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HS Football Star Killed in Drive By Shooting | Crime Alert 05.13.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crimes now. Darius
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  Speaker 1: Jeters sees an instant alive of his girlfriend at a
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  Speaker 1: Galveston party and drives there in a jealous rage. Gunshots
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  Speaker 1: heard around two am. Denham Cooper, a star high school
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  Speaker 1: football star and party guest, hit in the head. The
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  Speaker 1: fifteen year old dies at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Jeters texted several people that he planned to drive
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  Speaker 2: by the host's Airbnb and shoot up the party. Jeters
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  Speaker 2: had multiple enemies at the party, but Denham was not
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  Speaker 2: one of the intended targets. Jeters is charged with murder. Denham,
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  Speaker 2: better known as Coop or Number ninety three, was a
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  Speaker 2: football hero at his Texas City ISD High school, and
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  Speaker 2: his loss is grieved by classmates, friends, his two older brothers,
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  Speaker 2: and parents.
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  Speaker 1: A jury finds Darius Jeter's guilty, sentenced to forty years
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  Speaker 1: behind bars. A Bernese Mountain dog wanders out of his yard,
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  Speaker 1: ending up in a Chinese recondation park, Tocoma, Washington. The
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  Speaker 1: doggie gets stuck in wet rocks and barks until a
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  Speaker 1: person walking nearby heres and calls police. Officers first try
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  Speaker 1: putting a leash on the dog to pull him to safety,
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  Speaker 1: but he won't budge. Then they hoist him up on
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  Speaker 1: a tarp and carry him away to come up PD,
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  Speaker 1: escorting the dog to the Humane Society until they can
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  Speaker 1: be reunited with its owners. I wonder if they taught
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  Speaker 1: that a police academy. More crime and justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Onlines. John Lewis security guard has been charged with
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  Speaker 3: murder in the deadly campus shooting of a college dean
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  Speaker 3: near Los Angeles. Authorities say forty year old Jesse Figueroa
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  Speaker 3: open fire at the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
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  Speaker 3: in Inglewood, California. The gunfire claimed the life of Kamisha
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  Speaker 3: Denise Clark, the school's newly promoted dean of student Affairs.
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  Speaker 3: Another fee male staff member was injured but survived. Clark,
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  Speaker 3: a respected educator who began her career at Clark Atlanta University,
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  Speaker 3: died from her injuries at a nearby hospital. In a statement,
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  Speaker 3: her family called her a guiding light whose leadership and
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  Speaker 3: belief in others shaped countless student lives. Prosecutors have charged
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  Speaker 3: Figueroa with murder, attempted murder, and multiple felony firearm counts,
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  Speaker 3: including enhancements tied to using a gun during a crime,
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  Speaker 3: charges that could carry a life sentence if convicted. School
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  Speaker 3: officials confirmed Figueroa worked for a private security firm contracted
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  Speaker 3: by the college. Inglewood's mayor, James Buz called the shooting
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  Speaker 3: a likely case of workplace violence, though no motive was
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  Speaker 3: listed in the formal charges. Figueroa remains in custody and
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  Speaker 3: is due back in court May twenty nine. Security upgrades
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  Speaker 3: are underway at Pennsylvania's governor's residence after a recent break
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  Speaker 3: in and arson attack. Here's Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: On April thirteenth, just after two am, an intruder scaled
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  Speaker 2: the seven foot metal and brick fence surrounding the Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: Governor's residence in Harrisburg and broke into the home. Governor
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  Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro and his family, who had hosted a passover
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  Speaker 2: Satyr earlier that evening, were safely evacuated. No injuries were reported,
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  Speaker 2: but the fire caused millions of dollars in damage. The suspect,
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight year old Cody Balmer, an unemployed welder from Harrisburg,
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  Speaker 2: now faces charges including attempted homicide and arson. State Police
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Colonel Christopher Paris outlined a series of security improvements
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  Speaker 2: in a letter to lawmakers, among them more frequent security assessments,
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  Speaker 2: a new uniformed security division, and the installation of an
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  Speaker 2: anti climb fence around the property. Although construction hasn't visibly
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  Speaker 2: begun marker flags around the perimeter suggest it is imminent.
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  Speaker 2: The changes stemmed from recommendations in a security review conducted
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  Speaker 2: so former State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B.
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  Speaker 1: Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Paris told legislators the full report won't be released publicly,
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  Speaker 2: citing concerns it could compromise the safety of the governor's family.
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  Speaker 3: The investigation is ongoing, and more visible and behind the
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  Speaker 3: scene security measures are expected in the weeks ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Late January, Lynch, North Dakota, Heather Carras thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: tells her son she's going out to warm up the
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  Speaker 1: car and disappears. The next day. Her goal two thousand
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  Speaker 1: Chevy Silverado found fifteen miles away in Beaver Bay, Keys
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  Speaker 1: still in the ignition. Police immediately searts the area on
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  Speaker 1: foot with an ate A drone no success. Neighbor Travis
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  Speaker 1: Doctor says Heather told him she wanted to visit her
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  Speaker 1: mom with cancer. Heather has brown hair, blue eyes, five four,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty pounds, tattoos on both arms. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Heather Carras, please call Emma's County
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  Speaker 1: North Coda Sheriffs seven zero one two five four four
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  Speaker 1: four one one. For the latest crime injustice news, go
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  Speaker 1: find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.