Transcript and extended video: Interview with murder suspect Cola Beale IV

VIRGINIA Seashore, Va. (WAVY) — A person accused in 3 homicides spanning Virginia Beach and Norfolk has spoken publicly to the media.

On Thursday, hrs just after Cola Beale IV was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Hampton, he gave several interviews with the media from the Virginia Seashore Correctional Centre.

In people interviews, Beale gave insight into the time primary up to the a few homicides as perfectly as his personal background.

He also mentioned he left a concept for his 3-yr-previous son on a pill in advance of he allegedly killed his girlfriend, a man who was a father determine to him, and his cousin. Beale urged his son to make excellent choices.

He mentioned he has no remorse for the crimes he’s accused of, but doesn’t want his 3-year-old son to finish up like him.

Look at parts of the jailhouse interview and go through the connected transcript underneath.

**Editor’s be aware: Components of this transcript have profanity.

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Cola Beale’s information to his kids

WAVY Television 10: Why did you want to eliminate as quite a few folks as feasible? Have you at any time had violent feelings just before?
Cola Beale IV: No, I’m just to the stage where I previously realized after the very first I experienced adequate ammo to get rid of a lot of far more folks. I’m just thankful that the U.S. Marshals obtained me … since I was surely about to get out there the next working day and do some thing.

WAVY Tv 10: Would you like to apologize?
Cola Beale IV: No. Because what’s accomplished is finished. I ain’t lying no far more. They ain’t lying no far more. So I’m likely to preserve it just like I sent it. I did everything individually for a various explanation.

He went on to demonstrate what occurred the working day he was arrested.
Cola Beale IV: “Had I just bought into a shootout with the U.S. Marshals, I would’ve been dead. I’d be even now on the operate if they did not locate me. I would not be sitting suitable in this article in front of you. I’m just sitting right in this article in entrance of you simply because the house next to me in the Airbnb had two small boys in it and a loved ones and I understood they were in the house, so if I arrived out taking pictures there was a opportunity they could’ve obtained killed. I really do not want my kids to get killed. So I didn’t arrive out shooting. I let the shawty go (cousin’s girlfiend) and I just walked out. I didn’t even do it. I could’ve shot it out to the dying. They (U.S. Marshals) do not subject.”

Beale was asked what he was carrying out when the U.S. Marshals arrived to the dwelling in Hampton to just take him into custody.
Cola Beale IV: I was asleep. I just took a shower and I was asleep. I put on some new music, I was laying down asleep and I listened to this significant truck come up like an army truck come up. Each and every time I appeared out the window they stored expressing ‘left right remaining right’ i knew it was them.

WAVY Television set 10: Did you want to get caught?
Cola Beale IV: Hell no. That’s the whole issue — not to get caught. Keep doing what you do. Continue to keep remaining on the run. Who goes on the operate and would like to get caught?

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Cola Beale’s information to his youngsters

WAVY Television 10: Are you contented with that? are you at peace with that? that you became the same human being your father was?
Cola Beale IV: No. No. Hell no, since now I have a son that I won’t be equipped to converse to anymore. Or if his mom is great or on the other hand it goes… On the other hand their existence goes driving my steps, I just hope that he can split it. That’s why I didn’t give him my previous identify. He’s 3. Which is why I didn’t give him my name so he ain’t acquired to stress about dwelling with this name.”

WAVY Television 10: Cola, do you have anything at all that you’d like to say precisely to your son?
Cola Beale IV: I have a good deal to say. A 7 days before this transpired, I left a video clip recording on his tablet at his grandma’s dwelling. So that if a thing at any time took place to me he could hear to it and it was just form of like setting up him up. Speaking to him as if I was long gone presently. Like, for some reason it felt like I was about to leave the world anyway. So I experienced already remaining him a farewell information way just before I experienced considered of all this. And it was wild since now this occurred. I didn’t see this happening but I recorded a video in his tablet so if he at any time sees it, he is aware of what I meant for him. If I experienced to say a thing to him now, I’d say go on to be potent. Fork out consideration. Be the best you can be. I mean, be there to shield his mom. Take treatment of his grandma while she’s listed here. Hear to his mom and for whatever else he can do, continue to be active in everyday living. One thing that he can hold his head targeted on what he desires to do. And I appreciate him and my daughter as effectively. She’s going to be 13.

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Cola Beale discusses partnership with his stepmother

WAVY Tv 10: Cola, you killed 3 persons. In 2014, your dad killed your stepmom. Why do you believe your father killed your stepmom?
Cola Beale IV: I was locked absent at the time he did it. She was producing me all the time. She wrote me a letter and at the conclusion of the letter she informed me she knew she was about to go. She reported she felt it. She felt like she wasn’t going to be in this article no additional. She felt like it was nearly shut to the stop. That variety of damage me simply because I was like ‘Damn, which is the only 1 genuinely composing me when I’m long gone.’

When asked if he was close with his stepmother, Beale reported ‘yes.’
Cola Beale IV: Yeah and for him to do that, that was like a different crush, another pain. I didn’t know what he felt. But I just, I signify, I tried out to remain in make contact with with him but when I arrived house, I just lower him off. And ideal right before I started striving to get back again in call with him, which is when this happened.

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Cola Beale talks about placing girlfriend’s house on hearth

Beale was requested to explain if he killed his girlfriend’s puppy or regardless of whether the dog died in the hearth.
Cola Beale IV: The pet dog died in the fire. But I allow the dog stay because that is what she informed me to do. She reported ‘Look, never hurt him…’ I mean I was likely to set him on fireplace. She claimed ‘Don’t hurt him, he had practically nothing to do with this. This is all my fault. This is me.’ She explained it was her fault for the reason that she let her mother in and mess with her head. I reported ‘Look male, so thats how you feel?’ She was like ‘Look, whichever you are going to do to him, do it to me.’ So thats when I shot her in the head.

He ongoing:
Cola Beale IV: I established that on hearth, I established the automobile on fire, I even ran by way of fire making an attempt to get out. I virtually bought locked into the hearth.

He ongoing:
Cola Beale IV: She was by now completely ready to go. She was completely ready to go. She was like nah, I’ll just take that. So I remaining the pet dog alive but then I arrived again to the dwelling and set it on fire and then I watched the pet dog melt away alive.