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Man Killed Confronting Line-Cutter at Convenience Store Toilet | Crime Alert 6AM 01.28.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I means he grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 2: Danny Lyncaster, fifty two stops at a Phoenix quick trip
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  Speaker 2: As he's waiting in line to use the restroom. DeAndre Franklin,
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, tries to cut the line. Castor intervenes in
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  Speaker 2: is shot at least once in the head by Franklin.
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  Speaker 2: Danny cast dead at the scene, straight out to Drew
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  Speaker 2: Nelson for more.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Nancy. A senseless shooting all over a toilet, Phoenix,
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  Speaker 3: Arizona Police say Castor was shot and killed inside the
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  Speaker 3: QT near East Oak Street on the twentieth. Family member
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  Speaker 3: say Castor is dead because he spoke up and was
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  Speaker 3: shot because of it. Castor was rushed to a hospital
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  Speaker 3: but did not survive. Police arrested twenty five year old
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  Speaker 3: DeAndre Franklin the next day and charged him with second
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  Speaker 3: degree murder. He's being held on a one million dollar bond.
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  Speaker 3: Castor sister Delka Caster says the loss is overwhelming, speaking
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  Speaker 3: with our TV news partners at Fox ten Phoenix, along
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  Speaker 3: with her son Aiden, We've.
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  Speaker 1: Been thicker than jive since we were He.
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  Speaker 3: Was funny, told really great jokes.
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  Speaker 1: He always had a huge heart for animals.
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  Speaker 4: Danny was literally the person that would give you the.
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  Speaker 1: Shirt off of his back.
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  Speaker 3: Delka says it felt like just any other day until we're.
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  Speaker 1: All still honestly in shock.
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  Speaker 3: He left for work on Friday. Now he's never coming home.
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  Speaker 3: Caster's niece, Shelby, says, the final moments are hard to
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  Speaker 3: think of. I just want to say to him that
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  Speaker 3: I really love him, and then I'm sorry, then he
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  Speaker 3: had to go through this, and that he was probably scared.
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  Speaker 3: Relatives described Castor as funny, kind and devoted to his dog,
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  Speaker 3: his truck, and his family. They say he did nothing
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  Speaker 3: wrong and was not even looking for trouble. A memorial
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  Speaker 3: now sits outside the gas station. The family says they
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  Speaker 3: plan to attend every court hearing, hoping accountability will follow
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  Speaker 3: a moment they say should never have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Drew. More Crime and Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks at Kansas community is mourning the loss of a
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  Speaker 3: young teacher, remembered for her warmth, her joy, and a
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  Speaker 3: love so visible that friends say it radiated in the
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  Speaker 3: color yellow. Rebecca Ruber was twenty eight years old. She
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  Speaker 3: taught second grade at Riverside Elementary School in Emporia. On
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  Speaker 3: Monday evening, a somber prayer service filled the city as family, friends,
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  Speaker 3: co workers, and students gathered to honor her life. Those
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  Speaker 3: who knew Rubers say she had a rare way of
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  Speaker 3: making people feel seen and accepted. Speaking with WIBW, Fellow's
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  Speaker 3: second grade teacher, Brandy Taylor described her as someone whose
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  Speaker 3: presence immediately put others at ease.
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  Speaker 5: The most chill, fun and relaxed person I've ever been around.
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  Speaker 3: Favorite color was yellow, and everyone knew it. Taylor says
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  Speaker 3: Ruber loved her students deeply and created a classroom built
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  Speaker 3: on kindness. She even had a nickname for them, calling
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  Speaker 3: them Ruber's Goober's. Taylor says Ruber never judged anyone and
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  Speaker 3: treated every person with the same care. Emporia police say
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  Speaker 3: Ruber was last seen late Friday night, after leaving the
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  Speaker 3: town Royal Bar following what investigators described as a minor
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  Speaker 3: verbal disagreement with a friend. Surveillance video showed her walking alone.
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  Speaker 3: Her body was later found in the woods, about three
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  Speaker 3: hundred yards from where she was last seen. Authorities say
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  Speaker 3: early indications suggests Ruber may have died from hypothermia during
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  Speaker 3: the heavy snow that moved through the area. Police say
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  Speaker 3: there are no signs of foul play, and autopsy is pending.
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  Speaker 3: At the prayer service, Ruber's brother, Aaron Ruber, spoke about
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  Speaker 3: the sister he grew up.
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  Speaker 4: With, just a goofy individual who just brought joy to
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  Speaker 4: everybody's life. And I know she loved her students more
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  Speaker 4: than anything else as well, and that's what I really
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  Speaker 4: respected about her. She was incredibly smart, kind, funny, loving.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Ruber says his sister's capacity for forgiveness and love
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  Speaker 3: was unmatched, even toward people who had treated her poorly.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't matter whether you're a mean, bullying person, she would
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  Speaker 4: love you the next day. I think we should pass
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  Speaker 4: that on, especially now.
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  Speaker 3: At Riverside Elementary, staff and students are finding ways to
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  Speaker 3: keep her memory alive, planning to plant a flower garden
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  Speaker 3: in her honor. A Florida woman convicted of killing her
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  Speaker 3: terminally ill husband inside a hospital room is now speaking
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  Speaker 3: publicly three years after the shooting that triggered a lockdown
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  Speaker 3: and an hour's long standoff at the hospital. Ellen Gilland
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  Speaker 3: is seventy nine. She served one year in prison after
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  Speaker 3: pleading no contest to manslaughter and multiple assault charges for
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  Speaker 3: shooting her husband, Jerry Gilland, in his hospital bed at
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  Speaker 3: advent Health Daytona Beach in January twenty twenty three. She's
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  Speaker 3: now out of custody and serving twelve years of probation.
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  Speaker 3: In an exclusive interview with our TV news partners at
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  Speaker 3: Fox thirty five Orlando, Gilland said they believed they had
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  Speaker 3: run out of options as Jerry's condition worsened. She described
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  Speaker 3: the emotional toll of knowing what was coming.
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  Speaker 5: I knew how difficult it would be to be without him,
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  Speaker 5: not just my best friend, but all of the things
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  Speaker 5: that we did for each other.
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  Speaker 3: Police say Gilland brought a gun into the hospital, shot
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  Speaker 3: her husband once, and planned to take her own life,
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  Speaker 3: but could not go through with it. When staff entered
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  Speaker 3: the room, she pointed the gun at them, leading to
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  Speaker 3: a prolonged standoff that ended after officers used a flashbang
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  Speaker 3: to take her into custody. Gillan told Fox thirty five
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  Speaker 3: she had never been in trouble before that day and
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  Speaker 3: said prison was a shock.
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  Speaker 5: Most of them would help you if you cornered them
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  Speaker 5: and said I need help. There were a few of
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  Speaker 5: them that were very rude and shouting and name calling.
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  Speaker 3: Gilan also revealed she suffered a heart attack about six
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  Speaker 3: weeks into her sentence, which she believes was caused by stress.
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  Speaker 3: She spent much of her incarceration in the infirmary before
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  Speaker 3: being released early. Now back in the community, Gillan says
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  Speaker 3: life after prison has been difficult. She's required to report
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  Speaker 3: regularly and comply with strict conditions while trying to rebuild her.
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  Speaker 5: Life, trying to find housing, trying to find a job,
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  Speaker 5: having to make it to parole or your probation officer.
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  Speaker 3: Gillan says she is accepting the consequences of her actions.
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  Speaker 3: She's now advocating for medically assistant death to be legalized
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  Speaker 3: in Florida, seeing families facing terminal illness should have clearer
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  Speaker 3: options than the ones she believed she had at the time.
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  Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime of Art, I'm Nancy Grace