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Hello Kitty Leads Police to Accused Shooter of Two Teen Girls | Crime Alert 6AM 03.18.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Kitty helps police track down a Tucson man now
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  Speaker 1: accused of opening fire during a road rage incident that
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  Speaker 1: left two teenage girls wounded. Police say the shooting happened
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  Speaker 1: Thursday near the intersection on Golf Links and Cold on
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  Speaker 1: the city's east side. Investigators say twenty nine year old
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  Speaker 1: David Sidanio was driving a Toyota Sequoia when another car
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  Speaker 1: tried to merge into his lane. According to court documents,
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  Speaker 1: Sadanio sped up and would not let the vehicle over,
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  Speaker 1: and the two cars ended up turning onto Golf Links,
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  Speaker 1: with Sadanio pulling alongside the victims. Investigators say Sadanio then
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  Speaker 1: pulled a gun and fired into the car, hitting two
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  Speaker 1: girls in the legs. Their injuries were not life threatening.
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  Speaker 1: The victims were able to keep driving and pulled into
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  Speaker 1: a nearby business to call nine one one. Police say
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  Speaker 1: what stood out to the victims was a personalized license
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  Speaker 1: plate and a Hello Kitty sticker on the back of
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  Speaker 1: the suspects vehicle. That detail helped investigators quickly identify the
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  Speaker 1: SUV and I get to a nearby home. Officers say
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle was found backed into a car port and
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  Speaker 1: a passenger told police Sidanio had been involved in the shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say that same passenger admitted the license plate and
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  Speaker 1: sticker were removed after the incident. Sadaniel was taken into custody,
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  Speaker 1: and after being read as rights, admitted to being involved
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  Speaker 1: in the road range encounter. He told investigators he thought
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  Speaker 1: someone in the other car had a gun and claimed
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  Speaker 1: he heard a shot before he fired. Police say there
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  Speaker 1: was no indication the victims were armed.
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  Speaker 2: The dependant poses a significant risk to the public. You
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  Speaker 2: shaid a willingness to fire upon a fully occupied vehicle
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  Speaker 2: indiscriminately for a road race incident, and then he attempted
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  Speaker 2: to hide his involvement.
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  Speaker 1: The judge outlined the laundry list of charges Sadanio is
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  Speaker 1: now facing for today. I am going to order that
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  Speaker 1: you're held on the bond of seventy five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Sadaniel remains in custody for now. A preliminary hearing is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for next Monday as the investigation continues. More crime
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  Speaker 1: Men Justice news after this. A two month old baby
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  Speaker 1: is dead and her mother is fighting for her life.
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  Speaker 1: After a private ambulance crash in Philadelphia that police say
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  Speaker 1: may involve a family member driving under the influence. The
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  Speaker 1: crash happened early Sunday and the Frankfurt section at Torresdale
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  Speaker 1: and Harbison Avenues. Investigators say the emergency began about a
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  Speaker 1: mile and a half away into Cony on Dittman Street,
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  Speaker 1: where a nine to one to one call came in
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  Speaker 1: for an unresponsive infant. The baby, identified as Mary and Harris,
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  Speaker 1: were still at home when the call was made and
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  Speaker 1: police were already on the way, but before first responders arrived,
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  Speaker 1: the family left in a private ambulance driven by the
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  Speaker 1: baby's grandfather. Police say the fifty one year old driver
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  Speaker 1: was speeding southbound on Torresdale without lights or sirens, and
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  Speaker 1: ran a red light at Harbison before tee boning a
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  Speaker 1: Honda Accord that was traveling through the intersection on a
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  Speaker 1: green light. Investigators say the force of the crash caused
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  Speaker 1: the ambulance to roll. Both the mother and infant were
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  Speaker 1: thrown through the wind shield and landed in the roadway.
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  Speaker 1: The baby was pronounced dead at the hospital, though investigators
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  Speaker 1: say it is unclear if she died before or after
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  Speaker 1: the crash pending the medical examiner's findings. Her mother suffered
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  Speaker 1: severe head injuries and remains in critical condition. The driver
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  Speaker 1: of the Honda was not injured, and he was destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was destroyed pieces.
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  Speaker 1: For the car to lose that axe so and the
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  Speaker 1: fork from the car, he had to be real hard,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he had.
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  Speaker 2: To becoming fast.
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  Speaker 1: That's neighbor Ramon Nunez. Leon Stark says he heard the
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  Speaker 1: crash but did not realize the severity of it right away.
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  Speaker 2: I heard her, you know, a loud but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think none of it.
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  Speaker 1: Stark says. Learning a child had died made it even
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  Speaker 1: harder to process.
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  Speaker 2: It's sad because there's always a lot of accidents in
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  Speaker 2: this area, and the head that a little baby passed away,
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  Speaker 2: that's said.
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  Speaker 1: Police say the driver was taken to the hospital and
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  Speaker 1: could face charges including driving under the influence, but prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: say no charges have been formally filed at this point.
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  Speaker 1: As the investigation continues, a massive international crackdown in Thailand
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  Speaker 1: is exposing industrial scale scam centers that use thousands of
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  Speaker 1: phones to target Americans for fraud. Picture this a command
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  Speaker 1: room where long tables are covered with thousands of smartphones
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  Speaker 1: stacked in rows and piles, charging cables and power strips
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  Speaker 1: running between them as FBI agents and Royal type police
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  Speaker 1: officers are looking through the devices, examining data on laptops,
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  Speaker 1: handling each phone as evidence tied to a large organized scam.
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  Speaker 1: Officials say these phones came from suspected scam compounds in
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  Speaker 1: Southeast Asia. The setups are described as organized and efficient
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  Speaker 1: rows of workers using devices like these to message victims.
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  Speaker 1: They build trust, they push fake investments, they drain accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Shelbel with the FBI states quote these are industrial
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  Speaker 1: scale fraud operations. Americans are losing billions of dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year to these types of scams, and in many cases
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  Speaker 1: victims lose their life savings. FBI officials say more than
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  Speaker 1: eight thousand phones and one three hundred hard drives have
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  Speaker 1: been seized in recent operations. Each one may hold leads
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  Speaker 1: in the form of messages, wallet addresses, contact lists, All
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  Speaker 1: of it can help trace the networks behind the scams.
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  Speaker 1: Agents now have the task of sorting through the devices
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  Speaker 1: one by one. The phones on those tables are silent now,
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  Speaker 1: but investigators say the networks behind them are still active
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  Speaker 1: and they are still searching for their next target. For
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