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California Officer Held Hostage in Armed Robbery Suspect's Speeding Car | Crime Alert 04.29.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvoni. New harrowing body camera footage has been
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  Speaker 2: released by the Antioch Police Department, documenting a chaotic sequence
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  Speaker 2: of events that began with a routine robbery call and
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  Speaker 2: ended with a police officer being kidnapped and forced to
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  Speaker 2: discharge his weapon inside a speeding getaway car. The incident
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  Speaker 2: started in the pre dawn hours of February twentieth, right
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  Speaker 2: around five sixteen am. Antioch officers were dispatched to a
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  Speaker 2: food Max grocery store on Lone Treeway after reports came
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  Speaker 2: in of an armed robbery in progress involving multiple suspects.
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  Speaker 2: Surveillance video from the scene shows a stolen Infinity Suv
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  Speaker 2: literally smashing through the front glass doors of the store.
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  Speaker 2: Two men jumped out and allegedly threatened a clerk with
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  Speaker 2: a handgun. When Officer Travis Donaldson arrived on the scene,
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  Speaker 2: he attempted to intervene. He approached the passenger side of
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  Speaker 2: the suspects vehicle, but, as you're about to hear, the
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  Speaker 2: situation escalated from a detention to a life threatening struggle
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  Speaker 2: in a matter of seconds. Right hey, hey. As Donaldson
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  Speaker 2: was shouting those commands. The suspect, identified later as twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old Dominic Desusa, didn't surrender. Instead, he slammed
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  Speaker 2: the car into gear and accelerated. Because the officer was
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  Speaker 2: partially inside the vehicle attempting to make the arrest, he
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  Speaker 2: was pulled into the passenger seat and trapped as the
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  Speaker 2: car tore out of the parking lot at a high
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  Speaker 2: rate of speed.
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  Speaker 1: Stop the card, stop the car, Hey, stop the car. Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Desusa ignores Donaldson's instructions to stop, telling the officer to
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  Speaker 2: just jump out of a moving car and acts that
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  Speaker 2: would likely have been fatal at that speed.
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  Speaker 1: Stop the car. No, stop the car, you know, stop
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  Speaker 1: the car.
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  Speaker 2: Desusa began repeatedly threatening to crash the vehicle, essentially holding
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  Speaker 2: both of their lives. Hostage officer Donaldson remarkably tries to
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  Speaker 2: de escalate, telling him it's not worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Crass stop stop. He hey, stop stop, don't don't stop. Worthy.
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  Speaker 1: I got family group, alright, talk talk to me.
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  Speaker 2: When the pleading didn't work, Donaldson realized he had to
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  Speaker 2: take control of the vehicle before a high speed collision
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  Speaker 2: killed them both or an innocent bystander. He gave Desusa
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  Speaker 2: one final ultimatum, pull over or get shot.
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  Speaker 1: Stop the car.
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  Speaker 2: I'm moaring you.
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  Speaker 1: I will suit your leg.
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  Speaker 2: With the suspects still refusing to break, Donaldson fired a
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  Speaker 2: single calculated shot into Desusa's.
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  Speaker 1: Legs I'll you.
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  Speaker 2: According to the Antioch Police Department, the choice to shoot
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  Speaker 2: the suspect in the leg was a deliberate, tactical decision
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  Speaker 2: to incapacitate the driver and reduce the likelihood of a
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  Speaker 2: fatality for everyone involved. Even after being shot, Desusa didn't
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  Speaker 2: stop immediately. He eventually crashed into a parked car in
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  Speaker 2: a nearby residential neighborhood and tried to flee on foot,
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  Speaker 2: but officers caught up to him minutes later. Desusa was
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  Speaker 2: treated for non life threatening injuries and is now facing
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  Speaker 2: a list of charges including kidnapping, robbery, burglary, an assault
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  Speaker 2: on an officer. Officer Donaldson walked away with only minor injuries.
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  Speaker 2: A terrifying morning, but a testament to the split second
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  Speaker 2: decisions law enforcement is forced to make more crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice news after this. A Columbus seventy truck driver is
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  Speaker 2: now facing the consequences of a crash that won out
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  Speaker 2: a young family. An investigator say the man behind the
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  Speaker 2: wheel shouldn't have even had a license to begin with.
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  Speaker 2: On April eleventh, and Delaware County, fifty year old Madu
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  Speaker 2: and Gum was driving a freightliner when he failed to
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  Speaker 2: slow down for stop traffic. Video of the incident is harrowing.
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  Speaker 2: It shows a white semi truck plowing into a line
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  Speaker 2: of cars, causing at least one vehicle to explode instantly,
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  Speaker 2: killing thirty seven year old Luke Seposki, his thirty six
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  Speaker 2: year old wife, Linnia, and their one year old son, Logan.
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  Speaker 2: The tragedy was compounded this week when the Ohio Department
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  Speaker 2: of Public Safety revealed a staggering history of identity fraud.
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  Speaker 2: According to authorities, in Gum entered the United States in
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties and began using multiple names and birthday
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  Speaker 2: to obtain government IDs. He reportedly obtained a fraudulent Ohio
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  Speaker 2: driver's license in two thousand and three and a commercial
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  Speaker 2: driver's license in two thousand and seven using an alternate identity.
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  Speaker 2: He even became a naturalized US citizen under that false
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  Speaker 2: name before changing his name back to Madu and Gum
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  Speaker 2: in twenty fIF The sheer scale of the deception has
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  Speaker 2: led Ohio officials to turn the case over to Homeland
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  Speaker 2: Security in federal prosecutors. While the legal system untangles the
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  Speaker 2: decades of fraud, the Delaware County community is left mourning
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  Speaker 2: a family described as a kind of couple who loved
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  Speaker 2: being parents. On the day of the crash, dozens of
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  Speaker 2: witnesses called nine one one, their voices filled with the
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  Speaker 2: horror of the scene auto accident seventy one with a
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  Speaker 2: possible da go ahead, ma'am. Yeah, we're on the seventy
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  Speaker 2: one South. They were hit by a semi truck. Okay, fire, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: oh god, Okay, like huge.
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  Speaker 1: But if people are like suck in the corn.
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  Speaker 2: Gum remains in the Delaware County jail on a five
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars bond. He is facing three counts of
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  Speaker 2: aggravated vehicular homicide and four counts of vehicular assault. For
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  Speaker 2: the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure to
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  Speaker 2: tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with this
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  Speaker 2: crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni.