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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime News Now. I'm Dave mac.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Just before two pm the day after Christmas, Pennsylvania State
- 0:08Speaker 1: Police get a call for shots fired outside of residence
- 0:12Speaker 1: on Garrison Ridge Road in New Freeport, Green County, in
- 0:15Speaker 1: the southwestern part of the state, near the border with
- 0:18Speaker 1: West Virginia. The residence is difficult to see from the
- 0:21Speaker 1: roadway due to bamboo covering the area in front of
- 0:24Speaker 1: the house. Arriving unseene troopers find a woman suffering from
- 0:28Speaker 1: a gunshot wound. She is immediately transported by emergency medical
- 0:32Speaker 1: personnel to J. W. Ruby Moryle Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia,
- 0:37Speaker 1: where she is admitted in critical condition. A man is
- 0:40Speaker 1: also found suffering from a gunshot wound and is taken
- 0:43Speaker 1: to the same hospital as the woman. His injuries are
- 0:46Speaker 1: not as serious and he is treated and later released.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Investigators learned the man and woman are a married couple
- 0:52Speaker 1: and their eighteen year old son, Gerard Knowle, is the
- 0:55Speaker 1: suspected shooter. Inside the residence. Officers locate the couple's younger
- 1:00Speaker 1: your children unharmed. The shooting of the parents took place
- 1:03Speaker 1: outside the home, and it was one of the suspect's siblings,
- 1:07Speaker 1: who phoned nine to oneint one. The children are temporarily
- 1:10Speaker 1: placed in the custody of a family member. Police say.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Following the shooting, Noel fled on foot, prompting a widespread
- 1:17Speaker 1: multi agency search. State police blocked off Garrison Ridge Rode
- 1:22Speaker 1: as they searched the forest surrounding the home. The search
- 1:25Speaker 1: is slowed by poor cell service and coordinating searches in
- 1:28Speaker 1: the area for the possibly armed assailant and drawd. Noel
- 1:32Speaker 1: eludes capture throughout the night. Pennsylvania authorities continue searching from
- 1:37Speaker 1: the time the call came in without stopping, some troopers
- 1:40Speaker 1: working more than twenty four hours straight without taking a break.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Officers spirits are booed when word reaches the command post
- 1:48Speaker 1: that Noel's father has been released from the hospital. Butt
- 1:51Speaker 1: spirits are quickly brought down when it learned Nol's mother
- 1:54Speaker 1: did not survive the attack. Officers now on heightened alert
- 1:58Speaker 1: as they searched for an armed killer. By mid afternoon Saturday,
- 2:02Speaker 1: officers have been searching for more than twenty four hours.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Pennsylvania State Police Sergeant Richard Seiser talks about the search.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Well, obviously, when you have somebody with a homicide warrant
- 2:16Speaker 2: on the run with a gun is a huge danger
- 2:18Speaker 2: to the community. We used tracking dogs, we used helicopters,
- 2:22Speaker 2: We used police on foot, you know what I mean,
- 2:25Speaker 2: search and searching rough terrain.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Late Saturday afternoon, West Virginia State Police receive a tip
- 2:30Speaker 1: from the public that someone matching Noel's description is on
- 2:34Speaker 1: foot and has crossed the state line in one hundred
- 2:38Speaker 1: West Virginia. Shortly after the call, West Virginia State Police
- 2:42Speaker 1: locate the suspect. He's armed when apprehended. Sergeant Richard Seiser
- 2:46Speaker 1: is speaking with KDKA.
- 2:49Speaker 2: With thank the community. We kind of moved in here
- 2:52Speaker 2: and we're walking their properties and kind of taking over
- 2:57Speaker 2: streets and things that we needed to do to successfully
- 3:01Speaker 2: resolve the incidents. We thank them. I'm sure it's a
- 3:04Speaker 2: tragic situation that's unfolding for him. He lost his wife
- 3:07Speaker 2: and now his son is looking at a significant amount
- 3:11Speaker 2: of jail.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Ten eighteen year old Jerrod Noel, arrested accused of killing
- 3:15Speaker 1: his mother and injuring his father during the shooting, will
- 3:18Speaker 1: remain in West Virginia until he has extradited to Pennsylvania,
- 3:22Speaker 1: where he will face charges of homicide and attempted homicide.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Lord Crime and Justice News next Caammi Mendoza Almost mysteriously
- 3:40Speaker 1: vanished during Christmas Eve walk and now her best friend
- 3:43Speaker 1: is sharing Cammi's last words with The New York Post.
- 3:46Speaker 1: The nineteen year old is last seen outside her San
- 3:49Speaker 1: Antonio home just before seven am on Christmas Eve, wearing
- 3:52Speaker 1: pajama shorts and a hoodie. Her best friend from childhood,
- 3:56Speaker 1: Camilla Astraia, says they were on the phone making plans
- 3:59Speaker 1: to go dress shopping to wear to a family event
- 4:01Speaker 1: with Australia's boyfriend, and the last text Cammy sends to
- 4:04Speaker 1: her bestie by Cammy, I Love you. Astrea says the
- 4:08Speaker 1: two speak every day, so this sudden disappearance and lack
- 4:12Speaker 1: of communication is not something she would have ever expected.
- 4:16Speaker 1: The Bear County Sheriff's Office says Cammi Mendoza Almost is
- 4:19Speaker 1: last seen as she has captured on video outside the
- 4:22Speaker 1: house rummaging through her car before the footage cuts off.
- 4:25Speaker 1: And now the disappearance has left the community shaken and
- 4:28Speaker 1: the family desperate to find their nineteen year old community
- 4:32Speaker 1: college student aunt Nancy Almost, who took Almost and her
- 4:36Speaker 1: mother in when they first moved to Texas in twenty twelve.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Says they knew something was happening right away. This is
- 4:42Speaker 1: just not Cammy. Cammy usually takes an early morning walk,
- 4:46Speaker 1: but when she was not back by nine point thirty,
- 4:48Speaker 1: the concerned mother called Cammy's cell phone, only to find
- 4:52Speaker 1: the phone was on Cammy's bed with no battery. Mom
- 4:55Speaker 1: calls police and investigators arrived with the cent tracking dogs,
- 4:58Speaker 1: but they've not able to find anything. Police said in
- 5:02Speaker 1: their missing Persons alert, Camellia Almost is considered possibly endangered.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty miles from where Cammi Almost is
- 5:10Speaker 1: last seen in Bear County, a fifteen year old teen
- 5:13Speaker 1: goes out for a walk on Christmas Day with her dog.
- 5:17Speaker 1: When she doesn't return home at her usual time, her
- 5:20Speaker 1: parents use parental controls on her phone to locate their daughter.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Tracking his daughter's phone, the father travels to a secluded,
- 5:28Speaker 1: partially wooded area nearly two miles from the family home
- 5:31Speaker 1: and finds his daughter and her dog inside a maroon
- 5:35Speaker 1: pickup truck with a partially nude man helping his daughter
- 5:39Speaker 1: escape from the truck. Fleeing for their lives, the father
- 5:42Speaker 1: calls police and notifies them of what has taken place.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Investigators locate witnesses from the scene who provide deputies with
- 5:49Speaker 1: a detailed description of the vehicle, which helps locate the
- 5:52Speaker 1: truck and identify a man as Giovanni Rosalez Espinoza. Investigators
- 5:57Speaker 1: determine the suspect threaten the fifteen year old with the
- 6:00Speaker 1: knife and kidnap her from the street. Espinoza has taken
- 6:04Speaker 1: into custody without incident and has been charged with aggravated
- 6:07Speaker 1: kidnapping and indecency with the child. He's currently being held
- 6:10Speaker 1: in the Montgomery County Jail with no bond. For the
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- 6:20Speaker 1: With this crime Alert, I'm Dave Mac