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Horrific Kentucky Homicide Leads to Multi-State Hunt for Suspect | Crime Alert 10.07.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: An unthinkable act of violence in Kentucky has resulted in
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  Speaker 1: an unlikely arrest over 250 miles away in Tennessee. On
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  Speaker 1: September 23rd, Pineville police officers and members of the Bell
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  Speaker 1: County Coroner's Office responded to a home in Pineville, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: located approximately 125 miles south of Lexington. Inside, they found
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  Speaker 1: 41-year-old April Barlow Celio, a married mother of three, deceased.
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  Speaker 1: Responding officers quickly determined Celio's death to be a homicide.
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  Speaker 1: While performing an autopsy, the state medical examiner's office revealed
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  Speaker 1: Celio had been pregnant at the time of her death,
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  Speaker 1: but her unborn child had been forcibly removed from her womb. Police,
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  Speaker 1: Bell County Sheriff's deputies, and Kentucky State Police returned to
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  Speaker 1: Celio's residence and where they discovered what officials believed to
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  Speaker 1: be fetal remains. Two days after Celia was found dead
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  Speaker 1: on September 25th, two arrest warrants for first-degree robbery and
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping were issued by a Bell County District Court judge
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  Speaker 1: for 41-year-old Demarcus Kenneth Johnson Wright. On September 30th, two
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  Speaker 1: more warrants were issued for Johnson Wright's arrest on suspicion
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  Speaker 1: of murder and tampering with physical evidence. That same day,
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky officials asked the U.S. Marshals Service for help locating
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  Speaker 1: Johnson Wright, who authorities believed was hiding in another state.
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  Speaker 1: By 11 p.m. that evening, federal marshals tracked him down
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  Speaker 1: to a home in Clarksville, Tennessee, over 250 miles away
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  Speaker 1: from the crime scene. A search warrant was executed and
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  Speaker 1: materials relating to the case were recovered. Records show Johnson
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  Speaker 1: Wright was residing in Tennessee at the time of Celio's
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  Speaker 1: death and had existing warrants for aggravated robbery, kidnapping, domestic violence,
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  Speaker 1: and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Officials
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  Speaker 1: declined to comment on whether the two knew each other.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson Wright is held at the Montgomery County Detention Center
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  Speaker 1: awaiting extradition to Kentucky. Meanwhile, Celio's sister, Amanda DePaz, started
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  Speaker 1: a GoFundMe for Celio's three children, writing,' One moment she
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  Speaker 1: was here,' Someone we could call, hug, laugh with, and love.
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  Speaker 1: And now we are trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye to her far too soon. She was very
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  Speaker 1: loved by her family. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Tragedy in Baltimore, Maryland, where a community is mourning after
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  Speaker 1: a 12-year-old girl was killed in a shooting at a
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  Speaker 1: youth football game on Saturday, October 3rd. The Baltimore Police
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  Speaker 1: Department identified the victim as Chloe Ishway. Officers responded to
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  Speaker 1: the 1200 block of North Franklin Town Road where Chloe
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  Speaker 1: was shot during the homecoming game. She was taken to
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  Speaker 1: an area hospital where she died from her injuries. Three
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  Speaker 1: others sustained gunshot wounds in the incident, a 25-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: and two men, ages 28 and 23. A fourth victim,
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  Speaker 1: a 35-year-old woman, was treated for a graze wound to
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  Speaker 1: her back. Chloe's family remembers her as a beloved daughter, sister,
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  Speaker 1: and granddaughter. Her grandmother, Donna Reese, spoke to CBS about
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  Speaker 1: the tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: It's so heartbreaking, and this is senseless. Like, at a
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  Speaker 2: kid's event, like, we never expected this. She was with
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  Speaker 2: her mom and her brother. This could have been way worse.
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  Speaker 1: Reese spoke about their close bond, recalling Chloe as a
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  Speaker 1: grandma's girl who called her every day after work. Chloe's mother,
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  Speaker 1: Kristen Reese, also spoke with CBS, expressing how much she
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  Speaker 1: was going to miss her daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Chloe, I love you, I'm going to miss you, and
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  Speaker 2: you're forever 12, you're forever my baby, and you'll forever
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  Speaker 2: live through me. And I know she is in a
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  Speaker 2: good place, and I know she has hit me, so
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  Speaker 2: that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley stated the shooting began after
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  Speaker 1: an argument over a parking spot. Worley alleged two men
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  Speaker 1: fought and drew guns, firing multiple rounds downrange and striking
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  Speaker 1: Chloe near the field. Police are searching for at least
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  Speaker 1: two male suspects. On Monday, October 5th, Baltimore Mayor Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Scott addressed the ongoing investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives have been working around the clock to bring the
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  Speaker 2: people to justice and turn them over.
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  Speaker 1: To the state. Mayor Scott condemned the suspects, calling them
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  Speaker 1: so-called men whose argument cost a young girl her life.
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  Speaker 1: In Atlanta, Georgia, a robbery suspect is in custody after
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  Speaker 1: stealing a marked police car and crashing into a tanker
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  Speaker 1: truck on Interstate 675. Atlanta police identified the suspect as
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  Speaker 1: 30-year-old Phelan Thorpe, wanted for a Saturday robbery near the
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  Speaker 1: Midtown MARTA station at 10th Street and West Peachtree Street.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say Thorpe followed a woman from the station, claimed
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  Speaker 1: to have a gun, and demanded her purse and iPhone.
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  Speaker 1: After a physical struggle where Thorpe punched her with a
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  Speaker 1: closed fist, he took her phone and driver's license and fled.
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  Speaker 1: The victim was hospitalized and police released surveillance video before
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  Speaker 1: charging Thorpe with robbery and simple battery. Shortly after 5.15 p.m. Monday,
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  Speaker 1: officers responded to Thomasville Drive Southeast after reports of a wanted,
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  Speaker 1: possibly armed man. When officers investigated, Thorpe got into a
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  Speaker 1: marked patrol car parked outside and drove away. Thorpe drove
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  Speaker 1: into neighboring Clayton County and crashed into a tanker truck
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  Speaker 1: on Interstate 675. He was apprehended with minor injuries and hospitalized.
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  Speaker 1: No officers or civilians were injured. It remains unclear how
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  Speaker 1: Thorpe accessed the cruiser or if a gun was recovered.
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  Speaker 1: Additional charges regarding the car theft and crash remain pending.
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  Speaker 1: For more crime and justice news, be sure to join
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani.