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Police Solve Unintentional Drive By Shooting Of Four-Time Cancer Survivor | Crime Alert 05.29.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert I means he grais breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer James, forty nine, beats cancer four times and it
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  Speaker 1: is still undergoing chemotherapy. Just before midnight, a bullet blasts
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  Speaker 1: through the window of her Denver, Colorado home, cutting through
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  Speaker 1: her upper arm and into her chest.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer's family frantically calls nine one one, but when paramedics arrive,
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  Speaker 2: she is pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators find security
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  Speaker 2: camera footage depicting a Nissan Roe stopped in front of
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer's home at eleven eighteen pm. The car idled there
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  Speaker 2: for several moments before its headlights went dark and it
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  Speaker 2: drove away. Police find footage of the same Nissan Rogue
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  Speaker 2: at a gas station a few blocks away and work
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  Speaker 2: to identify the owner.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement tracks down the shooter, Ebenezer Worcu Twiny, who
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  Speaker 1: says he accidentally fired out the window of his car
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  Speaker 1: because he's unfamiliar with the gun. He says he tried
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  Speaker 1: to clear the chamber, not realizing there was another bullet.
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  Speaker 1: He says he wasn't aiming at the house and thought
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  Speaker 1: the bullet would hit a wall or not go in.
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  Speaker 1: Rested for murder, I as a school year winds down,
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  Speaker 1: a game known as Senior Assassin sparks panic, injury and
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  Speaker 1: criminal investigations across the country. The game played through apps
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  Speaker 1: with targets, power ups, and videos posted online. Parents afraid
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  Speaker 1: a fake gun that looks real could have deadly consequences.
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  Speaker 1: In Ni Rochelle, police respond to students carrying a realistic
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  Speaker 1: toy water gun. Luckily, no one hurt. In Arlington, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: a water gun battle goes wrong when seventeen year old
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  Speaker 1: Isaac Lil falls off a jeep and hits his head.
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  Speaker 1: He's on life support with brain injury. School officials across
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  Speaker 1: the country begging students to stop playing before someone is killed.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: In Washington, d C. Two staffers from the Israeli Embassy
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  Speaker 3: have been shot and killed outside the Capitol Jews Buish Museum.
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  Speaker 3: Police say the suspect, thirty one year old Elias Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 3: of Chicago, opened fire on a small group as they
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  Speaker 3: were leaving an event. He was quickly detained by museum
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  Speaker 3: security after entering the building, shouting free, Free Palestine as
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  Speaker 3: he was arrested. The victims have been identified as Joran Lishinsky,
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  Speaker 3: an Israeli research assistant, and Sarah Milgram, an American who
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  Speaker 3: coordinated diplomatic visits. Israeli officials say the two were close
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  Speaker 3: and that Lishinsky had planned to propose next week in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 3: The attack has sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles. Israel has
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  Speaker 3: lowered flags to half staff at missions worldwide and tightened
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  Speaker 3: embassy security. The shooting comes amid a renewed Israeli offensive
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  Speaker 3: in Gaza and rising global tensions tied to the war
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  Speaker 3: with Hamas. Authorities are investigating the attack as a possible
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  Speaker 3: hate crime. A daring jail break from a New Orleans
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  Speaker 3: facility has raised questions about internal security and staff involvement.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online correspondent Sidney Sumner reports on the unfolding investigation.
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  Speaker 2: On May sixteenth, ten inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish
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  Speaker 2: Prison in New Orleans, Louisiana. They dismantled a toilet in
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  Speaker 2: their cell, exploiting a hole behind it to flee the facility.
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  Speaker 2: The escape went unnoticed for nearly seven hours, with five
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  Speaker 2: inmates still at large. Stirling Williams, a thirty three year
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  Speaker 2: old maintenance worker at the jail, has been arrested and
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  Speaker 2: charged with ten counts of principle to simple escape in
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  Speaker 2: one count of malfeasance in office. Authorities alleged he turned
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  Speaker 2: off the water to the cell's toilet, facilitating the escape.
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  Speaker 2: Williams's attorney, Michael Kennedy, contends that his client was unaware
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  Speaker 2: of the inmate's plan. Kennedy states that Williams responded to
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  Speaker 2: a deputy's request to fix an overflowing toilet and had
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  Speaker 2: no knowledge of the escape plot. He further argues that
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  Speaker 2: Williams is being used as a scapegoat to divert attention
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  Speaker 2: from the jail's security failures. The investigation has led to
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  Speaker 2: the suspension of three jail employees in n arrest of
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  Speaker 2: two individuals accused of eating the escapees after their breakout.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities continue to search for the remaining fugitives and are
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  Speaker 2: reviewing jail protocols to prevent future incidents.
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  Speaker 3: The Orleans Parish prison escape has prompted a thorough review
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  Speaker 3: of jail security measures.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Avid Hiker and realtor Fern Baird, ask a
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  Speaker 1: hotel employee for a hiking recommendation for the Sawtooth National
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  Speaker 1: Forest near Ketchum, Idaho. Fern signs the Prairie Creek Trail
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  Speaker 1: logbook to the lake and back. When Fern doesn't return,
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  Speaker 1: hotel staff reporter missing hotel video shows her wearing a
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  Speaker 1: gray jacket, black pants, gray gloves, and a fanny pack.
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  Speaker 1: Blank County Sheriff's deputies find her twenty eighteen Cebrew Cross
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  Speaker 1: Trick three days later, parked in the Prairie Creek lot
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  Speaker 1: with her purse inside. Fern five to five, about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds, shoulder length, sandy, blonde hair, hazel eyes,
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  Speaker 1: Her ears are pierced, no tattoos.
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  Speaker 3: Her family.
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  Speaker 1: He offered a twenty five thousand dollar reward for info
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  Speaker 1: leading to her return. If you have venfo on Fern
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  Speaker 1: Baird's disappearance, please call Blaine County, Idaho two zero eight
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  Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crime online dot com
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  Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace