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Crime Alert 02.07.25 | Mom Burns Down Home with Sleeping Children Inside · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert I means he grays breaking crimes now. Raconda
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  Speaker 1: Singleton carefully removes all seven fire alarms from her Grand Rapids,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan home, where her three children, ages twelve, ten, and
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  Speaker 1: seven are sleeping. Then, after removing the fire alarms, she
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  Speaker 1: sprays a second floor bathroom with a lighter fluid and
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  Speaker 1: strikes a match heads downstairs, repeats the process onto the
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  Speaker 1: living room couch, then locks all the doors and stands outside,
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  Speaker 1: watching as the fire spreads and her children scream for help.
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  Speaker 1: Singleton's middle daughter grabs the younger sister and jumps from
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  Speaker 1: a second floor window to safety, but the twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old Shemaiah, doesn't make it out.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy bondycam footage shows firefighters pulling Shemayah from a second
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  Speaker 2: story window unconscious. First responders starts CPR and transport her
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  Speaker 2: to a hospital, but Shemiah dies two days later. Singleton
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  Speaker 2: tells investigators she wanted to to quote die with her
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  Speaker 2: three daughters so they could be free, but Singleton made
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  Speaker 2: no attempt at suicide. After lighting the house on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Singleton was ordered in court to undergo impatient mental health
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  Speaker 2: treatment last year. In prosecutors fear they may be forced
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  Speaker 2: to take an insanity.
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  Speaker 1: Plea recond to Singleton forty six, charged with arson, child abuse,
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  Speaker 1: and murder. A Florida man's video game addiction lands him
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  Speaker 1: behind bars again. Equavius Chandler gets in an argument with
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  Speaker 1: his roommate when he arrives home and finds his PlayStation
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  Speaker 1: five missing from his bedroom. The roommate tells Chandler he
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  Speaker 1: took it because he's too loud when he plays. Response,
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  Speaker 1: Chandler throws a baloney sandwich at the room mate. Cops
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  Speaker 1: are called and would normally issue a misdemeanor, but Chandler
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  Speaker 1: was previously convicted of choking his sister and threatening his
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  Speaker 1: father with a knife after losing his video game. Well,
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  Speaker 1: history's repeating itself. Equavius Chandler, twenty nine, now facing felony
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  Speaker 1: battery by beloney sandwich. More crime and justice needs after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking these
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  Speaker 1: crime all lines John Lemley in.
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  Speaker 3: New York, jury selection is underway and the trial of
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  Speaker 3: the man accused of attacking author Selman Rushti during a
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. Rushti, now
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  Speaker 3: seventy seven, was stabbed multiple times, losing sight in one
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  Speaker 3: eye and sustaining permanent hand damage. The suspect, Hadi Matar,
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  Speaker 3: has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault. Rushti
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  Speaker 3: is expected to testify, joining an estimated fifteen witnesses, prosecutors.
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  Speaker 3: A jurors will see a video of the attack, which
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  Speaker 3: happened in front of a live audience. Defense attorney Nathaniel
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  Speaker 3: Barone has not disclosed his legal strategy, but insists his
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  Speaker 3: client is entitled to a fair trial. A separate federal
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  Speaker 3: case alleges Matar was influenced by a fatwah, a religious
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  Speaker 3: edict calling for Rusti's death, though prosecutors in this trial
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  Speaker 3: say motive won't be central to their case. Matar, a
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  Speaker 3: US born dual citizen of Lebanon, has been held without
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  Speaker 3: bails since his arrests. The trial is expected to last
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  Speaker 3: about a week and a half. The founder of a
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  Speaker 3: neo Nazi group has been convicted for plotting an attack
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  Speaker 3: on Maryland's power grid. Our correspondent Sidney Sumner has the details.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty nine year old Brandon Russell, the founder of the
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  Speaker 2: neo Nazi group Autumwoffen Division German for Atomic Weapon, was
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  Speaker 2: found guilty of conspiring to damage an energy facility. Federal
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors revealed that Russell encouraged his former girlfriend, Sarah Beth
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  Speaker 2: Clenn Daniel to execute sniper attacks on electrical substations around Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: Their aim was to incite chaos in the predominantly black city.
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  Speaker 2: Both were arrested in February twenty twenty three before any
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  Speaker 2: plans were carried out. The jury deliberated for less than
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  Speaker 2: an hour after a six day trial in Baltimore's federal court.
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  Speaker 2: Russell sentencing is pending. He has a prior conviction from
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen for possessing unregistered explosives and improper storage of
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  Speaker 2: explosive materials, for which he served five years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: The thirty six year old Clinn Daniel pleaded guilty to
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  Speaker 2: the plot and was sentenced in September to eighteen years
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  Speaker 2: in prison.
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  Speaker 3: This conviction underscores the ongoing threat of domestic terrorism and
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  Speaker 3: the efforts of law enforcement to prevent attacks on critical infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, foul play expected in the disappearance of Chance
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Carson, the twenty nine year old reported missing by
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  Speaker 1: family after not seeing or hearing from him for a month.
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  Speaker 1: Chance last known to be on foot in the East Omac,
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  Speaker 1: Washington area. Police say he reportedly got into a fight
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  Speaker 1: with two other people just before he disappears. Carson five nine,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five to one seventy eight pounds,
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  Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, and a member of the Confederate
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  Speaker 1: Tribes of the Covial Reservation. Tattoo on chest, left hand
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  Speaker 1: and right arm. Last scene wearing jeans and a dark
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  Speaker 1: gray sweatshirt. If you have info on the whereabouts of
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  Speaker 1: Chance Anthony Carson, please call Covial Tribal l E five
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