Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 06.27.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Gray's breaking crime news now. And
- 0:03Speaker 1: Martinez calls Flagstaff Arizona police when she finds her younger
- 0:07Speaker 1: grandson dead Deshaun Martinez six, unresponsive and he only weighs
- 0:13Speaker 1: eighteen pounds at age six. Parents Elizabeth Archibek and Anthony Martinez,
- 0:20Speaker 1: say DeShawn got sick and lost weight, but it's later
- 0:24Speaker 1: discovered Deshaun and his seven year old brother are locked
- 0:27Speaker 1: in a closet sixteen hours a day without food.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Nancy, the average six year old weighs more than double
- 0:35Speaker 2: that at forty five pounds. Grandmother and Martinez is also
- 0:38Speaker 2: facing trial on several child abuse charges stemming from punishing
- 0:41Speaker 2: the boys by hitting them with a coat hanger. Anthony
- 0:44Speaker 2: Martinez admitted to police he would sit outside the door
- 0:46Speaker 2: of the closet while he played video games to ensure
- 0:49Speaker 2: the boys did not escape.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Mom, if you can call her that, Elizabeth Archibek twenty nine,
- 0:54Speaker 1: pleads guilty to murder and child abuse as she should.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Dad Anthony Martinez twenty eight, found guilty of murder two
- 1:02Speaker 1: counts of child abuse. They're going straight to hell with
- 1:06Speaker 1: a pit stop and a CI Correctional Institute A Florida.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Bar manager approaches a group entering the bar with a
- 1:12Speaker 1: dog and tells them only service animals allowed. The dog's owner,
- 1:18Speaker 1: Davis the third, argues with the manager. The manager points
- 1:22Speaker 1: at Davis, who lunges at the manager and bites at
- 1:25Speaker 1: his finger. In return, the manager punches Davis in the
- 1:29Speaker 1: face and the whole group starts fighting. Cops are called,
- 1:33Speaker 1: but the manager refuses to press battery charges. Don't know why.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Kenneth Davis twenty seven now facing disorderly intoxication.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Poor dog.
- 1:43Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Now with the.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Latest crime and justice breaking Nees Crime Onlines John Limley.
- 1:52Speaker 3: We begin in Arkansas as a man accused of a
- 1:55Speaker 3: deadly mass shooting at a grocery store has pleaded not
- 1:58Speaker 3: guilty to multiple charges. For more, we turned to Sidney
- 2:01Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Forty four year old Travis Eugene Posey appeared in court
- 2:06Speaker 2: for the first time and entered his plea on Tuesday.
- 2:09Speaker 2: He faces four counts of capital murder and ten counts
- 2:11Speaker 2: of attempted capital murder. The shooting, which occurred at the
- 2:14Speaker 2: Mad Butcher grocery store, left four people dead and ten
- 2:17Speaker 2: others injured, including two police officers. Posey was injured by
- 2:21Speaker 2: police gunfire during the incident. Authorities have not yet determined
- 2:24Speaker 2: a motive for the attack and say Posey did not
- 2:27Speaker 2: have personal connections to his victims. Greg Parrish, representing Posey
- 2:31Speaker 2: through the Arkansas Public Defender Commission, addressed the court briefly
- 2:34Speaker 2: on Posey's behalf. According to our friends with the Arkansas
- 2:37Speaker 2: Democrat Gazette, Posey confirmed that Parish had explained the charges
- 2:41Speaker 2: to him during the hearing. The case continues to unfold
- 2:44Speaker 2: as investigators worked to understand the circumstances surrounding the tragic
- 2:47Speaker 2: events at the grocery store. Authorities revealed chilling details about
- 2:51Speaker 2: the tragic shooting in ford Ice, Arkansas. As they described
- 2:54Speaker 2: the events had unfolded last Friday, Travis Eugene Posey, armed
- 2:58Speaker 2: with a twelve gage shotgun, a pistol, and a bandolier
- 3:00Speaker 2: filled with extra shotgun rounds, opened fire in a horrifying
- 3:04Speaker 2: display of violence. According to police reports, Posey discharged most,
- 3:08Speaker 2: if not all, of his rounds from the shotgun. The
- 3:11Speaker 2: rampage began in the grocery store's parking lot, where Posey
- 3:14Speaker 2: fired indiscriminately at bystanders before continuing his assault inside the
- 3:18Speaker 2: Mad Butcher store. There, he continued to shoot at customers
- 3:21Speaker 2: and employees indiscriminately, causing multiple casualties. Officials discovered shooting victims
- 3:26Speaker 2: both inside the store and scattered throughout the parking lot,
- 3:29Speaker 2: underscoring the chaotic and deadly nature of the attack. The
- 3:32Speaker 2: midday shooting shook the quiet community of Fordyce, a city
- 3:35Speaker 2: with a population of about thirty two hundred located approximately
- 3:39Speaker 2: sixty five miles south of Little Rock.
- 3:41Speaker 3: The judge has ordered Posey to be held without bond
- 3:43Speaker 3: and has not yet scheduled his next court appearance. Now
- 3:47Speaker 3: to a story unfolding in Los Angeles where a woman
- 3:50Speaker 3: has pleaded guilty to the murder of Michael Latt, a
- 3:53Speaker 3: prominent consultant in the entertainment industry and an advocate for
- 3:56Speaker 3: social justice. Once again crime online Sydney Song.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Thirty six year old Jamila Elena Michael admitted to committing
- 4:03Speaker 2: first degree murder and first degree burglary, along with using
- 4:06Speaker 2: a firearm during the attack. There was a morning across
- 4:09Speaker 2: Hollywood following the death of Michael Latt in November of
- 4:12Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Known for his work as a consultant
- 4:15Speaker 2: focusing on social impact in film and entertainment. Lack collaborated
- 4:19Speaker 2: with notable directors such as Ava Duverne of the film
- 4:22Speaker 2: Selma and Ryan Coogler of Black Panther. According to court
- 4:25Speaker 2: records and law enforcement, Michael allegedly knocked on Latt's door
- 4:29Speaker 2: at his Los Angeles residence and forced her way inside,
- 4:31Speaker 2: fatally shooting him with a semi automatic handgun. Latt died
- 4:35Speaker 2: of his injuries after being transported to a nearby hospital.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Prosecutors asserted that Michael had been stalking and threatening director
- 4:41Speaker 2: av Rockwell, prompting several restraining orders against her. Police reports
- 4:46Speaker 2: and court documents indicate Michael targeted Latt due to his
- 4:49Speaker 2: association with Rockwell.
- 4:50Speaker 3: Prosecutors say Michael faces a maximum sentence of life in
- 4:54Speaker 3: prison without parole for twenty five years. Sentencing is set
- 4:58Speaker 3: for July tenth.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Thanks John, Teresa Hartley, sixty six, agrees to make a
- 5:02Speaker 1: birthday cake for a close friend, Robert Markwell's girlfriend. When
- 5:06Speaker 1: mark Well comes by Teresa's Saint Augustine, Florida home to
- 5:09Speaker 1: pick up the cake for the party, Teresa's gone. The
- 5:12Speaker 1: roommate says she left with a mutual friend Mark Well
- 5:15Speaker 1: becomes concerned when she doesn't show up to the party
- 5:19Speaker 1: and learns Teresa and the friend drove to Lake Delancey
- 5:23Speaker 1: to collect firewood on Friday afternoon. The friend's car broke
- 5:28Speaker 1: down and he went to get help. When he came back,
- 5:32Speaker 1: he says Teresa was gone. Searches turn up two metal
- 5:36Speaker 1: chairs belonging to Teresa and cigarette butts near where she
- 5:41Speaker 1: was last seen. Teresa Hartley five eight, one hundred and
- 5:44Speaker 1: sixty pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes, wearing blue tennis shoes
- 5:48Speaker 1: and a dark shirt. If you have info on Teresa Hartley,
- 5:52Speaker 1: now missing a year, called Marion County, Florida Sheriffs three
- 5:57Speaker 1: five two three six eight three five zero eight. For
- 6:01Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice needs. Go to crimeonline dot
- 6:04Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace