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We all thought that the

2003-2004 season was the year,

the year it was going to happen.

We just had a huge group

of players come in.

We had R.T. Guinn, Ellis Kidd,

Patrick Dennehy has a red shirt

and then Carlton Dotson,

all of those players

make us a better team.

Carlton Dotson had not signed

a scholarship yet.

I went up and looked at him and

Carlton was very, very skilled,

offensively, somebody I

thought would be good

for part-time minutes.

[Dolcin] Yeah, Hurlock, it's

a rough little town, man.

Small town, dirt roads,

you know.

So, it's just not a

good place to live

and if you do live there,

you want out of Hurlock.

You know, nobody wants to stay.

The little area of Hurlock,

not much happening up there.

The four years that I had

Carlton, we won 85 games

and we won more basketball games

than had ever been won

at North Dorchester.

Carlton was the leader

of the team.

He was basically our

LeBron James.

He knew his talent was

going to take him places.

Everybody knew they was going

to see Carlton on TV one day.

Everybody knew Carlton

was going to make it.

In 1999, North Dorchester went

to the State Championship game

and brought home the

first State Championship

that North Dorchester ever had.

It was a big deal

for our community.

I'll never forget coming

through town that night,

we were escorted in with

the Hurlock police

and Sheriff department,

sirens going,

people out on their

front porches,

waving to us and stuff.

It really did something

for the kids.

It really did.

Carlton had a good

personality.

He was friendly to be around.

He wasn't arrogant at

all about his abilities.

There are some kids that

don't let you in, you know,

but he did and I got

bonded with him.

He spent the night at my house,

you know, eat at my house,

mess around with my kids.

I would be proud if he

married my daughter.

[Marlowe] Carlton was the

closest to Patrick at Baylor.

You know, he started to

become friends with Carlton

pretty quickly.

They kind of clowned around.

They seemed like good buddies.

Patrick lived in

student housing.

Four people could

live to an apartment.

Dottie was his roommate

at the time.

He mentioned Dottie

being a cool guy.

Carlton always talked to me,

when he was around,

about this guy named Patrick.

They was friends

and he talked so well about him.

[Marlowe] They were goofballs

and they seemed to have

a good relationship.

I was with Northeastern

Oklahoma.

Coach came to me and after

the game, he was like,

"Man, great game.

We need you at

Baylor University.

We want you."

Okay, cool.

That's it, that's all

I needed to hear.

[Abar] Harvey was typical

junior college transfer.

I would say that Harvey Thomas

had maybe more potential

than Patrick, but I still would

give the edge to Patrick.

[Thomas] They flew me

down to Waco.

They assigned Dennehy

to be my chaperone.

Pat picked me up

from the airport.

First thing he asked me was

like, "Hey, man, you smoke?"

I say, "Yes, of course," and

right then and there I said,

"Hey, we going to be just fine.

We're going to-- you know,

we're going to get along well."

He told me my apartment would

be ready in three to four days,

but you can just stay with Pat

until your apartment is ready.

I'm cool.

I'm cool with that.

I'm sleeping on the couch

and Dotson had a room,

I think in the back, wherever,

but once I got there,

I ended up calling my cousin,

Larry Johnson.

I called him and told him,

"Hey man, I just got to school.

Get on a Greyhound

and come on down."

[Abar] Larry was kind of

always around.

He's basically

Harvey's sidekick.

He's basically his friend,

he's hanging out,

he's getting to see the life

that Harvey is about to live.

He's just a friend that,

you know, a hanger-on.

The initial job that I was

offered at Baylor University

was the Director of

Basketball Operations.

Coaching at Baylor was moving up

to the big leagues for me.

I went to school there

and coaching the Big 12

was something I did not

want to miss.

I accepted that position,

officially,

June first of 2003.

And then, it go... you know,

things went crazy.

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Patrick was always very calm,

cool and collected,

but he called me frantic.

I had never heard him like this.

I had never heard him

this scared of anything.

Something's up.

I'm like, "What?"

And he's like,

"I don't know what to do."

He's like, "I can't

say over the phone."

Which struck me as odd,

but... okay.

And he told me he was

being threatened.

And he said, "Well Dottie's

being threatened too

and I've got his back."

Which made me think that

it was directed at Dotson.

And I said, "From what?"

He said, "I can't say."

And he's like, "I need help."

He started to tell me

that he was not certain

about this player that

Dave Bliss had recruited

and brought in.

This Harvey Thomas.

Well, I told him that

he definitely needed

to reach out for help.

I said "Look, you need

to talk to your coaches."

I mean, that's the whole

thing that these coaches say.

"Oh, we're here for you,

we're here to take care of you."

And I mean, they really do keep

very close tabs on these guys.

He did come to the coaches

to talk about it.

He did tell me that he was

scared and that there were

weird things going on

and I shouldn't...

things that if I knew,

I would be afraid as well.

[Marlowe] He didn't feel safe

and he and Carlton felt

that the best move for them

was to go buy guns.

To my knowledge, Patrick

had never used guns,

never even held one

that I knew of.

[Marlowe] You know, it went

from a, "We feel like we need

to buy guns," to, "Well, we have

guns and we're going out

and practicing shooting."

[Turk] Me and Patrick were

roommates for at least a year.

I do not believe there were

ever any guns in the apartment

before Harvey.

There previously hadn't been

a lot of guns around.

I have no experience with guns,

I didn't grow up hunting,

never been around guns, so it

was kind of a big deal to me

to suddenly see all these

guns around.

I remember, you know, coming

home from work and my door

was deadbolted and, you know,

when I knocked on the door,

they opened it and they

were holding a rifle.

There was just always this

vague, kind of description.

Like, "Hey, don't let Harvey in,

don't answer the door.

Don't let people in unless we're

here, period, no matter what."

There was an evening where

I was at home alone

and someone knocked on my door.

I came to the door to

answer the door.

I looked through the peephole.

There was someone at my door.

He was an African American,

probably 6'5" or taller

and he had what looked like

a handgun, you know,

holding it in a position

that I could see it.

It wasn't concealed, it was

clearly a threatening move.

I assumed it was Harvey.

[Okopnyi] And then a few days

later, Patrick said he was

coming to my house with Carlton.

I said, "Stay with me, we'll

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