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Crime Alert 11.03.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime is down. Franklin
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  Speaker 1: Mendez gets in a car accident. After the other driver leaves,
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  Speaker 1: Mendez hangs around to take pictures of his car's damage.
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  Speaker 1: A gray Honda Civic speeds past hits Mendez. His body
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  Speaker 1: gets lodged in the civics windshield. The Civic drives two miles,
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  Speaker 1: then the driver calmly gets out and dislodges his body.
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  Speaker 1: The driver smokes a cigarette, gets back in his car,
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  Speaker 1: and drives off Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: After hitting Mendes, the Civic went into a residential area,
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  Speaker 2: and a homeowner's doorbell camera captured the unidentified suspect dislodging
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  Speaker 2: Mendes's body from the car and dragging him into a ditch.
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  Speaker 2: When passers by discovered Mendes, he was naked from the
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  Speaker 2: waist down. Locals believe the suspect knew the area well
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  Speaker 2: as he spent so much time at the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn cop still looking for the hit and run killer
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  Speaker 1: and asks the public to help locate the gray Honda Civic,
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  Speaker 1: damage to the passenger side bumper and a shattered windshield.
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  Speaker 1: A Memphis driver lucky to be alive after getting in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a drive by shooting. The driver headed
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  Speaker 1: down Poplar Avenue when he hears what he thinks is
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  Speaker 1: a car backfiring. He notices his glasses are not on
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  Speaker 1: his face. Then he spots a bullet hole in his windshield.
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  Speaker 1: The driver pulls into a parking lot finds the bullet
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  Speaker 1: went straight through the car, knocking off his glasses and
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  Speaker 1: shattering his back window. Wow, he still says, the whole
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  Speaker 1: incident is a blur. More Crime in Justice News after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news
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  Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We began in Massachusetts as the District Attorney for Essex
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  Speaker 3: County is reporting that police have made an arrest in
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  Speaker 3: connection with the shooting death of an eighteen year old
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  Speaker 3: student at Salem State University. We hear more now from
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Eighteen year old Miss Slee
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  Speaker 3: Penya can of Salem has been charged with murder in
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  Speaker 3: relation to Carl Belliard's shooting death. Canella was arraigned in
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  Speaker 3: Salem District Court after being taken into custody by Salem
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  Speaker 3: Police detectives. It was around one twenty four in the
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  Speaker 3: morning on Wednesday. According to Salem Police, that they received
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  Speaker 3: a nine to one one call reporting a shooting. They
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  Speaker 3: discovered bellyard with gunshot wounds inside a car. The victim
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  Speaker 3: was later declared dead at a Salem hospital. According to
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  Speaker 3: a preliminary assessment, the shooting did not seem to be
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  Speaker 3: a random act of violence. This according to police statements.
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  Speaker 3: Officers say that the investigation is quote active and ongoing,
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  Speaker 3: but that the Salem State University community doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 3: be under any continuous threat. Belliard played varsity boys basketball
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  Speaker 3: for Wooster North High School. The city's mayor, Joseph Petty,
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  Speaker 3: recognized the team members back in May for their victory
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  Speaker 3: and the Division I state championship. The city of Salem
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  Speaker 3: was packed with people for its yearly Halloween festivities when
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  Speaker 3: this shooting occurred. A divided Alabama Supreme Court has now
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  Speaker 3: rule that the state may use nitrogen gas to kill
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  Speaker 3: a prisoner, a technique never before employed to carry out
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  Speaker 3: a death sentence. Kenneth Eugene Smith's execution warrant request was
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  Speaker 3: granted by the court, voting six to two in favor
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  Speaker 3: of the state Attorney General, who stated in court documents
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  Speaker 3: that the state plans to execute Smith using nitrogen even
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  Speaker 3: though the ruling did not specify this technique. Governor k
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  Speaker 3: Ivy will determine the precise day of the execution at.
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  Speaker 2: A later date.
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  Speaker 3: Now to New York, where Attorney General Letitia James says
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  Speaker 3: that ride haling services Uber and Lyft will pay a
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  Speaker 3: total of three hundred and twenty eight million dollars to
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  Speaker 3: resolve wage theft charges in the state once again crime
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  Speaker 3: online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to James, the agreements put an end to questions
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  Speaker 2: into the company's wrongful billing of drivers, sales taxes, and
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  Speaker 2: other expenses when the consumers were supposed to bear the cost.
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  Speaker 2: Uber is going to pay two hundred and ninety million
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  Speaker 2: dollar dollars and left thirty eight million. James says both
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  Speaker 2: present and retired drivers will receive the payouts. The companies
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  Speaker 2: have also committed to paying a minimum wage of twenty
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  Speaker 2: six dollars per hour to drivers who work outside of
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  Speaker 2: New York City and to give paid sick leave. In
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  Speaker 2: recent years, Uber and Lyft have become commonplace in New York,
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  Speaker 2: substantially replacing the city's recognizable yellow taxi cabs with the
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  Speaker 2: user friendly ride healing applications. In addition to refusing to
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  Speaker 2: provide drivers with the most basic benefits and labor safeguards.
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  Speaker 2: The corporations have been sluggish to adapt to the laws
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  Speaker 2: that control taxi services in places like New York.
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  Speaker 3: James says the New York Taxi Workers' Alliance brought the
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  Speaker 3: wage that complaints to her office.
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  Speaker 1: Tane's sisters, Tamara and Iris Perez, moved to Michigan with
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  Speaker 1: their adoptive parents after repeat harassment by their bio mom.
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  Speaker 1: The girls settle in over the summer enjoy walks around
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  Speaker 1: a wooded area near the new home. One day, the
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  Speaker 1: girls go for one of their walks and never return.
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  Speaker 1: A neighbor reports watching the teens head into the woods,
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  Speaker 1: then seeing a white jeep Cherokee leaving shortly after. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI believes Tamra and Iris were taken. They're investigating whether
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  Speaker 1: their bio family may be involved. No one has heard
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  Speaker 1: from the two girls since they disappeared, now over four months.
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  Speaker 1: They have ties to Port Saint Lucy and Lake Worth, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and Winchester, Tennessee. If you have info on Tamra and
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  Speaker 1: Iris Perez fifteen and fourteen, contact Ross Common County Sheriffs
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace