Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 09.27.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace breaking crime news now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Brian Ford, forty two, takes a step into his neighbor's
- 0:06Speaker 1: yard as he trims tree limbs. Edward Drusalowski barrels out
- 0:11Speaker 1: of his home with a gun, telling Ford to get
- 0:14Speaker 1: off his property. Ford says he's almost finished. Drusdilowski warns
- 0:18Speaker 1: Ford again. Ford replies, are you gonna shoot me? Ford
- 0:22Speaker 1: starts walking toward Jewslowski. Drewsilowski fires, killing Ford Nancy.
- 0:29Speaker 2: In a phone call to nine one one, Drusilowski's wife
- 0:31Speaker 2: told the operator he just meant to scare Ford. Drusilowski
- 0:35Speaker 2: said he keeps the first round of his gun empty
- 0:37Speaker 2: for safety reasons, and when Ford continued to advance on
- 0:40Speaker 2: him after hearing the gun click after his first shot,
- 0:44Speaker 2: Drusilowski shot a second time, this time hitting Ford. Drusilowski
- 0:48Speaker 2: also mentioned he had osteoporosis and feared what would happen
- 0:51Speaker 2: if Ford pushed or hit him.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Edward Drusilowski seventy eight, now charged with murder II. Alabama's
- 0:59Speaker 1: minor high school crushes rival Jackson Olam on the football
- 1:03Speaker 1: field twenty seven to nothing. As the game ends, cops
- 1:06Speaker 1: attempt to clear the field, but in the words of
- 1:09Speaker 1: Don McLean, the marching band.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Refused to yield.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Alabama Minors band director Johnny Mems ignores cops request to
- 1:17Speaker 1: silence the students, so police arrest him. Mams refuses to
- 1:21Speaker 1: stop conducting, and when he shoves one cop, a second
- 1:25Speaker 1: cop tases him. Johnny Mamms now charged with disorderly conduct, harassment,
- 1:30Speaker 1: and resisting arrest.
- 1:32Speaker 3: That hit A sour note. More crime and justice news
- 1:36Speaker 3: after this.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
- 1:41Speaker 1: Onlines John Lemlay.
- 1:42Speaker 3: An order now signed by a judge states that a
- 1:45Speaker 3: white Texas shooter who killed twenty three people at a
- 1:48Speaker 3: Walmart in twenty nineteen after shouting about Hispanics taking over
- 1:52Speaker 3: the government and economy, has agreed to pay more than
- 1:55Speaker 3: five million dollars to the victims of the racial attack.
- 1:58Speaker 3: For more, we turned to Sydney's so Nerve with Crime Online.
- 2:01Speaker 2: After admitting to federal hate crime charges in the wake
- 2:04Speaker 2: of one of the worst mass murders in American history,
- 2:07Speaker 2: Patrick Crucius was given ninety consecutive life terms in July.
- 2:11Speaker 2: According to court filings, the Justice Department and his lawyers
- 2:14Speaker 2: were able to come to an agreement on the amount
- 2:16Speaker 2: of restitution Crucius is ordered to pay. US District Judge
- 2:20Speaker 2: David Guadarrama subsequently gave his approval. There is no evidence
- 2:24Speaker 2: that the twenty five year old Crucius has any significant
- 2:27Speaker 2: funds at his disposal. Police say that the then twenty
- 2:30Speaker 2: one year old college dropout traveled more than seven hundred
- 2:33Speaker 2: miles from his home near Dallas to shoot Hispanics inside
- 2:36Speaker 2: and outside the business using an AK forty seven. Crucius
- 2:40Speaker 2: published an online rant in which he predicted a Hispanic
- 2:43Speaker 2: invasion of Texas just before the attack started. After federal
- 2:47Speaker 2: prosecutors dropped the possibility of the death penalty, Crucius entered
- 2:50Speaker 2: a guilty plea in February. However, when Crucius is tried
- 2:54Speaker 2: in state court, Texas prosecutors have said they will attempt
- 2:57Speaker 2: to have him placed on death row. There is no
- 2:59Speaker 2: definite date for that trial as of yet.
- 3:02Speaker 3: According to court documents, Crucius is to pay five point
- 3:05Speaker 3: five million dollars as spelled out in the agreement between
- 3:08Speaker 3: the shooter and the government. A mother from western Michigan
- 3:12Speaker 3: has been given a sentence of up to five years
- 3:14Speaker 3: in jail after she crashed her SUV into an ice
- 3:17Speaker 3: covered pond killing her three young sons. Letitia Gonzalez had
- 3:22Speaker 3: entered a no contest flee in August to three misdemeanor
- 3:25Speaker 3: charges of a moving infraction resulting in death, as well
- 3:28Speaker 3: as operating a vehicle while drunk causing serious injury. According
- 3:33Speaker 3: to our friends at WOODTV, Gonzalez informed the court that
- 3:37Speaker 3: she has been plagued with survivor's guilt ever since her
- 3:40Speaker 3: children's murders, and an Ottawa County judge sentenced the Holland
- 3:44Speaker 3: area mother to a minimum of two years and a
- 3:47Speaker 3: maximum of five years. It was in February of twenty
- 3:51Speaker 3: twenty two when Ottawa County Police A Gonzales drove her
- 3:54Speaker 3: SUV off the side of a Holland township road, jumped
- 3:58Speaker 3: a curb, and rolled into an ice cover retention pond.
- 4:01Speaker 3: The woman's three sons, four year old Jerome, the third,
- 4:04Speaker 3: three year old Jeremiah, and one year old Josiah, were
- 4:07Speaker 3: strapped into child's safety seats at the time and drowned
- 4:11Speaker 3: during the incident. After being sentenced to life in prison
- 4:15Speaker 3: for the murder of seven babies and trying to kill
- 4:17Speaker 3: an additional six others in her care at a UK hospital,
- 4:21Speaker 3: authorities say a former neonatal nurse will now face a
- 4:24Speaker 3: new trial in the allegation of attempting to murder a
- 4:27Speaker 3: newborn baby girl once again Crime Online Sidney Somner.
- 4:31Speaker 2: After a jury found thirty three year old Lucy let
- 4:34Speaker 2: Be guilty of murdering seven infants in the newborn unit
- 4:37Speaker 2: of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between
- 4:40Speaker 2: twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. She was sentenced last month
- 4:44Speaker 2: to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She
- 4:47Speaker 2: was also found guilty of attempting to murder six additional infants.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Following her ten month trial, a jury of seven women
- 4:53Speaker 2: and four men was unable to reach a judgment on
- 4:56Speaker 2: six counts of attempted murder involving five other babies. Be
- 5:00Speaker 2: had been charged twice with trying to kill one of
- 5:02Speaker 2: the infants. The Crown Prosecution Service declared its intention to
- 5:06Speaker 2: pursue a retrial in connection to one of these unresolved
- 5:08Speaker 2: charges concerning a newborn girl who was only identified as
- 5:12Speaker 2: child k let Bey, who was in prison, saw the
- 5:15Speaker 2: court on Monday from there and only spoke to confirm
- 5:18Speaker 2: her identity. June tenth, twenty twenty four. Has now been
- 5:21Speaker 2: chosen as the tenet of trial date under British law,
- 5:25Speaker 2: which forbids the death penalty, let be received the harshest
- 5:28Speaker 2: punishment possible. She acted with quote malevolence bordering on sadism.
- 5:32Speaker 2: According to a court.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Only three other women in UK history have ever received
- 5:37Speaker 3: such a severe punishment.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Risa Lewis, a Delaware mom of two little children, makes
- 5:42Speaker 1: a visit to France in Elkton, Maryland. She calls family
- 5:45Speaker 1: to let them know she's heading back to Newcastle and
- 5:48Speaker 1: will be home in about half an hour, but she
- 5:50Speaker 1: never makes it. Over nine months after disappearing, Raesa's carr,
- 5:55Speaker 1: a ninety seven crown vic found abandoned in New York, Delaware.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Riesha's cell phone remains active but has not been used
- 6:03Speaker 1: since her disappearance. Risha has a tattoo of red flames
- 6:07Speaker 1: circling her upper arm. She has a butterfly tattoo on
- 6:11Speaker 1: her chest. Her family says Risha never leaves the house
- 6:14Speaker 1: without a gold rope bracelet and matching necklace, plus a
- 6:18Speaker 1: pendant reading Mommy and Me. Riescha Lewis twenty six at
- 6:22Speaker 1: the time, now missing nearly eighteen years. If you know
- 6:27Speaker 1: or think you know anything about Riescha Lewis's disappearance, contact
- 6:32Speaker 1: NEWCASTLEPD three zero two five seven three two eight hundred.
- 6:37Speaker 1: For the latest crime injustice news, go to crime online
- 6:39Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.