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Halloween Party Horror: 19-Year-Old Cheerleader Killed in Illinois Mass Shooting | Crime Alert 11.04.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A horrific weekend of violence rips through an Illinois college community,
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  Speaker 1: turning a festive gathering into a deadly mass shooting. 19-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Gianna Detloff, a bright former cheerleader, is dead, and eight
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  Speaker 1: other young people are recovering from gunshot wounds. The chaos
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  Speaker 1: erupted on Sunday, November 1st at 1.23 a.m. local time.
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  Speaker 1: Bloomington police officers flooded the 100 block of East Division Street,
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  Speaker 1: located steps away from the Illinois Wesleyan University campus, responding
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  Speaker 1: to reports of multiple shots fired. The gunfire broke out
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  Speaker 1: at a Halloween party held in a common backyard behind
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  Speaker 1: several rental units. First responders located Detloff at the scene,
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  Speaker 1: but the young woman from Carroll Stream could not be saved.
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  Speaker 1: Preliminary autopsy results indicate she suffered fatal gunshot wounds to
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  Speaker 1: her chest and pelvis. Detloff, who was studying at North
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  Speaker 1: Central College and formerly cheered for the Glenbard North High
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  Speaker 1: School Panthers, was simply visiting a close friend. Speaking to
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  Speaker 1: the media, Bloomington Chief of Police Jamal Symington shared the
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  Speaker 1: devastation felt by her family.
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  Speaker 2: According to her parents, she was their only daughter. She
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  Speaker 2: was described as full of life. a sweet girl with
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  Speaker 2: a very bright future, and an athlete who was visiting
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  Speaker 2: one of her best friends at her local university.
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  Speaker 1: As the community reels from this unimaginable loss, investigators are
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  Speaker 1: working around the clock. Chief Symington confirms the urgent manhunt continues.
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  Speaker 2: We do not have anyone in custody currently, but we
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  Speaker 2: will identify the person or persons responsible for this tragedy
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  Speaker 2: and bring them forward.
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  Speaker 1: The sheer scale of the violence is staggering. Authorities confirm
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  Speaker 1: a total of nine victims, ranging in age from 16
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  Speaker 1: to 22. The injured include two young men and six
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  Speaker 1: young women who sustained various severe gunshot wounds to their arms, legs,
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  Speaker 1: chest and abdomens. Police note these victims hail from various
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  Speaker 1: locations and many had absolutely no prior connection to one
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  Speaker 1: another before this terrifying ordeal. While toxicology testing for Detloff
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  Speaker 1: remains pending, her former cheerleading squad is memorializing her on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: describing her as a sweet and caring soul. Bloomington detectives
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  Speaker 1: are pleading with the public for help, urging anyone who
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  Speaker 1: traveled near Center Street and Franklin Avenue to contact Detective
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  Speaker 1: Pedro Diaz. More crime and justice news after this. In Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: a horrifying case of child abuse reaches its final legal conclusions.
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  Speaker 1: Sherry Walker is condemned to spend the rest of her
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  Speaker 1: life behind bars, handed down seven consecutive life terms for
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  Speaker 1: failing to protect her 11-year-old daughter from monstrous abuse. The
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  Speaker 1: nightmare unraveled in August 2025 when emergency crews rushed to
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  Speaker 1: a home lacking basic running water. They discovered the 11-year-old
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  Speaker 1: actively hemorrhaging after giving birth to a baby at 36
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  Speaker 1: weeks of pregnancy. Emergency responders cut the newborn's umbilical cord
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  Speaker 1: before rushing both children to the hospital. Muskegee County Assistant
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney Janet Hudson reveals the profound neglect the mother endured.
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  Speaker 1: The little girl had not seen a doctor in over
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  Speaker 1: a year and received zero prenatal care. She, along with
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  Speaker 1: other children, were kept isolated and supposedly homeschooled. The father
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  Speaker 1: of the newborn is the child's own stepfather, Dustin Walker. Unbelievably,
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  Speaker 1: as local outlets reported, both Sherry and Dustin attempted to
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  Speaker 1: claim they had absolutely no idea the 11-year-old was pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: Sherry is convicted of enabling child sexual abuse and six
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  Speaker 1: counts of child neglect. Dustin is already locked away, serving
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  Speaker 1: a life sentence after pleading guilty to the sexual abuse
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  Speaker 1: of a child under 12 and child neglect. We close
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  Speaker 1: with an incredible rescue that ends a grueling 500-day search.
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  Speaker 1: Kylie Arlano, a Utah teenager who vanished, has been found
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  Speaker 1: safe in Oregon. Now 17, Kylie was last seen by
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  Speaker 1: her terrified family on May 29, 2025, at their home
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  Speaker 1: in Garden City, Utah. Detectives chased dozens of unconfirmed sightings
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  Speaker 1: across multiple states. The breakthrough arrived this past Sunday. Officers
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  Speaker 1: in Oregon working in direct coordination with the FBI, Utah
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  Speaker 1: Department of Public Safety, and Rich County Sheriff's Office successfully
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  Speaker 1: located the teenager. Kylie was found with a 39-year-old man
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  Speaker 1: who was taken into custody without incident. A law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: source alleges the suspect initially met the vulnerable teenager on Snapchat.
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  Speaker 1: FBI Director Kash Patel issued a stern warning to predators
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  Speaker 1: utilizing online gore networks to exploit children. The Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security warns that these groups use ruthless tactics to
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  Speaker 1: coerce minors. Before her rescue, the investigation faced bizarre twists.
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  Speaker 1: Unsealed search warrants revealed police found suspected blood inside the
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  Speaker 1: family's home, and Kylie had previously alleged her mother, Stephanie Coleman,
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  Speaker 1: choked her. Coleman vehemently denied the accusations, insisting the blood
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  Speaker 1: came from a cat fight and providing time-stamped messages from
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  Speaker 1: the night Kylie disappeared. The text showed a loving exchange
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  Speaker 1: ending just eight minutes before the teen's phone shut off. Today,
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  Speaker 1: suspicions are eclipsed by overwhelming relief. Taking to Facebook, Stephanie
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  Speaker 1: Coleman celebrated the miraculous news, writing she was looking at
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  Speaker 1: a photograph of her baby girl found safe exactly one
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  Speaker 1: day before Coleman's birthday. Kylie's grandmother also shared her gratitude
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  Speaker 1: on X, thanking agents for bringing their baby girl home.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities vowed to hold all responsible parties accountable. For more
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Silvani.