Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 01.22.24
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert im Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now. Richard Bana
- 0:04Speaker 1: naps on his sofa, wakes up by noise when his roommate,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Dominique Hayes cooks a meal. Bena repeatedly asks where's the remote.
- 0:13Speaker 1: When Hayes doesn't respond, Bana turns sees Hayes holding two knives.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Bana grabs a gun, opens fire, and runs to his room,
- 0:22Speaker 1: and quote falls back to sleep.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Nancy Benna called nine one one about six hours after
- 0:28Speaker 2: the shooting. Benall claims Hayes came at him with knives,
- 0:31Speaker 2: so he shot at him. Ben Off further reports he
- 0:34Speaker 2: didn't see any injuries on Hayes, so he assumed none
- 0:37Speaker 2: of the bullets hit him and went back to sleep
- 0:39Speaker 2: in his room upstairs.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Hours later, Maryland cops find Hayes dead of multiple gunshot wounds. Bana,
- 0:46Speaker 1: thirty eight, now charged with manslaughter. Remember the woman that
- 0:50Speaker 1: beat her boyfriend with their Christmas tree, Well, Miracle Rivera
- 0:55Speaker 1: is at it again. During their latest argument, she takes
- 0:59Speaker 1: a gun last vase to the victim's face, leaving him
- 1:02Speaker 1: with visible injuries. Florida cops arrests Rivera, just twenty years old,
- 1:07Speaker 1: on domestic violence charges for the second time. Hopefully she
- 1:11Speaker 1: hasn't heard three times a charm. More Crime and Justice
- 1:15Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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- 1:21Speaker 3: John Lemley, Well Florida judge has rejected a former sheriff's
- 1:25Speaker 3: deputies attempt to have his case dismissed before trial, ruling
- 1:29Speaker 3: in favor of the relatives of the sixteen victims and
- 1:32Speaker 3: other dead in the Parkland school massacre lawsuit against him
- 1:35Speaker 3: for his failure to act with Morehir's Sidney Sumner with
- 1:39Speaker 3: Crime Online.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Circuit Judge Carol Lisa Phillips stated in her ruling that
- 1:43Speaker 2: a jury should determine whether fired Broward County Deputy Scott
- 1:46Speaker 2: Peterson showed a wanton and wilful disregard for the safety
- 1:49Speaker 2: of the teachers and students when he refrained from confronting
- 1:52Speaker 2: the gunman during the six minute attack inside of building
- 1:55Speaker 2: at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Although Peterson
- 1:59Speaker 2: was cleared of all crimeminal charges last year, and he
- 2:01Speaker 2: maintains that he didn't know where the gunfire was coming from,
- 2:04Speaker 2: the standard of proof needed in a lawsuit is much lower.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Families of the victims have accused Peterson of cowardice and
- 2:10Speaker 2: are suing him for an undisclosed sum of money. Also
- 2:13Speaker 2: named in the suit is the Broward Sheriff's office, who
- 2:15Speaker 2: did not insist on Peterson's firing. Phillips intends for the
- 2:19Speaker 2: trial to get under way later this year. Michael Piper,
- 2:22Speaker 2: a lawyer for Peterson, argued at a hearing in December
- 2:24Speaker 2: that his client was not legally obligated to confront gunman
- 2:28Speaker 2: Nicholas Cruz during the shooting on February fourteenth, twenty eighteen.
- 2:32Speaker 2: According to Piper, in citing appellate court rulings, law enforcement
- 2:35Speaker 2: officers are not legally required to shield anyone from danger
- 2:39Speaker 2: by third parties, and they are not subject to lawsuits
- 2:42Speaker 2: for decisions they make in an emergency. However, Philips stated
- 2:45Speaker 2: in her decision that the jury should determine the full
- 2:47Speaker 2: scope of this officer's responsibilities, citing a genuine dispute over
- 2:51Speaker 2: whether Peterson had a quote special relationship with students, teachers,
- 2:55Speaker 2: and administration that went beyond the regular interactions that law
- 2:59Speaker 2: enforcement officers with the public.
- 3:01Speaker 3: The families and survivors of the Parkland massacre have already
- 3:04Speaker 3: reached a fifteen million dollar settlement with the Broward's School
- 3:07Speaker 3: system and the FBI, whose agents neglected to look into
- 3:11Speaker 3: a warning regarding crews. Final court documents in the Jeffrey
- 3:15Speaker 3: Epstein case involving allegations of sexual abuse of adolescent girls
- 3:20Speaker 3: have now been made public. These papers included transcripts of
- 3:24Speaker 3: testimony from several powerful and wealthy men, many of whose
- 3:27Speaker 3: names have been known for a decade or longer, covering
- 3:30Speaker 3: a range of misconduct allegations. The previously classified documents contained
- 3:36Speaker 3: a twenty sixteen deposition from Virginia Giuffrey, who said that
- 3:40Speaker 3: Epstein had molested her sexually and had set her up
- 3:43Speaker 3: for sexual encounters with men, including Prince Andrew of Britain,
- 3:47Speaker 3: all of this beginning when she was just seventeen years old.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Also among the documents a transcript of testimony by Gallaine Maxwell,
- 3:55Speaker 3: the ex girlfriend of Epstein, who maintained that Giuffrey was lying. Additionally,
- 4:00Speaker 3: Epstein himself provided a deposition in which he invoked his
- 4:04Speaker 3: Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination and declined to respond
- 4:08Speaker 3: to questioning. Now to Kentucky, as members of the State
- 4:12Speaker 3: House of Representatives introduce a three strikes bill that would
- 4:16Speaker 3: incarcerate someone upon conviction for a third violent felony once
- 4:20Speaker 3: again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 4:23Speaker 2: The Kentucky Plan is a component of a much larger
- 4:25Speaker 2: anti crime law that lawmakers have set as a top
- 4:28Speaker 2: goal for the sixty day term. After months of meetings
- 4:31Speaker 2: with stakeholders and extensive tweaking with many of the provisions,
- 4:34Speaker 2: the legislation finally made its appearance during the second week
- 4:37Speaker 2: of the session. Several House lawmakers promptly agreed to be
- 4:40Speaker 2: co sponsors, and more are anticipated to jump on board.
- 4:43Speaker 2: The main author of the bill, Jared Bowman, told reporters
- 4:46Speaker 2: that anyone convicted of three serious felonies in Kentucky would
- 4:50Speaker 2: face life in prison without the chance of parole. Gubernatorial
- 4:53Speaker 2: candidate Ashley Basher focused heavily on crime throughout his campaign
- 4:57Speaker 2: last year. Basheer and his opponent, Daniel Cameron and presented
- 5:00Speaker 2: opposing strategies for public safety in the months leading up
- 5:03Speaker 2: to the election.
- 5:04Speaker 3: Any anti crime bill that makes it to the governor's
- 5:07Speaker 3: desk will ultimately be guided by policies set by lawmakers.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Thanks John Grady Benson goes to dinner with his wife
- 5:14Speaker 1: before she heads for a trip to Missouri. After the meal,
- 5:18Speaker 1: Grady heads back to the couple's Randlet, Oklahoma farm. He
- 5:22Speaker 1: meets his son, who now runs the farm, helps him
- 5:25Speaker 1: out with a few things, then drops the sun off
- 5:27Speaker 1: heading inside for the night. Benson's wife takes him good
- 5:31Speaker 1: night and good morning, but Grady Benson doesn't respond. She
- 5:36Speaker 1: sends her son to go check on him. He finds
- 5:39Speaker 1: Grady's truck in the car port, unlocked, with the keys,
- 5:42Speaker 1: Grady's wallet, a jacket, and cash inside. Grady know where
- 5:46Speaker 1: to be found very few leads. Cotton County Sheriff's asking
- 5:50Speaker 1: for the public to help in locating Grady Benson, now
- 5:54Speaker 1: missing a year. If you have info, called Cotton County
- 5:58Speaker 1: Sheriff's five eight zero rue eight seven five three three
- 6:02Speaker 1: eight three. For the latest crime and justice news, go
- 6:05Speaker 1: to crime online dot com with this crime alert. I'm
- 6:08Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.