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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime News Now, I'm nicol Parton.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift has been hit with a lawsuit. A Florida

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Speaker 1: artist named Kimberly Morasco has filed a lawsuit against Swift,

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Speaker 1: alleging copyright infringement and mentioning several celebrities in her legal claims. Morosco,

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Speaker 1: who has previously taken legal action against Swift, filed another

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Speaker 1: lawsuit in February against the songwriter and Jack Antonoff and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Destner, as well as Universal Music Group Incorporated and

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Speaker 1: Republic Records. Last year, she sued Swift and Taylor Swift Productions.

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Speaker 1: While Swift was dismissed from that case, the allegations against

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift Productions remained active. Morosco's initial lawsuit against Swift

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Speaker 1: began in April twenty four, where she contended that some

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Speaker 1: of Swift's music and music videos contained creative elements that

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Speaker 1: mirror her on work without permission or acknowledgement. In her complaint,

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Speaker 1: Morosco cites multiple songs and music videos from Swift's albums,

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Speaker 1: including Lover, Folklore, Midnights, and The Tortured Poets Department. In

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Speaker 1: a related note, Kanye West, now known as Yee, made

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Speaker 1: headlines earlier this week with a viral comment about Swift

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Speaker 1: before deleting it from his social media. On Monday, West

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Speaker 1: shared his thoughts on x formerly Twitter with his thirty

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Speaker 1: three million followers regarding why he believes he was barred

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Speaker 1: from performing at the super Bowl. Quote. I was never

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Speaker 1: allowed to do the super Bowl because of three moments

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Speaker 1: George Bush, doesn't care about black people, the Taylor Swift movement,

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Speaker 1: and wearing a MAGA hat, he wrote, referencing his support

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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump's campaign. He added, how does it feel

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Speaker 1: to be the best leaving artist and block from the

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Speaker 1: main stage for being ahead of my time? And I

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Speaker 1: say this was all before I went full Nazi, of course,

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Speaker 1: before removing the post, it garnered one point two million views,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand likes, and over fourteen hundred comments. Notably,

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Speaker 1: West has never headlined a super Bowl halftime, although he

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Speaker 1: did co headline a Super Bowl concert with Rihanna in

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Taylor Swift has not commented on this latest

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Speaker 1: allegation against her. More crime and justice news after this,

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Speaker 1: A man from Illinois has confessed to fatally shooting his

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Speaker 1: former girlfriend following a tumultuous breakup. The victim's mother described

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Speaker 1: him as quote extremely jealous of her daughter's independence and

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Speaker 1: claimed he was making her life unbearable before he shot

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Speaker 1: her multiple times in critical areas including the neck, chest, shoulders,

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Speaker 1: and hip. Emmett Metzger, twenty seven, entered a guilty plea

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Speaker 1: this week for first degree murder in connection with the

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Speaker 1: death of twenty four year old Alexis Macky at their

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Speaker 1: shared apartment in New Baden. This is reported by local

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Speaker 1: CBS affiliate. In the aftermath of the sh shooting, Metzer

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Speaker 1: made a nine to one one call, during which he

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Speaker 1: confessed to the dispatcher expressing remorse, saying quote, I messed up.

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Speaker 1: I did something terrible. I shot my girlfriend. I need

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Speaker 1: to be arrested please. According to reports, Metzger used a

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Speaker 1: nine millimeter handgun to shoot his girlfriend multiple times in

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Speaker 1: the living room. The couple had ended their relationship just

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Speaker 1: a month prior to the incident, but continued to share

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Speaker 1: a least apartment on Hanover Street. Maki's mother, Lisa Brock,

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Speaker 1: spoke to KMOV about their tumultuous relationship and the prior

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Speaker 1: incidents and conversations she had with her daughter. He was

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Speaker 1: very possessive of hers. He didn't like that she was

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Speaker 1: moving out and moving on with her life. On the

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Speaker 1: day of the shooting, Metzger had invited Maki's mother to

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Speaker 1: visit the apartment, asking her to bring a dog they

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Speaker 1: had adopted together during their relationship so he could see

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Speaker 1: it one last time. Brock expressed her unease about the situation,

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Speaker 1: say that her daughter felt the same way. Brock recounted

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Speaker 1: how her daughter reassured her that Metzger had promised not

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Speaker 1: to hurt her. The mother said, I told her, you

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Speaker 1: just can't be sure. Metzger is facing a lengthy prison

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Speaker 1: sentence of forty five years to life. His sentencing is

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Speaker 1: set for June nine. And now to New Jersey, where

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Speaker 1: police are asking for the public's help and finding a

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Speaker 1: missing twenty year old woman who was last seen more

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Speaker 1: than two weeks ago. Magdi Sanchez, a Hispanic woman from Clifton,

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Speaker 1: was last seen by a family member on March twenty four.

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Speaker 1: She was seen by a friend the following day. She

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Speaker 1: has not been seen or heard from since. Sanchez is

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Speaker 1: described as five to three and weighs about one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty pounds. She has curly black hair and brown eyes.

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Speaker 1: She has several identifiable tattoos, including a Chinese character behind

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Speaker 1: her eye, the word Brat's on her arm, and the

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Speaker 1: name Ada along with the year nineteen seventy three on

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Speaker 1: her foot. According to the Clifton Police Department, Sanchez is

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Speaker 1: known to frequent the Hudson County area. Authorities noted she

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Speaker 1: is not believed to be in possession of a vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Police are concerned and feel that she is in imminent danger.

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Speaker 1: Anyone with information on Sanchez whereabouts or who may have

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Speaker 1: seen her is urged to contact the Clifton Police Department

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