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Sniper in the Trees: Elderly Volunteer Shot Mid-Delivery in Georgia | Crime Alert 07.18.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sylvanni.
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  Speaker 1: A horrifying and senseless act of violence has left an
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  Speaker 1: elderly community pillar hospitalized in Georgia. Shortly after nine am
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  Speaker 1: local time on Wednesday, East Point Police Department officers rushed
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  Speaker 1: to Washington Road near Camp Creek Parkway following reports of
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  Speaker 1: a shooting. There, they discovered seventy five year old Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: Gordon lying on the ground with an apparent gunshot wound.
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy wasn't just passing by, She was actively distributing food
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  Speaker 1: to the local community when she was struck down. The
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  Speaker 1: dedicated volunteer was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: where she remained sedated as doctors wait for her pain
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  Speaker 1: to subside before attempting to remove the bullet. Her son,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Gordon, spoke to WSBTV about the sheer madness of
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  Speaker 1: the attack.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's saying with nine come in the morning, so he
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  Speaker 2: got to be somebody way, which is soon nice somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators reviewing surveillance video Medea Chill Discovery. The footage reveals
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  Speaker 1: a flash coming from a tree in the woods directly
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  Speaker 1: across from the gas station at the exact moment Dorothy collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: Police now believe the sniper opened fire from high up
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  Speaker 1: in those tree branches. It remains completely unclear if the
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  Speaker 1: shooter targeted Dorothy specifically or was aiming for someone else entirely.
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  Speaker 1: Her son shared that Dorothy herself recognized how close she
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  Speaker 1: came to death, noting that if the bullet had hit
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  Speaker 1: her chest, it would have been fatal. Meanwhile, detectives are
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  Speaker 1: actively processing the scene, interviewing witnesses, and scrubbing local business footage.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Gordon emphasized the WSBTV that the community is outraged
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  Speaker 1: by the targeting of a woman whose mission was purely altruistic.
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  Speaker 1: People who she helps they were mad too, because she
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  Speaker 1: was trying to do She was just trying to help people.
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  Speaker 1: What makes this tragedy even more heartbreaking is that Dorothy's
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  Speaker 1: community work is entirely self funded, a labor of love
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  Speaker 1: borne straight from her own pocket. As her son detailed
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  Speaker 1: to WSBTV, she goes to publishing gifts of from day on,
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  Speaker 1: she just that donations to people. Currently, East Point Police
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  Speaker 1: have not released a suspect description. Anyone with information should
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  Speaker 1: call crime stoppers anonymously at four oh four, five, seven
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  Speaker 1: seven tips. A five thousand dollars reward is available. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. Next we turn to Texas,
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  Speaker 1: where a pediatric dentist faces major criminal charges following the
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  Speaker 1: tragic death of a four year old girl. According to
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  Speaker 1: an arrest warrant, forty eight year old Krishelle Hemphill was
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  Speaker 1: arrested on Wednesday, charged with serious bodily injury to a child.
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  Speaker 1: The chargestem from an April first procedure at Cuddle Kid's Dental,
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  Speaker 1: where Hemphill performed a phrenectomy to correct four year old
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  Speaker 1: Ithona Rodriguez Ariaga's tongue tie. Investigators alleged that during the operation,
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  Speaker 1: Hemphill administered a lethal combination of medications, including nitrous oxide
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  Speaker 1: and the heavy opioid meparidine widely known as demarol. Little
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  Speaker 1: Ithona never woke up. Though Hemphill and another dentist attempted
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  Speaker 1: cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the child was pronounced dead after being rushed
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  Speaker 1: to a nearby hospital. The medical examiner later ruled the
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  Speaker 1: official cause of death as meparadigme toxicity. A consulting doctor
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  Speaker 1: informed detectives of the concentration of the drug in the
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  Speaker 1: Little girls system was profoundly toxic even by adult standards.
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  Speaker 1: While a therapeutic adult dose typically ranges between two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and five hundred nanograms per mili leader, Ifona's toxicology report
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  Speaker 1: revealed a staggering seven hundred and ninety three nanograms per
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  Speaker 1: milli leader. Furthermore, the affidavit reveals critical medical mismanagement during
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  Speaker 1: the crisis. Rather than administering Narcan to reverse the respiratory
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  Speaker 1: depression caused by the opioid, staff allegedly gave flumazeno, a
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  Speaker 1: drug design to reverse benzodiazepines, which the child hadn't even received.
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  Speaker 1: The investigating detective concluded there was evident fatal neglect on
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  Speaker 1: Hemphill's part, citing both the toxic overdose and the failure
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  Speaker 1: to recognize respiratory distris in time. Finally, a bizarre confrontation
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  Speaker 1: on the Virginia Beach ocean Front has landed a self
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  Speaker 1: proclaimed martial arts master behind bars. Timothy Allen Wigert faces
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  Speaker 1: eight charges, including simple assault on a law enforcement officer,
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  Speaker 1: after a viral video showed him launching a spinning kick
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  Speaker 1: at an officer on July fifth, Speaking to thirteen News,
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  Speaker 1: Now from jail. Weiger claimed he deliberately missed, insisting he
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  Speaker 1: was merely showing mercy to the police.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to let them know that I was being
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  Speaker 3: merciful by not knocking him in the out coal on
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  Speaker 3: the sand and a riding past so on the one wheel.
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  Speaker 1: The wild sequence began after Wegert fled an earlier street
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  Speaker 1: fight on a motorized one wheel skateboard. When police pursued,
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  Speaker 1: Wegert threw the high kick before being instantly tackled into
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  Speaker 1: the sand. Wegert bragged to thirteen News Now about his
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  Speaker 1: skills of sense.
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  Speaker 3: I was a CEO of a ten million dollar marshal's coming.
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  Speaker 2: This officer was fat and slow and running on sand,
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  Speaker 2: pleasiest target ef eighteen different ways I could pay him,
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  Speaker 2: so everyone to know, including the police. I did not
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  Speaker 2: want to hurt anyone. I did not want to kick
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  Speaker 2: anyone I knew who had not made a situation better.
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  Speaker 1: Wigert, who has prior charges for stalking an assault, remains
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  Speaker 1: held without bond. Incredibly, he claimed that if released, he
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  Speaker 1: could fix the city's issues if given a high ranking position.
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  Speaker 1: As told the thirteen News Now payer of.
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Beach, I don't know. Gives me a chance to
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  Speaker 2: be the chief of the Police of Virginia Beach and
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  Speaker 2: I will turn it around.
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  Speaker 1: Wegert's preliminary hearing is scheduled for early September. For more
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news, be sure to join us for
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  Speaker 1: crime stories with Nancy Grace on Fox One, YouTube Sirius XM,
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  Speaker 1: and now streaming on twov With this crime alert, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Silvanni.