July 20, 2020.
Grant had just turned 18, like a month ago, and he is a star baseball player, which means colleges are already calling.
And his dad, a former sports newscaster, wants to make sure that he only gets the best calls, which is why they're driving an hour away to this warehouse turned practice location.
It's called the Ward Performance Institute in Gallatin, Tennessee.
It is now closed.
It's like a windowless warehouse style gym.
I imagine that's where like a boot camp gym style would be.
It looks cool, the inside looks great, very well done.
But it has that hardcore energy to it and you're just there to focus on baseball and nothing else.
It has been debated whether or not Grant and Erin had an appointment that day, but if it is true, then it would have been at 9 am.
At this point, Grant and Gracie are living with Angie.
It's like back and forth custody.
They're constantly fighting to get the kids.
At this point, the kids are living with Angie.
So Grant is driving separately to meet with his dad Aaron, both at this one hour away practice location.
Why is it debated if there was appointment?
Both parties argue.
So Aaron Solomon and his side argue that there was an appointment and that's why they went and they were actually early to their appointment.
So they had some time in the parking lot.
Angie and her side argue no, we found out that they don't have an appointment, but this the center is now closed.
So no one can really, and I don't even think that they would disclose.
What?
That's such an easy thing to get an answer, like call the owner.
What?
So it's been debated.
Now, according to Angie, Grant really did not want to go to Gallatin that morning.
He was not feeling well.
He had just recovered from COVID.
His lungs weren't doing great.
He just didn't even want to overexert himself and make it worse for his performance later on.
But alas, he's going.
I mean whether that's self-motivated and not wanting to disappoint himself, or maybe it's not wanting to disappoint his dad, or he just wanted to go.
I don't know.
It's unclear.
I'm so sorry.
Notes on the appointment.
Yes.
It was debated, right?
Yes.
Well, wouldn't there be some kind of record, like some kind of text message or email or something, or
Yeah, I will say that there's so much online but, especially with this particular incident, everything feels like you see one thing online and you see documentation and you feel like oh, that looks very legit.
But then the other party is like, that's absolutely not legit.
And that's not what happened.
OK, so everything it's like no one can agree.
So we can't even be sure that things are certain.
Even the police reports of this incident of Grant's death are pretty sparse.
There's like not a lot of public police reports and they're very thin, very thin.
Is this strange to you?
It is strange, but also we couldn't FOIA it.
We couldn't get a FOIA request.
Now typically, whatever you can find online for public police reports are very slim compared to when you get a FOIA request.
And then you have a Typically more dense police report.
Sometimes you can get the court reporter to give you court transcripts and then you get like a better picture.
This it's like so thin and they're being released by potentially parties involved.
So it can be more selective.
Yes.
So it's just really tricky.
Now, Grant drives up to the parking lot, parks next to his dad.
And then, 10 minutes later, Aaron Solomon is calling 911, stating in a very strange tone that his son is trapped inside, pinned under his truck his own truck, grant's own truck.
He is now under his own truck and he can't get out.
Aaron quickly gives the 911 operator the address and they're asking okay, what's going on?
My son's truck backed over him and he it's rolled over him and dug up the ditch and it's on top of him.
He's trapped under the truck and I, yeah, he somehow, it drug him underneath.
Yes, my son is under it.
I'm trying to, no, I'm trying to call 911.
So it's almost like he's talking to someone that's also present at the scene.
Now the operator is asking him, okay, what's your name?
My name is Aaron Solomon.
Okay, how old is the male?
He's 18.
He just turned 18 a couple of weeks ago, about a month ago.
It's my son.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
This is not good.
Is he awake?
I don't know.
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.
Okay, it's very strange.
It seems vague.
It's interesting because, you know, she says he's not alert, right?
Which would imply that he should be checking on him, but it sounds like he's not the one confirming.
So it sounds like he's not the one visually seeing that his son is not alert.
He's getting this information from someone else at the scene, but he's at the scene.
Yeah, which is crazy.
If this is your son, you should be okay.
You should be under the truck.
Yeah.
But he's not.
And his voice is, a lot of people say, eerily calm.
He's saying like, oh my God.
Oh my God.
This is not good.
Oh my God.
I understand, sir.
Stay on the phone.
Meanwhile, we'll get someone out there.
What kind of vehicle is it at?
It's a Toyota Tacoma and it's the vehicle has, he's underneath the vehicle.
Okay, I've got that.
What color is it?
It's a white truck.
That's my son.
It's somehow backed up.
I'm on 911 right now.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Was your son working on the car?
Very valid question.
Lack of direct communication in times of panic.
I mean, I get it.
It's understandable.
But you also have to see that it's very vague what he's giving to the operator.
Grant ended up under his truck.
We don't know how.
No, no, no, no.
He was just getting out of it.
So he wasn't working under the truck.
He's getting out of the truck.
We're on an incline and I guess he didn't have it on park or something or it wasn't engaged.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I can't believe this.
And he's still under the truck.
No one can get under.
No, no.
We've got units on route to you.
I'm just asking you questions.
Okay.
Can you check on him?
Huh?
For breathing.
Somebody's telling me that he's not coming to.
It's clear that someone else is checking up on Grant and Aaron is relaying this information.
Okay, he's waking up.
Just try to get him still.
Okay, so he's breathing.
He can't move.
I don't think he can move.
I don't know.
Okay.
He really can't move.
He's trapped.
Okay, we got somebody on route.
Now, when he wakes up, he might be scared.
I'm telling him, ma'am.
Can somebody get down there and talk to him?
Yes, somebody talk to him.
Shit, there's blood.
Is he facing up or down?
He's facing up.
He's facing up.
They say he may aspirate.
We need to hurry.
What is going on?
This is such a weird call.
It's such a bizarre call.
So does he have blood coming out of his mouth?
Yeah, he's, yeah, there's blood coming up.
Yeah, somehow it drug him down, I think.
I don't know whether it wasn't in park or what.
I didn't engage the, he didn't engage the brake or it drug him up underneath somehow.
They said he's facing up, but he's bleeding from his mouth.
So Grant, turn your face to the side if you can.
Just be careful.
Don't move him, okay?
We can't move him.
We can't move him.
That provides no context.
So I am going to try to give you as much context as possible after telling you about this 911 call.
The training facility is located on a hill.
So it's right off a pretty busy road.
I was looking at like the Google Earth view and stuff in it.
It doesn't seem like a middle of nowhere road, which is intriguing later when you see all of the facts of this case.
But there are it's a road.
Then you turn right.
I would imagine you turn right and it's up this hill.
It looks steep.
It's a cement little pathway up the hill onto the little parking lot.
It's not even a parking lot.
There's no parking lot lines.
It's just a few spaces you can park on this hill and there's this warehouse on top.
It looks like it's in a more industrial part of the neighborhood.
It doesn't look like this very cutesy Barry's Boot Camp SoulCycle type of facility.
It looks like you go there just to train for baseball and that's it.
You're not here for a smoothie next door.
This is a facility.
There's no windows.
There's just this garage door that is down at the time and a small black door that has no windows that you can enter through.
It's very efficiently done.
I mean, no part of this facility was done for aesthetics.
Even the parking area, only half of the parking area is cement.
The other part is grass.
So you have this strip going up, and on the sides of the strip of cement are just grass and rocks like giant rocks.
I would say they're like watermelon sized.
Some of them are fist size.
A lot of them are grapefruit to watermelon size.
Watermelon is pretty big that maybe there's like one or two watermelon size, maybe more grapefruit size.
But they're pretty jagged rocks.
They don't look like pebbles or stones.
They don't look like someone bought them and put them there.
They look like they were already there.
So you got all these rocks and then grass on the side.
And then once you get past this little driveway, then you just have a little strip of concrete and you can park.
That's it.
It makes sense that they would not get rid of the grass or the rest of the hill because you couldn't even really park there because of the way that the incline is done.
It just wouldn't be feasible.
So they did it just where you can actually park.
If you want to be very simplistic about it, parking lot is on a hill.
There is a ditch at the bottom of the hill with big rocks.
That's as simple as it gets.
Now the ditching pictures sometimes look short, but videos of people who have gone out there.
They say, if you stand at the bottom of the ditch where the rocks are and you stand up tall, It's maybe about like five feet three inches tall.
The ditch is five feet tall.
So you're basically in the ditch.
You're in the ditch.
Like I think it would be pretty hard to climb out of that ditch unless you walk to the sidewalk and then walk up the cement pathway, the driveway.
Okay.
Okay, okay, I see.
Because it's just grass.
I see, I see, I see.
It's just rocks and grass.
I see.
Now the medical report states that when emergency personnel get to the scene, they find an 18-year-old man lying on his back on large rocks in a ditch.
He is underneath the front of the truck between the two front tires.
So his head, he's facing up.
He's on his back and his head is in between the two front tires.
So his feet are facing the street, but the truck is facing the facility.
The medical report states the weight of the vehicle was supported by the wheels and was not being exerted upon onto the patient.
So it's not like the car is crushing him.
This is very important.
Meaning Grant is laying on his back on the rocks in the ditch.
His truck is on top of him, but it's not suffocating him.
It's not crushing him.
Technically, if he were uninjured, he could maybe crawl out of there.
I don't know if he would because of the rocks being jagged, but maybe he could if it was flatland.
Upon initial impression, 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.
Patient is with no obvious deformities upon assessment, although assessment is limited.
Detailed assessment findings are as noted previously.
So they're able to move the truck off of Grant, rush him to the hospital, but he is pronounced dead.
And so now everyone has so many questions.
What was the cause of death?
It was cardiac arrest, actually.
What?
Yeah.
So even just looking at the picture of Grant's car in the ditch, it just hurts.
It doesn't feel right.
Even that 911 call, netizens say it's very freaky.
Like why does the dad sound so cold?
Why does he sound so distant?
One comment reads, he sounds as concerned as somebody ordering a pizza delivery.
Like somebody, what the fuck is happening?
Like this is what evil sounds like.
Another person comments, we need to hurry.
That's what the dad said.
Yet he isn't there to help him.
Why isn't he near his son?
Also the part where he's like, Grant, if you can move your head to the side.
Is that like, that sounds a little performative maybe.
I mean, another comment reads, what the actual heck?
I can hold my hand on my heart and swear on the Holy Bible.
Wild horses would not be able to stop me from trying to help my child.
He is not the least bit bothered.
No emotion in his voice.
No words of comfort to his son.
Nothing.
However, some people are defending Aaron.
Some people write, conspiracy theorists are so funny to me.
The dad is not calm here at all.
He's trying to stay in control and communicate.
You people are all so crazy.
Not everyone is a sexual abuser.
Not every female tells the truth. which I feel like that part, I mean, you can be on Aaron's side.
We don't know what happened, but also, like that, tells me everything I need to know about the commentator.
Not every female tells the truth.
Horrible accident, but it happens 210 times a year.
This exact same thing.
Victims are always between 18 to 23.
As a mom.
It's a very sad tragedy but it's very disturbing how the internet thinks it's both the judge and the jury.
And this dad is not calm at all.
As a parent, he's frantically trying to control himself.
I will say there was someone in my hometown that had actually was in a very similar accident when I was really young.
This was like childhood times, but car ran over.
Car parked on a hill was not engaged in park and it ended up killing him.
But with that one, there were no conspiracies.
There were no whispers around town.
It was very clear it was an accident.
It was very clear what happened.
There were no allegations.
There were not even little bits of people being like, Oh, that was weird.
Like, you remember that?
No one talks about it, but it was weird.
Don't you think it was weird?
It was very clean and cut.
It was devastating and it was a lot, but there was no this.
There was no contention.
There was no discourse around the events.
There was more discourse on like, how can we prevent this from happening to others?
But this is weird.
Okay, question.
Who was there?
Exactly.
Aaron says that there were three witnesses that were there that were helping him talk to Grant, that were surveying and they briefly were assessing if they can try to take the car or the truck off of Grant.
One of the employees that eventually comes out of the facility, they didn't see anything.
Also, there's no security cameras.
There's no security cameras in this facility.
There's no street cameras.
So one of the employees that comes out of the building later on this is, I believe, after the 911 call they say that they saw three witnesses that were there and they were wearing like construction vests.
But by the time that the police get there, the witnesses are gone.
You're kidding me.
They don't give their statement and they have not come forward to this day to say oh yes, I was there and let me tell you what I saw.
That is wild.
It's wild.
It's weird.
That is wild.
Who are these people?
We don't know.
What did Aaron say? that they were just passerbys.
And then, yeah, they were there.
I mean, they were there.
You can hear some voices on the 911 call.
Aaron is clearly talking to somebody.
And then even the worker at the baseball facility stated that he saw three people wearing the construction vests and then just gone, just gone.
We don't know.
We don't know their side of the story.
They're not really even mentioned in the police reports.
The workers in the facility, they didn't see anything.
I mean, by the time that they come out, they see the scene as is.
They don't see how it happened.
They don't see anything.
They don't even see them arriving.
They saw nothing.
And, according to a police report, Aaron's statement is given and he says my son Grant and I pulled into the parking lot separately parked side by side.
I was still in my car but I noticed my son get out of his car 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 and find my son and saw that he was trapped underneath the truck and immediately called 911.
That's his version of events.
This version would indicate that Grant either goes to the backseat of his car or the trunk of his car to get his baseball gear presumably.
But the car malfunctions or was not in park to begin with, and starts rolling down the hill and dragging Grant with the car before he falls into the ditch, hits his head on the rocks and the car lands on top of him.
There's variations of some people think that he was dragged down the parking lot.
Some people think that he was Like using force to push the back of the truck.
But then it's like it's forcing his feet to move back.
But I don't imagine... I mean, none of them make sense.
And I'm not like a physics girl.
I've never been a STEM girly.
But I just... I don't know how that works.
I feel like I imagine a Toyota Tacoma coming down.
I mean, I guess I could... try to ask someone, an expert about it.
I don't know who I would ask.
Does anyone know, right?
But if you were to come down with a Toyota Tacoma, I'm imagining that car is...
Five, 6,000 pounds.
That's a guesstimate.
I can't be accurate.
At least 6,000 pounds.
Yeah, at least 6,000 pounds.
It would have to be coming pretty fast, no?
No, not necessarily at the beginning.
The beginning will be a slow roll.
But then eventually it's fast, correct?
No, if you, like, jag it, like, there's a lot of friction, but it will be moving.
It will be moving and... Do you think that someone could... Stop it?
Or, like, have it slowly... that i don't know that i mean i don't i don't even know what it looks like in my mind right now but i think if six thousand pound is in motion like if decide to you know go down in motion that means it's not gonna be easy because even that point is contentious A lot of people think it makes more sense that he was knocked down by the car and then dragged down the parking lot and then dragged into the ravine because they're saying 6,000 pounds.
There's no way you can try to even...
Like slowly, slowly walk it down into the ditch.
Oh, that's what you're asking.
Yes.
Walking it down, that's crazy.
Not walking it down, but like still standing upright.
Oh, like go down with the truck at the same time as you're standing.
Yes.
Oh, that I don't think so.
Because then people are saying it makes more sense that he was dragged across the pavement.
But there's no blood on the pavement.
There's no indication of anyone hitting the pavement.
There's nothing on the pavement.
I see.
You really only start seeing rocks, or you only start seeing blood on very select rocks around where Grant's head supposedly landed.
I mean, he could like stumble, like stumble back really quickly and just like stumble stumble, stumble.
So that's the first point of contention.
And if it's just one point, I think it's fine.
I think it's something that a lot of times unexplainable things do happen.
But when it's multiple points that are up for debate, it starts feeling a little bit fishy.
So that's the first fishy point.
The second fishy point that doesn't make sense is that, according to various people, when they arrive at the scene, that car was in park.
These are just people on the internet, mainly from Angie and Angie's side.
Perhaps one of the construction workers put it in park to make it more secure.
We don't know because we don't know who they are.
Perhaps it was always in park and the car malfunctioned.
Or perhaps it was never in park, and we don't know because the police reports don't specify.
But it has been widely reported that the car was in park by the time that the police get there.
Which?
If that's the case, can't you prove it by getting the car's black box and figuring out what went wrong?
Did the car malfunction?
What happened?
Well, Aaron apparently declines to have this car forensically analyzed.
Grant's car... is not forensically analyzed to figure out what happened.
Now it is very very very, very unlikely that the car would be in park and still roll down the hill like that, wouldn't it?
Others argue that maybe the car was never in park, but that doesn't make sense.
Because if the car was never in park, Grant would not have time to get out of the car and then get behind the car in a way that it would roll him down and drag him down.
You're saying it's going to go down so much quicker?
Yeah.
It would probably go down while he's in the driver's seat.
Right.
Immediately when he steps out, the car is already going down.
He wouldn't even get behind the car is what you're saying.
Exactly.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
So then it doesn't make sense that the car was never in park.
But if the car is in park... and it's still rolled down, that doesn't make sense either.
And you know, what doesn't make more sense about that is I do think that listen, I don't know what Aaron Solomon is, but if I had to take a personal gander, a personal guess, he seems a little litigious.
He seems like he would like to sue someone.
I think he would sue the shit out of Toyota is what I'm saying.
I think that if he knew that the car was in park and it still rolled down the hill, I think that he would get his black box analyzed and he would sue the shit out of Toyota.
Wait, that is such a good point.
That is my opinion.
I don't know.
That's just what I'm saying.
Wait, that is such a good point.
Yeah, but he doesn't.
I will be so angry.
At the car manufacturer.
Yeah, I will be angry at so many people for something like this to happen.
I would be on a campaign against the manufacturer.
Yes.
Which also, I do love a Toyota.
They're very reliable cars.
So that's also another point that people are like toyota's, especially the toyota tacomas in recent production.
They're like really reliable because they're made for working cars.
But oh, but he doesn't.
He doesn't get it checked out.
He never talks about toyota ever again.
He's never like posting on instagram like don't buy a toyota, nothing.
I mean, maybe he does privately or maybe he has, and I just haven't seen it.
I just it's my personal opinion that I would assume that he is someone that would like to take legal action against a massive corporation that has endless amount of funds.
I'm assuming.
But more than that, even in both versions, the end placement of Grant's body is very strange.
He lands on his back with his face facing the street.
The car is facing the facility because it's reversing down.
So he parks with his front facing the facility and now it's rolling downhill.
But his body is facing the street.
So you would have to imagine there's some sort of tumbling that's happening.
But if there's tumbling that's happening, they can't really.
Angie says that when she went to the scene she couldn't find other points of blood to indicate a tumble happened like impact one, impact two, impact three.
It's just right where his final resting place is.
So it doesn't make sense is what she's saying.
And a lot of people have been trying to do accident recreations through words, which is very difficult to even envision, but it's like no one can agree that this makes any reasonable sense.
It feels like karen reid all over again, in the sense of like.
Even if you really want to believe it, it's so hard to even picture it in a way that doesn't feel like it's straight out of like a movie, because it doesn't make sense.
You have to work really hard to make it make sense visually.
He doesn't have a lot of cuts or abrasions on his body to indicate any sort of rapid or intense tumbling or skidding or dragging had occurred.
And it's strange.
Even then, let's say his car is falling.
He realizes he has nowhere to run and doesn't run sideways, which maybe he can't.
So he just tries to outrun the car and runs into the ditch.
So people were thinking that.
People are like, okay, maybe it's weird.
So maybe he turned around to run away from the car, to outrun it, right?
Mm-hmm.
And then he jumps into the ditch and then he lands on his feet.
And then maybe he lands on his back, hitting his head.
And then the car lands on him.
But there's no fractured ankle.
There's no broken ankle.
There's no trauma to the ankle.
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense, especially when you're landing on jagged rocks.
I do believe that you can probably jump five feet down and you'll be fine. but on jagged rocks.
There's no way, a lot of people are having a hard time.
How is he facing on his back away from the building?
Additionally, Aaron is apparently sitting right there in the car right next to Grant's and he doesn't see what happened.
The next time he looks up, his son and his car are just gone.
So he looks around and he finds them in the ditch.
All that's happening while he's just sitting in his car checking work emails.
Angie says when she goes to see Grant's body in the hospital, Aaron has already rejected an autopsy.
He has rejected donating Grant's organs.
And alarmingly, she says...
Erin, she claims, you know, Erin keeps telling her, we're gonna be a family now.
We're gonna be a family now.
Angie has a lot of questions.
Angie says, this is what she knows.
We know that the car was in park and we know that the cars were in the ignition.
And again, I don't know how accurate this information is.
I don't know if maybe one of the witnesses had asked for the keys prior and had put it in the ignition, trying to move it.
I don't know.
For one, she says the grass, Around that area, completely fine.
The grass where the car apparently ran over Grant before landing in the ditch.
Not a single blade of grass, she states, is even bent or messed up.
It's perfectly fine.
Additionally, most of the rocks are undisturbed and there's barely any blood on them.
Doctors noted that Grant had a major head trauma to the back of his head, including severe lacerations and suspected skull fractures.
He had blood coming from his mouth, nose, and ears.
Angie says that she was expecting a lot more blood on the rocks because when you read the medical report, it sounds like he was bleeding out on the rocks.
Now Erin and a lot of people argue that it was a lot of internal bleeding.
But she's saying that also doesn't make sense, because if he just like fell and hit his head, she's saying it doesn't make sense.
The internal bleeding would make more sense if he was dragged through the pavement ran over, but there's no evidence on the pavement.
There's no blood on the pavement.
So she's saying that doesn't make sense either.
There's no scratches on his skin, according to Angie, no abrasions.
And she's confused by all of this.
Further, it's been questioned how Grant doesn't have burns.
If they had been driving an hour to get to the facility on.
This is, you know, summer in Tennessee.
Underneath that car is hot.
It's very hot.
So if you're in contact with the vehicle, I did ask someone about this.
If you are under a car that has been driving for an hour, like if you're a mechanic, and you get up under there, if you touch the car, you're going to get burns on your body within seconds.
Perhaps the argument is that Aaron wasn't physically touching any part of the car, but the person that I asked.
They said that a lot of mechanics they still would recommend, not because there's radiant heat.
Especially if you're not really accustomed to it, you're going to feel it could burn you.
Now, there's no record of any sort of burns or anything.
According to a Instagram account called Freedom for Gracie.
Now, this is the contentious, highly argued Instagram account.
Aaron says Angie is operating it.
Angie says, no, I'm not.
Aaron wants there to be a subpoena for the IP for the operator of the account.
It's a whole thing, but it does appear that whoever is running it is very close to Angie, because there are a lot of documents that they're able to get their hands on and post on that account that only Angie would have.
I don't know if she's the one operating it.
I don't know if she's one of the people operating it, one of the many people.
But it's just, it's very, yeah.
I don't think it's highly debated.
Why can't she be operating it?
Well, because there's a lot of defamatory, potentially defamatory things on there.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Yeah.
I see.
Okay.
So he's like if you're talking about me under your name, i'm gonna sue you.
Yes, but instead it's a instagram account that's talking about them.
Okay, and angie is like that's not me.
Now this instagram account states that a summer regional medical center document reads that the medical examiner stated his cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Cause unspecified blunt trauma.
Arrest with traumatic brain injury.
The caption for the Instagram post begs the questions.
Why does Grant's body not have bruises scrapes lacerations, burns all over it, if he was dragged across the pavement, riprap and rocks, while being dragged under a truck that drove for an hour?
Wouldn't it be hot under that truck causing burns on his body if he stuck under it?
If someone is dragged across pavement under a truck, wouldn't there be a bloody trail?
Wouldn't Grant have yelled, screamed if his truck started moving if he was out of the truck?
The question is How do you get hit by a truck, roll under the truck, somehow attach to the truck, get dragged by the truck, get thrown in the rocks that are at a vertical angle and miraculously land under the vehicle without any other markings on the back of your body?
The Instagram account alleges, Angie remembers when she saw Grant in the hospital.
His body looked perfect.
She was expecting him to be mutilated with blood everywhere, but instead he just looked like her Grant.
She was in shock at the time, but she remembers thinking in her head, not a scratch?
His body is not squished?
His body isn't torn to pieces?
Nothing?
And there's really nothing.
The witnesses are gone.
There's no CCTV camera.
We just have Aaron's version.
And Angie decides she's going to grill him about that day.
And she's going to record him and make sure that his story never changes.
And this recording, this hour-long recording, is up on YouTube.
Aaron states they had gotten there early.
No rush.
See, this is where, again, people are like, did you have an appointment?
Did you not have an appointment?
That's why the appointment thing is important.
We had gotten there early.
So there was no rush.
You know, we have time.
And he says, the last time I see him is literally like right here.
And he's like showing Angie how he's closing the front door of the truck.
The truck is there.
They're like using the truck right now as like a show and tell, so confused and the truck looks fine.
That's another thing.
There's like no damage to the truck.
So he's like opening the driver's side door and uh, he's like closing in.
He's like yeah, this is when i last see grant.
And then he motions like he's about to open the back door.
So he's saying the last time i saw grant he's getting out of his driver's side, closing the driver's side and then opening the back.
Or it looks like he's trying to open the back And he says I'm thinking oh, he's just gonna get his gear and I'm gonna check this email to make sure it's not important, and then I'm gonna get out and we're gonna go in.
But when he gets out, he doesn't see Grant.
He sees Grant's car at the bottom of the ditch and quote I'm not thinking worst case scenario at the very beginning, when I first got out of the car.
I start coming down this hill and at first I'm looking through the windshield to see if he had hopped back in by chance, because I don't see him standing there.
So he's like, oh, did he get into the car?
And now he had like driven into the ditch.
So I'm like, maybe he got back in somehow and I don't see him.
So I'm above the hill and I look down and he says that he could tell instantly that Grant wasn't covered up by the wheels.
Like he's not, none of the wheels are on Grant.
Or he saw him immediately under the truck.
Yes.
And that's maybe why he sounds so calm in the 911 call.
What?
I don't know.
In my mind, in my opinion, in my personal personality and my panic for loved ones being in danger.
I can't relate.
But he said that that's why?
No, he lists a bunch of other things.
Oh.
He says he didn't see him being crushed by a wheel or anything.
Aaron is explaining to Angie that he clearly saw that the front tires are not on top of Grant.
He is not sure if the back tires ran over Grant.
He doesn't know anything.
He says, I don't know.
I didn't actually see everything happen.
He says that he doesn't jump down the side of the ditch because he's well one.
He's immediately calling 911.
But also a couple of guys were telling him he needs to sit down right now, indicating that he's so distraught that maybe it's best for him to not go down into the ditch.
What?
What is going on?
Aaron theorizes out loud.
Also, are those guys just happen to be there immediately at the right time?
That doesn't make sense.
If he's calling the cops and they're already there before him, we know 100.
There were people there because it's on the call.
We think that there's three guys.
The employee could have been wrong, but we can at least hear one other voice.
Now, Aaron theorizes out loud.
Let's say by chance the back door caught him.
So he's saying maybe by chance he opened the back door and the car starts lining down.
Let's say by chance the back door caught him and he gets knocked out somehow when he first hid.
And it drags him down the parking lot, down the ditch, and he tumbles down through the ditch.
His head could hit two, three times.
He states that the car bumper was basically on the street because it fell down the side of the hill with so much force that it just like went bloop back up onto the street.
Back up on the street?
Okay, to give you an idea, the ravine, the little ditch.
It's like a tiny incline back up onto the street.
So like down the ditch and then like a tiny little speed bump.
And that's the street.
Okay, so he's saying it just fell with so much force that it almost went back up onto the street.
Because when you look at the picture of the car, the weird thing is the head, the nose of the car is going down into the ditch from the street.
That's almost what it logically looks like if you just look at the picture.
That's what I thought happened when I just first came across this case, back when it happened and I saw the first picture.
That was my initial thought.
And then I quickly realized that's not what happened.
It backed up.
But when you think about backing up, I just imagine it landing very differently.
And so I think to come up with a logical reason, whether it be true or just him even trying to understand the situation, or
I don't know, something more nefarious.
It reversed all the way back onto the street rather than driving off.
People think it's like driving off the street into the ditch.
My descriptions.
Okay, let me be a little more clear.
Why does that detail matter?
I guess is what I'm trying to understand.
Yes, so another theory is that Grant is either placed into that ditch or...
Or someone hit him on the head with a rock and he fell into the ditch.
And then someone drove the truck from the road into the ditch covering his body.
If the car were to reverse down the hill and run Grant over, it's a steep hill.
Yes.
And when it goes down this steep hill, some people would imagine and maybe this defies the laws of physics that it would land, maybe almost still, up the hill.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, yeah.
Like the bumper would get caught on something or maybe it would even flip.
Or the back of the truck is like in the ditch, correct?
Yes, that's what people imagine.
Yeah.
But Aaron is saying perhaps it went down the hill with so much force because the back of the car is not in the ditch.
The front of the car is in the ditch.
And the back of the car is kind of on the sidewalk.
No, it's on the opposite side.
It's onto the other side of the ditch now.
Yes.
That makes sense.
So I envision a V. Yes.
Instead of, you know, the back of the truck is at the bottom.
Right now the top of the truck is at the bottom because it's reversed into the other end of the V.
Now
Yes.
But it's like a very like small incline for the sidewalk.
Right, right, right.
I see.
I see.
I see.
But people are saying it is very weird.
Yeah, so the theory is the truck was never up there.
You just drove straight from this side.
Yeah, into the ditch.
Now, there are other things confirming... Wait, is that why somebody think...
Grant's head is facing up, because if that's the direction see, that's why I'm having such a hard time picturing, because the way you're describing the recount of the story makes it so hard, versus if you're just saying the car, drive off, it makes it easier to envision.
And the recount of this story is very confusing.
Even when I am seeing the pictures, I cannot… Usually, I'm a very visual person.
If I even read a few sentences about how a series of events happened, I can usually picture it very clearly in my mind.
This with the pictures.
And I kept thinking, I'm just really not a car person.
I'm just really not a physics person because I can't see it.
I can't see this occurring.
Wow okay wow wow yes yes okay wow, okay.
There's not any sort of variation of this scenario where i go oh okay i, i can see that, it just is weird.
I can't see.
It's like fuzzy.
Wow, this is insane.
Okay, Now people are saying that the car is also very strange.
So Aaron is saying well, maybe it just fell with so much force that it ends up.
You know, the bumper side is almost on the sidewalk now because it was just going down that fast.
Aaron states, you know, but And me being there makes it even worse for me because I'm like, what if?
You know, I wish I had.
He says in hindsight, he wishes he had just gotten out of the car right when he had gotten there.
And he says that it just makes it so difficult for him because he was there when this happened.
Then he says something that rubs Angie and everyone the very wrong way.
He says, there are so many what ifs.
That's why I said it has to be a God thing.
Because it's so freaky.
It's so freaky.
And because I didn't see the whole thing, I mean, nobody knows except God.
Aaron later states, that's why they call it a freak accident, because it's unexplainable.
That's the only way I can't.
Like I said, I thought the other day, You know it's that it's a God thing, because none of it makes sense.
I guess it's, I don't know.
Even people who are religious were just saying this is a very weird.
Usually a lot of religious people will say if they ever experience something as traumatic as their child passing away before them, there is initially a lot of anger with God.
And there might even be a testing of faith and perhaps even a loss of faith and a turning away from religion after incidents like this.
But the fact that he's so very quickly is like it's a god thing.
What do you mean?
It's a god thing, like god wanted this to happen, like that's very odd.
It's not a normal thing to say and i'm not a religious person, but a lot of religious people in the comments have been saying No, that's weird.
I just would not ever say that as someone who is a strong believer and has someone of faith.
Now Aaron is saying that he's holding it together for the 911 call, trying to be there for Grant by getting the authorities there as quickly as possible.
Let's say that's all true.
He's so distraught that he can't even see Grant in the ditch because he will freak out.
He cannot even go near Grant.
You can only stand on top of the ditch and call 911.
If that is true, tell me why this distraught man is now laying in the rocks at the ditch to recreate the scene for Angie, and it's being recorded.
Aaron, straight up, gets down on his back on the rocks, head up in the clouds, just staring blankly while Angie is filming him and Aaron is placing his body where he states Grant's body was.
And one of Angie's friends who happens to be there.
You just hear her say Aaron, you don't have to do that.
You don't have to do that.
But Aaron just keeps casually saying like, he's like this.
The 911 call, I kind of understand a bit more.
I do think that when things get really, really high stakes, I actually can present more calmly than when things are just kind of high stakes.
Like when things are just going wrong, I'm full panic mode.
But then when things are like really severe, I can actually be a little more calm.
So I can understand why some people can come off more cold in these moments.
So that part, the 911 call, it's weird.
I will say it's weird.
I'm still in the ditch.
I think the voice is less of a problem for me.
A lot of people don't like that he sounds calm, that he sounds cold, that he keeps saying, oh my god.
That part I can kind of understand.
But the fact that he doesn't get in the ditch, I don't understand that at all.
That's the part where the 911 call throws me off.
Sounding calm and trying to be effective and outcome focused with your communication is not the biggest deal breaker in believing someone is innocent or guilty.
But this part is weird.
That's the level of calmness in the 911 call that he depicts, because he states that he's trying to keep it together.
But now that he's had time to process it and now that he knows that his son is deceased, there must be some sort of unraveling of emotions and almost like the shock and the grief is now hitting you and you must present something right.
But no, he's just laying in the ditch in the rocks being like, oh yeah, he was just like this.
And this is recent?
Yeah, yeah.
Right after?
Yeah.
Huh.
And he didn't seem emotional about it?
No, he seems like he's trying to explain the situation.
I don't know if it was like the day of or the day after, but it seems at least.
The insinuation is that it was very close to the incident.
Because they're talking about the grass and how the grass is not dented and bent.
Oh, they're at the site checking out the condition.
I see.
I imagine if it was taking place a week later, they would not be able to point out those things in a way that makes it a deal.
Was police investigating right away?
I don't know what the police were doing.
They said they investigated. but they very quickly closed the case.
And they don't really give us factual information on why they closed the case.
They don't tell us hey, we did A B, C and D and we've come to the conclusion that there's no foul play.
They're just like, no, it's a closed investigation.
Naturally after this, everyone, especially Angie, is more confused about what happened that day.
She said, one, there was really no investigation.
Two, wasn't Grant's truck found in park?
Three.
So it went out of park and then back into park and then was completely fine to drive after that.
I would want to put the car up there again just to see if it would roll down.
In park or.
That's true.
Right.
If I'm the dad, I will do that again, just to check and show like OK, there's something wrong with this car that killed my son.
OK, I think in my personal opinion, if Aaron Solomon has nothing to do with Grant Solomon's death, which legally he has nothing to do with Grant Solomon's death as of right now.
That's one thing.
I do think that, personal opinion, I don't think he's a good dad.
Just for the sole fact of like, when you watch Angie's video of him trying to figure out what happened to his son, He's like in the car in the Tacoma.
And he's like, I guess it like popped out of park.
And it's just like, I wouldn't even take this half-baked answer for if.
Hmm.
My utensils went missing in the house.
I'd be like, I got to investigate.
I got to figure it out.
It's going to keep me up at night.
Like, what do you mean?
And he's a news anchor.
Yeah.
So he...
But he's just like, I guess it's very quick to accept that this is a quote-unquote freak accident.
Yeah, that's weird.
And usually a lot of people and I was on Reddit too a lot of people were saying that with freak accidents, it's actually difficult to accept because you start um, there's a lot of like well no, that doesn't make any sense.
Closure yeah, it feels very like unsettling.
You don't feel settled with what's happened, and it takes a longer time to get to the grieving stage, but it seems like he's very quick to accept like okay well, something happened.
We don't know what, but it's sad, Odd.
Odd.
Odd.
And like not to compare anything, but a lot of people are like.
I wouldn't even accept that closure if this were like my dog.
Like you wouldn't want to get to the bottom of it.
Like who, what?
Yes.
This is my loved one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do you mean?
I'm not just going to move on.
Now, the only witness to all of this is Aaron Solomon.
There are no video cameras within a mile or so.
Aaron had stayed parked at the top of the parking lot, never went down to go near Grant.
Why doesn't he go to his son?
We don't know.
Angie believes that there is no evidence that Gran was ever even at the top of the parking lot.
She firmly believes that he was rather placed in the ditch and the car was driven into the ditch.
But if what Angie is alleging is true, what motive does Aaron have to kill his own son?
Grant's friends say.
Also his girlfriend at the time of his passing, Hannah.
We've actually talked to her briefly.
She's very sweet.
There's a lot going on obviously with the case now that Angie is facing her own charges.
And I will say, a lot of people have opinions about Angie or Aaron.
I think that a lot of the third parties, such as Grant's girlfriend at the time, Hannah.
There's really no incentive.
There's no incentive for them to say something that may not be true or for them to exaggerate anything.
If anything they have– I feel like their motives are very pure, because a lot of people question Angie's motives.
They're saying there's a lot of things that have been disproven later that we're going to get to, or there's a lot of things that maybe she said that were not– factually accurate, and she probably knew it wasn't factually accurate.
There's just a lot.
It gets very messy.
There are text messages.
She gets caught in a lie at certain times in court.
Some people have a lot of sympathy for that, saying that it was just a lot of abuse and she's just desperate to get her kids and she shouldn't have lied, but she felt like there was no choice.
Other people are saying like, if she's lying about that, we don't know what else she's lying about.
I think ultimately I will say with, The days passing, more people are against both the parents.
It seems like they just don't like both the parents and they think that Gracie is a victim.
Whether she is a victim of sexual assault by her dad, whether she is a victim of being manipulated by her mother or maybe a combination of both.
Everyone believes Gracie.
They want to help Gracie, but it seems like more and more people are kind of turning on both of the parents.
At first everyone was heavily in support of Angie, but the tides have been kind of shifting to just not that they like Erin, but like maybe we don't like both of you.
So people want to protect Gracie, and I think that's why a lot of people think that third-party perspectives are more pertinent to this case, such as Grant's ex-girlf- or girlfriend at the time, Hannah.
There were talks from Grant's friends that he was trying to get custody of Gracie now that he was 18 and Gracie is still a minor.
So he wanted to get Gracie out of the situation with Aaron.
And now that he's 18, he could legally do that.
And there's this conversation that he saw that his mom was not getting believed in the court system.
He's a guy.
He's a young man.
He has a potential baseball career ahead of him.
He seems like he would be a good, reliable person in the court system that the judge would be inclined to believe.
So this friend who came out who said this that's a real account of someone's statement.
This friend told angie Oh, okay.
So that is where it gets tricky.
However, Grant's girlfriend at the time, Hannah she, has come forward to say that his relationship with his dad has always been rough.
He never really talked about it with her, but she would notice that he would sometimes get emotional.
There was one point where he cried because he didn't want to go back to his dad's place.
And it just seemed like there was something going on.
He was always extra protective of her when his dad was around, which she thought was strange.
So because of that, she didn't really have a lot of interactions with Aaron Solomon.
It seems like she does feel like the dad is weird.
Now again, can the dad be weird and the mom be weird?
Yes.
But also the dad could just be weird by himself, you know?
And there's a lot of things that the Freedom for Gracie Instagram account has been posting, such as pictures of the inner portion of Gracie's thigh.
Angie states that that thigh, there's a bruise on there.
It is from... her being assaulted by her father.
Erin claims it's from a rash from her swimsuit, because I think she was on the swim team at the time, so that's been up for debate.
But there is another Instagram video that Angie claims that she took when she went to go see Gracie at a baseball game or like at one of the high school games, and it's talking about how Erin would put soap in her during bath times and it hurt and she didn't like it.
A lot of people have problems with this video being posted.
The video of Gracie's talking?
Yeah, you can hear Gracie talking.
You can't see her.
It's almost like Angie was hiding her phone.
It's so hard because I do see people's own perceptions and stories tainting their version of events.
Some people who have had very narcissistic parents growing up say this is exactly what my mom or dad would do.
They would plant these stories in my head and the way that Angie is leading these questions and saying things like tell me what your dad would do again.
It's exactly like trying to get ammo on camera and use it against everyone.
Yeah.
So those people are pulling from their own anecdotal experiences which, I mean, are completely reasonable, right?
We're all human.
And then other people who have been essayed by family members or in general are saying I mean, this is what happens.
This is the only evidence you can get because you can't really gather evidence.
And like, you would be surprised at how often this happens in family units.
And so I think it's just really difficult to say, it's just hard.
And then I start getting in my own head of like okay well, am I tainted by my own personal experiences on how I personally feel about this case?
Not that my personal opinion even matters in any sense of.
And there's also this video of Aaron where he goes to pick up Gracie from her school.
Gracie does not want to go with Aaron.
She's like, I don't want to go with you, dad.
I want to wait for mom.
At this point in time, it seems that Aaron has custody of the kids.
And so he's saying, we've had this conversation a number of times, but it's going to stop.
Gracie will be coming with me at some point, whether you like it or not.
He's talking to even the school administrators.
It will happen because I'm not going to continue to allow us to be breaking the rules.
And you shouldn't be allowing it either.
And it's not just about what you want right now.
It's much bigger than that.
And I've tried to play nice and be nice about it.
And you've been with your mom way more than you're supposed to.
And way more than what the judge...
And then Gracie is like, but I want to.
And he's like, it's not about what you want.
So even this clip, a lot of people are pulling from their own personal experiences.
Some people are saying, I had a parent just like this.
They were heavily abusive.
Like this is their nice side in front of people in public.
Imagine what they're like behind closed doors.
Other people are saying it just seems like he's being very firm and probably not nice, but it's not.
He recorded this.
No, oh yeah, who did?
I will it?
Freedom for gracie posted it.
Who's holding the camera?
Like you can't really tell.
Just somebody's holding the camera yeah, i mean, i am, maybe it's angie.
Oh, it's just a video of him and gracie, like it looks like a secretly recorded video of gracie and him.
Oh yeah, i don't think that i heard angie's voice in there and i also imagine that if angie was there he would be talking to angie.
He'd be like you gotta not be doing this so confusing okay, But regardless, Angie says that Grant wanted to get his sister out.
And Angie believes that Grant knew that Aaron was not happy with this.
She says, before Grant left that morning to go to Gallatin, he stopped in front of my door and said something that was so out of character.
He said, mom, I don't want to die in Gallatin.
So I begged him, I pleaded with him to like not go or I would go with him.
Let me sit in the parking lot.
I thought he was talking about his lungs from COVID.
He was getting over that.
We had to have x-rays done and see doctors.
I just I didn't want to be a helicopter mom, but I just thought it might just be.
It might just be that the lungs
He said, no mom, you're not going.
An hour later, I got a phone call. that he's gone.
The GoFundMe for Justice for Grant reads Aaron Solomon, who is currently free to roam the streets as if he weren't a rapist, molester and murderer.
We believe Gracie's older brother and protector Grant, lost his life at the hands of the same man, the only witness to Grant's death, who has yet to tell the same story twice?
Aaron Solomon was never investigated.
The case was simply closed.
With your donations, we will bring this man to justice before he can do any more harm to Gracie and her mother Angie, or anyone else.
Gracie needs help paying her legal fees and Gracie needs...
And Angie needs help hiring people to do the work for Grant that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Gallatin Police Department have refused to do.
We can't let the good old boys win.
Grant lost his life at a time when he was just about to speak out against his father for sexually abusing his little sister.
It was his life's mission to protect Gracie, and now he can't.
Gracie demands the safety and freedom that she's been denied over and over and over again.
And she demands justice for her brother.
She demands accountability for the corrupt court system that put them in this position and the corruption that continues to deny them justice.
During Grant's vigil, a candlelit vigil, everyone was chanting justice for Grant.
People were holding up signs.
Reopen the investigation.
Stop denying the truth.
But the police won't.
They won't open the investigation.
In Gracie's YouTube video she states Since then 2020, Angie has been very active on social media trying to build awareness for this case, for Grant Solomon.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that they raised close to 200000 for the Freedom for Grant and Freedom for Gracie GoFundMe accounts combined.
Angie says all she wants is a proper investigation, an autopsy well, an exhumation now a toxicology report, an accident reconstruction, something.
But she got nothing.
So now she wants to use this money for that.
For a long time, Angie is on podcasts, on social media, talking about what we can do to help.
And then she just disappears.
Like a year or two ago, she starts slowing down in podcast appearances.
She doesn't disappear per se, but a lot of creators report that they could no longer get in contact with Angie.
She just kind of ghost them.
Others are saying that the social media profiles are oddly quiet out of nowhere after 200000 have been raised.
You know, it's just quiet and there's not much news, not much updates until earlier this year.
Angie Solomon is arrested for a bizarre murder-for-hire plot to have Aaron Solomon killed.
And now everyone is confused.
Because is Angie Solomon, a desperate mom who is just trying to get justice for her own son and take justice into her own hands because nobody's listening to her?
She's going on podcasts.
Nobody's listening to her.
She's going on News Nation.
The police aren't reopening the investigation.
She's going on doing on all these things and nobody is caring.
So maybe she felt like she had nothing else to lose and this is what she has to do for her daughter.
Or is Angie Solomon...
Did she take the $200,000 and what did she do with it?
Maybe she had no plans to reopen the investigation.
Maybe that was a ploy to get money.
Maybe she brainwashed Gracie into believing that her dad abused her all so that she can get Aaron Solomon's million dollar trust.
Or is Angie Solomon unwell and has she brainwashed her daughter into believing in all of this abuse?
And now that they've raised 200000 from the GoFundMes which, by the way, she doesn't have anymore, clearly because she couldn't even pay the hitman.
Where did that money go?
Hmm.
That's a big question.
Where did that money go?
And now that she's run out of that money, supposedly is she after Aaron Solomon's million dollar trust.
What is the motive?
Is it justice or is it money?
That's what they're arguing.
So with that, that is where I leave you with this part of this case.
I will be back for the next part and let me know your thoughts.
Stay safe and I will see you in the next one.
