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Family Feud at Airport Erupts in Gunfire, Stabbing | Crime Alert Hourly Update · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Gould. Christmas evening at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
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  Speaker 1: took a horrifying turn when a family dispute erupts in
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  Speaker 1: a halle of gunfire and a stabbing. The chaos unfolded
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  Speaker 1: at a restaurant within Terminal four, just outside the security checkpoint,
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  Speaker 1: an area accessible to the public. Officers responded to reports
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  Speaker 1: of gunshots around nine forty one in the evening. Upon arrival,
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  Speaker 1: they found a group of people involved in a fight
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  Speaker 1: that quickly escalated into a violent confrontation. Here's Sergeant Meyra Reeson,
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  Speaker 1: a spokesperson for the Phoenix Police Department, talking to the media.
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  Speaker 1: A group of known individuals engaged in a physical altercation
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  Speaker 1: that took place here at the outside a restaurant. The
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  Speaker 1: altercation escalated when somebody produced a handgun. That individual unleashed
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  Speaker 1: a barrage of gunfire that left three victims wound. A
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  Speaker 1: woman suffered life threatening injuries and was rushed to a
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  Speaker 1: local hospital. Two men were also injured, but are expected
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  Speaker 1: to survive. Another man involved in the dispute was found
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  Speaker 1: with a stab wound in the airport parking garage along
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  Speaker 1: with a female juvenile. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing,
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  Speaker 1: but authorities believe it stemmed from a domestic dispute. No
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  Speaker 1: arrests have been made yet, but all weapons involved were
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  Speaker 1: reportedly retrieved by the police. The incident caused a temporary
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  Speaker 1: halt in operations at Terminal Force Security checkpoint along with
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix skytrain, but the chaos did not and there
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  Speaker 1: in a separate, unrelated incident, another man was arrested after
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  Speaker 1: arriving at the airport armed with firearms. He had reportedly
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  Speaker 1: received a false text message claiming an active shooter situation
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  Speaker 1: was underway at the airport due to that earlier domestic dispute.
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  Speaker 1: That man also so got into an altercation with police
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  Speaker 1: and is facing several charges. Officials, by the way, are
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  Speaker 1: strongly advising bringing weapons or firearms to the airport in
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  Speaker 1: case you didn't already know that. They also say no
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  Speaker 1: community members or visitors were hurt during either incident. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this, a teenager in California
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  Speaker 1: is stabbed to death just days before Christmas, and police
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  Speaker 1: have arrested her ex boyfriend in connection with the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Officers with the Azusa Police Department responded to a call
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  Speaker 1: about an assault with a deadly weapon at approximately ten
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the evening in the three hundred block of
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  Speaker 1: North Saldano Avenue. When they arrived, they found Angelina Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 1: a senior at Azusa High School, suffering from multiple stab wounds.
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  Speaker 1: She was rushed to a nearby hospital, but was later
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  Speaker 1: pronounced dead. Her family quickly became concerned when they could
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  Speaker 1: not locate her, prompting a frantic search. According to her stepfather,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Carbio, they tracked her phone to the home of
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  Speaker 1: her ex boyfriend, eighteen year old Daniel Rodriguez. There, he
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  Speaker 1: was told that Angelina was gone by officers. Robert spoke
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  Speaker 1: to ABC seven News, I'm believing I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: because I can't even a most worse, Rodriguez had reportedly
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  Speaker 1: picked up Gonzales from a cheerleading banquet earlier that evening
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  Speaker 1: and then brought her to his house. Her family said
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  Speaker 1: that although they had warned her to stay away from him,
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  Speaker 1: she continued to keep in contact with him, and sadly,
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  Speaker 1: it cost her her life. Family members described Angelina, who
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  Speaker 1: was a cheerleader and wrestler, as someone who was buddly,
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  Speaker 1: with a great personality and had a huge heart. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: arrested Daniel Rodriguez near the scene of the crime. He
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  Speaker 1: has been booked on suspicion of murder and faces a
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  Speaker 1: special allegation that he used a knife during the at
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  Speaker 1: His bail has been set at two million dollars. The
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  Speaker 1: motive for the fatal incident is not known. Gonzales was
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  Speaker 1: set to turn eighteen on January seventh. Her family is
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  Speaker 1: now left with the painful task of laying their daughter
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  Speaker 1: to rest instead, and finally, as stressed out Amazon delivery
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  Speaker 1: driver in Massachusetts decided to offload their burden literally by
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  Speaker 1: dumping eighty packages in a wooded area. Police say the
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  Speaker 1: incident came to light when a vigilant police officer found
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  Speaker 1: three large toats filled with abandoned packages. The officer recovered
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  Speaker 1: them and returned them to Amazon. The driver later confessed
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  Speaker 1: to leaving the packages by the side of the road,
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  Speaker 1: citing stress as the reason for their actions. While police
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  Speaker 1: are not pursuing criminal charges, the incident highlights the growing
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  Speaker 1: pressure faced by delivery drivers during the holiday season. But
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  Speaker 1: you know it's going to happen, and it did because
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  Speaker 1: This incident follows a similar case in Alabama, where a
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  Speaker 1: FedEx driver was arrested for dumping packages, and that person
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  Speaker 1: is facing serious charges. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Goold.