Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.07.24 | Boyfriend Shoots Driving Mom of Four Who Swerves into River
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert Imnancy Grace breaking crime news now. Neighbors see
- 0:04Speaker 1: Carlina Clayton and boyfriend man Deco Quadzo argue outside their
- 0:09Speaker 1: Sacramento home while getting in the car with Carlina's four children.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Carlena gets in the driver's seat. The argument goes on.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Quadzo then escalates by shooting Carlina in the head twice.
- 0:23Speaker 1: She swerves into the Sacramento River. He escapes, leaving Carlina
- 0:28Speaker 1: and her four little children in this sinking car. Bystanders
- 0:32Speaker 1: dive into the water, pulling the children, ages two to
- 0:36Speaker 1: six years old, to safety.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Nancy. California Highway Patrol officers pull Clayton out of the
- 0:42Speaker 2: car and find her with no pulse and severe bleeding
- 0:44Speaker 2: from her head. Officers initially believed they were handling a
- 0:48Speaker 2: car accident, but Clayton's six year old son told them
- 0:51Speaker 2: Quadzo shot his mother. The little boy unbuckled his younger
- 0:54Speaker 2: sibling seat belts before bystanders helped them escape from the car.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Mendico Quadzo, thirty one, now stands convicted of murder i
- 1:04Speaker 1: in Carlina Clayton's watery death. Regina Davis works as a
- 1:10Speaker 1: nurse's aid at the Indiana State Prison, but she plans
- 1:14Speaker 1: to distribute a lot more than just tylenol. Davis's lunch,
- 1:18Speaker 1: a frozen lasagna, goes through the X ray machine. Guards
- 1:21Speaker 1: noticed what looks like packages inside the pasta. They dig
- 1:27Speaker 1: through the lasagna and they discover two plastic bags wrapped
- 1:31Speaker 1: in electrical tape and guess what is inside Surprise, surprise, surprise,
- 1:36Speaker 1: cocaine and marijuana. Regina Davis first claims someone else gave
- 1:42Speaker 1: her the frozen lasagna. She then claims a previous inmate
- 1:47Speaker 1: forced her to smuggling in the drugs. Cop stumped by
- 1:51Speaker 1: either story. Now Davis, forty six, old enough to know better,
- 1:55Speaker 1: charged with two counts of drug trafficking. Wait a minute,
- 1:59Speaker 1: what happened to the lasagna? More crime and justice news
- 2:02Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
- 2:08Speaker 1: news Crime Online John Lenley.
- 2:10Speaker 3: We began in Mississippi, where three individuals are now in
- 2:13Speaker 3: custody accused of orchestrating the death of Stephen Harris fourth,
- 2:18Speaker 3: a twenty year old student from Southern University. We turned
- 2:22Speaker 3: to Sydney Sumner of Crime Online for the latest.
- 2:25Speaker 2: The suspects, twenty one year old Derrick Hollins, junior and
- 2:28Speaker 2: twenty year old Collagia Jack, both from Saint Francisville, Louisiana,
- 2:32Speaker 2: and twenty one year old Eliah Martin from Zachary, Louisiana,
- 2:35Speaker 2: faced first degree murder charges in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Authorities
- 2:40Speaker 2: also charged the trio with conspiracy to commit first degree
- 2:43Speaker 2: murder in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Additionally, Hollins is charged
- 2:48Speaker 2: with possession of a machine gun. The victim, Stephen Harris, fourth,
- 2:52Speaker 2: was reported missing on July seventeenth, the day before he
- 2:55Speaker 2: and Martin, the mother of his nearly two year old son,
- 2:58Speaker 2: were scheduled to attend a court hearing to a custody dispute.
- 3:01Speaker 2: On July twenty second, Harris's body was discovered in Wilkinson County, Mississippi,
- 3:06Speaker 2: suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The county coroner confirmed the
- 3:10Speaker 2: manner of death to news outlets. In a statement, the
- 3:13Speaker 2: sheriff revealed that Hollins admitted ownership of the gun used
- 3:16Speaker 2: in the shooting. The sheriff further indicated that the plot
- 3:19Speaker 2: to kill Harris began in West Feliciana Parish, where preliminary
- 3:23Speaker 2: actions leading to his death occurred. The suspects bonds were
- 3:26Speaker 2: set at four hundred and fifty thousand for Hollins, three
- 3:29Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five thousand for jack In, three hundred
- 3:32Speaker 2: and fifty thousand for Martin. Hollins was extradited to Mississippi
- 3:35Speaker 2: on July twenty sixth to face charges, while Jack and
- 3:38Speaker 2: Martin remain in custody in West Feliciana Parish. Lasonia Harris,
- 3:43Speaker 2: the victim's mother, expressed her belief that the custody dispute
- 3:46Speaker 2: was a factor in her son's death, describing the situation
- 3:49Speaker 2: as a setup.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Harris was a sophomore at Southern University in Baton Rouge,
- 3:54Speaker 3: majoring in criminal justice and a member of the university's
- 3:58Speaker 3: marching band known as the Human Jukebox.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Thanks John. Marissa Carmichael, twenty five, spends the day visiting
- 4:05Speaker 1: family in Greensboro, North Carolina. That night, she heads to
- 4:09Speaker 1: one seventeen Sofa Bar in Lounge with her friends, and
- 4:13Speaker 1: she continues tonight at an Airbnb after party. Three forty am,
- 4:19Speaker 1: Marissa makes a distress nine one one call saying she
- 4:22Speaker 1: doesn't know where she is. Her ride left her at
- 4:25Speaker 1: a gas station and took off with her cell phone.
- 4:28Speaker 1: When police get to the X On, she's gone. Surveillance
- 4:32Speaker 1: video shows Marissa getting in a car with a man
- 4:34Speaker 1: and leaving the gas station three forty six a m.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Police id the driver. He's considered a witness. Marissa Carmichael
- 4:44Speaker 1: now missing six months. Marissa African American five four, two
- 4:50Speaker 1: hundred and sixty pounds, brown eyes, black braided hair. Last
- 4:55Speaker 1: scene wearing a Tweetybird T shirt, blue jeans, yellow sneakers.
- 4:59Speaker 1: If you have info on Marisa Carmichael, please contact Greensboro,
- 5:04Speaker 1: North Carolina PD. Three three six three seven three two
- 5:09Speaker 1: two two two. For the latest crime injustice news, go
- 5:13Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com and please join us on our
- 5:16Speaker 1: daily podcast, Crime Stories with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.