I realize this thread has gone quiet now, but since I’ve just stumbled upon it today, perhaps I could help clear a few things up.
My husband Aaron, myself, his brother Justin and Justin’s 3 children all rode into the alley in our suburban that morning to clear off our storage trailer. The children waited inside the truck while we started to move stuff off the trailer into our backyard. Aaron saw the mattress sitting by our fence so he moved it back to the (community) dumpster. John Miller then comes out of his own backyard, grabs the mattress and throws it back on our property in front of Aaron. He yells for John to put it back so it gets hauled off and John says he’s “not putting shit back.” Aaron said something to the effect of “fuck you, put it back,” and that’s when John said “no, fuck you, I’m not doing it” and pulled the pistol out of his shorts and pointed it right at Aaron, who was standing in front of the truck with the kids inside. They argued for a few seconds before the son, Michael Miller, looked out their back gate, stepped back in the yard for less than 3 seconds and came out with the shotgun. So now he had 2 guns on him in plain view of his nieces and nephew, not to mention me and his brother.
Justin ran around to get his kids out of the truck and as he was taking them inside our house to safety, he was also on the phone with 911. I saw earlier in the thread someone mentioned no answer from them, but he did get through and they dispatched an officer our way. That’s exactly why I started recording in the first place because they knew we had called the police, and I was just praying they would get there and diffuse the situation before anyone got hurt. Obviously they didn’t arrive until it was too late.
It’s really easy to judge when you only know part of the story and to say who should have done what and when if it’s not you who is directly involved in it. That was the worst day of my life and every damn day I think about everything I maybe could or should have done differently, but even so, I would still have only been in control of my own actions. You can call us all the names you’d like, say we’re crazy, say he shouldn’t have been acting so enraged (even though the Millers knowingly wielded guns in front of the children) but crazy/psycho or not, stupid bitch or not, it still wouldn’t change the fact that the Millers brought the confrontation to us and not only murdered my husband, but endangered 3 children, and held Justin and I at gunpoint afterwards telling us they would kill us too if we even moved. I was holding Aaron in my arms, holding pressure on his head and chest wounds with my hands, with a pistol pointed at my head by John. And Justin was lying facedown in the alley while Michael had the shotgun pressed right on Justin’s forehead. They were still holding us like that when police finally arrived, yelled for them to drop their weapons and immediately arrested them.
After we gave our statements to the detectives, they told us the Millers both gave statements that closely matched ours, so they have all but confessed as well. They’re guilty of not just murder, but so many other charges that I’m hoping to see added soon.
