Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 12.16.24 | BREAKING UPDATE Shooter Kills Two at a Small Private Ch

Transcript

Crime Alert 12.16.24 | BREAKING UPDATE Shooter Kills Two at a Small Private Ch · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime needs Now. I'm Drew Nilson.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: A school shooting in Wisconsin leaves three dead, including the suspect,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: injuring six others. The horrific event unfolding now at a
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: small private school in Madison. Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: confirmed the incident began just before eleven am at Abundant
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Life Christian School when officers responded to reports of an
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: active Shooters.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: Located a juvenile who they believe was responsible for this
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: decease in the building. Additionally, the officers began administering life
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: saving efforts to anyone who was wounded and making sure
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: that those persons were transported. What we know is that
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: a total of about seven persons were transported from this
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: scene to eraror hospitals for treatment. We know that at
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: least three people have lost their lives, including a juvenile person.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Police did not fire their weapons, and preliminary evidence suggests
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: the shooter died by suicide. Law enforcement officials are working
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: in notify the families of the deceased and injured. Initial
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: reports from police mistakenly indicated five deaths. The ATF is
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: assisting in tracing the weapon that was used, identified as
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: a nine millimeters pistol. Parents and students were directed to
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: a reunification site at the SSM Health Dean Clinic nearby.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: A public safety alert went out at eleven twenty am,
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: warning residents to avoid the area. Abundant Life Christian School
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: serves about three hundred and ninety students from kindergarten through
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: twelfth grade twenty eight acre campus, sharing space with a
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: church and early childhood learning center. The mission statement emphasizes
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: the school's christ centered learning context. Bethany Hyman tells WMTV
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: her daughter is a student there. She recounts hearing from
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: her mother.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: There is an active shooter at the school.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: She had like an insight source kind of tell her,
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: and I just bolted out, drove down here. I called
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: my husband and he made his way over here. Wisconsin
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Governor Tony Evers expressed his condolences, saying, quote, we are
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: praying for the kids, educators, and entire school community as
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: we await more information. President Joe Biden has been briefed
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: with federal officials offering support to local authorities. Stay with
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Crime Alert as we bring you the latest information on
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: the school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, more crime and justice
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: news after this. A Marilyn mother is charged with first
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: degree murder after allegedly drowning her three month old daughter
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: and their Chevy Chase home. Authorities say the incident is
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: part of a larger plan she had to kill herself
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: and her family. On December eighth, Mackenzie Rose Colgan, aged
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: thirty seven, called nine one one twelve twelve pm. She
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: told dispatchers that she had drowned her infant while giving
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: her a bath. Police say emergency responders arrived at the
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: residents and found the baby unresponsive in the upstairs bathroom.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: The baby was transported to the hospital, where she was
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: pronounced dead. Police shortly thereafter took the mother into custody,
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: and she was charged on the same day. Colgan is
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: a licensed therapist, though she was reportedly unemployed and had
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: been struggling with mental health issues use of her own.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: According to court documents, Colgan admitted to police that she
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: had woken up that morning with a plan to quote
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: end everything. She reportedly intended to kill her husband, her
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: two children, and herself at around eleven forty am. She
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: says she took the baby upstairs, placed her in a
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: smaller tub within the bathtub and held the infant's head
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: underwater until she stopped breathing. Investigators noted in their report
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: quote she turned the baby's face away from her. After
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: the drowning, Colgan went to a bedroom window and climbed
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: onto the ledge of the second story window, intending to jump.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: She says she changed her mind, went downstairs and told
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: the child's father what she had done. The father ran
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: to the bathroom, found their daughter in a tub filled
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: with water, and attempted CPR before commanding Colgan to call
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: nine to one one. Colgan was arrested at the scene.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: She's being held without bond. Montgomery County District Attorney Lauren
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: de Marco says the case is quote extremely sad, adding
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: quote this tragedy has shocked the community. We are committed
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: to seeing justice done. Colgan's attorney emphasizes that she has
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: no prior convictions and was cooperating fully with the investigation,
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: although police had visited the home twice earlier this year
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: for welfare checks and a reported medical emergency involving the baby.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma moves closer to executing a man convicted of killing
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: a ten year old girl in one of the state's
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: most notorious crimes. Kevin Ray Underwood's clemency plea was denied
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously. Underwood was
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: convicted in two thousand and six admitting to killing Jamie
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: rose Bolin as part of a plan driven by cannibalistic
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: sexual fantasies. He hit the girl with a cutting board,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: suffocated her, and concealed her nearly decapitated body in a
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: plastic container in his apartment. He had told police he
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: sexually assaulted her, but couldn't go through with his plan
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: to eat her. Underwood told the parole board quote, although
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: I do not want to die, I recognize that I
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: deserve to die for what I did. Assistant Attorney General
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: Asman Layman called the crime quote one of the most
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: depraved murders in Oklahoma history, and added quote, Jamie was
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: chosen because she was small, defenseless, and prey. She begged
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: to be freed, but Underwood showed her no mercy. Underwood's
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: defense team then pleaded for mercy, citing his mental health
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: issues and history of abuse. His attorney, Brandon Van Winkle said, quote,
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Kevin suffered from severe mental illness and never received proper care.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: A mental health expert wrote to the appeals Board, attributing
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: his actions to his addiction to violent pornography. Underwood's mother
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: cried as she asked the board for mercy, saying, quote,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't see the signs of his pain until it
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: was too late. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond called Underwood
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: quote a deeply evil monster. He will receive a lethal
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: injection on his birthday Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: in McAllister. For the latest crime and justice news, follow
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast app with
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: this crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson.