Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 03.20.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Chrome alert. I mean see Grays breaking crime nes now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Marco Batista pulls up at an Indiana home to give
- 0:06Speaker 1: an Uber ride to Racquecia Rogers. Batissa sees Rogers arguing
- 0:11Speaker 1: with a mail in the home, and the man comes
- 0:13Speaker 1: running out of the house, jumps in Batissa's car, shouting drive.
- 0:17Speaker 1: As Batissa tries to call the man down, Roger starts
- 0:20Speaker 1: firing shots at the Uber car, hitting Batista in the back.
- 0:25Speaker 1: The fight between Rogers and her boyfriend apparently began when
- 0:29Speaker 1: he took her cell phone. In an interview with police,
- 0:32Speaker 1: Rogers insisted that she fired shots into the air to
- 0:36Speaker 1: scare her boyfriend, but video from cameras in Batista's car
- 0:40Speaker 1: show the twenty year old clearly firing directly at the car.
- 0:45Speaker 1: The bullet went through the trunk, back seat, and driver's
- 0:48Speaker 1: seat before striking Batist staff at waist level. Batista flees
- 0:53Speaker 1: the scene before calling nine one one. He's taken to
- 0:56Speaker 1: the hospital for a gunshot wound expected to recover. Rogers,
- 1:00Speaker 1: any who was aiming for her boyfriend or should I
- 1:03Speaker 1: say ex boyfriend, now booked on agg battery. A man
- 1:07Speaker 1: has been arraigned on two charges following the discovery of
- 1:10Speaker 1: three men bound, gagged and then shot in the head
- 1:14Speaker 1: before their bodies were dumped in two places in Ohio
- 1:17Speaker 1: last week, and authorities now alleged there was a fourth
- 1:20Speaker 1: potential victim. Sidney Sumner is with crime online. Fifty eight
- 1:25Speaker 1: year old Elias Gudino of Copley Township was arraigned in
- 1:28Speaker 1: Barberton Municipal Court on one account of aggravated murder and
- 1:32Speaker 1: one count of attempted aggravated murder in connection with one
- 1:35Speaker 1: of the victims, and with additional charges pending. He was
- 1:39Speaker 1: ordered held without bail pending his next court appearance. Authorities
- 1:43Speaker 1: say two bodies were found in the wooded area near
- 1:45Speaker 1: Interstate seventy seven in Akron, and the third was found
- 1:49Speaker 1: shortly afterward in a ditch about two miles away in
- 1:52Speaker 1: Copley Township. The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office says that
- 1:56Speaker 1: all three were from Youngstown, Ohio. The office identified the
- 2:00Speaker 1: two victims found in Akron as twenty five year old
- 2:03Speaker 1: in Mere Reas and thirty one year old Victor Verrela Rodriguez.
- 2:07Speaker 1: The victim found in Copley Township was identified as thirty
- 2:10Speaker 1: five year old Domingo Castillo Reys officials say the slayings
- 2:14Speaker 1: are believed to be related, and that Copley and Akron
- 2:17Speaker 1: detectives are investigating them together. More crime in Justice news
- 2:22Speaker 1: after this now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Lemley. The family of a Mississippi man
- 2:35Speaker 1: whose dismembered body was found in November say his newly
- 2:39Speaker 1: released autopsy report shows he was murdered, and their calling
- 2:43Speaker 1: for a federal investigation into the case. Twenty five year
- 2:46Speaker 1: old Rashim Carter was last seen October second at a
- 2:49Speaker 1: hotel in Laurel. On November second, his decomposing body was
- 2:54Speaker 1: found in a wooded area about twenty one miles away
- 2:57Speaker 1: in Taylorsville. At a news conference alongside Carter's family, prominent
- 3:01Speaker 1: civil rights attorney Ben Crump said the Justice Department should
- 3:05Speaker 1: take up the case, after local police said they had
- 3:08Speaker 1: no reason to believe the man's death was the result
- 3:11Speaker 1: of foul play. One thing is for certain. This was
- 3:14Speaker 1: not a natural death. His head was severed from his body.
- 3:19Speaker 1: They have recently found remains that they believe also received
- 3:25Speaker 1: Carter and another part of where he would miss it.
- 3:31Speaker 1: This was a nefarious act. This was an evil act
- 3:36Speaker 1: somebody murdered Receive Carter. In a statement on social media,
- 3:42Speaker 1: the Smith County Sheriff's Department did not elaborate on why
- 3:45Speaker 1: they believe there is no foul play or what led
- 3:48Speaker 1: them to the wooded area where Carter's remains were found.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Overseas now and to Germany, where police say two children
- 3:56Speaker 1: are in custody suspected of killing a twelve year old
- 3:59Speaker 1: girl found dead earlier this week in the western town
- 4:03Speaker 1: of Freudenburg, in a case that has shocked the country.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Crime on Lines Sydney Sumner. The girl, who was only
- 4:10Speaker 1: identified as Louise due to privacy reasons, went missing on
- 4:14Speaker 1: March eleventh after visiting a friend. She was found stabbed
- 4:17Speaker 1: to death the next day in a forest near a
- 4:19Speaker 1: former railroad station after a massive police search. Police say
- 4:24Speaker 1: the two suspects, who are only twelve and thirteen years old,
- 4:27Speaker 1: confessed to the killing. Citing the age of the suspects,
- 4:31Speaker 1: officials refused to give any further details on their identity, gender, motive,
- 4:36Speaker 1: or whether they knew the victim from school. The two
- 4:39Speaker 1: children are below the age of criminal responsibility, which is
- 4:42Speaker 1: fourteen in Germany. They were therefore not arrested but taken
- 4:46Speaker 1: into custody of a youth welfare office. Police said the
- 4:49Speaker 1: victim had several stab wounds and died of blood loss.
- 4:53Speaker 1: The governor of the state of North Rhine Westphalia, where
- 4:56Speaker 1: Freudenburg is located, said he was appalled by the killing.
- 4:59Speaker 1: He promise that the authorities would do everything in their
- 5:02Speaker 1: power to shed light on the reasons and circumstances of
- 5:06Speaker 1: the crime. Ten more people have been charged in connection
- 5:09Speaker 1: with a scheme to steal more than two hundred and
- 5:12Speaker 1: fifty million dollars from a federal program designed to provide
- 5:15Speaker 1: meals to low income children in Minnesota. A total of
- 5:19Speaker 1: sixty people have now been charged in the conspiracy, in
- 5:23Speaker 1: which authorities say a group of people took advantage of
- 5:26Speaker 1: rules that were relaxed during the COVID nineteen pandemic and
- 5:29Speaker 1: falsely claimed that they were providing food to children. Minnesota
- 5:33Speaker 1: US Attorney Andy Luger said in September that the conspiracy
- 5:37Speaker 1: was the largest pandemic related fraud scheme to date. At
- 5:41Speaker 1: a news conference, Luger said six people have pleaded guilty
- 5:45Speaker 1: so far, and more information is coming about who organized
- 5:49Speaker 1: the scheme. At the center of the plot the indictments
- 5:52Speaker 1: alleged was a Minnesota nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors
- 5:57Speaker 1: say just a fraction of the money went toward feeding kids,
- 6:00Speaker 1: with the rest laundered through shell companies and spent on property,
- 6:04Speaker 1: luxury cars, and travel. For the latest crime in justice,
- 6:08Speaker 1: and he's got a crime online dot com with this
- 6:10Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.