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Grandfather of Victims Tries to Shoot Their Killer at Courthouse | Crime Alert 05.26.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner, Danville, Indiana, a man with maybe vengeance,
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  Speaker 2: maybe suicide on his mind. Just before one pm, Mark
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  Speaker 2: Vodder stands near the courthouse as two Hendricks County deputies
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  Speaker 2: begin escorting inmates from a transport van. The sixty five
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  Speaker 2: year old reveals a concealed weapon, a handgun. He fires
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  Speaker 2: at least once toward the group of inmates and officers.
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  Speaker 2: Deputy Zachary Emmett and Nathan Phillips return fire. They strike Vodder,
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  Speaker 2: who dies there No one else is hurt. The Indiana
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  Speaker 2: State Police take over the investigation. They later revealed the
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  Speaker 2: man he thought was on that transport How has court
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  Speaker 2: date postponed? Sedony Petty, accused of slaughtering Vodder's two grandchildren
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  Speaker 2: in a car crash, was not in the van that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Petty was running from police and is stolen Honda Civic
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  Speaker 2: when he slammed the car into the side of a
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  Speaker 2: Ford Explorer with three year old Aris and two month
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  Speaker 2: old Iris in the back seat. Their father. The driver survived,
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  Speaker 2: but both Iris and Aires burned to death. When the
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  Speaker 2: explorer exploded, Voter shot into the crowd did not injure anyone,
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  Speaker 2: but the sheriff's deputies did not miss. Just a few
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  Speaker 2: days before the shooting, Voter spoke with the media at
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  Speaker 2: a walk of honor for Ares, saying it should have
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  Speaker 2: been his grandson burying him, not the other way around.
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  Speaker 2: Neighbors believe Vodder planned the attack for weeks, remembering a
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  Speaker 2: conversation where Vodder commented he didn't have long to live.
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  Speaker 2: The two deputies involved in the deadly shooting are placed
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  Speaker 2: on administrative leave. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 2: Now at the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 2: Aligned John Lemley.
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  Speaker 1: Four people are dead and eight others wounded after a
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  Speaker 1: violent weekend in central Georgia. Authorities in Macon, a city
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred and sixty thousand residents in Bibb County
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  Speaker 1: are investigating two separate shootings that occurred less than twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours apart. The most deadly took place early Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 1: May eight eighth, just after midnight outside the Midtown Daker
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  Speaker 1: Bar and grill. Three men were shot and killed in
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot. Bibbcounty Coroner Leon Jones identified them as
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight year old Judarius Meadows, junior, thirty two year
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  Speaker 1: old Javante Falkes, and twenty four year old Javarcio Meadows.
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  Speaker 1: Six others were injured but are expected to survive. Less
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  Speaker 1: than a day earlier, a twenty five year old man,
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  Speaker 1: Jerics Markel Haywood, was fatally shot at a graduation party
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  Speaker 1: in a nearby neighborhood. Two other men were also injured,
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  Speaker 1: one critically. No arrests have been announced in either case.
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  Speaker 1: Coroner Leon Jones, who also leads a local anti violence group,
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  Speaker 1: called the recent string of killings frustrating and depressing, noting
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  Speaker 1: the county has now seen five homicides in just one week.
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  Speaker 1: A notorious Haitian gang leader has been convicted in the
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  Speaker 1: United States for orchestrating the twenty twenty one kidnapping of
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  Speaker 1: a American missionaries. We turned to Crime Online correspondent Sydney
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  Speaker 1: Sumner for more.
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  Speaker 2: In a Washington, d c. Federal courtroom, zurmiin Zolee, known
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  Speaker 2: as Yanyon, was found guilty of masterminding the abduction of
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  Speaker 2: sixteen US citizens and one Canadian in Haiti. Despite being
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  Speaker 2: incarcerated since twenty eighteen for unrelated crimes, so Lee continued
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  Speaker 2: to lead the four hundred Mowoso Gang from prison. In
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  Speaker 2: October twenty twenty one, the gang kidnapped members of the
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  Speaker 2: Ohio based Christian Aid ministries, including five children aged six,
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  Speaker 2: three and eight months. The gang demanded a million dollars
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  Speaker 2: per hostage or Zolee's release. After a three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars ransom was paid, some hostages were released,
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  Speaker 2: their remaining captives escaped after sixty two days in captivity.
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  Speaker 2: Zolee was extradited to the US in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, he received a thirty five year sentence for
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  Speaker 2: weapons smuggling and laundering ransom money. His recent conviction adds
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  Speaker 2: to his legal troubles. Was set to and sing pending.
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  Speaker 2: The four hundred Mawoso gang, whose name roughly translates to
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  Speaker 2: four hundred simpletons, remains active under the leadership of Joseph Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: also known as lawnmows on Zoo meaning death has no date.
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  Speaker 2: Wilson is currently on the FBI's most wanted list.
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  Speaker 1: Jermain Scholi's conviction marks a significant step in addressing gang
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  Speaker 1: related kidnappings in Haiti.
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  Speaker 2: December fifteenth, nineteen ninety six, a twelve year old girl
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  Speaker 2: disappears from her aunt's home in Willingboro, New Jersey. Hours earlier,
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  Speaker 2: she was at a church dinner with family. She tells
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  Speaker 2: a cousin thanks for everything. The next morning, her bed
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  Speaker 2: is found stuffed with pillows, her prescribed vitamins and purse
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  Speaker 2: left behind. She's nine months pregnant. Selina May has lost
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  Speaker 2: her mom two years earlier after a custody battle. She
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  Speaker 2: moves in with dad and joins a strict religious group.
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  Speaker 2: When she vanishes, some accuse the family of hiding her.
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  Speaker 2: The father of her child is never named, but identified
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  Speaker 2: only as sixteen years old and not from the church.
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  Speaker 2: Selena is mixed, raised five feet one hundred and twenty pounds,
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  Speaker 2: and she'd now be forty years old. The baby would
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  Speaker 2: have been born between Christmas and New Year's today, twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven years old. If you have any information on Selena
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  Speaker 2: Mays or her baby, call the National Center for Missing
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  Speaker 2: and Exploited Children at one eight hundred the Lost For
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  Speaker 2: this crime Alert. I'm Sidney Sumner