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New Wheelchair for Paraplegic Man Robbed Twice While Standing By Helplessly | Crime Alert 6AM 10.08.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alart, hourly update, breaking crime news now and.
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  Speaker 2: I never expected any of this, so I get it's
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  Speaker 2: just amazing how much everyone's coming together to help me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson, a silver lining for a paraplegic man
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  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City regaining his mobility after strangers step in
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  Speaker 1: to replace the medical gear stolen from him during two
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  Speaker 1: home break ins. Alan Prudome said thieves broke into his
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  Speaker 1: Southeast Oklahoma City apartment twice in one week, taking his wheelchair, medication, cash,
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  Speaker 1: and the hand controls he used to drive a vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: He told kfo R he woke up during the second
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  Speaker 1: burglary to find two men inside. One tried to pull
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  Speaker 1: the bag off from around his waist, while another came
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  Speaker 1: out of his closet carrying a box of his stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Eight days earlier, Prudome had returned home to find his
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  Speaker 1: front door pride open and his valuables gone. He said
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  Speaker 1: the second break in left him terrified to stay alone.
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  Speaker 1: Police have arrested one suspect, identified as Johnny Johnson the
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  Speaker 1: Third and charged him with first degree burglary. Officers said
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  Speaker 1: he lived in the same complex. They urged residents to
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  Speaker 1: use good locks cameras and motion lights. Prudom said he
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  Speaker 1: survives on disability and can't easily replace what was stolen.
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  Speaker 1: After Allen's story aired, a former serviceman swooped in.
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  Speaker 2: On behalf of wheelchairs for veterans. We'd like to present
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  Speaker 2: you with this manual wheelchair.
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  Speaker 1: That's Stacy Reddick speaking to kfo R.
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  Speaker 2: I just cannot believe that somebody would steal this man's
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  Speaker 2: medical equipment, so we jumped all over it.
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  Speaker 1: Prudom thanked the community for its kindness and said he
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  Speaker 1: plans to close his GoFundMe, which raised ten eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty two dollars of its sixteen thousand dollars goal.
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  Speaker 1: Prudohm wrote that the donations will help replace personal items,
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  Speaker 1: cover moving costs after his lease was terminated due to
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  Speaker 1: the burglaries, and possibly go toward a vehicle that he
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  Speaker 1: can use without help. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: The chief meteorologist for New Orleans TV station WDSU is
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  Speaker 1: on leave after police say he attacked his girlfriend while
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  Speaker 1: her two children slept nearby. Devin Lucy, age forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: was arrested early Sunday at his home in Marrero. He
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  Speaker 1: faces charges of domestic abuse with child endangerment, and resisting
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  Speaker 1: an officer by refusing to identify himself. According to the
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, deputies said the incident began after
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  Speaker 1: an argument at a festival in Gretna. The woman told
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  Speaker 1: police that Lucy left the event and her mother drove
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  Speaker 1: her back to his home. She said she pried the
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  Speaker 1: door open and went inside. The pair argued again. Lucy left,
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  Speaker 1: but later returned and allegedly punched her while she was
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  Speaker 1: in bed. Her two children were asleep on a couch
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  Speaker 1: in the living room. Deputies wrote that the woman had
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  Speaker 1: quote several small cuts and scratches on most of her
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  Speaker 1: upper body, as well as several whelps on her forehead
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  Speaker 1: and face. She told investigators quote they wrestled and she
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  Speaker 1: fought back in self defense. Deputy say Lucy had visible
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  Speaker 1: scratches on his face and refused to give his name
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  Speaker 1: or date of birth. He also refused to put on
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  Speaker 1: clothing or clean his injuries. Lucy was booked into the
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson Parish Correctional Center and later released. The station says
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  Speaker 1: he has been placed on leave quote pending the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Lucy joined WDSU in twenty twenty one and was named
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  Speaker 1: chief Meteorologist in August after Margaret Or retired. He is
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  Speaker 1: a certified broadcast meteorologist through the American Meteorological Society and
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  Speaker 1: has worked in Denver, Las Vegas, Washington, d C. And
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. An Indiana woman is charged with animal cruelty
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  Speaker 1: after police say they found her dead dog stuffed in
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  Speaker 1: a plastic tote soaked with chemicals. Kylie Dodd was arrested
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  Speaker 1: September twenty ninth, then charged with a misdemeanor count of
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  Speaker 1: cruelty to an animal. Court record show she posted one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars bond and is set to appear
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  Speaker 1: in court on November seventeenth. Police said they were called
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  Speaker 1: to a workplace on South sixth Avenue in Beach Grove
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  Speaker 1: after someone reported some when dropping off quote a dead
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  Speaker 1: dog in a tote, poured chemicals on it and left
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  Speaker 1: the tote at her work. Officers reported the blue tot
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  Speaker 1: contained a dog quote covered in some type of chemical
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  Speaker 1: and maggot's DoD told police she found the toat near
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  Speaker 1: her car after leaving work seven thirty pm. She said
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  Speaker 1: she opened it and saw her dog inside. She also
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  Speaker 1: claimed there was a note that read quote for Kylie,
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  Speaker 1: here's your dog, but told officers she later lost it.
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  Speaker 1: At first, she blamed another person and said they must
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  Speaker 1: have put the dog in the tote, but police contacted
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  Speaker 1: that person, who said they had not seen DoD or
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  Speaker 1: the dog since March. When confronted again, officers say they
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  Speaker 1: quote made it clear it was known that she was
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  Speaker 1: lying about the care and custody of the dog. Dodd
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  Speaker 1: then changed her story. She told police Quote, the dog
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  Speaker 1: just died and that she didn't know how. She admitted
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  Speaker 1: she no longer lived in the apartment where the dog
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  Speaker 1: was kept, and affidavit states quote DoD was periodically coming
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  Speaker 1: and checking on the dog. She told police she found
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  Speaker 1: the animal dead in September twenty sixth when she returned
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  Speaker 1: to the apart Heartman. She said she wrapped the dog,
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  Speaker 1: named Mays, in a blanket and placed it in the
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  Speaker 1: tote while looking for Quote someone to bury her. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: said Dodd acted alone. Animal control officers later took possession
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  Speaker 1: of the dog's remains. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: But this Crime Alert, I'm Drew Nelson.