well tyrone “ty” lee underwood is no longer with us.
kik is what killed her.
well not kik per say…
but that’s how she was communicating with a dl pre baller wolf.
it was also the trial that lead to solving the crime.
check out how it all went down…
The 911 call to Tyler, Texas, police early in the morning of Jan. 26 first reported a car crash – and then, a witness nearby told police he’d heard gunshots.Officers responding to the scene at 2:26 a.m. discovered a red Toyota Camry that had jumped the curb just shy of hitting a utility pole. The lone person inside, in the driver’s seat, appeared to be female. The victim had been shot “several times,” according to a criminal affidavit – and it was the shots, Officer Don Martin tells PEOPLE, that caused the victim to lose control of the car.
Declared dead at the scene was Tyrone “Ty” Lee Underwood, 24, a transgender woman.
On Monday, police arrested Carlton Ray Champion Jr., 21, a college football player who they say had an ongoing relationship with Underwood, for Underwood’s murder.
In their investigation police interviewed Champion’s father, Carlton Champion Sr., who “stated that he heard Carlton Jr. was meeting the victim and thought the victim was a female,” Officer Nathan Elliott wrote in the arrest affidavit. “According to Champion Sr., Carlton Jr. was supposed to get some type of sexual favor from the victim but realized the victim was a male.”
Police say otherwise. A relationship between the two had been ongoing for several weeks, Martin tells PEOPLE. “All indications are that both parties, the suspect as well as the victim, knew the gender of each prior to the shooting.”
“There’s no hate crime,” Martin says. “Evidence that was located indicate that they were both aware – through more than a friendship relationship – what they were getting into.” It was, he says, “a sexual relationship.”
Underwood died, according to the arrest affidavit, after arguing with Champion over social media about whether Champion was seeing someone else.
How and where the gunshots were fired is under investigation, police say.
Although police have located no witnesses who saw anyone running from the car, “the indications by the bullet holes in the vehicle and the victim indicate that more than likely, at some point in time, Champion was in the vehicle, versus not a drive-by” shooting, says Officer Martin. “We definitely know for sure” that shots were fired from outside the vehicle, he says, “but possibly inside as well.”
Investigators were led to Champion after Underwood’s roommate told them Underwood had been dating a man named “Carlton” for the past couple of weeks. A police department employee who worked with Underwood recalled that Underwood had talked about dating a football player at Texas College in Tyler.
Police located Carlton Champion on the team’s roster. Champion said he’d been communicating with Underwood through the Kik social media app. Messages on Underwood’s cell phone showed contact with Champion as far back as Jan. 19 and documented the pair’s “sexual relations,” according to the affidavit.
Starting the night of Jan. 25 and into the early morning of Jan. 26, Champion texted Underwood to ask if Underwood wanted to “chill.” They planned to meet and texted over several hours before Champion fell asleep and Underwood became mad, the affidavit states.
When Underwood sent Champion a message that she didn’t want to see Champion anymore, Champion responded, “That’s how it is now” and “I will make it up.”
Champion told Underwood to come get him. Underwood replied by text, “Carlton bro you saw me kiking you at 11:00 but you chose to be with whoever you was with and no you think you can just (expletive) with me when you want.” Ongoing exchanges as late at 2:06 a.m. documented further plans and locations to meet – all inconsistent with Champion’s initial statement to police that communication between the two had ended about 11 p.m.
Asked to explain his inconsistencies, Champion “became defensive and uncooperative,” the arrest affidavit states. Confronted with surveillance video that showed him leaving his campus dorm at 2:13 a.m. and returning around 2:27 a.m., “Champion would only say that he didn’t leave the dorms.”
Tests on the camouflage jacket Champion was seen wearing as he left Texas College’s Daniel Hall registered a “positive reaction” for blood, according to the affidavit.
Champion is being held in Gregg County jail on a $1 million bond. At press time, he has not yet entered a plea.
hmm.
i’m still trying to figure out the motive.
maybe underwood threatened to out champion?
i’m only assuming with the:
“Carlton bro you saw me kiking you at 11:00 but you chose to be with whoever you was with and no you think you can just (expletive) with me when you want.”
whatever the situation,
someone is dead and its a pretty sad situation.
at least its not some “jackal/catfish” story.
may she rip.
that being said,
those messing with (pre)baller wolves/on the low:
BE CAREFUL
i know we can go from 0 to 100,
but never use the “i’ll tell everyone your secret” card.
never ends well.
ever.
lowkey: i hear kik is where all the dl/discreet attentionistos show out.
is this true?
article taken: people
The body you were born in is the one GOD put your soul into, playing with GOD is the best way to incur his wrath. You can have 20 operations you’re still a man. Just because you have man made girly parts don’t make you no real female. This world is so messed up men thinking they’re women and women thinking they’re men. Just wait until JESUS comes back it’s gonna be a lot of begging and burning going on. I don’t judge nobody, but I call worldly foolery out when it comes to my attention.
Really sad just be mindful of who you deal with.
I believe there’s more to the story than somebody being outed.
This is just profoundly sad. Don’t believe what you see on Jerry Springer. Most guys who get with people who are transgendered know exactly what they are getting. This football player did too, especially if he was going back for more. So what if Ty threatened to out him. So what if the world found out he was messing with a transgendered person (and probably getting banged out by Ty to boot). It’s just sex. None of it justifies taking a life God made. May Ty rest in peace. And may Carlton turn his life around and something one day to make up for taking her life.
and people talk about FEM men…SHIT masculine DL brothas get vindictive and crazy when you don’t want to see them anymore it’s as if they automatically assume you’re going to out since you don’t want to deal with them anymore…i told you before jamari i went thru that with a guy last spring after i found out he was with his baby mom i called it off…he started saying he needed his fix and that he wasnt going nowhere…then he threatened to leak this video that i made in the shower to worldstar but i told him since i was out i didn’t care but eventually he left me alone…it’s scary out here because many men, both str8 and gay, CAN’T take rejection these days…it’s like if you tell them you dont want to be bothered or etc now they act like crazy smh may she R.I.P!!!!
I am a little confused about this story, I thought he only found out she was a man after he met him on the night on the incident, and he snapped, maybe that is the way he is trying to play it with the police. I see a lot of transgender women on BGC always bragging about this sort of thing, how they are fooling with Str8 dudes or how they are tricking them. Personally, I think it is a dangerous game because young men sexual psyche are very fragile at this age. This is sad and didnt have to go down this way, it seems like it is a lot of missing pieces to this story.
The police say text messages prove they had an ongoing sexual relationship.Could he have had sex with her multiple times and not know she was a biological male? I agree with Jamari she probably got angry and said I am going to tell people I have been sleeping you.We all make empty threats when we are upset or angry.He probably panicked when she made that threat.
Sad situation
Ain’t no way in hell he couldn’t tell that was a man.
All transgenders have a “tell” in my experience. A lot of men are not very selective when it comes to who they engage in sexual activity with.
So I think he knew. He just didn’t want anyone else to know.
Sad situation, but it goes to show you loose lips sink ships. He probably thought no one knew about them and she/he was telling plenty of people who she/he was messing with.
Makes you wonder what other secrets kik is hiding. It is the preferred form of communication when you don’t want to deal with texts/phone calls and want to not leave a trail, didn’t work for him though.
In 2015 , is there anything really secret anymore?Can’t everything be traced?.Deleted text messages can be retrieved.Deleted pics can be stolen from the”cloud”.There are hidden cameras everywhere.
There is always a trail.
Very true!
But Kik is usually a more discrete way to message someone because you’re not giving out your number and most people wouldn’t stumble upon it if they’re snooping through your phone.
Of course police can track it though…
Yeah the guy at the IT department at my school told me pretty much anything can be traced. There is no absolute privacy through technology at least for the lay computer person. And that’s something these kids born in the late 90s and early 00s fail to realize.
She’s dead and he’s been caught in lies. We really don’t know if she threatened to out him. Let’s not put that on her. After all, she did agree to meet him. I’m willing to give her the benefit of doubt. We do know she’s dead. He’s been caught in lies with what appears to be blood on his jacket. A bail at $1M is a major statement.
I do agree people need to be careful if there’re going to deal with folk on the low.
They had an ongoing sexual relationship according Tyler Police Dept So he may not have known when they first met but this was not a one night stand.Also I have never heard a straight female refer to a guy as ” bro” as in “Carlton bro”.Ty’s relatives used male pronouns at the prayer vigil so Ty is probably pre op.
I’m not familiar with kik do people identify as Gay,DL,TG,Married on kik like they do on CL or other Apps
RIP Ty
Pre-op or post-op, some families do not respect the wishes of their transgender loved ones to address them by their preferred gender identification.
You are right about that.I just think because Ty was a aide at a nursing home in all likelihood she was pre op.She was saving money to go to nursing school.
It doesn’t really matter she didn’t deserve to die.
We don’t know if it’s true or not when he claims he didn’t know she was trans but I wanna say if it is true, I had no idea some of them could pass that well.
May she rest in peace.
Just sad. That is all I can say.
I’m not trying to excuse what he did but you’re right Jamari. You can’t be threatening to out someone because you mad.
I’m sorry. Would you mind pointing on the line where you saw her threatening to out him again please? Not the speculation, I mean, the exact line.