even discusses it on "the montel williams show." >> you want to stay together but you're going to makef it every moment i get. >> narrator: according to tyler, on the night of may 10, 2003, he's sitting in the car outside his sister's home when he hears a loud noise. >> to me, it sounded like you, you know, take a textbook and you drop it on the floor and you get that pop, slam, slap, whatever you want to call it. and i didn't think anything of it. >> narrator: tyler says kristi soon shares a secret and a request. >> she was telling me, you know, that she killed him, that she did it because, you know, he was being mean to her. and that's when she started telling me that i should take the blame for it because i was 13, nothing would happen to me. i'd never been sent to the principal's office, much less do anything like this. i didn't know what trouble was, to be honest. and i believed her. >> narrator: joey's brother eventually finds him, shot once in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. police contact tyler's mother, requesting an interview with the boy. >> i wasn't really scared about t