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Father Charged for Providing School Shooter Daughter Guns | Crime Alert 05.22.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart Hourly Update breaking crime Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Sumner in Madison, Wisconsin, the father of a fifteen year
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  Speaker 2: old school shooter is facing felony charges for giving her
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  Speaker 2: access to the guns used in a deadly attack. Forty
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  Speaker 2: two year old Jeffrey rupe Now appeared in court to
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  Speaker 2: face charges of two counts of providing a firearm to
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  Speaker 2: a minor resulting in death and one count of contributing
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  Speaker 2: to the delinquency of a child. If convicted, he faces
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  Speaker 2: up to eighteen years behind bars. His daughter, Natalie Rupnow,
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  Speaker 2: opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in December, killing
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  Speaker 2: teacher Aaron West and fourteen year old Ruby Bergara, wounding
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  Speaker 2: six others than taking her own life. According to investigators,
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  Speaker 2: rupe Now admitted to buying the guns for her and
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  Speaker 2: giving her the code to a safe. In writings found
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  Speaker 2: after the shooting, Natalie blamed her father, calling his action stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors requested one hundred thousand dollars bail. The court set
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  Speaker 2: it at twenty thousand dollars, with GPS monitoring and strict conditions.
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  Speaker 2: If he's released. A status hearing is set for June ninth.
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  Speaker 2: In Colorado, three officers once charged in the fatal police
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  Speaker 2: shooting of Christian Glass are avoiding trial by helping train
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  Speaker 2: others on what went wrong. In June twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty two year old Christian Glass experiencing a mental health
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  Speaker 2: crisis called nine one one after his car got stuck
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  Speaker 2: near the mountain town of Silver Plume, Colorado. Body camera
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  Speaker 2: footage shows Glass holding a small knife inside his vehicle
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  Speaker 2: while officers from multiple agencies surrounded him, trying to coax
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  Speaker 2: him out. Clear Creek County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Bwen eventually
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  Speaker 2: broke the window, leading to a confrontation where Glass was tased,
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  Speaker 2: then fatally shot. Bwen was convicted in February of criminally
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  Speaker 2: negligent homicide and sentenced to three years in prison, the
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  Speaker 2: maximum allowed. Six other officers were charged with failing to intervene.
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  Speaker 2: Now three of them, Tim Collins, Britney Morrow, and Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Benny have had those charges dropped. In exchange, they participated
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  Speaker 2: in a training video and received further instruction in de
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  Speaker 2: escalation tactics. Prosecutors say the decision was made in part
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  Speaker 2: to spare Glass's family from more trials and to bring
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  Speaker 2: lasting reform. Fifth Judicial District Attorney Heidi McCullum says the
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  Speaker 2: video is already being used to teach law enforcement nationwide
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  Speaker 2: how not to respond to people in crisis. One officer
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  Speaker 2: still faces charges and two others had their cases dismissed
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  Speaker 2: earlier due to jurisdictional limits in Colorado's police accountability law.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Glass's parents and their attorney praised the approach, calling
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  Speaker 2: it a step towards safer policing. More crime and Justice
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  Speaker 2: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 2: breaking news. Crime Alindes John Lemley, a New.
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  Speaker 1: York corrections officer, has admitted to covering up evidence after
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  Speaker 1: a deadly prison beating caught on bodycam. Thirty six year
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  Speaker 1: old Nicholas Gentilay pleaded guilty to attempted tampering with evidence
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  Speaker 1: and the death of inmate Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility,
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred eighty miles northwest of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Gentile acknowledged wiping up Brooks blood and failing to report it.
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  Speaker 1: Under a plea deal, he avoids jail if he resigns
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  Speaker 1: and obeys the law. He was originally indicted on a
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  Speaker 1: felony the forty three year old Brooks died after being
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  Speaker 1: beaten three times on December ninth. Bodycam footage shows officers
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  Speaker 1: assaulting him while handcuffed. Six guards face second degree murder charges.
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  Speaker 1: Gentile was one of ten officers indicted. One, Christopher Walrath,
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  Speaker 1: has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, three others have pending plea deals.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutor William Fitzpatrick is also investigating a second deadly beating
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  Speaker 1: at nearby mid State Correctional facility. A southern California family
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  Speaker 1: faces grave allegations of prolonged child abuse crime. Online correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner brings us the latest.
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  Speaker 2: In Victorville, California, authorities have charged sixty year olds Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Michael Key and Tina Marie Sheffield Key, along with their
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  Speaker 2: twenty three year old daughter, Caitlin Morassa Key, with six
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  Speaker 2: counts of torture and one count of child abuse each.
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  Speaker 2: The charges stem from allegations that the trio subjected six
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  Speaker 2: children aged four to sixteen to years of physical, emotional,
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  Speaker 2: and mental abuse. Prosecutors detailed daily beatings, strangulation, leading to unconsciousness,
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  Speaker 2: and deprivation of food and water for days. The investigation
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  Speaker 2: began on February thirteenth, when a tip to a child
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  Speaker 2: abuse hotline prompted immediate action. The children were swiftly removed
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  Speaker 2: from the home and the keys were arrested earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: All three defendants are being held on a million dollar
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  Speaker 2: bill each. Their arraignment is scheduled later today via video
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  Speaker 2: conference at the Rancho Cucamonga Superior Courthouse. This case echoes
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  Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen conviction of David and Louise Turpin, who
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  Speaker 2: were found guilty of torturing and abusing their thirteen children
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  Speaker 2: in a similarly harrowing case. For the latest crime in
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner.