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College Student, 21, Eating Fries, Body Found Riddles with Bullets · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece. Just think about it with
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Speaker 1: me for a moment, and I don't like to let
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Speaker 1: my mind go there. But for the purposes of analyzing
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Speaker 1: this case, I am. You put all your love, all
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Speaker 1: your dreams, all your energy, all your time, all your
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Speaker 1: money into your children. You try to push them in
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Speaker 1: every way that you can. You help them on their
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Speaker 1: merit badges, on their math test, make them eat vegetables,
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Speaker 1: and this goes on year after year after you finally
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Speaker 1: get them to college. You know where I'm going with this,
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Speaker 1: right A gorgeous co ed shot dead. A college senior
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Speaker 1: was sitting in her car eating fries when she is
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Speaker 1: shot ten times. Killer on the loose. I mean, see Grace.
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Speaker 1: This is crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation. In Sirius XM one eleven, who
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Speaker 1: murdered Ali take a listen to this fear, sadness and anger.
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Speaker 1: After an apparent random act of violence, an LSU student
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Speaker 1: shot dead on Government Street in downtown East in Baton Rouge.
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Speaker 1: She was trapped by a passing train when someone opened
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Speaker 1: fire in the middle of the night. Ali Rice was
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Speaker 1: shot multiple times and died in the front seat of
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Speaker 1: her car. Police aren't sure right now who did it.
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Speaker 1: There's no sign anything was stolen. Police have been working
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Speaker 1: in the streets all day canvassing that area. We have
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Speaker 1: talked to businesses along Government Street who say they have
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Speaker 1: turned over surveillance video two detectives. Twenty one year old
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Speaker 1: Alison Rice was found shot to death inside of her
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Speaker 1: car in downtown Baton Rouge, and her murder happening just
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Speaker 1: three miles away from LSU, where she attended. The twenty
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Speaker 1: one year old was returning from an arcade Friday morning
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Speaker 1: when she was shot to death multiple times inside her car.
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Speaker 1: The gunman and their motive both remain a mystery. You
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Speaker 1: are hearing our friends at wb RZ and News Nation,
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Speaker 1: But now take a listen again to Katie Eastern. Twenty
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Speaker 1: one year old Alison Rice, who went by Ali, was
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Speaker 1: found shot to death in her car. She was a
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Speaker 1: senior at LSU studying marketing and attended Dutchtown High School,
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Speaker 1: where she was a cheerleader. Yeah, I know people who
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Speaker 1: live in the area heard the gunfire but didn't see anything.
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Speaker 1: Sources say they believe Rice was turning around at the
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Speaker 1: tracks as a train came by it. That's when someone
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Speaker 1: shot her multiple times through her when she heard it
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Speaker 1: frame bad, But I ain't Peter Mathew Tray panther gunchbat
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Speaker 1: No bron a senior at LSU studying marketing, cheerleader at
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Speaker 1: Dutchtown High, minding her own business in her own car,
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Speaker 1: probably with the doors locked, eating French fries. And now
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Speaker 1: she's dead. Now, how do you tell that to Alie's parents?
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Speaker 1: With me and all Star panel to make sense of
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Speaker 1: what we know right now? But speaking of telling Ali's parents,
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Speaker 1: who gets that job? Who was sent early early in
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Speaker 1: the morning to Ali's parents front door and to give
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Speaker 1: them the knews their girl is dead? Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to Ali's dad speaking with our friend Martha McCallen. We
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Speaker 1: received ring on the doorbell at you know, we woke
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Speaker 1: up to our dogs barking and the doorbell ringing. You know,
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Speaker 1: cops have showed up in the middle of the night
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Speaker 1: before for various reasons, you know, things going on in
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood and all. But when they ask are you
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Speaker 1: Allison's father? Can we come in please? Yeah? You knew
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Speaker 1: at that point that it was going to be something terrible.
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Speaker 1: This should not have happened, should not have happened. She's
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Speaker 1: a beautiful child, she had one year left to graduate LSU.
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Speaker 1: She had her whole future ahead of her. Just so devastating.
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Speaker 1: Their investigators say that prior to the shooting, Rice had
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Speaker 1: been with friends at a business in mid City. It's
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Speaker 1: unclear what happened between the time that she left and
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Speaker 1: when she was gunned down. Let's go straight out to
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Speaker 1: Chris and Nakamedo, chief investigative reporter w b r ZTV
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Speaker 1: on Facebook. You can find him at Chris Nakamo w
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Speaker 1: b r Z. Chris, thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: Let's just start at the very beginning. We got a
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Speaker 1: lot to get through. Chris, tell me what happened when
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Speaker 1: Ali was shot. This murder has really rocked this community
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Speaker 1: to the poor. This is the type of street where
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Speaker 1: murders don't happen. She was leaving an arcade, had stopped
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Speaker 1: at a railroad track literally a stone's throw from downtown
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Speaker 1: Baton Rouge and you literally there's a train that's coming by,
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Speaker 1: and from what police have told us, gunman approaches and
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Speaker 1: just opens fire on her call. Okay, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: you just tell me something I didn't know. Chris Nakamoto
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Speaker 1: Chris is joining us from w b r Z. You
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Speaker 1: said a gunman approached her car, So this is not
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Speaker 1: a case of wrong place, wrong time. They saw who
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Speaker 1: they were shooting to the guvernment actually approached her car.
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Speaker 1: Our sources are saying that a gunman or gunman arrived
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Speaker 1: on foot and shot through her window, killing her. Just
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Speaker 1: this gruel. A marketing major cheerleader scrubbed in Sunshine, gunned
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Speaker 1: down by unknown assailants as she's in her car trying
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Speaker 1: to turn around the car at a train track and
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Speaker 1: Muncheon on fries. It's not computing to me and something else,
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Speaker 1: you said, Chris Nakamoto, And I'm not going to kill
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Speaker 1: the messenger. But Monaka joining me, high profile private investigator
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Speaker 1: with Monaicae Investigations out of Omaha on Twitter at monak Mona.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear Chris Nakamoto say this is a neighborhood
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Speaker 1: where people don't get shot? All right? He's right, He's right.
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Speaker 1: Statistically there's not a lot of shootings there. But the
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Speaker 1: reality is crime invades every neighborhood. I mean, you're beating
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Speaker 1: the street every single day on your cases as a
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Speaker 1: PI private investigator, and I bet you investigate all over
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Speaker 1: every area of down Yes. No, yes, that's true, in
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Speaker 1: areas that most people wouldn't assume that there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of crime. I see it all the time. And also
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Speaker 1: there was a witness that was parts on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the railroad tracks. The witness two men passed
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Speaker 1: his car, go between the train boxes and approach Ali's car. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what you're giving me a flashback. I've read
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Speaker 1: every single Agatha Christie and that has been written. And
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Speaker 1: you know, they do the books and the movie might
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Speaker 1: be named something else, and then the book might be
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Speaker 1: re released years later under a different name. But I
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Speaker 1: read it as what missus mcgilla cutty saw and it's
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Speaker 1: between trains. Her train went that way, and she saw
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Speaker 1: her murder when the train went that way, and it's
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Speaker 1: very hard to see. But what you're you know what
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Speaker 1: you're telling me. You can see as the train goes
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Speaker 1: by through the train cars. Wow, tell me about that,
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Speaker 1: Chris Nakamoto. We know that when police arrived on the
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Speaker 1: scene after the shooting happened, that they processed the scene
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Speaker 1: for hours. They have been very tight lipped about what
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Speaker 1: type of evidence they collected at the scene, but my
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Speaker 1: sources are saying that there was a number of pieces
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Speaker 1: of evidence that were collected and are being tested. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: our crime lab here in Louisiana that operates under the
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Speaker 1: umbrella Louisiana State Police can get a rush on some
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Speaker 1: of that to see if they can get a return
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Speaker 1: to hopefully try to connect the dots to see if
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Speaker 1: there's any sort of DNA matches. We do know. Yesterday
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Speaker 1: the District Attorney announced that the FEDS have also joined
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Speaker 1: in the investigation, the da ATF and the FBI in
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Speaker 1: hopes of trying to all put their minds together to
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Speaker 1: sauls who committed this heinous murder. Okay, well, let's go
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Speaker 1: to the other experts joining us. I've introduced Chris Nakamoto
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Speaker 1: w BRZ on the story from the beginning Monaka from
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Speaker 1: Monaka Investigations in Omaha. But I want to go now
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Speaker 1: to a long time friend and colleague, doctor Michelle Dupree,
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Speaker 1: forensic pathologists, medical examiner, detective and author of homicide Investigation
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Speaker 1: Field Guide, Doctor Duprey, I want to talk to you
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Speaker 1: about what Chris Nakamoto w BRS he just said. He
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Speaker 1: said they took hours to process the scene. Hours. You
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Speaker 1: know what makes it scene like this even more difficult
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Speaker 1: is that it's out doors. I've processed scenes with crime
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Speaker 1: investigators outdoors before. I'm just what comes to mind is
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Speaker 1: a playground housing project. The whole thing was covered with
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Speaker 1: broken glass, used condoms, hypodermic needles, little glass sing bags,
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Speaker 1: and we were looking for a shellcasing and we found one.
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Speaker 1: But long story short, to Dupri, the pitfalls of an
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Speaker 1: outdoor crime scene explain, Now, there are so many. I mean,
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Speaker 1: first of all, there is so much other information. There's
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Speaker 1: so much other debris. You're not sure what is relevant
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Speaker 1: and what isn't, and so you can't take the chance
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Speaker 1: that you're going to miss something. So you end up
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Speaker 1: picking up a lot more evidence sometimes than you're really
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Speaker 1: going to be able to use or that's pertinent to
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Speaker 1: the case. In addition, you have the weather to worry about.
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Speaker 1: You have all sorts of other again debris, whether it's
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Speaker 1: foreign DNA or whether it's other people's fingerprints or tire
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Speaker 1: prints or whatever it might be. There is oftentimes just
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Speaker 1: so much to sit through and know what's really important
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Speaker 1: and what to take. And thinking about DNA and fingerprints
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Speaker 1: if they shot through the window, Doctor Dupri unless they
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Speaker 1: touched the car, which maybe they did. I mean, Chris Nakamoto.
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Speaker 1: How close did they get to the car? See, those
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Speaker 1: are questions the police have not answered, but we do
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Speaker 1: know they fired on her car at least ten times.
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Speaker 1: Good Lauren and heaven, hold on, hold on, doctor Duprie.
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Speaker 1: Let this percolate for a moment. I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about how prince can be found on shell casings? Casings?
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Speaker 1: Can they be found on bullets? If they got close
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Speaker 1: enough to the car, if they touched the car, how
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Speaker 1: you process that scene? But Doctor Angie Arnold, percolate on that,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Duprie, Doctor Angela Arnold joining me, renowned psychiatrists joining
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Speaker 1: us at the Atlanta jurisdiction. You can find her at
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Speaker 1: Angela Arnold MD dot com. Doctor Angie ten rounds or more?
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Speaker 1: What is that telling you? Look, this is not some
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Speaker 1: jilted boyfriend. Didn't you say there was more than one
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Speaker 1: assail at Chris or did you say that? We heard
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Speaker 1: from our sources that there was possibly one or two
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Speaker 1: people that approached the vehicle. Police have been very tight
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Speaker 1: lipped about what they've released so far. I understand they
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Speaker 1: don't want to get too much information out there. That
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Speaker 1: could somehow harm the integrity of the investigation. Okay, still
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Speaker 1: we know ten rounds, Chris? Do we know that? That
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Speaker 1: is what our sources are saying? At least doctor Angie,
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Speaker 1: this is just a girl. She's a college teen that
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Speaker 1: she's been at an arcade with her other girlfriends. She's
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Speaker 1: eating fries. How many times, Angie, have you sat at
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Speaker 1: the red light with some fries or I don't know,
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Speaker 1: in your case, maybe some potte, I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: and minding your own business and then out of the blue, Yes,
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Speaker 1: every day, Nancy. We do it every day, don't we.
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Speaker 1: Driving down Peach Tree. It sounds like it was an execution.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if they even knew who they were shooting.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you this girl is too young to
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Speaker 1: be the victim an orchestrated execution. What more do we know?
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Speaker 1: Take a listen now to our friends at ABC thirteen Houston.
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Speaker 1: There is an urgent man hunt in Louisiana for an
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Speaker 1: LSU students killer. Police are now coming through evidence to
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Speaker 1: try to find out who shot and killed twenty one
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Speaker 1: year old Alice Rice in Baton Rouge last Friday. Rice
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Speaker 1: stopped for train crossing and was approached by someone who
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Speaker 1: simply opened fire at least a dozen times. They're into
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Speaker 1: her windshield glass, and other marketing suggests she was trying
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Speaker 1: to turn around when she died three days later. There
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Speaker 1: are still no leads in this case. Time Stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Wendy Patrick joining me, California prosecutor, author of
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Speaker 1: Red Flags that's on Amazon. You can find her at
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Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. She's also the host of
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Speaker 1: Today with Doctor Wendy KCBQ, San Diego. Wendy, thanks for
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Speaker 1: being with us. Wendy, I'm just imagining what happened, and
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if she saw these guys or guy coming
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Speaker 1: and she tried to turn around, or if she was
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Speaker 1: turning around because it was a train track and she
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Speaker 1: didn't want to wait on the train. She could have
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Speaker 1: gotten a sixth CeNSE because this was you know, they
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Speaker 1: played at the all played at this arcade till after midnight,
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Speaker 1: so it's pitch dark and she stuck at a train track.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Wendy Patrick, have you ever it's happened to me?
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Speaker 1: I remember jogging a really long road by railroad tracks
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Speaker 1: and there was nothing around, and it hit me you,
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Speaker 1: of all people, no better than to do this. I
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Speaker 1: just got a feeling and I turned around on the
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Speaker 1: other way, going back toward home, and I wonder if
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Speaker 1: she was sitting there and went, what, it's after midnight,
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Speaker 1: I'm here alone in my car at a train. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna take forever to get by. I'm leaving. I'm out
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Speaker 1: of here. I wonder if she got a sixth sense
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Speaker 1: it was turning around. What do you think happened? Based
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Speaker 1: on what we know? And now we're hearing Chris Nakamoto,
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Speaker 1: possibly twelve bullets, but go ahead, Wendy. It seems like
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Speaker 1: situational awareness really kicked in if that's in fact what
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Speaker 1: she was doing. You know, we're supposed to have our
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Speaker 1: heads on a swivel regardless of where we are, but
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Speaker 1: especially if it's the middle of the night, you're at
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Speaker 1: an area, even if you're familiar with it. You know,
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Speaker 1: Chris brought up the great point of not in my backyard.
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Speaker 1: It's a safe community. We don't have murders here. But
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Speaker 1: you know, if this beautiful young woman lived there, she
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Speaker 1: probably knew there were in fact elements to be dangerous
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Speaker 1: and the things that she should be aware of. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like mistaken identity. I also think it sounds like
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Speaker 1: an execution and assassination. And you wonder whether or not
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Speaker 1: she heard something that was my first thought that caused
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Speaker 1: her to look around and make sure she was safe.
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Speaker 1: And sadly we know what happened and where the end
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Speaker 1: of that one. Chris Nakamoto w b r Z. I
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Speaker 1: also learned from some of our sources that she was
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Speaker 1: shot through the quote wand screen for a car. Are
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Speaker 1: they trying to say the front windshield? Yes, that's what
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Speaker 1: we are understanding as well, But the bullets entered in
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Speaker 1: her abdomen area. From what we're being told the district
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Speaker 1: attorney told us yesterday, the key piece that they're trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out right now was was she trying to
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Speaker 1: turn around when she saw the train and was stop there?
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Speaker 1: Or was she trying to turn around after she saw
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Speaker 1: the gunman approach And so that is what they don't
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Speaker 1: know right now, and so they're trying to piece that together.
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Speaker 1: Obviously they said that there wasn't surveillance video right there.
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Speaker 1: Just going to ask you that they've come through the
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Speaker 1: area going to multiple businesses, and I know for a
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Speaker 1: fact that they are going through some videos in hopes
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Speaker 1: of trying to piece together what happened to doctor Michelle
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Speaker 1: Day pretty joining US medical pathologist, examiner and detective. What
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Speaker 1: do you make of the shots coming through the windshield? Windshield?
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Speaker 1: But she's shot in the abdomen. That had to be
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Speaker 1: shooting down directly at her, well and nanty. It can
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Speaker 1: be a couple of things. Of course, the shots coming
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Speaker 1: through what we would call an intermediate target would be
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Speaker 1: the windshield, so it's going to deflect that bullet in
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Speaker 1: some other direction. It's also going to cause more damage
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Speaker 1: because the bullet will have expanded hitting that initial target,
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Speaker 1: and so when it would hit her, unfortunately, it would
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Speaker 1: be a much more devastating injury. I want to go
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Speaker 1: to something that she've been talking about. She may have
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Speaker 1: seen the people coming, so she may have tried to
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Speaker 1: turn around. This is it's a very interesting case because
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Speaker 1: it could be personal because they'd have to know who, when,
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Speaker 1: and where she was. It could also be something like
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Speaker 1: a gang initiation, or if it's really truly random. This
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Speaker 1: is very scary because those are the most hard cases
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Speaker 1: to even try to solve when it truly is random.
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Speaker 1: Guys were learning a little bit more This is from
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Speaker 1: Unfiltered with Karen, and it is a quote from an
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Speaker 1: alleged witness. I was bringing my friend home who lives
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Speaker 1: on Government Street. When we got on Government, we came
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Speaker 1: to the train tracks and the train was at a
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Speaker 1: complete stop. Not even hate it when the train does it.
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Speaker 1: Not even Ten minutes later, two guys walked past my car,
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Speaker 1: wearing dark clothes with long sleeves, one wearing a red hoodie,
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Speaker 1: the hoodie over his head. Mid twenties, both of them
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Speaker 1: five ten to five eleven. At this time, her vehicle
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Speaker 1: pulled up. This is Allison's Ali's silver suv. These two
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Speaker 1: guys walked past my vehicle, the train still at a stop,
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Speaker 1: walking through the cars of the train to get across
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Speaker 1: the tracks. Ten minutes went by her gunshots, multiple gunshots.
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Speaker 1: I could still see her car parked. As soon as
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Speaker 1: the shots went off, she tried to turn around and
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Speaker 1: then she just stopped. I could not where the shots
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Speaker 1: were coming from, but I knew they were very close
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Speaker 1: to me. I ended up backing out and leaving. That's
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Speaker 1: more of what we know right now. Guys, the police
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Speaker 1: are issuing a desperate plea for help. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at w DBJ Police are pleading with
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Speaker 1: the public if anyone has information regarding this case, so
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Speaker 1: please come forward. We're asking for anyone that has any
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Speaker 1: information regarding the death of this young lady pick up
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Speaker 1: the phone, call crime Stoppers three four four seven eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven. Funeral services for Race are said for Wednesday
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Speaker 1: at Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Prairieville, and
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Speaker 1: they should be planning her graduation, not her funeral. Back
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Speaker 1: to doctor Michelle Dupree, author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide,
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Speaker 1: what about the possibility of any kind of prince full
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Speaker 1: or marshal on shells or bullets, Well, you're not going
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Speaker 1: to find any prints on the bullets themselves. On the shells.
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Speaker 1: There is a relatively new technique where it has been
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Speaker 1: possible to find prints on the shells, but you have
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Speaker 1: to do it very carefully. We found that the oils
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Speaker 1: will oftentimes leave they're very small, etching on the casing
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Speaker 1: of the shell. So it would be you've got to
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Speaker 1: find those shells and hopefully they would. And the problem
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Speaker 1: with the bullet, if you've ever seen a bullet, it's
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Speaker 1: already been fired. Even if someone did touch the bullet.
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Speaker 1: The problem is the bullet becomes deformed once it hits anything.
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Speaker 1: It's going at such a high velocity, it crumples up
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Speaker 1: like a paper cut when it hits. Not always, but
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Speaker 1: a lot of times. You can't get a print off
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Speaker 1: of that. To Monacae, private investigator joining us for Monica Investigations,
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Speaker 1: what do you make of what we're learning now? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that if it was a random shooting,
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Speaker 1: it passed the first car that the witness you know,
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Speaker 1: described passed his car, went to her car, and then
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Speaker 1: he describes, you know, roughly ten minutes of time went
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Speaker 1: by before he heard gunshots. You know, I'm wondering what
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Speaker 1: was going on in that amount of time. For some reason, Monique,
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Speaker 1: I took the witness to be a male. Don't know why,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm wondering if they went up
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Speaker 1: to Ali's car, saw a lone female and tried to
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Speaker 1: get in the car to rape her or robber, and
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Speaker 1: she started backing out and then they fired on her.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they were trying to get in her car, right,
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Speaker 1: because that would explain why her and not the witness.
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Speaker 1: Why do they walk past the witness's car and pick
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Speaker 1: out her car. Guys, I want you to now take
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Speaker 1: a listen to our friends again. At w dB J seven,
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Speaker 1: we're on day three of trying to get answers from
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Speaker 1: police regarding the shooting death of twenty one year old
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Speaker 1: LSU student Alison Rice early Friday morning on Government Street. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: officials with the East Batterers Parish Corner's office are ruling
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Speaker 1: her death a homicide, saying she died from multiple gunshot wounds.
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Speaker 1: Has investigators found her dead inside of her vehicle near
22:14
Speaker 1: the railroad tracks on Government Street. A suspect and motive
22:17
Speaker 1: in this one remain unknown at this time, while funeral
22:20
Speaker 1: arrangements for Rice have been announced. To Chris like Amoto,
22:23
Speaker 1: chief Investigator reporter w b r ZTV, Chris, tell me
22:27
Speaker 1: about that rail crossing. You don't really see a lot
22:33
Speaker 1: of residential homes facing a train track, which would mean,
22:38
Speaker 1: if that's true, there's not going to be any for instance,
22:41
Speaker 1: ring doorbells catching it. What's around the train track could
22:44
Speaker 1: give you a scene center. That area has gone through
22:46
Speaker 1: a huge amount of redevelopment over the last five to
22:49
Speaker 1: ten years, a huge gentrification or a bunch of old
22:53
Speaker 1: buildings that were there that have now become restaurants and
22:57
Speaker 1: there's a lot of nightlife in that area to great
23:00
Speaker 1: place to be to bring your family, and so for
23:03
Speaker 1: something like this to happen, that is why this community
23:05
Speaker 1: is really because they don't feel safe in a situation
23:08
Speaker 1: that they want to take their families. And then you
23:11
Speaker 1: also have the situation where she's from. She's from twenty
23:14
Speaker 1: miles from south of Baton Rouge, in an area of
23:17
Speaker 1: Ascension Parish called Geismer, and so you have that area
23:20
Speaker 1: of the community that's also reeling from her death. This
23:23
Speaker 1: was a good girl, and Baton Rouge police told us
23:26
Speaker 1: for the first time since her murder that they do
23:29
Speaker 1: believe that this was a random act of violence, which
23:32
Speaker 1: makes things particularly scary because if this was random, you
23:36
Speaker 1: now have these monsters that are out on looming in
23:39
Speaker 1: the public that could do it to somebody else. You know,
23:42
Speaker 1: Chris like a motto, I'm trying to figure out anything
23:47
Speaker 1: about surveillance video or ring doorbell. I know there was
23:51
Speaker 1: not a surveillance video at the crossing itself. I'd also
23:55
Speaker 1: be curious if they have recovered her cell phone. I mean,
23:59
Speaker 1: let's just say, let's hypothesize let's spin it out to
24:01
Speaker 1: its logical conclusion. Chris. If these two guys and the
24:07
Speaker 1: witness says there were two one in a red hoodie,
24:09
Speaker 1: both in dark clothing, what if they tried to get
24:12
Speaker 1: in her car and she took their picture. I mean,
24:16
Speaker 1: does anybody on the panel have you ever seen someone
24:19
Speaker 1: spading or they do something crazy and you stap a
24:22
Speaker 1: picture of their license tack. I do it all the time,
24:26
Speaker 1: or if I say something unusual, I do. Yeah, Nancy,
24:30
Speaker 1: just jump in, Wendy, both personally and professionally, that is
24:34
Speaker 1: a very modern way of documenting crime. You know, citizens
24:36
Speaker 1: or law enforcement's eyes and ears on the ground, and
24:39
Speaker 1: that is one of the ways that we contribute to
24:42
Speaker 1: crime prevention within our own communities. This young woman, I mean,
24:45
Speaker 1: that would get right into the type of a pattern
24:48
Speaker 1: that we might expect, we might expect for to be
24:50
Speaker 1: savvy enough, especially if it's a safe area, to see
24:54
Speaker 1: something and then document it in preparation for saying something.
24:58
Speaker 1: We see it all the time, Wendy, yep, I want
25:00
Speaker 1: to get my hands on that cell phone. Hey, Chris Nakamoto,
25:04
Speaker 1: Following up on what Wendy Patrick Sad, host of Today
25:07
Speaker 1: with Doctor Wendy Chris Nakamoto, is anything taken from her
25:12
Speaker 1: that we know of? Nothing was taken. Absolutely nothing was taken,
25:16
Speaker 1: which is why police are so stumped. They don't know
25:19
Speaker 1: whether or not this was an attempted carjacking, whether it
25:21
Speaker 1: was an attempted robbery, because nothing was taken from her vehicle.
25:26
Speaker 1: They don't know if the killer shot her and then
25:29
Speaker 1: got spooped or couldn't get into her car because a
25:32
Speaker 1: lot of cars lock when you put the vehicle in
25:35
Speaker 1: drive these days, and so they don't know if they
25:38
Speaker 1: shot her, tried to get in and couldn't get in,
25:41
Speaker 1: and then got spooked and took off running. But nothing
25:44
Speaker 1: was missing. Looking at a picture of her right now
25:47
Speaker 1: holding a puppy dog, what a smile. Her parents obviously
25:52
Speaker 1: also invested in braces. She's got this beautiful million dollars smile,
25:57
Speaker 1: already had an internship lined up for when she got out.
26:02
Speaker 1: Great grades. The works back to you, Chris like Amoto,
26:08
Speaker 1: at this location, do you think that there were so
26:13
Speaker 1: valance cameras on the backs on any of these restaurants
26:18
Speaker 1: and bars you were talking about, so we know that
26:20
Speaker 1: there's an audio. We obtained audio of the weekend that
26:23
Speaker 1: sounds that you hear the gunshots and some screeching, but
26:27
Speaker 1: the audio is just audio. There's no video. And so
26:31
Speaker 1: we know that police were out on bicycles. They were
26:33
Speaker 1: handing out bicycles on Friday for their detectives to literally
26:37
Speaker 1: ride that whole area looking for video. And we know
26:41
Speaker 1: that there are a number of bars and restaurants that
26:44
Speaker 1: do have videos. I'm looking specifically at a white building
26:49
Speaker 1: to the left of the crime scene. There's a white
26:54
Speaker 1: building and it looks to be some sort of a
26:58
Speaker 1: you know how you see like a start with a
27:00
Speaker 1: little roof on it. One of those may be nearby.
27:03
Speaker 1: What kind of train was this? By the way, So
27:06
Speaker 1: we have a lot of industry in Baton Rouge, especially
27:08
Speaker 1: on the northern end. So when we talk about train,
27:11
Speaker 1: we're not talking about passenger rail. These are tanker cars
27:15
Speaker 1: things like that that are going to and from in
27:18
Speaker 1: that industrial section gues cargo. So there wouldn't be a
27:21
Speaker 1: whole lot of witnesses around standing at a train stop
27:24
Speaker 1: like a bus stop waiting. I'm looking at a picture
27:28
Speaker 1: of her now on homecoming court. Just oh, talk about
27:32
Speaker 1: scrubbed in sunshine. Well, of course the family is devastated. Listen,
27:38
Speaker 1: what does your gut tell you about what happened that
27:41
Speaker 1: night in her car? And the only thing that I
27:44
Speaker 1: can really think at this point is it's a bad
27:50
Speaker 1: case of wrong place at the wrong time. You know,
27:55
Speaker 1: she's not anyone that had enemies. We don't think that
27:59
Speaker 1: she was being stalked or followed. They really don't have
28:05
Speaker 1: an explanation at this point. They're trying to find some
28:09
Speaker 1: type of video footage, some kind of surveillance. They're going
28:14
Speaker 1: further back down the road to you know, maybe check
28:17
Speaker 1: those cameras see if someone was falling, or seeing if
28:20
Speaker 1: they can see, you know, maybe people walking in the
28:24
Speaker 1: area or something that that could have been involved in this.
28:26
Speaker 1: But as of now, that particular stretch of town, they
28:31
Speaker 1: don't have the surveillance that's necessary. You're hearing Ali's father.
28:36
Speaker 1: I don't know how he has his strength to even speak.
28:40
Speaker 1: He's talking to our friend Martha McCollum on Fox News.
28:45
Speaker 1: I guess he's propelled by seeking justice for his daughter
28:50
Speaker 1: Ali time stories with Nancy Grace. You know, I know
29:12
Speaker 1: that she was eating fries. Doctor Michelle Dufrey, because when
29:17
Speaker 1: her body was found still sitting in her car, she
29:20
Speaker 1: was still in her seat with the fries in her lap.
29:24
Speaker 1: It's not like she was doing anything to intimidate or
29:28
Speaker 1: threaten her shooters in no way at all, That's right, Nancy.
29:31
Speaker 1: I mean, this is someone who has stopped at a
29:34
Speaker 1: train track, minding their own business, eating fries on their
29:37
Speaker 1: way home. I mean this was senseless and I mean
29:40
Speaker 1: just absolutely a third attack on an innocent person and
29:45
Speaker 1: can Antia this is and it's very excessive. The shooting.
29:49
Speaker 1: What do you mean, I mean the number of shots
29:50
Speaker 1: that were fired exactly exactly, Guys. Take a listen to
29:56
Speaker 1: our friends at Inside Edition. As the world memorial grows
30:01
Speaker 1: on Government Street near the spot where twenty one year
30:03
Speaker 1: old LSU student Ali Rice was shot and killed early
30:07
Speaker 1: Friday morning, Questions still linger from the community on what happened.
30:12
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Don Coppola with VRPD tells me the motive at
30:16
Speaker 1: this time is still uncleared to investigators. Rice was found
30:19
Speaker 1: dead inside her bullet whittled car near the train tracks
30:22
Speaker 1: on Government Street, close to Eddie Robinson Drive. Police say,
30:26
Speaker 1: if you're uneasy about what happened, you can use alternate routes.
30:31
Speaker 1: The heartbroken father of a slain college senior is pleading
30:35
Speaker 1: for help tracking down the killer. It's a great day Griffin.
30:39
Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Ali Rice was shot multiple times
30:42
Speaker 1: through the windshield of her car when it was stopped
30:44
Speaker 1: at a railroad crossing while she was on her way
30:47
Speaker 1: home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The marketing major from Louisiana
30:51
Speaker 1: State University had been on a night out with friends.
30:54
Speaker 1: She was eating fries when a barrage of bullets hit her.
30:58
Speaker 1: You're hearing not only the voice of Ali Rice. She
31:02
Speaker 1: was saying, it's a great day to be a Griffin.
31:05
Speaker 1: That was her voice. You're not only hearing inside edition,
31:08
Speaker 1: but our friend Miranda Thomas at w D b J
31:11
Speaker 1: seven straight back out to you. Chris Nakamoto, tell me
31:17
Speaker 1: about what is being done to find Ali's killer. The
31:21
Speaker 1: district attorney told us yesterday it's an all hands on
31:24
Speaker 1: deck thing. I mean, they have not stopped from the
31:27
Speaker 1: moment that she was killed. You have all the intelligence
31:31
Speaker 1: divisions that are keeping their ear to the ground. They
31:33
Speaker 1: are working over time. You now have the ATF, D, EA,
31:37
Speaker 1: FBI all joining in the investigation. You have all of
31:41
Speaker 1: THERPD having multiple meetings talking about did you say the
31:44
Speaker 1: DA is involved. Yes, that's interesting. What do you make
31:49
Speaker 1: of that, Wendy Patrick, that the d EA is involved.
31:52
Speaker 1: What I make of it is that there's more of
31:53
Speaker 1: the investigation than they're able to tell us, because, as
31:56
Speaker 1: you noted earlier, they don't want to compromise the integrity
31:59
Speaker 1: of on going leads, so they're probably following up on
32:03
Speaker 1: other leads, other information and intel that came in from
32:05
Speaker 1: other sources. But it is very interesting, and you know,
32:09
Speaker 1: our ears perk up when we heard an agency like
32:11
Speaker 1: that was called in with what originally looked like to
32:14
Speaker 1: some sort of a murder investigation. It's never that straightforward.
32:18
Speaker 1: There's always more to the story. I will never forget
32:21
Speaker 1: the first triple homicide I prosecuted, Wendy. I was out
32:24
Speaker 1: working night and day two and three o'clock in the
32:27
Speaker 1: morning at that playground I was talking about earlier. That
32:31
Speaker 1: is where the triple homicide went down. Three young boys,
32:35
Speaker 1: really young, like fifteen, sixteen seventeen were shot dead around midnight,
32:42
Speaker 1: eleven thirty pm on a Sunday night on that playground,
32:46
Speaker 1: and I found out well into the investigation. Nobody wanted
32:50
Speaker 1: to talk because they were afraid that the FEDS had
32:54
Speaker 1: a DA investigation go on at the same time, and
32:57
Speaker 1: of course the FEDS would not share any information at all,
33:02
Speaker 1: no matter how much I begged. I think they were
33:04
Speaker 1: letting me do their dirty work for them. Anna did so.
33:09
Speaker 1: When you bring in the FEDS, the d EA, Drug
33:11
Speaker 1: Enforcement Agency, and the FBI, there, I think you're right, Wendy,
33:15
Speaker 1: there's more going on than meets the eye. Of course,
33:18
Speaker 1: the parents absolutely devastated. Take a listen to our friends
33:26
Speaker 1: at inside Editions speaking to Allie's dad. Ali always had
33:32
Speaker 1: a smile on her face. She posted videos dancing with
33:38
Speaker 1: her dad. How close were you? D messages me at work,
33:45
Speaker 1: you know, all day long and we sent a lot
33:47
Speaker 1: of time together. Girt slang is baffling police, and no
33:51
Speaker 1: motive or suspects have been named. Have police given you
33:54
Speaker 1: any idea who who could have done this? At this point,
33:58
Speaker 1: there's really not any leagues. Okay, let me go out
34:02
Speaker 1: to you, doctor Angela Arnold, help me out. Give me
34:05
Speaker 1: your analysis. My analysis from what I've heard today is
34:09
Speaker 1: that this was a random act of violence, in all
34:13
Speaker 1: likelihood perpetrated by some sort of gang initiation. I can't
34:19
Speaker 1: imagine anything that this beautiful girl did to bring this
34:23
Speaker 1: on herself. She was just a completely unlucky victim and
34:28
Speaker 1: thus and it's hideous when you hear the words from
34:32
Speaker 1: police saying, quote, she's with the coroner now, she didn't
34:37
Speaker 1: make it. It's the most devastating words you can ever hear.
34:41
Speaker 1: That's a quote from her father, Paul Rice, the family Paul,
34:48
Speaker 1: her stepmom k Rice, her mother Angela, her stepfather Travis. Devastated.
34:56
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine, dodtra Angie. We always hear you
35:00
Speaker 1: should never have to bury your child. I hadn't even
35:03
Speaker 1: say the words because I can think ever my children, John,
35:06
Speaker 1: David and Lucy, and you know, doctor Angie, I thought
35:10
Speaker 1: I knew everything about grief and mourning and devastation when
35:15
Speaker 1: my fiancee was murdered. Now that I have children, I
35:20
Speaker 1: can't imagine anything worse than having your child murdered. Well,
35:25
Speaker 1: because Nancy, as you said, all we do our entire
35:28
Speaker 1: having a child die in any way, I just can't
35:31
Speaker 1: even imagine that. But murdered and shot multiple times. You know,
35:38
Speaker 1: she may have been unrecognizable, We don't know. It was
35:41
Speaker 1: a horrific way for that beautiful girl to die. And
35:45
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how any parent ever truly gets over that, Nancy,
35:50
Speaker 1: because we spend our entire lives trying to protect them.
35:53
Speaker 1: We opened that little door to give them some freedom
35:56
Speaker 1: when they go to college. And then she's getting ready
35:58
Speaker 1: to graduate from college. We've done everything just beautifully, and
36:03
Speaker 1: then something like this befalls her, you know, speaking of
36:06
Speaker 1: her parents, daughter, Angie. They wanted so much to be
36:11
Speaker 1: with us today but could not because today as Ali's funeral.
36:22
Speaker 1: And I had to tell you just when I said that,
36:23
Speaker 1: the words is caught in my throat, just thinking of
36:28
Speaker 1: this girl that you you know, give birth to, that
36:33
Speaker 1: you raise, that you love. And you know, I remember, Angie,
36:37
Speaker 1: the twins were so sick and I was so sick.
36:40
Speaker 1: Lucy almost died during childbirth. And when I got them home,
36:44
Speaker 1: if I, oh, thank you, Lord, I got him that far. Okay,
36:47
Speaker 1: you can just let me get him through these first
36:51
Speaker 1: three months few months, so I can get them healthy
36:54
Speaker 1: so they can survive. And then we got past that,
36:56
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know, Lord, if I could just
36:58
Speaker 1: you know, get into preschool, just help me get them
37:03
Speaker 1: through preschool. Then okay, then help them through elementary school.
37:08
Speaker 1: You know, all they go through. The mean kids, the bullies,
37:11
Speaker 1: to this, to that, and then comes to middle school. Oh,
37:15
Speaker 1: dear Lord in Heaven, to drama, the ups, the downs,
37:19
Speaker 1: the emotional highs and loads, the defeats, the joys, and
37:23
Speaker 1: then you think, ah, gone through middle school. Well then
37:25
Speaker 1: there's high school, and then there's college, and each time
37:29
Speaker 1: you think, oh, I gotten through that, But really, my
37:32
Speaker 1: parents blessings and beauties are never really over here. She
37:37
Speaker 1: is about to graduate and start an internship out in
37:41
Speaker 1: the big bad world, and this has to happen to
37:43
Speaker 1: their baby. And she thought, your children are always your babies,
37:47
Speaker 1: aren't they. They're always your babies. My little girl turns
37:51
Speaker 1: nineteen this week. I still see her as my baby,
37:55
Speaker 1: and hearing the story, I'm scared. You're always scared to
38:00
Speaker 1: that something like that could happen to your own child,
38:02
Speaker 1: because it's out there. It's out there in this main
38:05
Speaker 1: world that we live in. Now, I want you to
38:07
Speaker 1: hear Ali. Take a listen to our friends from News Nation,
38:12
Speaker 1: the family distraught over who could have killed a young
38:15
Speaker 1: woman whose love of life they called contagious Alison Nicole
38:20
Speaker 1: Rice and I'm going to wake up at eight thirty
38:22
Speaker 1: tomorrow and how coffee was how lovely your roommates, because
38:25
Speaker 1: that's just what I want to do. It's a hopefully
38:28
Speaker 1: Rice's uncle, Mike, spoke with News Nation today. He says
38:32
Speaker 1: the family has been given no answers. Oh I had
38:35
Speaker 1: no bad blood, no animies. We truly thank us. A
38:41
Speaker 1: random micro violence. Some mobsters just takes a lot with
38:45
Speaker 1: some poor, pure, innocent chart. At the time of Rice's shooting,
38:49
Speaker 1: police believe the LSU senior was stopped waiting for a
38:53
Speaker 1: train to pass. It's almost a worse when the act
38:56
Speaker 1: is random, because it's kindle. Your whole life is devastated
39:01
Speaker 1: by the luck of the draw. The tip line two
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Speaker 1: two five three four four seven, eight six seven repeat
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Speaker 1: two two five, three, four, four seven, eight six seven.
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Speaker 1: Our prayers with Ali's family as we pray the killers
39:21
Speaker 1: are brought to justice. Goodbye friend,