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Man Accused of Walmart Killing Stabbed Woman in Prior Random Attack | Crime Alert 6AM 11.07.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news. Now, I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: A Georgia woman says that a man accused of killing
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  Speaker 1: a teen last month at a walmart randomly stabbed her
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Police arrested forty eight year old
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  Speaker 1: Delano Middleton last week for an October twenty third confrontation
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  Speaker 1: at a Walmart on White Marsh Island, around eight miles
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  Speaker 1: east of Savannah. Police said eighteen year old J. T.
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  Speaker 1: Schroeder kicked Middleton's shopping cart as Middleton walked by. The
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  Speaker 1: encounter escalated, and Middleton allegedly stabbed Schroeder multiple times. Paramedics
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  Speaker 1: took Schroeder to a hospital, where he died the next day.
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  Speaker 1: Now Erica Young says that Middleton attacked her with a
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  Speaker 1: knife when she worked at a U haul store on
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  Speaker 1: Okagee Road. According to Young, Middleton walked into the business
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  Speaker 1: in October twenty twenty one, took keys from the counter,
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  Speaker 1: and walked outside to steal a truck. Young said she
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  Speaker 1: asked him if he needed help finding a vehicle, and
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  Speaker 1: then he shoved a cart on top of her and
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  Speaker 1: started stabbing her. Court records indicate that Middleton used a
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  Speaker 1: six inch foldable knife during the uhaul attack, before driving
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  Speaker 1: off in a truck he stole. Young says Middleton told
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  Speaker 1: her he wanted to watch her bleed out. She said
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  Speaker 1: she had never had any contact with him and had
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  Speaker 1: never met him before. Following a mental evaluation, a doctor
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  Speaker 1: found Middleton incompetent to stand trial. In twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: he was ruled competent, but took a plea deal on
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  Speaker 1: an aggravated assault charge. A judge sentenced him to two
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  Speaker 1: years behind bars and eight years on probation. Now. Young
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  Speaker 1: says Middleton got away with stabbing her so he thought
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  Speaker 1: he could get away with it again. Chatham Police have
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  Speaker 1: not released additional information regarding the Walmart incident, pending a
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  Speaker 1: full investigation. Schroder's father, however, says his son was never
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  Speaker 1: ever confrontational unless he was confronted first. Schroeder was stabbed
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  Speaker 1: over ten times until he bled out and died. Middleton
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  Speaker 1: remains behind bars at the Chatham County Detention Center on
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  Speaker 1: murder charges. He has scheduled for a November twentieth court appearance.
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  Speaker 1: Young believes the system failed Old Schroeder's family and says
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  Speaker 1: she's sorry for their loss. A young boy found wandering
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  Speaker 1: alone in Milwaukee earlier this week is related to a
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  Speaker 1: woman found shot to death in an alley on the
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  Speaker 1: same day. Anya Raymond, thirty one, was found dead at
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  Speaker 1: around nine am on November fifth, about five hours after
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  Speaker 1: the boy was located some three miles away in North Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: He was not wearing shoes or socks. Police described the
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  Speaker 1: child as five or six years old and said he
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  Speaker 1: was believed to be nonverbal. Police later said they'd located
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  Speaker 1: his family and he'd been reunited with them just after
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  Speaker 1: four pm. Investigators did not say how the boy was
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  Speaker 1: related to the dead woman, although social media posts indicate
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  Speaker 1: he may have been her son. Rosetta Lambkin Johnson says
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  Speaker 1: she found Anya's body in the alley and took off
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  Speaker 1: running to call police. She said she didn't recognize the
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  Speaker 1: woman and had heard no gunshots in the hours leading
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  Speaker 1: up to discovering the body. Johnson theorizes that Anya must
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  Speaker 1: have been killed somewhere else and brought to the alley.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone with information about the shooting should contact Milwaukee police
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  Speaker 1: at four one, four nine three five seven three six
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  Speaker 1: zero more crime and justice news. After this, the Santa
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  Speaker 1: Barbara County Sheriff's Office says missing nine year old California
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  Speaker 1: girl Melody Buzzard, was spotted in a small town in
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  Speaker 1: Utah last month. According to the Sheriff's office, Melody was
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  Speaker 1: seen between the Colorado Utah border on October ninth, on
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  Speaker 1: a return route after her mother, Ashley Buzzard, rented a
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  Speaker 1: car in California and took a cross country trip. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Buzzard rented a car in Lompoc and embarked on the
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  Speaker 1: trip on October seventh, with possible stops in Kansas and Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Security footage placed both Ashley and Melody Buzzard at the
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  Speaker 1: car rental business while wearing wigs that same day. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: said they believed that the wig was used to alter
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  Speaker 1: Melody's appearance. They also noted that Ashley Buzzard is known
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  Speaker 1: to wear wigs. Raquel Zick, Santa Barbara County's PIO says
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  Speaker 1: Smelody was last seen on the Utah side of the
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  Speaker 1: Colorado Utah border. Specifically, the pair stopped in the small
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  Speaker 1: town of Green River, Utah, on October ninth, an area
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  Speaker 1: not on the route back home to California. FBI agents
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the Bear Valley Country Store and gas station
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  Speaker 1: on October twenty fifth, requesting security footage, but the owner
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  Speaker 1: reportedly said footage is deleted after two weeks. The gas
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  Speaker 1: station is situated just outside Panguitch, Utah, and investigators believe
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  Speaker 1: that Ashley Buzzard crossed the intersection of State Route twenty
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  Speaker 1: and US eighty nine where the store is located. Agents
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  Speaker 1: also stopped by the Junction Pitstop in Phillips sixty six
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  Speaker 1: gas station Injunction, Utah. Employee Samantha Matthews told them that
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  Speaker 1: she saw Ashley in a curly blonde wig on October
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  Speaker 1: ninth at about five pm. Matthews reportedly said that the
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  Speaker 1: wig wearing woman was in a car with a woman
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  Speaker 1: with purple hair who appeared to be in her late
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  Speaker 1: twenties to mid thirties. The Sheriff's office previously said that
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  Speaker 1: the rental car, a white twenty twenty four Chevrolet Malibu,
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  Speaker 1: initially had California license plate nine MNNG one oh one.
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  Speaker 1: On October eighth, Ashley Buzzard allegedly changed it to New
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  Speaker 1: York license plate hCG nine six seven seven. Investigators have
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  Speaker 1: not determined when the plate was installed or whether additional
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  Speaker 1: plates were used at other times during travel. The New
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  Speaker 1: York plate seen on the car does not belong to
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle or to Buzzard. Buzzard arrived back at her
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  Speaker 1: Vandenberg Village home in the five hundred block of Mars
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  Speaker 1: Avenue on October tenth. Melody was not with her. She
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  Speaker 1: has remained uncooperative in the investigation. The Sheriff's office, along
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  Speaker 1: with the FBI, previously carried out search warrants at Buzzard's home,
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  Speaker 1: but Melody remains unaccounted for. Melody is described as standing
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  Speaker 1: four feet six inches tall, weighing sixty pounds, with brown
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  Speaker 1: hair and brown eyes. She may be wearing a wig.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone with information regarding Melody's whereabouts is asked to call
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  Speaker 1: Santa Barbara County Investigators at eight oh five sixt' eight
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  Speaker 1: one forty one fifty. Anonymous calls can be made to
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  Speaker 1: the tip Line at eight oh five six eight one
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  Speaker 1: four one seven one. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Sumner.