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Masked 'Chucky' Terror Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas | Crime Alert 08.27.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A terrifying multi-state manhunt has come to an end in
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  Speaker 1: Nevada after a mass suspect accused of terrorizing pedestrians and
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  Speaker 1: threatening a woman in Philadelphia was tracked down and arrested
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Marshals Nevada Task Force apprehended 22-year-old Zemir Hughes inside a
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  Speaker 1: southeast Las Vegas apartment at 8 p.m. local time on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: August 25th. The U.S. Marshals confirmed Hughes is held in
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  Speaker 1: the Clark County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania. According
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  Speaker 1: to a Philadelphia Police Department press release, the horrifying spree
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  Speaker 1: occurred at 5.30 a.m. on August 12 along JFK Boulevard
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Authorities say Hughes wore a child's play Chucky-style
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  Speaker 1: Halloween mask aggressively chased several pedestrians, and then targeted a
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  Speaker 1: 40-year-old woman. At a press conference, U.S. Marshals Supervisory Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Robert Clark detailed how Hughes attempted to evade authorities by
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  Speaker 1: fleeing across the country.
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  Speaker 3: Through our investigation, we determined that Mayor Hughes had been
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  Speaker 3: a Las Vegas resident since February. He fled Philadelphia on
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  Speaker 3: August 19th from Trenton Mercer Airport in Ewing, New Jersey
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  Speaker 3: to Orlando International. He then flew from Orlando to Harry
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  Speaker 3: Reid International in Las Vegas. After being profiled on the
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  Speaker 3: news August 28th, he changed his location in Las Vegas
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  Speaker 3: and hid at an apartment complex in southeast Las Vegas
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  Speaker 3: for the past five days. Marshals from the Nevada Task
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  Speaker 3: Force established surveillance on the suspected apartment complex and Hughes
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  Speaker 3: was arrested without incident.
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  Speaker 1: Supervisory Deputy Clark revealed that Hughes had been a Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas resident since February and fled Philadelphia on August 19,
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  Speaker 1: flying from New Jersey to Orlando, then on to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: After being profiled on the news on August 20, Hughes
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  Speaker 1: relocated to hide at the apartment complex where task force
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  Speaker 1: officers established surveillance and arrested him without incident. NBC Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: reported additional details, citing Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith. Hughes
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  Speaker 1: allegedly chased the 40-year-old victim with his hand concealed behind
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  Speaker 1: his back while holding a phone up to her face,
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  Speaker 1: demanding to know, are you ready to die? The terrified
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  Speaker 1: woman stumbled during the encounter, sustaining a serious physical injury.
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  Speaker 1: On August 18th, police spotted Hughes leaving his apartment with
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  Speaker 1: packed bags. Captain Smith offered a disturbing theory behind the
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  Speaker 1: suspect's chilling conduct.
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  Speaker 2: I think he filmed this for social media content, either A,
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  Speaker 2: for his own sick personal amusement, or B, he had
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  Speaker 2: plans of posting it online at some point and possibly
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  Speaker 2: monetizing it.
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  Speaker 1: Hughes remains locked up in Clark County, awaiting extradition back
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  Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. More crime and justice news after this. In Montana,
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  Speaker 1: a devastating tragedy has left a community reeling after a
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  Speaker 1: man slaughtered eight of his relatives, including four young children,
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  Speaker 1: during a Sunday family dinner just weeks after his parents
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  Speaker 1: asked him to move out. The Billings Police Department called
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  Speaker 1: the horrific mass homicide an unimaginable tragedy. Investigators report that
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  Speaker 1: 44-year-old Alan Smith opened fire on his family at a
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  Speaker 1: residence outside Billings' city limits before dying from a self-inflicted
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  Speaker 1: gunshot wound. Brad Ireland confirmed his ex-wife, Megan Gakiri, and
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  Speaker 1: their children, Owen and Chloe, were among those killed. Also
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  Speaker 1: murdered were Megan's stepchildren, 15-year-old Landon and 12-year-old Charlotte, as
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  Speaker 1: well as Smith's parents, Dana and Barb, and his grandmother, Evelyn.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbor Jennifer Mercer confirmed that 12-year-old Charlotte was a true hero,
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  Speaker 1: managing to call 911 from inside the home, trying to
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  Speaker 1: save her family. Billings Police responded to the active shooting
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  Speaker 1: at 6.01 p.m. Sunday, hearing gunfire from the back of
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  Speaker 1: the house before the structure was engulfed in flames. Fire
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  Speaker 1: Chief Matt Hopple stated firefighters fought the blaze until 1 a.m. Monday,
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  Speaker 1: hampered by a lack of hydrants in the subdivision. Ireland
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  Speaker 1: described Alan Smith as an unemployed hermit who spent all
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  Speaker 1: day in his room on his computer. Smith's parents had
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  Speaker 1: asked him to move out weeks earlier. Adam Gikiri, who
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  Speaker 1: was working at the Billings Airport, heard the emergency radio
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  Speaker 1: dispatch and rushed to the scene, finding the home ablaze
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  Speaker 1: and learning his wife and children were dead. In California,
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  Speaker 1: a married couple accused of murdering the wife's secret boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested in Mexico following an eight-month investigation. The
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  Speaker 1: Clovis Police Department announced that 40-year-old Antonio Garcia and 32-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Misty Gomez were extradited back to California in connection with
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  Speaker 1: the December 2025 fatal beating of 37-year-old Jeffrey Bernardi. Bernardi,
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  Speaker 1: a Clovis teacher, was found brutally beaten near a canal
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  Speaker 1: on December 18 and died two days later. Police discovered
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  Speaker 1: Gomez was secretly dating Bernardi while married to Garcia. Bernardi's mother,
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  Speaker 1: Erin Adams, said her son had been dating Gomez for
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  Speaker 1: only a few months and had no idea she was married.
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  Speaker 1: Adams recalled Gomez's manipulative behavior at her son's hospital bedside
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  Speaker 1: to ABC 30. She laid on his bed and wept
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  Speaker 1: and said, we have to find who did this to him.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I mean, she was playing a game.
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  Speaker 1: She was watching our grief. Authorities used technology to track
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  Speaker 1: the couple to Mexico, where Gomez had fled with her
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  Speaker 1: two daughters. Garcia and Gomez face murder charges with bail
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  Speaker 1: set at $ 1 million each while the children remain in
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  Speaker 1: Mexican protective custody. For more crime and justice news, be
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  Speaker 1: on Fox One, YouTube, Sirius XM, and now streaming on Tubi.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.