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Teen Football Player Viciously Attack by Teammates Over Relationship With Girl · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a Lake Jackson teen boy
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  Speaker 1: lord away from his friends, then beaten so badly he's
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  Speaker 1: in icee you on a ventilator. Why I mean, see Grace,
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  Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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  Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and Serious XM one eleven. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I want you to take and listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. This is our friend Bill Spencer at kp
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  Speaker 1: RC two. This alleged attacker or alleged attackers. They left
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  Speaker 1: him in the street with fracture, with a fractures full unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: The doctor said yesterday that it was bought force trauma
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  Speaker 1: to the back of his head. He's got fractures inward
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  Speaker 1: in the rear of his spawn on both sides, he says.
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  Speaker 1: Lake Jackson police detectives are investigating the attack, and this
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  Speaker 1: entire ordeal has been gut wrenching for the family. It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a rollercoaster of the most extreme grief you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine to see him hurt and to be attacked. It's
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  Speaker 1: this senseless brutality. It's unimaginable. I wish you could see
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  Speaker 1: his face. Teen boy Cole Hagen just scrubbed in sunshine.
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  Speaker 1: The all American boy, star of the football team, well
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  Speaker 1: liked by everyone at his high school there in Lake Jackson, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So why would someone lure him outside, away from his
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  Speaker 1: twin of his friends and beat him senseless? Again, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us here at Foxation in series
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  Speaker 1: M one eleven with me an all star panel to
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  Speaker 1: make sense of what we know right now. Gabby Hart,
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  Speaker 1: Reporter Fox twenty six Houston, joining US professor Forensics Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon
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  Speaker 1: and star of Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart.
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  Speaker 1: Joining US renowned psychologist forensics psychologist doctor Sherry Swartz her
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  Speaker 1: specialty criminal behavior. James shell Nutt, former Metro major case
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  Speaker 1: now lawyer and special guests joining US Cole Hagen's brother Corey. Corey,
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  Speaker 1: when did you first learn that your brother had been
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  Speaker 1: lured out and badly horribly attacked? Who was last weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I woke up at three o'clock in the
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  Speaker 1: morning on Saturday to use the restroom and look at
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  Speaker 1: my phone, and I had six miscalls from my father,
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  Speaker 1: and so I called him back and for me of
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  Speaker 1: the attack and that my brother was an ICU at
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  Speaker 1: Herman Memorial Hospital in Houston, Texas. So this happened on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday night? Was it after a football game? No
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  Speaker 1: football season had already ended, So what was happening? You're
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  Speaker 1: your brother's a football player, right, Yes? He is? What position?
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  Speaker 1: He's a wide receiver? And is that he just in
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  Speaker 1: the eleventh grade? He's a junior. He is only a junior. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: And let me ask you this, where are you in
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  Speaker 1: relation to him? You're his brother, older brother, nineteen years
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  Speaker 1: his senior. Yeah. So my parents divorced when I was
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  Speaker 1: young and my father remarried, and so I have a
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  Speaker 1: brother who we share the same father, and we're nineteen
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  Speaker 1: years apartment. So your little brother is lured out and
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  Speaker 1: beaten to the point he is on a ventil lator.
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  Speaker 1: Where was he? They were at a gathering at one
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  Speaker 1: of his friend's house, a girl's house. They were all swimming.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it was kind of a swimming party, and
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  Speaker 1: that's where the attack occurred. Let's go straight out to
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  Speaker 1: Gabby Hart joining us Fox twenty six, Houston. Gabby, what
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  Speaker 1: do we know right now? What happened? Uh? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just as as we've been hearing pretty awful. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, when we look at the neighborhood where this
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  Speaker 1: party was held at, you know, we went over to
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  Speaker 1: Cherrywood Court, and I mean, these are nice houses. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a very you know, a well established community.
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  Speaker 1: There's a city full of parks and and you know
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  Speaker 1: for families. So the fact that this happened in such
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  Speaker 1: a what's assumed to be prestigious area, you know, is
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  Speaker 1: also pretty shocking. Gabby Heart, you said that it's a
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  Speaker 1: really nice neighborhood with these big, beautiful houses and parks.
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  Speaker 1: Where is Lake Jackson, Texas exactly so as the city
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  Speaker 1: in just about I say, an hour and a half
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  Speaker 1: outside of Houston, in Brazoria County. You know, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen it had a population of just over twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: thousand people. And again, a super nice area, a nice home,
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  Speaker 1: a quiet street. You know, you would look at that
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  Speaker 1: that neighborhood and think, you know, good people live here,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing like this would happen on a street that
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  Speaker 1: looks like this one. Just from going to that area.
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  Speaker 1: It's written up as one of the best places in
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  Speaker 1: the country to live, one of the best places in
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  Speaker 1: Texas to live. Lake Jackson, Texas. And you know, just Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Crime happens everywhere, but the fact that it happens in
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  Speaker 1: a tree line residential, upscale neighborhood tells me a lot
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  Speaker 1: about who the purp is. Yeah, it does, Nancy. That
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  Speaker 1: means that whoever did this felt very comfortable in this
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  Speaker 1: and say it's not somebody standing on the corner selling
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  Speaker 1: ahead and crack, no, that's not it. Whoever did this
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  Speaker 1: was what we would consider to be in the circle
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  Speaker 1: of intimates around around this young man. They knew him,
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  Speaker 1: They knew him, probably pretty well. And keeping mind, and
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't just a single person. You've got a multi
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  Speaker 1: pronged attack here. So what you're saying and try to
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  Speaker 1: talk in regular people talk place, Well, they went there
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  Speaker 1: with purpose in mind, Nancy. You know who who brings
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  Speaker 1: a gang of people to attack a junior in high school?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Why? Why him? I can't imagine even
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  Speaker 1: though he lives in a nice area. I can't imagine that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's walking around with gold in his pockets
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't have anything badly badly the point, he's
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  Speaker 1: on a ventilator. Let's just get right there. What does
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  Speaker 1: that mean that you're on a ventilator. When I hear
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  Speaker 1: a ventilator, I think in one of those big fat
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  Speaker 1: tubes down your throat, breathing for you. Yeah. All our
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  Speaker 1: listeners have to do is take a look at the picture, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's heartbreaking. And that's the condition that he's in.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is young man who is a highly
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  Speaker 1: trained athlete. His body is tuned, and so it was
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  Speaker 1: so bad that he has to have his breathing has
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  Speaker 1: to be assisted by the ventilator. That you're right. It's
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  Speaker 1: a tube that goes into the throat and it literally
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  Speaker 1: assists you in breathing. That means that his brain has
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  Speaker 1: sustained sufficient amount of trauma so that the base area
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  Speaker 1: and to back your brain, the primal area that you
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  Speaker 1: know that handles everything from breathing to heartbeat. They said
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  Speaker 1: they're afraid that it's going to be compromised, that he
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  Speaker 1: won't be able to do it on his own. Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: That's how vicious this was. So it basically breathes for you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it does. Let me go to you, Corey Hagen, your
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  Speaker 1: coal's older brother. What went through your mind when you
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  Speaker 1: got to the hospital and you saw your little brother
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  Speaker 1: on a ventilator. It was gut wrenching, Nancy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I've ever experienced grief like I felt in
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  Speaker 1: that moment, and then shortly thereafter anger. You know, He's
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  Speaker 1: we're nineteen years apart, so he's more like a son
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  Speaker 1: to me than he is a little brother. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We never had the spats where we lived in the
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  Speaker 1: same house and like normal brothers do. It's just been
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  Speaker 1: more of an affectionate relationship where I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: guide him and be an example for him and love
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  Speaker 1: on him. So he's more like a baby to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And it was just it was a roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster up and down constantly. If you're just you hurt
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  Speaker 1: for him, you're worried about him, and then you want
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  Speaker 1: you want to hold these people accountable to the full
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  Speaker 1: extent of the law. Doctor Sherry Schwartz, I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. Doctor Sherry Schwartz is or Announce Psychologists
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  Speaker 1: joining us. She is the author of Criminal Behavior and
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  Speaker 1: Where a Law and psychology intersect. Doctor Sherry speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the bond between these two siblings, Cole Hagen and his
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  Speaker 1: big brother Corey, he was with us right now. I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen anybody as close as my twins John, David
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  Speaker 1: and Lucy. I mean that bond between a brother and
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  Speaker 1: a sister, or a brother and a brother, or sister
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  Speaker 1: and sister, there's really nothing like it. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: think that the other child bond is incredible, but that
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  Speaker 1: sibling bond is very strong. What creates that, doctor Sherry, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the difference in the relationship is what creates it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, especially at a certain age when when you
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  Speaker 1: become an adolescent, you might not want to turn to
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  Speaker 1: your parents as much because you think they don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: And so they understand. Yeah, So for the twins they're
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  Speaker 1: the same age, they understand each other a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're maybe going to be able to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to work around mom, right, and so this
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  Speaker 1: creates a sense of closeness. They cover for each other.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really profound what Corey is saying that
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't really like brother brother because of the age difference,
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  Speaker 1: but that he sees him as more like a son
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  Speaker 1: in that way, right, because he's so much older, but
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  Speaker 1: still his brother would be more likely maybe to come
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  Speaker 1: to him instead of Dad, and because he's not the
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  Speaker 1: parent crime stories with Nancy Grace. Then matters are made
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  Speaker 1: worse when we find out more about the plot two
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  Speaker 1: with these kind of injuries, I just have to say
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  Speaker 1: the plot to kill because when you beat somebody so badly,
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  Speaker 1: what's your intent to scare them or to kill them?
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut. Six is his Courtney Carpenter,
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  Speaker 1: ABC thirteen. Cole is still an ICU. His brother says
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  Speaker 1: he suffered two skull fractures and a broken clavicle and
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  Speaker 1: sadly think it's a long shot where a member to
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  Speaker 1: play football again, which was one of his biggest passions.
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  Speaker 1: He's been robbed of a lot. The family is offering
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  Speaker 1: a reward for a video. They believe we'll show what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Supposely there's a video. So I went on and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I give you a thousand dollars if you bring the video,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money to a high school kid, and
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  Speaker 1: then I just the supporter started rolling in. The reward
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  Speaker 1: is now up to twenty five thousand dollars. Ultimately, Hagan
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  Speaker 1: says he wants the people involved to be held accountable.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that's shocking these ghouls who stand by and
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  Speaker 1: video heinous crimes. They The other day I read about
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  Speaker 1: to doctor Sherry Schwartz, and boy do I need to
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  Speaker 1: strength on this. A woman was attacked and raped on
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  Speaker 1: a subway platform in New York and nobody did anything.
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  Speaker 1: As Kitty Jennevici all over again. Where a woman is
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  Speaker 1: attacked and raped brutally and nobody does a thing. What
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  Speaker 1: is that? Well, because of Kitty Genovese's case, some very
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  Speaker 1: famous social psychology research came out of that, and we
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  Speaker 1: call it the bystander effect, which is in many instances,
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  Speaker 1: people have to interpret that something awful is happening to
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  Speaker 1: get involved. Now, arguably, you see somebody being beat or raped,
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  Speaker 1: you know something awful is happening. But then what people
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  Speaker 1: tend to do, especially if there's more people around, they
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  Speaker 1: look around to say, well, maybe I'm misinterpreting it because
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  Speaker 1: no one else is reacting. Why are you saying that?
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  Speaker 1: Other Sherry Shores you've got Where did you go to
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  Speaker 1: graduate school? I went to Florida International University and we
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  Speaker 1: studied this. Okay, well, I don't know what you guys
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  Speaker 1: are talking about, but they're goals standing by and watching
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  Speaker 1: somebody being beaten or rape and do nothing, And you're
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  Speaker 1: telling me that the explanations is that they look at
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  Speaker 1: each other to figure out are we really seeing what
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  Speaker 1: we're saying? Is that what you're saying? Yes, that's what
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  Speaker 1: the research shows that people have to interpret that an
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  Speaker 1: emergency is happening. It's sort of a way of passing
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility to other human beings. So nobody's doing anything,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to be the one to get involved.
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  Speaker 1: Now that sounds about right right there. But when you
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  Speaker 1: see a lady getting raped, or you see a young
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  Speaker 1: teen boy getting brutally beaten, did you hear two skull
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  Speaker 1: frights and a broken clavicle? You know that's wrong. That
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  Speaker 1: is wrong. And not only with somebody standing by watching it.
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  Speaker 1: They videoed it, according to Paul's a brother, Corey Hagen,
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  Speaker 1: who has now put the reward up to twenty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars for video. So, Corey, why do you believe
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  Speaker 1: some guel, some vulture actually videoed the attack on your
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  Speaker 1: little brother? So multiple reasons, Nancy. One of those beings
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  Speaker 1: that of indication that this was planned in advance. And
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  Speaker 1: these kids today they video everything, I mean everything, and
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  Speaker 1: if they knew this was coming, we assumed that they
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  Speaker 1: would video it, but also had We've had a ton
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  Speaker 1: of people reach out to me, which are kids, and
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  Speaker 1: say that it was videoed. Now we as of now,
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  Speaker 1: I've not heard that we've recovered the video or that
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  Speaker 1: the police have unless they have not shared that with
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  Speaker 1: us yet. But it's a high likelihood that it was videoed.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll ever recover it. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you this, Corey Hagen, when you don't know
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  Speaker 1: a horse, look at his track record. Do teams video
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  Speaker 1: every single thing in their life? Yes? So the answer
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  Speaker 1: to that would be yes. Guys. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: our cut ten. This is David Gonzalez khou eleven. When
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  Speaker 1: Corey Hagen pictures a sixteen year old brother, Cole, he
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  Speaker 1: thinks of a star athlete on the Brazoswood High School
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  Speaker 1: football team who enjoys hanging out with his family and friends. Man,
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  Speaker 1: he loves his friends, and he's the kind of guy
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  Speaker 1: you can count on them. The two are nineteen years apart,
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  Speaker 1: but they share a close bond. We talk all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm always trying to help him out anyway I can.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love him. He's more like a son
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  Speaker 1: than a brother, you know. We don't have You don't
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  Speaker 1: have any riffs whenever you're this far apart, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So it's just love. So he's heartbroken trying to process
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  Speaker 1: what happened to Cole on Friday when he says his
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  Speaker 1: brother was attacked at a social gathering with other teams
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  Speaker 1: at a home on Cherrywood Courts and Lake Jackson. Complete
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  Speaker 1: senseless brutality, I mean completely senseless brutality. Allegedly two of
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  Speaker 1: his friends lured him outside. Stop right there in with brutality,
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  Speaker 1: sense his brutality. But then as a plot unfolds, the
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  Speaker 1: shock runs even deeper. Take a listen to our cut seven.
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  Speaker 1: This is Mario d as KPRC. It's just the most
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  Speaker 1: evil and bizarre thing I've ever heard. Tom Selleck is
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  Speaker 1: the Missouri County District Attorney. There's a lot of people involved,
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  Speaker 1: but as cases go, it's fairly straightforward. Officials at brass
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  Speaker 1: Wood were unavailable when we showed up on campus. A
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  Speaker 1: member of the football team did say a team meeting
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  Speaker 1: was held this morning. They head coach telling players to
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  Speaker 1: pray for cool. Corey Hagen finds it hard to believe
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  Speaker 1: teammates are responsible for putting his brother in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: I played sports grown up, and my teammates were like
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  Speaker 1: my brothers. These guys would have never done that even
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  Speaker 1: if we had a disagreement. Again, investigators continuing to try
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  Speaker 1: and peace this attack together. Members of his own football
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  Speaker 1: team possibly gave him a beating so severe he ends
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  Speaker 1: up on a ventilator. Take a listen to Brittany Jeffers
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  Speaker 1: kp RC two. This is high school junior Cole Hagen.
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  Speaker 1: Just months ago. This was the wide receiver out on
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  Speaker 1: the gridiron, but now beating unconscious. The Briseswood High School
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  Speaker 1: football player is in a hospital bed at Memorial Herman Hospital.
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  Speaker 1: His family says that fellow students start to blame. We're
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  Speaker 1: extremely close and it's just heartbreaking. He does to deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get justice for him. Corey Haiggin says
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  Speaker 1: his younger brother Cole, was lured to a team party
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  Speaker 1: in the late Jackson Farms neighborhood on Friday night, and
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  Speaker 1: it was there where he says his brother was attacked
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  Speaker 1: out in the street by a group of others, possibly
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  Speaker 1: friends of his, who were angry about his relationship with
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  Speaker 1: a girl. He says they told Cole to come outside
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  Speaker 1: because a truck had been damaged, and after the attack,
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  Speaker 1: he was left in the street, okay to Gabby Hart
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  Speaker 1: joining us Fox twenty six Houston. So his own friends
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  Speaker 1: are the ones that lured him out what happened? Allegedly, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: Not only his own friends, his teammates, teammates on his
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  Speaker 1: football team lured him out. Now, what we heard from
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  Speaker 1: a family and from some people in that community is
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  Speaker 1: that this situation was over a girl. So we have
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  Speaker 1: two seventeen year old and an eighteen year old who
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  Speaker 1: are now facing some serious charges and accused of attacking
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  Speaker 1: him again, possibly over a girl. Time Stories with Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace too, Corey Hagen. This is Cole's brother, his big brother.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it true that some of the first words your
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  Speaker 1: brother could utter he thought he had been in a
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  Speaker 1: car crash, and he asked were his friends? Okay? Yes, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: that was the first thing he asked, was are my
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  Speaker 1: friend okay? Does he have any idea what really happened?
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  Speaker 1: He now knows that he was attacked, He does not
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  Speaker 1: know who did that yet. We are waiting on some
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  Speaker 1: advice from a psychologist ourselves to ensure that we present
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  Speaker 1: that in such a way that it does not completely
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  Speaker 1: dismantle every bit of security that he has. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you cannot trust your close friends, who can you trust.
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  Speaker 1: And so we just want to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: approaching this the right way and we communicate that in
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  Speaker 1: a way that you know is best for my brother. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't just a black eye, This isn't just a
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  Speaker 1: rough housing in the front yard. He has a broken clavical.
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  Speaker 1: He was put on a ventilator. He didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: what happened to him. He had no memory surrounding the attack.
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  Speaker 1: He was beaten literally senseless to you, Joe Scott explain
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  Speaker 1: the force necessary to break a clavical A tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of force. And fancy if folks will just kind of
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  Speaker 1: touch their shoulder right below their neck, long bone running
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  Speaker 1: right there. It's our collar bone, and it's you know
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  Speaker 1: a thing about that bone itself. I mean across the middle, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: across the middle to either the left or the right
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  Speaker 1: of the neck. It's it's a very robust bone. It
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  Speaker 1: takes a lot of force in order to do this.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it would take the equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of either being picked up and slammed down onto a
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  Speaker 1: heart surface like asphalt or concrete or somebody standing over
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  Speaker 1: you and stomping on it in order to affect that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know you see this in car accidents.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: That's the kind of force that it takes. And let's
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: keep in mind that also Cole had two separate skull fractures,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: not just one, and the skull is very resilient. To Nancy,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: his skull fractured twice. That means that more than likely
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: he was pounded multiple times in the skull in order
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to get that external table of the skull that's really
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: thick where Good Lord made us to protect our brain,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and it actually fractured. What concerns me about this, Nancy.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: What concerns me are the long term effects relative to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: his young body. Even at this stage he's he's gonna
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: have to look out for things like stroke, Nancy, He's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: gonna maybe have difficulty walking in the future, and so
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: in memory loss and those sorts of things. You know
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: we'll hear about CTE and professional football players. This is
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: ten times worse than that, Nancy, Corey. I'm sorry for
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you to have to have to hear that. Have the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: doctors told you guys that unfortunately due to COVID restrictions.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I have not been able to be at the hospital.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I had to go during the ear when he was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: in the ar trauma unit, and then when they moved
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: him to ICU, I could no longer see him up
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: until this past Friday, and so I haven't been in
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a long with the doctors visits. I will say, since
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: everyone's brain is different in hills differently the doctors, they
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: stay pretty vague on their outlook for the future, but
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: they give warnings, just like mister Joseph Scott just was
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: telling us that, you know, we don't know what the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: long term effects are going to be. So I mean
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: it's we don't know, it's it's just going to be
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a long road I think for him, Corey, Do they
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: think he's had brain damage. I'm not sure. They've moved
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: him into the rehabilitation facility and they're doing all of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: their analysis on him now, and so they have not
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: come out and said that he has permanent brain damage.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: But they have not come out and said he's not
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: going to have any brain damage long term either, So
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: we don't know at this point. Guys taken listen to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: our cut eight Fox twenty six the three people arrested
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: for the beating of sixteen year old Cole Hagen. We're
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: actually on the same football team as him. Hagen now
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: has brain injuries. We're told three skull fractures as well
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: as a broken collar bone, and his brother says he
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: believes all of this was over a girl, and these
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: guys think they owned these girls after they break up
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and they get to tell her who she can and
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: can't date after that and get mad about it. Corey
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Hagen says his sixteen year old brother, Cole Hagen was
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: set up and attacked by three people that he should
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: have been able to trust, the most members of his
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: own football team at Brussels Wood High School. It's unimaginable really.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: The attack happened Friday night at a party near Cherrywood
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Court in Lake Jackson. Allegedly there were two that lord
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: him outside who were both his friends. I know a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: couple of the kids involved he actually went to prom
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: with this year. Haagan is still in the ICU at
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Memorial Herman Hospital. Family says he is making some progress.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: He's off the ventilator and breathing on his own. Went
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to prom with him and they gave him brain damage.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Explain to me, Corey Hagen, what you think happened. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: think that you had an entitled group of young men
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that and allegedly a couple of young girls who helped
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: instigate this. They got upset about a picture that my
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: brother was in with one of these boys ex girlfriends.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: There was nothing risk gay about the picture. It was
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: just a picture of them beside one another. And these
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: kids came up with this plan that they would carry
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: out this attack where they sent a group of them
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: got together at one house and they sent two of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: them to the gathering where my brother was to tell
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: him his truck had been hit. He comes outside to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: check on his truck and the group of kids are there.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Now we don't know. The police are saying they don't
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: have any reason to believe that there was more than
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: one actual physical attacker, but we don't know yet. I mean,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: they're still doing an investigation. I can tell you one
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: of the hardest things for our family is that physical attack.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: The main attacker that they arrested first read Mitchell. You know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he didn't even spend a night in jail. The JP
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: came in on a Sunday morning, said his bond at
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars. He paid two grand, took a couple
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of pictures for the mug shots, and he was he
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: was headed home while my brother was fighting for his life.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Do you mind telling me that again? In SloMo? Not
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: at all. So what we believed happened was there was
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a group of high school boys and a couple of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: girls that came up with this plan. We have firsthand
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: w that heard the planning of this attack. That group
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of kids got together at one house while the gathering
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: where my brother was was going on at another house.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: The group of attackers planned to send two of their
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: group to where my brother was to lure him outside.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: So they went in and said, Cole, someone hit your truck.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Let's go see it. Well, these guys were on his team,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he trusted on. He walks outside with him to check
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: on his truck, and the attack takes place. They leave
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: him in the road unconscious, and the main attacker read Mitchell,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: allegedly main attacker read Mitchell sends a message to one
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: of my brother's good friends in the backyard of the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: place where they were to say, hey, come get your boy.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: He's laying in the street. So they came and got
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: my brother called nine one one and they were gonna
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: lifelin him, but the fog was too bad that night.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: But the worst part for our family, or one of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the worst parts of this, is that Mitchell didn't even
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: have to spend the night in jail. Local JP came
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: in on a Sunday morning, set his bond at twenty
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. He paid two thousand dollars, took his pictures,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and he was on his way while my brother laid
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: in bed fighting for his life. Take a listen to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: our cut five Fox twenty six, Houston. The community came
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: together Wednesday night at Freeport Park and prayed for a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: full recovery. Police have identified the suspects as seventeen year
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: old eight In Holland, eighteen year old Logan Houber, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: seventeen year old Read Mitchell. They're all facing serious felony charges.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I just hope that they're held accountable to the full
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: extent of the law. My brothers certainly not getting cut
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: any deals. He's playing in a hospital bed, and we're
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: also prayed that he's going to come back to be
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: normal again, which we don't know. And now the family
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: says they believe that there's video of the attack out there,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and they say, and they're offering a twenty thousand dollar
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: reward for anyone who hands it over so that they
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: can assist police with this investigation by checking out and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: looking at that video. Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Gabby
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Hart joining me from Fox twenty six Houston. Gabby again,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. It's my understanding that
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: two of the purps reportedly Lord call out and then
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he was attacked by Mitchell. Well, what's the working theory
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: of cops right now and what Jackass gave us, Guy Bond?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You know what, Nancy, there's a lot of people asking
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that same question right now. But again, you know what
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: we're hearing in this is unconfirmed, but that this kid,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: read Mitchell, who is accused of this attack, actually has
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: some pretty high connections, you know, within the higher ups
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: out there, so he was able to be released that quickly. Again,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: we're still working to confirm that now. Again, police saying
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: that they believe Reid Mitchell is the seventeen year old
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: who committed this assault, and the other two arrested, Aidan
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Holland and Logan Hoober. Aiden is seventeen, Logan Hoober's eighteen
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: are believed to be the two that allegedly lured him
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: out of the home. I can tell you right now,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: all three of the suspects at last check are looking
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: at charges of aggravated assaults. But we've also seen some
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: comments on social media comments from people in the community
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: saying that those charges just aren't stiff enough for what
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: happened to mister Hagan. And you know, the law is
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that it's presumed you intend the natural consequence of your act.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And I've used this example before because I used it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: with juries. For instance, if I take a piece of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: fine child, the kind that you can actually see through
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: almost you can see a shadow of a hand behind it,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and then I throw it to a cement floor, the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: law presumes I intend to break it. So when you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: jump on a guy, throw him to the ground, to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the pavement, fracture his skull, beat him, smash his face
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: him with your elbow, and go on and leave him
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: there bleeding out, what does the law presume you intend
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to kill him? That's what the law presumes you intend.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So why are they not charged with attempted murder? And
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: more important, why are they out walking free? All three
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of them on bond. Why is that, Corey Hagen, You know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the only thing that we can think of is because
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: of the connections that these kids allegedly have in the group.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You know, the Mitchell kid, allegedly his grandfather was a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: former sheriff of a neighboring county and we've been told
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: that he made calls, which is again it's an allegation.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Two of the other guys that were involved in the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: group that came over to carry out the attack. One
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: his grandfather is a municipal judge here in Lake Jackson.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: The other his grandfather is a former sheriff of our county.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And so you know, I've I've hired an attorney for
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: our family, and we have set with the district attorney
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and with the local police department to let him know that,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you know, our expectations are that these kids are treated,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you know, justin fairly with me as Corey Hagen, this
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: is Cole's brother, his older brother. So who we think
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to be the main perp reportedly read Mitchell seventeen years old,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: it's the one who did most to the beating. Reportedly,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: you're telling me his grandfather is who he is a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: former sheriff of the neighboring county, Okay, and Logan and Huber,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to say their names out loud, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I'm looking right at their pictures. Logan Huber seventeen reportedly
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: lord your little brother out to take a beating that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: gave him brain damage and left him on a dental later.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: What he and Aiden Holland, those two boys are the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: ones that lord him out right, And I'm taking them
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: one by one. So Logan Huber, daddy or granddaddy is
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: who he doesn't have any connections. He's just with the connected. Okay,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Aiden Holland eighteen, who's his dad and granddad? He does
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: not have any direct connections that I know of, just
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: part of the group that has the connection. So hangers on.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And these were your brother's friends, the mate prom with
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the prom together with all of these boys got to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Sherry Schwartz. I don't understand it. I do not understand it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Could you explain to me? I would say pack mentality,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: But when you have pac mentality, all I can think
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: of is the Lord of the flies that this is
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: worse than pac mentality because with pack mentality you go
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: along with the crime. But not necessarily when you know
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the victims, so well, that's more of a random crime scenario.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It's called wilding. What is the scenario? Dotor Sherry Schwartz
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and psychological terms, Well, in psychological terms, what we have
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: here we have kids who are playing football, kids who
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: sound like they come from privileged backgrounds, So their aggression,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all of that is rewarded, right because in football, hit hard, hit,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you get rewarded for that. That's how you win, that's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: how you get lcolate. And then you know, you have
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: all of this jealousy it sounds like, over the fact
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that you know this was over a girl potentially, And
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: then you have the peer pressure aspect of these kids
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: who know in advance what's what's going to happen. Not
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: maybe not everybody knew that it was going to be
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: this brutal, but they knew that, Okay, we're going to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: lure him out and he's going to be confronted, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: people participate in this, and in an environment where kids
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: are not really good at keeping secrets from each other,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: they do somehow keep this somewhat secret from Coal to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: be able to lure him out by telling him, hey,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you know your truck got hit. So you've got this
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: cocktail of you know what your friends are doing, you
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: don't want to be left out, you don't maybe want
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to be bullied yourself, you don't want to be uncool,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and then you stand by and watch this horrible thing
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: happen and no one reports it. Nancy, that's the other thing.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: It's unlikely, right, we don't know. It's unlikely they planned
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: it that day, so no one reported it. No one
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: told the teacher, no one told another parent. I mean,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: that's that's really scary. Gabby harn't joining me from Fox
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: twenty six Houston. They because of they reported connections these
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: thugs have. Is this going to just be swept under
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the rug and nobody cares or notices? Well, you know what, Nancy,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I can tell you that the community cares, and us
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: as a news organization are going to do everything on
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: our end to get answers. I can tell you that
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: we've been in constent, you know, communication with the Lake
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Jackson Police Department, requesting statements, requesting updates, so you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it's not something that's going to fall by the wayside.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: And we're also going to ask the question, you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: is there a need for tougher charges on these teams.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Why are they out? You know, we've already asked that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and we're waiting to kind of get some correspondence back
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: on that, but it's definitely something that us at Fox
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: twenty six plan to keep pushing for answers. We also
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: plan to update you know, the community on cole Hagen's
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: status as he improved, and of course wishing him the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: best here, but we plan to stay on top of it. Nancy, Well,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if we donate an independent prosecutor brought in,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: because if this prosecutor has ties to a former sheriff
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: or a former judge, that's not gonna work. No, you
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: need somebody completely unbiased that will investigate and prosecute this
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: case to the fullest extent of the law. Guys, today,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: our prayers for cole Hagen. We don't know what his
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: future may be or what his family is going through.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you this, lady, Justice doesn't cut you a
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: break just because your daddy was a sheriff in the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: neighboring county or your brothers a judge. Does it matter
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to her? It doesn't matter to us. We wait as
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: just as unfolds Nancy Grace Crumbs story signing off goodbye friend,