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"He Shot me on Purpose": 9yo Drops Bombshell After 10yo Bestie Blasts Him in Playdate Bloodbath| Crime Alert 6AM 01.22.2026 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now Mama, he
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  Speaker 1: shot me on purpose, A startling claim from a nine
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  Speaker 1: year old Trey Michael ledwise and a ten year old
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  Speaker 1: friend playing when shots ring out. Family says Trey Michael
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  Speaker 1: lost his right kidney, half his left lung, and his
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  Speaker 1: intestines were shattered by the bullet. The unnamed ten year
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  Speaker 1: old friend arrested for ag battery and Gevian possession of
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  Speaker 1: a gun. Jennifer Gould has the details, Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: A routine playdate in Alexandria, Louisiana exploded into a scene
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  Speaker 2: of unthinkable violence when that ten year old boy allegedly
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  Speaker 2: pointed a handgun at his nine year old friend and
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  Speaker 2: pulled the trigger, leaving the child with life altering internal carnage.
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  Speaker 2: The shooting on Chester Street was initially written off by
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  Speaker 2: authorities as a tragic mishap between two children handling a five. However,
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  Speaker 2: the narrative took a sharp, sinister turn when the victim,
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  Speaker 2: Tray Michael, had his breathing tube removed. In his first
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  Speaker 2: moments of consciousness, the boy gasped out a bombshell accusation
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  Speaker 2: to his mom, Lakeisha Lgurgis. She spoke to ka LB
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  Speaker 2: News five when the two first came out his mouth
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  Speaker 2: and he was able to talk. The first word was mama, mama.
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  Speaker 2: He shot me on pravase. The sheer force of the
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  Speaker 2: bullet shattered Trey Michaels intestines, forcing surgeons to perform a
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  Speaker 2: brutal triage that included removing his right kidney and half
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  Speaker 2: of his lung. As of late January, the resilient survivor
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  Speaker 2: is back home, but his body remains a road map
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  Speaker 2: of the trauma he endured. Ligurgis, who rushed to the
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  Speaker 2: hospital in a blind panic, has now since become a
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  Speaker 2: vocal advocate for gun safety, begging parents to take the
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  Speaker 2: guns away before another kid is mangled by unsecured weapons.
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  Speaker 2: The ten year old suspect, whose name is shielded by
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  Speaker 2: juvenile law, was hauled off to the Renaissance Home for
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  Speaker 2: Youth after detectives determined the shooting was a calculated active battery.
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  Speaker 2: He faces charges of aggravated second degree battery and juvenile
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  Speaker 2: possession of a handgun. While the boy sits in detention,
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  Speaker 2: though a major question remains how did a ten year
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  Speaker 2: old gain access to a loaded weapon. Rumors within the
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  Speaker 2: community suggest the gun belong to a family member of
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  Speaker 2: the suspect, but no adults have yet been charged for
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  Speaker 2: the negligence that allowed this playdate to turn into a
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  Speaker 2: firing squad. The investigation continues. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer. More Crime and Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: A cold blooded teenage gunman who turned a quiet North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina neighborhood into a suburban slaughterhouse has finally surrendered his
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  Speaker 2: fight in court. Austin Thompson, the now eighteen year old
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  Speaker 2: accused of a twenty twenty two shooting spree that left
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  Speaker 2: five people dead and a community shattered, followed a bombshell
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  Speaker 2: notice of a plea flip that he is guilty of
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  Speaker 2: all charges. Robert Steele's fiance was among those killed. He
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  Speaker 2: spoke to WRL.
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  Speaker 3: News that young man took the best person I had
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  Speaker 3: ever met away from me. I don't care why, but
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  Speaker 3: I want to look him in the face when he
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  Speaker 3: faces justice.
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  Speaker 2: The move bypasses a February trial and sends the case
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  Speaker 2: straight to a sentencing phase where Thompson faces life behind
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  Speaker 2: bars for the carnage he unleashed in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: The massacre began on October thirteenth, twenty twenty two, when
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  Speaker 2: a then fifteen year old Thompson donned camouflage and allegedly
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  Speaker 2: executed his own sixteen year old brother, James Thompson, inside
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  Speaker 2: their Sehe Lee Way home, armed with a shotgun and handgun.
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  Speaker 2: He then stocked the Hendingham neighborhood and Noose River Greenway,
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  Speaker 2: picking off victims who never saw him coming. The fall
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  Speaker 2: and include off duty Raleigh police officer Gabriel Torres twenty nine,
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  Speaker 2: who was shot in his car, Mary Marshall thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: killed while walking her, Nicole Connor's fifty two gunned down
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  Speaker 2: on her porch, and Susan Karnat's forty nine, who is
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  Speaker 2: murdered while out for a jog. Thompson was eventually cornered
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  Speaker 2: in a barn after a five hours standoff, suffering from
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  Speaker 2: a self inflicted gunshot wounded the head that left him
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  Speaker 2: with permanent severe brain injury. In a three page court filing,
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  Speaker 2: Thompson's attorneys admitted that while the teen's brain damage leaves
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  Speaker 2: him quote unable to explain his homicidal motives end quote,
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  Speaker 2: he accepts full responsibility for the quote unquote deep pain
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  Speaker 2: he caused. Thompson faces five counts of murder and multiple
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  Speaker 2: counts of attempted murder for the wounding of Marcillan Gardner
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  Speaker 2: and Officer Casey Clark. Because he was a juvenile at
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  Speaker 2: the time of the killings, he is ineligible for the
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  Speaker 2: death penalty under state law, but is staring down the
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  Speaker 2: barrel of life without par role. The teen's father, Alan Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: has already pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for the negligent
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  Speaker 2: storage of the firearms used in the bloodbath. His motive
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  Speaker 2: remains unknown and finally talk about a parenting master class
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  Speaker 2: in doing the right thing In Love Joy Georgia Laqwan Stephens,
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  Speaker 2: sixteen found out that blood isn't thicker than the law.
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  Speaker 2: In the ultimate reality check, the teen's dad made the
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaking choice to turn him in after a two day manhunt,
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  Speaker 2: an amazing parental pivot to school his son. Dad's house
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  Speaker 2: is not a safe house for suspects. Stevens is accused
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  Speaker 2: of blasting another kid in the face and neck through
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  Speaker 2: a car window, plus a second separate shooting spree. While
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  Speaker 2: the teen tried to play hide and seek with the GBI,
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  Speaker 2: his father decided to play by the rules, which meant
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  Speaker 2: calling the precinct Instead of enabling a fugitive, This dad
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  Speaker 2: chose justice over a jailhouse, proving that sometimes the most
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  Speaker 2: inspiring act of love is tough love. Nancy.
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