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Crime Alert 02.18.25 | Driver with BODY IN HIS CAR NOT ARRESTED · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies make a traffic stop and find a body shot
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  Speaker 1: dead in the car. The victors family outraged when the
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  Speaker 1: driver set free. Here's what happened. Douglas County Sheriffs say
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  Speaker 1: they pulled over a driver near Thornton Road I twenty
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  Speaker 1: and Lithia Springs. In the car, they find twenty one
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  Speaker 1: year old Malachi Mitchell shot dead. The driver's taken for questioning,
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  Speaker 1: later released without charges. Mitchell's mother, Kenyan Mitchell, wants to
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  Speaker 1: know how do you get to go home?
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Melichi. Mitchell was shot and killed after meeting the
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  Speaker 2: man to sell him a firearm. According to the Douglas
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office, after the transaction was completed, a struggle
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  Speaker 2: broke out inside the suspect's vehicle. The man, who was
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  Speaker 2: also the driver, allegedly pulled out a second firearm and
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  Speaker 2: shot Mitchell, believing he was being set up. He then
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  Speaker 2: fled the scene, but was stopped by deputies due to
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  Speaker 2: erradic driving. That traffic stop near Thornton Road in Interstate
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  Speaker 2: twenty led to deputy's discovering Mitchell's body inside the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: The District Attorney's office has not commented on the case. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you should. When Altadena, California, utility workers turn up
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  Speaker 1: to restore power to a home spared by the recent fires,
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  Speaker 1: they discover a five hundred and twenty five pound bear
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  Speaker 1: sheltering in the cross space. Department official Wildlife step in
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  Speaker 1: deploying a rescue team of eight. It takes over twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours to figure out how to get the bear
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  Speaker 1: to leave. Eventually, a food laden bear trap placed at
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  Speaker 1: the opening. Within minutes, the bear emerges, steps in the
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  Speaker 1: trap and triggers the door. The bears transported to the
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  Speaker 1: Angeles National Forest, where it undergoes a welfare check, is GPS, collared, measured,
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  Speaker 1: and safely released after midnight. The homeowner's power, now restored
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  Speaker 1: to the cross space is sealed with bear proof materials
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  Speaker 1: in case their new friend wants to visit again. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lenlight in a rare case of parental accountability in
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  Speaker 3: a school shooting, a Georgia judge has granted a five
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars bond for Colin Gray, the father of
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  Speaker 3: a fourteen year old accused of a deadly attack at
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  Speaker 3: Appalachi High School in Winder. The fifty four year old
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  Speaker 3: Gray faces twenty nine charges, including second degree murder and
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  Speaker 3: involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say he gave his son, Cold Gray
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  Speaker 3: an assault style rifle as a Christmas gift, despite knowing
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  Speaker 3: the teen's mental health was declining. Investigators also revealed that
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  Speaker 3: the boy had an obsession with school shootings and even
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  Speaker 3: built a shrine to the twenty eighteen Parkland gunman. Cold
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  Speaker 3: Gray is charged as an adult with fifty five counts,
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  Speaker 3: including murder and aggravated assault. Prosecutors say he smuggled the
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  Speaker 3: weapon onto a school bus and on September fourth, open
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  Speaker 3: fire inside the high school, killing four two teachers and
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  Speaker 3: two students, and wounding nine others. Judge Nick Prim acknowledged
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  Speaker 3: the pain, but stressed that bond decisions must follow the law.
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  Speaker 3: He found no evidence that Gray was a flight risk
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  Speaker 3: or a threat, ordering him to have no contact with witnesses. Gray,
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  Speaker 3: if released, will stay with his sister in Cherokee County, Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: about seventy miles from Winder. Meanwhile, his son remains jailed
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  Speaker 3: awaiting trial. For what investigators call a meticulously planned massacre.
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  Speaker 3: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has now ruled that Karen
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  Speaker 3: Reid will face a retrial on all charges related to
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  Speaker 3: the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O'Keefe.
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  Speaker 3: We turned to crime online Sidney Sumner for more.
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  Speaker 2: Karen Reid, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, is
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  Speaker 2: accused of striking officer John O'Keeffe with her OSCA and
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  Speaker 2: leaving him to die in a snowstorm in January twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. Prosecutors have charged her with second degree murder, manslaughter,
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  Speaker 2: and leaving the scene of a crime. The initial trial
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  Speaker 2: concluded in July twenty twenty four with a mistrial after
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  Speaker 2: jurors reported being deadlocked. Defense attorney Martin Weinberg contended that
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  Speaker 2: jurors had unanimously agreed on not guilty verdicts for the
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  Speaker 2: second degree murder and leaving the scene charges, but were
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  Speaker 2: deadlocked on the manslaughter count. However, the court emphasized that
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  Speaker 2: post trial jurors statements cannot alter the trial's outcome. The
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  Speaker 2: defense maintains that Reid was framed to protect other law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement officers allegedly involved in O'Keefe's death. They argued that
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  Speaker 2: O'Keefe was killed inside a fellow officer's home and then
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  Speaker 2: placed outside to conceal the true circumstances. In a recent
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  Speaker 2: interview with Boston twenty five News, Reid expressed her readiness
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  Speaker 2: for the retrial, stating quote, I don't care who I face.
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  Speaker 2: I have the truth. I have the best attorneys. Do
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  Speaker 2: your worst.
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  Speaker 3: Read's reach t while is scheduled to commence on April first.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: John Colton ross Barrera, seventeen, vanishes from Russell, Kansas September
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, two thousand and eight. A friend drops him
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  Speaker 1: off at an outdoor skate park. Colton's supposed to call
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  Speaker 1: home for a ride. The call never comes. Authorities believe
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  Speaker 1: the team left the park on his own. His family disagrees.
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  Speaker 1: Colton leaves his wallet, money and id at home. Five nine,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five pounds, brown hair, brown eyes,
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  Speaker 1: a concave sternum, wearing glasses. Today he would be thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Colton ross Barrera, please contact
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  Speaker 1: Russell County, Kansas Sheriffs seven eighty five four eight three
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