Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 04.21.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now. Ralph Yarl's
- 0:04Speaker 1: mom asked him to pick up his younger siblings from
- 0:06Speaker 1: her friend's house. He mixes up the numbers in the
- 0:08Speaker 1: address and knocks at the wrong door. Homeowner Andrew Lester
- 0:12Speaker 1: comes to the door shoots through the glass, hitting the
- 0:15Speaker 1: honor student Yarrel in the head, shooting twice more after
- 0:19Speaker 1: the teen boy falls to the ground. Crime Onlines John Linley.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Nancy Lester told police that he was in bed when
- 0:26Speaker 2: the doorbell rang, so he answered the door with a
- 0:28Speaker 2: thirty two caliber revolver. Lester said Yarl was pulling on
- 0:32Speaker 2: his screen door and assumed he was a burglar, so
- 0:35Speaker 2: he shot him out of fear. At the hospital, Yarl
- 0:38Speaker 2: told police he was just waiting on the front stoop
- 0:41Speaker 2: when he was met with gunfire. As Yarl ran away,
- 0:45Speaker 2: you heard Lester yell, don't come around here.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Yarl released from the hospital now recovering. Lester eighty four
- 0:51Speaker 1: charged with aggravated assault and felony gun use. Jade Alvarez
- 0:55Speaker 1: gets a ride from a friend to boyfriend Adam Bird's house.
- 0:59Speaker 1: That's the last last time Jade is seen alive. That night,
- 1:03Speaker 1: byrd asked Alvarez to have a baby with him. Alvarez refuses,
- 1:07Speaker 1: Bird gets angry and shoots his lover, Alvarez dead.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Alvarez's friend became concerned when the mother to a three
- 1:15Speaker 2: year old son would not return her phone calls. She
- 1:18Speaker 2: told authorities she left Alvarez with Bird. Bird, who had
- 1:22Speaker 2: an outstanding warrant for aggravated robbery, was arrested and questioned,
- 1:26Speaker 2: admitting to authorities he shot and killed Alvarez. Based on
- 1:30Speaker 2: Bird's confession, authorities identified Alvarez as a woman they found
- 1:34Speaker 2: shot dead several days before the arrest.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Bird, twenty three, now charged with murder. More crime and
- 1:40Speaker 1: justice needs after this. Now at the latest crime and
- 1:44Speaker 1: justice breaking needs. Crime Onlines.
- 1:46Speaker 2: John Lenlake, a sister who discovered a crime scene in
- 1:49Speaker 2: which four people were shot to death, arrived to broken glass,
- 1:53Speaker 2: bullet holes, blood and guns thrown about the home, and
- 1:57Speaker 2: the suspect later arrested at the scene of a highway
- 1:59Speaker 2: sh shooting with what appeared to be blood on him.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Police found multiple cartridge casings of varying calibers in the
- 2:06Speaker 2: vehicle driven by the suspect after shots were fired at
- 2:09Speaker 2: vehicles along Interstate two ninety five, wounding three people. A
- 2:13Speaker 2: state police affidavit released Thursday as the suspect, Joseph Eden
- 2:18Speaker 2: made his first court appearance, contained grizzly details, a note
- 2:23Speaker 2: found at the scene, and a timeline for the events.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Eden showed no emotion during the brief hearing, other than
- 2:29Speaker 2: to acknowledge to the judge that he understood the charges.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Police have yet to discuss what might have been a
- 2:35Speaker 2: motive behind the shootings on a rural property in Boden
- 2:38Speaker 2: and then along a busy interstate highway about twelve miles
- 2:42Speaker 2: from Maine's largest city, Portland. Updating a story we brought
- 2:46Speaker 2: you just moments ago, the eighty four year old man
- 2:50Speaker 2: who shot Ralph Yarl when the black teenager went to
- 2:53Speaker 2: his door by mistake has pleaded not guilty in a
- 2:56Speaker 2: case that has shocked the country and renewed national debates
- 3:00Speaker 2: about gun policies and race in America. Sidney Sumner brings
- 3:04Speaker 2: us that update from Crime Online.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Andrew Lester walked into the courtroom with a cane and
- 3:09Speaker 3: spoke quietly during Wednesday's hearing, his first public appearance since
- 3:13Speaker 3: last week's shooting. Authority say he shot yarrel a sixteen
- 3:17Speaker 3: year old honor student, first in the head, then in
- 3:20Speaker 3: the arm, after Yarl came to his door because he
- 3:22Speaker 3: had confused the address with the home where he was
- 3:24Speaker 3: supposed to pick up his younger brothers. Yarl was shot
- 3:28Speaker 3: at point blank range in the head, but miraculously survived
- 3:31Speaker 3: the bullet. The cases among three in recent days involving
- 3:35Speaker 3: young people who were shot after mistakenly showing up in
- 3:37Speaker 3: the wrong places. A twenty year old woman was killed
- 3:41Speaker 3: in upstate New York when her boyfriend pulled their car
- 3:44Speaker 3: into the wrong driveway.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in Texas, two cheerleaders were shot after one of
- 3:48Speaker 2: them mistakenly entered a car thinking it was hers. A
- 3:52Speaker 2: Las Vegas teenager pleaded guilty as an adult Wednesday to
- 3:56Speaker 2: felony charges that a prosecutor says could get him decked
- 4:00Speaker 2: aids in prison for attacking a high school teacher and
- 4:03Speaker 2: leaving her unconscious in a classroom a year ago. The incident,
- 4:07Speaker 2: which included allegations of sexual assault, left the teacher hospitalized
- 4:12Speaker 2: with multiple injuries, and focused attention on a sharp rise
- 4:15Speaker 2: in violence at the time in the sprawling Clark County
- 4:18Speaker 2: school district, the nation's fifth largest crime online is not
- 4:23Speaker 2: naming the defendant due to his age now seventeen. He
- 4:26Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, and battery
- 4:31Speaker 2: with a deadly weapon causing substantial bodily harm. Is please
- 4:35Speaker 2: avoided trial in Clark County District Court. Two former New
- 4:39Speaker 2: Mexico State basketball players have filed a lawsuit alleging they
- 4:43Speaker 2: were sexually assaulted by teammates and that the coaching staff
- 4:47Speaker 2: and other administrators did nothing when they reported the assaults.
- 4:51Speaker 2: With more crime on Lines Sidney Sumner, The.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Lawsuit was filed by Deuce Benjamin and another player, who
- 4:57Speaker 3: said three teammates forced them to pull their pants down
- 4:59Speaker 3: below their ankles, then assaulted them. Benjamin had earlier referenced
- 5:03Speaker 3: the alleged assaults while announcing his departure from the team
- 5:06Speaker 3: on social media. Chancellor Dan Arvizu canceled the season in
- 5:10Speaker 3: February after Benjamin took his allegations to school police. Our
- 5:14Speaker 3: Vizu framed the allegations as stemming from a hazing episode.
- 5:17Speaker 3: The civil lawsuit, filed in district Court in Las Cruces,
- 5:20Speaker 3: New Mexico, took issue with that description, saying, quote, when
- 5:24Speaker 3: the behavior goes too far and crosses the line into
- 5:27Speaker 3: non consensual touching. It is not mere hazing, it is
- 5:30Speaker 3: battery and sexual assaults.
- 5:32Speaker 2: The lawsuit listed as defendants the New Mexico State Board
- 5:35Speaker 2: of Regents, two former members of the coaching staff, and
- 5:39Speaker 2: three former players.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Tyler Morrell, just trying to deliver a pizza, notices Pennsylvania
- 5:44Speaker 1: cops chasing a car driving towards him. The car abruptly stops,
- 5:48Speaker 1: the driver jumps out, trying to run on foot. Morel
- 5:51Speaker 1: has to step off the sidewalk so the suspect doesn't
- 5:54Speaker 1: bump into him, but Morel sticks a leg out, tripping
- 5:57Speaker 1: the suspect. Cops catch up and cuts the eye. Both
- 6:00Speaker 1: cops and Coco's Pizzeria commend Morel for bravery and still
- 6:05Speaker 1: delivering that pizza unharmed. For the latest crime injustice News,
- 6:10Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com This crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.