VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-11-05
“What is a person supposed to do with that? Between what Mr. Reyes was saying and what Dez saw him doing, Dez believed he was in real danger. He had no way of knowing whether there was a gun. No one in that moment would,”
Levi McCathern · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05
McCathern alleged that when Reyes failed to provoke a reaction from Bryant, he threatened to shoot him.
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