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Horrific Kentucky Homicide Leads to Multi-State Hunt for Suspect | Crime Alert 10.07.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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