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Massacre in East St. Louis: Five Family Members Slain | Crime Alert 07.14.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Silvannie. A targeted shooting spree shatters East Saint Louis,
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  Speaker 1: leaving five family members dead and two wounded across multiple
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  Speaker 1: crime scene Sunday. The Illinois State Police and local law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement are actively investigating the targeted bloodshed. According to Fox two,
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  Speaker 1: State Police Director Brendan Kelly detailed the expansive and multi
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  Speaker 1: layered nature of the attacks. At least seven members of
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  Speaker 1: the targeted family were shot at multiple locations in the
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  Speaker 1: East Saint Louis area. The swift investigation rapidly led authorities
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  Speaker 1: to Frank Holton State Park, where two teenage suspects, ages
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and sixteen, were arrested. The Illinois State Police are
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  Speaker 1: currently seeking formal charges through the Saint Clair County States
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office. Investigators revealed a gramm reality connecting the violence.
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  Speaker 1: One suspect is related to at least one victim and
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  Speaker 1: spanned three distinct locations. One victim was killed at North
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  Speaker 1: thirty ninth Street and Summit Avenue, while three died at
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  Speaker 1: the Samuel Gompers Housing development. Gunfire at Jones Park struck
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  Speaker 1: three more people, killing one speaking to Fox two, Gomber's
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  Speaker 1: resident kve On Johnson expressed the profound neighborhood shock. This
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  Speaker 1: feels like something that would have going on the first
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  Speaker 1: forty eight. Not nowhere near you, no right across from you.
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  Speaker 1: Officials identified the deceased victims as Quentin Thompson, Devin May,
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  Speaker 1: Shanaiah Thompson, Cherry May, and Patricia May. Director Kelly noted
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  Speaker 1: a clear factual picture as coming together with no widespread
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  Speaker 1: community threat. In the Fox two broadcast, Kelly forcefully emphasized
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  Speaker 1: the city's resilience. It will not keep this city down.
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  Speaker 1: The progress we have made will not be lost as
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  Speaker 1: a result of this terrible, terrible acts of violence that
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  Speaker 1: have occurred in this community today. East Saint Louis City
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  Speaker 1: Councilman Courtney Hoffman reassured anxious residents that this was a targeted,
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  Speaker 1: isolated incident rather than a random mass shooting. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. In Minnesota, a Burnsville mother
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  Speaker 1: faces severe criminal charges for torturing her two year old
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  Speaker 1: son to retaliate against the child's father. The Dakota County
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office stated Burnsville police conducting an urgent welfare check
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  Speaker 1: June fourth, after receiving photos of the child's extensive injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Responding officers discovered the toddler with forehead stitches and severe
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  Speaker 1: comprehensive bruising across his entire body. Neither parent provided a
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  Speaker 1: plausible explanation, and an examining pediatrician confirmed the severe abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators uncovered one hundred thousand text messages between Karina Maria
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  Speaker 1: Burns and Colt Jonathan McNeice, both twenty seven. The texts
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  Speaker 1: revealed Burns struck, shook, and threatened to kill the child
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  Speaker 1: whenever McNeice failed to reply to her text messages at work,
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  Speaker 1: even sending videos documenting the abuse. Those messages spanned back
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  Speaker 1: to as early as twenty twenty four, the first year
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  Speaker 1: of the boy's life, in as recent as May twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, just days before an anonymous child abuse
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  Speaker 1: report prompted the welfare check, Burns reportedly claimed to police
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  Speaker 1: she had never heard her child, saying he never cried
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  Speaker 1: and she'd play worship music to lull him back to
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  Speaker 1: sleep when he had nightmares. However, when officers informed Burns
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  Speaker 1: they found evidence of child abuse, she gagged and said
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  Speaker 1: she would never regain custody of the child again. Neighbors
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  Speaker 1: reported constant chaos behind the couple's door, ended with both
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  Speaker 1: parents behind bars and their child now in foster care.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities are happy to report the boy has sustained no
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  Speaker 1: new bruises since his removal from his parents' care. Burns
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  Speaker 1: is held on a five hundred thousand dollars bond facing
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  Speaker 1: child torture and assault charges, while McNeese faces child endangerment
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  Speaker 1: and remains behind bars on a one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond. The parents are expected back in court
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  Speaker 1: July fifteenth and August fifth, respectively. A double homicide in
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  Speaker 1: Alabama ended with a dangerous suspect captured in an attic
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  Speaker 1: crawl space after a tense four hour standoff. On July sixth,
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  Speaker 1: University of Alabama senior Jasmine Alexis Bates and her coworker,
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  Speaker 1: Jose Felix Alvarez Duenyas were found shot to death alongside
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  Speaker 1: a pet dog at a Tuscaloosa home where Alvarez Duenas
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  Speaker 1: was house sitting. According to police statements, the homeowner requested
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  Speaker 1: a welfare check when she could no longer get in
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  Speaker 1: contact with Alvarez Duenyas after spotting someone on her back
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  Speaker 1: porch via doorbell camera. Responding police found Alvarez Duenas dead
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  Speaker 1: at the front door and Bates inside a bedroom closet.
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  Speaker 1: Police tracked twenty four year old de Kendrick Crawford to
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  Speaker 1: a relative's home in Northport Efford, who had an outstanding
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  Speaker 1: warrant for a May twenty twenty six campus shooting near
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  Speaker 1: Coleman Coliseum. After being fired, finally surrendered. Police say Crawford
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  Speaker 1: was known to the homeowner, Bates and Alvarez Duenas, though
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  Speaker 1: they have not revealed the nature of their relationship. Facing
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  Speaker 1: capital murder charges, online jail records confirmed Crawford was officially
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  Speaker 1: denied bond. Meanwhile, heartbroken restaurant colleagues at Buffalo Phil's Wings
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  Speaker 1: are publicly mourning the unimaginable loss of Alvas Duenas, a proud,
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  Speaker 1: devoted single father to three beautiful children, and Bates, a
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  Speaker 1: beloved Chicago native with a bubbly personality who was on
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  Speaker 1: the very verge of college graduation this semester. For more
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvanni