I had a friend who was a girl, or is a girl, he answers, further admitting that the relationship had become sexual. She had an appointment Monday.. "The only thing that I can tell you is that Matthew Boynton's account of events are not correct.". Chris DeMarco, GBIs assistant special agent in charge, arrives on the scene and meets with Griffin Police Chief Michael Yates for a briefing. Did investigators look for a blunt object? Just minutes after Jessica is airlifted to an Atlanta trauma center, Sheriff Beam asks deputies to deliver the devastating news to Jessica's family that she's dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Just one minute later, Matthewcalls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. I know that we got into an argument, but that's about all," she said, not remembering much of what had happened on April 15. They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. But asking those questions resulted in a threat. And its assigned to Matthew. Her husband, Matthew Boynton, was at a nearby restaurant when he got a text from Jessica that read like a suicide note. My understanding of the laws of physics is that one person cannot be in two places at the same time," Mathews said in an interview with 11Alive. The doctor was not contacted by the GBI until July 20. He says, he got out of the shower and asked her for his phone back several times, but she refused, he says, until he admitted to her that he was cheating on her. EMTs start carrying Jessica down the stairs on a backboard and click her into a gurney and swing open the ambulance doors. Matthew calls another officer and reports Jessica is refusing to leave with him. A lot of times its two or three or more days, Yates said. Matthew Boynton is clearly hysterical. So if there is no gunshot wound, what really happened inside that closet? Eventually, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation concluded what they believe happened inside that closet; Matthew Boynton was never charged with any connection in harming his wife. "The stuff that he was texting her was, you know, 'LOL's," said Sanders. No bullet entered her body anywhere. Im not sure if it was slightly before or slightly after. The police department should be ashamed of themselves for trying to cover this up!!! Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. Four days later, he appeared in court, wearing his police uniform, and testified that he had been cleared by the GBI in a custody hearing. Honestly, I have no idea. Since the original publication of this story, 11Alive's Brendan Keefe and Jessica Noll have taken another look at the evidence in this story, and talk to one reporter who said she was threatened when she had questions about the investigation. Listen. Get him downstairs, one of the officers whispers to another. Mass shooters. She remembered an instance when Matthew asked her grab his gun. He drove back to the apartment, he tells Jones, but it was too late. Despite their problems, Matthew tells investigators he still loved Jessica and the boys, and he offers an explanation for why he didn't run in the apartment that terrible night to save them. A Griffin police officer who was investigated in his ex-wife's shooting was charged Friday, July 28, 2017, with making false statements and violating oath after officials say he took her belongings, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Nearly four years later, questions persist about what happened to the young. The glowing yellow and black, blocked letter sign illuminates his truck driving past. "I believe it's both, it's sloppy and a cover-up," said Jessica. Its a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boyntons wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon, inside the master bedroom closetlocked from the inside. Join our naturalist on a short walk and learn about the history of the once-prosperous town of High Falls. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service. There was a question of what was and was not community marital property, so that took some doing to sort that out, also, Yates said, adding that many of the items reported as stolen including the clothing, computer and household items had been cited as community property during the couples divorce. That piece of evidence was a photo showing Matthew's cell phone next to the microwave inside the apartment. He asked her what she thought could've happened. "She was actually happy, she was thrilled because she finally got that closure that she needed," says the neighbor. She made a full recovery, but doesnt remember a thing. After Jones pushes the gun away from underneath Jessica's bodyplacing it inside the bedroom, he and Officer Josh Howell move Jessica from the closet to the bedroom floor next to the foot of her bed so that EMS can begin working on her. Crime Watch Daily reached out to Officer Matthew Boynton and got no response. "Recently she did confirm that the second baby is not mine," Matthew tells the GBI investigator. Especially because of my children. His phone was left inside their apt, yet he says he never entered it.. so many lies the grandfather called Jessicas family and informed them she was DEAD! Jessica and Matthew's neighbor, who wishes to remain anonymous for her own safety, sees the lights from her apartment and runs outside. "Matthew," said Jessica. I attempted to contact Jessica Boynton via telephone to advise her that this is a civil matter. The notification was made following an April 15, 2016, shooting incident - ruled by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to be a suicide attempt - at the home of Jessica Boynton and her now-estranged husband, Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton. He's a truck driver. She also says she couldn't have written the text because it said "I love you.". Chris DeMarco, GBI's assistant special agent in charge, arrives on the scene and meets with Griffin Police Chief Michael Yates for a briefing. But DeMarco insisted to Mathews during their phone conversation, that the timeline was not relevant. Why did no one ask about the comment Matthew made about the kids being in the closet too? I thought he hadnt gone inside the apartment until backup arrived, so how would he know Jessica was in the closet unless he put her there? It can be inferred that approximately half or more cops are abusive husbands/wifebeaters. She says under the helm of Wendell Beam, the sheriff's department had a reputation for protecting its own. I havent listened to the actual investigation, but I dont believe so, that he gave any explanation that made any sense.. The ambulance pulls away with Jessica in critical condition, to the fire station located on Carver Road, where the medical helicopter picks her up and takes her to an Atlanta hospital. She also thinks Matthew read her diary and realized she was documenting his extramarital affair and secretly plotting to get full custody of their little boys. I don't know, he said. Running across the parking lot and up the stairs, responding officers head toward the apartment. Her head wound has soaked into the green and white pillow her head is resting onher blood is contained to that one stain and a few nearby drops. I told him, 'You're going to have to go get it, because I can't get it out of the case. Matthew makes it home, jumps out of his truck, races through the breezeway of his apartment building and bolts up the stairs. There's so many useless words thrown in there, then there's so many words left out, she said. "If they put out a report I spend a lot of time fact-checking it and making sure what they're telling is the truth," said Sanders. Still peering down at his phone, Matthew sends a text to his mistress. He's meeting his buddy at the local Waffle House. I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. His flashlight's beam reveals a smiling family of four. Ad Choices, Griffin police Lt. Michael Natale said in a statement. Jessica, on a few occasions, hit and slapped him, he tells the GBI. Jessica's husband and high school sweetheart is Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton. GBI/Griffin Police Dept. McCune also had Lester write a victims statement. giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weekly. What Sanders found most alarming was the time frame Matthew Boynton says he heard those two gunshots. Cops do find one bullet. "I have occasional headaches, but other than that everything's good," Jessica Boynton said. Show the world how smart you are and uncover what the Wannabe investigative reporters couldn't figure out. Of course the Grandfather could not be reached for a comment, he had it covered up. "Police department!" From her hospital bed, she spoke to the GBI. Despite Jessica Boynton's fiery allegations, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation closed her case, clearing Matthew to return to work. It's like some of my family they hear all these people say, 'Oh I think he did it and it was planned.' Was the investigation a mess up or a cover up? But another heated argument goes down in the baby food aisle. Womens clothing items and an orthodontic retainer turned in to the Griffin Police Department by Will Sanders has been established to have belonged to Jessica Lester, the former wife of Matthew Boynton. Her husband is cheating on her with another woman, reveals Browning, who said, they called dispatch a few nights earlier because he took the kids. We're going to be doing that to do touch DNA on the gun, and um, and why we're doing that is obviously one to corroborate everything that's what believed happened, and that way it also, it also eliminates the possibility of her family saying, you had something involved in this, or whatever, the GBI agent said to him. But what about that 911 call Matthew made just minutes before the shooting, claiming he got a text from Jessica saying she was going to kill herself? Domestic violence has always been a precursor to violence in other areas. Jessica Boynton is found unconscious, her body on top of her husband's service revolver. After Jessica was shot, Matthew, then-20, was back on duty with his gun on his hip, before key interviews were conducted and the GBI director wrote an official letter about the cases conclusion, stating that the shooting was ruled a suicide.. He grabs his police radio, stationed and charging on top of the white microwave in the kitchen, and leaves his phone on the counter. Furthermore, she said, there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent a text like that. If I could have been here sooner, maybe I could have stopped her Matthew says, spiraling. His tone changes. Do you know what she used? asks one of the emergency responders in the room. I'm prior military so to me it sounded like a gunshot, he tells DeMarco. Dr. Vernon Henderson, chief of Trauma and Critical Care at Atlanta Medical Center was on-call the morning Jessica came in and treated her for the next month while she was in the hospital. Here lately I have not been able to recognize the person I see in the mirror. The agent who told Mathews, Were gonna have a problem, apologized to the reporter and told her that he was answering questions about a case file that he had not reviewed for months. "During that time I investigated hundreds of cases with gunshots and many, many suicides.". The doctor believes Jessica's injuries may have been caused by blunt-force trauma. "I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. Matthew reads a text from Lt. Curtis Keys, look for police car.. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best friend, Officer Joshua Guthrie--leaving his service weapon at home, in its holster and in the closet.