In the moments before his death early last month, Brodie Wilkinson III took out his cellphone and started recording video of the three people who would later be charged in his slaying, according to court documents.

As the phone recorded, two men got out of a white 2008 Dodge Charger that had pulled to the side of Possum Trot Road near Greenbrier. One of them was holding a gun.

“In the video, you can hear the sound of a gunshot after (Wilkinson) passes and the penetration of the projectile as it entered the truck and Mr. Wilkinson,” reads an affidavit filed Oct. 8 in the Robertson County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office, less than 48 hours after Wilkinson was found dead inside his crashed truck near Gum Station Road and Highway 76.

Case set for grand jury next week

The Robertson County grand jury is expected to take up the Wilkinson case when it meets next week. Its members will decide if the first-degree murder charges against Daniel Blake Scott, 28, Darick A. Hinerman, 25, and Jennifer Henning, 23, will proceed.

The case was presented in General Sessions Court on Oct. 23 and bound over to the grand jury, according to the Robertson County District Attorney’s Office.

Meanwhile, Scott, Hinerman and Henning remain behind bars on $1 million bond each in the Robertson County Jail.

The affidavits filed against them in General Sessions Court provide details about what happened to Wilkinson on the day he died.

The 22-year-old had discovered the trio swimming in a creek on his family’s property near Possum Trot Road and Highway 76 sometime during the day on Oct. 6 and confronted them, asking them to leave because they were trespassing.

They wouldn’t go, so Wilkinson left and went to another location on Possum Trot Road, where he called police and reported them. He told a Robertson County dispatcher that he’d meet law enforcement on nearby Gum Station Road and was heading toward that spot when he ran into the suspects again, court documents say.

Henning was driving the Charger west on Possum Trot Road when she and the others spotted Wilkinson’s blue truck headed in the opposite direction, according to her affidavit.

She pulled over, and Scott, the front-seat passenger, got out of the car with Hinerman, who had been riding in the back.

Technology proves vital to case

It is not clear whether the suspects spoke to Wilkinson or if they knew he was recording them.

Deputies with the Robertson County Sheriff's Office reviewed the video from Wilkinson's phone and used another cellphone to record it in slow motion, the affidavits said.

Before, they had seen Scott coming from the Charger, but in slow motion, they saw Hinerman holding a black gun in his hand, documents note.

After the single gunshot rang out, Wilkinson crashed his truck and died at the scene.

At first, the authorities were called to investigate what they thought was a single vehicle crash, but they later reported the death as a homicide.

Scott, Hinerman and Henning were tracked to their Springfield home and arrested at about 1 a.m. Oct. 7, police said.

Later that same day, Robertson County Sheriff Mike Van Dyke released a statement to the media saying that his department's thoughts and prayers were with the Wilkinson family.

“I am proud of our sheriff’s office team for apprehending these suspects quickly and removing them from the streets,” he said in the statement.

Reach Nicole Young at 615-306-3570 or nyoung@tennessean.com.

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