Dad Killed Outside Target Over Parking Spot

Favorite thing about being a dad? >> Uh when my kids uh stand outside and. wait for me to get home from uh work and. whenever I get out of the vehicle, they. yell, "Daddy, daddy, daddy.". >> A young dad tragically won't be coming. home to his family because he was shot. and killed in a Target parking lot in an. apparent dispute over [music] a parking. space. Has the whole world gone mad? We're taking a closer look at what we. know so far in this truly terrible case. [music] and what police are still trying. to figure out. And the most important.

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You want to talk about census? A. husband, a father of three was gunned. down in a parking lot of a Target store. in Savannah, Georgia last weekend after. an alleged confrontation over a parking. space. We're talking about a fight over. a parking space. That's what's being. reported. This shooting turned a normal. Sunday afternoon into a nightmare with. police having to cordon off the lot with. crime scene tape and they took a suspect. into custody. We're talking about the.

death of 33-year-old Matthew Treywick. He worked for a car dealership, Vaden. Automotive, in Savannah. He was in the. lot of the Target when he allegedly got. into some kind of dispute with another. man, 30-year-old Tyler Edward Lynn. That. encounter somehow escalated into shots. being fired and Matthew ending up. bleeding on the ground. On Sunday, January 4th, at around 400 p.m., these. frantic calls just started coming in. Savannah police, they tweeted that they. were responding to a shooting and then.

followed it up with this information. Quote, SPD responded to the 14,000 block. of Apricorn. Upon arrival, an adult male. was found suffering from a gunshot. wound. He was taken to the hospital but. succumbed to his injuries. An adult male. suspect was taken into custody. Please. call 9122342020. or use the app if you have info. Now, you had news outlet WSAV report that the. suspected shooter, so Lynn, stayed at. the scene and was arrested. That's an.

important detail if true. Chatham County. court records show that he has been. charged with aggravated assault and. murder. A Fort Stewart spokesperson told. WSAV that Lynn was in the Army from. August 2015 to October 2023. Now, he was. reportedly stationed at Hunter Army. Airfield in nearby Hinesville, Georgia, and worked as an unmanned aircraft. systems repair for the last two years of. his Army career. He had the rank of. specialist according to WSAV's. reporting, but it should be noted he was.

never deployed. Army officials though. they were unable to tell the outlet what. sort of discharge that he received when. he left the army, whether it was. honorable or otherwise. So that is a. question that needs to be evaluated. But. we have the city's mayor, Van Johnson, who provided some insight into all this. Shared, quote, "Today, our community was. shaken by a tragic act of violence in a. place where people should feel safe. A. parking lot at the Target on Abberorn. Street. The Savannah Police Department. responded to reports of a shooting that.

occurred during an alleged argument over. a parking dispute. An adult male was. struck and later died from his injuries. We have the suspect in custody and the. investigation remains active. Our hearts. go out to the family and loved ones of. the victim. No disagreement over a. parking space or anything else should. ever end in the loss of life. This. needless unnecessary violence. underscores the daily pain felt by. families across our city and the urgency. of our collective work to reduce gun.

violence and strengthen community. safety. Johnson continued, "This tragedy. is a reminder that we must redouble our. efforts in violence prevention, conflict. resolution, and community support. services. Let us honor the life lost. today by committing to a safer, more. compassionate Savannah." Savannah. police, they have released very few. details about the shooting, the. circumstances of the shooting, the. timeline, the events other than to say. that Treywick, uh, Matthew Treywick was. rushed to the hospital. This is where he.

died. But I will say that the community. surrounding Savannah has been a buzz. with this news. We're seeing this a lot. online. For example, you had a person. who posted on Reddit on Sunday saying. they saw this altercation. We do want to. say this is just what this person claims. they saw. The specific details have not. been confirmed by authorities, but that. user wrote under the title shooting at. Target Southside. Heavy police presence. Some guy shot someone three times in the. chest. He was with his daughter. He was.

bleeding out on the ground while she was. begging him to keep breathing and not. die. The guy that shot him just took the. magazine out of the gun, sat it on his. vehicle, and stood to the side waiting. for the cops to show up. Avoid the area. I need a drink. Yet another user in the. comments who clarified that it was. Matthew's wife, Michaela, not one of his. children, that was trying to save him. That person says the couple's three. children were actually inside the car. Again, to be clear, police haven't.

confirmed this. What we can say, if. that's true, if any of this is true, it's absolutely horrific. But then you. have another person online who purports. to have known the suspect or known of. him. They wrote, "Lynn has told many. stories about cutting people off and. jamming his brakes on them in traffic. He's followed people who've pissed him. off driving and even physically. confronted them. I know he struck. another vehicle while road raging and. later claims to have made a police. report after the fact, so it seemed he. wasn't the aggressor." He also has a. history of violence off the road. All.

these things will come to light. God. rest the victim's soul and all prayers. for those left behind in this senseless. crime. Again, Savannah police haven't. officially confirmed any of this. information. We don't even know if this. person or these people have been. interviewed by police, but if it's true, it's an interesting perspective. And if. it's true, I will also say in these. kinds of cases sometimes that evidence. of past episodes, past allegedly. aggressive behavior that can maybe come.

in to show a pattern to show about what. happened here. Now, I should also tell. you, by the way, we weren't able to find. any other court records related to Lynn. in Chatham County's online records. So. again, we're kind of limited in what we. know. But here's what we do know. Matthew's employer, Vaden Nissan of. Savannah, and and by the way, Vaden. Automotive might have several. dealerships, but they were one of the. first to identify him as the victim, posting a photo of his family, writing, "We're heartbroken by the loss of.

Matthew Treywick. Matthew was a valued. member of the Vaden family for years. Our thoughts and prayers are with his. wife, children, and those closest to him. during this incredibly difficult time. We ask for privacy for his family and. our team as we grieve this tragic loss. And this past Father's Day, by the way, Vayen Automotive, they posted a video of. Matthew talking about his three kids. Take a look. >> What does a dad actually want for. Father's Day? >> Peace and quiet. >> Favorite thing about being a dad. >> Uh when my kids uh stand outside and.

wait for me to get home from uh work and. whenever I get out of the vehicle, they. yell, "Daddy, daddy, daddy." I have a. two-month-old, a 2-year-old, and a. four-year-old. >> It's just so sad. And yes, Lynn is. innocent until proven guilty, he'll have. an opportunity to present his defense. But at the end of the day, if this. reporting is true, it's so senseless. This didn't need to happen. The. business's uh post read, by the way, uh. regarding this video, from guiding.

customers to guiding kids, Matt Treywick. brings heart and wisdom to everything he. does. This Father's Day, we honor his. role as both a proud dad and an. invaluable part of our team. Back in. 2021, the dealership posted a photo of. Matthew with his with a big grin on his. face holding a cake that said 62 on it. The accompanying post said, "We are so. incredibly proud of our sales. professional, Matthew Treywick, for. going above and beyond his goal for the. month of June and selling 62 vehicles.

Congratulations, Matthew." A family friend has set up a. GoFundMe to help Matthew's widow, Michaela, and the three young kids. The. amount raised has quickly soared to more. than $130,000. as of Wednesday morning. It's pretty. incredible. And the organizer wrote on. the GoFundMe page, "Thank you so much to. all that have donated and shared thus. far. The overwhelming support within the. last 24 hours is a restored faith in. humanity after such a senseless tragedy. Michaela has an army of extended family.

and friends supporting her with daily. tasks, kiddos, and essential needs meals. for now. We will update you with any. other needs as they arise. So, right. now, it is unclear if Lynn and Matthew. knew each other or whether they had any. other kind of interaction before the. argument or the seemingly this argument. over the parking spot. Court records. seem to indicate that Lynn is locked up. without bail, that his first appearance. in court is scheduled for January 29th,

and hopefully as this case progresses, we will get more information. But I want. to tackle this right now from a. different angle. So, I want to try to. make sense of this, if that's even. possible. Um, let me bring in forensic. psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober uh into. the conversation. Doctor, thank you so. much for taking the time. I I can't sit. here today and say this is the first. time we've seen something like this. I. mean I mean maybe most notably I covered. a prime crime and maybe I think we did. it on sidebar too. I mean there was the. Michael Draa case out in Florida. You.

have disputes over parking lots uh. parking spaces. You have dispute. disputes all the time in convenience. stores and movie theaters. It seems and. we don't know the whole circumstances of. this. We don't know the fact pattern. But why do we generally speaking why do. we see strangers getting into physical. conflicts in these areas? So this is. really an act of reactive aggression. Um. it's obviously associated with anger uh.

possible deficits in cognitive control. and emotional regulation. And really. what it comes down to is a perceived. slight uh or that you're being. disrespected. This is something that we. see all the time as you said, but some. people just have a completely. disproportionate. reaction. And when people become angry, their focus becomes more narrow. They. lose their ability to problem solve, to. disengage, to reinterpret, to step back.

