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Defense Attorney: OpenAI Attack a 'Mental Breakdown' NOT Terror Plot | Crime Alert 04.15.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni, a Texas van accused of fire bombing
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  Speaker 2: the home of open AI CEO Sam Altman is being
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  Speaker 2: held without bail as details of a premeditated plot against
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  Speaker 2: the AI industry began to surface. Twenty year old Daniel
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  Speaker 2: Burrino Gamma appeared in court Tuesday, but did not enter
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  Speaker 2: a plea. While his defense attorney Diamond Ward argues this
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  Speaker 2: was an acute mental health crisis sparked by autism, prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: are painting a much darker picture. They alleged Morino Gamma
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  Speaker 2: traveled all the way from Spring, Texas to San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: with one goal, a planned, targeted attempt to kill the
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  Speaker 2: open AI CEO. Early Friday morning, Marino Gama allegedly hurled
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  Speaker 2: a Molotov cocktail at Altman's residence, setting an exterior gate ablaze.
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  Speaker 2: Less than an hour later, he was at OpenAI headquarters
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  Speaker 2: three miles away. Police say he threw a chair through
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  Speaker 2: glass doors and threatened to burn the building down with
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  Speaker 2: everyone inside. When he was tackled by police, he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just carrying a lighter. He had a jug of kerosene
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  Speaker 2: in a multipart manifesto. That manifesto reportedly contained a hit
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  Speaker 2: list of AI executives and investors, complete with their home addresses.
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has charged him with two counts
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  Speaker 2: of attempted murder, targeting both Altman and a security guard,
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  Speaker 2: charges that could carry a life sentence. But the legal
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  Speaker 2: trouble doesn't stop at the state level. Federal prosecutors are
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  Speaker 2: stepping in with charges related to explosives and unregistered firearms.
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  Speaker 2: US Attorney Craig Misichian says the investigation is looking into
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  Speaker 2: a much heavier label for these actions.
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  Speaker 3: We are at the beginning of this investigation, but if
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  Speaker 3: the evidence shows that mister Moreno Gama executed these attacks
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  Speaker 3: to change public policy or to coerce government or other officials,
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  Speaker 3: we will treat this as an act of domestic terrorism
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  Speaker 3: and together with our partners, prosecuted him to the fullest
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  Speaker 3: extent of the law.
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  Speaker 4: As tensions over the future of technology rise, Prosecutor Brooke
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  Speaker 4: Jenkins is framing this case as a stark warning the
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  Speaker 4: discourse around DAI needs to cool down before more lives
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  Speaker 4: are put at risk.
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  Speaker 1: My office will prosecute this case to the fullest extent
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  Speaker 1: of the law. This should also be a moment where
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  Speaker 1: our nation reflects on the often incendiary rhetoric that is
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  Speaker 1: being used in discussions about artificial intelligence and its future
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  Speaker 1: impacts on our society. In no way should we have
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  Speaker 1: be at the point where a man could have lost
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  Speaker 1: his life over differences of opinion and concerns.
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  Speaker 4: Moreno Gamma is due back in court on May fifth.
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  Speaker 4: More crime and justice news. After this, A weekend bike
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  Speaker 4: ride turned into a nightmare in Spartanburg County, and the
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  Speaker 4: details emerging from a South Carolina courtroom are devastating. On
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  Speaker 4: Sunday after noon, along Asheville Highway, two young boys were
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  Speaker 4: doing what kids do on a spring weekend, riding their
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  Speaker 4: bicycles on the sidewalk. At twelve twenty p m. A
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  Speaker 4: Honda A Cord veered off the roadway at a high
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  Speaker 4: rate of speed, striking both children. The victims have been
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  Speaker 4: identified as twelve year old Darien James Robbins in nine
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  Speaker 4: year old Mikhail Lee Smith. Tragically, both boys died from
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  Speaker 4: their injuries. Darian was just days away from celebrating his
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  Speaker 4: thirteenth birthday. The driver, airy Antonio Robleo Perez, appeared in
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  Speaker 4: court Monday. The prosecution's description of his state at the
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  Speaker 4: scene was harrowing. They alleged she was so intoxicated he
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  Speaker 4: could not stand or complete a field sobriety test officers
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  Speaker 4: noted slurred's speech, bloodshot eyes, and an open container in
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  Speaker 4: the vehicle. During the bond hearing, we heard from Darien's mother, Megan,
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  Speaker 4: in a moment of pure heartbreak. She told the court
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  Speaker 4: she was walking right behind her boys. She said quote,
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  Speaker 4: I watched him almost hit me, and then I ran
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  Speaker 4: to my son while he bled to death. Robleo Perez
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  Speaker 4: was denied by on two counts of felony dui resulting
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  Speaker 4: in death, along with charges for driving without a license.
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  Speaker 4: The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Roblo Perez is
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  Speaker 4: in the United States illegally, and a federal immigration detainer
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  Speaker 4: has now been placed on him. A brother of one
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  Speaker 4: of the victims told the judge quote, now I have
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  Speaker 4: to bury my own brother on his own birthday. Family
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  Speaker 4: members are now using their platform to plead with the public,
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  Speaker 4: if you drink, stay home. They want the world to
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  Speaker 4: remember Darien and Mikhail Lee not as statistics, but as
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  Speaker 4: boys who brought joy to everyone they knew. Robleo Perez
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  Speaker 4: is scheduled to return to court on June eighteenth. Now
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  Speaker 4: to a disturbing case out of Brevard County, Florida, where
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  Speaker 4: a high school teacher is behind bars after being accused
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  Speaker 4: of a sexual relationship with a student. Thirty seven year
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  Speaker 4: old Kirsten Rose, a math teacher at Coco Beach Junior
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  Speaker 4: and Senior High School, was taken into custody following an
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  Speaker 4: investigation that began with a suspicious set of parents. According
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  Speaker 4: to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, the the investigation was
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  Speaker 4: triggered in March after a male student returned home late
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  Speaker 4: from work and refused to explain his whereabouts. When his
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  Speaker 4: parents checked his location via a tracking app, they discovered
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  Speaker 4: he had been at an unfamiliar residence. While the teenager
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  Speaker 4: initially claimed he was visiting a girlfriend, investigators say he
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  Speaker 4: eventually admitted to be in a relationship with Rose. Detectives
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  Speaker 4: later determined the two had been communicating privately on Instagram
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  Speaker 4: since November twenty twenty five. Authorities alleged the relationship turned
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  Speaker 4: sexual this past February and continued throughout March. Rose is
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  Speaker 4: currently being held without bond at the Brevard County Jail.
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  Speaker 4: She faces five counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor,
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  Speaker 4: along with charges of lewd and indecent exposure by an
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  Speaker 4: authority figure. The Brevard County School District has not yet
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  Speaker 4: released a formal statement regarding her employment status, but the
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff's Office says the investigation remains ongoing. They are urging
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  Speaker 4: anyone with additional information to contact their Special Victims Unit
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  Speaker 4: for the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be sure
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  Speaker 4: to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with
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  Speaker 4: this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni.