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Mom Refuses to Allow EMTs Access to Dying Child | Crime Alert 03.24.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Washington
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  Speaker 1: State first responders as for a child overdose call. When
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  Speaker 1: AMT's arrived, the child's mother refuses to let them inside
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  Speaker 1: to treat the toddler. Cops have to force their way in. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: the child's grandma already administered two doses of narcan, and
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  Speaker 1: after treatment, the child is expected to survive. The mother,
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  Speaker 1: Summer Ward, found carrying a plastic bag full of myth fnancy.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to the three year old, the overdosed Ward
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  Speaker 2: is also a mother to a two year old. Both
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  Speaker 2: children were taken into protective custody after the incident. The
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  Speaker 2: myth was found in a small plastic bag concealed in
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  Speaker 2: Ward's clothes. It's unclear how her child was exposed to
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  Speaker 2: the drugs, but thanks to the grandmother's quick thinking, the
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  Speaker 2: child should recover some.
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  Speaker 1: Reward twenty seven, now charged with child endangerment, criminal mistreatment,
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  Speaker 1: drug possession, and obstructing an officer after his mom's death.
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  Speaker 1: Larry Carter Junior commissions a customed dodged larger in her
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  Speaker 1: favorite color purple. Carter occasionally takes the car for joy
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  Speaker 1: rides like he used to with his mom. On the rides,
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  Speaker 1: he always carries a portion of his mom's ashes. One morning,
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  Speaker 1: he finds his garage opened, the car stolen, along with
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  Speaker 1: it his mom's ashes. He immediately reports the theft and
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  Speaker 1: calls Florida cops again. The next day, overnight, the thieves
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  Speaker 1: return and put the ashes in the mailbox. Although there's
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  Speaker 1: no sign of the car yet. Carter's thankful to have
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  Speaker 1: his mother's ashes returned. Florida cops still searching for the suspects.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 3: A devastating crash on Interstate thirty five in Austin, Texas
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  Speaker 3: has left five people dead and several others injured. Believes
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  Speaker 3: save the driver responsible was under the influence. Authorities report
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  Speaker 3: that thirty seven year old Solomon Arraya has been charged
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  Speaker 3: with five counts of intoxication manslaughter two counts of intoxication assault.
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  Speaker 3: The late night collision involved seventeen vehicles and sent eleven
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  Speaker 3: people to the hospital. Among the dead, three adults, a child,
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  Speaker 3: and an infant. The exact cause of the wreck remains
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  Speaker 3: under investigation. Austin police say it was quote very large
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  Speaker 3: and very complex. The crash shut down the southbound lanes
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  Speaker 3: of I thirty five for more than thirteen hours before reopening.
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  Speaker 3: I witness edgar Vieira told local station KXAN that bystanders
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  Speaker 3: tried to help, but without the right tools, they did
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  Speaker 3: what they could. Ariyah is currently in custody at Travis
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  Speaker 3: County Jail. A startling development in a decade's old Hawaii
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  Speaker 3: murder case, a suspect in the nineteen seventy seven killing
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  Speaker 3: of a teenager has been released from custody. Sidney Sumner
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  Speaker 3: brings us this report.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly forty eight years after sixteen year old Don Mamahara
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  Speaker 2: was found strangled at McKinley High School, police linked gear
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  Speaker 2: Idan Castro to the crime through DNA evidence. Castro, a
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six graduate of the school, was arrested in
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  Speaker 2: January at a Utah nursing home and charged with second
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  Speaker 2: degree murder. Last month, he waived extradition to Hawaii, appearing
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  Speaker 2: by video from his hospital bed, But this week Honolulu
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor cited complications with a key witness and the state
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  Speaker 2: of evidence, leading a Utah judge to order Castro's release.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Bronson, a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: office confirmed he had been freed. The case went cold
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  Speaker 2: for decades, despite initial witness descriptions of a suspect's vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: New DNA technology finally connected Castro to the crime, but
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors insist this is only a temporary delay. Honolulu Police
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  Speaker 2: save the investigation remains active.
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  Speaker 3: With the case still open, authorities Savior committed to justice
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  Speaker 3: for Dawn Momahara.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Despite splitting with his children's mom, Eric Fisher
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  Speaker 1: is still a very active, loving father to two children.
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  Speaker 1: That's why his ex his wife's so concerned when he
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  Speaker 1: texts her not to bring the children for a visit.
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  Speaker 1: He makes concerning statements about his frame of mind in
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  Speaker 1: those texts. Illinois cops head to his Macomb apartment for
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  Speaker 1: a welfare check. He's not there. Immediately he's reported missing.
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  Speaker 1: Eric's last purchase at a nearby Walmart, Cops find surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video of him leaving the store. He purchased a bike,
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  Speaker 1: air pump, and deodorant. He comes out of the store,
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  Speaker 1: hops on the bike, and heads north from the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: His phone last pings five miles away. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on Eric Fisher, please call Mcomb Illinois. PD three
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.