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Crime Alert 02.26.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, imansy, grace breaking crimes now stray bullets fly
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  Speaker 1: in a shootout in front of a Maryland department. Little
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Pucaserus, just two years old, killed his mother, wounded
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  Speaker 1: Israel Fuentes Junior, Johnny Alejandro Tersios, and at least two
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  Speaker 1: others carjack and suv to hide their identities. As they
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  Speaker 1: approach the complex, they jump out and open fire at
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  Speaker 1: a group of people outside Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: As the mother and son walked from their apartment, they
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  Speaker 2: were reportedly caught in the crossfire of a shooting between
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  Speaker 2: Quintas and Tertios and a group of four male teenagers.
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  Speaker 2: We're now learning that two of the teens have been arrested,
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  Speaker 2: a fifteen and sixteen year old from Tacoma Park in Hyattsville, respectively.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors have said they will both be tried as adults.
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  Speaker 1: Twente's and Tertios jailed on multiple charges, including murder. One.
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  Speaker 1: According to him, it's not trespassing if Jesus himself tell
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  Speaker 1: to Carnell Gittens enters the grounds of an Ohio Public
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  Speaker 1: Library one twenty a m. When cops arrest him on
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  Speaker 1: his third trespassing, he tells the cops. He quote checked
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  Speaker 1: with Christ who gave him permission. Gittens now charged with
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  Speaker 1: criminal trespass. We'll have to fork over a seventeen hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars bond. Can we please not drag Christ into every
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  Speaker 1: criminal scenario? And ps, I don't think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: ball you out, buddy. More crime and justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: A judge has ruled that the man suspected of killing
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  Speaker 3: seven people and wounding numerous others, including children, during the
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  Speaker 3: suburban Chicago Fourth of July parade in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: will go on trial in February of next year. For details,
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  Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Forty eight counts of attempted murder, forty eight counts of
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  Speaker 2: aggravated back and twenty one counts of first degree murder.
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  Speaker 2: These are the charges being brought against Robert Cremo, the
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  Speaker 2: third in connection with the shooting in Highland Park, a
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  Speaker 2: city located some twenty six miles north of Chicago. Judge
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  Speaker 2: Victoria Rossetti has set the trial to begin on February
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. According to authorities, just days
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  Speaker 2: after he terrified parade participants and onlookers by opening fire
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  Speaker 2: from a rooftop in Highland Park. On July fourth, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, the twenty three year old Cremo confessed to police.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say he fled to the area around Madison, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: where he considered carrying out a second shooting at a parade,
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  Speaker 2: but he then made his way back to Chicago's northern suburbs.
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  Speaker 2: There had been a delay of several months over the
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  Speaker 2: accused gunman's trial timeline until the judge's scheduling decision. In December,
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  Speaker 2: Cremo fired his public defense lawyers and declared he would
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  Speaker 2: handle his own legal representation before Judge Rossetti. In addition,
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  Speaker 2: he demanded that his trial date be set as soon
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  Speaker 2: as possible. It was just a few weeks later that
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  Speaker 2: Cremo requested that his lawyers be reinstated by the judge.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors in Lake County stated that they might be ready
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  Speaker 2: for an early start this coming autumn. Rosetti declined, saying
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  Speaker 2: that prior to Crimo's brief demand to represent himself, the
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  Speaker 2: parties had agreed on the start date of February twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. Rosetti has now ordered a hearing for April
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth to go over the attorney's trial preparation work.
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  Speaker 3: If found guilty of first degree murder, Cremo could be
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  Speaker 3: sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors say that a retrial will be held for a
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  Speaker 3: former Ohio sheriff's deputy accused of killing a black man
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  Speaker 3: once again crime online, Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The decision was made just days following the boisterous proceedings
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  Speaker 2: that resulted in the dismissal of four jurors from Jason
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  Speaker 2: Mead's first trial because the panel was unable to reach
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  Speaker 2: a unanimous judgment. Following their appointment to handle the case.
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  Speaker 2: Montgomery County Assistant Prosecutor Josh Shaw, along with special prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: Tim Merkle and Gary Schuyer, released a statement stating that
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  Speaker 2: it is in the best interest of all involved in
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  Speaker 2: the community to proceed with another trial. They added, quote,
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  Speaker 2: we anticipate showcasing what we consider to be a robust
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  Speaker 2: and persuasive body of evidence to bolster each and every
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  Speaker 2: criminal charge brought against mister Mead. Meade was accused of
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  Speaker 2: murder and reckless homicide in connection with Casey Goodson Junior's
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  Speaker 2: death in Columbus in December of twenty twenty. Mead, who
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  Speaker 2: is white, has entered a not guilty plea in his
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  Speaker 2: attorneys stated they were not shocked by the prosecution's opinion.
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  Speaker 3: The date of the retrial is still unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, A routine day for Amos Mortier. He goes
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  Speaker 1: to class, comes home to his dog, and makes a
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  Speaker 1: phone call, but then his routine ends. Friends cannot reach Amos,
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  Speaker 1: so they break into his Fitsburg, Wisconsin apartment and find
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  Speaker 1: a record spinning on the player and the dog food
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  Speaker 1: bowl full, but no Amos and no dog. All Amos's
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  Speaker 1: personal belongings left behind. His dog found days later at
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor's months later, please say the case is a
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  Speaker 1: homicide involving an eighty thousand dollars marijuana debt. They name
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  Speaker 1: a suspect, Jacob Stadfeld, who owes Amos money, and they
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  Speaker 1: search us property but find no evidence to make an arrest.
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  Speaker 1: One year later, a witness claims another suspect admits to
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  Speaker 1: stabbing Amos and feeding him to pigs, but again cops
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  Speaker 1: unable to find evidence for arrest. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Amos Mortier's disappearance. Please contact Fitchburg, Wisconsin, PDE six
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  Speaker 1: zero eight two seven zero forty three hundred. There is
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five thousand dollar reward for info leading to
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  Speaker 1: Amos Mortier. For the latest crime justice news, go to
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  Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.