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#LeteciaStauch murder trial. We'll continue watching video of Letecia's interview with detectives on January 29.
Letecia is describing how on Monday, January 27, her and Gannon rode to Petco and he stayed in the car because he wasn’t feeling well. Letecia said he was keeping an eye on him, and she kept walking toward the front of the store to look out the window toward the car.
Letecia said her and Gannon returned home around 2 p.m. She said when she walked inside the home, she heard something downstairs. “I didn’t think anything about it… And the guy was in there. I gave him the code, and it was all my fault… I gave him the code to fix our carpet.”
Letecia said she heard something in the storage closet and, “He was standing in there, and he had on gloves and he had one of the guns. I was terrified, and then he just knocked me down.”
Letecia said she was “crying and freaking out, and blacked out for a little bit.”
Letecia said she couldn’t find Gannon, but the guy was still in the home. She said she went back upstairs. “The reason I sent Laina away is because I wanted her to be safe too.. I sent her on a mission to get the mail. So I just started making up things for Laina to do.”
Letecia admitted to detectives, “I did lie, when they came, I did say Gannon left. He never did, he never left to go play.”
Letecia said she lied about what happened because she didn’t want to face the consequences of it being her fault, and giving the code to “the carpet guy” who went into her home.
She said she was pacing the house questioning what to do. She admitted to the fact she should’ve got on the phone immediately and call 911, but she kept thinking it was all her fault. Letecia said, “In my mind, I thought I could fix this.”
Letecia said when she called 911, “I should’ve told them what really happened.”
Letecia is now describing how she got a rental car from the airport, saying she had a leased car and didn’t want to go over on the mileage as they were driving around searching for Gannon.
Letecia said she parked her car in the short-term parking lot at the airport. She admitted that she told Al, that her car was parked at a local elementary school.
Letecia was asked to describe the burns on Gannon’s arms and where they were. She went over what happened when putting the fire out, that Gannon was asleep but then woke up, and was hanging off the side of the sofa. She said he was alert, saying sorry and he didn’t mean to do it.
During her interview, Letecia is now describing how she met “the carpet guy.” She said she went over to where the new builds were in her community. She said she met a guy named “Eduardo or Edgardo.”
She said she asked if he had the carpet for the home, and he said yes. She said she then gave him the code to the garage and told him the area of where the carpet needed to be fixed downstairs in the home.
Letecia said she had left $50 on the counter and told “the carpet guy” to take that for the job he was doing to fix the carpet.
Letecia was then asked to go into further details about what happened when she got home. Letecia said, “I’m one of those people that tries to not think mental health is always an issue… I’m not going to let that be a stigma that I’m going to have mental health problems”
Letecia began crying with her head in her hands, then said a few times, “I don’t want to dream anymore.” She said she’s trying to block it out, and doesn’t want to be specific. The interview then continues.
Letecia was then asked to describe again what happened when she found the carpet guy in their home. She said the doors to the gun cabinet in her room were open, and she didn’t think much of it.
Letecia said when she was in her room or walking back and forth upstairs, she heard a noise downstairs, and she went downstairs. She said she then put two and two together, that the guy had taken a gun.