And when there's a presence of a. firearm, there is a much higher chance. that these confrontations can become. lethal. So you have the scenario, the. individual and the presence of the. firearm which really are the perfect. storm. Do you feel like you're seeing. more incidents like this in the last. maybe 10 years? Do you feel like people. might be on edge more in today's day and. age? Do you think there's something. going on that we should be thinking. about? I do. I do think that people are. angrier and there's this sort of hostile.

attribution bias where when you have a. situation that may be ambiguous, people. immediately jump to conclusions and. their knee-jerk reflexes that this must. be hostility towards me. I am being. targeted and I think that makes people. lose their cool much quicker. Now, assuming he did this for a minute, um, if you were to interview somebody who. was involved in a uh, allegedly a. physical altercation like this, a. violent altercation like this, do they. even remember what happened or does.

their mind go blank? Um, given the the. trauma of that event, given how fast. something like this happens, how what's. their recall like? Because you always. wonder in cases like this, and again. it's such an early stage, but if someone. were to claim self-defense or someone. were to try to explain their side of it, do they accurately recall what happened? Often no, they don't. Uh when all those. hormones and neurotransmitters are. flowing, adrenaline, uh they don't have. an accurate recall of the situation. Uh.

but when I speak to someone like this, what I would want to know is was there a. prior relationship uh between the. alleged asalent and the victim? Were. they under the influence of substances? Was there a prior history of violence? Had they been diagnosed with a mental. illness? These are all questions I would. want to know. >> Well, as far as Lynn, we talked about. this military background before. Uh. there's a person who apparently claims. that they witnessed what happened. claimed that Lynn immediately removed.

the magazine from the gun, placed it on. the car. We don't know if that's true, but assuming that is for a minute, it's. very like procedural. It's like a it's a. very interesting reflex from mil, you. know, wonder is it from military. training. What do you make of that? And. by the way, he remained at the scene. apparently. >> So military training is certainly a risk. factor. I don't think that he was. deployed, although I could be wrong. >> He wasn't. What? So I do think from a. training perspective when people that's.

the whole point of military training, right? When people are under stressful. situations, they fall back on their. training, they fall back on a procedure. So it does seem very procedure-like, if. you will, uh the way he reacted and. certainly that's a risk factor for sure. If you had the opportunity to interview. him, what would you want to know about. his past? What would you want to know. about his military training and his time. in the military? So obviously we know he. wasn't deployed. I would want to know. what his specialty was in the military.

Did he go through any problems during. basic training? Any history of combat. stress? Any history of prior conflict. while he was going through training? Any. problems with, you know, oppositionality, problems with. authority? These are all questions I. would be asking. And and to be clear. about something, you know, those who. served or veterans, it's not like they. go out and do things like this. and he's. innocent until he's, you know, until. proven guilty. But do you see episodes. where people who have served in the.

military or or veterans of some kind. that they have somehow been involved in. violent altercations? Um, or is it, hey, you know what, they're like anybody else. who gets into violent altercations. You. can't just say it's one segment of the. population, but they're I'm, you know, it's a part of the conversation here. his background. It's being reported. about for a particular reason. Do you. see people with that background? Ha. Have they been getting have they. experienced violent episodes in public.

and civilian life? >> I do. I've worked extensively in the. Veterans Administration system and with. active duty service members and. especially ones who've been deployed or. exposed to combat stress who've had. military training. Uh definitely people. who have a history of trauma may be more. likely to react much quicker and not. think the situation through. So through. no fault of their own uh because of. their service to their country and the. fact that they put their lives at risk.

to protect our freedom, very often they. do get post-traumatic stress which can. cause them to react quicker in these. types of situations without thinking it. through. You know, it's being reported. that Matthew's children, who apparently. are very young, they may have been. present during the shooting. Now, what. they saw, what they heard, not entirely. clear, but if they were present, if they. saw this, are they going to remember. what happened? Um, and what do we know.

about how violence impacts someone that. young? Violence impacting someone that. young who whose father is now deceased? I mean, what should we be thinking about. there? So, it really depends on the ages of the. children. It depends on what they. actually saw. Uh, you know, were they in. the car when it happened? Were they on. the other side of the car? Did they. actually witness his death, him being. shot? Uh, genetic factors, prior. experience. Most kids, as a rule, are.

resilient and will, but certainly a. situation like this will put them at. much higher risk for acute stress or. post-traumatic stress disorder. How does. this family move forward? >> You know, one day at a time. Uh, trauma, grief is a process. It's not an on. andoff switch. You never go back to the. quote unquote normal. It's a new normal. And I think they're just going to have. to take it one day, sometimes one hour. at a time. Do you think there will be, and again, there's it's still early.

stages. We're still trying to piece. together. Do you think though there will. be a mental health evaluation as part of. the legal case? >> Oh, almost certainly. I think there will. be a mental health evaluation and you. know it may play into a potential. defense strategy whether he's offered a. plea it but I definitely think a mental. health evaluation will be part of it. >> How does it work? Would the defense uh. try to seek a mental health evaluation. and that's then rebutted by the. prosecution zone experts? Um talk to me. about how sometimes that plays out in.

cases like this. >> So I believe the the defense can request. it. uh actually the judge can request it. and I think you know early on looking at. how this is playing out I think a mental. health defense or mental health will. play into the defense but to be clear I. mean if if he remained at the scene that. seems to be an acknowledgment of what. what happened and that he done something. wrong I mean allegedly right I mean the. other way of looking at it is if you're. dealing with a situation I'm not saying.

insanity's on the table or that's even. relevant here, but they talk about, you. know, a clear example. Somebody commits. a crime and they just hang out cuz they. didn't even realize what happened. Now, that doesn't seem to be the case here. But if you're talking about somebody who. remains at the scene, that could. complicate mental health defenses in. some way, right? Well, it all depends on. how you tell the story, right? If he's. at the scene, you could interpret that.

as, oh, it's, you know, an. acknowledgement of guilt. But then you. could say if he flees the scene, that. that's an acknowledgement of guilt. It. all depends on how you take the same set. of facts and how you tell the story. >> Such a sad case. Such a sad case. Um, >> horrific, tragic. >> Trying trying to make sense of it. Um, I. guess the the one thing I'll ask is, and. again, we don't know all the details. here. We don't know all the. circumstances, but people get into. conflicts all the time. There's what we. call fight or flight, right? What would. you recommend to people to because it's.

very tough to look in hindsight and say. how someone should respond or how they. should react and um you know emotions. are running wild if there's an. altercation. Do you advise patients in. some way? Do you advise people in some. way about what they should do if they. find themselves in a potentially violent. altercation or let me say this, an. altercation that could escalate into. physical violence? What do you what. would you recommend? So, obviously. firearms are a political hot button.

issue, but I don't look at it from a. political standpoint. I look at it from. a public health standpoint. When you. have a situation like this and when you. have firearms in your home or in your. car and there is a confrontation like. this, there is a much higher probability. of lethality just by the mere presence. of the firearm. If you talk to people. and you tell them, you know, don't make. your firearm so accessible, that's going. to basically tell them they're they're.

basically going to say that that defeats. the purpose of having a firearm, right? They want to have it ready to go during. an armed confrontation. But there are. certain people that may be more. reactive, that may fly off the handle, that may not think it through. And those. are probably not people that should have. firearms. And this is something I see in. the hospital with my patients all the. time. I have people coming in and. they're involved in a confrontation or. they come in holding a gun to their head. and we have to remove their firearms. from them because they shouldn't have.

them. So, I would say you have to look. at the temperament of the individual and. is this someone that you really want. having a firearm because people should. have the right to have them, but not. everyone should have them. >> Dr. Daniel Bober, thanks for taking the. time. Appreciate it. My pleasure. And. that's all we have for you right now. here on Sidebar. Everybody, thank you so. much for joining us. And as always, please subscribe on YouTube, Apple. Podcast, Spotify, wherever you should. get your podcasts. You follow me on X or. Instagram. I'm Jesse Weber. I'll speak. to you next time.