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Knicks Win Celebrations Spiral into Chaos Across NYC | Crime Alert 06.15.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvonni.
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  Speaker 1: A historic night of celebration in New York City turned
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  Speaker 1: into absolute chaos as a long awaited championship victory devolved
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  Speaker 1: into a night of gunfire stabbings in widespread riots. Officers
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  Speaker 1: responded to a shooting at approximately two to one am
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  Speaker 1: early Sunday morning near forty second Street and Broadway, A
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  Speaker 1: seventeen year old male was shot once in the left foot.
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  Speaker 1: Due to the massive unruly crowds, responding ambulances could not
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  Speaker 1: access the scene, forcing NYPD officers to transport the bleeding
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  Speaker 1: teenager to Bellevue Hospital themselves. He remains there in stable condition.
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  Speaker 1: Three persons of interest were immediately taken into custody, and
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  Speaker 1: a firearm was recovered at the scene. The violence erupted
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  Speaker 1: just hours after the next defeated the San Antonio Spurs
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to ninety in Game five of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals down in Texas. Even though the franchise's first NBA
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  Speaker 1: title since nineteen seventy three was clinched thousands of miles away,
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD maintained a massive presence around Madison's Square Garden
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the game. New York City Mayor Zoorun Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: urged fans on social media to celebrate responsibly, writing look
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  Speaker 1: out for one another and make this a night that
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  Speaker 1: reflects the very best of our city. Those calls for
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  Speaker 1: peace were utterly ignored. One social media video showed individuals
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  Speaker 1: jumping onto the roof of an NYPD patrol vehicle and
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  Speaker 1: smashing its windshield. Flames erupted from a school bus that
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  Speaker 1: was intentionally lit on fire on forty second Street near
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  Speaker 1: Eighth Avenue. The total of five school buses were set
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  Speaker 1: ablaze or completely destroyed by rioters wielding baseball bats. These
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  Speaker 1: buses were actively being used to transport people from Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup Games. Amid the
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  Speaker 1: unfolding madness, multiple personal vehicles were destroyed, Rioters let dangerous
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  Speaker 1: fireworks directly inside tightly packed crowds, and individuals scaled light poles,
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  Speaker 1: traffic lights, and construction scaffolding. As massive brawls broke out.
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  Speaker 1: The NYPD executed sixty three arrests. The laundry list of
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  Speaker 1: charges includes assault on a police officer, criminal possession of
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  Speaker 1: a weapon, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, resisting arrests an obstruction
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  Speaker 1: of governmental administration. The toll on law enforcement was also heavy.
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  Speaker 1: Ten members of the NYPD were injured during the riots,
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  Speaker 1: including one officer who was punched squarely in the face
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  Speaker 1: and another who was struck by a glass bottle. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this in Midland, Texas, officials
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  Speaker 1: have identified the gunmen who barricaded himself inside the building
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  Speaker 1: on West Wall Street Friday morning as forty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Victor Mana villa Reale. The incident began around eight
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  Speaker 1: am when Villa Reale opened fire on law enforcement officers
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  Speaker 1: and innocent bystanders. The gunfire claimed the life of Ed Scott,
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  Speaker 1: a City of Midland employee, and left ten others injured.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Beard was driving to work when the shooting started.
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  Speaker 1: Beard says he could actually feel the vibrations of the
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  Speaker 1: gunfire breaking through the loud music in his suv. When
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  Speaker 1: he looked at the pickup truck next to him, he
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  Speaker 1: saw the driver doubled over and clutching his stomach. Beard
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  Speaker 1: managed to speed away to safety as further gunshots rang out,
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  Speaker 1: later expressing deep heartbreak that he wasn't able to help
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  Speaker 1: the wounded driver, responding officers were instantly pinned down behind
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  Speaker 1: their patrol vehicles. It was only after heavily armoured tactical
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  Speaker 1: vehicles arrived that those officers were rescued. Police then moved
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  Speaker 1: through Highway eighty to extract civilians trapped inside their cars
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  Speaker 1: and deny the shooter further targets. Villa Riel eventually retreated
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  Speaker 1: into an abandoned veterinary clinic, sparking a tense hours long standoff.
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  Speaker 1: At approximately twelve thirty pm, tactical units entered the building
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  Speaker 1: and found Villa Riel debt inside. Investigators have since revealed
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  Speaker 1: that Villa Riel was already a wanted man. He had
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  Speaker 1: an active warrant for the attempted capital murder of a
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  Speaker 1: police officer after firing shots at an officer during a
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  Speaker 1: high speed pursuit just two days prior. On Wednesday, nine
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  Speaker 1: victims were rushed to Midland Memorial Hospital, where two remained
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  Speaker 1: in critical condition and two were in fair condition. The
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  Speaker 1: City of Midland issued a statement remembering ed Scott as
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  Speaker 1: a loving father, husband, and an integral figure in local
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  Speaker 1: softball organization. Finally, in Orlando, Florida, a routine traffic stop
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  Speaker 1: escalated into a high speed pursuit that ended with a
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  Speaker 1: suspect committing a heartless active child abandonment. The Orange County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office attempted to pull over twenty four year old
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  Speaker 1: Jason Kinnon on Tuesday. Kennon, who was wanted on multiple
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  Speaker 1: active arrest warrants, refused to stop his car. With him
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  Speaker 1: was an adult passenger and two young children, aged one
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  Speaker 1: and four. A sheriff's helicopter tracking the vehicle from above
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  Speaker 1: captured Kennon plowing directly into the rear end of a
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  Speaker 1: black suv at a stop sign. Kennon kept driving, eventually
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  Speaker 1: pulling into a residential neighborhood, where he forced the adult
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  Speaker 1: passenger and the one year old child out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: The four year old child desperately tried to escape the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle as well, but Kennon accelerated before the toddler could
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  Speaker 1: get out.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped and went out. A passenger took a baby
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  Speaker 2: out of the back of the car. Another child tried
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  Speaker 2: to get out of the backseat. Buddy kept driving, so
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  Speaker 2: you got one kid in the backseat of the car.
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  Speaker 1: Kennon then pulled up near a building, stepping out of
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle and yanked the four year old child out
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  Speaker 1: of the back seat. Young child began desperately following Kennon
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  Speaker 1: as he fled on foot from law.
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  Speaker 2: Enforcement doors open. He's getting the child out now, and
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  Speaker 2: he's running southwest. The kids run behind him, moving southbound
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  Speaker 2: in a.
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  Speaker 1: Desperate bid to move faster. Kennon kicked his shoes off
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  Speaker 1: his feet and began running barefoot in the exact opposite
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  Speaker 1: direction of the toddler, completely abandoning the child to save
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  Speaker 1: his own skin.
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  Speaker 2: All right, He left the kid behind. Coming back out
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  Speaker 2: of the parking lot, continuing south right to that more car.
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  Speaker 1: Kennon ran directly out into the roadway, attempting to scale
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  Speaker 1: a large fence leading to a heavily wooded area, but
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  Speaker 1: his run came to an abrupt end as two police
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  Speaker 1: cruisers converged on his position, with deputies drawing their weapons
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  Speaker 1: and screaming orders, who you're gonna get paid? Another responding
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  Speaker 1: deputy rushed to rescue the abandoned four year old child,
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  Speaker 1: who was found wandering nearby, terrified and sobbing.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, that's okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Only big boys getting the stars, the ones, the.
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  Speaker 2: Brave big boys. You're a brave, big boy, give me
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  Speaker 2: a bum.
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  Speaker 1: When deputies recovered the weeping four year old, the child
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  Speaker 1: was clutching Kennon's discarded shoes. Miraculously, neither child was physically
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  Speaker 1: injured during the high speed or deal. Court records show
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  Speaker 1: that Kennon now faces seven strict criminal charges, including aggravated
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  Speaker 1: fleeing and eluding, two counts of child neglect, leaving the
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  Speaker 1: scene of a crash, reckless driving, possession of marijuana, and
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  Speaker 1: possession of a fire arc during the commission of a felony.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities have not yet specified which active warrants triggered Tuesday's
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  Speaker 1: initial pursuit. For the latest crime and justice breaking news,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast
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  Speaker 1: app with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni.