Jule: 0:00

Grant Solomon, an 18-year-old Caucasian boy from middle Tennessee, was looking forward to graduating high school and becoming an adult. Friends recalled Grant as being an incredibly stand-up guy, a great friend and a dedicated athlete. He had his entire life ahead of him, yet he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. His home life was nothing less than chaotic and unstable. His parents were involved in a multi-year custody battle and his younger sister, gracie, was confiding to her mother and many other adults in mandatory reporter roles that her father was allegedly sexually abusing her.

Jule: 0:36

The case we have to share with you today is incredibly important because it involves the continued safety of a minor who has continuously reached out for help from authorities to protect her from her father, the same father many people also believe was responsible for the death of his son, her brother Grant Solomon. A disclaimer to add everything is alleged and we will provide all our sources where any theories were discussed in the public press. We are not accusing anybody of murder. Instead, we are simply asking the proper authorities to do their jobs and investigate this case ethically, morally and to the standard of the law that they made oaths to enforce. This is True Crime in Headlines and this is episode 8, closed and Unsettled Justice for Grant Solomon. I'm Jules.

Jo: 1:45

I'm Jo.

Jule: 1:46

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Jo: 2:03

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Jule: 2:09

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Jule: 2:55

This case is about to hit really close to home to many of our listeners. We are based out of Middle Tennessee And this story is ripped straight from the local headlines. However, it shouldn't stay local. This case needs eyes, ears and advocates, all of which we're here to help with. Although Grant lost his life, his mother, angie, and his sister, gracie, are still fighting for justice for him and for themselves, and we hope we can bring awareness to this case, which obviously needs more action, and to encourage anyone to pressure the proper representatives to do just that. Are you asking everyone to pressure authorities to find Grant's death a homicide, jules? No, what we're asking is for the proper authorities to do a better job investigating whether his death was an accident or a homicide.

Jule: 3:50

Do I believe there is continued and ongoing negligence surrounding the way Grant's case is being handled? Absolutely freaking, lutely, joe. Joe hasn't heard this case yet. I've been working on it behind the scenes. It's ever evolving. Each week There's different information coming to light And I'm really curious how this will end up playing out, as it continues to gain more mainstream attention as well as it should. You scared, joe?

Jo: 4:19

Yeah, I just wanted to know more. Let's hear it.

Jule: 4:22

So don't go into this any further. Y'all Taking my opinion and making it your own. We always encourage you to have your own opinions and think about. Obviously, this is our show and we're going to speak and we have our own biases You can't remove a bias from a human condition And we're going to have our own opinions and assessments. But after I presented the facts that we have, make your own decision.

Jule: 4:45

This case involves Grant in the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, but also asked for a call to action for justice for his sister, gracie Solomon, as she continues to seek out help in the making of the state of Tennessee, believe her sexual assault. We need to dig into the background of the Solomon family so we can best analyze and assess the family dynamics and what may have led to this family's ultimate and tragic downfall. Throughout the podcast I'm going to share many details from official documents which I received from a party affiliated with the movement titled Justice for Grant Solomon. I have not verified that these documents are official. However, per my assessment and the best of my knowledge, they do appear to be official documents. Okay, and I will say I will post many of them on our website, most of the ones that will be of interest to you have already been posted publicly And I'm very mindful I won't be posting anything that's not already posted on freedomforgraciecom. We have not been told what to say And, like I said, joe Joe's hearing this for the first time, along with some of you guys, and some of you may be listening because you knew Grant or you've heard the story in other podcasts. As the story picks up, i am glad you're here and I really want to encourage you to listen to the facts and then ask yourself, when you're done was there enough that was done about this case? I have spent hours pouring over this, talking to people. I've been trying to make heads and tails of the timeline, especially because this entire case, joe, it's riddled with. He said, she said, even in the reports filed. He said, she said and then reports filed, allegedly not filed, and obviously you and I are not involved directly.

Jule: 6:38

At the end of this episode, we hope to encourage everyone listening to ask the big question of whether or not there is enough evidence to charge Aaron Solomon with the murder of his son, grant Solomon, or to look at him as a suspect in the murder of Grant Solomon. Is there no reasonable doubt? Is there a reasonable doubt? Our job we're not the judge and jury, but we attempt to present information, research and then assess, analyze and commentate. And in a criminal trial, it's not the job of the prosecutor to convince the jury. Someone's guilty, and I think that's a misconception. A lot of especially younger people have growing up. When you think about the law system you think, oh, they're going to be found guilty. You have to prove they're guilty. You have to prove that without a reasonable doubt they did or did not. And that's what it comes down to is, if there's any doubt in your mind after you hear all these facts, then that might be your sign to be called to action, to sign a petition which will include in our podcast notes, on our episode notes under truecriminhedlinescom, or to write to your representatives.

Jule: 7:52

I present all this information, encourage you to read sources after, especially since it's continuing to change. Now a word of caution. There are some snippets of information from articles that are going around that aren't accurate and some misinformation, so the best place to get your information is from Freedom4Graciecom. However, do go in that, knowing it is a biased source, because it is in favor of the belief of Gracie stories and what happened to Grant, i'm pretty sure you're ready for me to go. Yeah, so 100% transparency. We are treading as carefully as we can legally, but without fear, because that's not how we live our life And, from everything I've read from sources speaking out about this case, a consensus is there's just not enough being done about it, because it's so glaringly suspicious and it's asinine that this case was closed within an hour.

Jo: 8:51

An hour, now a word.

Jule: 8:54

How does that happen? We should be up in arms about this, and here we are waving our arms because this is asinine, and we'll let you decide after this episode where you stand. Again, this is going to be a three-parter and this is part one. One last disclaimer.

Jo: 9:12

So you're making me a little nervous with all these disclaimers, but you're putting out there.

Jule: 9:16

Grant's death happened in our own backyard And we are deeply intertwined with many people of varying roles in this county. I think it's because it was here that you and I felt the need to do it. If this was us, we would want someone not afraid to talk about it And, if we have the audience, because most of our audience comes from Sumner County right now. So we're a new podcast and we want our locals to hear the story And, you know, sometimes there's a good old boys part and being a small town and I don't play the good old boys game.

Jo: 9:49

Yeah, i mean, i've encountered that personally, living in small town in the South. I didn't grow up in the South and so this is kind of foreign to me, but it's a real thing.

Jule: 10:01

And I didn't grow up in the South either, and it is absolutely my experience as well. Joe, where'd you go? There's been a place like Nebraska. You guys, you guys. you should probably be thankful. Well, you can't see right now. Because I love Nebraska, i'm wearing a Nebraska shirt. What is it? The Huskers? Yeah, i got it online just for Joe.

Jo: 10:20

And I was, my husband would agree We would be living in the big O Omaha, nebraska. I didn't know that's what the big O?

Jule: 10:31

That's not my big.

Jo: 10:33

O, you wonder why I like it. Is there corn? Is there corn?

Jule: 10:39

Oh, there's corn. This is where we indicate Julie positive. All right, meet me in middle Tennessee. Now zoom in a little closer. Head on over to Sumner County, tennessee, now just a little bit closer, and you're going to be in the city of Gallatin, tennessee, a city which was voted America's nicest city per readers digest You're kidding me In 2017. Huh, you going to move there now? I don't know if I agree with that. Well, i'm wondering if it was nicest, meaning kindest like wave. I don't know if it was nicest like the hedges or trips, for my understanding. So here we'll find ourselves on a hot summer day in July, and if you're not from the south, just picture stepping outside And then put in the glaring sun, putting a wool sweater over your entire body.

Jo: 11:41

In a brick wall of humidity.

Jule: 11:43

Yeah, and then standing in front of a heater with a knitted sweater over your face. It's great, that's what it feels like. Come on, julie, and I love the south, don't move here. We're closed. Well, it's on July 20th, 2020. So, obviously, now when we hear the words 2020, the first thing that comes to mind The pandemic, absolutely, and it's July. So what? the pandemic was March, we're in it, exactly, and I recall that very well. I was very pregnant.

Jule: 12:13

Likewise, grant had just turned 18 five weeks prior and was also recovering from his own case of COVID. Okay, now he tells his mother, angie, that he doesn't want his father, aaron, to be present at the baseball practice that his dad set up for him in Gallatin, tennessee. Now he lives down in Williamson County, which, if you're looking at a map, go an hour south of Nashville. That's about where he is from and goes to school. Now, go back to Nashville, go about an hour. No 40, 40 minutes, 30 to 40. Yeah, north of North East, northeast, and that's Gallatin, can you tell? I am not Lewis and Clark. So to get from where he lives up to practice in Gallatin, where he's going on July 20th, that would be no more, no less, excuse me, than an hour drive Did mom live in Gallatin.

Jo: 13:10

What's the connection in Gallatin? Why are we there?

Jule: 13:12

for practice, i believe it was a place that his father was able to set up a private batting practice or pitching practice. You know I'm going to retract that because I'm not sure what type It was baseball. Okay, there was baseball. It was a sport of coaching situation, correct. Okay, grant was very passionate and very skilled in baseball And I will go into his father, aaron's, connections into sports and the local news in parts two and three as well.

Jule: 13:40

Those are really good questions. So Grant told mom hey, you know dad set this up, but I don't want him there Not a good relationship with dad right now And I don't want him there. And you know he's, he's 18 now. And so Angie relates this to Aaron via texts but she doesn't receive a reply. And Grant was feeling asthmatic and he was concerned that his lung capacity wasn't great. Remember what we were being told about that first strain with asthma and what, what was seen. He was worried, rightfully so, as many of us were, and he was just diagnosed with asthma as well recently. So it's a very valid, valid concern. And he was worried about physical activity after recovering from COVID. You know there are warnings everywhere about your lung conditions. So then he reportedly tells his mother I don't want to die in Gallatin today. He was scared of dying from working out and pushing his lungs, i'm assuming, yeah, which was a fear many of us shared in the very beginning as well. And he tells her I don't want to die in Gallatin today. That's interesting, yeah, his. He asked mom. So Angie, mom, can we cancel?

Jule: 14:53

And it's reported by Shannon Ashley on mediumcom. Slash, honestly yours, and she does a great job covering this. I'll link her her her webpage Go, support her if you can, to this story. It's very, very well done. She reports that Angie then texts her ex husband, aaron, telling him what Grant told her and her concerns and his concerns for not being able to physically work out well during recovery. Again, she doesn't receive a response from father Aaron. So she again reaches back out and informs Aaron that one of them will need to be at practice now as Grant was feeling feeling fearful about his health. And she writes in the text, quote if you're up, grant has a change of mind. And quote doesn't want to die in Gallatin. And quote So he needs one of us there, will you? If not, i will go and sit in the parking lot and let me know ASAP. He texts back. Finally, i'll be there.

Speaker 3: 15:46

Okay.

Jule: 15:48

So Grant goes from not wanting his dad there, being fine no one there, to now. he's scared and he wants an adult And I totally understand that. So now Grant did have a phone app on his phone called Life360. If you're unfamiliar, it's a popular app that many families use to track each other's phone locations. It will alert everyone on the same account of when someone well actually it's when their phone arrives at a location. so if you don't have your phone on you, it doesn't work, obviously. But it can even be pinned. you can pin a GPS location, like I could pin my house GPS location And, joe, if you were on my Life360 when I left my house, i would say Jules left her house.

Jo: 16:31

You know, i don't know why Jules is trying, Why we haven't done that for our family yet.

Jule: 16:34

I was wondering why I haven't done it for you. I mean, we're one family. I do not want you to have it because you'd be like Julie, Jules, get out of the antique mall.

Speaker 4: 16:43

Stop thrifting And you would know every time your husband came over.

Jule: 16:50

Bad up, pam. We are not helping any of the rumors about sister wives. So Grant's girlfriend also was on the Life360 and she was able to see And according to her, for the Life360 app she says that it says he arrived at the treating facility anywhere from 837 AM through 841 AM And he drove separately his own truck, a Toyota Tacoma, and that's where he was to meet his dad in the parking lot for the practice. Now, according to the official Sumner County Emergency Medical Services report which I was given access to, aaron called 911 services at 843 AM. Hmm, and what did he say? Here is the 911 call Which was provided to me by the family advocate, and we only play 911 calls.

Jule: 17:43

Joe and I have talked about this in length, about the ethical and more responsibility of playing 911 calls for entertainment or for purpose, and we don't ever want to play it for entertainment on obviously somebody's most likely worst day of their life. But this really is an important 911 call as it has lots of details that you need to know about. So, one, we feel it's imperative for moving this case along And, two, we feel it's done in a respectful manner to grant Meaning. We hope that this is going to help find justice, if that's what needs to be done And it's not lost on us that it's still controversial to play 911 calls But you have to sometimes make a decision and move forward, and I think, joe, that this Yeah, i'm obviously making this decision on my own because you haven't heard this call yet, but we've talked about the purpose of 911 calls, and that's why you haven't heard them yet, in our podcast. All right, it's about four minutes and 20 seconds long, and are you ready for it? Yeah, all right, all right. Ok, you ready, all right.

Speaker 4: 18:50

I'm trying Where's the emergency.

Speaker 3: 18:57

It is 1557 Southwater Street. It's off 109. Please hurry.

Speaker 4: 19:04

You said 57.

Speaker 3: 19:05

Please hurry.

Speaker 4: 19:06

OK, what's going?

Speaker 3: 19:07

on 1357. My son's truck backed over him And it's rolled over him and drug him into the ditch And it's on top of it. He's trapped under the truck And I, yeah, he Somehow it drugged him underneath it. Yes, my son is under it. I'm trying to No, i'm trying to call 911. Ok, which one? Oh my God, my name is Aaron Bowleman And you said 1357 Southwater Avenue right. Yeah, how is?

Speaker 4: 19:46

this a male.

Speaker 3: 19:48

He's 18. Just turned 18. Good to be with you, but I'm out of here. It's my son. Oh my God. Oh my God, this is not good.

Speaker 4: 19:56

Is he awake?

Speaker 3: 19:57

Oh, please hurry, I don't. No, i don't think so. He's not, he's not alert, right? No, he's out And he's trapped. I got three guys here And he's trapped under the truck. Oh my God.

Speaker 4: 20:11

I understand, sir. Say, I'm going to tell you what we got Somebody out there. what's your name?

Speaker 3: 20:17

Aaron Bowleman.

Speaker 4: 20:20

All right, aaron. Huh, what kind of vehicle is it?

Speaker 3: 20:25

It's a Toyota Tacoma. It's the vehicle has. He's underneath the vehicle.

Speaker 4: 20:31

OK, I've got that.

Speaker 3: 20:32

What color?

Speaker 4: 20:34

is it? It's a white truck, that's my son.

Speaker 3: 20:38

It somehow backed up. Yeah, yeah, i'm on one, i'm on one right now. Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. Was your son working on it? No, I'm not, I'm not.

Speaker 4: 20:59

I'm not, i'm not, i'm not. Is your son working?

Speaker 3: 21:01

on it. No, no, he was just getting out of it. It's the We're on an incline and I guess he didn't have it in park or something, or it wasn't engaged, or. Oh my God, oh my God.

Speaker 4: 21:17

Is your son still not responding? No, no, and he's still not responding No No.

Speaker 3: 21:24

No one can get in front of under.

Speaker 4: 21:26

Yes, no, we've got units and rounds to you, just asking you questions, for we can state them. okay, can you check and see where you've been?

Speaker 3: 21:38

Somebody's telling me that he's coming too.

Speaker 4: 21:41

Okay maybe Wait, can I try to keep him still. So he is.

Speaker 3: 21:47

Well, he can't move. I don't think he can move, I don't know. Okay, I just think No, he can't move he's correct.

Speaker 4: 21:53

Okay, we got somebody in round, now what do you wait for? He might be there. I'm telling him there Been somebody. Someone's talking to him.

Speaker 3: 22:01

Yeah, somebody talked to him, Shit.

Speaker 4: 22:04

Shit.

Speaker 3: 22:06

Gee, there's blood. What is he facing? up or down? He's facing up. They said he may aspirate. We need to hurry, oh my God.

Speaker 4: 22:16

So does he have blood coming out of his mouth?

Speaker 3: 22:19

Yeah, yeah, there's blood coming out. Yeah, somehow it's drugging him down. I think. I don't know whether it wasn't in his heart or blood, or if it didn't engage the brain or it drug him underneath somehow. Okay, they said he's facing up, okay, but he's bleeding from his mouth. So, grant, turn your face to the side if you can, barely, but be careful, don't move him, okay? No, we can't move him, We can't. We can't move him. We can't move him We can't move him.

Jo: 22:54

We can't move him. What in the world? Yeah, okay, what about all these other people that were supposedly in the scene? Yeah, did they? have they been spoken to? No, were there other people at the scene?

Jule: 23:12

It's interesting because you can hear in the beginning of the call, because if you're not familiar, 911 calls can start recording when you dial it And while it's ringing, whatever you're saying in the background while it's ringing is being recorded.

Jo: 23:27

He was out of breath. He was out of, which is not like unusual That's interesting, but did you hear somebody in the very beginning?

Jule: 23:35

It sounded like somebody else's voice.

Jo: 23:38

Oh, i miss that In the very beginning. Okay, i need to go back and listen, so. And then, like he says that he's not responsive, but he said, grant, move your head Just a little bit.

Jule: 23:51

What's the number one thing you don't wanna do in an injury?

Jo: 23:55

But like also I'm sorry if my child is underneath a truck, i am not gonna be away on the phone talking to 911 while other people tend to him And I don't know in what condition he is in. I'm gonna hand the damn phone off and go to my child's side.

Jule: 24:11

I was watching your face during this and I had the same. I was trying to remain neutral, but I had the same reactions And I feel like I don't know if you feel like you're about to cry, but it's so hard to hear this and to imagine, and this isn't a holier than thou, better than thou. Obviously, we don't know what we would do in that situation, because it would be a complete panic. I don't know, but I would not be able to. You would not be able to keep me separated from my child.

Jo: 24:44

There's no way. And then the beginning. Again I need to go back and listen to it, but it sounds like he witnessed it. He said like the truck backed over him, drug him. It's in the ditch now, but then towards the end it sounded more like he kind of found him in this condition and he wasn't sure what happened. Again I need to re-listen, but there are just so many questions Very bizarre.

Jule: 25:11

The most bizarre part that stood out to me was he asked is he face up Or face down? They say he's face up. They say he might aspirate, Move your head. So he's worried about him. Yeah, aspirating, What about anything? Are?

Jule: 25:30

you gonna know if he's faced up or faced down. He has not. that tells me he has not gone from where his truck is at the top. so it's a parking lot, So imagine almost like a warehouse looking building, like a square warehouse, kind of batting cage kind of building looking thing, And there's an asphalt parking lot and it's up on a little bit of a hill And the ditch is when you drive into the parking lot you go by the ditch and it's like a water ditch So there's huge rocks so that water can drain down, almost like I'm gonna say it golly, but it's a grassy ditch. And it tells me he did not go down to look at his son at all. He stayed at the top. Now, devil's advocate, we could argue.

Jule: 26:22

his initial reaction was I need to get someone that knows how to help my son immediately. Get them here first. I'm gonna worry about this 911 call first And we have to I'm gonna take my phone with me. We have to do our due diligence, at least to entertain and talk about the other side. Is there a possibility? this man was in complete shock. Yes, Yes, is there a possibility? he's neurodivergent in. this is how he responds. Yeah, Do we know whether or not he is No, However, enough to make you go. what the hell.

Speaker 3: 26:57

Mm-hmm.

Jule: 26:58

Yeah.

Jo: 27:00

It's really-. I would like to know about these quote unquote other people at this scene and what their take on the situation was. Yeah, and we'll talk about them in a little bit.

Jule: 27:08

Oh, do you remember how many people He just said? they, there's three guys, three guys, there's three guys here, yeah, okay. So here's the breakdown of the time light. At 843, 911 is called by Aaron 845. So it's like 843 and like almost turning 844. So just over a minute later, at 845, emergency services are dispatched And at 848, they arrive on the scene. When they arrive on the scene, there are not three men there.

Jo: 27:51

So at some Who's there?

Jule: 27:54

Aaron Huh.

Jo: 27:56

And Grant. Well, they just left them to figure it out before.

Jule: 28:01

So that's according to the EMS report. According to a police report, aaron heard a loud crash at 845 am. It may seem like it's not important to note a few like minutes of a difference, but it does become a bit of a concern when you have two different parties in these roles giving different timestamps, the police giving different timestamp, ems phone calls giving different timestamps. And before I tell you Aaron's claims of what happened to a son, grant, i wanna share with you Grant's injuries. Now I've set this podcast up so that we don't tell you the background and what is going on between Grant and his father, grant's mother and her ex-husband, his father Aaron, or Gracie, and her father Aaron. I have not talked about the trauma, the court proceedings, the allegations yet, because I want you to look at the scene as if you had pulled up, heard the 911 call and then what you see at the scene and you tell me what you think. So this is a direct quote from the official EMS report. Emergency Medical Services report. Upon arrival to scene, we find an 18 year old male lying supine on the large rocks in the drainage ditch Underneath the front of the truck, between the front two tires. however, the weight of the vehicle was supported by the wheels and was not being exerted upon the patient. Upon initial impression, the patient is noted to be unresponsive but breathing, and is noted to have some bleeding from the scalp, nose and ears. Primary assessment is limited due to inability to access the patient. Initially the patient's airways appeared to be patent but at risk of obstruction due to blood. And the report goes on, and I believe the report is also on the Freedom for Gracie website for you to also review.

Jule: 30:08

According to the Sumner County Regional Medical Hospital's documentation of Grant's injuries upon arrival to the hospital he arrived with and they have the medical codes for the different diagnosis and it says cardiac arrest cause unspecified Diffuse TBI with loss of consciousness. So traumatic brain injury. obviously there's some kind of trauma, indicating to the head. He has elasteration without a foreign body and the back of his head. And it says person injured in unspecified. so I'm wondering unspecified motor vehicle Question is where did this trauma and the back of his head come from? How did it get there? And now I need to tell you what wasn't on him as well. You ready, like okay, before we get what? a six foot three, 18 year old is dragged under his car which he was driving for an hour in the hot summer heat in Tennessee in July And the car is still on top of him. Now the weight's not on him, so we can assume that it's not. the undercarriage is not actually pressing on his skin, but he was dragged obviously under it.

Jo: 31:26

Yeah, i mean he could have been knocked off of his feet and fell backwards and hit his head. He, you know, a wheel to the head. it's hard to say A rock to the head.

Jule: 31:38

The diagram of Grant's injuries, which was included in the hospital's report, also showed a bruise on his upper thigh and a bruise on his hip and a blow to the jaw And a single fatal blow to the back of Grant's head, and it did not show any other injuries. That means no scrapes, no cuts. You're being dragged down an asphalt parking lot over rocks and you don't have-. Are there cameras in this parking lot?

Jo: 32:12

There's cameras in every parking lot.

Jule: 32:13

No, there were not cameras that were set up in this part of the parking lot. Per the police's report, it looked like the police wrote the report. He asked the people that were working. There were two individuals that were working there that morning and he asked the individuals about the cameras. They stated no, they would not be able to show this and it does not look like it was followed up to confirm. It looks like we took the word. It doesn't. In the report it doesn't say I followed up with this, so I don't know if they followed up or not. However, i do need to know in the report in the future officers, whether or not you followed up, because we don't wanna just trust. We want to validate, trust and verify. So we have to circle back to the different versions of what happened and why. It's absolutely wild that, given the information we have on Kranz injuries, that a more thorough investigation wasn't done.

Jo: 33:10

Wait, wait okay, so wait. Ems arrived and they did not note the three other guys on scene, Correct? Did the police report say anything about the three other?

Jule: 33:16

men on scene? No, and I will get into that, but I will tell you now to suffice, because I know you'll be fidgeting that fidget spinner. There was no, there were no other witnesses per the document in the official police report And I also have a copy of that. So there were no other witnesses, according to the report. Okay, so we have to circle back to the version of what happened, all the different versions of what happened and why. it's absolutely wild that, given the information we have on Kranz injuries, that a more thorough investigation wasn't done. And I have to say versions, joe, because it's the only way to describe the multiple agencies having different accounts of Aaron's statements as well as Aaron's varying statements of what happened. And we have to start with the first line of contact, which was 911. He tells the operator that Grant's truck rolled over him and dragged him into that ditch. He uses the words, quote, trapped under the truck, which is interesting because he wasn't actually trapped. The reports clearly indicate that the truck's weight was not on Grant at all.

Jule: 34:30

Now, the Gallatin Fire Department did have to lift the truck off of Grant, but that was so the emergency medical services, the response team, could safely transport Grant out from under the truck without causing more spinal injury. And that's like first aid 101. Stabilize the neck spine, don't move them. And they need to keep his neck as stable as they can So they can't just slide him out. but maybe Aaron could have, maybe if he had gone down there to see that his son wasn't stuck. it sounds like he was calling 911 to get his son out from under the car but he didn't even see if he could get him out. It's bizarre. And then if he thought he was gonna aspirate and choke, i'd rather log roll him. Yeah, log roll him. or even in that moment I think I would weigh my options and I'd rather have risk the neck injury than the death.

Jo: 35:32

I'd like to go back again and listen to the calls and see if you can hear anyone respond to him when he was saying is he face up or face down? Is he responding?

Jule: 35:41

It is an interesting question And I did go back and listen multiple times and turn the volume up really high and I can hear someone in the beginning in the background. So obviously the medical professionals aren't gonna just slide him out. so they had to move the truck up. He is breathing, the truck's not on fire, the truck's not crushing him, so it's not like they're gonna run and just slide him out. so they're gonna do it properly. And he is showing signs of head trauma. I'm not a medical expert, but it doesn't appear to be good. Don't tell anyone to move your head.

Jo: 36:23

Yeah, hey, grant, i don't know if you're awake, but move your head a little bit.

Jule: 36:27

And he says that in response to they say he might aspirate, which, if you don't know, isn't that getting blood in your lungs and choking, drowning in your own lungs? So that would be he would die, and you're so casual about it?

Jule: 36:43

I don't understand, yeah, what made him think that? And again, so this could be absolutely innocent and we're dissecting this man's worst day of his life And we let everyone hear it, which I understand is probably a really crappy thing to do. If it wasn't suspicious, you owe it enough to Grant to analyze it and give it a good enough investigation, a fair investigation, and that's what this is about. It was not a fair investigation to Grant into his death. He claims it wasn't in park or it wasn't engaged, and clearly he doesn't know definitely what was wrong and why the truck allegedly backed over his son down the incline. He says quote they said he's facing up. So here's he's referring to these three mysterious guys and he's taking their word. He's not even assessing his own kid.

Jo: 37:37

And they disappeared before EMS arrived.

Jule: 37:39

Now in the handwritten report to police. This is what Aaron writes you ready. My son, grant, and I pulled into WPI separately parked side by side. I was still in my car but notice my son got out to get his baseball gear out of the back of his truck. I looked down to check a work email and the next thing I know I hear and see the truck rolling backwards into the ditch. I get out of my car to try to find my son and saw that he was trapped underneath the truck and immediately called 911. I believe that I could believe that. I'm not saying I believe it, but I could believe it. I'm not saying I don't believe it either.

Jo: 38:20

Legal reasons But it you can't see that if his son's in the ditch and he can't see if he's face up or face down, he can't see that his son is trapped.

Jule: 38:30

Yes, and that is what I'm wondering Could he even see his son from where he was? So unless he just assumed, because he couldn't see his son, he assumed his son was under there, but that's not what it says.

Jo: 38:43

I would think that at the moment I would run over there first.

Jule: 38:45

He saw and heard his son for the very second. Yeah, so here's an additional police report, written by an arriving officer also on what occurred. This is per the typed report. I will not give the names of the officers, but I will go ahead and read part of it. okay?

Jule: 39:05

On July 20th 2020 at 8.43, i was dispatched to the set of dress for an injury crash. I arrived on scene and found a male subject that was trapped under his vehicle in a rocky ditch area. Sumner County EMS and Gallatin Fire Department were already on scene attempting to get the male subject out. I spoke with the father of the male subject and he was identified as Mr Aaron Solomon. Mr Solomon stated that he was meeting his son, grant, at the facility and that he had arrived there first. Mr Solomon stated that he was sitting in his vehicle when Grant pulled in next to him in his white pickup truck. Mr Solomon stated that he observed Grant get out of the truck and walked towards the back door area. Mr Solomon stated that he then noticed that the truck was no longer parked beside him and he started to get out and look and heard a loud crash and observed Grant's truck had rolled down the hill and into the ditch. Mr Solomon stated that he called 911 at the time and attempted to help his son. Mr Solomon was able to get me information on his son. He contacted Grant's mother and notified her of the situation. I gathered a written statement from Mr Solomon and he was released from the scene to go to Sumner Regional.

Jule: 40:22

I was not able to locate any other witnesses to the crash. I spoke to the gym employees and asked about camera footage and they stated that they did not have any cameras on the outside that would have gotten video of the incident. I turned the written statement and all of their information over to MPO and then they gave the officer's name. So there's the discrepancy there. In this report it's written that Aaron Solomon looks up and the truck's gone. In Aaron Solomon's written statement he sees his son get out and is dragged down to the ditch. So one statement he watches it happen. The next statement he looks up and the truck's already gone and his son's down in the ditch. Does it matter? It could matter. It's enough to say okay, this is an interesting discrepancy here. Did they collect Aaron Solomon's cell phone? Did they do a crash scene reenactment? No, they didn't. They didn't corroborate anything. Aaron said They didn't move forward with any of it.

Jo: 41:32

He said I feel like most public places have some camera on the outside of their building not most many.

Jule: 41:44

Yeah, yeah, many, and you know this place definitely could not have had cameras. But what bothers me is they said they didn't. Well, why not? Why not look? Why not write? I verified, you always verify, right, because even if the people honestly didn't think they did, maybe they did have a camera that could have an angle or is what's nearby.

Jule: 42:09

So that's. That was interesting. That peaked a little red flag for me and I Want to know. He said many times like he was checking his email when his son was dragged under his own truck. Yet phone records were never looked into. You can look at when he accessed his emails, you can look at when.

Jule: 42:29

Doesn't line up with the timing. I know how many people will say, but you know like Why would they look into Aaron? What do they have to suspect a crime? Well, how about what they don't have? Joe, on 9-1-1, aaron says he has three guys with him and this takes place That's really strange at 843 am, 845, ems is being dispatched and by 850 they're on the scene next to Aaron. But where are the three freaking guys? There are no other witnesses. And what about the three guys assessing Grant and talking to Grant when Aaron won't talk to him? They're doing enough to look and talk to him, but they're not going to stay there when the police arrive. It doesn't make sense. So, devil's advocate, they could have taken off for reasons known only to them. You know. Maybe they had bad experience with laws, maybe they had warrants, maybe they were in the country legally and they feared deportation, all kinds of things, absolutely, and they were being good citizens and stopping to help you to Aaron would say these three guys were here, but they just took off.

Jule: 43:33

Yeah, you would think you would think that, but then also, devil's advocate, you got to think well, maybe in the, in the panic of things, that's not what he was thinking, yeah, about. However, these three men are never even mentioned again, like men who stopped to help. They're talking to your son and worried he might die. So when the thin What? within one hour of the police arriving, this case is closed and It's ruled a one-car accident. And it's just closed, even after the official death certificate of Grant Solomon claims two things. Second, it says he was run over by an automobile, but first it says multiple blunt force trauma And the case was not Re-opened what does mom say?

Jo: 44:23

mom says a lot.

Jule: 44:25

I want to hear from mom. Yeah, we're absolutely gonna go into what Mom says on this. One thing I do have to go into now. This is a three-parter And this one's a little bit longer than we typically have been doing them, but just know like it's worth it to stick around everyone, because it gets it gets Darker and there's a lot of conspiracies going around, also tied to officials in the state of Tennessee. To Aaron Solomon. Here's another reason I'm overly frustrated that after this information on his injuries is released that no other police work was done. They're just like oh, we close the case. It's fine. He's a six foot three 18 year old boy. He's dragged down an asphalt, textured driveway over massive rocks and he doesn't have a single scratch on his legs or his arms. Joe, he was wearing shorts, hmm, and short sleeves. He doesn't have a single scratch. What about road rash? He was wearing shorts, or burns short sleeves truck was hot.

Jule: 45:26

Yes, no burn marks from the car which he had driven for an hour And he's enough to the drag his body down. It didn't just run over him, allegedly, it dragged his body down. Here is what the hospital report says Happened. In the report writing This is what was told to them and this is what they reported. So it says the valuables were socks and shoes that went home with mom Patient with father about to practice pitching. Put car in park, got out and went to get baseball bat out of the back of the truck. Dad thinks truck was not in park.

Jule: 46:06

Truck rolled back on patient, dragging him down a hill and into a ditch. Ems and fire arrived Extricated patient from under truck. Ems intubated patient started an IO to lower left extremity, cpr in progress. So get this. Aaron claims Grant was going to the bed of his truck to get his baseball bag. However, joe, everyone who knew Grant, claims that Grant was a creature of habit and always kept his gear in the cab of his truck. So the inside of his truck, the cab, is where he always kept his gear, not the bed of the truck.

Speaker 3: 46:42

And in July there's a lot of summer storms.

Jule: 46:45

Where was this? that's exactly where it was when police took photos of his truck inside his cab, not in the open truck bed. Ah, was anything in the bed? two tires. Wpi later confirmed that, aaron, that's the the place where they Were going to practice baseball. I like sports, sports, sports. He later confirmed that Aaron Solomon had requested to have the entire facility rented out for his son's session, which was not typical, but WPW PI agreed to it and two employees were at WP. Gosh, that is like a tongue twister for me. Two employees were at WPI in the morning just after 7 am And this was a statement on one of the employees from an official police report and I'm not going to name the employees names, but WPI in Gallatin, tennessee.

Jule: 47:35

Mr Blank was asked to step outside with investigators. He was shown a photograph of the 2015 Toyota Tundra Oh, is it a Tundra? I said Tacoma earlier, i'm sorry. Toyota Tundra truck, which was taken on July 20th 2020. So, the day of the accident in the ditch in front of WPI, he asked.

Jule: 47:56

He was asked to recall exactly how Grant Solomon's body was lying under the truck. He stated that, to the best of his memory, grant's head was barely visible behind the front driver's side tire and his body was positioned diagonally toward the back tire passenger side. He advised that when he came out of the WPI building He saw Aaron Solomon on his cell phone pacing up and down. He said that he could hear Aaron telling Grant that help was on his way. Mr Hall advised that he and Blank were the only two employees at WPI and neither of them were in front In the front where they could observe the incident. He also advised that both he and Blank thought something was wrong with the way Aaron was describing what had happened. He also advised that he remembers that someone found Grant's glasses, hat and cell phone in the ditch After the scene was cleared, but he did not know who had found these items And we are going to talk about who found those items and how. Wait, why did we rent out the whole?

Jo: 49:03

facility Like is this next to the car? The facility like is this necessary?

Jule: 49:07

Well, I thought about that.

Jo: 49:10

Now there's no other guests in the parking lot. Okay, devil's advocate, it's COVID.

Jule: 49:14

Yeah, the beginning of COVID, and that that could be a little worrisome as well. And since it wasn't typical because this is new waters for people You know treading in new waters, that might be that to me that actually didn't Stand out all the cart on its own as something.

Jo: 49:32

I'd like to know how big the facility is. I guess that would tell me more like how unusual it was to rent out the whole thing for batting or pitching practice sports ball.

Jule: 49:42

Um, so we got to talk about autopsy findings. Okay, because this will certainly tell us what we need to know about the cause of death and answer so many of our questions. Are you ready? Well, I wish I could tell you. Ah, stop you're the worst. Aaron Solomon declined to have an autopsy done.

Jo: 50:01

I thought you were cutting off the show. I didn't know. No, there's no autopsy.

Jule: 50:05

Joe At the hospital. He declined to have an autopsy done on his son and he declined to have his son's organs donated. This decision is documented in the official paper Excuse me, in the official hospital paperwork. And he made these decisions before his ex-wife say, where's mom before angie arrived at the hospital And grants remains were also not cremated. So there is a big question of can his remains be exhumed for an autopsy to determine once or for all his cause of death? The cause of trauma to a school? Yes, but what needs to happen? an investigation needs to happen. This is considered a closed case. There needs to be law enforcement action. A judge can agree to order for grants body to be exhumed by the medical examiner, and I did some reading on Tennessee law and, from what I could find, the judge route could be completely avoided If next of kin could request for the body to be exhumed, and I think this would officially be Grant's father, aaron, next of kin, because Aaron was the one who had custody of grant, not angie. Oh, really, and I'm going to go into why that was and tell you about the toxic Background of this family. And it gets deeper and deeper, joe, which all leads up to July 20, 2020, the day that grant died. We're going to take a brief pause for today's episode.

Jule: 51:40

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Jule: 52:28

All right, here's what we need to know. A bat of grants was missing from his baseball bag. Grant had a favorite bat. It was a smaller bat. It was one he absolutely loved. It's the only bat that was missing out of his baseball bag, which was in his truck. Where is it? Is anybody found it? No, where did it go? Why can't we find it? Why are the police not concerned that a contusion to the back of the head Could have caused Grant to go into cardiac arrest, could not? it's? it could be consistent with the blow to the back of the head by a bat. Yeah, possibly, but I mean you could also be knocked off your.

Jo: 53:02

I mean I had a. I have a very close friend here in Tennessee that her kind of same thing. The truck was not in park and Knocked mom over and she had a very traumatic brain injury and almost lost her life.

Jule: 53:15

What if I told you that they found Grant's truck in park? Hmm, in the ditch in park. Is that true? Yes, Huh.

Jule: 53:26

Buried the lead on that one because it's I'm not in park. I have it written down later, but I was like God, bring it out now, huh, okay. Well, there's that His car was in park in the ditch, which means that if Aaron Solomon is to believe his own narrative of what happened, that the car rolled out of park and into neutral, reverse that somebody would then have to have put the car into park before police were able to take crime scene photos. Oh, I said crime scene photos, car accident photos, bink wink, huh. There are no reports of anyone touching the car to put it into park. And Aaron went out of his way on the 911 call to say he was not next to his son in the ditch. So according to Aaron's own account, he was never next to the truck. So that means that Aaron would have to believe that his son's Toyota truck would have malfunctioned enough to kill his son Per his own words.

Jo: 54:27

I wonder what year of truck this is.

Jule: 54:29

I think it's a. It was 2015. Oh okay, The car rolled over his own son. It was in park, so let's connect the not so subliminal dots here. Why would he not have his son's truck examined, Tested, Forensics done? If his son's truck did indeed switch gears on its own and kill his son, then it's clear who is liable. Ask me if Aaron Solomon ever had the car privately assessed.

Jo: 55:00

I'm going to go with no.

Jule: 55:04

Do you know what he does? instead Sells it, He continues to drive the truck His son's truck, the truck which he himself alleges dragged his son and led to his subsequent death for about seven to eight months after grand's death. Then he has insurance claimant as totaled and it's impounded. It's only with mother Angie's dogged fight to search for the truth of her son that she was able to get his truck back into her possession after it was located at the impound lot. She obtains the truck, she has it hidden in a secure parking lot excuse me, a secure garage that Aaron does not know of and then she has it independently forensically tested.

Jo: 55:51

And what comes of that?

Jule: 55:52

You need to hear what the results were next week. In part two, we're going to tell you about Grant's missing cell phone, his cell phone that went on the move according to the Life360 app disappeared from the crime scene and went on the move, how it was suspiciously located. Who found it? We'll talk about Grant's memorial service and the interesting eulogies that were said and not said, and we're going to talk about Grant's plans to face his father in court as a new 18 year old man who had a plan to save his sister from their father. This is true crime and headlines with Jules and Joe I'm Joe, I'm Jules. That's heavy And we'll see you next week And late.

Speaker 4: 56:46

I'm late, i'll see. I'll see, my mama is a podcaster, i'll see. Bye too.