The Deck - Aaron "Peanut" Lamont Smalls (Ace of Spades, Virginia)

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

Our card this week is Aaron "Peanut" Lamont Smalls, the Ace of Spades from Virginia. Aaron Lamont Smalls, also known as Peanut, was only 25 years old when his body was found in York County, Virginia, in 2001. In the search for his killer, investigators uncovered several key pieces of evidence and received a mountain of tips. But despite their efforts, the case slowly turned cold.   Now, 20 years later, investigators and Peanut’s family still have hope that the case will one day be solved. So if you have any information about his murder, please call the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office at 757-890-4999.  To learn more about The Deck, visit www.thedeckpodcast.com. To apply for the Cold Case Playing Cards grant through Season of Justice, visit www.seasonofjustice.org Follow The Deck on social media and join Ashley’s community by texting [phone] to stay up to date on what's new!

Our card this week is Aaron Lamont Smalls, the Ace of Spades from Virginia. When Aaron was found shot to death in 2001, investigators dug through piles of tips and several key pieces of evidence to try and find his killer. But each lead seemed to dry up quicker than the last, and the case eventually went cold. Now, more than 20 years later, investigators are still hopeful that they can uncover the truth for his family and give them the closure they deserve. I'm Ashley Flowers, say anything. I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to say anything.

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I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to say anything. Deputies from the York Pocosin Sheriff's Office were going about their evening, patrolling the streets of York County, Virginia when they got a call from Dispatch about an abandoned vehicle. A sedan had been parked at the country club apartments on the northwest edge of the county for several days and the management company wanted it gone. So they headed over to the complex to check it out. By the time they pulled in, it was about 7 pm, so things were pretty quiet. Most people were inside their units for the night, and so it didn't take long for them

to spot the car in question. It was parked in a spot just off to the side of one of the buildings, and at least from the outside, it appeared to be in working order. Sheriff Ron Montgomery wasn't the one on the scene that night. He was the chief deputy at the time, but he told our reporter nothing stood out when his deputies got a closer look. So at the time that we were there, there were no keys found with the vehicle, nobody around the vehicle, deputy got out and opened the car doors. The only thing that was unusual about it at that point was the back seat was missing out of the vehicle.

When the deputies ran the license plate, they found that it had been reported stolen about two weeks ago on January 25th 2001, and it was now February 6th. According to the registration, it belonged to a woman whom I'll just call V. Her address on file showed that she lived in Newport News, which was just about 20 minutes south of the apartment where the car was found. They gave V a call and filled her in on what they had found, saying that she could come pick up her car directly from the complex. Even though there weren't any keys at the scene, V said that she had a spare and she'd make her way up there later that evening.

Thinking the situation was handled, the deputies went back to their patrol, but it wasn't long after that the Sheriff's Office got another call. This time, it was from V herself. She'd gone to pick up the car and before she drove off in it, she decided to check the trunk to see if the back seat had maybe been stowed in there. It's a 1984 Chevy celebrity, so think like super deep trunk and hook and eye seats. Anyway, everything else in the car seemed to be fine, but when she got to the back and popped the trunk, she discovered something horrific.

Stuffed inside was the body of her boyfriend, Aaron. Well, that obviously prompted us to return to the scene, and ultimately ultimately we discovered that the individual that was in the back, stuffed in the trunk, was Aaron Smalls and Black Male, out of Newport, New Virginia. Aaron, who was known almost exclusively by his nickname Peanut, had been missing since January 25th, the same day she'd reported her car stolen. And just a quick side note, I'm going to call him peanut from now on, but you'll hear Sheriff Montgomery use both peanut and air and interchangeably. In the trunk, peanut's body didn't show any obvious signs of decomposition.

He only had on one shoe, a slipper with a hard soul, but investigators couldn't see anything else without moving his body. So, it's our protocol that once we found that there was someone in the trunk that was obviously dead, we didn't disturb the body until the medical examiner got there. While they waited, they turned their attention back to V. She told them that she and peanut lived together in Newport News with his son. He was originally from Philadelphia and most of his family, including his son. He was originally from Philadelphia and most of his family, including his son's mother, still lived there. And it seemed like, despite

the distance, he was pretty close to them. In fact, on the day he went missing, his brother was actually in town for a visit, and according to V, he was the last person to see Peanut. She told deputies that the story his brother had been telling everyone was that on the morning of the 25th, Peanut said that he needed to run to a cell store to add minutes to the phone that he had just recently bought. Hello, 2001. So he'd grab the keys to V's car and walked out the door. So the last time that anyone saw him was his brother at 8.30 in the morning when he left

and said, I'm going to go get minutes for my cell phone. As far as I know, no one saw him again thereafter. Not that it's ever reached out to us anyway. I'm not sure where V was during all of this, but here's where things really get interesting. When Peanut didn't return with the car, she reported it stolen, but Peanut himself wasn't reported missing until January 28th. That's three days after he was last seen. I can't explain this gap in time, and the NNPD wasn't able to confirm who filed the missing

person's report, so I could be missing some context here. But it's an odd detail that I just can't get out of my head. Why report the car missing? But not the man who drove off in it. And actually, not just missing, you reported the car stolen. Now from what I can tell, it seems like the stolen status was more for attention on the missing car, not to try and say that peanut had taken it or anything shady like that. Now before they could question V any further, the medical examiner arrived.

And once the body was removed and the trunk was when we could see that there was an obvious shotgun blast to the chest area. With Pena's body on the way to the M.E.'s office, investigators were able to do a more thorough search of the car. His missing slipper was nowhere to be found, but tucked into the back of the trunk were two t-shirts stained with blood and a cell phone. In fact, the whole trunk was surprisingly tidy. Sure, there was some blood from the wound on Peno's chest, but not the amount you'd expect to find from such a brutal injury. And the body of the car didn't have any blood stains or anything either,

so investigators immediately thought that Peno was likely killed outside of the car didn't have any blood stains or anything either, so investigators immediately thought that peanut was likely killed outside of the car and then just put into the trunk. A lot of the reporting on this case mentioned that cocaine was found in the vehicle as well, but Sheriff Montgomery said that was just a rumor. Besides the two shirts and the phone, they didn't find anything else. Meanwhile, other investigators were canvassing the complex and interviewing as many residents as they could.

And luckily, many of them came forward because the unfamiliar car had really stood out in this neighborhood. It's not a high crime area. If you talk about major crimes like robberies, murders, that type of thing, basically large-nice from vehicles. I mean, we've had some issues with people dealing drugs up there in the past, but pretty much the same thing that you can find in other apartment complexes as well. The timing of when the car appeared varied. The best investigators could tell was that it

been there about two weeks, which fit the date the peanut had disappeared. But not one person said they'd heard anything suspicious during that time frame, like gunshots or a fight, which indicated peanuts murder had taken place away from the complex. We don't have any idea where the shooting actually occurred. It clearly didn't occur in the parking lot of the apartment complex or somebody would have heard that or seen it. So he was killed somewhere else, put in the trunk of the car, and then that car was dropped off at Country Club Apartments.

Despite no one witnessing the homicide, some residents had seen someone with the car, and this person wasn't peanut. They said it was a man who was black, clean, shave-in, roughly six feet tall, maybe 180 pounds, and in his late 20s to early 30s. Those who saw this man said that he had been in or around the car the first couple of days after peanut went missing. There was actually some people to claim that they saw him driving the car, and then the best description claimed that they saw him get out of the car, walk around at a couple

of times. There was even one resident who claimed that he saw him get out of the car, walk around at a couple of times. There was even one resident who claimed that he'd spoken to this guy. He told investigators that the man got out of the parked car, approached him, and asked for a cigarette. He matched the description the other residents gave them. But this witness got a clear view of what he was wearing. Dark jeans, a dark jacket, and a knit cap. I don't know if the witness gave the man a cigarette, but they didn't really talk much

more, and eventually the guy left. Although the witness couldn't remember if he had gotten back in the car or just walked off. I know it feels like the witness should have been able to give more detail about this guy since they were face to face, but remember, it's been two weeks at this point. Like, do you remember every single person that you have had an interaction with throughout your day? I know I don't.

Anyway, in the end, investigators didn't have enough of a description for a composite sketch. But they took what information they had gathered and released it to local media in case someone out there knew the man. They didn't get any hits right off the bat, so they shifted their focus back to Peanut. They wanted to gather as much information about him and his disappearance as they could, and they started by circling back to V. This time, investigators interviewed her at the station. Her story didn't change at all, but just to be safe, they asked if she would take a polygraph.

She agreed to the test and she passed. I'm not sure if she was ever able to explain the three-day gap between reporting the car stolen and peanut being reported missing, but I'm assuming investigators at the time were able to clear that up because they cleared her of any involvement. Over the next couple of days, they interviewed as many of Peanut's other friends and family as they could, and everyone they spoke to was devastated by his death. They said as soon as they realized that he was missing, everyone was super concerned. Even though he was 25, it wasn't normal for him to go anywhere without at least telling one person where he was going to be.

Before Peanut disappeared, his friends and family said that he was acting totally normal. Even as he was walking out the door for the last time, his brother told investigators nothing seemed off. So when he hadn't turned back up, all of Peanut's loved ones knew that something was wrong, and they came together to look for him. They did the same thing that most anyone else would do. They would call around and ask if anybody had seen it. And they made people aware that he was missing along with the car. After speaking with his friends and family, investigators headed to the cell phone store next

to confirm if he had made it there. But they couldn't find any evidence that he had ever been to the store on the 25th. So they circled back to the family to try and see if maybe there was somewhere else that he could have gone. And that's when they learned that Penet had recently been in some trouble with the law. We do have family members who acknowledged

that they knew that Aaron was, in fact, dealing drugs. I don't know that there's any evidence that he was moving large amounts. It sounded more like smaller amounts of marijuana and cocaine that he was moving on a regular basis. At the time that Aaron disappeared, there were actually indictments out for him from a local drug task force on drug charges based on the other information that we had had that, you know, from the family and from the task force.

He was in and out of the upper part of the county, which is that area, at least on a fairly regular basis anyway. So he wouldn't have been a stranger to that area. With this information, investigators thought this could be their missing link. Maybe Peanut had gone to make a drug deal up in York County before going to the store and then something went wrong. Based on experience, you would think that the likes that Aaron Smalls was leading was probably somehow related to what caused his death. I mean over the years I

worked multiple cases where someone owes you money, you owe someone money and this is the result. The fact that they get tired of waiting for what they're owed and they're going to make an example. Despite living what might have been considered a risky lifestyle, They're owed, and they're going to make an example. Despite living what might have been considered a risky lifestyle, investigators couldn't find any other red flags. Peanut's family couldn't pinpoint any known enemies, any history of bad drug deals, or even run-ins with shady characters. They couldn't even think of anyone who matched the description of the guy seen with

these car. And investigators weren't able to find anything to connect Peanut to the complex itself, either. Like, he didn't seem to know anyone who lived there or in the surrounding area. So they decided to check his cell phone records on the chance that they could maybe dig a bleed there. And since they had what they assumed was his cell phone, it shouldn't have been a problem. But when they took another look at the phone that was found in the trunk, they realized

it wasn't peanuts. The phone wasn't a prepaid cell, like peanuts was, and when they looked into the number, they found that it was actually registered to a woman. I'll just call her Wanda. So, next up, find Wanda and ask how her phone ended up in the trunk under a dead man. But she was yet another dead end. Well, the phone owner stated she lost a phone and greened by her mall around January of 2001.

Now I had a ton of questions about Wanda. Like what are the odds that you lose your phone in a mall that's about an hour away, by the way, and then it shows up a month later in the trunk of a reportedly stolen car with a murdered man? But the only additional information Sheriff Montgomery could provide was that Wanda didn't know peanut or anyone associated with the case. So I don't know if they dove into her phone to see if they could put some pieces together. She seems like just another one of those frustrating loose ends that I can't tie up because we

just don't have the information. But even without Pena's physical phone, they were still able to pull records from the last two weeks of activity before he went missing. Now they couldn't track his whereabouts, but they could see who he communicated with. Unfortunately, though, nothing stood out. No unknown numbers are calls made at weird hours. Peanut had been using the phone for the same reasons we all do to keep in touch with loved ones.

And when his autopsy results came back soon after, investigators hit yet another wall. The report basically confirmed what investigators already knew. Peanut had been killed by a gunshot wound to the front of his chest, most likely from a 12-gauge shotgun. Other than that injury, he didn't have any other marks or abrasions on his body, so it didn't seem like there was any sort of struggle before his death. And nothing stood out in his toxicology report that would send investigators in any kind of other direction.

The only thing that really stood out was that the medical examiner wasn't able to determine his time of death. Peanut's body wasn't very decomposed, but that didn't necessarily mean that he had been killed right before he was found. The report stated that he could have been preserved thanks to the combination of the sealed trunk and the chilly winter weather. We know that on the date that we found the car, that obviously he died within a fairly short time prior to that, whether it was days or a week. There really isn't any way to know. Other than we

have a start date, which is the last date he's seen, and then the day that he's found in between there, any one of those days are possible. At that point, investigators decided to turn back to the public for help. They put out another call for information about the case, and an acquaintance of V's came forward and said they'd seen a car matching the description of these vehicle at a fast food restaurant on January 27th, just two days after peanut disappeared. There was an individual who saw the car at a Dodge's chicken place on Jefferson Avenue

in the DnB area of Newport News, but the individual driving the car did not match Aaron's description. They did not believe that was Aaron. While this witness was certain, peanut wasn't the one driving, they weren't able to provide a very clear description of the person who was. All they could say for sure was that the driver was a black male. And this immediately made investigators think of the man seen with the car at the apartment complex due just to the timing. I would say that we would make that assumption that it's probably the same person that was seeing getting out of the car up at Country Club.

