Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 04.09.2024
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Janet
- 0:03Speaker 1: Garcia and her son, Ariel, four years old, stay with
- 0:07Speaker 1: a friend a few days. The friend comes home in
- 0:09Speaker 1: the afternoon and finds the blood on the floor and
- 0:13Speaker 1: the Garcia is gone. Washington State Police search for the
- 0:16Speaker 1: mom and Todd. The next day, cops find a body
- 0:20Speaker 1: four year old Ariel.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Nancy Garcia told Ariel's grandmother that she had put the
- 0:26Speaker 2: boy up for adoption and checked herself into rehab. Police
- 0:29Speaker 2: found Garcia at a rehab facility in Ridgefield, wearing clothes
- 0:33Speaker 2: with droplets of blood on them. Garcia told them Ariel
- 0:36Speaker 2: fell off a bed and hit his head, after which
- 0:38Speaker 2: she took him to a hospital, but left because the
- 0:40Speaker 2: weight was too long. Ariel's body was discovered on the
- 0:44Speaker 2: side of I five with forty one stab wounds.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Janet Garcia, twenty seven, arrested on suspicion of murder. Walmart
- 0:53Speaker 1: shopper Amber McCann is asked about shoplifting. Florida cops describe
- 0:57Speaker 1: a suspect who walks out of a store with the
- 0:59Speaker 1: full cart without paying. McCann cuts them off and says, yes,
- 1:04Speaker 1: she did it. It was all a game. Cops point
- 1:07Speaker 1: out it's still theft. She counters, it's really really fun.
- 1:12Speaker 1: The cop gets the last word, stating going to jail
- 1:15Speaker 1: is fun. Amber McCann thirty, now booked on Grand Theft.
- 1:20Speaker 1: More Crime and Justice news after this Now with the
- 1:26Speaker 1: latest Crime and Justice breaking these Crime Online John Limley.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Authorities in a northern Illinois city have announced that a
- 1:33Speaker 3: twenty two year old man has been charged with four
- 1:35Speaker 3: counts of first degree murder following a craze stabbing and
- 1:39Speaker 3: beating spree that claimed the lives of four people in
- 1:42Speaker 3: just a matter of minutes. For more, we turned to
- 1:45Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Following the incident in Rockford, Illinois, Christian Soto is further
- 1:51Speaker 2: charged with seven counts of attempted murder and house envision
- 1:54Speaker 2: with a dangerous weapon. There were seven people injured in
- 1:57Speaker 2: the attack. According to jail in court records, Sodo is
- 2:00Speaker 2: being held without bond. After making a brief appearance in court.
- 2:04Speaker 2: At a press conference, Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara, who was
- 2:07Speaker 2: visibly upset and found it difficult to hold back his tears,
- 2:10Speaker 2: named the dead as sixty three year old Ramona shut
- 2:13Speaker 2: Boch twenty three year old Jacob Shuteboch, forty nine year
- 2:16Speaker 2: old Jay Larson, and Jenna Newcomb, who was fifteen. Officials
- 2:19Speaker 2: say three patients were admitted to an area hospital. Rockford
- 2:23Speaker 2: Police Chief Carla Red reported that the other four were
- 2:25Speaker 2: treated and then released. Little information about Sodo has been
- 2:29Speaker 2: made public by the authorities. Red said Sodo carried out
- 2:33Speaker 2: the attacks on his own and that the authorities were
- 2:35Speaker 2: unsure of his motivation. Red did reveal that Sodo and
- 2:38Speaker 2: Jacob Schuteboch were childhood friends. According to Jay Hanley, the
- 2:42Speaker 2: state's attorney for Winnebago County, Sodo admitted to investigators that
- 2:46Speaker 2: the two had been smoking marijuana at Shoopbox House prior
- 2:49Speaker 2: to the attack. Hanley says the fatal rampage took place
- 2:52Speaker 2: in a neighborhood of ranch style homes early in the
- 2:54Speaker 2: afternoon hours. Red added that Sodo's arrest happened in less
- 2:58Speaker 2: than twenty minutes from the time I'm of the first
- 3:00Speaker 2: nine one one call. Just days before the attacks, a
- 3:03Speaker 2: teenage worker inside a Rockford walmart was fatally stabbed. A
- 3:07Speaker 2: suspect has been arrested in connection with that homicide.
- 3:10Speaker 3: Rockford is a city of about one hundred fifty thousand
- 3:13Speaker 3: residents located some ninety miles northwest of Chicago. Now to Minnesota,
- 3:19Speaker 3: where a teenager has received a four year sentence for
- 3:22Speaker 3: his involvement in a Saint Paul killing that caused Minneapolis
- 3:26Speaker 3: police to carry out a search warrant, one that led
- 3:29Speaker 3: to a mere lock being fatally shot by a police officer.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Crime Online Sidney Sumner here again to tell us more
- 3:36Speaker 3: about this case, which has brought attention to the use
- 3:39Speaker 3: of no knock warrants.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Eighteen year old Phasal Jima Ali of Minneapolis previously entered
- 3:45Speaker 2: a guilty plead to being an accomplice after the fact
- 3:48Speaker 2: and the murder of thirty eight year old Otis Elder
- 3:50Speaker 2: of Saint Paul during a marijuana deal on January tenth,
- 3:53Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Alli was then sentenced as laid out
- 3:57Speaker 2: in his plea agreement. Mackai Canden Speed, Ali's seventeen year
- 4:01Speaker 2: old cousin, shot Elder after entering a guilty plead to
- 4:04Speaker 2: aiding in a betting second degree unintended murder during an
- 4:07Speaker 2: armed robbery. Speed was sentenced to more than sixteen years
- 4:10Speaker 2: in prison in July of last year. On February second,
- 4:13Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, police executed sirch warrants at Speed's apartment
- 4:17Speaker 2: building in downtown Minneapolis. Twenty two year old Emir Locke,
- 4:21Speaker 2: who was not mentioned in the warrants, was asleep on
- 4:23Speaker 2: a couch in Speed's brother's girlfriend's separate unit when a
- 4:26Speaker 2: SWAT team stormed in looking for Speed. Locke was killed
- 4:29Speaker 2: by a Minneapolis police officer when the victim came out
- 4:32Speaker 2: from under a blanket with the gun that his family
- 4:34Speaker 2: claimed he was licensed to carry. Because Locke had pointed
- 4:38Speaker 2: his gun at the officer, the prosecution decided not to
- 4:40Speaker 2: press charges against the officer who shot him. According to
- 4:44Speaker 2: Locke's family, body camera footage shows that he was startled awake.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Since the incident, Locke's relatives have waged a campaign to
- 4:50Speaker 2: ban no knock warrants. Locke was killed while three former
- 4:54Speaker 2: Minneapolis police officers were being tried in federal court in
- 4:57Speaker 2: Saint Paul on civil rights charges related to the the
- 5:00Speaker 2: death of George Floyd.
- 5:01Speaker 3: The Floyd case centered attention on the use of force
- 5:04Speaker 3: by police and provoked a racial reckoning thanks.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Sean Kenneth Reid heads home after spending time with nearby relative,
- 5:12Speaker 1: but as truck breaks down, he takes off walking, trying
- 5:15Speaker 1: to thumb a ride, but he never makes it home.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Mississippi cops fine reads truck abandoned, and search dogs follow
- 5:22Speaker 1: his scent. About a mile, the trail goes dead, meaning
- 5:26Speaker 1: Read likely got in another car. The Mississippi Bureau of
- 5:29Speaker 1: Investigation put out a silver alert for Reed, but it
- 5:32Speaker 1: turned up nothing. Family members say Reid has a medical
- 5:35Speaker 1: condition that could impair his judgment. Read missing since February
- 5:40Speaker 1: last scene wearing a green T shirt and black sweatpants.
- 5:43Speaker 1: His family's offering a seven thousand dollar reward for info
- 5:47Speaker 1: leading to his discovery. If you know anything about Kenneth Red,
- 5:51Speaker 1: contact nexsup Peak County Sheriffs six six ' two seven
- 5:55Speaker 1: two six five three three two. For the latest crime
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- 6:01Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace