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Crime Alert 05.03.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. In preschool,
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  Speaker 1: teacher Shanika Coward gets in an argument with another teacher
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  Speaker 1: and threats to shoot her and others at the school.
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  Speaker 1: Calwrot claims to have a gun on her person and
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  Speaker 1: access to more. Nashville cops are called. They find Cowart
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  Speaker 1: has one gun in her purse and a second in
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  Speaker 1: her car.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Cowart allegedly made threats including when I start shooting,
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  Speaker 2: you better run. It's unclear what started the argument that
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  Speaker 2: led to the threats. School safety officers took Coward into
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  Speaker 2: custody and the school was put on lockdown until Nashville
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  Speaker 2: police arrived. Students were allowed to leave after police recovered
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  Speaker 2: the two guns from Coward and she was removed from
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  Speaker 2: the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Shanika Cowart twenty nine, now charged with assault, threat of
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  Speaker 1: mass violence, two counts of carrying a weapon on school property.
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  Speaker 1: A Florida business owner calls police when a panic alarm
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  Speaker 1: is set off inside his shop. Cobbs review surveillance footage
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  Speaker 1: and see a white male pull up to a dumpster
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  Speaker 1: behind the business and pull out a cardboard box. The
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  Speaker 1: man puts the box over his head to Concila's face,
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  Speaker 1: then proceeds to break into the business, stealing several security
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  Speaker 1: cameras and a speaker, among other items. In the following months,
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  Speaker 1: two more similar burglaries occur, but there's no box over
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  Speaker 1: the guy's head. In the last one, Alan Godreau is
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  Speaker 1: identified as the so called box burglar, and now he
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  Speaker 1: of course, is facing several theft charges. More Crime and
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  Speaker 1: Justice news after this Now at the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, an eyewitness who tried to step in and
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  Speaker 3: stop George Floyd's murder, has been awarded a one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars payment by the Minneapolis City Council.
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner with Crime Online, tells us more about the
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  Speaker 3: case and the witness, who claims that as a result
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  Speaker 3: of the ordeal, he now has post traumatic stress disorder.
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  Speaker 2: In his lawsuit filed with Minneapolis last spring, mixed martial
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  Speaker 2: arts fighter Donald Williams, who testified against former officer Derek
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  Speaker 2: Chauvin in his twenty twenty one murder trials, said he
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  Speaker 2: was beaten by police on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: while attempting to prevent Floyd's death. Our friends with the
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  Speaker 2: Star Tribune say that the settlement was accepted by the
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  Speaker 2: city council without deliberation. According to the lawsuit, Chauvin seized
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  Speaker 2: a canister of chemical spray and shook it toward Williams
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  Speaker 2: and other onlookers who were concerned for Floyd's well being.
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  Speaker 2: Williams can be heard in a video shown at Chauvin's
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  Speaker 2: trial telling Chauvin to get off Floyd and calling the
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  Speaker 2: officer a bum. The lawsuit also states that former Minneapolis
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  Speaker 2: officer Toe Tao approached Williams and put his hand on
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  Speaker 2: his chest. During Chauvin's trial, Williams told the jury that
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  Speaker 2: Floyd had been subjected to a quote blood choke by
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  Speaker 2: the cop, a maneuver that limited the flow of blood.
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  Speaker 2: Williams claimed in his lawsuit that Chauvin's actions caused him
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  Speaker 2: to worry for his safety and to experience pain, suffering, humiliation, embarrassment,
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  Speaker 2: and medical costs. It was on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: that Floyd, a black man, died after Chauvin, a white man,
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  Speaker 2: spent nine and a half minutes kneeling on his neck
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  Speaker 2: outside of convenience store where Floyd had attempted to pass
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  Speaker 2: off a fake twenty dollars bill. Floyd could be heard
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  Speaker 2: saying I can't breathe and fading cries captured in bystander video.
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  Speaker 2: Floyd's death sparked protests around the globe and compelled a
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  Speaker 2: national conversation about racism and police brutality. Chauvin received a
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  Speaker 2: twenty two and a half year sentence after being found
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  Speaker 2: guilty of state murder in connection with Floyd's death. In addition,
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  Speaker 2: he entered a guilty plea to a different federal charge
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  Speaker 2: of infringing upon Floyd's civil rights.
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  Speaker 3: Tao and two other former Minneapolis cops are all serving
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  Speaker 3: shorter sentences. Now to New York as Harvey Weinstein's twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty rape conviction has been overturned by the state's highest
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  Speaker 3: court once again, Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The decision has stunned and disappointed women who had been
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  Speaker 2: celebrating historic victories during the Me Too movement, and it
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  Speaker 2: has left those who had testified in the case preparing
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  Speaker 2: for a retrial against the former movie tycoon. According to
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  Speaker 2: the court, the trial judge was deemed to have improperly
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  Speaker 2: admitted testimony against Weinstein on the basis of unrelated claim
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  Speaker 2: due to his twenty twenty two Los Angeles rape conviction,
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  Speaker 2: The seventy two year old Weinstein will remain behind bars. However,
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  Speaker 2: the decision in New York reopens a sad chapter in
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  Speaker 2: America's grappling with high profile sexual misconduct, a period that
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  Speaker 2: started in twenty seventeen with a barrage of accusations against
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein. Advocates for Me Too pointed out that the
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  Speaker 2: decision was based on procedural legality is rather than an
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  Speaker 2: absolution of Weinstein's actions, claiming the initial trial permanently altered
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  Speaker 2: public perceptions of sexual assault. The Manhattan District Attorney's office
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  Speaker 2: has announced that Weinstein will face a new trial, and
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  Speaker 2: at least one of his original accusers has promised through
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  Speaker 2: her attorney that she is willing to testify again. The
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  Speaker 2: New York Court of Appeals which reversed Weinstein's twenty three
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  Speaker 2: year sentence, and a four to three ruling stating that
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  Speaker 2: the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged alleged prior
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  Speaker 2: sexual acts and allowed inquiries into Weinstein's bad behavior had
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  Speaker 2: he testified. Both actions were described as highly prejudicial and
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  Speaker 2: an abuse of judicial discretion.
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  Speaker 3: Judge Madeline Singas delivered a scathing descent in which she's
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  Speaker 3: that the Court of Appeals was carrying out a quote
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  Speaker 3: disturbing trend of overturning jury's guilty verdicts in cases involving
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  Speaker 3: sexual violence. Thanks John, concern coworkers ask for a welfare check.
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  Speaker 3: When Christine Holloway doesn't show up to work, Connecticut cops
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  Speaker 3: find her at home, beaten dead, her one year old daughter,
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  Speaker 3: Vanessa Morales missing. Police Issue and Ambrell are looking for
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  Speaker 3: Holloway's boyfriend and Vanessa's father, Jose Morales. When cops find Morales,
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  Speaker 3: his daughter's not with him and he denies knowing anything
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  Speaker 3: about her whereabouts. Morales is arrested in charge with Christine's murder,
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  Speaker 3: but he has not been charged with Vanessa's disappearance. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: are working on a plea deal that would require Morales
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  Speaker 3: to divulge what happened to baby Vanessa. The little girl
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  Speaker 3: would now be over five years old. If you have
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  Speaker 3: info on baby Vanessa Morales, call a Sonia, Connecticut PD
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  Speaker 3: two zero three seven five one eight eight five. For
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  Speaker 3: the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot
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  Speaker 3: com with this crime Alert I'm Nancy Grace