Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 02.13.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Chrime Alert, imancy, grace breaking crimes. Now, an eight year
- 0:04Speaker 1: old girl rushed to North Carolina eer with severe injuries
- 0:08Speaker 1: to her head and body. The little girl dies. Cops
- 0:12Speaker 1: speak to the girl's legal guardian, her grandmother, and five
- 0:17Speaker 1: other children in the home, and they learn Grandma Patricia Rix,
- 0:23Speaker 1: seventy two, beat the little girl dead Crimelines John Lemley.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Nancy Rix was the primary caregiver of her grandchildren, including
- 0:34Speaker 1: the child who died at her hands and her siblings.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Police are still investigating what sparked the brutal attack on
- 0:41Speaker 1: the child, but Rix is reportedly not cooperating with the investigation.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Rix is currently held without bond for the girl's death.
- 0:50Speaker 1: The other children now taken into protective custody. Grandma Rix
- 0:55Speaker 1: charged with murder and child abuse. California cops see no
- 0:59Speaker 1: aimand driving erratically, single for him to pull over. He
- 1:04Speaker 1: seems to comply, pulling into a gas station parking a lot,
- 1:07Speaker 1: but then he gets out and starts shooting at the
- 1:09Speaker 1: patrol car. When officers shoot back, Mendoza takes off. He's
- 1:13Speaker 1: later found at home where he shoots a cops yet again,
- 1:17Speaker 1: injuring one. Mendoza was caught and arrested after the second shootout.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Once detained Nancy, Mendoza reportedly asked authorities several times if
- 1:28Speaker 1: he had killed anyone. One officer was hit twice in
- 1:31Speaker 1: the gunfire at Mendoza's home, but is recovering at home.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Police also learned that Mendoza had been stalking police officers
- 1:40Speaker 1: for hours at three different locations, with intentions to kill
- 1:44Speaker 1: as many officers as possible. Mendoza thirty four tales cops
- 1:49Speaker 1: he was on a quote quest to kill. Several counts
- 1:52Speaker 1: of attempted murder of police officer have now been added
- 1:56Speaker 1: to Mendoza's lengthy rap sheet. More crime in Justice after
- 2:00Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking knees crime.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Alnes John Lemley, the estranged husband of a New Jersey
- 2:08Speaker 1: kindergarten teacher, is now under arrest. The body of thirty
- 2:12Speaker 1: three year old Lose Hernandez was found Tuesday in Kearney,
- 2:16Speaker 1: a day after she was reported missing. Hernandez's death was
- 2:21Speaker 1: ruled a homicide after an autopsy revealed the New Jersey
- 2:24Speaker 1: mother died a blunt force trauma to the head and
- 2:27Speaker 1: compressions to the neck. Police say they found her Nandez
- 2:31Speaker 1: buried in a shallow grave in a deserted industrial area.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Investigators say her Nandez didn't show up to work at
- 2:39Speaker 1: her school Monday, and welfare checks at her home led
- 2:43Speaker 1: them to believe a crime had taken place. Shortly after
- 2:46Speaker 1: her body was discovered three and a half miles away,
- 2:50Speaker 1: the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of Caesar
- 2:54Speaker 1: Santana overnight, a Tesla driver accused of trying to kill
- 2:59Speaker 1: his wife and two young children by driving off a
- 3:02Speaker 1: northern California cliff, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder
- 3:06Speaker 1: and domestic violence. We hear more now from Sydney Sumner
- 3:10Speaker 1: with Crime Online. A judge has ordered forty one year
- 3:13Speaker 1: old Darmesh Patel of Pasadena held without bail. Patel was
- 3:17Speaker 1: seriously injured January second when the car plunged two hundred
- 3:21Speaker 1: and fifty feet off the cliff at Devil's Slide along
- 3:24Speaker 1: the Pacific Coast Highway south of San Francisco. Firefighters were
- 3:28Speaker 1: forced to cut the family, including Patel's forty one year
- 3:31Speaker 1: old wife and two children, a seven year old daughter
- 3:34Speaker 1: and four year old son, out of the wreckage. Both
- 3:37Speaker 1: children were hospitalized with serious injuries. San Mateo County District
- 3:41Speaker 1: Attorneys Steve Wagstaff says Patel also faces enhancement for great
- 3:46Speaker 1: bodily injury. A man suspected of injuring two Maryland police
- 3:50Speaker 1: officers with gunfire has been taken into custody after fleeing
- 3:54Speaker 1: from the vehicle he had stolen from a detective he shot. Federal, state,
- 3:59Speaker 1: and local law enforcement agencies surrounded the suspect in a
- 4:02Speaker 1: wooded area near a shopping mall in Foulston after police
- 4:06Speaker 1: used spike strips to disable the stolen vehicle. He was
- 4:10Speaker 1: taken into custody about five forty five am on Friday.
- 4:14Speaker 1: The suspect, earlier identified as twenty four year old David Lenthcom,
- 4:19Speaker 1: wasn't injured during the arrest, and charges were pending. He
- 4:23Speaker 1: was also expected to be transferred to the custody of
- 4:26Speaker 1: Baltimore County Police. A southern California man has been charged
- 4:31Speaker 1: with killing two women in nineteen eighty one after DNA
- 4:35Speaker 1: evidence linked him to the crimes once again. Crime Online's
- 4:38Speaker 1: Sydney Sumner. Sixty eight year old Tony Garcia of Oxnard
- 4:42Speaker 1: appeared in court, but his arraignment was continued to February
- 4:46Speaker 1: twenty third. Garcia, a Navy veteran and formal martial arts teacher,
- 4:50Speaker 1: is accused of kidnapping, raping, and strangling twenty year old
- 4:54Speaker 1: at Rachel's and Dais and Camodillo in January nineteen eighty one,
- 4:58Speaker 1: in strangling twenty one year old Lisa Gonduck in Oxnard.
- 5:01Speaker 1: In December nineteen eighty one, Yndias was found in a
- 5:05Speaker 1: carport in Camarillo and Gonduck was found in a bathtub
- 5:09Speaker 1: after a reported apartment fire in Oxnard. Garcia lived for
- 5:13Speaker 1: decades only a few miles away from the crime scenes,
- 5:16Speaker 1: until he was finally linked to the killings. Masawda Shamps
- 5:20Speaker 1: calls himself the pro life spider Man. He climbs the
- 5:24Speaker 1: outside of tall buildings to raise awareness for an organization
- 5:28Speaker 1: raising funds for struggling pregnant ladies to Shamp's latest stunt
- 5:34Speaker 1: has him using a three foot wide external ventilation shaft
- 5:39Speaker 1: to scale a four hundred and eighty three foot Arizona skyscraper.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Cops and meet him at the top. The twenty two
- 5:46Speaker 1: year old arrested on trespass and criminal nuisance for the
- 5:50Speaker 1: latest crime, and Justice us go to crime online dot
- 5:52Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace