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D4VD CHARGED IN TEEN'S BUTCHERING DEATH | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 05.02.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime at Art hourly update breaking crime These Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. A Wednesday court appearance has resulted in
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Speaker 2: the delay of a preliminary hearing for singer David, accused
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Speaker 2: of murdering fourteen year old celest Revus Hernandez. The defense
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Speaker 2: is asking for more time to review all of the evidence,
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Speaker 2: stepping back from their initial proposed date of Friday May
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Speaker 2: first for Tuesday, May twenty sixth. Defense attorneys expressed concern
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Speaker 2: the extreme amount of media attention the case is receiving
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Speaker 2: may taint the jury pool. Attorneys asked to seal a
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Speaker 2: briefing from the prosecution, but Judge Charlene Olndo denied the request,
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Speaker 2: saying the case is no different from countless others in
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles County involving celebrities. Prosecutors say David killed fourteen
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Speaker 2: year old Celeste Revus Hernandez by stabbing her multiple times
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Speaker 2: than dismembered her body using chainsaws and his garage. Her
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Speaker 2: body was discovered last year, dismembered and decaying in the
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Speaker 2: trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke. Los Angeles County
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Speaker 2: District Attorney Nathan Hodgman laid out the severity of the
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Speaker 2: state's case.
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Speaker 3: Today, I am announcing the charges against David Anthony Burke,
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Speaker 3: the musician known as David Spelled D four v D,
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Speaker 3: in connection with the brutal and horrific murder of Celeste,
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Speaker 3: a fourteen year old at that time. These charges include
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Speaker 3: the most serious charges that a DA's office can bring
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Speaker 3: that his first degree murder with special circumstances. The special
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Speaker 3: circumstances being lying in wait, committing this crime for financial gain,
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Speaker 3: or murdering a witness in an investigation.
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Speaker 2: Burke is pleaded not guilty to all charges. He's currently
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Speaker 2: being held without bail, But the details emerging from the
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Speaker 2: LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division paint a chilling timeline that began
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Speaker 2: over a year ago. Celestrevas Hernandez was first reported missing
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Speaker 2: in April twenty twenty four from her home in Lake Elsinore.
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Speaker 2: For months, her family searched for an answers while she
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Speaker 2: was classified as a runaway. It wasn't until September eighth,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five that the search ended in a North
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Speaker 2: Hollywood inpound lot. A tesla which had been abandoned on
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Speaker 2: a Hollywood Hills street for weeks, was towed after neighbors
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Speaker 2: complained of a foul odour. When investigators opened the fronk,
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Speaker 2: the front trunk of the electric vehicle, they found two
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Speaker 2: plastic bags inside. The first was a decomposed head and torso.
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Speaker 2: The second contained further dismembered remains. Forensics later confirmed the
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Speaker 2: nightmare it was Celeste. District Attorney Hotchman alleges that Burke's
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Speaker 2: motive was cold and calculated, a desperate attempt to protect
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Speaker 2: his lucrative career at Innerscope Records from the fallout of
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Speaker 2: his illegal relationship with the miner.
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Speaker 3: This murder was committed for financial gain, as the evidence
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Speaker 3: will show in court. The financial gain was for mister
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Speaker 3: Burke to maintain his very lucrative music musical career that
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Speaker 3: Celeste was threatening, in addition to lying in way and
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Speaker 3: for finalancial gain. Is murdering a witness to an investigation.
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Speaker 3: In this particular case, as the evidence will come out
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Speaker 3: in court, the witness to the investigation was celested and
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Speaker 3: the investigation was into the lewde and lascivious sexual acts.
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Speaker 2: LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell addressed the public's frustration with the timeline.
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Speaker 4: The condition of her remains delayed the medical examiner's ability
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Speaker 4: to be able to determine cause of death. The substantial
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Speaker 4: amount of time that passed between her death and the
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Speaker 4: discovery meant that crucial evidence had degraded or disappeared, and
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Speaker 4: as detectives worked to uncover the truth, they also had
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Speaker 4: to sift through and debunk a great deal of false
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Speaker 4: information circulating publicly. These challenges were real, and they required
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Speaker 4: patient's precision and an unwavering commitment to the facts.
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Speaker 2: Burke was finally taken into custody that a home in the
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Speaker 2: Hollywood Hills. His defense team, however, isn't backing town. In
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Speaker 2: a formal statement, his attorneys claimed they would vigorously defend
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Speaker 2: Burke's innocence, explicitly stating that the evidence will prove Burke
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Speaker 2: was not the cause of Celeste's death. Chief MacDonnell, however,
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Speaker 2: says the timeline of her disappearance aligns perfectly with her
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Speaker 2: arrival at Burke's residence.
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Speaker 4: Miss Reeves was a reported runaway from Riverside County. During
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Speaker 4: the course of our investigation, detectives learned that she had
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Speaker 4: been involved in a sexual relationship with mister Burke when
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Speaker 4: she was a minor and he was an adult. On
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Speaker 4: April twenty third, twenty twenty five, Miss Reeves arrived at
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Speaker 4: mister Burke's home in the Hollywood Hills. That's the last
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Speaker 4: time she was known to be alive. On September eighth,
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, Miss Reeves's dismembered and badly decomposed body
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Speaker 4: was discovered in the front trunk of mister Burke's impounded tesla.
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Speaker 2: As the case moves forward, the District Attorney's office is
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Speaker 2: weighing a heavy decision whether or not to pursue the
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Speaker 2: death penalty. If they decline, Burke still faces life in
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Speaker 2: prison without the possibility of parole. While the legal battle
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Speaker 2: is just beginning. For Celeste's family, the focus remains on
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Speaker 2: the girl behind the headlines. Their legal representatives stated they
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Speaker 2: are committing to ensuring Celeste's voice is heard. In his
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Speaker 2: closing remarks at the press conference, da Hodgman reiterated his
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Speaker 2: promise to the Revus Hernandez family that the person responsible
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Speaker 2: for this brutal and horrific act would be held accountable.
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Speaker 3: What they have demanded, what we have assured them that
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Speaker 3: the District Attorney's Office, working with LAPD would give them.
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Speaker 3: Is the idea is he is he proof beyond a
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Speaker 3: reasonable doubt on who killed their daughter? And bring that
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Speaker 3: killer to justice. That killer that we have now charged
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Speaker 3: is David Anthony Burn.
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Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. A community in
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Speaker 2: Tampa is reeling after the disappearance of two University of
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Speaker 2: Cell Florida doctoral students took a devastating turn. Authorities confirmed
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Speaker 2: Friday that one of the students has been found dead
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Speaker 2: in a suspect who was a roommate of one of
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Speaker 2: the victims, is now behind bars the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office.
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Speaker 2: As the investigation reached a critical point Friday afternoon, when
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Speaker 2: swat teams were called to a neighborhood near the university,
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Speaker 2: Sheriff Chad Cronister held a somber press conference to deliver
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Speaker 2: the news that no family ever wants to hear.
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Speaker 5: We are here today as our community has been shaken
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Speaker 5: by the disappearance of two USF grad students, Nahida and Zamil.
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Speaker 5: I am heartbroken to announce the discovery of human remains
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Speaker 5: discovered on the Howard Franklin Bridge earlier this morning. Just now,
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Speaker 5: those remains were positively identified to Zamil.
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Speaker 2: Zamil Lehman, twenty seven, was an international student from Bangladesh
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Speaker 2: pursuing a degree in geography and environmental son Lance. He
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Speaker 2: was last seen on the morning of April sixteenth. His
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Speaker 2: friend and fellow doctoral student, twenty seven year old Nahita Bristie,
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Speaker 2: also vanished that same day. While Nimohon has been found,
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Speaker 2: the search for Bristy continues with increasing urgency. The breakthrough
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Speaker 2: in the case came Friday morning, when deputies responded to
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Speaker 2: a domestic violence call at a home in the Lake
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Speaker 2: Forest community. The suspect inside was identified as twenty six
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Speaker 2: year old he Sham Abu Garbier, who lived at the
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Speaker 2: residence with Lehmann. When deputies arrived, Abu Garbier barricaded himself inside,
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Speaker 2: leading to a tent standoff.
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Speaker 5: Commands were continued to give to the suspect. He did
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Speaker 5: not respond nor did he come out. At that time,
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Speaker 5: SWATT was activated. SWAT responded, and at approximately ten thirty
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Speaker 5: six am, SWATT arrived on scene. SWAT then mobilized and
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Speaker 5: commanded the suspect to come out of the residents.
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Speaker 2: After nearly twenty minutes of refusing to cooperate, Abu Garbier
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Speaker 2: surrendered peacefully. He now faces a laundry list of charges
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Speaker 2: including domestic violent, simple battery, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence,
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Speaker 2: and the unlawful movement of a human body. Sheriff Cronister
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Speaker 2: clarified the relationship between the three individuals, noting that while
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Speaker 2: Abu Garbier and Lehman were roommates, Bristie lived on the
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Speaker 2: USF campus.
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Speaker 5: So the suspect he Sham was a roommate of Zamil,
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Speaker 5: so that is where the connection lies. Nahida did not
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Speaker 5: live on that property. Nahida lived on USF campus, so
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Speaker 5: the connection is that the suspect, his Sham and Zamil
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Speaker 5: were roommates.
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Speaker 2: The motive for Lehman's death remains unclear as an autopsy
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Speaker 2: is performed, but investigators believe Abu Garbier acted alone. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: the clock is ticking for Nihita Bristi. Her brother says
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Speaker 2: the family was in contact with her daily and the
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Speaker 2: silence since April sixteenth has been agonizing.
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Speaker 5: We are still actively searching for Nahidah and again I
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Speaker 5: implore the community if you have any tips of where
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Speaker 5: you've seen her or she's just recently seen, please report
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Speaker 5: it to the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office immediately so we
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Speaker 5: can recover her to safety.
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Speaker 2: Anyone with information is urged to call the Hillsboro County
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Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office at eight one three two four seven eighty
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Speaker 2: two hundred. Cole Thomas Allen, the man authority say attempted
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Speaker 2: to storm the d C Hilton ballroom with a literal
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Speaker 2: Arsenal appeared in federal court yesterday. He's now officially charged
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Speaker 2: with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. The scene
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Speaker 2: in the courtroom Monday was a stark contrast to the
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Speaker 2: mayhem on Saturday night. Alan, dressed in a blue jumpsuit
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Speaker 2: inflanked by four US marshals, was described as soft spoken,
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Speaker 2: even nodding along as the judge explained the proceedings. But
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Speaker 2: over the weekend, Alan's attempts to enter the ballroom with
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Speaker 2: a shotgun sent guests ducking under tables and Secret Service
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Speaker 2: agents rushing the President and First Lady off stage as
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Speaker 2: shots rang out. While Allen's defense highlights he has no
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Speaker 2: prior criminal record in remains presumed innocent, the prosecution is
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Speaker 2: laying out a terrifying inventory of what he brought with
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Speaker 2: him to the Hilton.
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Speaker 6: These are the weapons that the defendant had on his person.
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Speaker 6: You can see that's a twelve gained pop action Mosburg
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Speaker 6: shotgun to thirty eight semi automatic. He had at least
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Speaker 6: three knives and all kinds of paraphernalia.
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Speaker 2: Beyond those firearms. Investigators are now piecing together a methodical
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Speaker 2: cross country journey that led to that ballroom. Acting Attorney
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Speaker 2: General Todd Blanche is pushing back against any narrative of
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Speaker 2: a security lapse, insisting that the layers of protection worked
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Speaker 2: exactly as intended.
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Speaker 7: Law enforcement did not fail. They did exactly what they
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Speaker 7: are trained to do. This was not an accident. It
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Speaker 7: was the result, as we know now, of preparation. But
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Speaker 7: the men and women who protected us that night were trained, professional,
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Speaker 7: and had an enduring commitment to the rule of law.
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Speaker 2: Blanche also detailed a timeline that suggests this wasn't a
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Speaker 2: heat of the moment decision, but a calculated strike. Involving
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Speaker 2: a train trip halfway across the country.
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Speaker 7: The defendant Allen, made a hotel reservation at the Washington
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Speaker 7: Hilton for April twenty fourth through April twenty sixth. On
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Speaker 7: April twenty first, he traveled by train from Los Angeles
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Speaker 7: to Chicago, and then from Chicago to Washington, d C.
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Speaker 7: On April twenty fourth. He arrived in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 7: At approximately one o'clock in the afternoon and checked into
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Speaker 7: the Washington Hilton.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps the most chilling detail released involves a message Alan
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Speaker 2: sent to his family just ten minutes before the shooting.
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Speaker 2: He reportedly described himself as a friendly federal assassin and
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Speaker 2: listed administration officials as his targets. His family says they
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Speaker 2: actually tried to alert police after reading his radical writings,
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Speaker 2: but by then the clock had run out. One law
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Speaker 2: enforcement officer was shot in the vest during the scramble. Thankfully,
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Speaker 2: that officer is expected to recover. On paper, Alan doesn't
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Speaker 2: fit the profile of a typical high risk suspect. He's
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Speaker 2: a highly educated tutor and an amateur video game developer
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Speaker 2: who spent years helping students with college prep. Now he
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Speaker 2: faces the possibility of life in prison. New York City
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Speaker 2: police have released bodycam video that captures the terrifying moment
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Speaker 2: a routine domestic violence call turned into a life threatening explosion.
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Speaker 2: It happened early Thursday morning at a residence in Queen's
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Speaker 2: officers were responding to a nine to one one call
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Speaker 2: involving a man with a knife, but as they approached
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Speaker 2: the front door to intervene, the entire front of the
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Speaker 2: building was obliterated in a ball of fire. In the video,
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Speaker 2: you can see an officer attempting to use a key
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Speaker 2: to enter the home when the blast literally knocks the
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Speaker 2: responding units off their feet. Here is an initial moment
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Speaker 2: of chaos.
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Speaker 3: Right, I just lit the house on fire.
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Speaker 2: We got explosion. Despite being thrown to the ground and
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Speaker 2: suffering burns and lacerations, those officers didn't retreat. Commissioner Jessica
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Speaker 2: Tish says that in that moment of total uncertainty, officers
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Speaker 2: chose to move forward into the fire. The footage shows
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Speaker 2: them rushing toward the mangled remains of the apartment to
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Speaker 2: pull residents to safety, including several young children who were
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Speaker 2: caught in the middle of this nightmare.
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Speaker 1: I can't read.
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Speaker 2: In total, seven officers were injured. Thankfully, Commissioner Tish confirmed
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Speaker 2: they have all been treated and released from the hospital.
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Speaker 2: NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh held a press briefing explaining
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Speaker 2: that the suspect, a fifty year old man, allegedly arrived
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Speaker 2: at the home intoxicated and armed with a knife. Family
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Speaker 2: members reported a strong smell of gas before the police
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Speaker 2: even arrived.
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Speaker 8: At approximately two forty two am, the office from the
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Speaker 8: one oh six percent respond to a nine to one
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Speaker 8: call of a domestic dispute with a knife. The call
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Speaker 8: was placed by a family member of the victim, who
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Speaker 8: stated that her male relative arrived at their residence and
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Speaker 8: toss scated an armed with a knife and there was
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Speaker 8: a smell of gas in the residence.
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Speaker 2: Security footage from the scene shows the suspect arriving with
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Speaker 2: two garbage bags filled with unknown canisters. Police say he
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Speaker 2: forced his way in through an air conditioning unit.
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Speaker 8: Mister farsarahm forced his way into the apartment by pushing
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Speaker 8: the air conditioning unit. Once an apartment, the daughter and
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Speaker 8: his two grandchildren of the victim, Mancha flee to safety,
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Speaker 8: while mister Parsaram began menacing and threatening the remaining victim.
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Speaker 2: With a knife.
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Speaker 8: The victim was able to safely get out of the apartment.
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Speaker 2: While some family members managed to escape early on. The
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Speaker 2: suspect allegedly continued to menace his wife with a knife
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Speaker 2: till she too was able to get out and hand
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Speaker 2: her keys to the arriving officers. As of right now,
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Speaker 2: the suspect remains unaccounted for. Investigators are currently combing through
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Speaker 2: the rubble to determine if he perished in the blast.
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Speaker 2: Records show the suspect had three prior protection orders filed
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Speaker 2: against him by a relative in the home, the most
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Speaker 2: recent of which expired just this year. Mayor Zoran Mundani
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Speaker 2: has praised the heroic actions of the first responders who
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Speaker 2: prevented this horrific situation from claiming even more lives. New
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Speaker 2: harrowing body camera footage has been released by the Antioch
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Speaker 2: Police Department, documenting a chaotic sequence of events that began
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Speaker 2: with a routine robbery call and ended with a police
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Speaker 2: officer being kidnapped and forced to discharge his weapon inside
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Speaker 2: a speeding getaway car. The incident started in the pre
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Speaker 2: dawn hours of February twentieth, right around five sixteen am.
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Speaker 2: Antioch officers were dispatched to a food Max grocery store
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Speaker 2: on Lone Tree Way after reports came in of an
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Speaker 2: armed robbery in progress involving multiple suspects. Surveillance video from
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Speaker 2: the scene shows a stolen Infinity suv literally smashing through
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Speaker 2: the front glass doors of the store. Two men jumped
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Speaker 2: out and allegedly threatened a clerk with a handgun. When
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Speaker 2: officer Travis Donaldson arrived on the scene, he attempted to intervene.
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Speaker 2: He approached the passenger side of the suspect's vehicle, but,
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Speaker 2: as you're about to hear, the situation escalated from a
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Speaker 2: detention to a life threatening struggle in a matter of seconds.
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Speaker 2: As Donaldson was shouting those commands, the suspect, identified later
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Speaker 2: as twenty three year old Dominic Desuza, didn't surrender. Instead,
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Speaker 2: he slammed the car into gear and accelerated. Because the
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Speaker 2: officer was partially inside the vehicle attempting to make the arrest,
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Speaker 2: he was pulled into the passenger seat and tracked as
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Speaker 2: the car tore out of the parking lot at a
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Speaker 2: high rate of speed.
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Speaker 1: Stops 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 act that
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Speaker 2: would likely have been fatal at that speed.
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Speaker 1: Stop the car, stop the car, you know, stop 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: Come the crass, stop, stop up, stop, how go the
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Speaker 1: hey stop? Stop? Don't don't stop?
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Speaker 3: Worth it?
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Speaker 1: I got fairly got 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. I'm loving you. I will to 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 leg.
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Speaker 1: Stop the car, 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 life threatening injuries and is now facing a
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Speaker 2: list of charges including kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and assault on
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Speaker 2: 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. For the latest
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Speaker 2: crime and justice breaking news, be sure to tune in
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Speaker 2: tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvani.