as a felon, so Markeeth started working for part-time jobs. While working as a delivery man, Markeeth was robbed twice at gunpoint. After being robbed, the second time Markeeth brought two handguns illegally. He attempted to hunt down two of the kids that robbed

them, but they had skipped town. Markeeth was riddled with paranoia, constantly looking over shoulder. You began to keep a weapon on him at all times. Marquith's younger brother remembers the type of paranoid and delusional phone calls he received after the robberies. And Marco called me and told me that he was a week and a half, he said he was on at the strange. called me and told me that he was winging out his he said he was at the strange so he was like just talk to him talk to him so he gave me the phone he gave the phone to my brother and I was like hey what's going on and then that's so he was like these crack they they trying to kill me they trying to kill me so I said I'm like who and he was like uh he was like these crackers these crackers so I was like calm down so I was like calm down I was like everything will be alright but he was like, oh, he was like these crackers, he cracked up so I was like calm down.

So I was like calm down. I was like, everything will be alright. But he was like, no. He was like, if they give me, I'll be back. I'll be back. So I'm like, but I don't want to just, I don't. I said, I didn't want you to be back. I want you to hear now.

Like, I'm selfish. I don't want you to leave. You've been going for so long anyway. So he said, Jesus, I'll be back like Jesus. Markeeth also began to develop a Facebook addiction, like many of the rest of us. Social media was after all non-existent when he went to prison. And the world outside the prison wall is now looked very different.

Everyone seemed to be using social media and it was weird if you weren't. More importantly, Marquith now had infinite women at his fingertips. He saw how many women were posting intimate details about their lives all over Facebook. They posted photos of their families, photos of themselves with friends, and lots of suggestive, sexy selfies. Naturally,

Marquith spent all day perusing this new app, adding women, messaging women, and liking their photos. Soon he came across the profile of a woman named Shade Dixon. She's something to frame Quizz, she's something that a friend quiz like, a lot of females do so. I go, I set the frame quiz, I go to the page, make sure the page is real. So I see, I like a couple of pictures for all my female friends. I like a couple of pictures, so with Shade,

I like the couple of pictures of her. She had kids, I like the couple of pictures of her kids, and I went on Facebook, so, so when I went on Facebook, she jumped in my inbox with a private message, and then she's like, you know what all that like and need to. So I hear the back, I'm like, yeah, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, what your credit score is. What an interesting way to start a flirty conversation. You're fine, but what's your credit score? Truly a Casanova amongst men. At this time, my life I wasn't just looking for six.

I wanted kids, I wanted being a relationship, so I could try to have kids. And then I wanted a female that got other stuff going on. Shade Dixon did have a lot going on. She was a 24 year old with dreams of becoming a real estate agent or an OB-GYN. Two very different things, of course. Shade was also a single mother of two, which

interested Marquith. I wanted a family. I wanted kids. I wanted my kids to be raised in the house and be a mother and father, because I didn't get a chance to raise my son and daughter. So I was taking out of that life. So I wanted that and I missed it.

So I wanted to have that. On September 16, 2016, Markeeth took Shadeh on their first date. When I first picked up, she came out and she had on some shorts, booty shorts, so I was gonna say something, but I didn't say anything, so I just let her be her. I just watched this single kind of person I was dealing with, because a queen don't dress like that. She just throws himself to the world. I don't agree with that. He is supposed to expose himself to the world.

I don't agree with that. I wouldn't want my woman doing it. Marquith made claim he disapproved of the way Shade dressed, but that didn't stop them from having a good time. So we had sex on September 16th, the first day. So, come to October. I told her, come to October the first, she was like,

I didn't have no period. I didn't have my period as my. So I'm like, well, when do you usually have your period? She said, round by in the 20s. So I'm like, I'm like, all right. When they were in the boat and bought what you call a pregnancy test. When you bought a pregnancy test, we took a pregnancy test.

It came back negative. So we ended up reading it like a week and took another one. And then it came back positive. And she's like, I need to check. I need to check when I conceive. Marquith and Shade had sex on the 16th of September and by October 1, Shade was pregnant. Marquith had doubts that he had impregnated Shade the first and only time they had sex. I feel like she was pregnant before I got with her. I didn't care I wanted a baby because

I take care of her that not my anyway and I I wanted to baby. I'm gonna get me fed and I can't go adopt one. I wanted to raise the child. After Shadeh became pregnant, she moved in with Markeeth against her mother's advice. From the moment Shadeh's mother met Markeeth, she hated him. Her mother made it clear a 45-year-old felon shouldn't be dating a 24-year-old girl. Duh. Markeeth's extensive list of baggage and trauma just added fuel to the dysfunctional fire. Before I get so long, it felt like I was too old for her daughter. However, she felt, but she was negative. She was negative.

She was disrespectful, but I always respect her. For Shade alone. And then also when I met her husband, he was always respectful to me. So that's his castle. He'd king a house. I come over. I'm going to respect her whether she disrespect me or not. I still respect him." Markeeth believed that the man of the house was the king of the castle. He believed he needed to treat the man of the house with respect,

and the rules he put in place were to be seen as law. Clearly, Markeeth saw himself as more important than he was. Shade's mother wouldn't allow Markeeth inside her home at any time. She called him a pedophile and refused to even be cordial with him. Markeeth started to believe that God was sending him signs pertaining to his unborn child. As Markeeth noticed more signs from God, he lost interest in his relationship with Shade. Instead, his focus was on the child inside of her. This is indeed no ordinary love.

Markeeth tried to force Shade to follow his heavenly God lines and kept tabs on everything she did. It's important to point out that not all of Marquitos' requests were crazy. He did ask that Shade refrain from smoking weed during the pregnancy. What a good dad. Props for that. I would lend the money to buy chicken and whatever for the store from the big Sam's Club, whatever we'd go at to buy the stuff. So he asked me the bar was $600 at the time.

So I'm like, all right. So I'm like, I ain't got the money. I usually keep a cup of the house when I was on. So I'm like, all right, I got to go to the house and get it. I ain't got a nun, because I stopped carrying money of that to begin raw. So when I go to the house, I go in the house. I see no one coming home, though.

Because there was one of the Texas I text, too. And the text made it. So I come home. I open the door. It's a pretty thing. She on the bed. She got the plaque, put your card on screen cards, flash cards. She studied her homework for real estate school. She got the music plan. I come in and I'm like, all right, but you know, I see a big ham sandwich on the bed.

I'm like, what that is. Then she was like, oh, I'll put you to the homework. And then I ain't want to cook in the e. I'm like, try that, you could have cooked something. I said, you could have called me. You know, I didn't even bought you anything. I'm like, that's a lame excuse. I'm like, I'm one of the gods, send me home

to catch you in me." As time went on, Shade refused to conform to Markeeth's strange beliefs. The more he fought with Shade, the more he realized he didn't want her in his life. And he only wanted the child. The problem was Markeeth couldn't kick her out of the house so it came up with a plan. I was going to wait to like six months. I was going to leave her.

So she can be what she want to be do what she want to do. Probably want her to abort the baby. I know how female females get medicted. I was going to stay there to six months. So when I said, oh man, six months, she got a little bit of a kid of watching then. So I was going to give her six months. So I had talked to one of my exes, and I'm like, she got six months to get her stuff together. If she didn't have stuff to get in six months,

I'ma leave her. Me and you go get back together. And me and you go raise the baby. Markeeth was making plans with his ex girlfriend to take Shade's baby after it was born. He had to wait six months to kick Shade out of the house. By then, it would be too late for her to get an abortion. Markeeth preached those divine rules that he wanted Shade to follow.

Don't eat meat. Be honest, be faithful. He spoke of himself like Jesus. The only difference was Markeeth's disciples were all women that he was sleeping with behind Shade's back. I got a load of female friends on Facebook, so females always come in. They always come in. So females always, they always come. They always come.

And so I would come home, I would come home some days and say they would be on my Facebook page. She asked me who that was. I'm like, I mean, Puerto Rican Princess, Instagram, I showed to her. She seen Puerto Rican Princess. So she was, this man, I I know she'd unblocked them. She would block and all type of females.

There were times that shot a cot, Marquith sneaking around on her, but he always tried to lie his way out. So she went somewhere, so I called you me. I'm like, man, what's up with you, where she sent me the job, how the business, my brother. So I'm like, well, when you're done, come down real grand and pick me up.

So she came down real grand, ran down the street, she picked me up so we get in the car. So she was like, well, you're good with your girl last night. I don't know if she probably might have owned them. Well, Shade was gone for the day. Marquith called a woman for a quick hookup. He asked her to pick him up down the street from his house,

a foolproof way to avoid being caught. So I went with Jimmy's. Me and Jimmy's went ahead, six. When I came with Jimmy's, dropped me off. She dropped me off down the street. So I ran it home, when I came home, Shade was finally home, came in. I got ready for work, I went to work,

and then I came back home from something from work to get something I can't remember. But when I came back home, Shade was like, have sex with me. I'm like, no, man, I gotta be back to work. I gotta be back to work. I'm like, no, man, I got to get back to work. I got to get back to work. I'm late, I'm late. She's like, no, half-six of me.

So I tried, but it didn't, it ain't nothing happened. So I'm like, no, I'm like, I'm nervous, man, cause I'm late. She's like, no, it's like I always, I'm like, you ain't nervous. You've been having extra correct activities. Most of the time, I knew you, Markey. I knew you. So I'm like, no,'t nervous, you've been having an extra correct lactivity. It's the most I knew, Marquiette. I knew you.

So I'm like, now I'm just late for work. Thing is, Marquiette's household only declined from there. A few days later, Shade refused to do what he asked of her. So he chose a more hands-on approach. So I grabbed a bar of neck and then I pushed her down. Basically, the next place she told me, I grabbed a bar of neck and I pushed it down. So when I did that, on approach. Markeeth then did a 180. He believed that because he put his hands on Shade, God would want him to give up both Shade

and their unborn child. A punishment for his wrongdoing and probably a blessing for Shade. That was until God told Markeeth he could make a sacrifice. I had to give up something so I cut my hair. I love my hair and I was wrong. Even though whatever she did, it makes no difference. She did. I had no right to put my hands on. So I gave her a cut my hair.

During the fight, Marquith bit Shade on her back. The fight was so deep that she had to get a tetanus shot. Shade finally had enough. It was too bad it took a violent display of animalistic behavior to convince her to leave. She decided to move out and in the process, she unknowingly threw Marquith's entire six month plan out the window.

Over the course of the only two days that Shade was back at her mother's house, Marquith became even more paranoid. God was flooding his brain with visions of the danger Shade was putting his child in. Marquith called Shade Day and Night voicing his concerns about what she was doing to the baby. I envisioned my child and he was free from the pain that is well, including the pains I can cause him to bring him stress.

And with that being said, I'm out of your way for you to do what you choose. I just want, I just want with best for my child, but if you see difference, so be it. I just have to be out of your weight. I just have to be out of your weight, because I can't just sit on my hand and close my mouth to what I see.

I love my child, and it doesn't start the day of the birth. We begin to raise them from the womb. The love we give, the food we feed, the air we breathe, and I definitely can't keep a clear head with lies in our world. But I'm here for, but I'm here for my child, 1,000 percent. And that's one thing you don't have to worry about. I just wish I could give him or her the life I envisioned from the womb to the tomb, but that takes to be you whatever it is.

A vision of Shade's mother and grandmother, taking her to get an abortion, played continuously in Marquith's imagination. He decided the vision must be from God and he needed to do something to stop her. On December 13th, 2017, Marquith Lloyd drove to the home of Shade Dixon. The entire drive he sent her text messages filled with paranoid accusations. Marquith arrived at the family's Pine Hill's home around 9pm and walked to the side of the house. He knocked on Ronald Stewart's window. Marquith told Ronald that he needed to speak with Shade outside, knowing that he wasn't

allowed in the home. When Shade stepped out to the front porch to speak with Lloyd, he began to scold her for thinking about aborting his child. The conversation started to go downhill quickly, and Marquith became aggressive. That's when a car pulled up to the driveway, dropping off Shade's younger brother. The couple went silent as he walked past them into the driveway. Dropping off, Shade's younger brother. The couple went silent as he walked past them into the house. Shade used her brother's arrival as an escape and told Marquith to wait while she went back inside.

She wanted Marquith to leave, but she could tell that he wasn't going to let this argument go. She walked up to her bedroom and took her pistol out of its lock box. Jrade was given the handgun by her uncle for emergencies only. Unfortunately, her uncle never taught her. I'd aloed it. She put the empty pistol into her waistband and walked back outside, calling Marquith to the side of the house. It's a female rock water. So I'm thinking she's gonna go back down and play with a dog, miss her the dog,

why are we over here? Why am I here? So I go to the side of the house and she went to the back side of the house and I come to the side of the house, she got a gun. So I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, man, what the fuck, you finna do, shoot me?

And she just kept patting guns like, why are you doing this, why are you doing it? I'm like, a shot, what the fuck is you finna do, shoot me? Why are you doing this, why are you doing this, if she not answering my questions. Markeeth demanded that she hand over the gun to him. And as she reached into her waste band, Markeeth pulled the trigger. His gun made an audible click, but no bullet exited the chamber.

Both Markeeth and Sa'day were caught off guard by the misfire. Shade dropped her gun into the grass and ran back into the driveway, bumping against the door as she ran. Markeeth picked up her gun and put it in his waistband before chasing her back around the house. Shade's brother Ronald heard the bump on the garage door and walked out to check on his sister. I saw Mark Heath on one side of the car and Chade on the other side of the car. I was looking at her and seeing that she was really afraid.

She was ducking her head down and trying to boy him. Mark Heath tucked his gun up under his right arm when he saw Ronald walk out. Ronald asked if everything was okay, and they told him to go back inside. Shade wanted to protect her brother, and Marquith didn't want any witnesses. I said, doesn't look like you guys doing my talking.

As I got closer, he started working walking towards the middle of the driveway. I was saying, yeah, I think you guys doing my talking. As I got closer, he started working, walking towards the middle of the driveway. I was saying, yeah, I think you guys need to say this for another day, because it doesn't even like you guys, I'll talk him too well right now. Ronald could tell something was terribly wrong by his sister's demeanor, and Markiath's strange stance gave him a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.

He knew that if this didn't stop now They would both be in trouble It was and yeah, she's um smoking. She's effing his dude. I was like um Women will say certain things to put you away you got to give him space and That's what we need right now. We need to give this one space and some time. So she began to say, by your time in our business,

and she also followed up saying, you didn't tell them about you putting two guns in my head in the backyard. And I told her, she had to go out to the house. And he stealth still like two stales quick stales saying no no no no she ain't going over talking about this today. That's when Shade Dixon made a dash towards the front door of her mother's home a run for her life and I started running as well going to the front. I saw that the door wasn't unlocked just, and get on the door.

I saw him take out the gun. I heard a bang, and next time I know I didn't have control of my body. I felt like someone kicked me really, really, really hard, and my stomach felt down. Shade Dixon heard her brother get shot, and kneeled down over his body to protect him. With Shade and her brother laid over one another, Marquith might as well have been shooting

fish in a barrel. I remember when I felt her over my body, she was patting my shoulder, kept on shooting, and you stepped over me, kept on shooting at her, stopped shooting at her, put he stepped over me. He kept on shooting at her. He stopped shooting at her, but it was intentional me. He was right at the bottom of my feet when he stopped shooting at her. He held the gun towards me and started shooting. He hit me twice in a leg, two bullets in a leg, and he was aiming for my heart. I rotated my side to cover my heart so you won't hit it.

As that last shot hit, still hit me in my chest. I started hearing the door open. Shade and Ronald's mother opened the door to see her two children bleeding on the doorstep. Marquith took off running to his car and fired a few shots at the door before fleeing the scene. Stephanie Dixon Daniels, Shade and Ronald's mother, describes what it was like seeing two of her children and her future grandchild in Udaro, lying on the front lawn. Their bodies riddled with bullet holes. I saw my daughter on my right hand side laying, bleeding the death, and I saw my son laying on the rock part or

let spread on the courage. And they were both down and they were bleeding. And I'm screaming to the top of my lungs that my baby wore shot. I was screaming and I'm about to walk out the door, but then Dominique snatched me and closed the door. Then I heard three to four shots. Then my son had walked out the door

and I walked out the door with him because the car was gone by the time. I immediately started tending to my daughter because she was unresponsive. She was laying face down with her face looking up at the door on her chest. So we had to flip her over. Well, I kept yelling, my baby, my baby, my baby,

Ron, Ron, Ron, and he was grunting. At least we knew we got some type of grunt for him but Shade wasn't responding at all. So that's when I checked her pulse and that's when I started to dominate. We need to start CPR. Marquit Floyd fled the scene, but he sent Shade one last text that read, Don't don't know if you're gonna make it. Hope you don't. I told you don't play with me. And you ain't got a gun on me instead of talking with me. So you won. And when I like it, when I like ever wanted, was to talk. And now we pay in the price. Shade Dixon and her unborn child died on the front porch of her mother's home.

Ronald Stewart required multiple life-saving surgeries, but he survived. Shade died before she learned the gender of her child, a baby boy. The man hunt for Marquith Lloyd commenced almost immediately. Marquith sat in a restaurant with his eyes on the television, absorbing every report about him. As Marquith watched his name in the headlines, the persecutory delusion started to cloud his judgment. Marquith contacted his niece and asked her to reach out to the news forum.

She gave them an interview, which never made its way to television. So now I tell my niece, I'm like, you know what, Bunkin' and Bess gets, go to the news. And I say, Huskrat to the news. She goes to the news. She giving them an interview. She get an interview. And then I call them I'm like can't you wait, but what's up? What happened? She was crying. She was a therapist She like uncle Keith uncle Keith. They play where they wanted play they play where they wanted play

They play where they wanted to play so I'm like I'm like, I'm like man, fuck that's you. They trying to keep him I'm like all right, so boom now coming to find out we try to get the original interview that I destroyed out, we try to get the original energy if they don't destroy that. We try to get that from the new people, they don't destroy that, because they know they part of it too. He now believed that the media was trying to get him killed by creating a narrative that painted him as a monster. Imagine that. The news making a murderer out to be a murderer. Certainly not an uncommon

occurrence in this new age of 24 hour news. But unjustified? Come on. A few days after contacting his niece, she was arrested for helping him evade police. The arrest was made as a ploy to lure Marquith out of hiding, and she was actually never really charged. While his niece was being suspected of helping him evade arrest, Marquith Lloyd stopped at a Walmart to buy some food and water before he could flee to Orlando. As he stepped out the door, a police officer appeared out of nowhere. Markeeth recognized this officer. They had known one another for years, and up until now, he called her a friend.

That officer was Sergeant Clayton, an officer he had known for years. Master Sergeant Deborah Clayton had been a member of the Orlando Police Force for 17 years. Deborah had an infectious smile and greeted everyone she met with kindness and respect. She was loved not only by other police officers, but by the community she served and protected. She was always that same person. She had that same smile. I never saw her angry. I mean, I didn't hang around with her all the time, but the times that he did interact,

no matter what, she was the same person with that same smile, friendly and always willing to help. This is Arlene Willis. Arlene was a friend of Master Sergeant Deborah Clayton. She met Deborah while working for a nonprofit called Stop the Violence and Embrace. Their goal is to reduce crime in poor areas by mentoring teens. She always hit that smile when she would come in and she says she will always speak to everybody every morning and even people would say that when she started.

They would sometimes be so irritated with her because she would have that same smile every morning, good morning, you know, and it will be so early in the morning, but she would come in all the time being the same person. Deborah Clayton chose a career in law enforcement because she wanted to help the community that she grew up in. She believed that by putting on the badge, she could become the change that she wanted to see around her. Pretty much at the end of the day, she wanted to help people.

And from what I could recall, Deborah had to end up taking in her siblings. So she always had that and grew them and raised them and they always looked up to her. So she always had that spirit of helping. It was just a part of her. So being a police officer, she wanted to make a change in the community. She wanted to let people know police officers are not all that she wanted to make a change in the community, she wanted to let people know police officers are not all that and wanted to make a difference in the community because she was from this community pretty much. So she didn't want to be a police officer someplace else and she certainly could have been, but she was a police officer in this community. Master Sergeant Clayton's work with Stop the Violence and Embrace aimed to teach children that police officers are meant to be a pillar of the community, representing safety.

A lesson that should be taught in this day and age in every urban area in America. Her emergency responders are, after all, civil servants. She didn't want black children to see police officers as they're often taught to see them, as the enemy. She believed that despite the damage that had been done to the relationship between minority communities and the police,

it was still possible to unite everyone by humanizing the uniform. Together, Deborah Clayton and Arlene organized events in Orlando, or law enforcement and their community could intermingle and form meaningful relationships. We will put on some things in the neighborhood that will allow them to meet police officers. And so we will have events taking it to the streets and we will have people come in. We will have the lieutenants. We will have all the law enforcement as much as possible come in the sheriffs.

They come in and they talk about the community to have an opportunity to meet and break bread with the community, people of the community. If you met Deborah, you knew that you would feel like, wow, I might would like to be a police officer if they all were like Deborah. And certainly you wouldn't be afraid after you met Deborah of police officers because she made you feel welcome. Master Sergeant Deborah Clayton was one of the first responding officers to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 when Omar Matin shot and killed 49 people wounding 53 more. and killed 49 people, wounding 53 more. We covered that story back in episode 69 of Sword and Scale. Matin was sworn to a terrorist organization and the incident was deemed the deadliest terrorist attack since 9-11. The shooting came to a sudden halt after three hours when Matin was shot and killed by police,

Denver was fearless. Being a police officer, I knew she knew that when she left her house that morning, whether or not she was going to return, she didn't know. Master Sergeant Clayton even wrote a book titled, Bridging the Gap Between Law Enforcement and the Community, which was written to assist in the training of police officers. That was to go bridging the gap because, again, what I said earlier is her goal was always

to let people know in the community that one, you can count on police officers, they're not all bad. When you see us, you can approach us and you can talk to us. And so she always, that's why she participated in all the things in the community when she had an opportunity because that was her goal and her dream. Deborah Clayton had bridged the gap between her and many of the people in her community. One of those people was Marquith. Debra helped him out in any way she could. Up until now she believed that he had actually turned

his life around, after years of being a young criminal. Marquith had been on the run for 28 days before he stopped to purchase some groceries. When Master Sergeant Clayton confronted Marquith outside the Orlando Wal-Mart that morning, she may have thought that he would turn himself in peacefully to an old friend. Instead, he engaged her in a gunfight. Master Sergeant Clayton was shot multiple times and fell to the concrete. She was hit in the hip and she couldn't lift herself onto her feet. Debra desperately reached for her police radio, assuming Marquith would run from the scene. Crowd of people watched as Marquith then stepped over Debra, he looked down at her, knowing that she could no longer

fight back and defend herself. Then he made sure the job was done. He was on her back, and as I got ready to run over there, Markeeth Lloyd just kept shooting at this lady while she's on the ground. So I'm looking at her body, literally jumping off the ground from bullets, of course. He's unloading, he shot at her at least five or six more times as she's on the ground.

I'm standing over her and I'm telling her to calm down. I'm telling a hold on. She's looking at me and all I knew was to pray for her. I just kept praying. I seen the bullet hole right here in her neck. I seen it right there. I didn't see any other wounds, but the hole was right here in her neck. I seen it right there. I didn't see any other wounds, but the hole was right here in her neck. I snatched my hat off.

Now I was getting ready to try to put my hand on with a hole which was no blood coming out. I knew what time it was, you know, from me seeing other situations I've been in. And she was looking at me and all I could do was pray for her. And two officers came around the corner, Mr. Markey Floyd calmly walked to the car. Very calmly.

Like he was grocery shopping. She was trying to gesture. Her hand was going towards her. And she was still trying to get to that walkie talkie. And like my heart to this day, I wanted to grab the whole walkie talkie. I wanted to grab a gun and shoot Markey. I wanted to grab, it was a bunch of stuff I want to do.

Like I wish I could just rewind that day. Not a day goes by, that I don't think about, Miss Deborah. Not a day that goes by. I don't think about, I can be at work and I'll just start crying. I can be driving, I'll just start crying. Like that was somebody's, she was a human, you know, she was a human. Mark Heath Lloyd walked to his car away from the scene right before police arrived as Deborah Clayton bled to death in the arms of a stranger.

Deborah died trying to protect pretty much the community because the person who shot her in cold blood and brought daylight could have, of course, if he had no respect and no mercy for a police officer, he had no mercy or respect for any other human being. After her death, Master Sergeant Deborah Clayton was promoted to Lieutenant. And oftentimes you'll hear people say, you know, when you leave here, what is your legacy? And her legacy, people can look back and say the things that I'm saying. She was a very nice, compassionate one who cared her job. If people know police officers, they don't get, it's like educators.

You don't get paid it's like educators, you don't get paid a lot of money. So what you're doing must be something that your heart so desires to be. And I think that's what she was doing is what her heart so desired for her to be. Once Marquith executed Deborah Clayton, his car's description was blasted over the radio of every police officer in the state of Florida. Markeeth didn't get very far before a car chase had begun. Orange County deputy Norman Willis chased Markeeth down on his motorcycle.

Norman's motorcycle was hit by another car running a red light and he was killed. Marquith escaped the car chase and hijacked a new vehicle at gunpoint to avoid being caught. Marquith's actions had now caused the death of a pregnant girl, her unborn child, and two police officers. The manhunt intensified, and Marquith was put onto the US Marshall's top 15 most wanted fugitives list. A $100,000 award was set up for his capture. Roadblocks were placed on every single street, and his family members' phones were tapped. The entire Orlando area went from a chores hotspot to what felt like a police state. Marquieth's phone records went dead for days, but not for long. As soon as Marquieth

started texting his family members, police were able to pinpoint his location. On January 17, 2017, point his location. On January 17, 2017, eight days after Marquith murdered Debra Clayton, hundreds of police officers from all different police departments, surrounded the 1100 block of Lescot Lane. Around 7pm, helicopters flew overhead, shining light onto the abandoned house Marquith was squatting in. Marquith stuck his head out of the back door and realized he was surrounded. That was finally time to give up. So he threw his two guns out onto the lawn, one of which had a drum mag. For those of you that don't know what a drum mag is, it allows a gun to fire large amounts of bullets without reloading.

If you remember the old gangster movies with the machine guns and that round thing below it, that's a drum mag. It holds a whole lot of bullets. This was in addition to the body armor he was wearing. He seemed to be gearing up for war, but in the end he chose to surrender. Finally, the handcuffs placed on Marquith's wrists during the arrest belonged to Lieutenant Derbeklaeten, a ceremonial gesture practiced in law enforcement, but often not spoken of. Jerry's selection was difficult for Marquith's trial. His story was on every single new station in the state of Florida, making it difficult to build a jury that hadn't already made their minds up about his guilt. The media's influence on the trial was brought up frequently by his defense.

All were desperate attempts at a mistrial. He sees news reports on this and they're telling this story making out to be a monster. Those people, the news, they're here, they've been here the entire time. They're distorting the truth. On this black man, making him to be a monster. Markeeth couldn't help but address the media himself, writing a letter to Channel 6 News in Orlando. I wonder how do you and your coworkers feel about the outright lies that you guys were reporting that was released to you by the police force that was investigating the case, probably just another day on.

The fall story was reported to shape public opinion to how the system wants the public to view me in this case. We all know the prosecution begins with the media. It's being reported to potential jurors. And now they try to take advantage of the tragic situation that happened in my life to use that to hum me down and kill me. Never been a rabbit always been a lion. I met peace with peace and violence with violence." That's some shit experience shit there, Marquith. In case you're wondering, he wasn't a very easy defendant to work with.

Surprise, surprise. While in jail waiting the trial, he went on a rampage, causing thousands of dollars in damages. He destroyed a TV and iPad and ripped phones off the wall to swing as weapons. He also had many outbursts in his first few court appearances, telling the judges to go fuck themselves. Marquith was forced to be removed from more early court appearances than those that he walked out of on his own accord. Markeeth's defense believed that maybe they could use an insanity plea to get him out

of trouble. Doctors were called to the stand to discuss Markeeth's signs from God and his persecutory beliefs that the media wanted him dead. After multiple doctors assessed Markeeth, they believed that it was not God sending him signs. He was just delusional. Over and over and over again, over and over again. He kept saying, I was trying to give up, I was trying to give up and they wouldn't change

the media story about what it happened. And I tried to get people to help me give up. They were after me. They wanted to kill me. He told me he was sending out signals to let the police know that he wanted to give up. But because of the news media coverage, he felt that he was such a hot figure, in terms of being at the start after the police, that he would be killed if they caught him. As you may have guessed, Marquith wasn't diagnosed insane. He doesn't have schizophrenia.

He's never really had the hallucinations. He's never seen things or heard things on a regular basis that others don't. So I didn't think there was a schizophrenia disorder. But he does have these delusions that are kind of isolated. Because I mean, he's not running through the streets of Orlando, Stark-raving Mad. He had a job, he had to deliver some chicken, and he obviously was a father.

He was able to do some things in function society. He obviously has persecutory delusions. He thinks people are trying to hurt him or harm him when in fact they're not. And he has these grandiose delusions. These delusions that, you know, his self-worth, that he's, you know, sort of worth more than he actually is. He's done some things that are special and he thinks he's sort of a special person.

So he has those two things combined. The persecutory delusions are far worse, but he certainly has this grandiosity as well. With an insanity plea taken out of their toolbox. The defense had to convince the jury not to give Marquith the death penalty. After explaining his deep rooted paranoia and delusions, they were able to convince four of the jurors not to agree with the rest. Marquith Lloyd was given three life sentences and now awaits a separate trial for the murder

of Debra Clayton. Shade's mother explained that she had mixed feelings about Marquith receiving life in prison instead of the death penalty. She's happy that Marquith is off the streets, put behind bars where he can't hurt anyone else, but he wishes the jurors could have decided on the death penalty unanimously. Death is what she feels Marquith deserves. Marquith Lloyd took Shade away from her two children. While Shade's mother understands that it's difficult for a jury to kill a man on paper.

Markeeth killed innocent people. In real life. He viciously stole from this earth a mother of two. Two cops. Two good cops. And an unborn child. Being a man of God, Markeeth himself should have expected the death penalty, right? After all the Bible says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and all that shit

Markeeth punished himself for past transgressions by cutting off his beloved dreadlocks So what kind of punishment does a crime like murder warrant? What else can you cut off Markeeth? while in prison, Marquith has asked his niece and daughter to write a book about the murders. According to him, he doesn't want to use the book to prove his own innocence, or even tell his side of the story. He explains that he wants them to write the book so they can get rich off the murder. Just how he perceives the media has.

This is after all the kind of guy that wants to know your credit score before he starts dating you. Whether or not Mark Heath's weird ideations, a voice from God telling him he was going to lose his child or something that he actually heard or didn't. He surely manifested it. If God truly spoke to Markeeth, telling him that his baby was going to die, he may have forgotten one detail. Markeeth Lloyd certainly did lose his child, but it wasn't too an abortion. It was by his own hand. That does it for another one of these. Thank you for joining us, Marquis Lloyd. What a fucking douche.

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