4: Getting In And Getting Out

Motive

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The gang murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams shook Chicago and affected many of the anti-violence workers on the West Side. As former gang members they sympathized with Jaslyn’s dad, Jontae, his desire to spend time with his daughter and how that put her at risk of violence. Jontae still struggles with the guilt. And when he decided to help police catch his daughter’s killers his gang friends turned on him. **Content warning: This episode contains uses of the n-word.

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0:00.0	We begin with breaking news right now at 9 a seven-year-old girl is dead tonight after
0:04.4	being shot six times on a McDonald's drive-through in Laundale.
0:09.3	When Jazz on Adams was killed, a lot of the attention turned to her father.
0:13.2	Jocelyn's dad, John Tay Adams, was the target.
0:16.4	Police have said he may have been the target.
0:19.7	Many in the city blamed him for his daughter's death, said he should have known better.
0:24.3	The 29 year old father has a long criminal history.
0:27.4	The car's driver had threatened the child's father before.
0:34.9	The blame is something John Tay Adams struggles with.
0:38.3	It started innocently enough.
0:40.4	John Tay was trying to be a good dad.
0:42.8	Give his daughter some joy.
0:44.4	My daughter texts me more she wants to make downers.
0:47.8	So he picked up his seven-year-old daughter, Jazzlin,
0:50.1	who everyone called Pinkie from Jazzlin's aunt's house.
0:53.1	Says me on my daughter like, so we know we get in the car.
0:56.2	How brought up birthday was coming up.
0:57.9	So she was helping me play her birthday and stuff.
0:59.8	And she was just telling me like everything that we need to do,
1:02.4	her friends who she wanted to come.
1:04.5	And that's when we put in McDonald's.
1:07.7	In the drive-through lane, John Tay noticed something that gave him a bad feeling.
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