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Crime Alert 01.31.25 | Hit and Run Driver Stabs Off-Duty Cop · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, imancy, grace breaking, crime needs now and off
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  Speaker 1: duty Atlanta cop drives down I twenty when he's hit
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  Speaker 1: by a driver and a Dodge charger who speeds off
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  Speaker 1: the cop car still functional, he follows the driver trying
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  Speaker 1: to get a tag number. The cop pulls into a
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  Speaker 1: parking lot behind the charger. The driver, Justin Hurst, gets
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  Speaker 1: out and starts arguing with the officer. Van pulls a
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  Speaker 1: knife and stabs the cop multiple times before fleeing Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The officer managed to call nine one one and makes
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  Speaker 2: it to Grady Memorial Hospital awake, alert and in stable condition,
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  Speaker 2: with doctors calling him lucky that Hirst missed vital organs.
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  Speaker 2: Officers spend a week trying to track Hurst down, believing
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  Speaker 2: he has ties to the Alpharetta area and is driving
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  Speaker 2: another vehicle registered to him, a white Volkswagen Pissan. Hirst
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  Speaker 2: eventually turns himself into the Rockdale County Sheriff's office before
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  Speaker 2: anyone can collect the two thousand dollars reward for information
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  Speaker 2: leading to his arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Hurst, thirty seven, now charged with hit and run
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  Speaker 1: and ag assault. Florida CoP's pull over U haul truck
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  Speaker 1: for erratic driving and notice a needle on the floor
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  Speaker 1: in the front seat. Officers conduct a thorough search and
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  Speaker 1: find digital scales, plastic baggies, and a bag with quote
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  Speaker 1: definitely not a bag of drugs printed on the side. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it definitely is a bag of drugs stuffed full of methamphetamine.
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  Speaker 1: Passenger Taryn Akree, thirty one, admits the bag belongs to her.
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  Speaker 1: Now charged with possession with intent to sell. More Crime
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  Speaker 1: and Justice news after this Now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime on Lines John Limlay.
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  Speaker 3: A major legal battle is unfolding in the case of
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  Speaker 3: accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Huerman. His defense team
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  Speaker 3: is challenging key DNA evidence and pushing for separate trials. Heuerman,
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  Speaker 3: a New York architect, has charged in the murders of
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  Speaker 3: at least seven women dating as far back as nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety three. Prosecutors say DNA from hay strands found at
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  Speaker 3: crime scenes links him to the killings, but his lawyers
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  Speaker 3: argue the forensic technique used whole genome sequencing isn't widely
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  Speaker 3: accepted and should be thrown out. They're also calling for
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  Speaker 3: separate trials, saying the alleged murders span different years, methods,
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  Speaker 3: and locations. Human's attorney Michael Brown warns that trying all
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  Speaker 3: cases together could unfairly influence jurors. Suffolk County District Attorney
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  Speaker 3: Ray Tierney strongly disagrees. In a court filing. Prosecutors say
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  Speaker 3: the DNA method is well established in forensic science and
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  Speaker 3: widely accepted by experts. They also claim Hureman kept a
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  Speaker 3: digital blueprint of his alleged crimes, checklists detailing steps before, during,
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  Speaker 3: and after each killing. Prosecutors will formally respond to the
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  Speaker 3: trial request later. Meanwhile, Human remains in custody, maintaining his innocence.
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  Speaker 3: His next court date is February eighteenth. A deadly block
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  Speaker 3: party shooting in Arkansas left one person dead and several
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  Speaker 3: others injured last year April. Now, one of the four
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  Speaker 3: men charged in the case has pleaded guilty. Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: correspondent Sidney Sumner has the latest.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be a night of celebration in
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  Speaker 2: the small city of win, Arkansas, but on April fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, gunfire tore through a community gathering, leaving
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  Speaker 2: one person dead and nine others wounded. Now, nineteen year
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  Speaker 2: old Tommy Frost has admitted his role in the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: In a courtroom this week, Frost pleaded guilty to second
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  Speaker 2: degree murder in an additional firearm possession charge. A judge
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  Speaker 2: sentenced him to twenty years behind bars for the murder
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  Speaker 2: charge and ten years for the firearm offence, though he'll
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  Speaker 2: serve both sentences at the same time. When a city
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  Speaker 2: of about eight thousand people sits roughly forty five miles
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  Speaker 2: west of Memphis, Tennessee, prosecutors say the shooting happened during
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  Speaker 2: an annual block party. The gunfire struck multiple people, and
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  Speaker 2: in the chaos, two others were hit by vehicles. The
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  Speaker 2: victim who lost his life was just twenty seven years old. Originally,
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  Speaker 2: Frost and three other men face first degree murder charger,
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  Speaker 2: as well as multiple counts of battery and violent criminal
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  Speaker 2: group activity. The remaining three suspects are still awaiting trial.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors have not indicated whether additional plea deals could be
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  Speaker 3: on the table.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Laurie Boffman, forty five, wins one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in the Ohio lottery and decides to treat her family
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  Speaker 1: to a big picnic and celebration of her daughter's college graduation.
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  Speaker 1: She orders nearly five hundred dollars in groceries for the
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  Speaker 1: picnic and never picks them up. She acts oddly at
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  Speaker 1: the five pm picnic. Just an hour into the party,
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  Speaker 1: she says she needs to get something from home. A
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  Speaker 1: friend offers to go with six point thirty. On their
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  Speaker 1: way back, she drives erradically. Her friend has to be
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  Speaker 1: let out. She tears off after letting the friend out
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  Speaker 1: of the car, never returns to the party. Three am,
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  Speaker 1: cops get a call about a car crash. They find
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  Speaker 1: Laurie still running. Car crashed into a stranger's garage. Neighbors
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  Speaker 1: say the car drove through two yards before the crash.
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  Speaker 1: The driver got out and ran, so just turn up nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Laurie left behind her phone, purse and meds. Lourie Boffman
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  Speaker 1: African American five eight, one hundred and sixty pounds, shoulder
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  Speaker 1: link locks, glasses, scar on abdomen. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Lori Boffman, please call Liberty Township, Ohio PD three
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