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Crime Alert 09.13.24 | DUI Driver Drags Girl Under Car for 1/2 Mile · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking crime news now. Ashley Escalante, nine,
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  Speaker 1: and a friend ride their bikes ahead of Escalante's family
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  Speaker 1: for a quick trip to the convenience store. As the
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  Speaker 1: family crosses the street, a hummer speeds through the intersection,
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  Speaker 1: plows into the nine year old, and keeps driving, dragging.
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  Speaker 2: The little girl under the wheels.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley's caught under Jeffrey Atkinson's car for half a mile
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  Speaker 1: before finally becoming dislodged. EMTs find her with serious injuries,
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  Speaker 1: her leg missing below the knee.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy Surveillance footage captured Ashley's father chasing down the hummer
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  Speaker 3: with one of her twin baby brothers in his arms.
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  Speaker 3: Cops believe Ashley was dislodged from the truck when her
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  Speaker 3: left leg ripped off. Her other leg was also terribly mingled.
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Atkinson was driving to the bar he owns and
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  Speaker 3: never realized he hit someone. When cops ask Atkinson to
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  Speaker 3: submit to a breath test, he initially tells them it
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  Speaker 3: isn't worth it. He's quote too drunk to pass.
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Atkinson, fifty five, blows up point three four blood alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: Now charged with aggravated vehicular assault, child endangering and operating
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle while under the influence.
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  Speaker 2: Lance Green fifty nine knows he's had.
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  Speaker 1: Too much to drink on a night out with his wife,
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  Speaker 1: but he gets behind the wheel of his ram truck anyway.
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  Speaker 1: On the way back to their Florida home, Green rear
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  Speaker 1: ends the four truck in front of him. As cops arrived,
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  Speaker 1: they see passenger Susan Green, crawling over Lance Green to
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  Speaker 1: switch seats, making it appeer she was the one driving.
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  Speaker 1: Green shows visual signs of impairment and refuses to cooperate
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  Speaker 1: with cops. Of course, he eventually gets out of the
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  Speaker 1: car and he's taken straight to jail for duy and resisting.
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  Speaker 2: While Crime and Justice News after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and Justice breaking news, crime
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  Speaker 1: Online is John Limley.
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  Speaker 4: In the wake of a deadly shooting at Appalachi High
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  Speaker 4: School in Barrow County, Georgia. Troubling details are still ba emerging.
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  Speaker 4: We hear more now from Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 3: The mother of Colt Gray, the fourteen year old charge
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  Speaker 3: with killing two students and two teachers, reportedly contacted the
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  Speaker 3: school with an urgent warning before the attack. A relative,
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  Speaker 3: Annie Brown told our friends with The Washington Post that
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  Speaker 3: Gray's mother reached out to a school counselor, describing the
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  Speaker 3: situation as an extreme emergency in urging staff to locate
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  Speaker 3: her son immediately. Brown provided text messages to the newspaper
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  Speaker 3: showing the conversation with her sister. Additionally, phone records indicate
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  Speaker 3: that a call was made to the school about half
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  Speaker 3: an hour before the deadly shooting began. Colt Gray, who
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  Speaker 3: has been charged with multiple counts of murder, allegedly used
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  Speaker 3: a semi automatic AR fifteen style rifle in the attack.
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  Speaker 3: His father, Colin Gray, now faces charges of second degree
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  Speaker 3: murder for providing the weapon. The pair made their first
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  Speaker 3: court appearance, during which their attorneys opted not to seek bail.
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  Speaker 3: Last week's shooting follows a year old investigation into an
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  Speaker 3: online threat involving Colt Gray. At the time, Jackson County
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  Speaker 3: authorities decided not to press charges, citing ins evidence to
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  Speaker 3: connect him to the threat posted on the social media
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  Speaker 3: platform Discord. That investigation provided a glimpse into a young
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  Speaker 3: boy grappling with his parents' separation and bullying at school.
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  Speaker 3: Despite the earlier concerns, Colt's father, Colin Gray, had reassured
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  Speaker 3: investigators that his son wasn't prone to violence, claiming the
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  Speaker 3: teen had stopped using discord and had even suggested his
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  Speaker 3: account was hacked.
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  Speaker 4: Now to New York as federal authorities arrest a twenty
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  Speaker 4: year old man in Canada plotting a mass shooting targeting
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  Speaker 4: a Jewish center in Brooklyn, once again crime online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 3: The suspect, Mohammed Shazab Khan, was taken into custody on
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  Speaker 3: September fourth. Official say Kan aimed to carry out the
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  Speaker 3: attack in the name of ISIS, time to coincide with
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  Speaker 3: the one year anniversary of the October seventh Hamas attack
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  Speaker 3: that escalated the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. US
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  Speaker 3: Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that Khan, a resident of Canada,
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  Speaker 3: had plans to cross the border and quote slaughter as
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  Speaker 3: many Jewish people as possible. Khan has been charged with
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  Speaker 3: attempting to provide material support to ISIS, also known as
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  Speaker 3: the Islamic State of Iraq and alsham The charges stem
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  Speaker 3: from a series of communications starting in November twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: when Khan began posting ISIS propaganda and expressing his support
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  Speaker 3: for the terrorist group online authority say Khan discussed his
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  Speaker 3: plans with two undercover officers, outlining a strategy to form
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  Speaker 3: an ISIS offline cell in the US. His targets reportedly
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  Speaker 3: included Jewish centers, specifically Hubbad locations, which he identified as
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  Speaker 3: a potential site for mass violence. According to the Justice Department,
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  Speaker 3: Khan and a US based accomplice sought AR style rifles, ammunition,
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  Speaker 3: and other weapons for the attack. On August twentieth, Khan
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  Speaker 3: informed undercover officers that he had chosen New York as
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  Speaker 3: the location due to its large Jewish population. He allegedly
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  Speaker 3: sent a photograph of the Jewish center he intended to target,
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  Speaker 3: which authorities described as a prominent site for the ultra
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  Speaker 3: orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn. Khan's attempt to travel
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  Speaker 3: to New York was intercepted when his car was stopped
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  Speaker 3: in Quebec, just twelve minutes from the US border.
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  Speaker 4: Officials have charged con with multiple offenses, including attempting to
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  Speaker 4: provide support to a terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Lewis, Selam seventy three heads out for Aaron's
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  Speaker 1: telling family he'll be right back. Lewis heads to his
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  Speaker 1: bank in Warm Springs, Oregon, and stops by the grocery,
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  Speaker 1: but never makes it home. His family reports him missing
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  Speaker 1: a few days later, his Toyota Silica found stuck in
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  Speaker 1: the snow on his route home.
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  Speaker 2: The car's locked and abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: Inside, they find a hat he wears frequently and the
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  Speaker 1: groceries he bought the day he disappeared. Louis or Louis
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  Speaker 1: is Native American, white hair, usually tied in a ponytail,
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  Speaker 1: a mustache, brown eyes. He wears reading glasses and has
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  Speaker 1: a tattoo of the letter L on his left hand.
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Selim now missing two years. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: a lewis Selim called Warm Springs, Oregon PD five four
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