Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Two Men Finally Charged in Shooting That Killed College Bartender | Crime Alert 03.07.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: As Brianna Long, twenty one, and coworker closed up the Riemerton,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Georgia bar where they work, two patrons argue outside. It
- 0:11Speaker 1: turns into a fight. Gunfire erupts others lingering outside run
- 0:16Speaker 1: for cover, but the employees both are wounded. Despite his injuries,
- 0:20Speaker 1: Brianna's coworker calls nine to one one, telling dispatch Brianna
- 0:24Speaker 1: is losing a lot of blood. She's rushed to the
- 0:26Speaker 1: hospital but dies. The shooters are nowhere to be found.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Police have few leads.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Nancy Remerton police immediately calling the GBI for assistance in
- 0:35Speaker 2: the case. A twenty five thousand dollars reward for information
- 0:38Speaker 2: is offered. Ultimately, shellcasings from the scene lead agents to
- 0:42Speaker 2: guns tied to the five to two eight gang. The
- 0:44Speaker 2: gang is accused in several more murders, robberies, and assaults
- 0:47Speaker 2: in nearby Valdosta. More than a year later, interviews lead
- 0:51Speaker 2: authorities to two of seven charged in a forty four
- 0:54Speaker 2: count racketeering case against five to eight. Authorities believe Scion
- 0:57Speaker 2: Clayton and Kimone Green. We're looking for an another individual
- 1:01Speaker 2: involved in a gang dispute when they fired shots outside
- 1:03Speaker 2: the pier.
- 1:04Speaker 1: See On Clayton twenty three and Kimonne Green twenty three,
- 1:08Speaker 1: both already in custody for other cases, now charged with
- 1:12Speaker 1: malice murder in twenty one year old Brianna's death. Heather Larson,
- 1:17Speaker 1: the owner of Mama's Minerals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, notices
- 1:21Speaker 1: one of her largest and most valuable crystals is gone.
- 1:25Speaker 1: She checks surveillance cameras and pinpoints the moment a customer
- 1:28Speaker 1: steals the huge crystal just the night before. As she
- 1:32Speaker 1: reaches for the phone to call police, that these strolls
- 1:35Speaker 1: back into the shop crystal in hand. The man says
- 1:38Speaker 1: he's had nothing but bad luck since he took the
- 1:41Speaker 1: crystal and apologizes. She's now unsure whether she should have charges.
- 1:46Speaker 1: The crystal value at nearly four grand. More crime and
- 1:50Speaker 1: justice news after this Now with the latest crime and
- 1:56Speaker 1: justice breaking news. Crime Onlines.
- 1:58Speaker 3: John Linley in Illinois a shocking turn in the Highland
- 2:02Speaker 3: Park mass shooting case. Just as the trial was set
- 2:05Speaker 3: to begin. The man accused of killing seven people at
- 2:08Speaker 3: a Fourth of July parade in twenty twenty two has
- 2:10Speaker 3: abruptly pleaded guilty. Appearing in a Lake County court room,
- 2:14Speaker 3: Robert Cremode, the third withdrew his not guilty plea and
- 2:18Speaker 3: admitted to the attack that left dozens injured. He now
- 2:21Speaker 3: faces a mandatory life sentence. Prosecutors had been prepared for
- 2:26Speaker 3: trial with extensive evidence, including DNA and a videotaped confession.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Survivors and families bracing for a long legal battle, were
- 2:34Speaker 3: stunned by the sudden plea. Lake County State's Attorney Eric
- 2:38Speaker 3: Reinhardt called it a step toward justice, but acknowledged the
- 2:42Speaker 3: community's pain. Security was tight at the courthouse. Sentencing is
- 2:46Speaker 3: set for April twenty third, when victims and families will
- 2:49Speaker 3: have their say. Meanwhile, civil lawsuits continue against the gunmaker
- 2:54Speaker 3: and officials accused of negligence. The attack, which unfolded as
- 2:58Speaker 3: crowds enjoyed a parade aid in the affluent suburb thirty
- 3:01Speaker 3: miles north of Chicago, left behind a community forever changed
- 3:06Speaker 3: to Georgia Now and a new federal lawsuit alleging that
- 3:09Speaker 3: Atlanta police have unlawfully targeted opponents of the city's controversial
- 3:14Speaker 3: public safety training center known as cop City. Crime Online
- 3:18Speaker 3: correspondent Sidney Sumner Reports.
- 3:21Speaker 2: The lawsuit, filed by activist Jamie Marcicano, accuses Atlanta police
- 3:25Speaker 2: of systematically targeting critics of the training center, using false
- 3:29Speaker 2: arrests to suppress opposition. Marcicano, one of the dozens facing
- 3:33Speaker 2: domestic terrorism and racketeering charges, was arrested near a twenty
- 3:36Speaker 2: twenty three music festival after a group attacked the construction site.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Authority cited muddy clothing and a shield as evidence, claims
- 3:43Speaker 2: Marcicano's attorneys call baseless. The lawsuit also highlights multiple cases
- 3:48Speaker 2: where police allegedly arrested individuals linked to the Stop Cop
- 3:51Speaker 2: City movement without costs. City officials defend the one hundred
- 3:55Speaker 2: and fifteen million dollar facility, saying it will improve training
- 3:59Speaker 2: and replace out infrastructure. Neither Atlanta police nor city representatives
- 4:03Speaker 2: have commented on the lawsuit.
- 4:05Speaker 3: As legal battles over the training center intensify, questions remain
- 4:09Speaker 3: about free speech and law enforcement tactics.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Thanks John. Bethany Brown, thirty nine, celebrates her daughter's six
- 4:16Speaker 1: birthday at grandma Brenda Barnes home Taylorville, North Georgia. After
- 4:21Speaker 1: the party, Brown with her children and boyfriend Tony Swainey,
- 4:25Speaker 1: head home. Hours later, Bethany calls Brenda, upset about an
- 4:30Speaker 1: argument with the boyfriend. Next morning, Swainey finds Bethany gone,
- 4:34Speaker 1: not answering, calls her current purse, still home, phone missing, pinging,
- 4:39Speaker 1: unsuccessful boyfriend. Swainey cooperating with investigators and Pasta Paully. Alexander
- 4:45Speaker 1: County Sheriff searched multiple places suggested by family. No signs
- 4:49Speaker 1: of Bethany. Bethany five five, one hundred and thirty five pounds,
- 4:54Speaker 1: brown hair, blue eyes, butterfly tattoo left hip. If you
- 4:57Speaker 1: have info on Bethany Brown, please please call Alexander County,
- 5:01Speaker 1: North Carolina Sheriffs eight two eight six three two one
- 5:05Speaker 1: one one one. For the latest crime in justice news,
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- 5:11Speaker 1: for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our
- 5:14Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
- 5:19Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.