It's all in the same time frame. They still couldn't ID the man though, but there were also other tips coming in that they dug into. And that's when they came across a woman who all called Stephanie. She was a friend of peanuts and she had a story about an incident that took place before he disappeared, that seemed like it might be a promising lead. Stephanie told investigators that a couple of days before Peanut went missing, she'd gotten a call from a man who was looking for him.

This guy, who I'll call Darryl, was a loose acquaintance of Stephanie's. Like, she knew him well enough to recognize who he was when he called, but she didn't even know his last name. Anyway, Darryl said that he needed to get a hold of peanut because peanut was holding on to something that belonged to him and he needed it back. But that's all the information he would get. So Stephanie had turned to peanut for answers. She saw peanut later that day,

made him aware of this phone call, and according to her, said that he was holding a firearm. Didn't say whether it was a handgun, shotgun, what it was. And that was all the information that she had about it. She didn't inquire any further. And after this pre-test statement, she was polygraphed on whether or not she had any specific information about PNU

that she know who killed PNU. And she, according to the polygraph examiner, she showed no to see. So the next step was to track down Daryl. And when they did, he admitted that Stephanie's story was true. From what I can tell though, he didn't give investigators a reason as to why peanut was holding the gun for him. But Sheriff Montgomery had his own suspicions. Sometimes they're involved in crimes and you don't want to get rid of the gun, but you

don't want to be caught with it either. So you pass it on to a trusted friend or a cop who doesn't say, hang on to this for me for whatever reason for a period of time. Sometimes law enforcement's fortunate enough to get a hold of that gun and trace it back to crime. Did you get a hold of the gun? The peanut was supposedly moving on? No.

We never found any firearms that were associated with this case. Daryl was adamant that he didn't have anything to do with peanut's murder. And since they couldn't find this firearm or a single shred of evidence that he could be involved, investigators were once again forced to move on to another tip. You see, a single house slipper matching the description of peanut shoe was found in Newport News.

Now, I don't know who found it or how police were notified, but the tip said that the shoe was in a field at an industrial park. When investigators heard about this, they were over the moon. This could be the second crime scene they'd been looking for. But when they checked it out, the slipper was the only thing they could find. There was nothing to indicate that this location was connected to the homicide. And besides the fact that it looked similar, investigators weren't even able to match this slipper to the one peanut was wearing.

They tried running some tests on it to try and get DNA from both shoes, but they couldn't connect them, so this was yet another dead end. It was around this time, though, that all that other evidence that they had sent off for testing finally came back from the lab. First, they learned that Vee's car was even cleaner than they thought. They tested it for fingerprints, for blood, whatever, but every single test they ran came back negative. And it turns out the exterior had been wiped down. And here's where I find myself going back to the missing backseat. Like if the car was super clean, there had to be a reason that someone would remove an

entire seat, right? Well, whatever the reason was, neither Sheriff Montgomery nor any of the articles I read offered an explanation. So again, just another loose end. The only other thing that the lab could tell them was that the blood found on the two shirts in the trunk was peanuts blood. But that was all they could get. So with no other evidence to test, or no new tips coming in, the case started to cool off. And months started going by with nothing new. That is until they got a call later in 2001 from an inmate at the Virginia Peninsula Regional

jail. We got contacted by an inmate in the jail who had had a conversation with another individual, a cellmate, and that person had said my cousin had something to do with Penoch's death. And the name of the cousin was familiar to us as well. We had had dealings with that individual in the past. The inmate claimed that the information was that the shotgun that was used in the homicide was thrown into a drainage ditch, or a drainage culvert in a neighborhood not far from where peanut was found. The jail is in York County, literally five minutes from the apartment complex where peanut was found,

so investigators headed over there to talk with this other inmate. But when they asked him about the story his cellmate told, he denied ever making any statements about peanuts murder. And what's more, he claimed he didn't even have a cousin by the name of the cellmate gave investigators. But they were just going to take this guy's word for it. This was the best lead they'd had in months. So they went out and searched for this shotgun over the course of two days. Investigators along with public works people from the from York County actually put devices

down into cameras down into the sewage system for considerable amounts of distance through the whole neighborhood. Never could locate a shotgun in any of the locations that were remotely close to what was described by the person in jail. Investigators were once again forced to move on. Time started flying by and according to reporting by David McCully for the Daily Press, there was an any movement in the case for five years. But as time went on, so did advancements in DNA technology. And in July 2006, investigators decided to send those two shirts from the trunk off for more testing. And this time, they got a profile, a profile that wasn't peanuts. Investigators were hopeful that this was their big break so they uploaded the profile to the Virginia DNA data bank, but they didn't get any hits.

That is, until May of 2007, when boom, out of nowhere, there was a database hit on the DNA profile. The profile matched to a 32-year-old man who all called Anthony. He'd recently been convicted of a felony, although Sheriff Montgomery couldn't remember what the crime was. When investigators started looking into him, they realized Anthony actually knew Pena's girlfriend V. It turns out he was the father of her child. Now my source didn't know much about their relationship or their kid, like how old they

were or who they lived with, but it sounded like Anthony and V saw each other pretty frequently due to their shared parenting responsibilities. And when investigators started asking around about this guy, they learned that Anthony knew Peanut too. Actually, he was a known associate of Peanut once we drilled down into some of the interviews. It wasn't uncommon for them to be seen together. They finally tracked Anthony down in August. And when they told him about the DNA match,

he was like, well, of course my DNA popped up, those are my shirts. At some point, he says he'd left them with V or in the trunk, and they had been there for a while before the murder. So that was his explanation for why a shirt with his DNA would be in that vehicle, which at that point was a plausible explanation. Just like everyone else stayed questioned in this case, Anthony swore up and down that he didn't have anything to do

with Pina's homicide. Throughout the interview, he fully cooperated with investigators, and he even agreed to give them another DNA sample to compare to the profile they had, which they did, and it was a match again, but they just didn't feel like Anthony was their guy. If he was as close with V and Peanut as it seemed, then it wouldn't be out of the realm of

possibility for some of his stuff, like the shirts, to end up in their possession. Just to be extra sure, investigators tried to come up with other more sinister explanations for why the shirts may have been there, but ultimately they couldn't find anything. And with that, peanuts' case went ice cold. Since 2007, investigators have tried to revive it many times. They've released more pleas for information to the public and work with local and national media to keep peanuts' story in the news. They even went back and re-interviewed Anthony around 2012-2013 just to be sure his story checked out.

But it did, and they were never able to regain any momentum. And despite their best efforts, they've never found peanut cell phone. They've never found the murder weapon, or the keys, or the backseatseat from B's car or even the crime scene where they believe Peanut was really killed They've never ID that man spotted driving B's car either But while the lack of leads has been frustrating for investigators It's taken the greatest toll on peanuts loved ones who have never given up hope that the one day have closure We get a call at least once a year from some relatives,

from Philadelphia asking if there's any developments in the case. They've been thankful that we have resurrected the case a couple of times on local news channels and on national media, but to this point, we don't have any real person of interest or any one person that we're zeroing in on. The interesting thing about it is various people have given bits and pieces of information that weren't publicly known

enough to draw your interest to how would you know that but they don't lead anywhere right now. For example, we didn't publicize that he was killed by a shotgun blast. So when this person claimed in a jail house interview that it was a shotgun that was used or at least insinuated that it was and put into the sewage drain, that intrigued just because how else would you know? After his murder, Penet's son went back to Philadelphia to live with his mother.

And while he's surrounded by family members who love and support him, he's grown up without ever knowing why his father was taken away. There's a young man out there that grew up without his father. And his mother, as far as I know, and some of his relatives are still alive. And we'd probably like to know that the person that committed this crime has faced justice. You would think with the amount of time gone by, the only way that this crime is going to be solved

that if someone has specific knowledge of it was to come forward at this point in time and make us aware of some piece of evidence that we've not been made aware of before now. And as time goes by, it's probably less likely that that occurs. So, I would like to think to somebody who's here this and go, you know, we're going to make that phone call. But I think that's what it's going to take to solve this case.

If you have any information about the 2001 murder of Aaron Lamont Smalls, also known as P-Night. Please don't hesitate to call the York Pocosan Sheriff's Office at 757 890 4999. The Deck is an audio chuck production with theme music by Ryan Lewis. To learn more about the Deck and our advocacy work, visit thedeckpodcast.com. So, what do you think, Chuck? Do you approve? Chuck, do you approve? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH