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room? they were asking clayton whittemore that very same question that very same morning. clayton put the pieces together for the police about what happened that night. and it began with the fact that his relationship with alex wasn t so good afterall. the couple had dinner, then the party. clayton said he and alex drank moderately. but at the party, he got annoyed with her, said he felt disrespected. reporter: as they walked back from the party, clayton got that open container ticket. clayton, remember, walked to the other side of the street to cool off and then alex posted that final cryptic tweet, should have known.
if she was alive, i had to do all i could for her. i heard this guy yelling and i thought it was a drunk college kid. reporter: hailey lived across the hall from alex s room. the commotion woke her up. i noticed the man was yelling for help and stuff. so, i woke up and started looking through my peep hole and it was a police officer yelling. lieutenant worked with officer johnson on the campus force. he radioed me for the ad what s that? the defibrillator. what did you think when you saw what you saw? i couldn t believe it. you never come to work thinking you re going to see something like that. hailey was glued to her peep hole. she saw people everywhere. they were saying keep your door shut, don t come down the hall and we didn t know what
alex and didn t deny this was years in the making. they say he was guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. why? because he was under extreme emotional disturbance because clayton whittemore is a victim himself. reporter: that s clayton talking to the 911 dispatcher hours after the murder. he s talking about his dad. telling the dispatcher his dad abused him and his family for years.
the students on their phones, trying to stay calm, but it wasn t easy. we were really afraid. and i mean, the police officers are like you re okay, you re safe. but we were really scared. reporter: hailey went over and over the events in the mind. and she remembered something about 1:15 a.m., as she was trying to go to sleep, an unusual sound. but was it related? a thud, thud and then maybe a pause and then it was like more and then kind another break. some louder than others. then as the activity in the hallway intensified, hailey heard so, at that time i knew we had to do our jobs and preserve everything for the safety of the rest of the campus.