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Woman Ran Down by Amazon Driver in Crosswalk | Crime Alert 03.05.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert Imnancy Grace breaking Crime Needs Now. Surveillance video
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  Speaker 1: catches a disturbing hit and run Baltimore, nine thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: A woman in a crosswalk of a Butcher's Hill area
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood when a blue Amazon van hits her. The van
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  Speaker 1: stops for a red light, then pulls forward as it
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  Speaker 1: changes to green, but the woman still in front of
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  Speaker 1: the van. The van rolls over her, stops, the driver
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  Speaker 1: gets out to check on her. Thirty seconds later, the
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  Speaker 1: driver gets back in, rolls over the woman with the
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  Speaker 1: van's back tires, and drives off. The victim taken to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital and lives Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The victim, now identified as twenty nine year old Chelsea Douglas,
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  Speaker 2: is said to have several serious fractures after the driver
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  Speaker 2: ran over her head and upper body. Her fiance says
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  Speaker 2: Chelsea slipped in the icy crosswalk and was still struggling
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  Speaker 2: to get up when the light turned green. Chelsea immediately
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  Speaker 2: had concern for the driver, who has now been identified
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  Speaker 2: as Jerome Young Junior, twenty six. Young allegedly asked Chelsea,
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  Speaker 2: how did you manage to get hit in the brief
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  Speaker 2: moment he checked on her. Originally charged with felony assaults,
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  Speaker 2: but prosecutors have said Young was overcharged and the evidence
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  Speaker 2: does not support them. Young has been released on bail
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  Speaker 2: until new charges are filed.
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  Speaker 1: The driver has been pulled away from his delivery duties.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Curtis slides an employee at an Austin pizza shopping
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  Speaker 1: note demanding they empty the register, and flashes a gun instead.
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  Speaker 1: The employee lunges across the counter, putting Curtis in a headlock.
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  Speaker 1: Another employee grabs the gun from his waistband during the fight,
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  Speaker 1: and pistol whips the purp. Curtis continues fighting until the
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  Speaker 1: manager comes from the back with a knife. The manager
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  Speaker 1: asks do you prefer prison or death? Curtis stops struggling
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  Speaker 1: and waits for cops. Richard Curtis, nineteen, now charged with
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  Speaker 1: ag robbery. More crime and justice news after this Now
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  Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines
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  Speaker 1: John Linley.
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  Speaker 3: A Detroit mother is behind bars, accused of murdering her
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  Speaker 3: nine year old son and burying his body in their
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  Speaker 3: former her backyard. A judge has ordered forty one year
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  Speaker 3: old Brandy Pierce held without bond. She faces multiple charges,
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  Speaker 3: including first degree and felony, murder, child abuse, and evidence tampering.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities say young Zamar King was smothered to death on
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  Speaker 3: October twenty fourth. Weeks later, Pierce allegedly abandoned their home,
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  Speaker 3: taking her three year old son to Georgia. It was
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  Speaker 3: a landlord preparing the house for new tenants who uncovered
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  Speaker 3: the shallow grave on January sixth. Police in Brookhaven, Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: contacted Detroit authorities in December over a separate investigation involving
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  Speaker 3: the younger child. Pierce was arrested January tenth and extradited
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  Speaker 3: to Michigan last week. Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy calls
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  Speaker 3: the case one of the most callous she has seen
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  Speaker 3: in her career. A probable cause hearing is set for
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  Speaker 3: March seventh, with a preliminary examination March thirteenth. A jury
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  Speaker 3: has convicted an Illinois landlord a first degree murder and
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  Speaker 3: hate crimes in the brutal case killing of a six
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  Speaker 3: year old Palestinian American boy. As Crime Online Sidney Sunder
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  Speaker 3: tells us, the case, which drew national attention, raised alarms
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  Speaker 3: about anti Muslim violence in the US.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy three year old Joseph Cuba was found guilty of
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  Speaker 2: murdering six year old Wooda al Fayumi and attempting to
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  Speaker 2: kill the boy's mother, Hanan Shanin, in what prosecutors described
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  Speaker 2: as a targeted hate crime. The attack happened on October fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, in Plainfield, Illinois, just days after war
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  Speaker 2: broke out between Israel and Hamas. Shaheen testified that Cuba,
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  Speaker 2: her landlord of two years, suddenly turned on her and
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  Speaker 2: her son, telling her quote, you, as a Muslim must die.
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  Speaker 2: He then stabbed her more than a dozen times before
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  Speaker 2: going after Wadia, stabbing the child twenty six times and
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  Speaker 2: leaving the knife in his body. Jurors saw graphic crime
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  Speaker 2: scene photos and police bodycam footage showing the aftermath of
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  Speaker 2: the attack. The trial also included emotional testimony from Shaheen,
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  Speaker 2: first responders, and Cuba's ex wife. The jury deliberated for
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  Speaker 2: less than ninety minutes before del delivering a unanimous guilty
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  Speaker 2: verdict on all charges, including first degree murder, attempted murder,
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  Speaker 2: aggravated battery, and hate crimes. Attorney Ben Crump, representing Shaheen,
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  Speaker 2: called the verdict a measure of justice, but warned but
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  Speaker 2: it won't erase the rising tide of hate fueled violence. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: civil rights groups, including c ai R Chicago, said the
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  Speaker 2: attack was a painful reminder of the threats facing Muslim
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  Speaker 2: and Palestinian communities in the US.
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  Speaker 3: Chuba, who declined to testify as schedule for sentencing on
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  Speaker 3: May second, he faces life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Martesse Williams, twenty eight, has plans to meet
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  Speaker 1: a friend on the other side of town, tells roommate
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  Speaker 1: he'll be back later that night. Martes leaves their shared
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore home for the Randallstown or Liberty Reservoir area in
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  Speaker 1: his buick. When he hasn't returned by midnight, roommate calls
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  Speaker 1: Martes's parents. Martes reported missing. Six days later, cops find
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  Speaker 1: the silver Buick Verano abandoned two miles from home. Martesse
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  Speaker 1: Williams African American five, eight hundred and ninety pounds, short,
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  Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, usually wears a goateea and has
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  Speaker 1: a sleeve of tattoos left arm. Last scene wearing T shirts, shorts,
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  Speaker 1: gold cross necklace and a watch. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Martesse Williams, now missing nine years, called Baltimore County PD.
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.