Thanksgiving in 2021, the medical emergency technician Dennis Hobson was called to a house in the small village of Farmersville, Illinois. The house where his friend Chris Smith lived with his dog.
What he faced is the topic of “first deadly history”, which was reported by the “Erin Morriment” reporter on Paramount+.
A 911 call was placed to the Sharif Montgomery County Office by a person checking Smith, and Hobson walked in a bloody scene.
Chris Smith
The side door of the Smith house was broken, and Hobson found his friend-barely alive-dumped on the floors of the kitchen in the blood. Smith was shot in the head and a woman, which was later identified as Leslie Reeves It is the relative, Illinois, she was lying dead on the floor of the living room with a single bullet wound on her head, according to Sharif’s report.
Friends later told Sharif’s deputies that the couple went in their first history the night before meeting online. In the early hours of the investigation, no one knew what happened, but the investigators believed that a third person was involved because a gun was not found at the scene.
Bethani Smith Stefan/Sharon Costanza 
Smith survived the shooting, but he does not remember anything from Thanksgiving Day. Hopson later told him some details. “I have no pulse,” Smith told Mauriti. “My name shouted three times, took moments and said,” My religion, I am free. ”
Hopson Smith later told Tiki that he would likely save his life. The temperature inside the home on the Day of Thanksgiving was more cold than the usual because the suspect broke the glass on the side door.
“But someone was making you warm,” Morarti said. “I had a tiki there,” Smith answered. “My little daughter, my four -legged little daughter.”
Smith owned Tiki, a mixture of Beagle-Terrier, for three years. He says he found her in the Craiglist advertisement and adopted it when it was a puppy. It seems that Tiki was the savior of Smith when she gathered with him, and she gave the warmth that she needed, within 12 hours before he was saved.
“Tell me about [Tiki]Moretarti Smith asked.
He replied, “Well … it seems that – when I entered my religion and saw it lying from me … I was … in the position of the fetus … and she was hugging next to me.”
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The dramatic story of Smith and Rifez, “The First Fight History” and Smith’s wonderful recovery It is first informed in “48 hours”. The broadcast will include an exclusive interview with the convicted killer Reeves, her ex -boyfriend of Robert Tar, who denies that he was the shooter.
The Montgomery County report later gathered what happened that night. Smith and Rifez, after a night of Barhopping and get to know each other, returned to his rented home in Farmersville.
At some time around one o’clock in the morning of Thanksgiving, 2021, the authorities believe that the attacker broke into a side door while Smith and Rifez were in the ground floor kitchen, they were thoroughly frozen pizza at night.
Sherif, a friend of Lavels, told Rvesz that she died immediately and “she did not suffer.”
The investigators later concluded that the attacker that night was Robert (Bobby) Tar, her ex -boyfriend, who secretly followed her to Smith’s house, according to Andrew Arvironti, the public prosecutor in the case.
Tar was convicted of killing and tried to kill in April 2024 and sentenced to 85 years in prison.
Smith, who had three hospital strikes and was placed in a medically impossible coma, has recovered since the shooting and made progress. He still uses a wheelchair and cane, but he returned to singing in the rock & roll music band looking for work.
He was unable to take care of Tiki himself as a recovery, but she lives close, and they often seen each other. Smith also started a business as a motivational speaker and the creation of a website: Chrissmithmotivatingyou.com. He also bought a new house and just suggested his girlfriend, now her fiancé, Michelle Albarisht.
