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Crime Alert 06.09.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I means he grace breaking crime needs now.
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  Speaker 1: Jaalen Thomas is fire from a Virginia Dollar store for theft,
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  Speaker 1: then adds to another location to try and return the
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  Speaker 1: stolen items for a refund. Jasmine Bennett, the daughter of
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  Speaker 1: Thomas's previous manager, is working at that second store and
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  Speaker 1: refuses to make the returns. Thomas leaves, but goes to
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  Speaker 1: buy a handgun. Days later, Jayalen Thomas comes back, confronts
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  Speaker 1: Bennett and shoots her dad.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Bennett paged her manager to warn that Thomas was
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  Speaker 2: in the store on the day of the shooting, but
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  Speaker 2: neither believe Thomas posed a threat of violence. When Thomas
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  Speaker 2: confronted Bennett, he asked do you have a problem with me?
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  Speaker 2: Before opening fire. Bennett was rushed to the hospital but
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  Speaker 2: died there from her injuries. Her brother said she was
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  Speaker 2: not scheduled to work that day, but had picked up
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  Speaker 2: a coworker shift.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas, twenty one, charged with murder. Surveillance video at a
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  Speaker 1: Florida apartment complex captures a bizarre arson. Eighty four year
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  Speaker 1: old Charles the Fever drives a scooter with a white
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  Speaker 1: lap dog in the basket up to an unlocked car,
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  Speaker 1: gets in the backseat of the car and starts a fire.
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  Speaker 1: A witness follows the man as he gets back on
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  Speaker 1: the scooter in Itad's home. A fever charged with arson
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  Speaker 1: and has not mentioned a mode of dog Gonnet more
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this now the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking knees crime onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We began in Florida, where the prosecution and defense have
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  Speaker 3: made dramatically different opening remarks, setting the stage for the
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  Speaker 3: first trial of its kind in American history for a
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  Speaker 3: sheriff's deputy accused of failing to stop some of the
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  Speaker 3: deaths at the Parkland School massacre. According to prosecutor Stephen Klinger,
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  Speaker 3: six of the seventeen people who died at Marjorie Stoneman
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  Speaker 3: Douglas High School five years ago might still be alive
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  Speaker 3: had former Broward County Deputy Scott Peterson approached shooter Nicholas Cruz.
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  Speaker 3: Clinger said that instead of going into the three story
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  Speaker 3: structure during the shooting, Peterson took cover. Klinger also stated
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  Speaker 3: that Peterson ignored procedures taught in police training, which instruct
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  Speaker 3: officers to move toward the sound of gunfire in the
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  Speaker 3: event of an active shooting, since every shot can result
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  Speaker 3: in another fatality. Now to Virginia, where polie say a
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  Speaker 3: gunman who opened fire following a high school graduation in
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  Speaker 3: Richmond was targeting an eighteen year old graduate with whom
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  Speaker 3: he had a long standing argument. For more, we turned
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  Speaker 3: to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Following the Huguenot High School graduation ceremony on Tuesday, gunfire
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  Speaker 2: outside the Altria Theater in the Virginia Capitol drove hundreds
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  Speaker 2: running in fear. Killed were eighteen year old Sean Jackson
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  Speaker 2: and his father, thirty six year old Lorenzo Smith. According
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  Speaker 2: to police, at least twelve more people were treated for
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  Speaker 2: injuries or anxiety as a result of the chaos, with
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  Speaker 2: five further people being shot. Nineteen year old Amari Pollard,
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  Speaker 2: the shooting suspect, knew Jackson. According to interim play polast
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  Speaker 2: Chief Rick Edwards of Richmond, and the two had been
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  Speaker 2: involved in a quarrel for more than a year. Chief
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  Speaker 2: Edward says the nature of the dispute is still under investigation.
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  Speaker 3: Colette mckeachen, Richmond's chief prosecutor, announced that Pollard was arraigned
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  Speaker 3: on two counts of second degree murder. Wednesday morning, a
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  Speaker 3: Florida woman has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and
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  Speaker 3: killing a mother last week in front of her children,
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  Speaker 3: putting an abrupt end to a long standing dispute between neighbours.
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  Speaker 3: According to Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, A G. K. Owens,
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  Speaker 3: a black mother of four, was killed, and fifty eight
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  Speaker 3: year old Susan Louise Lawrence, a white woman, has been
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  Speaker 3: charged with manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and
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  Speaker 3: two counts of assault in a case that has brought
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  Speaker 3: Florida's disputed stand your ground statute back into the spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities were under pressure to detain and punish Lawrence, who
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  Speaker 3: shot and killed Owens. In a Facebook video, the sheriff
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  Speaker 3: claimed that this is quote simply a killing rather than
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  Speaker 3: a stand your girl situation. As a result of a
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  Speaker 3: defect making particular vehicle models highly prone to theft, New
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  Speaker 3: York City has joined a number of other cities suing
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  Speaker 3: Hyundai and Kia as crime online Sydney Sumner tells US
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  Speaker 3: New York and these other US cities have been plagued
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  Speaker 3: by a social media fueled surge of auto thefts.
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  Speaker 2: Popular how to videos on TikTok and other websites demonstrate
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  Speaker 2: how to start the cars with just a screwdriver and
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  Speaker 2: a USB court. The reason stems from some Hyundai and
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  Speaker 2: Kia vehicles marketed in the US not having engine immobilizers,
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  Speaker 2: a technology present on most cars since the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 2: The standard prevents the engine from starting without the key.
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  Speaker 2: According to the lawsuits submitted to the U S District
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  Speaker 2: Court Southern District of New York, Hondai, Motor America and
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  Speaker 2: Kia America Inc. Fell behind other automakers by not implementing
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  Speaker 2: immobilizer technology.
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  Speaker 3: New York City asserts that the vehicle thefts are negatively
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  Speaker 3: affecting both public safety and emergency services, as well as
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  Speaker 3: taxing the police department's resources.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Fortner, twenty five, lives alone about two blocks from
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  Speaker 1: his family's North Carolina home. Fortner begins acting strangely, calling
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  Speaker 1: his grandparents, saying he's unsure of where he is and
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  Speaker 1: someone's looking for him. Fortner's sister goes to check on
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  Speaker 1: him and finds his home in disarray. His wallet, keys,
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  Speaker 1: and phone other belongings are there, Several lights and an
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  Speaker 1: electric blanket left on the hat Fortner wears every day.
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  Speaker 1: Found lying in the driveway. Fortner now missing over a year.
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  Speaker 1: If you have information on Aaron Fortner, contact North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation, Western District eight two eight three three
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  Speaker 1: zero four six seven eight. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.