Second floor.
And he has done this in the I don't know.
An agonizing 911 calls. My friend
just killed himself. This is. The
man on the line seems shocked.
What the ohh why would my brother
do this thing so and inconsolable?
And Henry Hutchins senior
says it's all an act.
God knows if I had some legs,
I killed all of them. Because I
know my son and kill himself.
His son, Henry Hutchins Junior,
died from a single gunshot
wound to the head inside
this Union City apartment building on
July 3rd, 2022. And the next morning
the police come knocking at
my door. He didn't make it.
What did they say to you?
There's no easy way to say this.
Your son looked like he all was
having some mental issues and
turned the gun on himself and.
Ohh look like a parent suicide.
A police report says Hutchins Junior
stripped naked, said his family didn't
love him anymore and shot himself,
but his dad says too much doesn't add up.
The initial report says there was
no gun found near the body yet.
Hutchins Senior was told later the
gun was found underneath his son.
Meanwhile, the medical examiner
reported the bullet went through
Hutchins Junior's head, but no bullet.
Has ever found don't do this.
And then there's a man,
Hutchins friend,
who tells police he was in the
room when the shooting happened.
On my knees right here.
He was standing right there.
He was standing right.
That was like please,
please don't do this.
As soon as I did like
this and came like this,
it happened so fast.
Hutchins Senior says his
story keeps changing.
He told me my son was quieted
down, told my daughter
my son was standing
up. What do police say when
you bring this up to them?
It's open investigation.
They won't tell you anything.
It's open investigation.
Anything they don't wanna answer,
it's open investigation.
And that's exactly what Union
City police told us, declining
to comment not just on this
case, but another one with
strikingly similar claims.
Austin Mitchell did not shoot himself.
First investigated the shooting
death of Austin Mitchell in 2022.
Union City police labeled it a suicide
despite a medical examiner saying
the bullet wound was atypical of one.
We also uncovered body camera footage
capturing officers saying this.
Yeah, they probably did.
Because of our investigation,
Union City police reopened the case.
It's been almost a year since
you and I sat down and spoke.
What's happened since then?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
Austin Mitchell's father,
Michael postal, says the family is
still fighting for answers. The people
who were there that night in the
House of Austin, have any of them
been reinterviewed by police?
And private investigator Eric Echols
says there is no way to see the
work police are doing on this case.
Honestly, Chris and I think they're
gonna let this case sit open
and it's gonna go to cold case
because if it sits open, you can't get
any records. I can't get any records.
And that's the problem.
No one can get the full investigation,
can get anything, when a case is
still deemed open investigation. Union
City is not the
only agency declining to
answer our questions in 2021.
Fulton County District attorney's
anti corruption unit investigated
Union City police departments suicide cases.
It found Austin Mitchell's case
was not properly investigated.
We reached out to the District
Attorney's office multiple times asking
for those details and an interview.
We were told they'd get
back to us in two weeks.
That was months ago.
Not only did they not get back to us,
they just stopped responding
to our emails altogether.
The fact is that you're
not getting it tells me.
Something. Something's going on.
Something is not right.
You should be able to get
to open records from the
district Attorney's office.
The lack of transparency leaves
Henry Hutchins with one belief.
You get killed in Union City,
there's a suicide,
he says he'll continue fighting
for answers in his son's death.
Answers he believes will
eventually come to light,
with or without investigators help
the streets know exactly what happened.
They know exactly what happened.