Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 09.17.24 | Homeowner Sics Rottweiler on 9yo Girl, Beats her to Death
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Police
- 0:04Speaker 1: respond to an anonymous nine to one one call to
- 0:06Speaker 1: find jam Maria Sessions, nine dead with bite marks, abrasions, burns,
- 0:13Speaker 1: bruises all over her tiny body. Home surveillance shows homeowner
- 0:18Speaker 1: Tyshell Martin sicking her one hundred pounds Rottweiler on the
- 0:24Speaker 1: little girl, just nine. Martin kicks Jameia, who can't stand
- 0:29Speaker 1: up after the attack, drags her by the hair and
- 0:32Speaker 1: continues to beat the child.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Nancy. Jamaria's father, low Wan Sessions, was given custody of
- 0:38Speaker 2: his daughter under his release from prison. Let's shoot. Jamria's
- 0:41Speaker 2: grandmother's dismay Althea Chenault took care of Jamria after her
- 0:45Speaker 2: mother died of cancer. Sessions shared a child with Martin,
- 0:48Speaker 2: and when the couple broke up, Sessions left Ja Maria
- 0:51Speaker 2: and Martin's care. Martin, who had four biological children, frequently
- 0:54Speaker 2: punished Jamrio with exercise and beatings. Low Wan Sessions, who
- 0:58Speaker 2: accused Martin of abuse sover text, is now charged with
- 1:01Speaker 2: aggravated manslaughter in his daughter's death.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Tychell Martin thirty four, now charged with murder and aggravated
- 1:08Speaker 1: child abuse. Police knock on the window of a stolen
- 1:12Speaker 1: truck parked in a Washington neighborhood. The man and woman
- 1:14Speaker 1: inside scramble out of the back seat ask police for
- 1:17Speaker 1: a moment to get dressed, occupants ignoring police command to
- 1:21Speaker 1: get out with their hands up. Moments later, the mail,
- 1:25Speaker 1: still completely nude, runs from the truck into a backyard.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Police lose sight of him, but Canine Officer Bronco seems
- 1:34Speaker 1: very interested in a nearby trash can. When police take
- 1:38Speaker 1: off the lid, their naked suspect pops out, but abandons
- 1:41Speaker 1: any thought of running When he comes face to face
- 1:44Speaker 1: with Canine Bronco. The unidentified suspect charged with vehicle theft
- 1:49Speaker 1: and evading arrest. What about public nudity? I'd like to
- 1:53Speaker 1: apologize to Bronco for what you had to see that night.
- 1:57Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
- 2:03Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Onlines.
- 2:06Speaker 3: John Lenley, a Texas County commissioner, will serve one year
- 2:10Speaker 3: of probation after accidentally shooting his grandson during a wedding
- 2:14Speaker 3: he was officiating in Nebraska. For the latest returned to
- 2:18Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Sixty three year old Michael Gardner from Odessa, Texas, was
- 2:23Speaker 2: sentenced after pleading no contests to misdemeanor child abuse in
- 2:26Speaker 2: connection with the September twenty twenty three incident. The shooting
- 2:29Speaker 2: left Gardner's then twelve year old grandson with the serious
- 2:32Speaker 2: shoulder injury. The incident occurred during an outdoor wedding near Denton, Nebraska,
- 2:37Speaker 2: where Gardner was officiating for his nephew. As part of
- 2:40Speaker 2: the ceremony, Gardner planned to fire a revolver loaded with
- 2:43Speaker 2: a homemade blank round into the air to mark the
- 2:45Speaker 2: start of the event. However, the gun discharged while he
- 2:48Speaker 2: was cocking the hammer, striking his grandson instead. The bullet
- 2:51Speaker 2: caused a deep wound, resulting in significant tissue and muscle loss.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Gardner expressed deeper more, saying it's something I'll have to
- 2:58Speaker 2: deal with for the rest of myne life. Despite the accident,
- 3:01Speaker 2: Gardner was recently re elected as a county commissioner in
- 3:04Speaker 2: Ector County, Texas. Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Eric Miller, who
- 3:09Speaker 2: handled the case, expressed dismay over the decision to bring
- 3:12Speaker 2: a firearm into a public gathering, saying he was horrified
- 3:15Speaker 2: by the reckless nature of the incident.
- 3:17Speaker 3: Originally charged with second degree assault, Gardner's charges were reduced
- 3:21Speaker 3: and he was sentenced following his plea deal. Former Hollywood
- 3:25Speaker 3: mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is currently incarcerated, has undergone an
- 3:30Speaker 3: emergency medical procedure at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Once again. Grime online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Weinstein's representatives confirmed that the seventy two year old was
- 3:40Speaker 2: rushed from Rikers Island after complaining of chess pains. According
- 3:43Speaker 2: to his publicist, due to Engelmare and prison consultant Craig Rothfeld,
- 3:47Speaker 2: Weinstein's condition had been worsening for weeks, prompting his legal
- 3:51Speaker 2: team to intervene. Attorney Arthur Idollo reported that he had
- 3:54Speaker 2: alerted jail officials warning them that Weinstein's health was in
- 3:57Speaker 2: serious jeopardy. Weinstein's proceigure, identified as a pericardio scentisis involved
- 4:03Speaker 2: the removal of fluid from around his heart. This marks
- 4:06Speaker 2: the latest in a series of medical issues for Weinstein
- 4:08Speaker 2: since his return to Riker's Island from state prison earlier
- 4:11Speaker 2: this year. His health troubles began in twenty twenty following
- 4:14Speaker 2: his conviction on rape and sexual assault charges in recent years,
- 4:18Speaker 2: Weinstein has dealt with COVID nineteen pneumonia in a number
- 4:21Speaker 2: of other chronic conditions, including diabetes and coronary artery disease.
- 4:26Speaker 2: At his latest court appearances, Weinstein has relied on a wheelchair.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Weinstein's original twenty twenty conviction was overturned by an appeals court,
- 4:33Speaker 2: setting the stage for a retrial scheduled in November. However,
- 4:36Speaker 2: his legal battles are far from over, with new developments
- 4:39Speaker 2: on the horizon. Prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a
- 4:42Speaker 2: grand jury on up to three additional sexual assault allegations,
- 4:46Speaker 2: while British prosecutors have dropped separate charges against him. Weinstein
- 4:50Speaker 2: continues to deny all allegations of sexual misconduct.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Once a powerful figure in the entertainment industry, Weinstein's fall
- 4:57Speaker 3: from grace has been emblematic of the meta two movement,
- 5:00Speaker 3: which first gained traction in twenty seventeen when multiple women
- 5:04Speaker 3: came forward with accusations of abuse.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Thanks John, Marie Peter Toltz, forty one, uses her Master
- 5:11Speaker 1: of Fine Arts degree from New York Studio School to
- 5:14Speaker 1: build a name in the art world. Marie moves to
- 5:17Speaker 1: California to live with boyfriend Valentine Brokesmitt, but Brooke Smitt disappears,
- 5:23Speaker 1: failing to pick Marie up from a tennis game. A
- 5:26Speaker 1: year later, her family can't get in touch with her.
- 5:30Speaker 1: LAPD performs a welfare check. Police get reports of a
- 5:33Speaker 1: body at Woodrow Wilson High, three miles away. It's Broke Smitt.
- 5:39Speaker 1: No obvious signs of trauma to the body, and it
- 5:41Speaker 1: doesn't appear he's been dead for very long. Police not
- 5:45Speaker 1: sure of Broke Smith's death connected to Marie's disappearance two
- 5:50Speaker 1: and a half years ago. Marie Peter Toltz five seven,
- 5:55Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes. If
- 5:58Speaker 1: you have info on Marie Peter Toltz, please call l
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- 6:16Speaker 2: I'm messy, Grace