Soville and Daniel haven't spoken in three years after a shooting separated them that night. Soville's phone died while he searched for Daniel in the chaos; Daniel says he circled the block looking for him. Both claim the other ignored messages and posted shady Instagram stories, and neither knows if they were set up.
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Avel, you haven't talked to Daniel in 3 years. Why not?
First of all, I really tried to, but it's kind of like— How you tried to? It's like he kind of said, I guess the pride thing, I'm not finna keep reaching out because I did, because first of all, he was being shady. I knew he was okay. What? 'Cause afterwards it was a—
Hey, bro.
Oh, so now you got amnesia. Okay, look, it was an Instagram story. I called you every day. These moments reveal your true friends and whatever, whatever. So I swiped up like, yo, like, what's going on? Like, yo, what? Like, you talking about me? Like, what's up? And he didn't say nothing to that. I called you, bro.
The same night your phone automatically broke.
First of all.
Okay, look, Soville, I wanna know from your side of this, from your point of view, what was your version of that night?
What happened, man, when the shots was going off? I remember I was in the back room with some guys, and we heard the shots going off, and we heard people screaming, running around, whatever. So I went out and, yeah, it was a frenzy. Like, it was crazy. People was falling over each other, because people was crawling. It was insane. So my genuine first thought is, okay, where's Daniel? Where's my friend that I came with?
Oh my God.
I'm looking around. I don't see him, but it's still crazy.
So if I don't see him immediately, how long I'm supposed to look?
Shots is going off. What is you talking about, bro?
Did you ever try to call him or find him before he left?
My phone was dead. I didn't get no calls. But I waited in a car and then I don't know if you ever been in that situation, but it's not just, oh, you get outside and okay, yeah, we safe, y'all, we cool, we outside. No, stuff was happening outside, two people was fighting outside and all that. I got in the car, waited for him in the car.
I circled the block. I circled the block looking for you. I'm your brother, bro. Why is you leaving somewhere until you see me, blood?
Your phone was dead. Your phone was dead.
What? We are family, bro. First of all, don't act like, don't act like, bro. The next day, if your phone dead, your phone eventually charged up, right? So why you ain't hit me back?
Why?
You ain't hit me back. Come on, man. Instead you posting shady stories. He just said his phone was dead though, so how I hit him? I'm talking about the next night.
I'm talking about the next day, bro. So you ain't post that shady story, then ignore me after that?
So, Bell, if you didn't set him up, why did you leave the party without him?
Talking about set him up.
Up. This is what he said. I'm just going off his language.
You don't understand, bro. When you can't reach somebody, your mind going to warp and stuff like that. You don't even look— I told you, you don't even look like you do something like that. I literally said— Exactly, exactly. But hold on though, I don't put it past you because how you leave your brother during a shooting in Chicago, bro. So if you going to do that, you probably do anything. What is you talking about, fam? You sound goofy.
