we've been through so much my sons and i. do this kind person to come up to me you think can i pray with you when i felt alone in this lobby. it was so sweet. at the time. i would have lost the love for you. ross sort interrupted i. can while help with a few questions so. a fair point did you know what mr for he was doing there at the salvation army oh yes. he worked there at the security guard. so he came up to you and tried to comfort you yes you know. was that the beginning of your relationship. where. you got that part.

that was just played. afterwards he had asked me who my friends father was and i think. you know why co-parent in a way. when i had no relationship and that's been his and i say his voice dropped like 2 levels even though it was the bow ready in me he asked me. if you get my number and we had our 1st kiss and lucky that frank. i repeat start. and after that. how close did you become. very very close. and so i'm not sure you told us when this was you recall roughly you know not the day but the year at least in august of 2007. and.

up until his death do you continue to be in a relationship with them yes. can you describe you know of course your home after you saw each other during those 3 years just about every day other as much as we possibly could for there are times when you're going to close those old times. you know we had you know sometimes it's like couples argue sometimes you know my dad taking a break. most couples whether they want to go very very. did you learn. you know whether he was new or going to have us. oh yeah we i mean 1st day you know like most people do it over like our histories and from us. and. what kind of things did the 2 of you do together when you get together and do things. for who is with with you know into the city so.

everything was kind of new to him everywhere we went was in him he made it seem like. i was new to my own family so. we like to go to he lives right by the lake but they might ask that we like to go down there that need to. enjoy the outdoors would like to go to the sculpture garden and just. just give me a walk or have. we went out to eat a lot. being voted 11 feet last. you the big man made it so you know it's a lot of energy to keep him go away any love food is the way that it was it was it was an invention always made him do you know if you where he was working.

prior to his death and even working someplace. yes you are going to come what is that in the stroke what is there. is a restaurant but also a night club. you know in the evening what to do there he was a security guard he was head of security. and. at some point was that job. only because of code of it i mean he it now because of code. you know and you had met salvation army did you learn eventually he worked there yes i knew that evening that he worked at 5 a side of me he was a security guard there yes. at some point that job ended right. yes i think that maybe a year or so after i met him. and. you know in that time period leading up to his death in may of last year. you know

let's talk about january to may when he asked oh often reducing. the 2020 yes. at the beginning of the year we had not seen each other. can separate a furlough out but. from march until may we spent every day together. and. we have 4 graph of mr floyd we showed that to you in a prior meeting with you correct and you recognize that as him. here it offers 824-7240 7 as received. so i'm sure you exhibit 247. 30 and

so can. see if you touch the screen it's going to put it out there so. sorry. you familiar with this photograph. with what kind of photograph business. i would call it dad selfie and why would you call that. i think i'm just so but other than bad i. don't have the best angle when they take selfies instead of lower. if they don't i don't know don't take the time to do the certain age to fit everybody else. so this is a you have a selfie that he took did. i believe it was outside in the me. you're gone about roughly when this was taken. from the sweater he was there and i think it was. the fall of 2017.

mr floyd having children. yes. or in children did he have. 2 girls. and to the. try to be a part of their lives as much as he could. feel it is. if it was hard in this long distance so his daughter's anonymous or. no i don't. want to make sure that your voices are enough to bury your. at some point when you were when you knew mr floyd you learn of his mother's death. if you recall when that was. it was in may

2800. and did you see what describe if you would for the jury what you saw his reaction to his mother's. blood is. what i would call a mama's boy i could tell. from the minute i met him and when he came back could. hear skin. he think kind of like a salad. with. which he was broken. he

thinks those are very bad. he didn't have. this thing. kind of and he had. he lived. you. he loves him so much knew that he talked about her all the time. and knew how i think. it is so hard to marry. day love. thank you and i'm sorry but. if i can ask questions to help him.

