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Second Arrest in Toledo Festival Shooting that Injured 12 | Crime Alert 06.22.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: We begin in Ohio, where authorities announced a major breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: in a mass shooting investigation. The Toledo Police Department confirmed
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  Speaker 1: a second suspect is in custody following a chaotic outbreak
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  Speaker 1: of gunfire at a crowded neighborhood street festival. Twenty year
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  Speaker 1: old Cogni Taylor was arrested Wednesday in Columbus. The apprehension
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  Speaker 1: required a coordinated effort by the US Marshall Service, the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Highway Patrol, and the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor faces transport to Toledo to face prosecution on eleven
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  Speaker 1: counts of felonious assault. Court records do not currently list
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  Speaker 1: an attorney for him. This follows the June eleventh arrest
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  Speaker 1: of twenty year old LJ. Crisp Carr, who also faces
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  Speaker 1: eleven counts of felonious assault. The incident unfolded June sixth
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  Speaker 1: during the annual Old west End Festival in Toledo. A
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  Speaker 1: park filled with tens music in food trucks turned into
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  Speaker 1: a war zone. Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joseph Heffernan described
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  Speaker 1: the initial response.
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  Speaker 2: At about five thirty seven pm, we got a report
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  Speaker 2: of some shots fired near our Old West End Festival,
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  Speaker 2: which is a festival we have every year. Officers were
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  Speaker 2: quick to respond right there when the shots were coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Peers as though there was at least two shooters. I
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  Speaker 2: think they were probably shooting at each other.
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  Speaker 1: According to investigators, a violent dispute between rival groups escalated.
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  Speaker 1: Two gunmen shot at each other, missing their targets, but
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  Speaker 1: wounding twelve bystanders, ranging from teenagers to a person in
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  Speaker 1: their sixties. A court complaint states video captures Taylor firing
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  Speaker 1: a gun directly into the crowd during the altercation. Police
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  Speaker 1: used video in regional intelligence data to identify Taylor, who
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  Speaker 1: was interviewed at the scene. An eyewitness also identified him.
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  Speaker 1: Court document showed video also captured CRISP Carr firing indiscriminately
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  Speaker 1: into the crowd. The violence forced organizers to cancel the
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  Speaker 1: historic festival's second day, leaving local leadership reeling It's.
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  Speaker 2: Just a shame, you know, with a few people, for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reasons going through their head, decided to disrupt something
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  Speaker 2: that has been a beloved community event for many many many.
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  Speaker 1: Years more crime and justice news After this. In Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: a month long homicide investigation culminated in the arrest of
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  Speaker 1: two men. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department announced Monday at
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  Speaker 1: nineteen year old Braiding Carter an eighteen year old Damarian
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  Speaker 1: Coleman faced first degree murder charges for the January slaying
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  Speaker 1: of twenty year old Andre Bell. Titans Unit detectives apprehended
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  Speaker 1: Carter during a vehicle block after he left his home
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  Speaker 1: on Melodic Way, where police recovered a pistol in his car.
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  Speaker 1: Murfreesboro Police SWAN officers arrested Coleman at his home. The victim,
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  Speaker 1: Andre Bell, was a sophomore student athlete at Fisk University
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  Speaker 1: who played for the basketball team. Speaking to WSMV, teammates
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  Speaker 1: remembered Andre as kind an easy going.
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  Speaker 2: It was an amazing light. My parents told me when
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  Speaker 2: I get to college, it would be the best times
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  Speaker 2: in my life and you'll meet the best people of
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  Speaker 2: your life, and Andre was one of those people. He
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  Speaker 2: never gave anybody a problem. Every is it nice to
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  Speaker 2: do you ever?
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  Speaker 1: Made? In January, Bell and two teammates attended a gymnastics
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  Speaker 1: event at the Nashville Fairgrounds. While driving on the Interstate
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  Speaker 1: in Bell's Nissan Sentra, a dark sedan pulled beside them
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  Speaker 1: an open fire. Bell was struck and died at Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 1: University Medical Center on January twelfth. It was definitely hard because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, he just brought that energy to the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, just being fun, loving kind of person, So
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely hard. Active Joshua Belk indicated the motive
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  Speaker 1: was jealousy. Carter's girlfriend was on the gymnastics team, and
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  Speaker 1: Carter reportedly resented other young men talking to her. Police
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  Speaker 1: state Carter and Coleman targeted Bell and his teammates to
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  Speaker 1: scare them away from the girlfriend, a theory backed by
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  Speaker 1: extensive cell phone data analysis. Carter faces a grand jury
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  Speaker 1: indictment charging him with first degree murder, two counts of
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  Speaker 1: attempted first degree murder, and three counts of using a
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  Speaker 1: gun in a dangerous felony, with bond sent at two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Coleman faces identical charges in
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  Speaker 1: Davidson County juvenile court. Bell's family released a statement to
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  Speaker 1: news Channel five expressing profound heartbreak despite the comfort of
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  Speaker 1: the arrests. A sentiment shared by teammates, I stood as
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  Speaker 1: a bringing back. Finally, in Pierce County, Washington, a domestic
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  Speaker 1: dispute escalated into a violent assault and infinite endangerment. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: charged Christian Giovanni Ortega in Pierce County so Superior Court
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  Speaker 1: with two counts of second degree assault, felony harassment involving
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  Speaker 1: threats to kill in reckless endangerment. Court documents show Ortega
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  Speaker 1: argued with his girlfriend on June sixteenth, repeatedly slapping her,
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  Speaker 1: pulling her hair, and strangling her until her vision blurred,
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  Speaker 1: telling her I could kill you right now. Ortega then
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  Speaker 1: fled in a Toyota with their six month old daughter,
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  Speaker 1: holding the infant while driving without a car seat. Deputy
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  Speaker 1: spotted the vehicle driving aggressively at fifty miles per hour
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  Speaker 1: through a residential neighborhood. When stopped, Ortega exited holding the baby.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies detained him and secured the child, who was safely
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  Speaker 1: reunited with her mother. Ortega remains booked into the Pierce
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  Speaker 1: County Jail with bail requested at two hundred thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: while prosecutors reserve the right to add kidnapping charges for
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be sure to
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  Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvani