Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 05.16.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Gray's Breaking Crime News Now. Paul
- 0:03Speaker 1: Holt and his wife vacationed in Louisiana for its birthday.
- 0:07Speaker 1: The couple heads to their suv after dinner, and as
- 0:10Speaker 1: Holt helps his wife into the passenger's seat, Ladarius Evans
- 0:14Speaker 1: hops in the driver's side and tries to take off.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Holt manages to pull his wife out of the car
- 0:20Speaker 1: to safety, then Evans shoots the husband in the chest.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Paul Holt dies.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Shortly after the carjacking. Officers locate Holt's SUV and establish
- 0:32Speaker 2: Evans as a suspect. When cops speak with him, Evans
- 0:36Speaker 2: admits to the carjacking and the shooting. Evans is also
- 0:39Speaker 2: found in possession of several items stolen out of the
- 0:42Speaker 2: suv and a ghost gun with no registration number, resulting
- 0:45Speaker 2: in an additional charge of possession of unidentifiable firearms.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Evans eighteen, charged with murder, carjack, and armed robbery. Travis
- 0:56Speaker 1: Jordan belts out a song during karaoke night out of
- 0:59Speaker 1: Florida bar. The thirty nine year old wants to do
- 1:01Speaker 1: it encore, but the staff says cut is Mike. Not
- 1:05Speaker 1: taking no for an answer, Jordan pulls out an eighteen
- 1:09Speaker 1: inch machette and insists on singing another song. A woman
- 1:15Speaker 1: in the crowd eventually convinces Jordan to give her the blade,
- 1:19Speaker 1: which she gives to the bar staff. Cops are called
- 1:24Speaker 1: Jordan busted on disorderly conduct second verse same as the first.
- 1:29Speaker 1: I guess more crime and justice news after this. Now
- 1:37Speaker 1: with the latest crime in justice breaking news crime allized.
- 1:40Speaker 3: John Lemley, a Georgia woman, has been charged with felony
- 1:43Speaker 3: murder in connection with the death of her toddler daughter,
- 1:46Speaker 3: who was discovered in an office park retention pond in
- 1:49Speaker 3: Metro Atlanta. Police and Sandy Springs are still looking into
- 1:53Speaker 3: the child's death, but Sergeant Matthew McGinnis told reporters that
- 1:57Speaker 3: they quote do not think it is accidental at this time.
- 2:01Speaker 3: According to McGinnis, officers responded to a call of the
- 2:04Speaker 3: disturbance near an office park north of Atlanta and discovered
- 2:07Speaker 3: a distressed woman having some type of episode. Sometime later,
- 2:11Speaker 3: the father of the child arrived on the scene inquiring
- 2:14Speaker 3: about their daughter. Sergeant McGinnis said that the woman answered
- 2:18Speaker 3: at the bottom of a pool, twenty two month old
- 2:21Speaker 3: Nirvana Oliver was discovered by the police and the small
- 2:24Speaker 3: retention pond. Following an emergency medical transport, she was pronounced dead.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Asia Calabrez Lewis, the mother of the girl, was detained
- 2:33Speaker 3: on suspicion of felony murder and child abuse. Police have
- 2:36Speaker 3: not revealed how the child ended up at the pond.
- 2:39Speaker 3: A cause of death will be determined by an autopsy.
- 2:43Speaker 3: A witness now says a critically wounded teenager was shot
- 2:46Speaker 3: in the back by Baltimore police while abating the officers.
- 2:49Speaker 3: This raises more doubts about whether the shooting was justified.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner is with Crime Online.
- 2:56Speaker 2: According to Baltimore police, an officer approached the boy, believing
- 2:59Speaker 2: he would armed, and started a brief foot pursuit that
- 3:02Speaker 2: ended with the gunshot. Police say the seventeen year old
- 3:05Speaker 2: ignored orders to put his gun down and fled. The shooting,
- 3:09Speaker 2: which has drawn behemic condemnation of Baltimore's troubled police force,
- 3:13Speaker 2: has spurred officials to examine whether to make body camera
- 3:15Speaker 2: footage of the incident public. One of the teen's friends,
- 3:18Speaker 2: who requested anonymity out of concern for his safety, claimed
- 3:22Speaker 2: to have recognized the officer, saying he and his partner
- 3:25Speaker 2: had been frequenting the neighborhood recently. He claimed that the
- 3:28Speaker 2: officers would taunt the neighbors and crack crude jokes. Police
- 3:31Speaker 2: say that only one of the officers use his weapon.
- 3:34Speaker 2: That officer was sitting next to the teen on a
- 3:36Speaker 2: stoop in the moments prior to the foot pursuit.
- 3:39Speaker 3: The officers in this case are part of the Baltimore
- 3:41Speaker 3: Police department so called District Action Team, a specialist unit
- 3:46Speaker 3: that concentrates on proactive patrols and other measures in Baltimore's
- 3:50Speaker 3: most violent neighborhoods now to Nebraska, where a woman has
- 3:54Speaker 3: entered a not guilty plea and one of the four
- 3:56Speaker 3: homicides that occurred in a small town in the northeast
- 4:00Speaker 3: corner of the state last year. According to court documents,
- 4:03Speaker 3: forty four year old Carrie Jones of Laurel filed written
- 4:07Speaker 3: not guilty please to first degree murder, being an accomplice
- 4:10Speaker 3: to a crime, and tampering with evidence. Jason Jones, Jones'
- 4:15Speaker 3: forty three year old husband, has entered a not guilty
- 4:18Speaker 3: plea to four counts of first degree murder, four counts
- 4:21Speaker 3: of using a handgun to commit a crime, and two
- 4:24Speaker 3: counts of first degree arson. Carrie Jones has been charged
- 4:27Speaker 3: with the August fourth, twenty twenty two, murder of eighty
- 4:30Speaker 3: six year old Gene Twyford. Jones's husband has been charged
- 4:34Speaker 3: with killing Twyford's wife and daughter, along with another woman.
- 4:38Speaker 3: According to the indictment, Jason Jones then set fire to
- 4:41Speaker 3: the victim's homes. Carrie Jones allegedly urged her husband to
- 4:45Speaker 3: confront Twyford, whom she claimed had been making sexually suggestive
- 4:50Speaker 3: remarks to her for years, and then assisted him in
- 4:52Speaker 3: eluding capture. When the police began looking for him. The
- 4:56Speaker 3: two suspects remained behind bars. A July twenty fourth court
- 5:00Speaker 3: date has been set for both. A sixty seven year
- 5:03Speaker 3: old Saint Louis man has been convicted of stabbing a
- 5:06Speaker 3: man in a Kansas City suburb almost forty years ago,
- 5:10Speaker 3: once again crime on lines.
- 5:11Speaker 2: Sydney somder Geter Watson Rhymes pleaded no contest on Thursday
- 5:16Speaker 2: to second degree murder in the death of married father
- 5:18Speaker 2: of three, Gary Watson. The initial charge against Rhymes was
- 5:22Speaker 2: first degree murder. It was on March thirteenth, nineteen eighty five,
- 5:26Speaker 2: that Watson's body was discovered in his Rolland Park, Kansas apartment.
- 5:30Speaker 2: According to police at the time, Watson's body was found
- 5:33Speaker 2: by a family member about two hours after three men
- 5:35Speaker 2: were seen entering the victim's apartment. Detectives interviewed about two
- 5:39Speaker 2: hundred people during their investigation. Officials from the crime scene
- 5:43Speaker 2: said that because of improvements in DNA testing, evidence gathered
- 5:47Speaker 2: from the scene two years ago was reanalyzed, leading to
- 5:49Speaker 2: an arrest. Prosecutors have requested a seven year sentence rather
- 5:54Speaker 2: than the maximum twenty year sentence as part of the
- 5:56Speaker 2: plea agreement. Sentencing is scheduled for July fourteenth.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Rhymes requested a five year sentence.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Mckenn O'Reilly found in a storage shed by construction workers
- 6:06Speaker 1: who call cops even though she cannot explain why she's there.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Oregon cops determined the forty year old is clear headed,
- 6:13Speaker 1: and they give her a write home. That was April five.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Riley's boyfriend, friends, and family have not seen or heard
- 6:20Speaker 1: from her since. Her belongings, car and beloved dog high
- 6:24Speaker 1: Low all left behind at her Blue River home. The
- 6:28Speaker 1: terrain around McKenna's home steep and streacherous, but searches have
- 6:33Speaker 1: turned up nothing. If you know anything about mckenn O'Reilly's disappearance,
- 6:38Speaker 1: call Lane County Sheriff's five four one six's eighty two
- 6:42Speaker 1: forty one fifty. For the latest crime and justice news,
- 6:46Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm
- 6:49Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.