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3 y/o tot boy SHOT DEAD at own birthday party · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: I distinctly remember my twins third birthday. It was a
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  Speaker 1: big blowout at a jumpy place, and there were balloons,
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  Speaker 1: massive cakes, somebody got a bloody nose, somebody threw up.
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  Speaker 1: It was a heck of a good time. How does
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  Speaker 1: three year old birthday party turn into a double shooting?
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  Speaker 1: How are there sixty cartridge cases found at a third
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  Speaker 1: birthday party? How does a little three year old boy
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  Speaker 1: celebrating his birthday party end up dead? As you may
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  Speaker 1: correctly guess, I want answers listen to this. Police responded
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  Speaker 1: to a call around and in the evening, when they arrived,
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  Speaker 1: they found the toddler and a twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: woman shot. My officers swiftly picked up the child at
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  Speaker 1: him to the hospital and unfortunately the child is deceased.
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  Speaker 1: The women expected to be okay, but police are still
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  Speaker 1: searching for the shooter responsible. You are hearing our friends
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  Speaker 1: at CBS Miami along with Freddie Ramirez of the police department. There.
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  Speaker 1: Let me introduce you an all star panel of guests
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  Speaker 1: trying to make sense of what happened to this three
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  Speaker 1: year old taught and according to his parents, he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even say mommy and daddy, yet not clearly. And he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah is dead. It's a lot to take in with me.
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  Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, a former felony prosecutor now a defense attorney.
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  Speaker 1: You can find him at CCA Law dot com. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Allan Blokey, a boy do we need as shrink? Clinical
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  Speaker 1: psychologist specializing in criminal cases. Professor of Psychology, University Alabama, Birmingham.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor of Forensics, jacksonl State University, author
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  Speaker 1: of Blood Beneath My Feet and star of a brand
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  Speaker 1: new series on true crime, Poisonous Liaisons. Tyler Hunt joining
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  Speaker 1: us from Crime Online dot com. So let's just start
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  Speaker 1: right there. Tyler, tell me about where this happened. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: Didn't the family go to Great Links to rent a
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  Speaker 1: party venue for the third birthday party? Yeah, Nancy, So
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  Speaker 1: this is in Golden Glades of Florida, which is suburbs
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  Speaker 1: just inside of Miami Dade County. And yeah, the family
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  Speaker 1: had rented a Airbnb house. It's a rental house for
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  Speaker 1: the birthday party, and i'd been freely used for parties
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  Speaker 1: in the past. There's sort of a party house. There
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  Speaker 1: was a pool there and that was the plan. For
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon was to have a party for Elijah, who
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  Speaker 1: was turning four would have been this week, and it
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  Speaker 1: was time. What more do we know about it, Tyler Hunt?
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  Speaker 1: It was a Saturday afternoon birthday party held in a
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  Speaker 1: r in a suburban area outside of Miami, Golden Glades
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  Speaker 1: and neighborhood. What more do we know about the neighborhood itself.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was I think a single family residence
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  Speaker 1: like a home, correct, but it was a rental, but
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  Speaker 1: it was still a home. Yeah, it was at home
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  Speaker 1: and dah. Yeah. Like I said, there was a pool there.
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  Speaker 1: The neighborhood itself population about thirty five thousand people in
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Glades area. But the actual house is on
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  Speaker 1: an address the twenty block in the northeast. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at it right now and it is in a gated
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  Speaker 1: community and a gated home. I'm looking at the photo
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  Speaker 1: right now, a very upscale airbnb the family rented specifically
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  Speaker 1: for this. I think it had a pool, it was
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  Speaker 1: a party house, and it was very desirable. It's also
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  Speaker 1: my understanding to you, Joseph Scott Morgan that it was
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  Speaker 1: frequently rented four parties. That's what it was all about
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  Speaker 1: people didn't go there and stay two or three months,
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  Speaker 1: or two or three weeks or two or three nights.
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  Speaker 1: It was a party house. And you know what where
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  Speaker 1: I've seen those before Joe Scott Morgan. I'm Hallmark. When
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  Speaker 1: we would all get together for their TCA events and
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  Speaker 1: it would be all the Hallmark stars. It would be
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  Speaker 1: a glittering night and we would say who's the house
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  Speaker 1: is this? Who lives here? And it would be this
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  Speaker 1: in LA but it would be rented out for events. Right.
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  Speaker 1: See where I'm going with this? This is critical Joe
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, as evidence goes, Yeah, it is. From an
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  Speaker 1: evidentiary standpoint, this is a monumental clue. And this is
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  Speaker 1: why you're gonna have multiple people that have an awareness
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  Speaker 1: of this address. If a lot of people have been
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  Speaker 1: using this for partying and maybe let's say, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: group a Wait a minute, Wait a minute right there?
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  Speaker 1: Whoa yeah. Stop When you say people partying, that's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of connotations, because when I hear hey, they're
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  Speaker 1: they're partying, that has a negative connotation to me. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a little boy's birthday party, not a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of adults vaping and smoking and getting drunk and wild,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like girls, girls gone wild partying at this
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  Speaker 1: big mansion. That's not what this is, Joe Scott. Let's
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  Speaker 1: be clear. Yeah, but this is this is what. This
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  Speaker 1: is a nice family event at a super nice Airbnb
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  Speaker 1: rental for family parties like this child Elijah's birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: And you're saying it's significant EVIDENTI early and I agree
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  Speaker 1: with you, because either someone knew that this was an
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb party rental home, or they knew this family specifically
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  Speaker 1: and these guests were going to be there. And in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, that narrows the pool. That's a question that
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  Speaker 1: an investigator would ask, you know, how has this information
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  Speaker 1: been disseminated? You know, look, you have kids. I have kids.
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  Speaker 1: When they were little weeks send out little invitations, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to all their little friends. It was this little cutesie
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  Speaker 1: thing that you would do. And so who has received
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  Speaker 1: an invitation to this? Who has an actual awareness And
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  Speaker 1: immediately you can develop a suspect the list off of this.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's not necessarily going to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: people that maybe attended the party that had been held
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the day. Keep in mind, this was you know,
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  Speaker 1: after eight pm. In the evening when they're cleaning up
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  Speaker 1: when this occurs. But it could have been a peripheral
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  Speaker 1: person that said, hey, there's going to be somebody there
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to specifically target. We had anybody in
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  Speaker 1: this group that's occupying that space for this party, or
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the family or whatever that's been involved
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  Speaker 1: in any kind of criminal activity or some kind of
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  Speaker 1: activity that a minute doesn't have to be criminal activity.
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  Speaker 1: It could be an angry spouse or an or it
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  Speaker 1: could be any nun whoa, whoa, whoa. Listen, you've got
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  Speaker 1: a group of people showing up armed. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: you've got an angry adult singular that's showing up with us.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. That's a good point. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: this guy's shot spotter technology sending police to the twenty
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  Speaker 1: block of Northeast one hundred and fifty eighth Street Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: When the first officer rode on scene, they found the
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  Speaker 1: three year old child who had been shot. That officer
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  Speaker 1: jumping into action, placing the child in their patrol car
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  Speaker 1: and rushing that child to the hospital, where he would
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  Speaker 1: sadly later die from his injuries. I would say anywhere
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  Speaker 1: from thirty to fifty shots. Mark and the success. He
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  Speaker 1: was outside working on a truck when he had to
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  Speaker 1: duck the couple people were running and we ducked behind
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  Speaker 1: his truck and when people ran out, he had guying
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  Speaker 1: these two trucks. Police tell us that the home involved
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  Speaker 1: was an Airbnb rental in the Golden Glades neighborhood. The
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  Speaker 1: shooter took off from the scene of the crime and
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  Speaker 1: is still out there. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace for
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  Speaker 1: those of you just joining us in the Golden Glades
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  Speaker 1: residential community, a gate at home in a gated area,
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  Speaker 1: a three year old taught boy is shot down dead?
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  Speaker 1: Why and then we understand now that forensics tells us
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  Speaker 1: that there wasn't just a single shot. There were fifty
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  Speaker 1: to sixty shell casings found on the scene. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact. Daryl Cohen, doctor Alan block Key, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, and Tyler Hunt, did you hear what we
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  Speaker 1: just learned from our friends joining us from WPLG. When
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  Speaker 1: the first officer arrived on the scene, he immediately found
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  Speaker 1: the three year old had been shot. The officer grabs
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  Speaker 1: a child, puts a child in the patrol car, did
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  Speaker 1: not even wait for nine one one to arrive and
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  Speaker 1: race the child to the hospital, where he later died
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  Speaker 1: of injuries. Now, neighbors say they heard thirty to fifty shots,
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  Speaker 1: but Daryl Cohen, you and I both prosecuted cases felony
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  Speaker 1: cases in court where an ear witness hears something, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't always know what they heard. Nancy, you could
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  Speaker 1: have been a car backfires, could have been a shot,
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  Speaker 1: could have been shots, could have been something else unless
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  Speaker 1: you see it, unless there's shell casings, unless there's something
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  Speaker 1: other than what I hear. You need more, and you
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  Speaker 1: need a lot more. You do need more than an
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  Speaker 1: ear witness, as we say, But I don't think a
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  Speaker 1: car can backfire thirty to fifty times. Guys, take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friends. Julie Leonardi at NBC six three
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  Speaker 1: year old Elijah de France shot and killed at a
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  Speaker 1: party intended to celebrate his life. Children were enjoying an
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  Speaker 1: afternoon in the pool, then shots were fired. Neighbors say
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  Speaker 1: they heard more than twenty gunshots. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: fireworks or firecrackers, but it was really abnormal. It turned
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  Speaker 1: out the gunshots. I'm completely devastated. I'm disgusted. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about accountability, When are we going to hold
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  Speaker 1: ourselves accountable for what's going on in our streets? Detectives
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  Speaker 1: say they'll be working around the clock to solve this
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  Speaker 1: senseless murder. A senseless murderer. Back to you, Daryl Cohen,
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  Speaker 1: Chippic Leaf. When we say murder, we think in the
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  Speaker 1: legal sense, as a matter of fact, like menzoreea malice,
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  Speaker 1: aforethought mal which is the root of malignant malice. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where legally the intent to do the act, shoot
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  Speaker 1: the gun, shoot the child comes in. But in this case,
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  Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, felony murder would apply as well, which has
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  Speaker 1: the same sentence penalty as does malice murder. An aggravated assault,
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  Speaker 1: which is pulling a weapon and scaring someone, making them
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  Speaker 1: in serious fear of immediate physical harm, and then someone dies,
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  Speaker 1: that's an underlying felony to equal felony murder. So the
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  Speaker 1: shooter doesn't have to shoot intent to shoot three year
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  Speaker 1: old Elijah. The shooter only has to intend to raise
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  Speaker 1: the gun and shoot it toward a gathering of people
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  Speaker 1: to get a felony murder charge. Agree or disagree, Absolutely agree, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: And the sad thing is the really sad thing is
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to this poor child who's dead whether
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  Speaker 1: the person meant to shoot at him or shot him
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  Speaker 1: by a mistake. The truth is this person or person's
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  Speaker 1: they are guilty of murder and whether again whether they
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  Speaker 1: meant to shoot him or not, doesn't matter. You are
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  Speaker 1: so right firing that weapon at or toward a person
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  Speaker 1: or threatening people. That is a felony, and when someone
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  Speaker 1: dies as a result of it, it is murder. To
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  Speaker 1: doctor Alan Blockey, PhD. Joining us at a Birmingham a
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  Speaker 1: clinical psychologist, I was out with the twins last night
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  Speaker 1: and my son was running into this little bedega to
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  Speaker 1: what was he looking for? Some kind of a bun
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  Speaker 1: with something inside of it. And it was still daylight,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was about seven thirty, And in light
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  Speaker 1: of all the shootings that have been happening in public
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  Speaker 1: places like malls and parking lots, I thought, what would
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  Speaker 1: just crossed my mind, what would I do if somebody
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  Speaker 1: started shooting, or we were in a restaurant or somewhere
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  Speaker 1: and somebody starts shooting. That's what parents have to think
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  Speaker 1: about now to protect their children. Out of the blue,
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, a shooter shows up and starts shooting.
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  Speaker 1: It's scary. But now, even at a third birthday party
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  Speaker 1: for Pete's sake, a pool party, where the worst thing
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  Speaker 1: you're worried about is somebody getting thrown in the pool
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  Speaker 1: or hitting their head, you have to worry about a shooter. Unsadly,
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  Speaker 1: in our country, nothing is safe, nothing is protected in anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And it's true no matter where I go. I'm much
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  Speaker 1: more afraid now than I was a year ago, or
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  Speaker 1: two years ago or five years ago, because we hear
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  Speaker 1: it every day in the media. Every day it seems
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  Speaker 1: like there's a shooting like this and it's out of
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  Speaker 1: control and everybody should be afraid. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think of it so much as being I'm afraid. I
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  Speaker 1: think about what am I going to do if slash
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  Speaker 1: win this happens. How am I going to protect John
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  Speaker 1: David and Lucy? And I was thinking about that because
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  Speaker 1: Lucy stayed in the car with me and John David
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  Speaker 1: went in. I could see him, but we were separated
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  Speaker 1: and there was no way can protect him and Lucy
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  Speaker 1: at the same exact moment in time. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that this is anecdotal, but Daryl Cohen, when we grew up,
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  Speaker 1: we would I was a last key kid. I would
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  Speaker 1: get off the US or just walk home on my
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  Speaker 1: own for Pete's sake. And it was a good, good
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  Speaker 1: little hike about a mile and get in the house.
