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Crime Alert 04.15.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert IMC Grace Breaking Crime News Now. Shots ring
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  Speaker 1: out at a Laurel, Delaware house party a gun and
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  Speaker 1: fires over fifty bullets injuring three victims. A twenty six
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  Speaker 1: year old woman is shot seven times, a seventeen year
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  Speaker 1: old boy hit twice, and an eighteen year old woman
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  Speaker 1: is treated on the scene for a bullet Grays cops
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  Speaker 1: reviews surveillance video and ID their suspect, Branson Daniels.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. Laurel police were also looking for two more suspects
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  Speaker 2: in the shooting, finding a seventeen year old who was
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  Speaker 2: involved already incarcerated in Maryland. It's unclear what the motive
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  Speaker 2: behind the shooting was, but all three victims survived. Daniels
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  Speaker 2: is also wanted for an earlier vehicle pursuit in nearby Seaford.
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  Speaker 1: Cops track Daniels to a motel in Ocean City, Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: He's arrested for fourteen counts of reckless endangerment gun violations,
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  Speaker 1: with more charges pending. How about aggravated assault. Peter Owens
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  Speaker 1: heads to Afflorida Walgreens on Easter Sunday, then gets in
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  Speaker 1: an argument with an employee and a manager and to
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  Speaker 1: call Merk steps in to break it up. Merk asks
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  Speaker 1: Owens to leave the store, but instead he smacks Merk
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  Speaker 1: in the face with a bible. Cops are called, and
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  Speaker 1: despite his claim he didn't mean to hit the manager,
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  Speaker 1: Peter Owens, thirty five, charged with battery by bible. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's one way to get your attention with
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. More crime and justice news after this. Now
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  Speaker 1: with the latest crime in Justice breaking news Crime on
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  Speaker 1: Lunch John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in Louisiana, where, following a man's guilty plead
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  Speaker 3: to the murder of his three children and an arson
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  Speaker 3: fire last year, a fight has broken out in a
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  Speaker 3: New Orleans courtroom. For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner
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  Speaker 3: with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: According to various news sources, in New Orleans, just moments
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  Speaker 2: after Joseph Washington pleaded guilty to first degree murder, he
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  Speaker 2: was attacked by a woman who was related to the children.
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  Speaker 2: Before deputies in the courtroom could restore order, Moore relatives
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  Speaker 2: joined in the onslaught. There was one reported arrest. Following
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  Speaker 2: the prosecutor's decision to drop their pursuit of the death
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  Speaker 2: penalty in this case, Washington entered a plea that will
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  Speaker 2: guarantee him a life sentence in prison. In what police
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  Speaker 2: Chief Anne Kirkpatrick described as a horrific act of domestic violence,
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  Speaker 2: Washington set fire to his ex wife's home in October.
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  Speaker 2: Police reported that the fire killed a three year old boy,
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  Speaker 2: a five year old girl, and an eight year old boy.
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  Speaker 2: Authority say that the mother of the children had contacted
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  Speaker 2: nine to one one claiming that the children's father was
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  Speaker 2: going to set the house on fire. Reports of fire
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  Speaker 2: at the residence came in within minutes of the mother's
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  Speaker 2: initial call.
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  Speaker 3: The fire occurred while the mother was away from the home.
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  Speaker 3: Victim's families are urging prosecutors to reject an offer made
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  Speaker 3: by a convicted murderer, a man released early from a
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  Speaker 3: Texas prison over three decades ago and who is currently
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  Speaker 3: facing two new murder charges once again crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Before his release, sixty three year old Raoulmesa Junior spent
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  Speaker 2: nearly ten years behind bars for killing an eight year old.
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  Speaker 2: Mesa was accused last year of two additional homicides that
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  Speaker 2: occurred in twenty nineteen and that they believe may be
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  Speaker 2: related to Mesa. The proposed deal would exchange a plea
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  Speaker 2: in return to prison for fifty years for avoiding going
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  Speaker 2: to trial and possibly facing the death penalty. At a
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  Speaker 2: pre trial hearing, Travis County prosecutors said they had only
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  Speaker 2: just received a plea offer from Meso's lawyer and had
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  Speaker 2: no time to analyze it. It was immediately unclear whether
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  Speaker 2: Mesa was being given the option to enter a plea
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  Speaker 2: of guilty or something else entirely, such as no contest.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking to reporters following the hearing, relatives of the victims
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  Speaker 2: pleaded with the prosecution to turn down the offer. Mesa
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  Speaker 2: struck a plea deal that led to his initial nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty two conviction and thirty year prison term. After receiving
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  Speaker 2: credit for good conduct, he was freed early. Mesa's attorney,
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  Speaker 2: Russ Hunt, said that the concurrent fifty year sentence offered
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  Speaker 2: for each murder accusation would essentially put him behind bars
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  Speaker 2: for life. Mesa would be eligible for parole at age
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  Speaker 2: ninety three in thirty years this according to state law.
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  Speaker 2: When Mesa was released from prison early in nineteen ninety three,
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  Speaker 2: it created a stir throughout the state of Texas, and
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  Speaker 2: demonstrators met him almost everywhere he went. He was forced
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  Speaker 2: to leave six cities by picketers, some of whom threatened
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  Speaker 2: him with violence. Mesa allegedly called Austin police in May
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  Speaker 2: of last year, confessing to killing his eighty year old
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  Speaker 2: roommate Jesse Friga a few days earlier, in linking himself
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  Speaker 2: to Gloria Lofton's twenty nineteen sexual assault and murder. When
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  Speaker 2: Mesa was taken into custody, authority stated he had a
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  Speaker 2: backpack with Zipti's duct tape, a flashlight, and a twenty
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  Speaker 2: two caliber handgun with additional bullets in it. Mesa has
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  Speaker 2: been charged with capital murder in Lafton's killing, which could
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  Speaker 2: result in his being sentenced to death or life without
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  Speaker 2: the possibility of parole if he's convicted.
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  Speaker 3: Mesa was indicted on a murder charge in Frega's death,
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  Speaker 3: which could result in a life term.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Darien Hudson has a tough year in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: She suffers a miscarriage, broke up with her partner, and
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  Speaker 1: her childhood dog passed away. Darien and her family in
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  Speaker 1: Wichita discussed Darien moving close to home the day that
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  Speaker 1: convo happened. Darien doesn't show up for work. At home,
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  Speaker 1: cops find her door open, the lights on, dishes in
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  Speaker 1: the sink, but no Darien. A month later, cops get
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  Speaker 1: an alert a man tried to use Darian Hudson's credit
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  Speaker 1: card in Oklahoma City. He tells cops he found the
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  Speaker 1: card in a purse at a construction site in Stillwater
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  Speaker 1: around the same time Darien disappeared. Cops interview workers at
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  Speaker 1: the site who say they saw a woman matching Darien's
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  Speaker 1: description sitting alone near the site. She appeared blank and
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  Speaker 1: unresponsive and eventually left on foot. Cops do find a
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  Speaker 1: sweatshirt and Darien's wallet near the site, no further clues
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  Speaker 1: where she went. Darien Hudson now missing over six years.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Darian Hudson, called Stillwater, Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: PD four zero five, three seven to two, one one
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  Speaker 1: seven to one. For the latest crime in justice news.
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  Speaker 1: Go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.