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DIDDY VERDICT WATCH | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 06.28.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now we are in a verdict.
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  Speaker 1: Watch here at crime Stories as we wait for the
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  Speaker 1: Shawnkims jury to hand down a verdict.
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  Speaker 3: Our Nicole Parton keeping an eye on the.
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  Speaker 2: Court room to call.
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  Speaker 4: During the defense's closing argument on Friday, Shawn Coombe's attorney
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  Speaker 4: dismissed the sex trafficking and racketeering trial as a sham,
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  Speaker 4: labeling the prosecution's narrative and exaggerated depiction of the music
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  Speaker 4: icon's swinger lifestyle. In a confident and at times sarcastic presentation,
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  Speaker 4: defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo countered the government's characterization of Cassie
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  Speaker 4: Ventira as a victim of sex trafficking, referring to her
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  Speaker 4: instead as a quote winner who emerged with thirty million
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  Speaker 4: dollars following settlements with mister Combs and the properteer of
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  Speaker 4: the hotel where she experienced an assault. Agnifilo contended that
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  Speaker 4: the two ex girlfriends of mister Combs who testified they
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  Speaker 4: were cohersed and drug fueled sex parties, were actually eager participants,
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  Speaker 4: citing explicit text messages that conveyed their excitement for the encounters.
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  Speaker 4: He said, they are swingers, asserting that the gatherings did
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  Speaker 4: not constitute sex trafficking as alleged by the prosecution. I
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  Speaker 4: suppose you can sex traffic your girlfriend if you sell
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  Speaker 4: her into prostitution, he argued, but emphasized that mister Colmbs
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  Speaker 4: was not profiting from these interactions. The judge has indicated
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  Speaker 4: that the jury will probably receive the case on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Nicole.
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  Speaker 1: More Crime and Justice News after this. I'm Jennifer Gould.
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  Speaker 1: The innocence of an elementary school playground was shattered by
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  Speaker 1: a revelation so chilling it defies belief. A calculated, cold
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  Speaker 1: blooded murder plot by four fifth grade girls, mere children
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  Speaker 1: age ten and eleven, what sounds like a grim movie script,
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  Speaker 1: actually played out at Legacy Traditional School in Arizona, where
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  Speaker 1: these young conspirators allegedly schemed to stab a classmate and
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  Speaker 1: stage his death as a suicide, leaving a stunned community
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  Speaker 1: in utter horror. Doctor Mark Anderson, a child psychologist, spoke
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  Speaker 1: to twelve News.
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  Speaker 2: Pay attention to potential barning signs and if you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: that there might be an issue, there are doctors like myself.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people in the community that
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  Speaker 2: are here to help.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Surprise Police Department, this sinister plan was
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  Speaker 1: cooked up during lunch and recess. The motive a breakup
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  Speaker 1: and bitter allegations of cheating by a boy. Their blueprint
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  Speaker 1: for horror was disturbingly detailed as well. One girl was
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  Speaker 1: designated to bring the knife, another would lure the unsuspecting
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  Speaker 1: victim to an outdoor bathroom on campus, a third would
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  Speaker 1: stand as lookout, and a fourth would forge a fake
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  Speaker 1: suicide note to throw off instigators. In a chilling display
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  Speaker 1: of premeditation, they even planned to wear gloves to avoid
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  Speaker 1: leaving fingerprints. This plot luckily did not pan out because
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  Speaker 1: it was exposed before any harm came to the targeted classmate.
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  Speaker 1: A student overheard one girl's chilling declaration to quote just
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  Speaker 1: end him, end quote and immediately alerted school officials and authorities.
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  Speaker 1: Wasted no time. The very next day, police moved in.
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  Speaker 1: The girl's backpacks were searched, and they were questioned individually
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  Speaker 1: with their parents present, causing their elaborate, deadly scheme to
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  Speaker 1: unravel completely. All four girls were arrested on charges of
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  Speaker 1: threatening and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. They were released into their parents'
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  Speaker 1: custody and suspended from school pending expulsion. A particularly unsettling
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  Speaker 1: detail emerged from the police report as well. While three
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  Speaker 1: of the girls reportedly showed remorse when confronted, the fourth
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  Speaker 1: girl allegedly displayed a disturbing lack of empathy, choosing to
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  Speaker 1: smile and laugh while making excuses for their actions. The
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  Speaker 1: Surprise Police Department says they do not plan to share
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  Speaker 1: further details on the case. Legacy Traditional School issued a
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  Speaker 1: statement emphasizing student safety and their cooperation with law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: The intended target's name is not known, and no word
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  Speaker 1: if his parents were informed either.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Drew Neilson, an eleven year old boy is shot
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  Speaker 3: dead in broad daylight at a park in North Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 3: dying in his older brother's arms before reaching the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: On Monday, just after two pm, gunfire rang out at
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  Speaker 3: Folwell Park. Witnesses saw cars joy riding through the area.
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  Speaker 3: One of those cars, akia with apparent bullet holes in
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  Speaker 3: the side, stopped a few blocks away on Morgan Avenue.
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  Speaker 3: A teenager stepped out carrying a child and begged for help.
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  Speaker 3: He told neighbors the boy was his little brother. The
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  Speaker 3: boy was Emir Lamar aikins he had been shot in
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  Speaker 3: the head. A good samaritan rushed the brothers toward the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: They flagged down a police lieutenant at the corner of
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  Speaker 3: Penn and Dowling Avenue North. The officer began CPR, but
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  Speaker 3: Amir was already gone. He was pronounced dead there. A
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  Speaker 3: balloon memorial now marks the corner where they stopped. Police
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  Speaker 3: say Amir was riding in a car through the park
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  Speaker 3: when someone in another vehicle opened fire. No arrests have
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  Speaker 3: been made. Investigators are now reviewing surveillance footage.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot emphasize how terrible it is to have an eleven
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  Speaker 2: year old boy shot during the day and killed.
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  Speaker 3: That's Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. At a community meeting
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  Speaker 3: inside Fallwell Recreation Center, neighbors and activists called for an
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  Speaker 3: end to the violence.
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  Speaker 5: We have a lot of community meetings whill we come
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  Speaker 5: together and talk about what's wrong, and we already know
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  Speaker 5: what's wrong. I just want to challenge everybody to start
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  Speaker 5: coming together to talk about a plan to actually fix this.
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  Speaker 3: That's community activist Joseph Banks. Princess Titus, who lost her
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  Speaker 3: son to gunfire in twenty ten, said Amir's death was
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  Speaker 3: part of an epidet.
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  Speaker 4: This commitment starts at home. When I ask a parent
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  Speaker 4: how are you and how's your children? They say, my
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  Speaker 4: children are bad.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody makes mistakes. There's no bad children, there's no bad people,
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  Speaker 3: there's bad choices. Emir was due to start sixth grade
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  Speaker 3: at Hopkins Elementary this fall. His family remembers him as
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  Speaker 3: a joyful boy who loved video games and playing outdoors.
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  Speaker 3: His uncle described him on GoFundMe as quote a beacon
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  Speaker 3: of light in our lives. Donations are being used for
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  Speaker 3: funeral costs for his mother and expenses for Emir's seven siblings.
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  Speaker 3: His mother is also seeking a better housing situation. So far,
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  Speaker 3: the GoFundMe has raised thirteen thousand dollars toward a goal
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  Speaker 3: of eighteen thousand. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 3: follow Crime Alert's hourly update on your favorite podcast app
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  Speaker 3: with this Crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson.