Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Killer Kid’s Claim:10yo Boy Murders 13yo Girl- Says 30-Person 'Mob’ Made Him Do it| Crime Alert 6AM 02.12.2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
- 0:05Speaker 1: A savage apartment complex brawl involving a mob of thirty
- 0:10Speaker 1: screaming people took a gruesome fatal turn when a ten
- 0:14Speaker 1: year old boy allegedly plunged a knife into the chest
- 0:18Speaker 1: of a thirteen year old girl. The blood soaked tragedy
- 0:22Speaker 1: and folded around eight pm at a home in the
- 0:24Speaker 1: eight thousand block of Grow Lane in northwest Houston, Texas.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Riley Dearmos, a thirteen year old student at Dean Middle School,
- 0:33Speaker 1: was left suffering from a catastrophic stab wound as the
- 0:38Speaker 1: massive group of juveniles and adults scattered into the night.
- 0:42Speaker 1: She was rushed to a nearby hospital, but died of
- 0:45Speaker 1: her injuries. The victim's mom, Ashley Dearmos, spoke to the
- 0:49Speaker 1: media at a memorial for her little girl. Instead of
- 0:52Speaker 1: me celebrating her fourteenth birthday, I'm celebrating and trying to
- 0:57Speaker 1: bury my.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Daughter right now.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Jolms could have been for her fourteenth person, not her death.
- 1:03Speaker 1: The ten year old suspector resident of the Kempwood apartments,
- 1:07Speaker 1: turned himself into the Houston PD and offered a chilling
- 1:11Speaker 1: justification for the killing. Self defense. HPD Lieutenant Larry Croson
- 1:17Speaker 1: revealed the boy's claim that Riley was part of a
- 1:21Speaker 1: marauding swarming of twenty to thirty people who stormed the
- 1:25Speaker 1: apartment and began a violent assault on all the residents inside.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Investigators believe the deadly confrontation was the explosive culmination of
- 1:36Speaker 1: a school day dispute that boiled over into the evening,
- 1:40Speaker 1: but Ashley dear miss is blasting the self defense narrative
- 1:44Speaker 1: as a cruel lie, saying, quote, there was no self defense.
- 1:48Speaker 1: My daughter was attacked. She didn't deserve this end quote.
- 1:52Speaker 1: While the boy was initially released to his parents, the
- 1:56Speaker 1: Harris County DA's office is now weighing formal charge under
- 2:01Speaker 1: Texas law, ten is the minimum age for criminal responsibility,
- 2:06Speaker 1: meaning the boy could face a homicide rap for the slaying.
- 2:10Speaker 1: As of now, no other arrests have been made. Forensic
- 2:14Speaker 1: teams are reviewing grainy cell phone footage of the thirty
- 2:18Speaker 1: person melee to id the dozens of participants who took
- 2:22Speaker 1: part and witnessed the girls' final moments. More Prime and
- 2:27Speaker 1: Justice News. After this, Despite a pair of arrests, a
- 2:36Speaker 1: frantic search continues in Mobile County, Alabama, after a mother
- 2:42Speaker 1: and her two children vanished from their home in what
- 2:46Speaker 1: investigators describe as a violent abduction. Aurelia chuck Cock forty,
- 2:52Speaker 1: her seventeen year old daughter, Norika Zuletta Chalk, and her
- 2:56Speaker 1: two year old son, Anthony Garcia Chok have not been
- 2:59Speaker 1: seen since January thirtieth. The alarm was raised the following
- 3:04Speaker 1: day by a neighbor, leading deputies to a gruesome scene
- 3:07Speaker 1: inside their residence at Lloyd's Mobile Home Park, where signs
- 3:12Speaker 1: of a struggle and pools of blood were discovered. A
- 3:16Speaker 1: mattress had also been scrubbed from the home, fueling fears
- 3:19Speaker 1: of a life or death struggle. On February ninth, authorities
- 3:24Speaker 1: made a major breakthrough, arresting thirty one year old Juan
- 3:28Speaker 1: Carlos Argetaguera, a homeless man now hit with three counts
- 3:32Speaker 1: of first to Greek kidnapping. His arrest follows the earlier
- 3:36Speaker 1: detention of sixty year old Silverio Garcia CAx boss Here's
- 3:41Speaker 1: Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch at the news conference, We're.
- 3:44Speaker 2: Hoping that someone will tell us where they are. Anytime
- 3:48Speaker 2: you arrest somebody, you're in hopes that they're going to
- 3:51Speaker 2: tell you what occurred, and then you know. Our main
- 3:54Speaker 2: goal is to find them safely and bring them back home.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Garcia was reportedly in a romantic relationship with Cox's twenty
- 4:03Speaker 1: one year old daughter and was living with that daughter
- 4:05Speaker 1: at the time of the family's disappearance. According to the
- 4:08Speaker 1: Sheriff's office, he's currently being held on a Homeland Security
- 4:12Speaker 1: detainer and weapons charges. Both Garcia and Guera, like Cock,
- 4:17Speaker 1: worked as painters, but the exact motive behind these suspected
- 4:21Speaker 1: snatching remains a dark mystery. The investigation reached a fever
- 4:26Speaker 1: pitch on February tenth, as FBI agents swarmed the Azalea
- 4:31Speaker 1: Grove Mobile home park to execute a search warrant. Despite
- 4:35Speaker 1: the arrests, the whereabouts of the family remain unknown. Sheriff
- 4:40Speaker 1: Birch has pleaded with the public for leeds, emphasizing that
- 4:44Speaker 1: the family's pending deportation orders should not stop anyone from
- 4:49Speaker 1: coming forward. While Anthony is a US citizen, his mom
- 4:53Speaker 1: and sister were facing a final deportation order from April,
- 4:58Speaker 1: complicating the emotional search. Anyone with information about this case
- 5:03Speaker 1: is asked to call the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. As
- 5:07Speaker 1: of now, the two suspects remain behind bars at the
- 5:10Speaker 1: Mobile County Metro Jail. And finally, a family reunion turned
- 5:16Speaker 1: into a family feud in Miami, Florida, when Jacqueline Rodriguez,
- 5:20Speaker 1: forty one, found out the father of her children really
- 5:24Speaker 1: was keeping it all in the family. On February eighth,
- 5:28Speaker 1: police finally caught up with Rodriguez for a midnight melee
- 5:32Speaker 1: where she allegedly went on a stabbing spree after learning
- 5:36Speaker 1: her partner was conducting his own sister act if you will,
- 5:40Speaker 1: he was cheating on her with her sibling. Yeah. Officers
- 5:44Speaker 1: forced their way into the blood stained apartment to find
- 5:47Speaker 1: the victims sliced up and disfigured by his baby mama's blade.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Rodriguez now faces charges of aggravated battery with great bodily
- 5:56Speaker 1: harm alongside separate grand theft counts. Turns out that when
- 6:00Speaker 1: you double cross a woman with her own sibling, you
- 6:04Speaker 1: don't just break your heart. You get a reminder that
- 6:07Speaker 1: blood is not always thicker than water. For the latest
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- 6:18Speaker 1: Jennifer goold,