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Secret Fraternity Group Chat Recording Leads to Felony Charges for North Carolina Teen | Crime Alert 10.22.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani. A North Carolina teenager faces felony charges
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  Speaker 1: after police say he secretly filmed a University of North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina at Charlotte student during sex and sent the video
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  Speaker 1: to a fraternity group chat. Alexander Michael Evanoff, 19, was
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  Speaker 1: taken into custody following an investigation into the September 19th incident.
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  Speaker 1: Officials accuse Evanoff of using his cell phone to secretly
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  Speaker 1: record a sexually explicit video of a woman while the
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  Speaker 1: two had sex, then distributing it without her consent. According
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  Speaker 1: to affidavits, Evanoff sent the recording to a Sigma Alpha
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  Speaker 1: Epsilon fraternity group chat with 32 members. During an interview
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  Speaker 1: with law enforcement, Evanoff admitted to intentionally recording the act
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  Speaker 1: and sending it to the chat. He acknowledged to detectives
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  Speaker 1: that he neither requested nor obtained the victim's permission. When
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  Speaker 1: the woman confronted Evanoff, asking if sending it made him
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  Speaker 1: appear cool, court records indicate he responded affirmatively and apologized.
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  Speaker 1: Evanoff was arrested Monday and released Tuesday on $ 10, 000 bond,
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  Speaker 1: charged with one count of disclosing private images and two
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  Speaker 1: felony counts of secret peepings. A university spokesperson confirmed Evanoff
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  Speaker 1: is not currently enrolled, calling the alleged conduct reprehensible and intolerable.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. In Connecticut, a
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  Speaker 1: family already grieving an immense tragedy faces fresh heartbreak after
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  Speaker 1: a father is gunned down in an apparent road rage shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Bridgeport Police arrested 57-year-old Jorge Luis Ortiz in connection with
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  Speaker 1: the fatal shooting of 48-year-old Nelson Manuel Batista. Ortiz was
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  Speaker 1: previously convicted of murder in 1992 and served 30 years
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  Speaker 1: in state prison. Batista, a father of four, was mourning
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  Speaker 1: his only son, 25-year-old Air Force senior airman Pierce Anthony Batista,
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  Speaker 1: who died suddenly on September 25 in California. Batista's sister,
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  Speaker 1: Wislides Cruz, told the Connecticut Post her brother was deeply
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  Speaker 1: devastated but held a vibrant love for life and his
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  Speaker 1: three daughters. Around 9 in the morning on October 12,
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  Speaker 1: officers found Batista lying in the street beside his car
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  Speaker 1: near Cottage Street and Park Avenue with a fatal gunshot
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  Speaker 1: wound to the chest. Batista died shortly after arriving at St.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent's Medical Center. Bridgeport Police Chief Roderick Porter addressed the
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  Speaker 1: nature of the confrontations.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of our homicides are suspect, offender, I'm sorry, suspect, victim, known.
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  Speaker 2: This was a random act. We could even characterize it
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  Speaker 2: as somewhat of a road rage incident. So it was
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  Speaker 2: really important that we got this particular individual off the
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  Speaker 2: streets as quickly as possible because this could have been
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  Speaker 2: or he was a threat to the community. So we
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  Speaker 2: needed to get him off.
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  Speaker 1: While police worked to identify the shooter, critical evidence emerged
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  Speaker 1: when dash cam video surfaced online showing two men violently
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  Speaker 1: struggling over a handgun in the street. Police confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: footage captured the suspect in Batista's killing, with Detective Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Holtz highlighting the vital role citizen video played in the investigation.
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  Speaker 3: The result of this case was because we got help
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  Speaker 3: from the community. The community's involvement in this case was integral.
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  Speaker 3: You know about a video that was posted? That was
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  Speaker 3: a large part of this investigation. We commend that citizen
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  Speaker 3: that came forward. We were not pleased that that video
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  Speaker 3: went viral online. But the result is we do have
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  Speaker 3: an arrest here today.
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  Speaker 1: Following days of searching, Bridgeport officers stopped Ortiz walking on
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  Speaker 1: the city's east side Sunday night, capturing him after he
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  Speaker 1: attempted to flee on foot. Ortiz was charged with murder
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  Speaker 1: and criminal possession of a firearm. During his Monday arraignment,
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  Speaker 1: a judge increased his bond from $ 2. 5 million to $ 5 million,
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  Speaker 1: with 30% cash required, citing his prior murder conviction. The
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  Speaker 1: arrest came hours before Batista's viewing Monday evening, with his
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  Speaker 1: funeral and burial scheduled for the following day. Weiss Lighty's
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  Speaker 1: crews attended Monday's news conference, praising the community for providing
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  Speaker 1: support in their darkest hour.
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  Speaker 4: In times like this, when the community stands together, it
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  Speaker 4: just shows you how good people can be in the
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  Speaker 4: midst of all the darkness. You know, we still have
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  Speaker 4: to find light.
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  Speaker 1: With Ortiz scheduled to return to court on November 3rd,
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  Speaker 1: Cruz expressed deep gratitude as her family prepares for Batista's
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  Speaker 1: final rest.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you again to everybody, everybody working so hard to
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  Speaker 4: give us everything and just to bring us justice.
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  Speaker 1: We can lay him at peace.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for providing us with peace.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to Southern California, two 15-year-old high school girls are
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  Speaker 1: in custody after police intercepted an alleged plot to carry
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  Speaker 1: out a school shooting. The City of Corona Police Department
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  Speaker 1: reports the investigation began Tuesday, October 6, when the FBI
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  Speaker 1: notified local detectives about social media communications regarding a threat
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  Speaker 1: to Corona High School in Riverside County. Police quickly arrested
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  Speaker 1: a 15-year-old female student at the school. During the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: which involved numerous search warrants for electronic devices and residences,
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  Speaker 1: police identified and arrested a second suspect, a 15-year-old female
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  Speaker 1: student at nearby Norco High School. According to a police release,
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  Speaker 1: evidence showed both suspects spent months researching school shootings and
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  Speaker 1: discussing an attack at Corona High on an unspecified future date.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators noted the teens discussed methods of acquiring weapons, but
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  Speaker 1: believed they were unable to obtain any, with no guns recovered.
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  Speaker 1: Both suspects remain in custody on conspiracy to commit murder
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  Speaker 1: charges as the Riverside County District Attorney's Office reviews the case.
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  Speaker 1: Corona Police urged the community to report any concerns. For
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  Speaker 1: more crime and justice news, be sure to join us
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  Speaker 1: for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Fox 1, YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani.