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Pulverized & Paralyzed: Driver Walks Free After Crushing Teen w Truck, TWICE| Crime Alert 6AM 12.25.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
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  Speaker 2: I'm as Grace.
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  Speaker 1: A former garbage truck driver who paralyzes a teen after
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  Speaker 1: recklessly reversing down a one way street gets no jail time.
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  Speaker 1: Cecilia Davis Johnson, forty eight, driving for Buffalo, runs a
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  Speaker 1: sixty thousand pound truck over a teen headed to school,
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  Speaker 1: then goes forward, running over the teen again. The teen hospitalized,
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  Speaker 1: has a leg amputated, and is now paralyzed waist down.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Gould has the details.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy, a former Buffalo Department of Public Works driver who
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  Speaker 3: used a sixty thousand pound garbage truck to transform a
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  Speaker 3: teen's life into a cycle of amputations and paralysis, will,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, spend zero days in a jail cell.
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  Speaker 3: Sassia Davis Johnson, forty eight, was sentenced to only three
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  Speaker 3: years of probation in Buffalo, New York after a reckless
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  Speaker 3: driving display that left eighteen year old Claw Ray permanently mangled.
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  Speaker 3: She's very, very remorseful for what happened. Despite facing nearly
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  Speaker 3: a year behind bars, the grandmother and former city employee
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  Speaker 3: walked out of court with a mere license revocation and
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  Speaker 3: a supervision order. The carnage unfolded on October second, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four, at approximately eight sixteen am, near the intersection
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  Speaker 3: of Rhode Island and Fourteenth Streets. As children flooded the
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  Speaker 3: sidewalks for school, Davis Johnson made the fatal decision to
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  Speaker 3: throw her massive rig into reverse, barreling the wrong way
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  Speaker 3: down a one way street. Clawray, then just seventeen and
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  Speaker 3: heading to class, never stood a chance against the steel behemoth.
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  Speaker 3: The impact was not a singular strike either. His attorney,
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  Speaker 3: Charles Desmond, reveal the truck ran over the boy, pulled forward,
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  Speaker 3: and then crushed his body a second time. The forensic
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  Speaker 3: toll of the accident is staggering. Ray has remained hospitalized
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  Speaker 3: for fourteen months, enduring more than thirty agonizing surgeries.
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  Speaker 1: Claud He's not doing well. He's still hospitalized. He's been
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  Speaker 1: hospitaled since the date of the incident.
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  Speaker 3: One leg has been amputated, and he remains paralyzed from
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  Speaker 3: the waist down with no discharge date in sight. While
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  Speaker 3: the defense argued the act was unintentional, the prosecution highlighted
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  Speaker 3: a laundry list of negligence. Davis Johnson ignored a spotter
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  Speaker 3: who stayed inside the cab and operated the vehicle despite
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  Speaker 3: a broken and disabled backup camera. The judge acknowledge the
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  Speaker 3: act was reckless but not intentional, granting a reduced please
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  Speaker 3: deal that the victim's family reportedly consented to. While Davis
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  Speaker 3: Johnson is no longer employed by the city, the Ray
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  Speaker 3: family has filed a massive lawsuit against the City of Buffalo,
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  Speaker 3: citing a total failure in training and equipment maintenance. For
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer more Crime and Justice news. After this, A.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy five year old granny has been left permanently blinded
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  Speaker 3: and mutilated because a quote unquote notorious violent predator was
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  Speaker 3: freed once again and allowed to roam on Seattle's streets.
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  Speaker 3: The victim's angry sons, son Andreos Diricus, spoke to Komo.
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  Speaker 1: News like, oh yeah, he's unusual, like usual, what attacking people?
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  Speaker 2: Seebelians Like, what the hell is wrong with your system?
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  Speaker 3: Jeanette Markin was standing on a downtown corner clutching a
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  Speaker 3: food order after a routine errand when she was targeted
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  Speaker 3: in a random stomach churning ambush. Forty two year old
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  Speaker 3: Fallet Peya crept up behind the unsuspecting senior and swung
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  Speaker 3: a heavy wooden board spiked with protruding screws and bolts.
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  Speaker 3: He swung it with both hands like a baseball bat.
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  Speaker 3: The savage impact shattered Markin's face, fracturing her skull, nose,
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  Speaker 3: and cheekbone, while a jagged screw gouged out her right eye.
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  Speaker 3: As Markin collapsed in a pool of blood outside the
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  Speaker 3: King County Courthouse, surveillance footage captured her attacker just calmly
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  Speaker 3: strolling away from the carnage. Horrified bystanders rushed to the
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  Speaker 3: granny side, with one quick thinking witness snapping a photo
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  Speaker 3: of the fleeing suspect that led to his immediate arrest
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  Speaker 3: by a King County Sheriff's deputy. When Seattle police arrived
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  Speaker 3: to take custody at Paya, the shock of the crime
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  Speaker 3: was eclipsed by a damning admission of familiarity. In a
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  Speaker 3: separate exchange with paramedic, An officer described on bodycam Paya
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  Speaker 3: as a quote unquote regular who quote unquote usually punches,
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  Speaker 3: adding with chilling nonchalants that quote. Today he decided to
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  Speaker 3: escalate end quote. Paya's rap sheet is a road map
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  Speaker 3: of judicial failure. In twenty twenty five alone, he was
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  Speaker 3: booked into the King County Jail eight times for offenses
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  Speaker 3: including assault, indecent exposure, and weapons charges, yet records show
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  Speaker 3: not a single one of those those arrests resulted in
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  Speaker 3: a felony charge before he allegedly blinded markin. His violent
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  Speaker 3: streak dates back to a twenty eleven stabbing spree where
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  Speaker 3: he knifed a victim eight times, yet served only eighteen
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  Speaker 3: months of community custody. Charged with first degree assault with
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  Speaker 3: a deadly weapon. Peya is now being held on a
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  Speaker 3: one million dollar bond pending a mental evaluation, and finally
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  Speaker 3: talk about a high octane home defense. A Sherman Oaks
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  Speaker 3: mom took the term protective parent to a literal collision
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  Speaker 3: course when she returned home to find masked burglars terrorizing
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  Speaker 3: her family While her kids and their granny huddled inside
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  Speaker 3: the house. The mother pulled into her driveway in a
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  Speaker 3: Mercedes G wagon and slammed into the suspect's white Honda,
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  Speaker 3: pinning the getaway driver inside. The impact sent to hooded
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  Speaker 3: henchmen sprinting for their lives while that third one struggled
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  Speaker 3: to crawl out of the wreckage. The woman's husband, who
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  Speaker 3: did not want to be idd spoke to KTLA five news.
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  Speaker 1: If they can catch those guys, I'm one hundred percent sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Before the strike, the crew had disabled the home's surveillance system,
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  Speaker 3: but they did not account for a mother's adrenaline rush.
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  Speaker 3: While the thieves did take off LAPD investigators recovered crowbars,
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  Speaker 3: walkie talkies, and ID from the smashed car, which will
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  Speaker 3: hopefully lead to their capture. Proof of Mama Bear's instinct
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  Speaker 3: can make all the difference. Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: especially children, and helped solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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