[Narrator] Tragedy strikes a peaceful Florida community
when a young father is gunned down in his home.
It appeared to be some type of gunshot wound to the head.
[JD] We have to believe that it's somehow related to
sex or intimacy, because we have an unused condom
laying on the floor.
[Narrator] In search of justice,
investigators must open a Pandora's box
into the victim's love life.
[Narrator] As the blame shifts between suspects,
authorities will uncover a disturbing conspiracy
of revenge,
fueled by a deadly romance.
[Georgia] She identified the target.
She was the one that had the motive.
It was a combination of wanting revenge and financial gain.
It was destined that somebody was gonna die that day.
[theme music]
[muffled scream, gasp]
[Narrator] In the heart of Florida's Big Bend
lies the state capital of Tallahassee.
[Georgia] We do have the capital here.
We also have several universities here.
So it's kind of got a small town feel,
but there's also quite a lot going on.
[Narrator] On July 12, 2005,
one family has grown increasingly alarmed
about the whereabouts of 24-year-old Mylon Lowe.
[JD] They had spent all afternoon
trying to make calls to get a hold of Mylon.
Hadn't had any contact with him.
They grew more and more concerned.
Mylon's mother called me,
and had been calling Mylon that morning.
And she told me, she said, "Robert,
I am going to go to Mylon's apartment."
She took one of Mylon's good friends with her, Tim.
[JD] They tried to make entry.
Ultimately, didn't have any contact.
[Robert] She called me when she got there.
She said, "Robert, I have called the landlord,
and he said he has another key,
but I'm tired of waiting on him."
They finally tried to find their way in,
and ultimately were able to jimmy the door and go inside.
I heard her scream...
and drop the phone.
I knew something was wrong with my baby.
I knew something was wrong with my baby boy.
Tim picked the phone up and he said,
"Mr. Robert, we found Mylon. He's not breathing."
Mr. Lowe had very obvious head trauma.
His head was in a pool of blood.
[Narrator] Mylon's friend immediately calls 911.
[JD] They dispatch patrol officers,
and once patrol officers got there,
they could see, you know, Mylon laying on the floor,
kind of in a semi-fetal position.
It was obvious that he had some trauma about his head.
And clearly he had deceased.
I was on call for the homicide unit,
and I responded to the scene.
When law enforcement arrived,
there was something a little unusual going on at the scene.
His mother was present,
and she was rummaging through the apartment,
looking for items.
That's not something you would normally expect to see.
That immediately caused some concern for us.
[Narrator] An officer escorts Mylon's mother
out of the apartment
as detectives begin processing the scene.
[JD] We walked in the apartment.
Um, I noted that most of the lights were off.
Made our way through the apartment
and ultimately to Mylon's bedroom.
He wasn't wearing any clothing
except for a pair of boxer shorts.
There were two gunshot wounds that the victim had sustained,
one to his right cheek and one to the top of his head.
The second wound is the most telling one
regarding the motive for this crime,
which was to kill,
because it was an execution-style contact wound
to the top of the head.
[JD] You start asking yourself,
"Why would this person be," ya know,
"lying in his bedroom floor, in his boxer briefs,
with a gunshot wound to his head?"
[Bobby] That was probably the worst day of my life.
My father called me.
And my dad was just like, "He's gone, he's gone."
I'm like, "Who?" And Pop calmed down, you know.
And I'm like, "Who? What you talkin' about?"
And he's like, "Mylon, he's dead."
I don't know anybody that didn't like my brother.
And I just started screaming
like I've never screamed before in my life.
Just screamed no.
I started beating on my steering wheel in my car.
All I could do was scream and cry.
[Narrator] Growing up with six brothers and sisters,
Mylon Lowe had always been the glue
that held his family together.
[Robert] We're a close-knit family,
and Mylon was very family oriented.
He was very protective about family.
[Bobby] Everybody was close to Mylon.
He was like the centerpiece of the family.
He made everybody laugh.
He was loving, kind, and fun to be around.
He always had the biggest smile on his face.
[Narrator] After high school,
Mylon moved to Union Springs, Alabama with his father.
[Robert] Everywhere I went, Mylon came.
He came to Alabama and stayed with me for a while.
[Bobby] He just seemed like he was just kind of living life,
like just, you know, trying to figure out
which direction he wanted to go.
[Narrator] Mylon also enjoyed an active dating life.
[Robert] Mylon had a lot of flair about himself.
And he was very, very likeable.
[LaTorsha] He was very charming.
He was popular amongst the ladies.
He didn't seem to have any problems in those areas.
Mylon had a girlfriend up there.
He actually brought her down to see me one time
for the weekend and stuff.
I can tell she was really into my brother.
I could tell they had something special.
[Narrator] Unfortunately, the relationship didn't last...
[Robert] We moved back to Florida.
You know, when we finally moved back to Tallahassee,
he went to work.
[LaTorsha] He kind of got it together like,
"Okay, it's time to get my own place and be independent here."
[Robert] He was doing landscaping for the state.
They were working in front of the capital.
He always had good things to say about that job.
I think Mylon liked that job very well.
[Narrator] At 23, Mylon's life was moving
in a positive direction.
In early 2004, he began dating 18-year-old LaToya Henderson,
an old friend from the neighborhood.
He was very into LaToya. He liked her a lot.
[Robert] LaToya was like Mylon.
They made you laugh, you know, and they had fun together.
And they looked like a good couple together.
Mylon seemed to have been really fond of her.
When Mylon met LaToya, she was pregnant.
[Bridgette] When my daughter LaToya got pregnant,
the guy that she was pregnant with
really wasn't in the picture.
So, Mylon was there during the whole pregnancy.
He jumped right into playing that role as being a dad,
and he was part of the family.
[Bobby] He took a very deep liking to this little girl,
her daughter of hers.
They were making a little family,
from what I could see.
I was super proud of him, you know.
What he was doing in my eyes was what a man's supposed to do.
[Narrator] Then, Mylon received unexpected news
when he heard from his ex-girlfriend in Alabama.
[Bobby] Mylon, he heard a kid in the background,
like a small kid and asked, "Who was that?"
And she said, "It's your son."
Oh man, he was excited.
I could see the joy in his face, you know,
I could hear it in his voice.
[Robert] We went to see his son that May.
You shoulda saw the smile on that guy's face, man.
Mylon was just...he was in hog heaven, man.
[Bobby] He was very happy. He was very excited.
He was proud, you know what I'm saying?
I wouldn't have been surprised
if Mylon would've moved to Alabama to be with his child.
Uh, 'cause I see that as something
that my brother would've done.
Unfortunately, he didn't get to make that decision.
[Narrator] Only two months later,
in Tallahassee, Florida,
Mylon's journey to fatherhood would be cut short...
[LaTorsha] He was such a good person.
I didn't understand why anyone would want to harm him.
[JD] We began to process the scene.
The room looked disheveled.
It looked like it had been gone through.
Some dresser drawers were still left open.
There's several items scattered about the bedroom,
you know, shoe boxes, what, what have you.
[JD] We also discovered that there was a torn condom wrapper
but also an unused condom close to his body.
That immediately caused some concern for us
as to what had transpired right before he died.
[Georgia] The evidence on the scene,
particularly the condom,
certainly suggests that Mr. Lowe was interrupted
in the midst of some type of sexual encounter
when he was killed.
[Narrator] Coming up...
an unexpected witness comes forward
with surprising information.
[JD] The cabbie watches her walk up the stairs
and is met by the door opening.
It's very important to identify who this female was.
[Narrator] In Tallahassee, Florida,
authorities are investigating the shooting death of Mylon Low
after his mother and friend found him dead in his apartment
on July 12, 2005.
[JD] When police arrived on scene,
Mylon's mother, she was observed
kind of looking underneath the bed
near where her son was lying.
And she had retrieved a shoe box,
and ultimately put that shoe box in a vehicle outside
when she left the apartment.
The main concern is, "Why is she taking these items?"
[Narrator] Investigators approach Mylon's mother
and press her about her actions
She was attempting to remove any items
that might have reflected negatively on her son.
[JD] She opened up her trunk.
She showed Investigator Maltese a shoe box.
I believe it contained a small amount of cash
and a small amount of drugs.
[Bobby] That definitely wasn't the wisest thing to do,
but she's a mother, and in her mind,
she wanted to protect her cub.
[Georgia] Mylon Lowe's mother was also aware
that he had a .40 caliber firearm,
and she was looking for that gun.
[JD] He had purchased the gun legally.
But she couldn't find the gun that Mylon owned.
They couldn't find Mylon's cell phone.
They couldn't find his wallet, um, tennis shoes, I think.
And some jewelry that they couldn't account for
that he usually wears, it wasn't visible on his body.
So there was a possibility it could've been
a home invasion robbery.
We couldn't rule anything out.
[Narrator] To help piece together a timeline,
investigators ask Mylon's mother when she last saw him.
Mylon Lowe's mother indicated
that she had seen her son the day before.
Between 5:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
he had been over at her place working on a truck
with his friend, Tim.
They couldn't get the truck fixed,
so Tim, uh, transported him back to his house.
[Narrator] When detectives speak with Tim Powell,
he confirms he had last seen Mylon the night before.
He was able to verify that he in fact
had taken the victim home to his apartment.
[Narrator] Tim says he called Mylon an hour later--
but Mylon wasn't alone.
Tim states he heard a female in the background.
A woman that was unknown to Mr. Powell.
We have to believe that this event is somehow related to
an unused condom laying on the floor.
[Tom] Based on that information,
it was important to establish who this female was.
Is she gonna be a suspect?
Is she gonna be a witness to what happened afterwards?
[Narrator] Searching for answers,
detectives press Tim about Mylon's dating history.
Tim reveals that Mylon had recently broken up with
his ex-girlfriend, LaToya.
[Bobby] He didn't want to mess with her no more.
He wanted to go forward with his life.
But it didn't seem like she wanted to let him go.
[Robert] She was in love with him.
She couldn't take it when he let her go.
[Bridgette] I just felt like
they were going through a bad time, it'll blow over.
But I knew how she get when she get upset.
[JD] So, we do want to find out,
was there anything else going on after they broke up?
Could she have something to do with it?
[Narrator] Investigators wrap up their conversation with Tim
and turn their attention to the small crowd
that has gathered at the scene.
So, although the ex-girlfriend wasn't on scene at the time,
the ex-girlfriend's mother was on scene
with the ex-girlfriend's sister, U'Dreka.
[Bridgette] I was in a world of shock myself.
Like, how in the world could this be?
I had seen him maybe 5 days, 4 to 5 days.
It was just a lot of crying, a lot of emotions that went on.
[Narrator] Bridgette and U'Dreka don't know where LaToya is,
but they offer to help investigators
any way they can.
[JD] They agreed to come up to the station
just to provide a statement,
any information they might be able to give us.
[Tom] I wanted to talk to U'Dreka.
We figured with LaToya being
in a tumultuous relationship with the victim,
she might be able to give us information on her sister.
U'Dreka was very agreeable to talk.
U'Dreka seemed very upset with what had happened.
She was concerned about her sister,
how she would react to this incident.
[Tom] There were some misunderstandings about
who was with who
and innuendos that LaToya was with another guy
and Mylon didn't want nothing to do with that.
But LaToya kept coming back saying
that he misunderstood what was going on with her.
[Narrator] According to U'Dreka,
an incident between Mylon and LaToya a few weeks prior
got particularly heated.
They had gotten into an argument.
[Bridgette] He didn't wanna have a conversation with her.
And back then during that time,
when she's mad, she's really mad.
When considering who might have a reason
to want Mylon Lowe dead,
LaToya Henderson was certainly gonna make that list.
[JD] As soon as that interview with U'Dreka was over,
we thought we were going down the right path.
[Narrator] Less than 24 hours
into Mylon Lowe's murder investigation,
authorities in Tallahassee, Florida
have a promising lead.
According to 17-year-old U'Dreka Andrews,
Mylon had recently broken up with her sister, LaToya.
She potentially had a motive to want to bring harm to him
based on their bad breakup.
We were able to contact her and have her, uh,
come up to the station for an interview.
I was broken, because...
the man I love is dead.
It's like, this can't be real, this can't be real.
They asked me about our relationship, how it was.
She was honest with, you know,
the relationship she had had with Mylon, how it ended,
including the fact that, you know,
she slashed four tires on his vehicle.
[Narrator] When asked if Mylon had problems with anyone,
LaToya doesn't believe that he had any enemies.
Nobody want to hurt that boy.
That boy kept a smile on his face every day all day.
When we asked, "When's the last time
you had contact with Mylon?"
And then she would say, "Well, I talked to him last night."
[LaToya] He was like, "I'm finna go ahead
and lay down and go to sleep.
I gotta go to work in the morning."
He was like, "I'll call you on my lunch break."
Even though we was beefing with each other,
he still would call me on his lunch break.
He never made it to call me on his lunch break.
We didn't ask her any direct questions, if she was involved.
But she provided us with alibi information.
She indicates that she was out with friends
the night that Mr. Lowe was killed.
The information she gave was that she was not near Mylon Lowe
the night that he died,
but that she had had contact with him over the phone,
both by text and, and a phone call.
But that she was with friends that she provided the names of
that we could talk to and corroborate her information.
We were able to track down these friends of hers,
and they were all able to confirm
that LaToya wasn't near the apartment
during the hours in question.
[Georgia] So while she was a person of interest,
she did seem to be doing all the right things
to cooperate with law enforcement
and give them the information they needed
to exclude her as a suspect.
I couldn't even understand, you know.
I couldn't, I couldn't grasp it.
There's no possible way LaToya did this.
[Narrator] Investigators focus on LaToya's allegation
that Mylon was a small-time drug dealer.
[Georgia] So if he's engaged in drug activity,
is there someone that might have been trying to rob him,
or steal drugs from him,
or have had a, a deal with him that went bad?
[Narrator] A background check doesn't indicate
Mylon had recently crossed paths with any criminals.
[JD] He dabbled in a little bit of dope.
But he was not someone that we had, uh,
any contact with from a law enforcement standpoint.
[Georgia] He seemed to be small time,
only really dealing to friends, people he knew.
So, that lead just really didn't pan out.
[Narrator] Having hit another dead end,
investigators are strapped for leads.
But on the evening of July 13th
they receive a game-changing ti from a surprising source...
We received a call from a local taxicab driver.
He had learned of the homicide involving Mylon
the night before. It was on the news.
And what he thought was odd was the location of the homicide.
And he said, "You know, I took a fare over there."
[Georgia] The cabbie indicated that he in fact
had driven a man and a woman to that very residence
on the night of the murder.
[Tom] So, based on the information
that he was giving us,
we asked him to come to the station for an interview.
[Tom] What stuck out in his mind
is that they wanted to go to th location of the homicide scene.
And prior to getting there,
the female asked what he assumed was her boyfriend
to get out a couple blocks early.
[JD] And he said, "Yeah, I'm good.
We're straight."
So, close the door.
He's on his own on this little side street,
which is about two tenths of a mile from where Mylon lives.
[Tom] So the taxicab driver proceeds to an apartment
around the corner.
When he describes the location,
I pull up a, a map of the location on my computer,
and he was able to identify the victim's apartment.
The cabbie watches her walk up the stairs
and is met by the door opening to apartment E.
Now we're gettin' somewhere.
It's very important to identify who D and this female was,
because there's a good chance that they were involved in
what had happened.
The information that he gave us
it was a big lead into solving this crime.
The cab company had records indicating
that the person that solicited the cab that night
did so by phone, and that person left a name.
And the name was Drek, D-R-E-K.
[Tom] When we cross-referenced the information
from the taxi company,
it was determined that the phone number
was U'Dreka's phone number.
[JD] His ex-girlfriend's sister.
Man, it shocked me.
[Narrator] Coming up...
a startling claim turns the case on its head.
[JD] She gets a little nervous
as this thing is starting to progress because he's already
ripped the condom open.
[Narrator] Thanks to a tip from a local cab driver,
Tallahassee police have identified
LaToya Henderson's younger sister, U'Dreka Andrews,
as the woman seen entering Mylon Lowe's apartment
on the night of his death.
I mean, based on that information, um,
we felt that U'Dreka was at the crime scene.
The taxicab driver said he knows the male to be,
quote unquote, "D," based on
prior interactions he's had with him.
So, law enforcement is interested in learning
who D is.
[Tom] When we did the utilities check on
the address where we picked up the couple from,
the utilities had the primary owner as a Danny Brown,
a 21-year-old male that lived in that apartment.
So we got a picture of Danny Brown from CJIS,
Criminal Justice Information System.
The cabbie knows this guy that was in the car as D.
We show him a picture and he said,
"Yeah, that's, that's him."
[Narrator] While police begin looking for the couple,
investigators reach out to U'Dreka's parents
in hopes of learning more about U'Dreka and Danny.
They speak first with U'Dreka's father, Ulysses...
[JD] U'Dreka's father worked for the city,
and I would consider myself a friend of U'Dreka's father.
They hired me at the police department
for a maintenance position.
Once I started working there,
I used to take U'Dreka to work with me.
And JD and Tom, we all became real good friends.
They watched Drek grow up.
She's a caring person.
She, uh, help anybody if it's within her power.
She's a comedian like me.
Just like to make people smile, make people laugh.
[Georgia] We were able to corroborate the fact
that Danny Brown and U'Dreka Andrews
had been involved in a romantic relationship.
U'Dreka was still a juvenile. She was 17, and he was 21.
They hid it from me for a long time
'cause, you know, I didn't play there.
There wasn't no boyfriend.
But they finally came around and told me they was dating.
And every time I came around, he was a nice fellow.
He seemed to be okay to me,
even though I didn't wanna accept it.
As far as I knew, she met him around Bridgette house.
'Cause a lot of the kids, I guess,
used to come around there,
and that's how him and Drek ended up talking.
We find out that U'Dreka moved in with him
several months prior.
Based on the information the taxicab driver provided us,
it gave us enough information for probable cause
for a search warrant on the residence.
We were looking for items of evidence
related to the crime.
My hope was that Danny would be there.
But the apartment was empty. Nobody was there.
Upon the search of that residence,
some very important items were found,
including Mylon Lowe's cell phone,
which was stuffed in-between the mattress and box springs,
and also, some property belonging to the victim,
including some tennis shoes and some jewelry.
[JD] During the course of that execution of a search warrant,
a neighbor came over and said, "Hey, I'll just let you know
I got a call from D, Danny Brown."
He wanted the neighbor to go over to the laundry area
of the place where they lived
and retrieve something out of the rafters.
My guess is he probably started to come home to the apartment
and realized it's not a good idea,
because all the police are there.
I write another search warrant
for that particular laundry room of the apartment,
and we recover a gun that was stuffed up into the rafters.
We ran the serial number, and it turns out
it's Mylon Lowe's gun that was taken from his apartment.
[Narrator] With an abundance of evidence
recovered from their home,
Tallahassee police ramp up their efforts
to locate the missing couple, U'Dreka Andrews and Danny Brown
That same day, investigators receive unexpected news.
We learn that U'Dreka's in juvenile detention center
with some type of disorderly conduct charges.
It was for an unrelated incident
involving an argument with a neighbor.
I don't know who called the officers,
but the police came and pulled U'Dreka out her house.
[Narrator] Investigators race to the detention center
to question U'Dreka...
and ask her to elaborate on her relationship with Danny Brown.
[Narrator] When the conversation shifts
to the night of Mylon's murder,
U'Dreka surprisingly admits to being at his apartment.
She was kind of matter of fact about her contact with Mylon.
She wanted to buy some marijuana.
[Tom] When we confronted her
with all the evidence against her,
she pretty much had that droopy shoulder moment
where all the weight of the previous days was piling up,
and now she could finally release it.
[Narrator] U'Dreka tells investigators
that after Mylon broke up with her sister, LaToya,
U'Dreka began thinking of ways to get back at him.
[JD] She approached Danny and said,
"Hey, I got an idea how we can make some money."
[Georgia] The motive was two-fold.
It was both to rob Mr. Lowe,
because Ms. Andrews was aware he had property of value
and money inside,
and also, to teach him a lesson for disrespecting her sister.
Her plan was to come on to him,
saying that she had, uh, problems with her boyfriend.
That she liked him a lot
and wanted to have sex with him
She indicates that she did this, and Mr. Lowe readily agreed.
At that point, the plan was for her
to go into the residence first
to begin to engage Mr. Lowe in such a way
that he would be relaxed or off guard,
and at that point, her boyfriend, Danny Brown,
would burst into the residence with a firearm,
and that's when the robbery and/or beating
was to take place.
[Narrator] U'Dreka confirms that she arrived at Mylon's apartmen
around midnight on July 12th.
U'Dreka and Mylon got into the bedroom.
She notices that Mylon's handgu is sitting on the dresser.
She indicates that Mr. Lowe received a phone call
from Mr. Powell, and that gave her the sort of break
to be able to send the signal by phone to Danny Brown
that it was time to enter.
She gets a little nervous as this thing
is starting to progress because Mylon's stripped down.
You know, he's already ripped the condom open.
The next thing she knows, Danny comes through the room
with his own gun.
Mylon goes to reach for the drawer
where he had just put his gun.
Danny shoots twice.
U'Dreka Andrews indicates
that murder was never part of the plan.
They started rummaging through the bedroom
and the apartment looking for things to take.
They took a shoe box that had some tennis shoes in it.
They found his wallet.
He basically killed a man for fifty dollars.
[Georgia] U'Dreka Andrews was arrested
for the murder of Mylon Lowe,
but Danny Brown was still wanted.
His whereabouts were unknown.
I hear it come over the radio
that U'Dreka admitted to being a part of the murder.
And it's just like, everything just went black.
Like, "What?
What do you mean?"
[Ulysses] I couldn't believe that.
That ripped me apart.
Law enforcement was looking for Danny Brown for several days.
[Bridgette] Nobody knew where he was, period.
I mean, he was all over the news.
Everything was all over the TV.
[JD] My concern with Danny turning himself in was
not how long it would take. It was just how it would end.
Would he do the right thing and give up voluntarily?
Would he turn this into, you know,
more of a violent situation?
[Narrator] Five days into the murder investigation
of Mylon Lowe,
Tallahassee police have arreste 17-year-old U'Dreka Andrews...
but her boyfriend and the alleged triggerman, Danny Brown
remains at large.
[JD] On the 17th of July,
our agency forwarded a tip
to the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office
about possible whereabouts of Danny Brown.
[Bridgette] I'm the one that call the hotline
to tell them where he was at that time.
He called me that Sunday morning.
And his exact words was
that he was sorry about what he had done.
Danny Brown was at a residence in Gadsden County,
which is the next county west of where we are.
Once law enforcement arrived at the residence in Gadsden County,
Danny Brown gave up without a fight.
[JD] Literally walked out of the house
and walked to the patrol car
and was taken into custody.
We interview Mr. Brown to get
his side of the story, basically.
[JD] He kind of did the whole, you know,
"I wasn't even over there,
I don't have anything to do with it."
And it lasted for, you know, maybe a minute or so,
and then he finally just said it.
[Narrator] As Danny opens up to detectives,
he outlines several discrepancies
in U'Dreka's statement.
One of which was he indicates when he entered the apartment,
he did not have his gun ready to go,
as indicated by U'Dreka Andrews That his gun was put away.
Danny tried to make it seem like there was
a physical confrontation as soon as he came into the room.
[Frank] Danny told them that Lowe
was heading towards the location where his firearm was located,
and that Danny then pulled his gun out,
and he and Lowe got into a scuffle.
He felt like he was just merely trying to defend himself,
and that's why he shot him.
[Georgia] But this story does not comport with
the scientific evidence in the case at all.
The evidence to the contrary indicates
that Mylon Lowe was murdered execution style
from someone standing over him while he was on the ground.
[Tom] Towards the end of the interview,
I asked him if he had anything else to say,
did he wanna make any statement.
So both parties, Danny Brown and U'Dreka Andrews,
were charged with both first-degree murder
and the robbery of Mylon Lowe.
[Robert] I was really shocked.
I had no idea that it was
LaToya's sister and her boyfriend.
I really had no idea.
But it was a relief to know that they found out
who had killed my son.
[Narrator] U'Dreka Andrews and Danny Brown's joint trial
gets underway on January 8th, 2007.
Despite being a minor during the commission of the crime,
U'Dreka is tried as an adult.
[Georgia] Because of the nature of the evidence,
we had to have two separate juries in the courtroom
present at one time for each defendant
in order to try them together.
[Frank] The defense that, that I put forth for Danny
was that he was acting in self-defense.
His life was in the danger,
and he took responsive action to defend himself.
U'Dreka Andrew's defense was that she was very young.
She was duped by the older Danny Brown
into engaging in what she thought was gonna be
a relatively minor incident and which, you know,
spiraled of control.
But the state argued they were looking for someone to rob,
and he fit the bill because of the secondary motive,
which was the bad blood against him
over the way he treated U'Dreka Andrews' sister.
[Tom] It was a combination of U'Dreka wanting revenge
for how her sister was treated
and Mr. Brown seeing an opportunity
to have some kind of financial gain.
[Narrator] Prosecutors argue that U'Dreka
recruited the help of her boyfriend,
promising Danny that Mylon's apartment
would be flush with drugs and money.
It was her idea. She identified the target.
She was the one that had the motive against Mylon Lowe.
[Frank] Danny was in the position that
he would, he would do whatever U'Dreka asked.
[Narrator] As proof, Danny's defense
plays his taped confession for jurors.
[Georgia] I don't think U'Dreka Andrews thought
this is gonna end in a murder.
But I think in general if you're gonna bring a gun
to do a violent crime,
one should anticipate that you'd better be ready to use it
She knew they was gonna rob him.
But Drek also knew, if we go over here and rob this boy,
we gonna have to kill him.
'Cause we not walking out alive if we don't.
It's either gonna be him or us.
The law in Florida is if you go to do an armed robbery,
a murder is a reasonably foreseeable outcome.
[Frank] I don't know much that Mylon could have done.
It was pretty much destined that somebody was gonna die that day.
That was kind of what the jury determined,
that Danny was armed, and she knew he was armed.
They was trying to say Drek was the mastermind of all of this.
It really hurt me 'cause I couldn't believe
my child did something as stupid as that,
and I still don't believe that was the case.
[JD] She was convicted on all counts,
and the same with Danny.
Judge Decker at that time only had one sentence
that she could impose, and that was life without parole,
which she did.
[Narrator] 12 years later, in 2019,
U'Dreka receives relief for her prison sentence.
[Georgia] For homicide offenses committed by juveniles,
the law has changed in the state of Florida
since U'Dreka Andrews got her life sentence.
Juvenile offenders are to be given an opportunity of release,
and ultimately the judge elected to sentence her
to 45 years in prison.
She could help someone before they go down that road.
Try to speak with these young people,
help them to not end up in the same situation.
And I'm really praying that's what she do
when she do get out.
[Bridgette] I have a marvelous child that's coming out.
A child that is gonna be ready for society,
better than she was before she went in.
[LaToya] I lost my sister.
I lost my man.
I'm just kinda like broken.
And even though my sister did what she did,
I do feel like you deserve another chance.
[Bobby] In 45 years, I won't be able to hug my brother.
I miss my brother.
I'll never get my brother back, you know?
* Sunshine turned to rain *
* Can you feel my pain? *
[Bobby] He don't get to come back after 45 years.
[LaTorsha] Mylon was twenty-four years old.
He was just figuring out life.
He just found his kid.
You know, his life was just beginning.
[Robert] They took away something I just don't...
didn't know how to go on without, you know.
And uh, I'm still having trouble going on without him sometimes.
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