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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I mean see grace breaking crime news now. Michael Todd
- 0:04Speaker 2: sets a lunch meeting with employee Donald Stewart at a
- 0:07Speaker 2: Georgia McDonald's.
- 0:08Speaker 1: The two discuss a project.
- 0:10Speaker 2: The conversation gets tense as they finish eating, then turns
- 0:14Speaker 2: to a full on argument by the time they get
- 0:16Speaker 2: to the parking lot. Their patrons scream and dial nine
- 0:20Speaker 2: to one one when they hear gunshots. When police arrived,
- 0:23Speaker 2: Michael Todd standing over at employee Donald Stuart's body Nancy.
- 0:28Speaker 3: In initial reports, it was unclear if Ton and Stuart
- 0:31Speaker 3: both worked at the restaurant, but the chain quickly clarified
- 0:34Speaker 3: that neither man was an employee. Authorities did not clarify
- 0:38Speaker 3: where the two men were employed. Donald Jason Stewart was
- 0:42Speaker 3: rushed to the hospital but did not survive his injuries.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Jason is survived by his sister, who says she will
- 0:49Speaker 3: remember him by his kindness, infectious laughter, and the genuine
- 0:53Speaker 3: friendships he shared with so many.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Michael Todd, forty, now charged with murder. Flora police responded
- 0:59Speaker 2: to a nine one from a homeowner watching two young women.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Spray paint her car.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Officers find Evelina Fabianski and her sixteen year old sidekick
- 1:09Speaker 2: covering a black conda in neon yellow curses. Babyanski tells
- 1:15Speaker 2: cops she's getting back at her ex boyfriend who owes
- 1:18Speaker 2: her money. As Fabianski's handcuffed, Cops tell her she ruined
- 1:23Speaker 2: the wrong car. Fabianski eighteen, intoxicated, charged with criminal mischief
- 1:30Speaker 2: DUI and giving alcohol to her underage cohort, who was
- 1:34Speaker 2: found covered in yellow paint and charged with marijuana. Let
- 1:39Speaker 2: the good Times roll more crime and justice news after this.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Now with the latest crime in justice breaking news Crime
- 1:49Speaker 2: Onlines John Linley.
- 1:51Speaker 4: We begin in Louisiana as one man is under arrest
- 1:54Speaker 4: and at least two more could face charges in the
- 1:57Speaker 4: hazing related death of a Southern University student. Baton Rouge.
- 2:02Speaker 4: Police say twenty year old Caleb Wilson died in February
- 2:05Speaker 4: while pledging Omega pscy Fi fraternity authorities say Wilson and
- 2:10Speaker 4: eight other pledges were repeatedly punched in the chest by
- 2:14Speaker 4: fraternity members wearing boxing gloves. Twenty three year old Caleb
- 2:18Speaker 4: McRae has now been arrested, charged with manslaughter and felony hazing.
- 2:23Speaker 4: According to police, McGray hit Wilson. Four times before Wilson
- 2:27Speaker 4: collapsed suffering an apparent seizure. A coroner's report is still pending,
- 2:32Speaker 4: but no major external injuries were found. Mcray's attorney, Philip Robinson,
- 2:38Speaker 4: says his client did not intend to harm and is
- 2:41Speaker 4: asking the public to reserve judgment. Authorities say more arrests
- 2:45Speaker 4: are expected as the investigation continues. Now to an historic
- 2:50Speaker 4: and somber event in South Carolina, a state execution carried
- 2:55Speaker 4: out by firing squad, the first of its kind in
- 2:58Speaker 4: the United States in fifteen years. Here's Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
- 3:03Speaker 3: On March seventh, that six oh eight pm, Brad Sigmund,
- 3:07Speaker 3: aged sixty seven, was pronounced dead at the Broad River
- 3:10Speaker 3: Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. Convicted in two thousand
- 3:15Speaker 3: and two for the brutal two thousand and one murders
- 3:17Speaker 3: of William David Lark and Gladys Lark, Sigmund chose execution
- 3:21Speaker 3: by firing squad over the electric chair or lethal injection,
- 3:25Speaker 3: fearing the latter methods might result in prolonged suffering. The
- 3:29Speaker 3: execution was conducted by three volunteer prison employees, each armed
- 3:33Speaker 3: with rifles, who fired simultaneously from a distance of fifteen feet.
- 3:38Speaker 3: Sigmund was seated in the death chamber wearing a black
- 3:41Speaker 3: jumpsuit with a hood over his head and a white
- 3:44Speaker 3: target placed over his heart. Witnesses, including family members of
- 3:48Speaker 3: the Larks, Sigmund's attorney, and media representatives, observed the procedure
- 3:52Speaker 3: from behind bullet resistant glass. This event marks the first
- 3:56Speaker 3: use of the firing squad in the United States since
- 3:59Speaker 3: twenty ten, and has reignited discussions about execution methods and
- 4:03Speaker 3: the ethics surrounding capital punishment. South Carolina had previously halted
- 4:08Speaker 3: executions for over a decade due to challenges in obtaining
- 4:11Speaker 3: lethal injection drugs, leading to the adoption of alternative methods
- 4:15Speaker 3: like the firing squad. The execution of Brad Sigmund by
- 4:19Speaker 3: firing squad not only underscores the complexities of capital punishment,
- 4:23Speaker 3: but also highlights the ongoing debates about humane methods of execution.
- 4:28Speaker 4: As states grappled with these issues, the conversation about the
- 4:32Speaker 4: future of the death penalty in America continues.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Thanks John Jasmine Johnson, twenty three, lives with Grandma in Archer, Florida,
- 4:40Speaker 2: anticipating the birth of a baby girl in just three months.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Jasmine close with sister Schantavia facetimes after her shift at
- 4:48Speaker 2: McDonald's nearly every day. Chantavia notices Jasmine isn't in the
- 4:52Speaker 2: best mood and assumes she's had a long day at work.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Jasmin says good night to Grandma, but next morning she's
- 4:59Speaker 2: not in the house and doesn't answer her phone. She
- 5:02Speaker 2: also misses a sonogram. Everything but Jasmine's phone is left
- 5:07Speaker 2: at home. She doesn't have a car. Alachua County Sheriffs
- 5:12Speaker 2: believe foul play involved. Have persons of interest. Jasmine Robinson
- 5:18Speaker 2: African American five to two, one hundred and thirty pounds,
- 5:22Speaker 2: styled hair with locks. There's a ten thousand dollars reward
- 5:28Speaker 2: for information on Jasmine Robinson, now missing five years.
- 5:34Speaker 1: If you have.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Info and you want that ten thousand dollars, please call
- 5:39Speaker 2: Alachua County, Florida Sheriffs three five, two, three six seven
- 5:43Speaker 2: forty one sixty one.
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- 5:56Speaker 2: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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