Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 06.13.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news out Expedito
- 0:04Speaker 1: de Leon, fifty drives his ups delivery route in Orange County, California. Meanwhile,
- 0:10Speaker 1: his coworker and childhood friend, Rihein Fontanosa, is trying to
- 0:15Speaker 1: track DeLeon down. Fontanosa stops another driver to ask about
- 0:20Speaker 1: de Leon's schedule, then looks it up at a substation.
- 0:23Speaker 1: While DeLeon's buckling up after a drop off in his truck,
- 0:27Speaker 1: Fontanosa finds him and fires at de Leon fourteen times,
- 0:32Speaker 1: killing him Nancy.
- 0:33Speaker 2: It's unclear what spurred the shooting between the longtime friends.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Fontanosa was on disability leave at the time of the shooting,
- 0:39Speaker 2: set to return to work next month. Fontanosa fled the
- 0:42Speaker 2: scene of the shooting, but was located in his car
- 0:44Speaker 2: later that afternoon. He refused to get out, and cops
- 0:47Speaker 2: were forced to use teargas and kenines to remove Fontanosa
- 0:50Speaker 2: from the vehicle.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Ree In Fontanosa, forty six, now charged with murder. Michigan
- 0:57Speaker 1: police are called being contractors working on the roof of
- 0:59Speaker 1: a family grocery store discover somebody's living up in the
- 1:03Speaker 1: store's sign. Workers notice an extension cord, leading into the
- 1:07Speaker 1: attic like space behind the sign on top of the building,
- 1:11Speaker 1: and they find Betting, a coffee maker, a computer, and
- 1:14Speaker 1: a phone. When police arrive, a woman's inside the makeshift
- 1:18Speaker 1: living space. The thirty four year old woman says she
- 1:20Speaker 1: has actually lived in the sign for a year and
- 1:25Speaker 1: asked for time to call her employer and get a
- 1:27Speaker 1: truck to move her belongings. While Cots deny that request,
- 1:31Speaker 1: informing her store employees will return her belongings. Other than
- 1:35Speaker 1: being evicted from the sign, the woman faces no charges.
- 1:39Speaker 1: More crimeing Justice news after this. Now with the latest
- 1:45Speaker 1: Crimeing Justice breaking news crime Allized John Limley.
- 1:47Speaker 3: We begin in the Midwest as a man stands accused
- 1:51Speaker 3: of killing three people and seriously injuring a fourth by
- 1:54Speaker 3: hitting them with a metal pipe, an attack that occurred
- 1:57Speaker 3: in a rural Iowa home. With more on what authorities
- 2:01Speaker 3: are saying at this hour Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.
- 2:04Speaker 2: While a motive for the attack is still being investigated,
- 2:06Speaker 2: Sheriff Brian Gardner stated in a press release that one
- 2:09Speaker 2: potential reason could have been the hope for the crime
- 2:11Speaker 2: to become the subject of a film. Gardner did not
- 2:14Speaker 2: go into further detail. Lynn County Attorney Nick Maybanks has
- 2:18Speaker 2: now announced that thirty four year old mary And, Iowa
- 2:20Speaker 2: resident Luke Trusdell had been charged with three counts of
- 2:23Speaker 2: first degree murder in one count of attempted murder. The
- 2:26Speaker 2: Lynn County Sheriff's office received a call to a residence
- 2:28Speaker 2: about twelve miles north of Cedar Rapids, where they discovered
- 2:31Speaker 2: the victims. Those killed in the attack were identified by
- 2:34Speaker 2: Gardner as forty four year old ramondus Lamar Cooper of
- 2:37Speaker 2: Cedar Rapids, twenty six year old Keona Victoria Ryan of
- 2:40Speaker 2: Cedar Rapids, and thirty three year old Amanda Sue Parker
- 2:43Speaker 2: of Vinton, Iowa.
- 2:44Speaker 3: According to the sheriff, thirty four year old Brent Anthony
- 2:47Speaker 3: Brown remains in critical condition at a local hospital. A
- 2:51Speaker 3: defendant's attorney says his client's trial for the murder of
- 2:54Speaker 3: a University of Mississippi student should be transferred to an
- 2:58Speaker 3: area of the state where why and spread media coverage
- 3:01Speaker 3: won't make it too challenging to assemble an impartial jury.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Once again, crime Online Sydney Sumner attorney.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Kevin Horn submitted court documents asking that Sheldon Timothy Harrington
- 3:12Speaker 2: Junior's capital murder trial be transferred from Mississippi's Lafayette County,
- 3:16Speaker 2: where the university is located and from where Jimmy J.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Lee vanished. On July eighth, twenty twenty two. The twenty
- 3:22Speaker 2: year old Lee was last seen in an Oxford, Mississippi,
- 3:24Speaker 2: apartment building. His body has not yet been located. His
- 3:28Speaker 2: disappearance in the area's LGBT community, where he was well known,
- 3:32Speaker 2: was a source of anxiety for the residents. Investigators say
- 3:35Speaker 2: that cell phone records reveal calls between Harrington and Lee
- 3:38Speaker 2: on the morning of Lee's disappearance. Police alleged that Harrington
- 3:41Speaker 2: also researched international flights and quote how long it takes
- 3:45Speaker 2: to strangle someone. Shortly after Lee stated he was on
- 3:48Speaker 2: his way to the apartment where Harrington lived. Authorities say
- 3:51Speaker 2: Harrington was observed on surveillance footage picking up a shovel
- 3:54Speaker 2: and wheelbarrow at his parents' house after they saw him
- 3:56Speaker 2: racing from the location where Lee's vehicle was later discovered.
- 4:00Speaker 2: In his request for a new location for the October
- 4:02Speaker 2: fifteenth trial, horr In cited news reports and social media
- 4:05Speaker 2: posts that contain quote negative and false information about Harrington
- 4:09Speaker 2: and positive information in support of Jay Lee. Our friends
- 4:12Speaker 2: with the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal report that Horn pointed
- 4:15Speaker 2: out to the court that the Lafayette County Circuit Clerk's
- 4:18Speaker 2: office had received a large number of letters in support
- 4:21Speaker 2: of Lee.
- 4:21Speaker 3: Wren also stated that Lee's supporters have come to the
- 4:24Speaker 3: conclusion that Harrington is guilty and that quote justice must
- 4:29Speaker 3: be served.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Thanks JOm. Harley Morris twenty seven works as a chef
- 4:34Speaker 1: at the popular Tyler, Texas Steakhouse. After the restaurant closes,
- 4:38Speaker 1: Harley spends a night out with his friends. The group
- 4:41Speaker 1: gets drinks at Sports Zone Bar, then they go to
- 4:44Speaker 1: fifty Grand Club to dance. Around thirty am, Harley leaves
- 4:49Speaker 1: the club alone, seeing on surveillance footage walking into a
- 4:53Speaker 1: parking lot. He never makes it home. He has reported missing.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Later that day, drone searches of the area turn up nothing.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Police ask residents and businesses near the club to check
- 5:04Speaker 1: any of their cameras. Harley last seen wearing a gray
- 5:07Speaker 1: black hoodie, black pants, black clogs with a black baseball cap.
- 5:11Speaker 1: He's sixty two, one hundred and sixty two pounds, shoulder link,
- 5:15Speaker 1: dark blonde hair, brown eyes. He's got a lightning bolt
- 5:19Speaker 1: shaped scar on one of his wrists. If you have
- 5:23Speaker 1: info on Harley Morris, now missing four months, please call Tyler,
- 5:29Speaker 1: Texas PD nine zero three five three one one thousand.
- 5:34Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
- 5:36Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.