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Crime Alert 05.16.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime is now. Equavus Hickman,
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  Speaker 1: just seventeen, gets caught mocking a substitute teacher behind his
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  Speaker 1: back after class. The sub tries to talk with Aquavus Hickman,
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  Speaker 1: but Hickman shoves the teacher, corners him, and tries to
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  Speaker 1: fight him. Later that day, Hickman gets in an argument
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  Speaker 1: with a second teacher and slaps her across the face.
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  Speaker 1: The teacher asks Hickman not to hit her again, but
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  Speaker 1: he does anyway, sending her glasses flying across the room.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. A video of the second assault went viral online.
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  Speaker 2: After the slap, the teacher asked Hickman, do you think
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  Speaker 2: that affected me in any way? Hickman replies, want me
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  Speaker 2: to hit you again? The teacher says I don't want it,
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  Speaker 2: but Hickman slaps her a second time and walks away,
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  Speaker 2: saying go back to teaching.
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  Speaker 1: Aquavus Hickman, seventeen, now charged with two counts each kidnap
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  Speaker 1: and assault. Employees at a Florida wah Wahz call police
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  Speaker 1: when Joseph Delancy comes in despite him being banned from
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  Speaker 1: the shop. He refuses to put down the cheeseburger in
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  Speaker 1: his hands, so he's cuffed anyway, he somehow manages to
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  Speaker 1: chuck the cheeseburger at a cop, striking him in the leg. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: the officer survives the cheeseburger attack. Joseph Delancey, seventy three
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  Speaker 1: now charged with trespassed and battery on a cop by
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  Speaker 1: cheeseburger at Ahuahwah. More Crime and Justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: The California Court of Appeals has decided that a man
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  Speaker 3: found guilty of murdering his landlord's adult son with a
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  Speaker 3: sawed off shotgun should be granted a new trial because
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  Speaker 3: the trial judge neglected to inform the jury about the
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  Speaker 3: possibility of a self defense claim. We turned to Sydney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: A three judge court overturned Ronald Vaughn, Junior's first degree
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  Speaker 2: murder conviction in connection with Gary Summersett's twenty seventeen shooting death.
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  Speaker 2: Ruling states that when Somerset exclaimed, let's end this and
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  Speaker 2: ran toward Vaughn, he was on the porch of the
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln County trailer he was renting and carrying the weapon.
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  Speaker 2: There had been a furious fight between the two and
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  Speaker 2: Somerset's mother. Vaughan received a life sentence without the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of release. Using weapons like the Winchester four to ten
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  Speaker 2: caliber shotgun that Vaughn fired as a felony, and he
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  Speaker 2: was found guilty on that count as well. The shotgun
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  Speaker 2: has a sought off barrel that makes it easier to
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  Speaker 2: conceal and potentially cause more destruction. According to the state's
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  Speaker 2: standard ground law, anyone who quote reasonably believes that such
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  Speaker 2: force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily
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  Speaker 2: harm to himself is justified in employing force and is
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  Speaker 2: not required to retreat. However, in certain cases where the
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  Speaker 2: individual in question was committing a felony at the time,
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  Speaker 2: it cannot be utilized. Following Vaughn's trial in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: the state Supreme Court ruled to narrow this exception, stating
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  Speaker 2: that there must be proof that an injury would not
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  Speaker 2: have occurred if the person firing the weapon hadn't done so.
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  Speaker 2: Appeals Court Judge Allegra Collins wrote in the prevailing decision
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  Speaker 2: that the jury shop have been informed of the standard
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  Speaker 2: ground clause, even though she acknowledged that the trial judge
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  Speaker 2: was not in possession of that State Supreme Court case.
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  Speaker 2: According to the view, Somerset had been temporarily residing in
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  Speaker 2: the house with Vaughn. Shortly before the shooting, Vaughn received
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  Speaker 2: a notice from his mother to vacate the trailer, which
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  Speaker 2: he promptly tore up. From the viewpoint of the opinion,
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  Speaker 2: Vaughn attempted to phone nine one one on his iPad,
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  Speaker 2: but was unable to do so. He then informed Somerset
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  Speaker 2: and his mother that they should leave the property. Judge
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  Speaker 2: Collins continued saying that the prosecution misled the jury into
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  Speaker 2: believing that the standard ground clause did not apply in
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  Speaker 2: this particular case. Vaughn's possession of a weapon capable of
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  Speaker 2: mass murder and destruction, a crime which carried a maximum
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  Speaker 2: penalty of nearly two and a half years in jail,
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  Speaker 2: was found to be a valid conviction by the appeals panel,
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  Speaker 2: taking into account his credits from his pre trial incarceration.
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  Speaker 2: The court mandated that Vaughn be given a new sentence.
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  Speaker 3: Agreeing with Collins's opinion on the case were Judges Hunter
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  Speaker 3: Murphy and Valerie Zachary now to New Mexico as the
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  Speaker 3: murder convictions of a man in the twenty eighteen the
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  Speaker 3: shooting deaths of three people close to the community of
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  Speaker 3: Dixon have been upheld by the State Supreme Court once again.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: New Mexico's highest court, determined unanimously that there was enough
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  Speaker 2: evidence to uphold John Powell's convictions on three charges of
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder and one count of aggravated burglary. In
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, it was just a few miles from Dixon,
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  Speaker 2: in a real Ariba County residence, that the bodies of
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven year old Kieran ge Lemmon, forty two year
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  Speaker 2: old April Brown, and thirty six year old Abraham Martinez
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  Speaker 2: were discovered. According to authorities, Powell and his brother, Roger Gage,
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  Speaker 2: were seen on security video killing Brown and robbing him
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  Speaker 2: of a safe and other goods from his house. Investigator
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  Speaker 2: say Powell and his brother traveled for over an hour
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  Speaker 2: to get to Brown's residence, allegedly to purchase drugs and
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  Speaker 2: collect tools.
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  Speaker 3: Gauge received a life sentence after being found guilty and
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  Speaker 3: a separate trial.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Mikhail Biggs, eleven and younger sister, Kimber, play
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  Speaker 1: in the front yard at their Mesa, Arizona home. Mom
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Biggs watches from the porch. She heads inside to
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  Speaker 1: get started on dinner. Kimber comes in quickly after complaining
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  Speaker 1: the ice cream man hadn't come yet. Tracy Biggs reassures
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  Speaker 1: her the ice cream man will come another day and
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  Speaker 1: tells her to bring Mckel inside too. When Kimber goes
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  Speaker 1: to get mckel, Michel's gone. Her bike is tipped over
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  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, one of the wheels still spinning, Mckel's
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  Speaker 1: change for ice cream scattered on the sidewalk. Tracy Biggs
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  Speaker 1: immediately calls police and friends from church. By the time
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  Speaker 1: police arrive, nearly sixty people are scouring the neighborhood for
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  Speaker 1: Michel Mason. Police believe Michael was kidnapped and investigated neighbor
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  Speaker 1: and sex offender d Blaylock, who strongly denies involvement. Michael Biggs,
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  Speaker 1: now missing twenty five years. If you have info on
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  Speaker 1: then eleven year old Michel Biggs, please call Mesa, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: PD four eight zero six four four two three four.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline
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  Speaker 1: dot com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace f