Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 07.19.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime News Now. A
- 0:03Speaker 1: Kentucky homeowner wakes up to the sound of breaking glass
- 0:06Speaker 1: and grabs his gun. He discovers Richard Hamadanni actually using
- 0:10Speaker 1: a chainsaw to knock out the back door glass and
- 0:13Speaker 1: open it from the inside. Hamadannie, still armed with a chainsaw,
- 0:18Speaker 1: approaches the homeowner, who then fires four shots, striking the burglar.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Nancy Hammadani is rushed to the hospital to treat the
- 0:26Speaker 2: gunshot wound and is said to be in serious but
- 0:29Speaker 2: stable condition. Authorities believe Hammadani was having a psychotic breakdown
- 0:33Speaker 2: and tried to break into the home because he was
- 0:35Speaker 2: hearing voices, in particular someone screaming for help. Thankfully, the
- 0:40Speaker 2: chainsaw was not running when Hammadanni used it to get
- 0:42Speaker 2: through the door.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Hamadanni, forty four, charged with burglary. No charges for the homeowner.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Stephen Saslow, apparently unfamiliar with implications of ordering on Amazon.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Saslo buzzes the Amazon driver through the gay that is
- 0:56Speaker 1: Pennsylvania mansion, but when she parks to deliver the package,
- 1:00Speaker 1: he comes out of his home pointing a short barrel
- 1:02Speaker 1: shotgun at the delivery woman. Saslow approaches the car, holding
- 1:07Speaker 1: the driver a gunpoint, demands his package and tells her
- 1:10Speaker 1: to leave. The driver, who had her children with her
- 1:13Speaker 1: speeds often calls nine to one one saslaw seventy charged
- 1:17Speaker 1: with reckless endangerment? What about agassault? More crime and justice
- 1:21Speaker 1: needs after this Now with the latest crime and justice
- 1:25Speaker 1: breaking news Crime Onlines.
- 1:27Speaker 3: John Lenley, an escaped inmate on the run for eleven
- 1:30Speaker 3: weeks following the South Carolina Supreme Court's rejection of an
- 1:34Speaker 3: undisclosed deal that reduced his thirty five year murder sentence
- 1:38Speaker 3: by sixteen years, has now been apprehended by police. For details,
- 1:42Speaker 3: we turned to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:45Speaker 2: The State Law Enforcement Division of South Carolina says Gerroid
- 1:48Speaker 2: Price was apprehended peacefully at an apartment in New York
- 1:51Speaker 2: City following a tip to South Carolina detectives. Price's attorney,
- 1:55Speaker 2: State Representative Todd Rutherford, and the prosecutor Byron Gibson decided
- 1:59Speaker 2: to petition a judge to reduce Price's sentence since he
- 2:02Speaker 2: alerted authorities to an escapee serving a life sentence before
- 2:06Speaker 2: the inmate was missed and save two guards from serious injury.
- 2:09Speaker 2: In South Carolina. This is the only way a conviction
- 2:12Speaker 2: can be commuted. However, there was no public hearing on
- 2:15Speaker 2: the agreement, and in April, the state Supreme Court decided
- 2:18Speaker 2: three to two to revoke the order. Price was supposed
- 2:21Speaker 2: to go back to jail right away, but authorities say
- 2:23Speaker 2: he was on the run for eleven weeks. At a
- 2:26Speaker 2: news conference, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson stated he
- 2:30Speaker 2: was aware the Supreme Court had made its ruling.
- 2:32Speaker 3: The twenty ten law allowing jail terms to be lowered
- 2:36Speaker 3: when offenders offer information that safeguards the safety of prison
- 2:39Speaker 3: personnel and others, was brought to light by Price's release.
- 2:44Speaker 3: A federal jury has ruled that the shooter who killed
- 2:47Speaker 3: the eleven people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in twenty eighteen
- 2:50Speaker 3: is deserving of the death penalty. This now sets the
- 2:54Speaker 3: scene for additional evidence and testimony regarding whether he should
- 2:57Speaker 3: receive a death or life sentence. Robert Bowers, who launched
- 3:01Speaker 3: an online tirade against Jews before assaulting the Tree of
- 3:05Speaker 3: Life Synagogue with an AR fifteen rifle and other weapons
- 3:09Speaker 3: in the country's bloodiest anti Semitic incident, is facing the
- 3:13Speaker 3: death penalty. The jury came to the same conclusion as
- 3:16Speaker 3: the prosecution that Bowers had established the necessary lawful intent
- 3:21Speaker 3: to kill. Bowers spent six months preparing the massacre, and
- 3:25Speaker 3: as subsequently voiced remorse that he didn't kill more people.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Bower's attorney contends that his mental illness and a delusional
- 3:33Speaker 3: notion that he might halt a genocide of white people
- 3:36Speaker 3: by killing Jews who aid immigrants impaired his capacity to
- 3:40Speaker 3: create intent. California Governor Gavin Newsom as intervened to support
- 3:45Speaker 3: the reintroduction of a bill that would toughen up the
- 3:47Speaker 3: state's laws against child trafficking once again crime online Sydney Sumner.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Child trafficking would become a serious crime in California under
- 3:56Speaker 2: State Senator Shannon Groves. Measure. The three strikes law in California,
- 4:00Speaker 2: which imposes a sentence of twenty five years to life
- 4:02Speaker 2: in prison on anyone found guilty of at least three
- 4:05Speaker 2: major felonies applies. Grove anticipated that the bill would face
- 4:09Speaker 2: little opposition in the Assembly because it had passed the
- 4:11Speaker 2: Senate without much trouble earlier this year. The bill is
- 4:15Speaker 2: now in danger of not passing this year after members
- 4:18Speaker 2: of the assembly Public Safety Committee decided not to move
- 4:21Speaker 2: the measure further. Newsom expressed his amazement that the bill
- 4:24Speaker 2: had stalked. The governor told reporters that he contacted Grove
- 4:27Speaker 2: to discuss the measure and that the conversation quote is
- 4:30Speaker 2: indicative of my desire to see what we can do
- 4:32Speaker 2: with it. According to Newsom, who noted that he signed
- 4:35Speaker 2: a state budget last year that contained twenty five million
- 4:38Speaker 2: dollars for programs for children who had been sex trafficking victims,
- 4:41Speaker 2: the subject is one that he cares about deeply.
- 4:44Speaker 3: It's unusual for Newsom to publicly participate in a disagreement
- 4:48Speaker 3: at the capitol. Newsomb frequently declines to comment on current
- 4:52Speaker 3: legislation when questioned by reporters because he prefers to remain
- 4:56Speaker 3: out of such issues.
- 4:57Speaker 1: By sale, Bernstay Schul spends the day at the apartment
- 5:00Speaker 1: she shares with her boyfriend in Phoenix. With a cold,
- 5:03Speaker 1: The thirty six year old text back and forth with
- 5:05Speaker 1: a friend all day, asking the boyfriend to keep us
- 5:08Speaker 1: distance just in case she has COVID. That night, the
- 5:11Speaker 1: boyfriend comes home late, goes to sleep on the couch.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Next morning, peeks in the bedroom. She's gone without her
- 5:18Speaker 1: cell phone, wallet, or keys, her car still part of
- 5:21Speaker 1: the apartment. Arizona cost believe Michelle left the apartment on
- 5:24Speaker 1: foot carrying a backpack. Michelle Bernstein Schultz now missing over
- 5:29Speaker 1: a year. If you have info on Michelle Bernstein Schultz's disappearance,
- 5:34Speaker 1: please call Phoenix PD six zero two two six '
- 5:38Speaker 1: two six one five one. For the latest crime in
- 5:42Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
- 5:45Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.