Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.15.24 | Employee Killed in Random Walmart Stabbing
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace and breaking crime needs Now.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Lonnie Hinton, twenty nine, is one of the first customers
- 0:06Speaker 1: of the morning Out of California Walmart. He shops and
- 0:09Speaker 1: checks out before seven am. Before he leaves, he pulls
- 0:13Speaker 1: a knife and stabs an employee without saying a word.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Jessica Morales dies of her injuries before she can get
- 0:20Speaker 1: to a hospital. Later that day, he walks into the
- 0:23Speaker 1: Riverside County Sheriff's office and confesses he kills someone.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Hinton was on parole at the time of the attack
- 0:30Speaker 2: after serving a sentence for robbery. Police say there was
- 0:33Speaker 2: no interaction between Hinton and Morales before the stabbing, and
- 0:37Speaker 2: they did not have a prior connection. Morales worked at
- 0:40Speaker 2: Walmart for over twenty five years. Hinton is now held
- 0:43Speaker 2: at the Coespird Detention Center Robbery parole. Lonnie Hinton now
- 0:48Speaker 2: charged with murder. Chick fil A employees are known for
- 0:51Speaker 2: wonderful customer service, but how about fighting off robbers. Four
- 0:56Speaker 2: point thirty am, a Chick fil A delivery driver alone
- 0:59Speaker 2: in the kitchen area when a masked man with a
- 1:01Speaker 2: gun smashes through the drive through window and demands the
- 1:04Speaker 2: employee open the safe instead. The delivery driver fight struggling
- 1:09Speaker 2: for the thief's gun. When the driver wrenches it away,
- 1:13Speaker 2: the thief takes off through the back door. During the fight,
- 1:16Speaker 2: the driver pulled off the thief's mask and he is
- 1:20Speaker 2: identified as Tommy Williams from surveillance video. Williams fifty one
- 1:26Speaker 2: located and arrested, now facing a list of charges related
- 1:29Speaker 2: to armed robbery. Well he got more than a chicken biscuit.
- 1:33Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime in justice breaking news Crime
- 1:42Speaker 1: Onlines John Limley.
- 1:43Speaker 3: We begin in New Mexico as authorities in southeast Albuquerque
- 1:48Speaker 3: investigate a tragic incident in which three people have been
- 1:51Speaker 3: found dead in a home in what appears to be
- 1:54Speaker 3: a murder suicide. Here's Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Albuquerque police reported that a t twenty two year old
- 2:00Speaker 2: man is believed to have fatally shot his twenty year
- 2:03Speaker 2: old sister and seventeen year old brother before taking his
- 2:06Speaker 2: own life. All three victims sustained gunshot wounds to the head.
- 2:10Speaker 2: A motive for the murder suicide remains unclear, and the
- 2:12Speaker 2: names of the deceased have not yet been released. Officers
- 2:16Speaker 2: responded to a call around eleven pm on August fourth,
- 2:19Speaker 2: reporting three unresponsive individuals inside the residence. Upon arrival, they
- 2:23Speaker 2: pronounced all three dead at the scene. The man lived
- 2:26Speaker 2: in the home with his younger siblings and their mother,
- 2:28Speaker 2: who was not present during the shooting. She discovered the
- 2:31Speaker 2: bodies upon returning home and immediately contacted the police. At
- 2:35Speaker 2: a news conference, Gilbert Galagos with the Albuquerque Police Department
- 2:39Speaker 2: said an investigation continues and said, quote, it's real tragedy.
- 2:43Speaker 3: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal
- 2:46Speaker 3: thoughts or metal health batters, please call the National Suicide
- 2:50Speaker 3: Prevention Lifeline at nine eight eight or eight hundred two
- 2:55Speaker 3: seven three eight two five five to connect with the
- 2:58Speaker 3: trained counselor, or visit the NSPL site that number. Once
- 3:03Speaker 3: again nine eight eight or eight hundred two seven three
- 3:08Speaker 3: eighty two fifty five And Illinois sheriff's deputy has been
- 3:12Speaker 3: charged with murder and the death of a black woman
- 3:15Speaker 3: shot during a confrontation over a pot of water in
- 3:18Speaker 3: her home. Once again Crime Online.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner Court documents detail the incident involving former Sangamon
- 3:25Speaker 2: County Deputy Sean Grayson who allegedly shot thirty six year
- 3:28Speaker 2: old Sonya Massey in the face and then discouraged his
- 3:31Speaker 2: partner from providing medical aid. Grayson, who has since been fired,
- 3:35Speaker 2: appeared in court where County Circuit Judge Ryan M. Catigan
- 3:38Speaker 2: denied his pre trial release, citing a significant deviation from
- 3:42Speaker 2: societal norms. The shooting occurred on July sixth in Springfield, Illinois,
- 3:46Speaker 2: about two hundred miles south of Chicago, after deputies responded
- 3:50Speaker 2: to Massy's nine one one call about a potential prowler.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Prosecutors alleged that after Grayson allowed Massey to move a
- 3:56Speaker 2: pot of water from the stove to a counter, he
- 3:58Speaker 2: aggressively yelled at her, drew is nine millimeter pistol and
- 4:01Speaker 2: shot her as she tried to surrender. The thirty year
- 4:04Speaker 2: old Grayson, who is white, feasts charges of first degree murder,
- 4:07Speaker 2: aggravated battery with the firearm, and official misconduct. He pleaded
- 4:11Speaker 2: not guilty during his initial court appearance.
- 4:13Speaker 3: Grayson is scheduled to return to court on August twenty sixth.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Thanks John, twenty seven year old Julianne Miller's boyfriend James Clayton,
- 4:22Speaker 1: moves into her Connecticut home things get serious, she deeds
- 4:26Speaker 1: half the property to him. A year later, their relationship
- 4:30Speaker 1: begins to sour and she wants his name off the property.
- 4:33Speaker 1: The day after, Julianne gets a quick claim deed for
- 4:36Speaker 1: Clayton to sign, she disappears. Julianne's parents report her missing
- 4:41Speaker 1: when she doesn't answer their calls for a week. A
- 4:44Speaker 1: neighbor remembers hearing Julianne and Clayton arguing over the property
- 4:48Speaker 1: and hasn't seen her since. Clayton tells cops he last
- 4:51Speaker 1: saw Julienne leaving their home in a brown truck driven
- 4:55Speaker 1: by a man. Investigators find blood on Julianne's couch, bleach
- 5:00Speaker 1: spots on the living room carpet, and some for jewelry
- 5:03Speaker 1: is found for sale at a pawnshop. James Clayton refuses
- 5:07Speaker 1: a polygraph. Julianne Miller five six, one hundred and ten pounds,
- 5:11Speaker 1: blonde hair, blue eyes, now missing forty two years. If
- 5:16Speaker 1: you have info on what happened to Julianne Miller, please
- 5:20Speaker 1: call Old Sabrook, Connecticut PD eight six zero three nine
- 5:25Speaker 1: five three one four zero. For the latest crime injustice needs,
- 5:29Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and Please join us
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- 5:36Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace