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Crime Alert 10.28.24 | Jogging Trail Shooter Caught by Coincidence · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime needs Now. Alyssa
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  Speaker 1: Lottkiss thirty four sets out for a jog on the
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  Speaker 1: Mule Creek Greenway, Nashville when a man starts following her.
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  Speaker 1: Others on the trail Suddenly hear screams for help, followed
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  Speaker 1: by gunfire. Bystanders find Alyssa bleeding from a gunshot wound.
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  Speaker 1: She dies at the hospital. Surveillance video captures an Asian
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  Speaker 1: male covered in blood running from the trail to a
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  Speaker 1: dark colored car. A cop happens to recognize the suspect
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  Speaker 1: as Paul Park. The officer investigated the suicide of Park's
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  Speaker 1: twin brother just the month before Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: A parked car catches dash cam footage of Park running
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  Speaker 2: to his car and gets a partial shot of his
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  Speaker 2: license plate. It was from that footage a police officer
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  Speaker 2: recognized Park. Park reportedly had no connection to Lockett, so
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  Speaker 2: a doctor of speech pathology. A Nashville citizen on the
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  Speaker 2: greenway that evening says Park pulled up next to her
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  Speaker 2: car as she was leaving and asked her what had happened,
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  Speaker 2: with a smirk on his face.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Park, twenty nine, now charged with murder Chard Curtis
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  Speaker 1: flashes a gun, sliding in Austin pizza shop employee a
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  Speaker 1: note demanding the money from the register. Instead, the employee
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  Speaker 1: lunches across the counter, putting Curtis in a headlock. Another
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  Speaker 1: employee grabs Curtis's gun and pistol whips him. Curtis continues
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  Speaker 1: fighting until their manager comes from the back with a knife.
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  Speaker 1: The manager asks Curtis do you prefer prison or death?
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  Speaker 1: Curtis stops struggling and calmly waits for cops to arrive.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Curtis, nineteen, now charged with aggravated robbery. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this Now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Onlines john Linlay In Nebraska, a twenty two year
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  Speaker 3: old man, James Thompson Junior, has entered a plea of
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  Speaker 3: not guilty by reason of insanity in connection with the
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  Speaker 3: fatal stabbing of a couple at an Interstate eighty rest stop.
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  Speaker 4: The incident, which took place June nineteenth, left seventy two
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  Speaker 4: year old Gary D. Weaver dead and critically injured his
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  Speaker 4: seventy one year old wife, Mary Weaver, both of Eureka, Missouri.
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  Speaker 4: According to authorities, the couple was attacked after Thompson allegedly
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  Speaker 4: demanded the keys to a jeep being towed behind their RV.
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  Speaker 4: Part of the attack was captured on a trucker's dash cam.
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  Speaker 4: Witnesses reported the violent confrontation, which occurred at a rest
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  Speaker 4: stop near Grand Island, Nebraska. After the attack, Thompson fled
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  Speaker 4: the scene in a vehicle. Nebraska State troopers later spotted
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  Speaker 4: him and pursued him as he sped down the highway
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  Speaker 4: at speeds reaching one hundred twenty miles per hour. The
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  Speaker 4: high speed chase ended when Thompson crashed into the Platte River,
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  Speaker 4: where he was arrested. Police noted he had blood on
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  Speaker 4: his shirt and cuts on his hands at the time
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  Speaker 4: of his arrest. Despite concerns raised earlier about Thompson's mental competency,
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  Speaker 4: a court determined on October first that he was fit
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  Speaker 4: to stand trial. In addition to the murder charge, Thompson
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  Speaker 4: faces multiple charges, including attempted murder, attempted robbery, and fleeing arrest.
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  Speaker 4: The case will now proceed as the defense argues for
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  Speaker 4: his insanity plea now to New Jersey, as police there
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  Speaker 4: say there have still been no arrests following a chaotic
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  Speaker 4: scene last weekend and the Camden County borough of collins Wood,
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  Speaker 4: where hundreds of teenagers caused widespread disruption during a community event.
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  Speaker 4: For the latest, we turned to Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The unrest began on the evening of October nineteenth that
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  Speaker 2: a haunted hay ride fundraiser in Knight Park and quickly escalated,
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  Speaker 2: spreading into nearby neighborhoods in a local convenience store. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: say more than two hundred teens, many dropped off by
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  Speaker 2: the carload, flooded the park, where the Parent Teacher Association
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  Speaker 2: was hosting a Halloween themed event. What began as a
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  Speaker 2: festive evening took a violent turn, with reports of fights
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  Speaker 2: breaking out, teens cutting in lines and running recklessly through
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  Speaker 2: the area. Local police, overwhelmed by the crowd, decided to
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  Speaker 2: shut down the event and called for backup from nearby departments.
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  Speaker 2: As officers work to clear the park, a group of
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  Speaker 2: fifty to seventy teens moved to a nearby wa Wah
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  Speaker 2: convenience store, where they reportedly stole items and caused further chaos.
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  Speaker 2: The store was forced to close for the night. In
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  Speaker 2: a separate but related incident, another group of nearly eighty
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  Speaker 2: teens engaged in what police described as a massive fight
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  Speaker 2: in a residential area close to the park. While officers
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  Speaker 2: were able to break up the brawls and disperse the crowd,
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  Speaker 2: no arrests were made. Authorities have now acknowledged concerns about
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  Speaker 2: a new riotous trend in set. Officials would be reviewing
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  Speaker 2: public safety plans for future events to prevent similar outbreaks.
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  Speaker 4: Colin Wood's mayor and police chief have also released a
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  Speaker 4: joint statement in recent days confirming that an investigation is
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  Speaker 4: ongoing Thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Arius, thirty three, diagnosed with schizophrenia in her late twenties,
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  Speaker 1: manages the condition with meds and lives with their parents.
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  Speaker 1: At the onset of COVID, Catherine's sentence get worse. She's
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  Speaker 1: deeply afraid of COVID. When both parents, Kenny and Carmen Arius,
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  Speaker 1: tests positive for nineteen Katherine panics and packs a bag
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  Speaker 1: and leaves their Red Bank, New Jersey home in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. Credit card activity shows she bought
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  Speaker 1: a train ticket to Brooklyn, made two purchases in New
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  Speaker 1: York the next day. A month later, her parents get
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  Speaker 1: a letter from a Brooklyn storage facility saying Catherine hasn't
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  Speaker 1: paid for August. The only thing in the storage unit
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  Speaker 1: is Catherine's bag. Katherine Arias now missing over two years.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Hispanic five zero, one hundred pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.
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  Speaker 3: If you have info on Katherine Arius.
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  Speaker 1: Please call Red Bank, New Jersey PD seven three to
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  Speaker 1: two five three zero two seven hundred. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime injustice news, go to crime online dot com and
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  Speaker 3: I'm mess he Grace