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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nilson.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Police in Wichita release a video showing a woman screaming
- 0:07Speaker 1: as she is dragged away in an early morning kidnapping.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Investigators say the abduction happened around two am Sunday in
- 0:14Speaker 1: the fourteen hundred block of North Felucca. The short video,
- 0:18Speaker 1: captured by a doorbell camera, shows the woman shouting for
- 0:21Speaker 1: help before a man pulls her down the driveway and
- 0:23Speaker 1: out of view. Yeah Wichita polies posted the footage on
- 0:33Speaker 1: social media and asked for the public's help identifying both
- 0:36Speaker 1: people in the video. The department stated quote, at this time,
- 0:40Speaker 1: we have not been able to identify the female and
- 0:43Speaker 1: male seen in the video. Exploring all options, We've reached
- 0:46Speaker 1: out to our regional and federal law enforcement partners for
- 0:50Speaker 1: additional assistance. Officers spent the day enhancing the videos audio,
- 0:55Speaker 1: hoping that someone might recognize the woman's voice. The case
- 0:58Speaker 1: has drawn national attention, and with the FBI and Kansas
- 1:01Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation now helping this search, neighbors say they
- 1:06Speaker 1: are frightened on helico Verdutsko told Kake she has lived
- 1:10Speaker 1: in the area for fifteen years. And has never seen
- 1:13Speaker 1: anything like this.
- 1:15Speaker 2: La la sembre croquezembra villo sequestre.
- 1:20Speaker 1: In English quote it's dangerous, that's the truth. But always
- 1:23Speaker 1: I believe there have always been kidnappings. Perdutsko said she
- 1:27Speaker 1: just returned from visiting family in Mexico, where kidnappings are common,
- 1:31Speaker 1: and now feels uneasy for herself and the young women
- 1:34Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Police urge anyone who recognizes either person
- 1:38Speaker 1: to call nine to one one or call Wichita Police
- 1:41Speaker 1: Investigations at three one six, two six eight forty four
- 1:44Speaker 1: oh seven.
- 1:45Speaker 2: More crime and justice news.
- 1:47Speaker 1: After this, Milwaukee police released DASHCN video showing the moments
- 1:57Speaker 1: before an off duty officer shot and killed a two
- 2:00Speaker 1: twenty six year old man in a shootout, and now
- 2:02Speaker 1: the man's family says the officer was justified. The footage
- 2:06Speaker 1: shows what began as a fender bender on Mill Road
- 2:09Speaker 1: turning violent. Investigator say Elijah Wilkes stepped out of his
- 2:12Speaker 1: car and struck the off duty officer in the face
- 2:14Speaker 1: with a gun. The two then exchanged gunfire. Wilkes was
- 2:18Speaker 1: killed at the scene. The Milwaukee Police Department released a
- 2:21Speaker 1: video just four days after the shooting, well ahead of
- 2:24Speaker 1: its fifteen day deadline for public release, the family of
- 2:27Speaker 1: Wilkes requested that the video be shared early to address
- 2:31Speaker 1: what they called misinformation spreading online. Attorney b Ivory Lamar,
- 2:34Speaker 1: who represents the family, told our TV news partners at
- 2:37Speaker 1: Fox six the that's.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Its point of that video is clear. It's within a
- 2:42Speaker 3: few feet away, so again the proximity is substantially more
- 2:46Speaker 3: reliable and you can deep it depict the details that
- 2:50Speaker 3: are very critical here.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Lamar said he and Wilkes's mother saw the video for
- 2:54Speaker 1: the first time the day after the shooting.
- 2:57Speaker 3: When we saw the video for the first time, completely signed,
- 3:00Speaker 3: it was unimaginable. What actually took place is just something
- 3:04Speaker 3: that we just have to take acceptance in accountability for.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Family members said Wilkes made a fatal mistake. His aunt,
- 3:12Speaker 1: Latree Spells said, quote my nephew, he made a decision
- 3:15Speaker 1: that he should not have made, and that is just
- 3:17Speaker 1: something we have to live with. Wilkes was reportedly on
- 3:20Speaker 1: his way to his uncle's funeral that morning when the
- 3:23Speaker 1: crash happened. Police said the officer, who was a forty
- 3:26Speaker 1: year veteran of the force, was injured but survived. Lamar
- 3:29Speaker 1: tells wis In the family's decision to release the footage
- 3:33Speaker 1: was meant to help Milwaukee move forward. A twenty six
- 3:37Speaker 1: year old man is charged after police say he peed
- 3:39Speaker 1: on then destroyed the Eternal Flame at the Martin Luther
- 3:42Speaker 1: King Junior Center in Atlanta. Police officers were called to
- 3:46Speaker 1: the King Center around four thirty am Saturday. They found
- 3:49Speaker 1: Brent Jones peeing in the reflection pool near the crypts
- 3:52Speaker 1: of doctor Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Officers said Jones then stood in the middle of the flame,
- 3:59Speaker 1: and court records say the disturbance began when Jones got
- 4:03Speaker 1: into a fight with another man and became angry when
- 4:06Speaker 1: told to leave the property. Police detained him at the scene.
- 4:09Speaker 1: He was charged with criminal trespass, criminal damage to property,
- 4:12Speaker 1: public in decency, and obstruction of law enforcement. The King
- 4:16Speaker 1: Center estimated the damage at around three thousand dollars. A
- 4:19Speaker 1: statement from the King Center called the event quote a
- 4:22Speaker 1: minor incident. It went on to say, quote, while there
- 4:25Speaker 1: was minimal damage to the Eternal Flame and the surrounding area,
- 4:28Speaker 1: the King Center remains fully open to visitors. The Eternal
- 4:31Speaker 1: Flame still burns with love and We continue to welcome
- 4:34Speaker 1: everyone with open arms and gratitude for the incredible support
- 4:37Speaker 1: of our beloved community. The dream lives on Jeffrey Dean
- 4:42Speaker 1: McDaniel as one of the fbis most wanted for fleeing
- 4:44Speaker 1: after allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a thirteen year old
- 4:48Speaker 1: girl in California. Investigators say McDaniel, now fifty eight, repeatedly
- 4:52Speaker 1: assaulted a young female relative in Placer County in September
- 4:56Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety eight.
- 4:57Speaker 2: He fled with her.
- 4:58Speaker 1: The girl was found in Mexico, and in two thousand,
- 5:00Speaker 1: she told authorities McDaniel took her across California and Nevada
- 5:04Speaker 1: before reaching Mexico, where he continued to assault her. She
- 5:07Speaker 1: got pregnant. On February twenty eighth of two thousand and one,
- 5:11Speaker 1: Placer County issued a warrant for McDaniel on charges of
- 5:14Speaker 1: custody deprivation. Two months later, a federal warrant. McDaniel may
- 5:18Speaker 1: still be in Mexico, could be working in the computer
- 5:21Speaker 1: industry or involved in tattoo artistry. He's white, five feet eleven,
- 5:25Speaker 1: about one hundred ninety pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Tattoos including skulls roses, a solar system on his left forearm,
- 5:32Speaker 1: an Egyptian pharaoh on his right biceps muscle, and a
- 5:36Speaker 1: green wedding band tattooed over the word Michelle. He also
- 5:39Speaker 1: has blacked out swastikas on both arms and the name
- 5:42Speaker 1: Shelley above his right knee. Anyone with information is asked
- 5:45Speaker 1: to contact the FBI or the nearest American embassy or consulate.
- 5:49Speaker 2: You can call eight hundred call FBI.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Or tips dot FBI dot gov.
- 5:53Speaker 2: If you want to remain anonymous.
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