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Queens Home EXPLODES in NYPD's Face Responding to 911 Call | Crime Alert 05.01.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: New York City police have released bodycam video that captures
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  Speaker 1: the terrifying moment a routine domestic violence call turned into
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  Speaker 1: a life threatening explosion. It happened early Thursday morning at
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  Speaker 1: a residence in Queen's. Officers were responding to a nine
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  Speaker 1: to one one call involving a man with a knife,
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  Speaker 1: but as they approached the front door to intervene, the
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  Speaker 1: entire front of the building was obliterated in a ball
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  Speaker 1: of fire. In the video, you can see an officer
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  Speaker 1: attempting to use a key to enter the home when
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  Speaker 1: the blast literally knocks the responding units off their feet.
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  Speaker 1: Here is an initial moment of chaos.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, the guy just lit the house on fire.
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  Speaker 1: We got a explosion. Despite being thrown to the ground
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  Speaker 1: and suffering burns and lacerations, those officers didn't retreat. Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Tish says that in that moment of total uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: officers chose to move forward into the fire. The footage
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  Speaker 1: shows them rushing toward the mangled remains of the apartment
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  Speaker 1: to pull residents to safety, including several young children. Who
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  Speaker 1: were caught in the middle of this nightmare.
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  Speaker 3: Read I can't read it, let me kick it again.
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  Speaker 1: In total, seven officers were injured. Thankfully, Commissioner Tish confirmed
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  Speaker 1: they have all been treated and released from the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh held a press briefing explaining
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  Speaker 1: that the suspect, a fifty year old man, allegedly arrived
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  Speaker 1: at the home intoxicated and armed with a knife. Family
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  Speaker 1: members reported a strong smell of gas before the police
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  Speaker 1: even arrived.
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  Speaker 3: At approximately two forty two am, the office stot A
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  Speaker 3: one oh six percent respond to a nine to one
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  Speaker 3: call of a domestic dispute knife. The call was placed
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  Speaker 3: by family member of the victim, who stated that her
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  Speaker 3: male relative arrived at their residence and tosscated an armed
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  Speaker 3: with a knife, and there was a smell of gas
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  Speaker 3: in the residence.
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  Speaker 1: Security footage from the scene shows the suspect arriving with
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  Speaker 1: two garbage bags filled with unknown canisters. Police say he
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  Speaker 1: forced his way in through an air conditioning unit.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Parsaram forced his way into the apartment by pushing
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  Speaker 3: the air conditioning unit. Once an apartment, the daughter and
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  Speaker 3: his two grandchildren of the victim mancha fleet to safety
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  Speaker 3: while mister Parsaram began menacing and threatening to remaining victim
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  Speaker 3: with a knife. The victim was able to safely get
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  Speaker 3: out of the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: While some family members managed to escape early on. The
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  Speaker 1: suspect allegedly continued to menace his wife with a knife
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  Speaker 1: until she too was able to get out and hand
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  Speaker 1: her keys to the arriving officers. As of right now,
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  Speaker 1: the suspect remains unaccounted for. Investigators are currently combing through
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  Speaker 1: the rubble to determine if he perished in the blast.
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  Speaker 1: Records show the suspect had three prior protection orders filed
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  Speaker 1: against him by a relative in the home, the most
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  Speaker 1: recent of which expired just this year. Mayor Zoaron Mundani
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  Speaker 1: has praised the heroic actions of the first responders who
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  Speaker 1: prevented this horrific situation from claiming even more lives more
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  Speaker 1: Crime and Justice News. After this, Cole Thomas Allen, the
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  Speaker 1: man authorities say attempted to storm the d C Hilton
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  Speaker 1: ballroom with a literal arsenal, appeared in federal court to
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  Speaker 1: determine if he will remain behind bars ahead of trial,
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  Speaker 1: charged with attempting to assassinate the President, interstate transportation of
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  Speaker 1: a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony
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  Speaker 1: in discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. Allan's
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  Speaker 1: attorneys initially pushed for his release, but in court Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: they stepped back from the fight, informing the court Allan
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  Speaker 1: would concede detention at this time. In a court filing
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  Speaker 1: in support of Allan's release, public defenders argued that he
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  Speaker 1: had no past criminal history and was gainfully employed as
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  Speaker 1: a tutor in California. The attorneys wrote, Allan, a kind
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  Speaker 1: and compassionate teacher, would not violate the conditions of his
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  Speaker 1: release with support from family and friends. Over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: Alan's attempts to enter the ballroom with a shotgun sent
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  Speaker 1: guests ducking under tables and Secret Service agents rushing the
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  Speaker 1: President and First Lady off stage as shots rang out.
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  Speaker 1: While Allan's defense highlights he has no prior criminal record
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  Speaker 1: and remains presumed innocent, the prosecution is laying out a
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  Speaker 1: terrifying inventory of what he brought with him to the Hilton.
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  Speaker 3: That's a twelve gained pop action Mosburg shotgun.
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  Speaker 2: It's a thirty eight semi automatic he had at least
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  Speaker 2: three knives and all kinds of paraphernalia.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond those firearms. Investigators are now piecing together a methodical
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  Speaker 1: cross country journey that led to that ballroom.
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  Speaker 2: The defendant Allan made a hotel reservation at the Washington
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  Speaker 2: Hilton for April twenty fourth through April twenty sixth. On
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  Speaker 2: April twenty first, first, he traveled by train from Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles to Chicago, and then from Chicago to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: On April twenty fourth, he arrived in Washington, D C.
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  Speaker 2: At approximately one o'clock in the afternoon and checked into
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  Speaker 2: the Washington Hilton.
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  Speaker 1: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is pushing back against any
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  Speaker 1: narrative of a security lapse, insisting that the layers of
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  Speaker 1: protection worked exactly as intended.
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  Speaker 2: Law enforcement did not fail. They did exactly what they
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  Speaker 2: are trained to do.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the most chilling detail released involves a message Alan
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  Speaker 1: sent to his family just ten minutes before the shooting.
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  Speaker 1: He reportedly described himself as a friendly federal assassin enlisted
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  Speaker 1: administration officials as his targets. His family says they actually
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  Speaker 1: tried to alert police after reading his radical writings, but
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  Speaker 1: by then the clock had run out. One law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: officer was shot in the vest during the scramble, but
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  Speaker 1: has since been released from the hospital. Alan faces life
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  Speaker 1: without parole if convicted of these crimes. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news, be sure to tune in
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvonnie