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[00:00:01]I am Ma'Khia Bryant. I am a graduating criminal justice scholar from Chicago, ILLINOIS.

[00:00:36]>> [cheering] >> SHE HAD A PLAN FOR HER LIFE. SHE left Chicago at 18 years old with nothing but ambition and a scholarship, and she built something real in Tallahassee.

[00:00:45]Four years on the cheerleading team, captain, magna [ __ ] laude, a graduate degree she was halfway through earning. On the afternoon of January 26th, 2022, Ma'Khia Bryant finished her shift. She got in a car.

[00:00:59]She trusted the person driving. She never made it back. The arrest affidavit would later record exactly what was said in that apartment complex parking lot the moment everything changed.

[00:01:10]The words were seven words long.

[00:01:12]This is how this fixin' to go.

[00:01:15]A gunshot followed. Ma'Khia Bryant was 22 years old, sitting in the passenger seat of her girlfriend's car, shot in the chest.

[00:01:23]And what I need you to stay with me for, what almost nobody who covered this case stopped long enough to explain, is the question of how she ended up in that seat in [music] the first place. Because the person who put her there walked out of this story with 2 years of probation.

[00:01:49]If you are new here, hit subscribe right now, and make sure you stay with this one all the way to the end, because the outcome of this case is something you need to hear in full to understand.

[00:02:00]Michaela Bryant grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She chose Florida A&M University, and she didn't just attend.

[00:02:07]She embedded herself into it so completely that the campus would feel her absence for years after she was gone. She joined the cheerleading team her freshman year.

[00:02:16]>> [music] >> By her junior year, she was captain.

[00:02:25]Under her leadership, the FAMU Rattlers won awards at the National Cheerleading Association camps. [music] She personally received the Fang Award for best individual coach for both football and competition cheer. She coached junior cheerleaders on the sidelines at games not because anyone asked her to, but because she wanted to.

[00:02:45]She graduated magna [ __ ] laude in criminal justice. Then she went back.

[00:02:50]Not because she had to, but because she wasn't finished. She was halfway through a master's degree in community psychology.

[00:02:58]She spent a summer interning at FAMU DRS working with children on classroom behavior management. Kids were something she was drawn to consistently and quietly. Her sorority sister, Courtland Patrick, said this about her.

[00:03:12]She made everyone around her feel loved and appreciated.

[00:03:16]When you were with Michaela, she made you feel like her favorite.

[00:03:20]She held people accountable when they fell short and kept everyone's spirits up even on the days she herself was not doing well.

[00:03:28]To know MK even for a day, an hour, a minute was to have love for a lifetime.

[00:03:34]She was just a beacon of joy, of light, of happiness, a ray of sunshine, a breath of fresh air.

[00:03:40]Um, anybody who met her was like someone who liked her. She loved everyone and it's just everyone in this room was from all different types of walk of life and that everyone loved her. If you didn't like her, something was wrong with you.

[00:03:54]>> coach said Mikaela brought energy, impact, and discipline to everything she touched. That losing her was the most devastating thing she had experienced in her career. Her godfather said she was smart, outgoing, and funny. That everyone loved her.

[00:04:09]That she served her family proud.

[00:04:11]In January 2022, Mikaela was working.

[00:04:15]She was in graduate school. She was building the exact life she had come to Tallahassee to build. And she was 2 and 1/2 years into a relationship with a woman named Precious Charlton, also a FAMU student.

[00:04:27]>> [music] >> They shared the same campus. They shared the same world.

[00:04:31]>> [music] >> What Mikaela did not share, what she may not have fully known, was every corner of Precious Charlton's world.

[00:04:39]Precious Charlton was a marijuana dealer. That is not a detail anyone who covered this case buried. [music] It is the fact that sits at the center of everything that followed.

[00:04:47]On January 26th, she had a deal arranged. A quarter pound of marijuana, >> [music] >> $650.

[00:04:55]The buyer was a man named Khalil Ogilvie. The location, Providence [music] Point Apartments on Stuckey Avenue.

[00:05:02]Before she drove there, Charlton made a stop. She picked Mikaela up from work at Governor's Square Mall. They got the car washed. They stopped for ice cream.

[00:05:11]It was a Wednesday afternoon that looked like any other Wednesday afternoon.

[00:05:16]There is something you need to hold here because the rest of this story depends on it.

[00:05:21]The car they were driving was not Charlton's. It belonged to Mikaela.

[00:05:26]And according to the arrest affidavit, Charlton drove Mikaela's car to a drug deal. And Mikaela may not have understood where she was being taken or why.

[00:05:35]They pulled into the lot at approximately 4:40 in the afternoon. Two men were already waiting. Khalil Ogilvie, 26 years old, and his associate Brian Knight. Charlton testified later both she and Mikaela had handguns in their laps visible. She said they carried for protection when making deals.

[00:05:55]Her reasoning, >> [music] >> "When you're a woman doing this, people assume you're an easier target. A weapon changes that math."

[00:06:02]Charlton also said in that same testimony that she got a bad feeling the moment those two men walked toward the car. She sensed they were not there to buy anything. She glanced down at her phone, then she heard [music] it.

[00:06:14]"This is how this fixing to go." Arms came through the window.

[00:06:18]Ogilvie and Mikaela were struggling for control of a gun. Mikaela Bryant was fighting in a parking lot on a Wednesday afternoon at 4:40 p.m. because of a decision someone else made and did not tell her about.

[00:06:29]>> [music] >> Charlton froze. One shot. Mikaela told her she'd been shot in the stomach.

[00:06:35]Charlton hit the gas. She called 911.

[00:06:38]She drove Mikaela to Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. Body camera footage from a police officer who reached Mikaela in those final minutes was played in open court two years later.

[00:06:49]Where did you have them at?

[00:06:50]I had mines like right here. Okay.

[00:06:53]And she Oh, yeah, hers was in the same spot. Okay. You know what I'm saying?

[00:06:56]And it was more so like I didn't even really want her to be alone with me. It was kind of just like Yeah. I'm already finna drop you off at class. You already in the car with me.

[00:07:04]And to be honest, I'm not going to lie like >> [music] >> I don't I don't make moves like that by myself anyways like if push come to shove, I call my brother. That's why I said I was calling my brother. I usually call my brother and be like, "Hey bro, come with me." He like, "You're a dude, bigger than me, you know? I I just don't look that intimidating to nobody. So, I just That's really what it was for. And like I said like we ain't never shot them guns. Honestly, like none like that. It was more so just like being diligent, due diligence. And then it's like once I see him reaching in the car, I'm like, "What the fuck?" It really took me like 5 seconds too long to understand what was going on cuz I'm like, "What is What's going on?"

[00:07:40]And like as I start to pull off, I just hear like a bang. Like I just hear bang.

[00:07:44]And she just was like He shot me.

[00:07:47]He shot me like just kind of like She said like two or three times like just real like cut off. And I'm like, where you shot? She was like, in the [music] stomach.

[00:07:56]And then she like she fell down.

[00:07:59]Like she fell down. Her body was just in an awkward ass way. And I kid you not like I didn't even I didn't even try to shoot back at this guy. I didn't try to do nothing. I literally immediately called 911. I'm telling the lady and I stayed on her with the phone all the whole time. I did like 100 miles an hour from Levy Avenue to the hospital right here like I was jumping over the medians like really cutting up in traffic. So I'm knowing I'm like, man, I'm telling you right now I'm on the phone with you.

[00:08:22]I want her to be okay.

[00:08:23]>> The courtroom could not hold the weight of it. Michaela Bryant died during surgery that night. She was 22 years old. Inside the car, police found over 2 and 1/2 pounds of marijuana. The car was seized. The investigation opened and almost immediately detectives were looking at two people. An illegal question that would come to define this entire case.

[00:08:45]>> [music] >> Precious Charlton cooperated from the beginning. She spoke to investigators.

[00:08:51]She described the men. Three days after Michaela died, she identified Khalil Ogilvie from a photo lineup. She was arrested January 29th, charged with third-degree felony murder and drug possession with intent to [music] sell.

[00:09:05]Bond set at $50,000. In her initial statement to detectives, Charlton said the gun fired as she started to drive away.

[00:09:13]That Ogilvie's hands were still inside the window when the car lurched forward.

[00:09:18]That the discharge was caused by the motion of the vehicle.

[00:09:21]>> [music] >> That specific detail, the timing of that shot, would become one of the most contested points [music] in the entire trial.

[00:09:29]Because when Charlton took the stand two years later, that part of the story had changed.

[00:09:34]>> [music] >> Five days after Michaela died, Tallahassee police arrested Khalil Ogilvie, charged with first-degree felony murder, held without bail.

[00:09:44]The department's statement was direct.

[00:09:46]Ogilvie approached the passenger side of the car, produced a handgun, and attempted to rob the women. Mikaela grappled with him over it. The gun went off and struck her. The prosecution would build their case around something that surfaced at trial, that Ogilvie and Brian Knight had specifically heard about a college girl selling drugs, that this was not a random encounter, that these two men went looking for them. And then, in July of 2022, 6 months after Mikaela died, something happened that the Bryant family had to absorb alongside their grief. The state dropped the murder charge against Precious Charlton.

[00:10:24]Not because she wasn't there, not because she didn't bring Mikaela to that deal, but because of a specific legal threshold that Florida law required. For the felony murder charge to hold against Charlton, prosecutors would need to prove she was acting in concert with the shooter.

[00:10:41]And the courts had previously established that a drug seller does not act in concert with a drug buyer. They are legally on opposite sides of the same transaction.

[00:10:51]Charlton sold. Ogilvie bought. Legally, [music] they were adversaries. And so, the murder charge disappeared. The felony drug charges remained, but the question of who would be held responsible for the decision that put Mikaela in that car had just been reduced by the mechanics of the law to a drug charge.

[00:11:11]If you've been watching this and you're feeling the weight of it, that's exactly the right response. Stay with me. The trial is where this story gets harder.

[00:11:21]Drop a comment below right now and tell me what you think of that legal outcome.

[00:11:25]And if you haven't subscribed [music] yet, this is the moment. Hit that button because I cover cases exactly like this one every single week. Two years. That is how long it took for Khalil Ogilvie to stand trial.

[00:11:38]>> [music] >> Two years of hearings, continuances, and the Bryant family sitting with a verdict that had not come yet.

[00:11:45]The trial lasted two days. Assistant State Attorney Georgia Cappelman told the jury what the prosecution believed happened in that parking lot.

[00:11:54]Ogilvie and Bryant Knight came there with a plan.

[00:11:57]They had specifically heard about two women selling, and they made a deliberate decision to target them.

[00:12:04]When Ogilvie reached into that car window, Cappelman said he had a gun on Mikaela. She was fighting for her life to get it away from him.

[00:12:12]And then he shot her.

[00:12:14]Defense attorney Nathan Prince told a different story entirely.

[00:12:17]He said Mikaela drew first, that Ogilvie had reached into the car for a scale, not to rob anyone, and that Mikaela grabbed his wrist and pointed a gun at him. That Ogilvie took hold of the gun to protect himself. That when Charlton slammed the gas and the window came up, his hands were trapped and the gun [music] discharged by accident. Then Precious Charlton took the stand. At trial, her account had shifted. She testified that she heard the gunshot before she drove away, not after.

[00:12:48]Before.

[00:12:49]When they say it's fight, flight, or freeze, I was frozen. Like I'm I'm just stuck like And I don't know if y'all ever heard a gunshot, but 3 ft away from you is close enough to pull anybody out of any type of thought process.

[00:13:03]Just out of the blue. I'm like, "Dang, I got to do something right now."

[00:13:06]Defense attorney Prince pressed her directly. Her initial statement to police said the shot fired as she started to move. Now she was saying the shot came first.

[00:13:16]"So your memory is better now than it was a couple of days after it happened?"

[00:13:19]he asked.

[00:13:21]"That's what happens when you have PTSD from an experience." she replied.

[00:13:25]She also wept on the stand when the 911 call from that day was played for the jury.

[00:13:31]The call she made while driving Mikaela to the hospital.

[00:13:34]Ogilvie testified in his own defense.

[00:13:36][music] He said Mikaela panicked, that she grabbed his wrist, that he took her gun because it was pointing at him, and he thought she was going to shoot. "Why didn't you just run away?" his attorney asked.

[00:13:48]"I figured maybe if I ran away, I might get shot in my back or something."

[00:13:52]Ogilvie replied. During cross-examination, Capelmann pointed out something that landed heavily in that courtroom. Ogilvie was not legally permitted to carry a firearm that day.

[00:14:02]He was on pretrial release for a prior concealed weapons charge. He brought an illegal gun to a deal, and a young woman died.

[00:14:11]"Did you shoot her in self-defense?"

[00:14:12]Capelmann asked.

[00:14:14]"I never shot her in self-defense." he said. The jury deliberated for 2 hours.

[00:14:20]>> [music] >> 2 hours to weigh the life of Mikaela Bryant against two competing versions of the same parking lot.

[00:14:26]At approximately 7:00 in the evening on February 2nd, 2024, they returned with a verdict.

[00:14:33]Not first-degree murder.

[00:14:35]Manslaughter with a weapon, a lesser charge, not the charge the prosecution had built 2 years to pursue.

[00:14:41]Not the charge Mikaela's family had waited 2 years to hear.

[00:14:45]Her loved ones were in that courtroom.

[00:14:48]They left the moment the verdict was read to meet privately with the prosecutor. They did not speak to the press.

[00:14:54]I will not be able to tolerate any emotional outburst. I know it's asking a lot of you, but I must.

[00:15:03]>> [music] >> All right. Whenever you're ready, you can bring the jury in.

[00:15:07]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> So, those of you that are new to the courtroom, the jury's coming in.

[00:15:26]Verdict's going to be published. I need to insist that we maintain respectful silence when the verdict is published.

[00:15:33]Please, no no outburst and that. You're welcome to be here. I appreciate you being here.

[00:15:38]It's an open public courtroom, but I have to insist we maintain silence until the while the jury's in the courtroom.

[00:15:46]Um first of all, did the jury select a foreperson?

[00:15:49]>> [music] >> Yes, I am. Mr. Wood, were you Were you selected as the foreperson of the jury? Yes, sir. Did the jury reach a verdict? Yes, we did. Was the verdict unanimous? Yes, it was. Did you complete, sign, and date the verdict form? I did.

[00:16:02]>> [music] >> If you'd please give that to the deputy, I'll publish the jury's verdict.

[00:16:15]State of Florida versus Khalil Anthony Ogilvie, the verdict. We, the jury, find as follows.

[00:16:22]Khalil uh Ogilvie is guilty of manslaughter.

[00:16:27]During the commission of the crime, did Khalil Ogilvie carry, display, use, threaten to use, or attempt to use a firearm? Yes.

[00:16:35]In the course of committing the crime, did Khalil Ogilvie actually possess a firearm? Yes.

[00:16:42]In the course of committing the crime, did Khalil Ogilvie discharge a firearm?

[00:16:46]Yes.

[00:16:48]In the course of committing the crime, did Khalil Ogilvie discharge a firearm and thereby cause the death of Mychaela Bryant? Yes.

[00:16:57]So say we all this first day of February, 2024.

[00:17:01]Excuse me. Signed by the foreperson.

[00:17:04]>> [music] >> Um Ms. Kaplan, do you wish the jury to be polled?

[00:17:07]>> No. Mr. Prince, do you wish the jury to be polled? No, your honor.

[00:17:10]All right. So, I'm going to give the uh verdict to the clerk for filing.

[00:17:15]State Attorney Jack Campbell said he had nothing but respect for the jury's decision.

[00:17:19]He called Oglesby certainly responsible for Mikaela's death.

[00:17:24]>> [music] >> And then he said this.

[00:17:25]He hoped the community would recognize that selling marijuana leads to bloodshed too often.

[00:17:31]That sentence landed differently than he may have intended.

[00:17:34]>> [music] >> Because Mikaela Bryant was not the one selling marijuana.

[00:17:38]Two months later on April 15th, 2024, Khalil Oglesby stood for sentencing. He was 28 years old. 20 years in prison.

[00:17:47]For manslaughter with a weapon. The maximum the charge allowed was 30.

[00:17:52]He will be eligible for release. He will walk out of prison.

[00:17:56]Precious Charlton entered a plea on the drug charges. She was sentenced to two years of probation.

[00:18:02]>> [music] >> Two years of probation.

[00:18:04]The woman who planned that deal.

[00:18:06]Who picked Mikaela up from work. Who got the car washed and stopped for ice cream and drove her girlfriend to a parking lot in her own car and did not tell her what they were going there to do.

[00:18:17]Two years of probation.

[00:18:19]And then she went home.

[00:18:21]I want to know what you think about that outcome.

[00:18:24]Comment two years probation below and tell me if you believe the law got this right.

[00:18:29]>> [music] >> Mikaela's name deserves to stay in the conversation. And if this video is reaching you for the first time, subscribe right now. This is what we do here every week for every victim who deserved better.

[00:18:43]Khalil Oglesby is currently serving 20 years in a Florida state prison.

[00:18:48]Brian Knight, the second man in that parking [clears throat] lot, the associate who was there when it happened, was never formally charged with anything connected to Mikaela's death. His full role in what took place that afternoon remains officially unresolved. Precious Charlton completed her probation. She has not spoken publicly since the trial.

[00:19:08]In the fall of 2022, nine months after Mikaela died, her sorority line sisters, [music] the spring 2019 initiates of the Beta Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, created an annual scholarship in her name. They called it the Make It Known Why You Love FAMU Scholarship.

[00:19:26]Because Mikaela loved FAMU enough to go back for a second degree.

[00:19:30]She loved children enough to spend her summers working in their classrooms.

[00:19:34]>> [music] >> She loved the people around her enough to make every single one of them feel like her favorite, even on the days she herself was not okay.

[00:19:43]Her mother, Lynette Carpenter, received Mikaela's body back in Chicago, a community she had left 4 years earlier to go build something and never came back to the way she was supposed to.

[00:19:54]>> [music] >> Why did she get in that car?

[00:19:56]Because she trusted the person driving.

[00:19:59]That [music] is the whole answer, and it is the most devastating one the story has.

[00:20:05]There is no category for what happened to Mikaela Bryant that makes it easier to hold.

[00:20:09]>> [music] >> She was not doing something dangerous.

[00:20:12]She was not in a dangerous place. She was in a car with her girlfriend of 2 and 1/2 years on a Wednesday afternoon in January, going somewhere she believed was just the next stop in an ordinary day. The danger did not belong to her.

[00:20:26]The decision did not belong to her, but the consequence was entirely, irreversibly hers. Her sorority sister Courtland Patrick said the only justice that would have meant anything was getting MK back. That the man who killed her would one day walk free.

[00:20:42]That his family would get to give him hugs and celebrate his birthdays.

[00:20:47]That Mikaela's family would not. Mikaela Bryant left Chicago at 18 years old with a plan. She earned everything she built, every grade, every award, every title, every person who loved her. She earned that love back 10 times over. She was 22.

[00:21:04]>> [music] >> She deserved every year that was taken from her. If this case stayed with you, the question of how the people closest to us can carry things we don't know about, things that cost us everything, I covered another case that lives in exactly that same space. A different city, a different relationship, a completely different set of choices and an ending that will sit with you just as long.

[00:21:27]It's the next video. Stay with me.

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[00:21:42]I post every week and I do not rush these. Michaela deserved better. The least we can do is tell it right.