so he struggled with grief or is mother's day. yes. and. going to change topics ok ok you in a minute are you ok. you know. you met mr floyd. at salvation army. and then proceeded to maintain a relationship with him. have to ask you with your drug use was a part of that relationship yes and what kind of drug use. was a part of that relationship. fight and i both saw it with that opiate addiction . and do you know how i mean like for your own self how are you feeling to be

involved you know with. what kind of drugs and how you became yet. boffo in a r r. r story is it's a classic story of. how many people get addicted to opioids we both suffer from chronic pain. mine was in my neck and his both in his back. we both had prescriptions but. after prescription. filled and. we believe we got addicted and try really hard to.

break that addiction many times review each aware of each other's struggles with opioids yes eventually in area they should be shared that. did you work together on that absolutely absolutely and you know over how long of a period of this struggle going on for you for both of you. addiction in my opinion is a lifelong struggle. so it's something that we believe we that with every day you know you it's not something that just kind of comes and goes it's something out there with her brother periods of time when you were not using opioids expertly and same question with regard to mr foy yes absolutely were there times when. you knew that he was using opioids. more than by prescription yes that makes

sense yes and when you weren't using you know prescription opioids. you know where did you get them. after street. and black market. and you know he was doing that as well yes. and. turning your attention to. well i mean yes you were in a relationship for nearly 3 years is. to. give this. use of opioids beyond even prescriptions sort of continued throughout that 3 year period for mr floyd. yes something that you saw yourself and were aware of. asked the same question of you did you struggle using

during that tire period yes and were there times when you would use together. and for what you saw mr ford using what form of opioids did he typically use. actually timing or actually kowloon and you know the kind of oxy and how did he get that how to use. i follow them. so until 4 yes that's. not the easiest question to ask you know to. 4 years i'm sorry ok here are sam my question feel free to let me know ok. and so there were times when you would have tamed. non-prescription. together. yes they have been the other things.

i'm certain they would be other people's perceptions and rather sometimes well why would you get them through other people's prescriptions were you. to make said they were safe. and were there times then that you had to get pills other than you know from what you knew or somebody else's prescription. and. were there times when you thought that maybe mr ford wasn't using or was using but not with you not in your presence. that's. telling and where there are times when where you're using together. well i guess that's of course a worry question already let me just ask you this way did you use the same amounts when you. oh yes.

and. taking your attention to you march of 2020. here and. there was a time in march when you knew he was back to using pills is that right. about his behavior in changed. what do you mean by that. i think when you. know someone who suffers any type of addiction. you can start to kind of fee changes when they're using again. and there's this site behavioral changes that i noticed in him it just made me suspect in march of 2020 did you also. kind

of fall back into using this. so you're old. and were you to using together back in march or are you just suspecting suze. in. march yes we did together. and i knew was there a period going after march where you thought the 2 of you had both been able to quit for what he is a lot. and then going forward to may of 2020 was there a time when. you thought he might be using again. you know. so in may when he thought that what legend. it was the same type of thing just behavior changes if it. did you also go back to using opioids in may of 2021 time yes

and he was aware of that gets. in and. when he. went to ask of us i guess in may of 2040 you know where he was living. just the general area yes this gets to the i was almost rooster if you lived in place in st louis park side by side the ritz there yes took the 2 of you ever lived together you know we stared at each other's faces that we. saw in may of 2020. do you recall the last time you spoke with him. yes do you recall when that was in relation to his death. it was the day before he died

. you know. how to talk to him i don't know. did you know what he was going to be doing that night or where he was going to be staying. that they knew us well he said he was going to stay so yes you know who sylvia was yes you can. hear and. as far as you use going to be staying at a friend's house oh. yeah and. do you recall him saying what the plan was for. why they were going to sort of. well. you know maybe his minneapolis family here too and a lot of the people that he was friends with from other states and. almost everybody had lost their job within that time and he was feeling

kind of lonely and just wanted to hang out with his friends and so a lot of people that worked in the salvation army with him and. other people that this stayed there in they were you know just kind of being a family. you know was did she work at the salvation army to get so you are from there yes. so that was the last time you talked to him as the sunday before his death. you told the jurors earlier that. sort of the classic story we had to. opiate addiction injuries prescriptions. had mr floyd done an active person physically. yes it is very active. and what you mean by that would social things just seem to. like to work out every

day he lifted weights that are far beyond anything i lived every single day he did. push the polo is with a new house. if he went out and about he would go buy me. out these plates or plain sports or thank me for the kids or. anybody really that would pick any type of father back if he were he would play instantly he was our ways involved in that he he would do anything physical we had a boating well take walk that he was that i present to run to the store. when you were with him. you know whether you had been exercising or just hanging on to never ever complain of shortness of breath difficulty for him and did he.

did he. have. well did he have sports injuries that he complained of gives you mentioned earlier what his neck his neck. and it went from his neck to shoulder blade and down to the lower back. kind of areas he spoke to he remained physically active you do these activities oh yes. and when. he did those things. lead to his prescriptions or after those injuries that led to his prescriptions for all. the. injuries that he had was not always yes.

i think i forgot to ask you was there a time in 2020 when. the 2 of you took a test for color yes and did you learn the results to tell you the results of his court yes what is what has it in mind when he did. and you recall when that was. i believe it was late march. you know and so because of that to the quarantine for a while. yes he was i really quarantining. is going to also.

thank you mr ross that's the only questions i have. is you know he's. cute. good morning miss ross morning. thank you for being with us this morning think.

i'm sorry to hear about your struggles with all these are opioid addiction thank you thank you for sharing that with the jury i have some follow up questions about your experiences with mr floyd. before i get into that i want to just go through a few things with you you have been interviewed by law enforcement and prosecutors several times in connection with this case is that correct the 1st interview that you provided was in may was on may 31st 2020 with an agent from the bureau of criminal apprehension anything as well as an f.b.i. agent in christopher way or cracks and you have you had an opportunity to review a transcript of that interview that 1st interview yes. you were also then you had a meeting on december 14th with the prosecution team in preparation for

this case right. he's i'm going to december 14th when he does believe me if i told you that i believe you ok. then you also had an interview back in june of 2020 with just the f.b.i. agents and some prosecutors from the federal government yes. and then you met again with prosecutors on february 21st of this year 25th of this year. and then finally on march 31st which i believe was just yesterday. and you understand again that you that at least the meetings with law enforcement they were recorded transcribed and you had opportunities to review both of those transcripts and in fact i think yesterday when you met with prosecutors you went through the

f.b.i. transcript from that meeting back in june i think in ok. so. i know that you and mr floyd both struggled with opioid addiction and i just need to ask some kind of follow up question the amount of time friends. when you 1st not mr floyd throughout that you would agree that throughout the course of your relationship you and mr floyd both had a struggle with opioid addiction. and there would be periods of time where you would both be using and there be periods of time where neither one of you would be using right. and there would be periods of time where one or the other maybe he's right like you may have been using and he wasn't or vice versa are and. you knew at some point mr floyd had gone through some treatment programs right yes

. and i kind of want to just 0 in on the timeframe from january of 2020 until the. his death in may or not be ok. i know that this is difficult i'm sorry we have to go through this. so i want to kind of work backwards in the sense. in terms of your statements ok. well let me be straight for. you. you testified that there were periods of time where you would get a prescription for mr ford get a prescription for opiates. illegally meaning through a doctor. and you'd go to a doctor you would get

a prescription and you would use those right. and then there were other times where you would buy other people's prescriptions from right. and then there were times when those weren't available and so you would have to buy different types of. unknown sources. and. are you familiar with marty's hall. and was maurice hall the person that you and mr floyd. controlled substances from we had. i'm going to pass i'm going to show you a photograph. just to you you'll be the only one who can see it this time it's been previously marked as defense exhibit 1006.

100 you see that photograph. just her. you know i'm sorry this you see the photograph now yes is that the person you know to be maurice hall yes and can you just generally describe what he's wearing. pain and back only share and that is in the operating room corner would you agree that it has the date of may 25th 2001. and that's the person that. if you and mr ford previously purchased controlled substances for you. know in january and february timeframe for you and mr floyd.