Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast · CAKE MEDIA

Marqia Hamilton

·55 min·3 clips

A bullet hits Eloy LeBron in the head, and his driver crashes into a pole after ducking.

1. Sisters Who Kill covers the case of Markeia Hamilton and the shooting death of Eloy LeBron. 2. Marah and Tez host the episode and name Markeia Hamilton, Jahira Shields, and Eloy LeBron as the key people in the case. 3. The episode asks how a July 23, 2020 drive from work to McDonald's and then to 'Molly World' turned into a homicide investigation. 4. Markeia Hamilton is identified as born January 13, 2002, from Mims, Florida, with a juvenile record for fighting and a recent Jones High School graduation. 5. The hosts say Markeia wanted to join the military and later work in criminal justice, while she was working at Sonny's Barbecue. 6. Jahira Kaitlyn Antoinette Shields is identified as born January 17, 2002 in Titusville, Florida, and she also worked at Sonny's Barbecue. 7. Jahira had just learned she was pregnant the same day her mother was in a hospital coma after two strokes. 8. The hosts say Jahira had spent part of her school years in London, returned to the United States after 10th grade, and then dropped out after transfer problems with her credits. 9. On July 23, 2020, Jahira drove Markeia in a white 2004 Saturn Ion that belonged to Markeia's mother. 10. The hosts describe the pair seeing someone they knew on social media, making a U-turn on a one-way street on Thornton, and drawing fire while trying to leave. 11. A witness in a work truck told police he saw two women in the white Saturn and described the driver as wearing a white tank top. 12. Police also reviewed surveillance video and linked the white Saturn Ion to Markeia's mother's car registration. 13. Eloy Andres LeBron is identified as born July 22, 1979 in Miami, Florida, and as a Southwest Airlines flight attendant who moved back to Florida in 2019. 14. Eloy's friend, who was driving the blue Toyota truck, told police the truck was hit after the shots and then crashed into a pole. 15. Marah and Tez describe detectives questioning Markeia's mother first because she recognized the lead detective from an earlier shooting response on Columbia Street. 16. Markeia later told detectives she had been with Jahira, gone to the hospital, and then headed to get weed, while denying that she had fired a gun. 17. The interview style is informal and conversational, with the hosts interrupting each other and using slang while they reconstruct the timeline. 18. The detective interview is portrayed as methodical and repetitive, using questions about the route, the phone, and the passenger seat to test the story. 19. Listeners who like Florida true crime, teen-defendant interviews, and police interrogation details would likely follow this episode. 20. Listeners who want a short, low-detail case summary without interrogation material may skip it.

As heard by us

A tense homicide interview shaped by withheld facts, shifting detective tactics, and one woman's repeated demand for answers.

The episode centers on a woman held in a homicide interview while the most important facts stay just out of reach. After waiting four hours, with her family there all day, she says she was thrown to the ground and keeps pushing the detectives to say why she has been brought in.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

Press play when you want a homicide interview built around one stubborn question: who is dead?

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast