Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 11.28.24 | Teens Beat Mugging Victim to Death
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Ryan Smith, the well known DC area DJ, walks home
- 0:06Speaker 1: in the early morning hours from a Saturday night shift.
- 0:09Speaker 1: He starts feeling he's being watched when two tanes lunged
- 0:13Speaker 1: toward him. He tries to defend himself, but the tanes
- 0:16Speaker 1: overpower him and beat him to a pulp. Amtas find
- 0:19Speaker 1: him unconscious, severely injured, phone and wallet missing. He dies
- 0:23Speaker 1: in the hospital after a week in a coma.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Nancy the teens are suspected in three other robberies that
- 0:29Speaker 2: same day, and we're found sleeping in the back of
- 0:31Speaker 2: a stolen car. Smith's family is devastated by the loss,
- 0:35Speaker 2: still grieving another death in the family, Smith's brother passed
- 0:39Speaker 2: away from a brain aneurysm just three months ago in
- 0:41Speaker 2: the same hospital where Smith died. Smith's mother, Leela Sandoval,
- 0:45Speaker 2: is looking for justice, saying, quote, they killed my son
- 0:49Speaker 2: over a credit card with a very low balance and
- 0:51Speaker 2: a cell phone. These people have taken away my whole
- 0:54Speaker 2: entire life.
- 0:55Speaker 1: The tanes fourteen and sixteen, now charged with three counts
- 0:58Speaker 1: robbery and assault, will upgrade those charges. William Milstein knows
- 1:03Speaker 1: his application to lease a Florida home will be denied
- 1:06Speaker 1: when the owner gets his background check. So Milsteed comes
- 1:10Speaker 1: up with a brilliant idea to get out of the
- 1:13Speaker 1: background check requirement. He submits a letter from the quote
- 1:16Speaker 1: Florida Department of Law Enforcement informing the realtor he's an
- 1:21Speaker 1: undercover cop in the Off Grid Command Unit and therefore
- 1:25Speaker 1: cannot submit to a background check. Suspicious of all the
- 1:29Speaker 1: errors in the letter, the realtor contacts police. Turns out
- 1:33Speaker 1: Millsteed has thirteen prior felony arrest two for impersonating an officer. Milsted,
- 1:40Speaker 1: sixty four, arrested for the fourteenth time on charges of
- 1:44Speaker 1: impersonating an officer. I don't think he got least more
- 1:48Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest
- 1:55Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking needs crime onlines.
- 1:57Speaker 3: John Linley All, former Kentucky share ruff, is facing a
- 2:01Speaker 3: murder charge for the fatal shooting of District Judge Kevin Mullins.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Shawn Mickey Steins, once, the sheriff of Lecher County, was
- 2:09Speaker 3: indicted last week after allegedly gunning down Mullins and his
- 2:13Speaker 3: Whitesburg courthouse chambers on September nineteenth. Authorities say Mullins, a
- 2:18Speaker 3: fifteen year veteran of the bench, died on the scene
- 2:22Speaker 3: from multiple gunshot wounds. Surveillance video presented in court reportedly
- 2:27Speaker 3: shows Stein shooting the judge at his desk, then firing
- 2:31Speaker 3: again as Mullins fell to the floor. The footage left
- 2:34Speaker 3: some in the court room visibly shaken. Investigators revealed that
- 2:38Speaker 3: Steins attempted to call his daughter just before the shooting,
- 2:42Speaker 3: but provided no clear motive. Mullins was unarmed. This according
- 2:47Speaker 3: to police. Steines, who surrendered without resistance, has been jailed
- 2:52Speaker 3: without bond due to the severity of the charges and
- 2:55Speaker 3: concerns for public safety. He faces the possibility of the
- 2:59Speaker 3: death pedal if convicted. In Memphis, a man tied to
- 3:03Speaker 3: the tragic killing of rapper Young Dolph has avoided prison time,
- 3:08Speaker 3: receiving probation instead. As Crime Online Sidney Sumner tells us,
- 3:13Speaker 3: the case continues to unrabel details of a shooting that
- 3:16Speaker 3: shocked the city and the music industry.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Twenty seven year old JaMarcus Johnson has been sentenced to
- 3:22Speaker 2: six years of probation after pleading guilty to eighty two
- 3:25Speaker 2: men who killed rapper Young Dolph in November twenty twenty one,
- 3:29Speaker 2: prosecutor say Johnson helped his half brother, Justin Johnson and
- 3:33Speaker 2: Cornelius Smith Junior communicate while on the run after the
- 3:36Speaker 2: fatal ambush at a Memphis bakery. Justin Johnson has since
- 3:39Speaker 2: been convicted of first degree murder and other charges, receiving
- 3:43Speaker 2: a life sentence plus thirty five years. Smith, who testified
- 3:46Speaker 2: against him, claimed they acted on a one hundred thousand
- 3:49Speaker 2: dollars bounty allegedly arranged by Anthony big Juk Mims, the
- 3:53Speaker 2: brother of Rappert Yogatti. Young Dolf born Adolph Thornton Junior,
- 3:57Speaker 2: was shot twenty two times in broad daylight while visiting
- 4:00Speaker 2: Macada's Homemade Cookies, a favorite spot near his childhood home.
- 4:04Speaker 2: The thirty six year old artist was in Memphis for
- 4:06Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving charity event when he was killed. A philanthropist
- 4:10Speaker 2: and independent music icon, Young Dolph left a lasting impact
- 4:14Speaker 2: on Memphis. Fans turned the bakery into a memorial, where
- 4:17Speaker 2: murals in the street now honor his legacy. His twenty
- 4:20Speaker 2: twenty album Rich Slave peaked at number four on the
- 4:23Speaker 2: Billboard charts, cementing his influence in hip hop. JaMarcus Johnson's
- 4:27Speaker 2: sentence includes job training, drug testing, and community service. If
- 4:31Speaker 2: completed successfully, his record could be cleared. Another suspect, Hernando's Govin,
- 4:36Speaker 2: accused of orchestrating the killing, is set to face trial
- 4:39Speaker 2: in March.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Though the case has seen progress, Young Dolph's loss remains
- 4:44Speaker 3: deeply felled, both in Memphis and in the entertainment world.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Thanks John, Irene Fleming shares a home with a friend
- 4:51Speaker 1: in rural Washington, southwest of George. Around five pm, she
- 4:56Speaker 1: says she's going for a walk, caught on surveillance leaving
- 4:59Speaker 1: the hymn on. Hours later, she calls her family, saying
- 5:02Speaker 1: she's in Wenachi, Washington, an hour away by car. Irene
- 5:07Speaker 1: never comes home that night. She stops answering calls. Over
- 5:11Speaker 1: the next week, Employees at several Eastwanachi grocery stores report
- 5:16Speaker 1: seeing a woman matching Irene's description. Cameras cannot confirm that
- 5:21Speaker 1: Irene Fleming thirty one five to one, one hundred pounds,
- 5:25Speaker 1: brown hair, blue eyes. She has a septum nose piercing,
- 5:29Speaker 1: wears clear frame glasses. Last scene wearing a brown jacket,
- 5:34Speaker 1: blue jeans, brown boots. If you have info on Irene Fleming,
- 5:39Speaker 1: please call Grant County Washington Sheriffs five zero nine seven
- 5:44Speaker 1: sixty two one one six zero. For the latest crime
- 5:48Speaker 1: inusice news, go to crimeonline dot com and please join
- 5:51Speaker 1: us for our daily podcast Crime Stories. With this crime alert,
- 5:55Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.