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Drunken Birthday Reveler Slams into Parked Car, Killing Teen | Crime Alert 03.27.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'mnancy Gray's breaking crime news Now. Nicholas Devin
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  Speaker 1: Robinson reportedly so drunk he doesn't know what happened when
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  Speaker 1: officers stop him after a deadly crash on the MacArthur Causeway,
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  Speaker 1: Miami Beach twenty four. He's leaving his birthday celebration and
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  Speaker 1: slams into a parked jeep at one hundred mph in
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  Speaker 1: a forty mph zone. The impact ejects the jeep's driver,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen year old Gabriella Alejandro Rios Flores. Gabriella dies at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. A Miami Beach police sergeant report seeing Robinson's
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  Speaker 1: speeding just before the crash. Officers find him disoriented, thinking
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  Speaker 1: of alcohols slurring. Why are you stopping me? It's my birthday?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get the other car?
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  Speaker 2: Nancy? A Miami Beach police officer had just helped Gabriella
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  Speaker 2: Flores push her stalled jeep out of the street and
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  Speaker 2: was leaving the scene when Robinson sped past him. The
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  Speaker 2: officer did not witness the actual crash, but saw flying
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  Speaker 2: debris and rushed back to the scene. Robinson vomited several
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  Speaker 2: times while in the back of a police cruiser, but
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  Speaker 2: managed to refuse a blood test. Police obtained a search
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  Speaker 2: warrant for the test instead, confirming their suspicions Robinson was
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  Speaker 2: driving under the influence.
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  Speaker 1: Now nearly twenty four Nicholas Devin Robinson facing manslaughter to
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  Speaker 1: am Laporte, Indiana. Zachariah Vigil twenty seven drives to his
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend's house after watching the Super Bowl. Seems like he's
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  Speaker 1: had a few and gets distracted by a FaceTime call
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  Speaker 1: with the girlfriend. Why she flashes him. He veers off
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  Speaker 1: the road onto train tracks, where he gets stuck. He
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  Speaker 1: gets out to push and barely escapes just before a
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  Speaker 1: Norfolk Southern train slams into his car. His girlfriend, the flasher,
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  Speaker 1: picks him up and drives away with her car's headlights off.
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  Speaker 1: Police light them up. Virgil claims a friend crashed his car,
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  Speaker 1: but later admits to driving his blood alcohol point two
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  Speaker 1: seventy three. His total car reeks the pot He's facing
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  Speaker 1: OWI operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and leaving the scene.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now at the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Alized John Linley.
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  Speaker 3: Three retired Philadelphia detectives now in their mid to late
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  Speaker 3: seventies are on trial for perjury, accused of lying under
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  Speaker 3: oath in a case that led to a wrongful conviction.
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  Speaker 3: Former detectives Martin Devlin, Manuel Santiago, and Frankie Stremsky are
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  Speaker 3: charged with falsifying evidence in the nineteen ninety one rape
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  Speaker 3: and murder of an elderly woman. The case sent twenty
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  Speaker 3: year old Anthony Wright to prison for more than two
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  Speaker 3: decades until DNA evidence cleared him. Despite that, prosecutors retried
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  Speaker 3: him in twenty sixteen, relying on a written confession. Police
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  Speaker 3: say he gave voluntarily, but during testimony, Devlin struggled to
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  Speaker 3: recreate the nine page statement he claimed to have written
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  Speaker 3: in real time, raising questions about its legitimacy. The jury
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  Speaker 3: quickly acquitted. Right Philadelphia d A. Larry Krasner, known for
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  Speaker 3: pursuing police accountability, charged the detectives in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: just before this statute of limitations expired. Prosecutors say the
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  Speaker 3: men lied about the confession, DNA evidence, and key details
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  Speaker 3: of the case. The defense argues the case is politically motivated.
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  Speaker 3: If convicted, the former detectives could face up to seven
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  Speaker 3: years in prison. Wright, who spent twenty five years behind bars,
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  Speaker 3: later received a ten million dollars settlement from the city.
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  Speaker 3: New York's highest court has dismissed a sexual abuse lawsuit,
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  Speaker 3: ruling the allegations lacks sufficient detail. As Crime Online Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner tells US, the decision is drawing criticism from advocates
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  Speaker 3: who say it sets an unfair standard for survivors.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Court of Appeals has thrown out a
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit filed under the Child Victims Act of twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: law allowing survivors to sue for childhood abuse. The plaintiff
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  Speaker 2: alleged repeated sexual assaults near a state run Almany theater
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  Speaker 2: from nineteen eighty six to nineteen ninety, starting when he
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  Speaker 2: was twelve. The court ruled the claims were too vague,
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  Speaker 2: lacking details about the abusers and their connection to the state.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Caitlin Halligan noted the lawsuit failed to specify whether
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  Speaker 2: the perpetrators were teachers, coaches, or counselors. Advocates argue the
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  Speaker 2: decision unfairly burdened survivors, as trauma often impairs memory. Jessica
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  Speaker 2: Shidlow of Child USA says the ruling reinforces legal barriers
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  Speaker 2: that prevent victims from seeking justice.
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  Speaker 3: The lawsuit was initially dismissed for missing key dates, reinstated
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, and now permanently dismissed.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Jeremiah Jamal Parker nineteen tells his cousin he
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  Speaker 1: lost a cell phone case walking in the woods North
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  Speaker 1: Sherwood Forest Park Baton Rouge. He parks his car, cousin
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  Speaker 1: inside goes to look for it. He hasn't been seen since.
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  Speaker 1: That was April eleventh, two thousand and four. Only his
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  Speaker 1: cell phone and one shoe found fifty yards from the
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  Speaker 1: car just before vanishing. His family says Parker was deeply
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  Speaker 1: moved by the film The Passion of the Christ and
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  Speaker 1: tells his family he will be quote leaving soon. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows what that means. Parker would be thirty nine today.
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  Speaker 1: Parker is African American, black hair, brown eyes, five six,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty pounds, white T shirt backy, gray shorts,
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  Speaker 1: LA Dodger's cap. If you know what happened to Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Jamaul Parker, please contact Baton Rouge PD two two five
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  Speaker 1: three eight nine, two thousand. For the latest crime in
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  Speaker 1: justice dease, go to crime online dot com and please
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  Speaker 1: do our best to find missing people, especially children, and
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  Speaker 1: solve unsolved homicides. With this crime Lark, I'm Nancy Grace