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  Speaker 1: If I couldn't find the key, I would find a
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  Speaker 1: way to get in the house and we would ride
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  Speaker 1: our bike Expire ourselves are together. But whatever until it
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  Speaker 1: was time for supper. Now you got to worry about
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  Speaker 1: getting shot at the third birthday party. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: blame you, Daryl Cohen, actually, because you're the kind of
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  Speaker 1: defense attorney that gets people like these shooters out of
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  Speaker 1: jail so they can go do it again. You know,
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  Speaker 1: recidivism rates right, Darryl Cohen. Nancy, I only represent those
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  Speaker 1: who have been wrongfully charged and rightfully acquitted. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: know what. I just stopped because you're wasting my airtime
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  Speaker 1: right now to hear wrongfully a keys. But what more
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  Speaker 1: do we know about the scene? What actually happened? Climb
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  Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace guys. A three year old top
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  Speaker 1: boy is gunned down at his birthday party. It was
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  Speaker 1: at an very upscale airbnb with a pool. Everyone showed
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  Speaker 1: up to this gated home and the party commenced. But
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  Speaker 1: how could the parents foresee that this shooting would occur?
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  Speaker 1: Straight out to Joseph Scott, Morgan, Professor forensics, Jacksonville State University,
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  Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, jose Scott,
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  Speaker 1: what does that tell you? We just heard about the
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  Speaker 1: gate to the home to stop party crashers being riddled,
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  Speaker 1: that we actually have essentially a backstop or catch if
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  Speaker 1: you will, ford the spin rounds these bullets that are
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  Speaker 1: going down range. So if you've got holes in the gate,
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  Speaker 1: as the reporter had mentioned, that means that some of
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  Speaker 1: these projectiles that had fired had been fired. She said
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  Speaker 1: that they recovered a lot of casings. I can get
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  Speaker 1: into that in just a second. But the bullets itself
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  Speaker 1: that that comes out of the end of the weapon
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  Speaker 1: has been captured potentially by the gate in any other
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  Speaker 1: kind of fencing that maybe around there. We can take
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  Speaker 1: those and compare them. Remember what she said, Nancy, There
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  Speaker 1: are multiple weapons involved in this case, according to the witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: So that means that for every single weapon, you have
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  Speaker 1: a different set of hands that are holding these weapons.
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  Speaker 1: The weapons, it doesn't matter if they're manufactured by the
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  Speaker 1: same people they have unique ballistic identifiers. And the idea
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  Speaker 1: is is that you capture that bullet, you compare the
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  Speaker 1: striations or the bullet markings to those markings that are
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  Speaker 1: created by those barrels, and time back to the specific weapons. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the key is with this little babe that was murdered
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  Speaker 1: and slaughtered in front of this home? Are they able?
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  Speaker 1: Were they able to actually recover a projectile from his
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  Speaker 1: little fragile body. If they were, you can use the
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  Speaker 1: same principle the bullet striations that you remove from his body,
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  Speaker 1: Take that and compare it to one of these unknown weapons.
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  Speaker 1: You put that weapon in the hand, and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of pairs this scene down relative to who fired the
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  Speaker 1: fatal shot that killed this little baby. To Daryl Cohen,
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  Speaker 1: former prosecutor now defense attorney with Cohen Cooper, Estephan Allen, Daryl,
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  Speaker 1: there is also the national database as far as guns go,
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  Speaker 1: if this gun had ever been used before, we can
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  Speaker 1: find out mass the bullet to the gun, If the
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  Speaker 1: bullets can tell us that anyway, Not only that, what
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  Speaker 1: I want to find out in your mind, what it
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  Speaker 1: means to you that the perps unloaded fifty to sixty bullets.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously an automatic weapon, Nancy. It means to me that
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  Speaker 1: there was one more than one perp. It means to
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  Speaker 1: me there was some sort of feud going on. Were
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  Speaker 1: we going to get even for a drug deal that
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  Speaker 1: went down? Oh wait, wait, wait, why are you putting
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  Speaker 1: drugs into this? Nobody said anything about drugs. There were
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  Speaker 1: no drugs in the home. No drugs, said the party.
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  Speaker 1: This is a child's birthday party, Daryl. They weren't after
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  Speaker 1: the child, Nancy. Somebody was after other perps or other
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  Speaker 1: people because of something that happened before. You made me, man,
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  Speaker 1: you made me, you embarrassed me. You didn't. And drugs
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  Speaker 1: seem to be the root of everything. In addition, in
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  Speaker 1: addition to all of the guns that we cannot control,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to all of the automatic weapons that see
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  Speaker 1: to come out of water facets like water. Yes, if
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  Speaker 1: that weapon had been used in the past and the police,
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  Speaker 1: the law enforcement had gotten ahold of it, yes it
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  Speaker 1: can be matched. But I'll tell you, I'll bet you
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  Speaker 1: dollars to donuts that that weapons are. Those weapons will
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  Speaker 1: never be found and they will never be matched because
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  Speaker 1: they're now probably sitting in the inland waterway. And not
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  Speaker 1: only that, I doubt they were bought through any reputable
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  Speaker 1: methods such as at a gun store or a gun show,
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  Speaker 1: which we see basically traveling around the country. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like every other weekend driving down the interstate, you see
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  Speaker 1: a big sign for a gun show where you sell guns.
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  Speaker 1: These guns are probably black market guns, and they've probably
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  Speaker 1: been involved in cases before, and as Darrell said, they've
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  Speaker 1: probably been torn apart, broken down, and the pieces between
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  Speaker 1: here and tim buc two guys take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: our friends at CBS Miami. According to police, there was
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  Speaker 1: some sort of altercation out in front of the home,
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  Speaker 1: so one pulled out a fire on and began to
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  Speaker 1: shoot his gun, and as a result, we have a
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  Speaker 1: dead three year old. Neighbors tell us they heard anywhere
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  Speaker 1: between twenty and thirty shots being fired, one showing us
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  Speaker 1: what appears to be a bullet hole left in the
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  Speaker 1: hood of his car, and several more seen all over
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  Speaker 1: the property. Investigators who have passed out flyers in the
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood are asking for the community's help and finding whoever
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  Speaker 1: is responsible, and I call out those subjects. You better
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  Speaker 1: turn yourself in because we're not going to let this go.
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  Speaker 1: That's a three year old child. That's our future crime
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  Speaker 1: stories with Nancy Grace. The person responsible for the shooting
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  Speaker 1: is still out there and why it seems as if
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  Speaker 1: it's an isolated event, because how could this happen? Why
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  Speaker 1: are you to take a listen to our cut tien.
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  Speaker 1: This is Robbie Simmons seven News. A packed memorial for
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  Speaker 1: a six year old whose life ended at a celebration
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  Speaker 1: for someone else's birth Friends and family of Chastity Saunders
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  Speaker 1: still reeling from the loss. The pictures back up with
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  Speaker 1: her grandmother, Sharon Cullins describes a lively, girly girl. She
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  Speaker 1: was a deep um, a real deep. She loved lipstick,
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  Speaker 1: makeup and hair and nails and candles, notes and stuffed
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  Speaker 1: animals for the little girl, who, according to friends of
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  Speaker 1: the family, was attending a birthday party for in place
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  Speaker 1: near fifty Miami. Police had happened around seven in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: You can still see the bullet holes in the window
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  Speaker 1: of this car and another on the side of this vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: At least a dozen evidence markers visible. Saunder and one
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  Speaker 1: of the two adult victims rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospitals
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  Speaker 1: Writer Trauma Center, but the six year old would not survive.
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  Speaker 1: A six year old girl, Chassis Saunders dead. That's not all.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to Alanta Washington. It was just after
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  Speaker 1: eight Saturday night when seven year old Alana Washington was
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  Speaker 1: shot while inside her family's car. Her mother is now
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  Speaker 1: appealing for the public's help. Alana was only seven years
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  Speaker 1: old getting out of a car. My grandson is only
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  Speaker 1: one years old and he's still holding on. It also
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  Speaker 1: left three other people wounded, including a man, a woman,
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  Speaker 1: and Drayton's grandson. Police say dozens of rounds were fired
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  Speaker 1: from another car that took off. It happened in northwest
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth Avenue and fifty first Street from Florida to
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  Speaker 1: Ritzy butthead community in Atlanta. Take a listen to our friends,
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  Speaker 1: Rick Folwams, CBS forty six, our cut twelve. We were
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  Speaker 1: just leaving Lennox Mall. I literally just left it. We
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  Speaker 1: heard a gunshot like a gunshot down and then Oliver
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  Speaker 1: chad In, my niece falls over seven. Wow. And that
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  Speaker 1: is the nine one one call, very very difficult to
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  Speaker 1: listen to. After a seven year old girl was hit
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  Speaker 1: by gunfire near Phipps Plaza and tonight she is still
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  Speaker 1: fighting for her life. Detectives are still trying to track
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  Speaker 1: down the shooter and Maura Sirianixia eleven Listen Metro Police
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  Speaker 1: have worked one hundred and fifty five homicides so far
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  Speaker 1: this year. The latest victim is an innocent child. After
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  Speaker 1: spending five days in the hospital fighting for her life,
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  Speaker 1: police say seven year old Kennedy Maxie died the day
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  Speaker 1: after Christmas, the victim of senseless gun violence. Police say
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy was riding in the car with her mother and
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  Speaker 1: aunt last Monday near Phipps Plaza when she was shot
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  Speaker 1: in the back of the head. Investigators believe Kennedy was
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  Speaker 1: hit with a stray bullet, possibly fired during an argument
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  Speaker 1: in between a group of men in the nearby Sachs
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. Atlanta Police are still working to track down
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  Speaker 1: the shooter. Sachs as in Sacks Fifth Avenue, one of
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  Speaker 1: the most glitzy and expensive stores you could think of,
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  Speaker 1: and a little girl gets shot dead after they leave Sax. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's in the ritzy butthead community. Now let's go to Somerville,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina are cut fifteen. Somerville police returned to the
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  Speaker 1: scene this afternoon to look for more evidence and talk
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  Speaker 1: to residence after a five year old girl was shot
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  Speaker 1: and killed. We came out, We've seen all the police met.
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  Speaker 1: Bullet holes remain in the window of the home on
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  Speaker 1: Langley Drive. Authorities says someone fired into the house from
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  Speaker 1: outside and while you were listening to WCSC Live five,
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin Stancell, that's in Somerville, South Carolina. Now Cleveland, Ohia,
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to our friends at nineteen years Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: and online fundraiser portrays Mikaela Pickett as a smiley, ordinary
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  Speaker 1: eight year old girl tragically gunned down while playing outside
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  Speaker 1: eight years old. Man, Come on now, who would do
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  Speaker 1: something like that? Why would they even come around? He's
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  Speaker 1: shooting right then? And Willie Walker tells me he was
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  Speaker 1: hosting a birthday party for his teenage grandson in the
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  Speaker 1: backyard of his home on rosewe Avenue and Akron to
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  Speaker 1: doctor Alan Blockkey, PhD joining us artor Blocky, what is
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  Speaker 1: the thinking or the mindset of a shooter who shoots
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  Speaker 1: blinding into a group of people and ends up shooting
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  Speaker 1: a child? What are they thinking? You know, Nancy, it's
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  Speaker 1: so distressing. Probably during the time that we've been doing
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  Speaker 1: this show, there's been another child in this country who's
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  Speaker 1: been the victim of violence like that. What are they thinking.
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  Speaker 1: They're thinking violence, they're thinking attack, they're thinking vindictiveness, They're
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  Speaker 1: thinking I want to kill. They're not thinking about little children.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it'll disregard for life bottom line. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, if I could get my mits on this
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  Speaker 1: case and prosecute these shooters, couldn't they tell it was
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  Speaker 1: a birthday party? In my mind, this is a death
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  Speaker 1: penalty case, Nancy. It doesn't matter to me whether it
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  Speaker 1: is a birthday party, whether the child is outside playing.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm with you. These are all death
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  Speaker 1: penalty cases. Because we need gun control, not taking guns
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  Speaker 1: away from all of the righteous people, but stopping these
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  Speaker 1: automatic weapons from being available, stopping people from being able
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  Speaker 1: to find a gun wherever he or she wants it
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  Speaker 1: to be, and educating people that when you do something
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  Speaker 1: like this, you are going to pay, and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to pay with your life. Well, you know what, dh
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  Speaker 1: Gun control in our country is a pretty tall order.
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  Speaker 1: Can we just start right now with finding whoever shot
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  Speaker 1: little Elijah la France, just three years old at his
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  Speaker 1: birthday party Tipline three zero five four seven one tips,
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  Speaker 1: Repeat three zero five four seven one tips. Nancy Grace
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  Speaker 1: Crime Story, signing off goodbye friend,