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Crime Alert 04.23.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Gray's Breaking Crime News Now. Juan
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  Speaker 1: Alvarez Sorto, Devin Morales, and Carla Gutiadez in a Ford
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  Speaker 1: expedition heading from Colorado to South Dakota on a drug
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  Speaker 1: trafficking run, but the suv runs out of gas. A
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  Speaker 1: South Dakota FBI agent pulls over to the stopped expedition
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  Speaker 1: and Alvarez Sorto tackles the agent to the ground. The
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  Speaker 1: trio load the drugs and the agent into his car
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  Speaker 1: at gunpoint. When they stop at a gas station, the
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  Speaker 1: agent escapes and runs.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. The FBI agent pulled over for the expedition because
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  Speaker 2: he believed it was a trifle officer in need of assistance.
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  Speaker 2: Alvarezsorto held a gun to the back of the agent's head,
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  Speaker 2: forcing him back into his car. The trio stopped at
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  Speaker 2: a gas station in Hermosa, South Dakota, intending to buy
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  Speaker 2: zip ties to secure the agent, who used the distraction
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  Speaker 2: to escape. Morales and Alvarezsorto were arrested within the week.
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  Speaker 2: Lopez Gutierrez picked up months later in Loveland, Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: All three suspects convicted of carjacking, kidnapping, and drugs. Morales
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  Speaker 1: and Gutietas Await sentencing. Alvarez Soorto sentenced to thirty five years.
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  Speaker 1: Shawn Arnold patrols a Houston, Texas racing event, making a
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  Speaker 1: few traffic stops. He flips on the red and blue
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  Speaker 1: lights again, surprising the driver, who's actually an undercover sheriff
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  Speaker 1: working the event. The sheriff checks in with other marked units,
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  Speaker 1: who confirmed Arnold is not with them. Real cops chase Arnold,
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  Speaker 1: who's found wearing a uniform shirt, a bulletproof vest, a
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  Speaker 1: body cam, and a badge. Arnold also has a bb gun,
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  Speaker 1: a radio, and a taser. Shaan Arnold equipped to deceive
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  Speaker 1: as a fourth charge fourth one, two three four of
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  Speaker 1: impersonating an officer to his lengthy rap sheet. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and Justice News after this now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: dees its breaking needs Crime Online John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: In Tennessee, the writings of a school shooter may be
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  Speaker 3: made public after the investigation is formally concluded. This as
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  Speaker 3: a judge appears prepared to agree with a lawyer for
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  Speaker 3: Nashville Police with more here. Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Now by claiming to have acquired legal ownership of the
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  Speaker 2: papers from the shooter's parents and to now possess the
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  Speaker 2: copyright the parents of students of the Covenant School put
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  Speaker 2: a further twist to an already complicated case. During a
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  Speaker 2: two day hearing, eight lawyers argued their cases before Davidson
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  Speaker 2: County Chancery Court Judge LASAA Miles. However, none of the
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  Speaker 2: attorneys claim to be experts in copyright law. At times,
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  Speaker 2: it seemed as though their responses to myles sharp questioning
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  Speaker 2: concerning the relationship between the Tennessee Public Records Act and
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  Speaker 2: federal copyright laws served simply to further complicate matters. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: Miles stated that she would draft an order specifying the
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  Speaker 2: precise question she once answered. She will then decide whether
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  Speaker 2: the writings can be made public, if at all. Officials
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  Speaker 2: have stated that the records they have collected for their
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  Speaker 2: investigation into the March twenty seventh, twenty twenty three incident
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  Speaker 2: at the Covenant School, an attack which resulted in the
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  Speaker 2: deaths of three nine year old children and three adult
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  Speaker 2: staff members, are public information. They have clarified, though, that
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  Speaker 2: they will not be released until their investigation is concluded.
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  Speaker 2: A Tennessee State Senator news outlets a gun rights organization
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  Speaker 2: and a foundation dedicated to law enforcement are among those
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  Speaker 2: requesting that the materials be made available immediately. They contend
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  Speaker 2: that at this stage, the open investigation is merely a formality.
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  Speaker 2: The gunman was shot and killed by police at the scene,
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  Speaker 2: and there are no known additional suspects in the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Three other organizations who were granted permission to intervene in
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  Speaker 2: the case, countered that none of the articles should ever
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  Speaker 2: be released. Attorneys for the Covenant Parents, the Covenant School,
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  Speaker 2: and the Covenant Presbyterian Church united to argue that the
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  Speaker 2: writings are protected by a Tennessee law that safeguards the
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  Speaker 2: privacy of information, records and plans pertaining to school security.
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  Speaker 2: They contended that by interpreting the rule broadly, the text
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  Speaker 2: could serve as a source of inspiration for imitators, therefore
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  Speaker 2: jeopardizing the security of Covenant.
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  Speaker 3: Miles made it a parrot at the conclusion of the
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  Speaker 3: hearing that this will not be an easy decision and
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  Speaker 3: wants more information on copyright law before ruling on the
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  Speaker 3: school shooter's writings. Now to New Hampshire, as a man
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  Speaker 3: has been granted parole after spending more than half of
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  Speaker 3: his life behind bars for his involvement in the two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and one stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors,
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  Speaker 3: part of a plot to rob and murder before escaping
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  Speaker 3: abroad once again crime online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: At the age of sixteen, James Parker and his best
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  Speaker 2: friend hatched a plot that ended with the hanover New
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  Speaker 2: Hampshire murders of half in suzanne'santop years after entering a
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  Speaker 2: guilty plea to second degree murder conspiracy and serving almost
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  Speaker 2: the whole duration of his twenty five years to life sentence,
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  Speaker 2: he's appeared before the state Parole Board just shy of
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  Speaker 2: forty years old. According to his attorney and Department of
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  Speaker 2: Corrections employees, Parker has made several efforts over the years
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  Speaker 2: to improve his own life and that of his fellow prisoners.
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  Speaker 2: While in car he completed both his bachelor's and master's
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  Speaker 2: degrees and created paintings now on exhibit inside the facility.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to participating in athletics, theater and music, he
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  Speaker 2: has assisted in the creation of prisoner education materials. Board
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  Speaker 2: With their lives in nearby Chelsea, Vermont, Parker and then
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  Speaker 2: seventeen year old Robert Tullock estimated they would need ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars to make a move to Australia. Eventually, they
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  Speaker 2: came up with the scheme of knocking on residence doors
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  Speaker 2: under the guise of performing an environmental survey, then tying
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  Speaker 2: up their victims and stealing their credit cards in ATM
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  Speaker 2: details before murdering their hostages. They intended to force them
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  Speaker 2: to disclose any related pin numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Parker, who ultimately cooperated with prosecutors and volunteered to testify
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  Speaker 3: against Tulluck, stated that they chose the Zen Top house
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  Speaker 3: because it appeared expensive and was surrounded by treaties.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Ashley Somers, just fourteen, and relatives all live
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  Speaker 1: in the same Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood. The family members often
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  Speaker 1: spend the night at each other's home. Asley's great uncle
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  Speaker 1: grounds Ashley, takeing away her phone, but allows her to
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  Speaker 1: go to a pool party at another relatives. Ashley stays
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  Speaker 1: a few hours, but then wants to visit her aunt, Christina,
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  Speaker 1: a ten minute walk away. Two days later, family members
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  Speaker 1: realize Ashley never made it to the aunt's house. She's
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  Speaker 1: reported missing. Authorities initially consider her a runaway, but the
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  Speaker 1: family disagrees and canvasses the neighborhood with no luck. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI now believes as she may have been kidnapped. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Summers now missing seventeen years. If you have info, called
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  Speaker 1: FBI Cleveland two one six five two two fourteen hundred.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
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  Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.