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Crime Alert 11.01.24 | Ex-BF Guns Down Med Student at Cancer Charity Walk · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimes now. Elle Young twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: a University Tennessee med student, parks for Jape to join
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  Speaker 2: a charity cancer walk, but notices her ex boyfriend's car
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  Speaker 2: pull up behind her. Suddenly, two shots rang out. She
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  Speaker 2: stumbles out of her car, bleeding, and Jackson Hopper approaches
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  Speaker 2: al fires another shot as she lies on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: El Young pronounced dead on the scene. Hopper fled, but
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  Speaker 2: not before a bystander took a picture of his license plate.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy Hopper was apprehended hours later when he led a
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  Speaker 3: short high speed chase that ended with him crashing his car.
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  Speaker 3: Hopper was taken to the hospital for evaluation, then released
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  Speaker 3: into police custody. Cops found a nine millimeter pistol in
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  Speaker 3: his vehicle. Young reportedly recently broke up with Hopper. Friends
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  Speaker 3: and family describe Elle as quote walking sunshine and very
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  Speaker 3: driven on her way to becoming an excellent physician.
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  Speaker 2: Hopper, twenty six, charged with first a great murder Catherine
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  Speaker 2: Geiger's seventy seven horsing around with friend Arthur Osborne fifty
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  Speaker 2: eight at her Ohio apartment jokingly, Osborne asked her to
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  Speaker 2: shoot him She reaches for her gun without hesitation points
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  Speaker 2: and shoot. Geiger's horrifying when she realizes she actually shot Osborne.
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  Speaker 2: Geiger thought the gun was unloaded. Geiger calls nine one one.
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  Speaker 2: Osborne rushed to the hospital. He does not survive. Catherine Geiger,
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  Speaker 2: seventy seven, now charged with reckless homicide. More crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice news after this Now at the latest crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice breaking news. Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 1: John Lenley, a former Louisiana state trooper, has pleaded no
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  Speaker 1: contest to reduce charges in the twenty nineteen arrest death
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  Speaker 1: of Ronald Green, marking the first conviction in a police
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  Speaker 1: brutality case that once drew national attention. Corey Yorke, one
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  Speaker 1: of five officers originally indicted, avoided jail time and accepted
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  Speaker 1: a year of probation. York had faced felony charges of
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  Speaker 1: negligent homicide after bodycam footage showed him dragging a black
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  Speaker 1: motorist by his ankle shackles and forcing him to lie
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  Speaker 1: face down until he stopped breathing. In exchange for his
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  Speaker 1: plea to misdemeanor battery, Yorke agreed to testify against the
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  Speaker 1: sole officer still facing trial. Green's family expressed anger, claiming
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  Speaker 1: they were misled about the deal and robbed of a
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  Speaker 1: chance for a felony trial. The case had been marked
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  Speaker 1: by scandal, including allegations of a cover up and claims
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  Speaker 1: of racism. Despite calls for transparencies, State authorities had initially
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  Speaker 1: told Green's family he died in a car crash, only
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  Speaker 1: to be contradicted by video footage published by our friends
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  Speaker 1: with the Associated Press in twenty twenty one. That footage
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  Speaker 1: showed officers penning Green down repeatedly using a stun gun
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  Speaker 1: and at times striking him. District Attorney John Belton declined
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  Speaker 1: to comment on whether justice was served, as federal investigations
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  Speaker 1: continue and a wrongful death lawsuit is under way. In Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: a police officer now faces murder charges following the fatal
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  Speaker 1: shooting of Taquia Young, a twenty one year old pregnant
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  Speaker 1: black woman. As Sidney Sumner of Crime Online tells us,
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  Speaker 1: it all unfolded during a confrontation that began over allegations
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  Speaker 1: of shoplifting.
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  Speaker 4: The incident occurred in late August of twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: when Blendon Township officer Connor Grubb, along with a colleague,
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  Speaker 4: approach Young as she sat in her vehicle outside a store.
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  Speaker 4: Young was accused of stealing alcohol, and the officers ordered
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  Speaker 4: her to exit the car. Instead, she began to slowly
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  Speaker 4: move her vehicle forward. Grub then fired a single shot
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  Speaker 4: through the windshield, striking Young in the chest. Both she
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  Speaker 4: and the unborn child she was expecting in three months
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  Speaker 4: did not survive. Now, a Franklin County grand jury has
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  Speaker 4: indicted officer Grub on multiple charges, including murder, involuntary manslaughter,
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  Speaker 4: and felonious assault. The indictment follows the release of body
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  Speaker 4: camera footage, which sparked widespread outrage in demands for accountability.
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  Speaker 4: The footage shows officers cursing and yelling at Young, with
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  Speaker 4: Young herself questioning are you going to shoot me before
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  Speaker 4: she attempted to drive away. The aftermath of the shooting
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  Speaker 4: has drawn strong reactions. Sean Walton, the attorney representing Young's family,
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  Speaker 4: emphasized the legal standards surrounding the use of deadly force
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  Speaker 4: by police, questioning the necessity and proportionality of Grubb's actions.
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  Speaker 4: The family has called the shooting a severe misuse of
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  Speaker 4: police power, particularly given the minor nature of the alleged crime.
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  Speaker 4: In response to the indictment. Brian Steele, representing the Blendon
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  Speaker 4: Township Police Union, express deep disappointment defending Grubb's actions as
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  Speaker 4: the result of a quote split second decision in a
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  Speaker 4: highly charged situation. Following the indictment, Blendon Township Police Chief
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  Speaker 4: John Belford announced that the department has initiated a disciplinary
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  Speaker 4: review process for Officer Grubb.
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  Speaker 1: This review will run concurrently with the criminal proceedings as
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  Speaker 1: the community awaits further developments in the case.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John so Way to a Burning Ground thirteen a quiet,
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  Speaker 2: artistic teane described as a good student and friend. She
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  Speaker 2: said that's good night to her parents, but the next
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  Speaker 2: morning she's not in her room, her backpack missing, but
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  Speaker 2: the rest of her belonging is untouched. She does not
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  Speaker 2: have a cell phone. Searches near her Gerrio and Montana
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  Speaker 2: home turn up nothing. She has not contacted family or friends.
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  Speaker 2: Suweita Burden Ground now missing three weeks. Suweita Native American
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  Speaker 2: five five, one hundred and forty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Last scene wearing a black hoodie with mushrooms on it,
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  Speaker 2: greay basketball shorts, purple slip on shoes, and an elk
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  Speaker 2: tooth necklace. She may be carrying a black and purple
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  Speaker 2: Adidas backpack. If you have info on suet A Burden
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  Speaker 2: Ground just thirteen, please call the FBI Salt Lake City
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  Speaker 2: Crime Stories with this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.