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Hey, 2020 listeners, you're about to hear the fifth installment of Death in the Dorms, Season 2, a new true crime series from ABC News Studio.

This week, we'll hear the story of Patrick Muffley, whose death exposed a hidden crime ring operating around the College of Charleston.

My phone beeped in. It was the chaplain. She said, Patrick's been shot and you need to come to the hospital. I said, No, no, no. You are mistaken. I think you have the wrong Still no arrest tonight in the shooting death of a College of Charleston student.

Keep breathing.

Stay awake. Patrick was lying on the ground at the base of the stairs of his home. They're going to take care of you, all right? With a single gunshot wound to his chest.

We were stunned.

Patrick made friends everywhere he went. He was like a light that everybody got attracted to. Immediately, he flocked to.

He was thriving, and then I think it got out of hand. Authorities haven't identified a suspect or a motive.

Whenever you speak to your loved one, the last thing you should ever say is, I love you, because it might be the last time. And that was the last thing I said to him. Was that Luffy?

The words I said that day still haunt me. I focused on the pain, it taunts me. I tried my best, I tried my best, I tried my best. I tried my best.

I tried my best, I tried Patrick was born the day after Thanksgiving, November 27, 1992.

And he's a Thanksgiving baby. His birthday is always Thanksgiving weekend.

He was He was very outgoing and always trying to have new friends, and he'd talk to anybody. That continued on for the rest of his life. He was just a really likable guy.

We grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, in Mount Pleasant. Being out on the farm, me and Patrick were always doing a lot of the barn chores together. So mucking stalls, all that really fun, nitty-gritty stuff. I was really close with my brother Patrick, and Patrick was always a big defender for me. If I was ever getting picked on in school or anything, he was always there. Was always a fighter. He protected his friends and all that, and he was one to never back down from defending himself, too. He came into his own towards middle school and high school.

And and he became pretty rumbunctuous, really into extreme sports. He was pretty cool. He was one of the cool kids for sure.

Patrick was the most adventurous one out of all of us and was willing to do anything and try anything.

He would never say he couldn't do something. He would just do it, much to his detriment sometimes. We called him Reckless Rick when he was a child.

He definitely liked the adrenaline rush. He would drive me along to the beach, like super early in the morning before school to take photos for him. He was never really great at the constantly being in a classroom thing. Patrick was starting to party a lot in high school. He was so lovable. Patrick made friends everywhere he went. He was like a light that everybody got to attract it to and immediately flock to. It's a good song. It came on, and I was just like... But he did start getting in trouble a little bit.

He got in trouble with the law a couple of times for having substances, or having alcohol when he was underage.

His friends would want to talk about the story of when the cops He exhausted one of Patrick's parties, and he ran up into a tree. He was an amazing tree climber, and then he's hiding in the tree, and the cops are looking up the tree, and he whispers, There's no one up here.

Because it ain't He was bumping heads with someone, potentially maybe the wrong crowd.

I don't know what it was at the time. He's getting in a couple of fights. So we wanted him to have a different set of scenery. Wake up alone with the fire in the hole. So we sent him to Costa Rica to do Costa Rica outward bound instead of 10th grade. So he's the youngest person ever to go do that. They hiked from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The experience of living in the jungle made him mature a lot, and he grew personally, and his skill levels grew. He proved himself to the leaders of Outward Bound, who were tough guys, and they really liked Patrick. He He came back. He got through high school. He worked here on the farm, and we wanted Patrick to get either a college degree or work in the trades or any number of different things.

He didn't really like either of those options. So he chose the school.

In 2015, the fall semester, Patrick decided he was going to try out College of Charleston and started his first semester there. Before I got once going to love me.

Before I got once going to love me. I think he would have rather have been at CFC in a city close to home with a bunch of his friends.

Sarah was also at the College of Charleston, and Bridget was also at the College of Charleston at the same time.

The College of Charleston was founded in 1770, so it's one of the oldest colleges in America. So you have this very old, timey vibe to the whole school. College Charleston is somewhat of a smaller school, about 10,000 kids or so.

You're just thrown into the middle of a city. It's not your average college town. I mean, in fact, when you get accepted into the College of Charleston, you get a pamphlet or packet that says, You've been accepted boundless because there's no direct vicinity of the college and campus.

Patrick, he seemed super stoked about his classes. He was talking to the professors, and things seemed good.

He liked business. He was really good with numbers. So that's what he went into college thinking he wanted to do. Patrick was communicating with me about this new group of friends he had made that summer and how he was hanging out with them a lot, and that they already had a house together that they were living in. And so they had invited Patrick to be one of the roommates because they had an extra room. So he became, I think, the fifth roommate in that house. Most of the students don't live in the dorms. They live in housing that surrounds the campus.

They're one of the few colleges in South Carolina that don't require you to live in a dorm your freshman year.

Patrick was excited to be able to get away from the farm and have his own place to live. He did move in with these people in that fall of 2015.

His roommates were around the same age as him, but were further in their schooling. They were juniors and seniors, I believe, at College of Charleston while he was a freshman.

We thought it was a good thing that at least he was with different guys that were doing different things. Some played soccer, some were into business, higher education.

He was introducing me all of his new roommates, and there was constantly friends in and out of that house. The door was never locked. It was chaotic sometimes. They were a lot of fun, and they were partying a lot.

He was thriving at first. Then I I think it got out of hand quick.

I think a beauty house blast through the matrix. A safe haven when it's bad or abrasive. Lift the bell on the matrix. Dance it with the bell that she made.

Just going from high school to college, it was like people drank and smoked weed. That was it. Then you get to college and there's ecstasy acid, moly, shrooms, cocaine, Xanax, Percisets, of pens, just a plethora of new drugs and party drugs. Try this. If you don't like it, you can do something else. There's definitely more of a resource. College of Charleston, you have all 12,000 of these kids living in a three-mile radius, or at least majority of them. I don't want to call them connects, but you meet people, and then they know people, and they know people.

The party scene is fraternities and sororities for pre-games, and then everyone goes out on King Street. And King Street is one of America's great drinking streets. It's like Bourbon Street or sixth Street, but with fewer tourists.

He just jumped right to it, seasoned and ready to party.

Since 2 PAC, we haven't had no true raps. Too loud, too proud, too wild. I put you with the We knew something was a little off, but it wasn't really sure what.

He started buying a bunch of expensive things, I guess, trying to show off.

He's falling behind in school, and then he's missing classes. Then Patrick called us from the Richland County Detention Center to tell us he got arrested. We were stunned. He got arrested in Columbia at a football game. He had eight ounces of cocaine to sell.

We're He was charged with trafficking.

You know, wherever he got that, and then now it was all gone and confiscated. Somebody was looking for their cash.

It was a lot of money, somewhere towards 20 grand. Patrick was super about getting that money back. Patrick confessed to me out of extreme anxiety and fear. He said, Bridget, you don't understand. If I don't get that money back, someone's going to come after me. I don't think Patrick had a plan to approach all the walls closing in on him. He felt like his life was over, and he was just had no way to escape out of the situation. He didn't tell my parents that. He didn't want to disappoint my dad. He wanted to show my dad that he could be his own man. He told me not to say anything. Don't tell anyone. And I kept that confidence because he's never confided in me like that. He's never cried on my shoulder like that. And such despair and fear. It was a totally different side I'd never seen in my life of my brother. Early January, 2016. He was starting that semester. He was falling at the waistside with not going to classes and getting really depressed and not really wanting to get out of bed all the time. So I think that was the hardest part when we got back was his schooling did take a hit, and his mental health was starting to go down.

So ultimately, by end of that January, 2016, Patrick did drop out of school.

Patrick was struggling with the things that were hanging over his head. He did not leave the farm, pretty much. January, February. I had made an appointment, and then we talk about mental health. You call somebody, try to get some help. They're like, Oh, yeah, we can see you in three weeks. We have an issue today. We were waiting for that appointment.

I was still living downtown and going to my classes and saw some of his roommates off of the street, and they started asking me where Patrick was. He loan rent or money for bills that were going on, and that they had been trying to contact him. He wasn't answering any of them, and even then, he was barely answering me, which was, I knew, weird because I was one of the few people he actually would answer for his phone, but he wasn't really picking up. So I told my parents that he did owe money.

So I'm like, Patrick, you can't do this to your roommates. Here's a check for $60 or whatever it is they wanted for the water or the electric. Go down there and give this to your roommates. Well, he did, and he was supposed to come back to the farm.

The next day. I was sitting I was sitting on my front porch. My phone beeped. I picked it up. It was the chaplain. She said, Patrick's been shot and you need to come to the hospital. I said, No, no, no. You are mistaken. And so I think you have a wrong person. She's like, No, it's him, and he's been shot, and you need to come here.

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Gma 7A on ABC. On March the fourth of 2016. Law enforcement received a one call a little bit before four o'clock. The call was from a roommate of Patrick Moffley. He described that he was in his room, door closed with the Xbox, and then he overheard a commotion and what sounded like a gunshot. He came out of his room and saw Patrick lying at the base of the stairs with a secret gunshot wound to his chest.

And all Patrick says to him is just, Tell my parents, I'm so sorry. The police arrive. The patrolman is applying pressure.

Officer Foulkes tried to comfort Patrick and ask him questions about how he was doing, trying to get him to stay conscious before EMS arrived. Who did this to you?

Jordan be in a sense of teething on me. Keep breathing.

Stay awake. Patrick was lying on the ground at the base of the stairs of his home. Just look at me. All right?

They're going to take care of you. All right?

There was also a ripped plastic ziploc-style bag. The sounds of the commotion the roommates overheard in the ripped bag are indications of a struggle. Surrounding his body were over a thousand white pills with the stamp of GG-249.

They had him in the hospital within, I think, 5, 10 minutes after he had gotten shot.

We're heart sick. I mean, that's all I could think. Is Patrick going to live?

The longer Patrick was in surgery, the more hopeful we were that he was going to make it.

They had gotten shot in the chest, and it traveled down, and went out through his liver. There's nothing they could do.

We were just stunned. It's eerie. You always think that you're going to cry and wail, and But Sarah cried and wailed. The rest of us were just in disbelief.

I immediately broke down, and the only things going through my mind of how upset I was and angry that I was that he didn't fight hard enough to make it through that surgery after hours of fighting already. My closest family member was now gone. And part of me broke in that moment.

I'm on scene at Smith Street. You can go ahead and put me as a primary officer.

Patrick lived with four roommates. All of his roommates were full-time enrolled students at the College of Charleston. After Patrick gave police the clue in some of his dying words about Jordan Piazzante and Dollar T, the police began talking to Patrick's roommates.

He said a name like Jordan or something like that?

The police were able to learn that Jordan Piazzante is someone who Patrick was friends with. So law enforcement looked into it further. Law enforcement was able to find the flight records of Jordan that placed her in New York at the time of the murder. Jordan Piacente could not have killed Patrick. But who was Dollar T? The police contacted Jordan. That initial police communication did not produce any immediate clues, but the Charleston Police Department investigators plan to follow up with her in the coming days when she returned to Charleston. Officers ended up talking to a lady who was walking down the street when all of this happened. She heard a commotion, and when she turned and looked across the street, she saw three males running from the home to a red Jetta that was parked on the street with the engine running.

She sees these three guys run out looking like, I think the word she used was, they robbed a bank in movie. So she made a mental note to check the license plate, and when she looked, it was a paper dealer tag. So the tag you have when you have just bought a car.

The police issued a B on the Lookout for or a Bolo for a red Jetta with these paper tags within hours of the murder. Still no arrest tonight of the shooting death of a College of Charleston student. Authorities haven't identified a suspect or a motive. We'll continue to update you on this investigation as new details come into the newsroom.

Charleston has this image of being the Holy City. There's churches everywhere. It's a big touristy place. They love to protect their image. For this to happen, it was all over the news. It was in every newspaper.

This is my five years.

And the murder of Patrick Moffley. The shooting death of Patrick Moffley.

People were definitely talking about it. Patrick was very personal. He was so genuine and so nice.

He just brought life to everyone and everything that he did.

At the time, it was just like, Oh, my gosh, this college kid just got shot in his doorway. What happened? How does this happen? This never happens.

Hey, Sarge, we got evidence on the floor here, too. I got a bunch of little white pills. I don't know what they are.

It looks like Xanax. That's a lot of Xanax.

Yeah.

That means encryption All of a sudden, you have Patrick murdered with these pills around him. It launched two investigations. The first was who killed Patrick Moffley, and the second was where did he get these Gigi 249 manufactured fake Xanax pills. There's this question of, how did this happen so close to the College of Charleston campus?

The police did a search warrant for the residence, and law enforcement was able to locate one fired carcage case that was from a 0.45 caliber firearms.

It reeks of marijuana.

Oh, yeah, there's all kinds of drugs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I got gloves, Sarge, if you want me to...

You got some residue in there. Lots of it. Inside of Patrick's room, there was one of the mail boxes, the cardboard boxes, that on the outside had 208 G and times 10. The idea is that was 10 bags, and each bag weighed 208 grams.

There are all these questions about, how could there be 10,000 pills at this college house?

College of Charleston has a pretty big reputation be a party school.

You'd be going to house parties, mainly.

Drinking was a large aspect of it, but I feel like Coke and Molly and all that stuff was definitely going around. But I think the biggest one, especially from when I was in high school to college and being at that college, was the Xanax that was going on.

Tell the option rest of us because we all never miss. I dropped I'm being to my brother, he a headhunter. He call and just tell him, I'm not better than me.

I got to be cool.

We come in here, he's laying in by roughly 150 white pills?

Probably, yeah.

There's some other drug paraphernalia and some pills that are being cut up upstairs.

When the police searched the bedrooms, they found a lease agreement to a different residence that had been signed by one of Patrick's housemates. The address was under surveillance in an active investigation.

In the months before Patrick's murder, the City of Charleston Police Department, Narcotics Unit, had a separate investigation ongoing. That investigation included college-aged people who were in the drug trade.

About five months, six months before Patrick was killed, the Charleston police had a confidential informant by a small amount of Xanax from a dealer, They arrest the dealer. They say, Who gave you these drugs? And he told them it was Zachary Cligman and laid out a very extensive picture picture of Zack's drug operation. He said, This is a guy who sells everything from Coke from Atlanta, LSD, and millions of Xanax pills. And he has the stash house called the Tree house. And so the police start a pretty small-time investigation of Zachary Cligman. They installed a security camera overlooking the stash house, the tree house on Gasman Street. It was just right there, walking distance from campus.

Zach Cligman was not enrolled at the College of Charleston. He actually was from the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina. Zack was living in Charleston at the time.

Before the murder, you had one housemate who signed the lease for a stash house. So all of a sudden, there's this pretty tight link between where Patrick is killed and the stash house that they're already monitoring. Patrick's death turned this drug investigation into something real.

We did chat with the police, so we did tell them what we knew about the whole cocaine incident. Patrick claims these people he was involved with would hurt you if you were going to rattle them or do anything. He claimed that they had enforcers that would hurt you. So we thought, well, could have been a hit to quiet them down.

As the police were investigating what happened surrounding Patrick's death, they tried to talk to his roommates, they talked to his family, they talked to long-time friends. They tried to get a better sense of who Patrick was and what was going on in Patrick's life at the time of his murder. After learning that Patrick had been killed, one of his friends that he had grown up with reached out to law enforcement. Summer McNerry told the police that she got extremely concerned about Patrick the day of his death when she saw a Snapchat that he posted. That Snapchat video, according to summer, featured Patrick snorting a line of cocaine off of his desk, and then it panned over to many ziploc bags that were full of white pills. In front of those pills, the words, Maybe I'm the Plug. The Plug is common lingo or language to indicate being a drug dealer.

Dealing Xanax is a really fast way to make a great profit. You can make $7 a bar. That's a massive margin.

Patrick was definitely in over his head after the arrest. He had this money that I think he owed people for selling the drugs that were confiscated. I think he thought that he could make this big move and that that might have been it.

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Because he was always the life of the party. Creating a life celebration, like a final party, was more Patrick style.

Christ to my servant, Patrick to my saints.

I know his parents wanted that to be the wedding you never got to have. It was the best damn funeral I think I'll ever go to. Nothing will ever top that. Probably better. It's better than some weddings I've been to. It was It was one of a kind. One of a kind, just like Patrick.

Hundreds of people showed up from all walks of life. Patrick was friends with people from all generations, all walks of life, from the homeless up to senators.

He was friends with everyone.

We had his friends band play. Everyone was dancing and just celebrating my I want you to carry those memories with you all the way through for the year to come.

At the time, the police are still not sure what the situation is with the shooter. So the police manned the party as well. They didn't know if they were still working the angle of maybe this was a hit.

Just not knowing who it was and if I had met them was making me have anxiety, whether or not they would be looking for us They were always very antsy.

It came to light in in the drug investigation and in Patrick's death investigation that at one point, Zachary Kliemann supplied Patrick Moffly with pills.

Patrick's housemates, they turn out to be very valuable as witnesses. The detectives have one of the housemates wear a wire. He's telling the housemate, like, Oh, I had just pounds of weed and a million Xanax pills here. So the detectives immediately go to Zack's house. They arrest him. They find more drugs at his house, and they basically tell him, We have you on all of this stuff. So Zack lays out this entire drug ring with the shipping raw Alprazlan powder from China through Vancouver in Toronto and Montreal, down to South Carolina, finding a house for it, getting a pill press, pressing it into pills, and then shipping it out both through the fraternity system and pledges, but also, once again, on the dark web that's now a completed product that they can ship all over the world. The complexity of that compared to the kids that you might meet at a bar in Charleston, it's pretty mind boggling. The police are building a drug case on Zack. The drug investigation and the homicide investigation were on two separate tracks. As more people brought up Zack, they would say, Yeah, we've already looked into that. But The homicide investigation narrowed very quickly.

Policemen all over the city are looking for this red Jetta, seen at the time of the killing. And that night, after Patrick was killed in West Ashley, they find it parked.

There was a male in a car, and they see a female in the front passenger seat. When the police first approach the vehicle, they smell marijuana. They also observe some marijuana in the car near the gear shift. Because the Bolo was related to a murder, along with seeing the drugs, law enforcement asked the occupants to get out of the car.

And they used the pretense of seeing some marijuana on the dash, and they towed the car away.

The occupants, Symmetria Wilson and Charles Mungen, were transported separately down to headquarters, put in separate interview rooms, and law enforcement attempted to interview them. The Symmetria Wilson and Charles Mungen stories did not match. The day that you got stopped, tell me what you were up to that day.

Me and my friends were right around here.

Okay. At some point during that day, did you ever go downtown? No, sir. Mungen insisted he was never downtown, and Sametria gave the details that not only were they downtown, but they are downtown town within blocks of this incident. Furthermore, she talks about how there were two other people that Mungen picked up. She remembers stopping and picking up somebody who had a double first name. However, when law enforcement tried to push her for more details, she closed down and she wanted to talk to an attorney. She doesn't remember anything because she was high. There is nothing further law enforcement could do at this time as far as charging in relation to Patrick's death because they did not have enough information. Police did, however, sees the two phones that Mungen had on him when the car was pulled over to further investigation.

You have no direct evidence. All you know is that a car pulled up to the house.

Police looked at the physical phones that were seized. They were hoping to see if there's any connection, any relationship between him and Patrick. Based upon Mungen's phone, police were able to see that Jordan Piacente was saved in Mungen's phone by the name Bars. This is the same Jordan Piazzente that Patrick mentioned to police before he passed away. There were text messages about Xanax bars and selling bars on the phone between Mungen and Jordan. Police, after investigating investigating and speaking with Jordan, learned that Jordan and Patrick would frequent the bars on Upper King Street, and he would advertise that he can get drugs and he sells drugs. And at one of the bars called the Silver Dollar is where Jordan first introduced Patrick to Charles Mungen.

Then they go through Patrick's phone and find out that Charles is saved in Patrick's phone as Dollar T, and that he had texted him to set up this drug deal at the time of the murder. They found their Dollar T. It's this guy, Charles Munchet.

Instead of just selling and being around people from a very small circle in a trusted group, Patrick went outside that group.

Patrick, I think it was very trusting. At the same time, he's opening his home to people for whom drug dealing is a completely different proposition. It's not this fantasy adventure, it's a means of survival. And when drug dealing is a means of survival, then violence is also sometimes a means of survival.

So for the police, more and more of this information was corroborating each of these different pieces of the puzzle. Based upon the phones, there was location data that the police were able to get from the provider's search warrant. That location data had Mungen located downtown around the time of the murder.

From there, the case really comes more about, one, finding the surveillance evidence, and two, trying to find who else was in the car.

Police did a canvas of the entire area, trying to catch the Jetta, flee the scene on camera.

Basically, going to every store, school, anything in the neighborhood, and a pizza restaurant, and the school down the street, and one other store had cameras facing the street. And they were able to go through all the footage and basically see this red car pulling up right before the murder and then leaving right after.

On March 17th of 2016, about two weeks after Patrick was killed, the police arrested Charles Mungen III. Moffley was gunned down at his home on Smith Street in downtown Charleston. Police say 21-year-old Charles Mungen is one of the suspects involved. Detectives are still working to find more suspects.

In March 2016, homicide detectives arrested Charles Mungen.

So continuing Doing at College of Charleston after everything, I feel like you're just so numb. You're just trying to get through your courses and classes. It was just all over the news at that point. A college as Charleston student selling drugs.

Charles Mungen, who was arrested a few weeks after the murder, killed Patrick Moffley during a drug deal at a Smith Street apartment last March. Officers are still trying to identify other suspects.

Patrick's death turned this drug investigation, funneling a lot of Xanax into that college party scene into something real. Up in that point, it was really just a detective with a camera checking in on a stash house. All of a sudden, this becomes like a 30-person task force involving the DEA, the FBI, state law enforcement, city law enforcement.

Charleston police say they've seized thousands of dollars A million dollars worth of drugs picture there. Nine people under arrest.

Surveillance, undercover buys, and numerous search warrants throughout the city.

All taken in connection to possessing and trafficking drugs in Charleston County. The drugs that were seized, they included cocaine, marijuana, Xanax pills, powdered ecstasy, and LSD.

Also seized more than $200,000 in cash, seven guns, including some powerful semi-automatic rifles and four vehicles.

Mullen says there was a connection between the bust and the murder of Patrick Moffley.

They were saying it was the same pill-pressed drugs and same weed. That was just when we realized the extent of what had been going on.

On the oldest municipal college campus in America.

I think it's an issue, but not necessarily on the College of Charleston campus. I think it's an issue all over the United States, no matter what college you're at. I've seen some things on campus, or not even on campus, but at parties college parties that I'd prefer if I didn't see.

Many students believe the more money there is in a city, the more drugs they're likely to see. But what about counseling? Haley Womack says the school already has an abundance of programs to help those in need.

When the news came out about the drug ring and everything, then it was a, We don't condone this. We didn't know anything about it. This is not accepted or tolerated, blah, blah, blah. And then they just cracked down on everything. The campus security was increased a lot. I mean, it turned into a dry campus for a little bit.

Right after they started making us do these drug course things. They made that a mandatory thing after that. But the school just didn't really mention it a lot. Students talked about it a little bit, and then it was done.

As the city of Charleston police continued in their investigation, they had developed a person of interest as potentially a passenger in the car at the time of Patrick's death. Sametria Wilson, the female in the front passenger seating Mungen's car, told the police the day of the murder that it was a guy with a double first like the same first name. Police, after getting the phones from Munchin, were able to look and see who he was in communication with. Munchin was in contacts with John or John John Glover. Police were able to map the cell phone geo locations of Munchin and of John John Glover, and they were able to map and see that both of those individuals while communicating and at the time of Patrick's murder, were both located downtown and heading off of the same tower, which includes Patrick's house on Smith Street. Sametria Wilson was interviewed on multiple occasions by police. Every time, she would give a little bit more. As law enforcement was learning more about the investigation, they could confront her on items. Ultimately, Symmetria told the police that they drove around. She was smoking marijuana. She was sleeping, and she woke up at one point due to a loud sound, that loud sound being a gunshot.

And when she looked out of her window, the front passenger seat window, she saw John John Glover, the other guy in the back passenger seat that she did not know the name of, and her friend who was Mungen. She saw the three of them running out of the house, and they were all holding bags. In those bags were a bunch of white pills. Police made a second arrest in the March 2016 shooting death of College of Charleston student Patrick Moffley, 22-year-old John Glover, and 21-year-old Charles Mungen III, are charged with Moffley's murder.

One of Patrick's housemates who opened the door and saw men going into Patrick's room, got a pretty good look at John John's face and was able to recognize him in a lineup.

After that, John Glover accepted responsibility, and he pled guilty to accessory after the fact of murder of Patrick Moffley. The police charged Mungen with murder. Later, as the prosecutor, I additionally put the charge of armed robbery. The trial against Charles Mungen for the charges of murder and armed robbery took place in September of 2019.

Stephanie Lender put together a very impressive and long list of witnesses, and she really built the case from the ground up.

Some of Patrick's roommates certainly didn't want to talk about stuff. We only learned certain facts surrounding Patrick's death right before the trial. When all these people are under subpoena, and I'm dragging them in here to prep them, and I'm saying, You got to tell me the truth. What'd you do?

Until the trial started, you were constantly just guessing and making up scenarios in your head about what really went down.

We only learned right before the trial that the roommate there when Patrick was shot, he did not call police immediately. He went and they took their drugs out of their rooms. They didn't touch stuff around Patrick. Then went in the backyard of a neighbor who was already gone because it was spring break and hid them there. That way the police didn't find it during the search warrant.

So finally getting to the trial three years later was just finally learning all the details and putting all the pieces together.

The story that the prosecution presented, Stephanie Lender's narrative was, it was a drug robbery gone wrong. Basically, Charles knew that he could probably get 10,000 Xanax bars And so he set up this deal, and then he picked up two partners and went just to do armed robbery. That was the idea. What the detectives believe happened. They fought, and the fight escalated to a point where they shot him, grabbed as many pills as I could and fled.

After Patrick was screaming for help after being shot. It was just one of his roommate's friends that was the only person that jumped in to help him, to actually put pressure on the wound. I mean, that made me just feel absolutely horrible knowing somebody was prioritizing the bags of drugs over a human life.

The police bodycam footage during the trial was painful seeing Patrick, but I'm thankful that I got to see it. You always wonder what's happening with your child in his last moments of consciousness.

That was the hard part. Here he's been gone three years, and His last words we get to see three years later on the body cam footage. It just made my heart hurt. I felt so bad.

Although we did not have any evidence that that definitively said who pulled the trigger out of those three individuals who went inside because they were acting together. Mungen was convicted on both counts, both the murder and an armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

We had such mixed emotions about that because yet another life has been ruined. I mean, he was young, too. 21, I believe, was doing the two-year college thing and working in a restaurant. The guy that ultimately got sentenced to life.

We thought it was going to feel great having that final piece put to rest and having that person punished, finally, for what they had done, we thought it was going to be a nice relief and all that. It honestly just didn't feel good at all.

The police were never able to identify a fourth individual in the car. And the identity is still unknown to this day.

Patrick's legacy is like, you should not be afraid to live life. You should be ready to go out there, experience new things, get outside of your comfort zone. Moving forward, we remember him and have his photo up all over the place.

We dedicated a dive site in Rua town in Honduras to Patrick. The dive site is called Patrick's Stash.

I got together with the siblings and we commissioned a statue of Patrick.

I think it captures him, and it makes me think about Patrick.

I think Patrick would say this board's too big. He would surf on a smaller board.

Yeah, Patrick would say something like that.

A nice little brass statue It was a gift to my parents, but it's never going to be the same.

How can it?

He was so big, so full of life. That's I got him on the ground, no breathing.

I miss my son a lot. I think about him every day.

I try to wake him up.

Whenever you speak to your loved one, the last thing you should ever say is, I love you, because it might be the last time. And that was the last thing I said to him, was, I love you.

I tried my best, I tried my best, I tried my best. I tried my best, I tried my best, I tried my best. This can't be the end. He's fleeting.

This is Deborah Roberts.

Next week, you'll hear the sixth and final episode of Death in the Dorms, a story about a bright accounting student from Jackson State University, whose promising future was cut short. Death in the Dorms was produced by ABC News Studios with the Intellectual Property Corporation and Yes, Like a River for Hulu Originals.

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