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Angry Girl Shoots Waiter in Face Over $3 Burger · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A loving father in the
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Speaker 1: prime of his life, shot in the face over a hamburger,
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Speaker 1: a three dollar hamburger. You know, every morning when I
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Speaker 1: wake up, I go look at the Twins' first thing
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Speaker 1: I do. I don't wake them up, because it's why
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Speaker 1: they am. I peak at them. I look in just
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Speaker 1: to make sure they're okay, that they're real, because they're
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Speaker 1: the best thing that ever happened to me. The thought
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Speaker 1: of them being raised, of growing up, whether their mother
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Speaker 1: or their father, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. A
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Speaker 1: father of a little boy just three shot in the
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Speaker 1: face over a three dollar hamburger. May they wrought in hell?
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Speaker 1: And with that I mean, see Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
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Speaker 1: and series XM one eleven. Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friend Brett Lemoyne at Fox six. Dispatch recordings indicate the
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Speaker 1: female suspect was wearing a camouflage pattern jacket and pants,
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Speaker 1: carrying a silver handgun. Four female unknown ones got into
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Speaker 1: a silver Hannah accord. This wouldness said Noel unknown direction travel.
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Speaker 1: Police have not released any information about the suspect or
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Speaker 1: suspects In a statement to Fox six, A, George Webb's
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Speaker 1: spokesman shares one of our employees was shot while working
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Speaker 1: at our Wahwatosa store. The employee was immediately rushed to
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Speaker 1: the hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with the employee
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Speaker 1: impacted by this incident. That employee we're hearing about is
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Dad Anthony Rodriguez shot in the face after two
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Speaker 1: female customers you just happen to have a gun with
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Speaker 1: them and wearing camouflage, are angry over their three dollar hamburger. Really,
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Speaker 1: how about saying I'm missing my hamburger? Would that work? Oh?
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Speaker 1: H doublel No, this had to be settled in their
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Speaker 1: minds with shooting the dad in the face, cutting through
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Speaker 1: his mouth, entering his head, with me an all star
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Speaker 1: panel to make sense of what we know right now.
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Speaker 1: But take a listen to our cut seventeen WISN twelve.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember just lake on the ground and just
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Speaker 1: leading out shot in the face over three dollars hamburger.
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Speaker 1: This twenty six year old George web Server says he
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Speaker 1: thought his life was over. I was in some much shock.
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Speaker 1: I don't really remember being in much pain, but I
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Speaker 1: remember kind of internally freaking out and being very scared
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Speaker 1: and just telling myself that while I'm probably going to
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Speaker 1: die here midnight, January thirtieth, Anthony Rodriguez says he was
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Speaker 1: the only server working at the restaurant on one hundred
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Speaker 1: twenty second in North He says a few customers became
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Speaker 1: upset over an incomplete order. They were asked to leave,
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Speaker 1: but instead opened fire. I've never expected to get shots
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Speaker 1: being a server with me right now, That dad, that
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Speaker 1: dad who has suffered so much. He's lost half of
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Speaker 1: his tongue, he has bullet fragments still in his head
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Speaker 1: and in his lungs, and he has lost most of
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Speaker 1: his teeth, but he is alive with me, Anthony Rodriguez.
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Speaker 1: Mister Rodriguez, I was so happy when I found out
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Speaker 1: you could join us. But hearing you speak makes me
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Speaker 1: realize how much pain you're still in, how much you're
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Speaker 1: still suffering, which makes me even more grateful that you
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Speaker 1: were with us today to tell your story. So thank
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Speaker 1: you for that. What happened, mister Rodriguez, Well it happened
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Speaker 1: was just anger got the best got the best of people. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: you know a lot of impatience happened that night, and unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: nothing wying to de escalate. You know, you just said
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Speaker 1: something that really struck home, Anthony. You said, impatience. I've
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Speaker 1: been listening to a series of devotions and they talk
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Speaker 1: about all the figures in the Bible that had to
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Speaker 1: just wait and wait and wait for the answer, for
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Speaker 1: the outcome. I'm just imagining what you just said, impatience.
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Speaker 1: You don't go on a rant on the women that
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Speaker 1: shot you in the face. You say impatience, And I
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Speaker 1: find that incredible that you're not tearing them and you
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Speaker 1: a hole, but you're not. You went in that night
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Speaker 1: at what time I started my shot? I'm usually there early,
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Speaker 1: so I wanted to say I was probably there. Like
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Speaker 1: my dad worked at night a lot. He was on
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Speaker 1: to keep his job at the beginning. To stay on
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Speaker 1: the railroad, he had to take what they call him
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Speaker 1: mobile out, which means you travel from place to place
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Speaker 1: and basically fill in wherever you're needed. One night, he'd
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Speaker 1: work at midnight. One next day he might work at
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Speaker 1: seven in the morning. He never knew what his schedule
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Speaker 1: was going to be, and that lasted for years. Why
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Speaker 1: did you Why are you working a job I've done
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Speaker 1: it myself. A night job. You got a family, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: why are you working the night shift? I chose to
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Speaker 1: working night shift. UM actually fitted quite well between me
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Speaker 1: and the child. Of the mother and my child because
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Speaker 1: she she she just started a day job and we
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Speaker 1: didn't want to put our three year old into a
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Speaker 1: daycare systems, so I wanted to start working night shifts.
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Speaker 1: And right I told watch the child during the day.
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Speaker 1: What is the mom day the mother works um as
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Speaker 1: um it's it's almost like a leasing agent for a
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Speaker 1: high end um um apartment in condo complex, So somebody's
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Speaker 1: always with your three year old. Right. Absolutely, that night
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Speaker 1: when you go in and the restaurant is George Webb
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Speaker 1: a Wisconsin Shane and that was at the what's the
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Speaker 1: name of the town, Wawatosa. Yes, it's a suburb of Milwaukee.
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Speaker 1: So you go in that night about nine thirty, you
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Speaker 1: got there early. Was anything unusual at all when you
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Speaker 1: went in? Um? No, honest, honestly, that's um. Everything was
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Speaker 1: kind of status quo for that night. I don't remember
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Speaker 1: what particular gale was by remembering weekend, and I just
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Speaker 1: know that I was filling in for somebody else. I know,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't. I'm supposed to actually be working on days
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Speaker 1: one of my off days. Why were you feeling in?
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Speaker 1: What happened to the other employee. I can't remember what
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Speaker 1: exactly happened to that other employee. UM, I just got
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Speaker 1: called in. Usually, I know, I like to pick up
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Speaker 1: shifts for other people because I just like, um having
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Speaker 1: the actually cash and stuff like that, trying of you know,
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Speaker 1: and working at the server. You don't earn that much money,
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Speaker 1: so every little bit counts. Um. That was a Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: January thirty, twenty twenty two was a Sunday night, So
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Speaker 1: you were working in the night shift on a Sunday
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Speaker 1: night to fill in for somebody else that called in
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Speaker 1: to make extra money. You know. I remember when I
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Speaker 1: was in school, mister Rodriguez, I was so broke. One
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Speaker 1: of my favorite nights of the week would be I
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Speaker 1: think it was Tuesday, because you could get two tacos
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Speaker 1: for ninety nine cents and I would literally pay with change.
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Speaker 1: And I had a night shift shop at a sandwich shop,
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Speaker 1: and it was like a big shopping strip and it
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Speaker 1: was on the end, the very end, and I would
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Speaker 1: sit there until I guess ten or eleven at night
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Speaker 1: and watch all the other stores clothes, and everybody would
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Speaker 1: leave and I would just be sitting there alone. And
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Speaker 1: I'm just imagining you there at the George Webb. Had
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Speaker 1: there ever been any other violence at that George Webb location,
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Speaker 1: just just because of them, what time and what usually
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Speaker 1: the costumers that come in, it could give rowdy up.
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Speaker 1: Let's say I would save violence. It's probably the right
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Speaker 1: answer to save, but it could definitely give rowdy. It's
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Speaker 1: rowdy with a lot of people in there at midnight.
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Speaker 1: I guess anybody coming from Hamburger at midnight has already
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Speaker 1: been out. I would guess, although my son John David
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Speaker 1: and I like to make Crystal runs at midnight on weekends.
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Speaker 1: That said, what is a George Webb? Is it like
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Speaker 1: a McDonald's or a Crystal or a what is it
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Speaker 1: George Webbs? Is it's more so like a diner type
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Speaker 1: of everybody's shaking their head, no one here. It's not
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Speaker 1: like a mcdals. It's a diner. Okay, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: that describe it. It's um just um, it's a franchise.
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Speaker 1: Um that that sus it set himself off as a
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Speaker 1: diner um with um. I wouldn't say fast food, but
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Speaker 1: it does. It should be coming out rather quickly. It's
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Speaker 1: like short order. Yeah, it's still being cooked on back
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Speaker 1: for the most part. So I'm just imagining you there.
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Speaker 1: So you go in at nine thirty. You your baby
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Speaker 1: is at home with the mom. Everything's fine, it's a
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Speaker 1: Sunday night. You're happy to get the extra money. And
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Speaker 1: then what happens, all right? Where right? What shift happens?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's just um, we try to do the
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Speaker 1: best that we can with the amount of people that
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Speaker 1: are working that day, which is just one one person
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Speaker 1: for like each position. I would say, so there's one
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Speaker 1: server which is me, one cook, and then I had
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Speaker 1: a buster that nice because it was a weekend, so
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Speaker 1: that that was nice. Not all nice? Do I get
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Speaker 1: a buster? And then around I want to stay around
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Speaker 1: eleven thirty and I started getting really pats because usually
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Speaker 1: when it's filled up to the to the Brahma customers,
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Speaker 1: full tables and whatnot, they usually all come in at
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Speaker 1: once for some reason, so am fold tables and chef
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Speaker 1: gets over overwhelms with the amount of orders that need
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Speaker 1: to be taking place because they're all coming in at
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Speaker 1: once and make people people can get a very impatient,
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Speaker 1: impatient from there, because unfortunately we're the only restaurant I'll
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Speaker 1: probably that's probably open at that time and anymore because
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Speaker 1: of Colvid and everything else. I see a lot of
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Speaker 1: forlorn faces in this studio right now, and I imagine
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Speaker 1: they're remembering being impatient when their order didn't come in time.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I've never ever done that, because I'm so
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Speaker 1: you know, patient. I'm just imagining the saying there in
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Speaker 1: that night, and you know, to hear Anthony Rodriguez tell
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Speaker 1: it everything just was normal, but that's not exactly correct.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Brent Lemoyne Fox six. This all
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Speaker 1: happened late Saturday night and into Sunday morning at this
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Speaker 1: George Webb restaurant. Here behind me, the worker is a
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Speaker 1: live but seriously injured after what police describe as an
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Speaker 1: argument with a group of customers for frequent George with
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Speaker 1: customers like James Komer. I'm surprised to hear to add
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Speaker 1: a shocked, of course, us of what happened at this
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Speaker 1: whileo Tosa location over the weekend has many on edge.
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Speaker 1: Police tell us a twenty six year old mail employee
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Speaker 1: suffered serious injury after being shot in the head. Investigators
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Speaker 1: say it began with an argument with a group of customers,
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Speaker 1: got physical, and ended in gunfire at twenty six year
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Speaker 1: old mail with a gsw to the lipped mouth with
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Speaker 1: an exit one in the back of the head is
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Speaker 1: conscious and breathing, you know. To Karen Start joining me,
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Speaker 1: renown New York psychologist joining us from Manhattan at Karenstart
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's Karen with a say Karen, that is
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Speaker 1: just hearing that dispatch. It just brings everything back when
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Speaker 1: my fiance was killed. Gunshot wound to the head. Gunshot
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Speaker 1: wound to the head. Can you imagine what mister Rodriguez's
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Speaker 1: family went through when they're hearing this. Oh, it's a
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Speaker 1: miracle that he's with us today, Nancy and speaking. And
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Speaker 1: I want to tell you that whenever you've had that
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Speaker 1: kind of experience, the trauma that you went through and
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Speaker 1: he went through, when you begin to hear something like that,
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Speaker 1: you could even be in a scene where you smell
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Speaker 1: something familiar, it will bring it all back. You get retraumatized.
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Speaker 1: That's not unusual. But you hear Anthony Rodriguez talking about
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Speaker 1: it like nothing really happened. He got shot in the head,
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Speaker 1: losing most of his teeth, half his tongue has bullet fragments, steel,
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Speaker 1: and his sinuses and lungs. That's traumatic, Karen, Yes, it's traumatic,
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Speaker 1: and it's you're wondering why he sounds that way. Not
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Speaker 1: everybody reacts the same way. He seems like he's just
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Speaker 1: from hearing him. A very considerate I hope, Anthony it's okay,
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Speaker 1: And I'm describing you this way, A very considerate person,
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Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't really become very dramatic and dynamic when
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Speaker 1: something happens. But it's real clear that this was a
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Speaker 1: traumatizing event. Listen to Nick boor WISN News twelve. Police
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Speaker 1: say video inside the restaurant shows her punching the waiter
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Speaker 1: in the face, giving the gun to her sister Brianna,
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Speaker 1: who pointed the gun at him and shot him in
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Speaker 1: the face. Brianta then quote stomps him in the face
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Speaker 1: before the four women rush out. The waiter survived, his
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Speaker 1: mom telling me it took quote miracle after miracle for
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Speaker 1: him to live. Every doctor I've spoken with is astounded,
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Speaker 1: she said, I go fund me is helping the twenty
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Speaker 1: six year old who lost most of his teeth, half
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Speaker 1: of his tongue, and has bullet fragments in his sinuses
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Speaker 1: and lungs that go fund me is all in for Anthony,
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Speaker 1: and I'm definitely going to is it that as soon
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Speaker 1: as we get off the air. All in for Anthony.
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Speaker 1: This guy's been through hell and back and is joining
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Speaker 1: us today. Anthony Rodriguez, do you remember when the women
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Speaker 1: came in to the George Webb what happened? Yes, I
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Speaker 1: do remember. I think that was a fair description from
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Speaker 1: the psychologist earlier. Thank you so much for that. I honestly,
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Speaker 1: I can't really go into too much with the details
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Speaker 1: with the open quarkias, but I do remember it, and
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Speaker 1: it started off quite quite normal, to be quite honest,
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Speaker 1: So you don't really you know, you got to treat
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Speaker 1: everyone as fair as you can, and you know, some
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Speaker 1: people have their quirks when they walk in and something's
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Speaker 1: kind of stand out, but you try to creat everyone
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Speaker 1: with davency in respect as much as you can. So
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Speaker 1: these I believe there were four women that came in, Yes,
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Speaker 1: they came in. Were they making a ruckuss to start
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Speaker 1: with or did they just see normal? They weren't making
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Speaker 1: the rockets to start with, but you could tell that
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Speaker 1: they were a bit on the agitated side to begin with,
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Speaker 1: passive aggressive comments and stuff like that. You know. Wendy
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Speaker 1: Patrick joining me, veteran California prosecutor author. I've read flags
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Speaker 1: host off today with doctor Wendy KCBQ San Diego. She's
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Speaker 1: at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. Wendy, I'm just telling you,
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Speaker 1: after how long was I in prosecution all in nearly
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Speaker 1: fourteen years at the end, I just had it and
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Speaker 1: still to this day, with people that are aggressive and angry.
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Speaker 1: At the very beginning, I'd have an arrayment calendar with
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five felons in the courtroom, half
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Speaker 1: of them in shain's, half of them on bond and
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Speaker 1: strutting around the courtroom. You know, Doper's child, Will Lester's rapists, murderers.
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Speaker 1: It's just an attitude. It's a bad attitude. Would make
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Speaker 1: me so madic and chew and nail in half. You know, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: You're right. You know prosecution work is well. I hear you.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Rodriguez, he's one of a few people working. It's
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Speaker 1: midnight and four women come in, just really looking for
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Speaker 1: trouble with and as you. I said that. You didn't
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Speaker 1: say that, Anthony Rodriguez. I said it because we've been
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Speaker 1: working on this case and we know they were aggressive
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Speaker 1: and seemingly angry about something when they walked in the door.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing that I like better than to forfeit somebody's bond,
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Speaker 1: who's rude in the courtroom. Nothing I like better. Nancy,
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Speaker 1: I think we could take a lesson from Anthony because
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Speaker 1: he's extending grace in circumstances. Are you're talking about me now,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Anthony Rodriguez is extending grace. I mean
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Speaker 1: he described at the very beginning that anger gets the
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Speaker 1: best of people. He talks about patients, all the kinds
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Speaker 1: of things that most of us wish we had. I
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Speaker 1: do not know what universe you're living in, because anger
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Speaker 1: getting the best of you. You might like yell somebody
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Speaker 1: or curse it's somebody or some people, not me, of course,
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Speaker 1: make a profane gesture in traffic, But to take out
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Speaker 1: a gun and shoot a guy that's standing there unarmed
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Speaker 1: in the face. Anger gets the best of anger. It's
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Speaker 1: not a defense under the law. The last I looked
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Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, or there will be nobody right now, what anthy,
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Speaker 1: I'm quoting your guest when we began the segment, Anthony Rodrigue,
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Speaker 1: remember what he said, you are. I think that's right.
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Speaker 1: But the problem is we also have to make sure
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Speaker 1: and I think this is a I mean, these facts
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Speaker 1: are absolutely horrendous, and we have to make sure what
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Speaker 1: we have to make sure in a case like this,
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Speaker 1: when we have somebody that you have to make sure
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Speaker 1: he's really dead because they didn't just sheet and they
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Speaker 1: stopped on I'm in the face, they stopped on him.
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Speaker 1: I am on your side. I'm not saying anything. I'm
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Speaker 1: just saying that. It really impresses me that your guest
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Speaker 1: is so gracious given what he went through. You know what,
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Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, you know how I feel about you. I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of you. But I asked you for
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Speaker 1: a legal opinion, and instead I'm getting Emily post Etiquette. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he's I'm not cut her, cut her right now, Hilary
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Speaker 1: Matt's investigative reporter w I s N twelve News. She's
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Speaker 1: been on the case from the very beginning. Hillary, I
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Speaker 1: appreciate Wendy Patrick being so gracious and Anthony Rodriguez, I
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Speaker 1: don't understand it, but I appreciate it. Hillary. What happened?
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Speaker 1: Did these women actually shoot him and stop him in
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Speaker 1: the face. According to prosecutors, that is what happened. And
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Speaker 1: the reason that they know that is because the entire
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Speaker 1: event was captured on surveillance video from with inside the
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Speaker 1: George Webb restaurant. Time Stories with Nancy Grace to Anthony Rodriguez,
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Speaker 1: explain to me what happened. They come in, you get
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Speaker 1: them seated, I guess, on a fore top in a booth.
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing, and they order what we're wrong? As I said,
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Speaker 1: the food. Everyone kind of comes and plugs in all
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Speaker 1: at once. So all orders are going to the shop
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Speaker 1: all at once in some regards, so they can get
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Speaker 1: backed up very quickly, and the customers will be will
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Speaker 1: be waiting for um long periods of times for the
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Speaker 1: food because there's only one chefs after work handling all right,
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Speaker 1: let's say like eight to eight and nine orders, because
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Speaker 1: all the tables are full, maybe even sometimes eleven twelve orders. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So they order and it takes them off for them
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Speaker 1: to get their food. Then what happens. I was able
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Speaker 1: to get food out for I want to say to
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Speaker 1: two of the individuals, with the next two individuals seeing
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Speaker 1: their food right right behind them, maybe another couple of minutes,
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Speaker 1: and that with that first order, they either they didn't
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Speaker 1: say it or I'm certam, but they told me that
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Speaker 1: they asked the two handburgers, not for one. And I
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Speaker 1: informed them that if they wanted the second hamburger that
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Speaker 1: it was gonna it was probably be another thirty minute
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Speaker 1: wait after talking to a chef, because the chef has
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Speaker 1: to work on the orders as they come back. And
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Speaker 1: what happened. You're telling me a lot about the chef
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Speaker 1: and the order. I want to get to the uh.
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Speaker 1: The two women, we believe, both twenty years old and
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Speaker 1: patient and rude my words, not yours, while waiting for
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Speaker 1: their order, become angry when a hamburger was missing, according
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Speaker 1: to them, prompting one of them, what what Anthony? Well,
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Speaker 1: then at that point, um, they decided that they were
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Speaker 1: done waiting and that they didn't want to pay for
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Speaker 1: any of the any of the food. So I took
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Speaker 1: the food away from them and said that okay, but
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Speaker 1: if you're not going to be paying customers, and I
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Speaker 1: must ask you to leave, and in clear a table
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Speaker 1: for somebody else, and that's when they started to get
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Speaker 1: agitated and when things started escalating from there. Okay, let
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Speaker 1: me understand something. At Lisa Daddy, former police lieutenant. When
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Speaker 1: you have MPD Senior lecturer, Director of the Center for
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Speaker 1: Advanced Policing, Now see what he just said makes perfect
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Speaker 1: sense to me. They're like, where's my hamburger? And he
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Speaker 1: says right there, and they say, well, we ordered two,
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Speaker 1: not one, and he goes, okay, fine, that's gonna be
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Speaker 1: like thirty minutes because we only got one chef. And
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Speaker 1: they say, well, we're not eating, we're not paying for
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Speaker 1: any of this, and we're leaving. So he says, fine, leave,
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Speaker 1: I could use the table and starts taking the food.
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Speaker 1: And when he takes the food that they're not paying for,
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Speaker 1: according to them, they get mad. I'm sorry, what did
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Speaker 1: they not understand with that scenario? When they see a
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Speaker 1: price beside a hamburger, they think they're going to have
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Speaker 1: it and not pay for it. It makes no sense
23:53
Speaker 1: this Kese and mister Rodriguez, I applaud you and your courage.
23:58
Speaker 1: The Kese just it's horrific and a rational reasonable person
24:03
Speaker 1: can't figure out why it escalated over something three dollar hamburger.
24:10
Speaker 1: But you know, Lisa, in your line of work as
24:12
Speaker 1: well as mine. I remember a woman a guy being
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Speaker 1: shot over a ten dollar debt, and I will never
24:20
Speaker 1: forget his mom knitting on the front row of the
24:25
Speaker 1: murder trial. I remember a woman who vouched for a
24:30
Speaker 1: hit of crack, and then the guy bought the head
24:32
Speaker 1: of crack and it wasn't what he expected. He goes
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Speaker 1: back and shoots the mom who's sitting in a lawn
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Speaker 1: chair in her front yard with her children. I mean,
24:42
Speaker 1: why and now over a three dollar hamburger? I mean
24:46
Speaker 1: to doctor Kendall crowd is joining us renowned chief medical
24:51
Speaker 1: examiner from Tarrance County. That's fort Worth. Never a lack
24:54
Speaker 1: of business there. Lecturer University Texas, Texas say an m faculty,
24:59
Speaker 1: University Tech, this medical school goes on and on and on.
25:02
Speaker 1: Talk to Crowns. Did you hear his injury loses almost
25:06
Speaker 1: all his teeth, half his tongue still has bullet fragments,
25:10
Speaker 1: and his sinuses and lungs. What happened? So, mister Rodriguez,
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Speaker 1: sorry for what's happened to you, And I hope it's
25:20
Speaker 1: okay if we can discuss your injuries. I hope it's
25:23
Speaker 1: not lanmitizing for you. No, all right, here, you're well.
25:26
Speaker 1: I can tell you this much. It's making me feel
25:28
Speaker 1: seeking my stomach when I'm listening to Rodriguez talk and
25:32
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this picture of his baby, and I'm
25:35
Speaker 1: thinking about the night shift and the wife on the
25:37
Speaker 1: morning the mom on the morning shift, trying to keep
25:40
Speaker 1: the baby out of daycare, and he picks up an
25:42
Speaker 1: extra shift to make extra money. And now this I mean,
25:48
Speaker 1: for those of you watching or listening, if you can,
25:53
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to please go to the go fund
25:57
Speaker 1: me all in for Anthony and help help this guy.
26:02
Speaker 1: Please help his family as little or as much as
26:05
Speaker 1: you can help him. Please help him. Doctor Kendall Crowns,
26:10
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand why this had to happen.
26:13
Speaker 1: But explain to me the medical intricacies of what happened
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Speaker 1: and how this guy, Anthony is still alive. So by
26:23
Speaker 1: looking at the photographs that are available of his injury,
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Speaker 1: it appears it goes through the front of his face
26:31
Speaker 1: right side. We're looking at the same picture. The damage
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Speaker 1: to his mouth. He may require a bone graph or
26:37
Speaker 1: upper mandible. The bullet came within millimeters of killing him.
26:42
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the bullet and the spinal cord. It's
26:46
Speaker 1: right beside. It looks like it's touching the spinal cord.
26:50
Speaker 1: So yes, fancy it's we are looking into the same pictures.
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Speaker 1: It's blowing out his upper teeth along the right side
26:57
Speaker 1: of his head, taking out the the incisors to the molars,
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Speaker 1: fracturing the upper jaw, which is also called the maxilla.
27:07
Speaker 1: Looks like there's portions of the bullet lodged in his
27:10
Speaker 1: tongue and kind of his pharrenis or back of his
27:14
Speaker 1: throat regent. And then the bullet itself continues traveling through
27:18
Speaker 1: the neck musculature or the structures of the neck, and
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Speaker 1: then lodges and right in front of his vertebral column,
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Speaker 1: fracturing his vertebral column. Are you talking about his spine?
27:29
Speaker 1: His spine? I apologize this fracturing his spine along the
27:33
Speaker 1: area of cervical vertebrae numbers three and four, but does
27:38
Speaker 1: not penetrate the cavity where his spinal cord sits. But
27:45
Speaker 1: that can cause shock waves that you know, probably resulted
27:48
Speaker 1: in him being unconscious. The thing is, is it is
27:51
Speaker 1: a miracle that he's alive because that area of the
27:54
Speaker 1: spinal cord, if it had gone any deeper or caused
27:57
Speaker 1: any more damage, keeps his diaphragm functioning, which makes you breathe.
28:04
Speaker 1: So he if it had gone any deeper, any further,
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Speaker 1: he would it would have resulted in him being either
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Speaker 1: a qua quadriplegic and been a later dependent for the
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Speaker 1: rest of his life. Let me understand what you're saying.
28:20
Speaker 1: I think you just said he got shot in the
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Speaker 1: mouth with a handgun. I believe it was a nine
28:28
Speaker 1: nine millimeter goes through the mouth, rips apart his teeth
28:34
Speaker 1: with the force his tongue goes through the neck down
28:40
Speaker 1: and to the spine. In the picture it looks like
28:43
Speaker 1: it's actually from what I have touching the spine, and
28:47
Speaker 1: if it had touched the spine, if it had gone
28:50
Speaker 1: through the spine, he would either be dead or a
28:53
Speaker 1: quadriplegic living on a ventilator the rest of his life.
28:57
Speaker 1: Is that what you said? That's correct? Back to Anthony Rodriguez,
29:03
Speaker 1: who is a living, walking, breathing miracle. Anthony, one of
29:11
Speaker 1: the women leave and come back in with a weapon.
29:16
Speaker 1: When did you realize she came in with a weapon. UM,
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Speaker 1: I actually never solved the weapon, to be quite honest,
29:24
Speaker 1: I realized that I must have realized that after I
29:27
Speaker 1: got shot and sent to the hospital and sitched up,
29:30
Speaker 1: and a day or two later I woke up, and
29:33
Speaker 1: that's when they were able to kind of give me
29:35
Speaker 1: the details of what happened. What do you remember? I
29:39
Speaker 1: just remember the the altercation and just trying to de
29:46
Speaker 1: escalate the situation and that not working. What were you
29:50
Speaker 1: telling them to calm them down? I can't really remember
29:56
Speaker 1: offhand what I was telling them, but I was just
29:59
Speaker 1: telling them that it's okay, like you just leave, It's fine,
30:03
Speaker 1: like skull, it's you know. But they eight they had
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Speaker 1: our things in mind. I guess they wanted their voices
30:10
Speaker 1: to be heard. Take a listen to our cut nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Nick Moore wis in these twelve early January thirtieth. According
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Speaker 1: to a criminal complaint, four young women at a corner
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Speaker 1: booth at the Wabbatosta George Webbs got quote impatient and
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Speaker 1: rude and were told to leave. Instead, police say twenty
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Speaker 1: year old twin sisters Brianna and Brianta Johnson argued with
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Speaker 1: staff and started to get physical. A source tells us
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Speaker 1: the women were upset about the speed of their order,
30:39
Speaker 1: and when it did come, it was missing a hamburger,
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Speaker 1: a less than three dollar item at West. According to
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Speaker 1: the criminal complaint, Brianta, in the midst of the argument,
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Speaker 1: came outside here to their car and returned with a
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Speaker 1: gun and moore from Tony Atkins t m J four.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Roddy Riguez says it could have all ended here
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Speaker 1: at this George Webb. When he asked for women to
31:03
Speaker 1: leave the restaurant, that's when he was attacked by one
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Speaker 1: of the women and shot by her sister. According to
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Speaker 1: a criminal complaint, I feel lucky, man. It's incredible just
31:13
Speaker 1: where I'm at and just being able to walk and speak.
31:16
Speaker 1: If you listen closely, you can hear the raspiness of
31:19
Speaker 1: Anthony Rodriguez's voice is because a bullet is permanently lodged
31:24
Speaker 1: near his throat. The bullet went through my upper lip
31:26
Speaker 1: right here, and then it knocked out the right side
31:30
Speaker 1: of the right side of my teeth. The cause of
31:32
Speaker 1: that bullet, he says, I can definitely tell you that
31:34
Speaker 1: it started because they were missing a burger from their order,
31:39
Speaker 1: and everything just kind of escalated from there missing a
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Speaker 1: burger from their order. How I would love to prosecute
31:48
Speaker 1: this case, and it would be over my cold dead
31:53
Speaker 1: body that they got anything less than thirty cold dead body.
32:02
Speaker 1: Anthony Rodriguez amazingly is with us right now. Anthony, what's
32:09
Speaker 1: the last thing you can remember from that night with
32:15
Speaker 1: the Once I got to the hospital, I remember just
32:21
Speaker 1: staring up at the at the I remember getting put
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Speaker 1: to the ground. I remember hearing a bang, and I
32:28
Speaker 1: just remember staring up at the ceiling, not being able
32:31
Speaker 1: to really move, and I have another coughing up blood
32:34
Speaker 1: and coughing up teeth, just trying to control my breathing
32:39
Speaker 1: as best I can, but just talk, telling myself like
32:44
Speaker 1: I'm going to die here. This isn't the way that
32:48
Speaker 1: I wanted to go. It's it was the longest you know,
32:55
Speaker 1: do you think that it's It probably wasn't a long
32:57
Speaker 1: time for MSS and for everyone to do the thing,
33:00
Speaker 1: but it has to be the longest couple of minutes
33:03
Speaker 1: that I have experienced in my life. I was just
33:07
Speaker 1: trying to take you in what you just told us.
33:11
Speaker 1: You can remember coughing up blood and teeth and thinking
33:16
Speaker 1: you were going to die? Is that right? Best man?
33:22
Speaker 1: Did it hurt? Could you feel pain? Fortunately for me,
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Speaker 1: I don't really remember feeling the pain. I just remember
33:32
Speaker 1: the inability to move. I remember trying to first like
33:39
Speaker 1: get up and brush it off like it was normal,
33:42
Speaker 1: and then I'll be back down to the ground right away,
33:45
Speaker 1: and just not really being able to move after that,
33:49
Speaker 1: and struggling to do what I can to maintain my
33:54
Speaker 1: breathing and just maintain what real body of littlements I could.
33:58
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, it's admitted live as possible. What
34:03
Speaker 1: were you thinking about? What went through your mind? My
34:07
Speaker 1: sons says, hoping that he is okay, sound asleep. So
34:19
Speaker 1: in the middle of all that, you're lying there, blood
34:24
Speaker 1: coming out of your mouth, spinning out, teeth, can't move,
34:30
Speaker 1: and you think about your son, your three year old son, Yes, ma'am.
34:36
Speaker 1: Unfortunately I felt like a long time. So once I
34:38
Speaker 1: was able to keep my breathing at a steady steady,
34:42
Speaker 1: thinks that's that's all you can do. Is they think
34:46
Speaker 1: about what's good your life? What do you mean you
34:51
Speaker 1: try to I guess the strategy was to think of
34:55
Speaker 1: as much positive things as possible and hope that you
34:59
Speaker 1: you're gonna get doing. You know, doctor Kendall Crowns. I've
35:03
Speaker 1: asked you this many many times. Could the victim feel anything?
35:09
Speaker 1: And you usually tell me, nah, I didn't feel anything.
35:15
Speaker 1: That's total BS. You hear what Rody gets just said, right, Well,
35:19
Speaker 1: I did hear what he said, and I agree that
35:22
Speaker 1: some victims don't feel it because they are dead instantly,
35:25
Speaker 1: and some victims that survive will feel pain. I mean,
35:28
Speaker 1: anybody that survives gonna feel pain from it. Anthony Rodriguez,
35:33
Speaker 1: You've got to know a midst of all of this,
35:36
Speaker 1: how lucky you are, how an angel was on your
35:42
Speaker 1: shoulder that night. Take a listen to our cut one.
35:46
Speaker 1: This is Karen Dillon CBS two. Does the name Crystal
35:52
Speaker 1: Nievs ring about? As the rain trickled down, the family
35:56
Speaker 1: of nineteen year old Crystal by Ronnievez gathered outside the
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Speaker 1: Burger King East Charlem where she was killed, to lay
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Speaker 1: flowers in her honor and to pray for justice. Police
36:05
Speaker 1: have released these images of the robbery that took place
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Speaker 1: just before one Sunday morning at the Burger King on
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Speaker 1: East one hundred and sixteenth Street near Lexington Avenue. That's
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Speaker 1: where beron Nievez was working as a cashier when an
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Speaker 1: unknown male masked and dressed in all black entered the
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Speaker 1: restaurant and demanded money. Police say beron Nievez was shot
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Speaker 1: in the torso as the robbery progressed. Police say two
36:24
Speaker 1: other people were injured during the course of this robbery.
36:26
Speaker 1: A female manager at the restaurant was punched in the
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Speaker 1: face and a middle customer was likely pistol whipped. Both
36:31
Speaker 1: are expected to recover. Family members tell us byron Nievez
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Speaker 1: and her family had just moved to New York from
36:36
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico a few years ago. The teenager had only
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Speaker 1: been working at Burger King for the past few months.
36:41
Speaker 1: The family is now pleading with person responsible to turn
36:44
Speaker 1: themselves in. Bunch Stories tell me joining us from WIS
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Speaker 1: and she's been on the case from the very beginning. Hillary,
37:05
Speaker 1: what did the surveillance video reveal? So it pretty much
37:09
Speaker 1: matched up with Anthony's story minus a few details. So
37:14
Speaker 1: what it shows is after the you know, at the
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Speaker 1: table with the food incident, so they start kind of
37:24
Speaker 1: making their way towards the register at one point, Brianta Johnson,
37:29
Speaker 1: So these are two the suspects are two twenty year
37:32
Speaker 1: old twin sisters. So Brianta Johnson is wearing a blue hoodie.
37:36
Speaker 1: The video shows her go outside and returns with a gun.
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Speaker 1: And at some point when they're at the register and
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Speaker 1: there's this confrontation, it says that let's see one of
37:56
Speaker 1: the soy somebody takes a punch at Anthony and then
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Speaker 1: and Brianta takes out the gun and hands it to
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Speaker 1: her sister, Brianna, and she it shows let's see that
38:13
Speaker 1: she attempts to pistol whip Anthony and he's lying on
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Speaker 1: the ground and she extends her hand, aims and shoots
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Speaker 1: him in the face. And then the sister the video
38:27
Speaker 1: shows stumps Anthony in the face and then all four takeoffs.
38:31
Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, I believe I'm going to circle back now
38:36
Speaker 1: to your discussion of anger, how they were angry. I'm
38:42
Speaker 1: angry right now. I'm angry right now, but I can
38:46
Speaker 1: tell you this much. I'm not gonna shoot anybody, even
38:48
Speaker 1: though I want to, because I don't want to be
38:50
Speaker 1: separated from the twins and my husband. Bam. It's called
38:54
Speaker 1: impulse control. Anger is not a defense under the law.
38:58
Speaker 1: They hit him in the face, they stop on him,
39:02
Speaker 1: they specifically get out the gun, handed off, aim for
39:05
Speaker 1: his face, and pull the trigger. That is intent. Oh, absolutely,
39:10
Speaker 1: And I think that video is simply going to corroborate
39:13
Speaker 1: what Anthony has described, that the sequence of events as
39:16
Speaker 1: it unfolded proves nothing other than intent. And this is
39:21
Speaker 1: one of those things I know, I know some people
39:22
Speaker 1: have used the term argument. Doesn't sound like an argument.
39:25
Speaker 1: This sounds like unprovoked anger spiraling out of control. When
39:30
Speaker 1: here we have Anthony taking advantage of an opportunity to
39:32
Speaker 1: make more money for a young family at home, literally
39:36
Speaker 1: on the precipice of wondering whether he's ever going to
39:39
Speaker 1: see his precious son again. Talk about not recognizing how
39:44
Speaker 1: dangerous a job working the nightships can be at a restaurant,
39:48
Speaker 1: And I'm just so blunt, We're so blessed, Anthony that
39:50
Speaker 1: you're with us to be describing this. Hilary Matts. Where
39:54
Speaker 1: are these two Brianta Johnson and Brianna Johnson. So they
39:59
Speaker 1: are both in the Milwaukee County jail being held on
40:02
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars cash bail. They are both charged
40:05
Speaker 1: with attempted first degree intentional homicide. They better not get
40:11
Speaker 1: a bond. A lowered bond or a cheap plea deal. Anthony,
40:17
Speaker 1: I am looking at a picture of you and you're
40:19
Speaker 1: holding your son. You've got a beautiful smile. I mean
40:26
Speaker 1: it looks like you wore braces. That looks like a
40:29
Speaker 1: mouthful of orthodontia to me, I'm currently paying for two cents. First,
40:33
Speaker 1: what perfect, Keith. You've never hear war braces in my life.
40:37
Speaker 1: How are you going to get teeth back? And what
40:39
Speaker 1: can they do about your tongue? And are you supposed
40:42
Speaker 1: to go the rest of your life with bullet fragments
40:44
Speaker 1: in your body? It's still a lot of the medical questions, unfortunately,
40:50
Speaker 1: are still up in the air. They want to wait
40:52
Speaker 1: until things heal up more. But it sounds like I
40:56
Speaker 1: will be able to get my get tea replaced at
41:01
Speaker 1: the very least. My tongue has been stitch back together
41:06
Speaker 1: in a way, and and that's why I'm able to
41:11
Speaker 1: speak in articulately as much as I can right now.
41:14
Speaker 1: Praise God, Praise the Lord, Anthony. Do you have family
41:20
Speaker 1: that can help you right now? Yes? I have a
41:24
Speaker 1: very very good support system. My mother has been very
41:28
Speaker 1: generous and um letting me stay to stay back with her,
41:31
Speaker 1: and she's been helping me with the doctors and making
41:34
Speaker 1: sure that I'm healing correctly and almost keeping me in
41:38
Speaker 1: my place because sometimes i feel like I'm not doing
41:41
Speaker 1: enough and I'm just staying still. But she tells me
41:44
Speaker 1: the slow down and just make sure that healing does
41:48
Speaker 1: what boy should be doing. Well, you know what they say,
41:51
Speaker 1: they are no good men left Anthony Rodriguez, father to
41:56
Speaker 1: a three year old boy, trying to work extra hours
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Speaker 1: to support his son. The go fund me all in
42:05
Speaker 1: for Anthony. We waked as justice unfalls. Nancy Grace Crime Story,
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Speaker 1: signing off Goodbye friend,