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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking crime news now. Ashley Escalante, nine,

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Speaker 1: and a friend ride their bikes ahead of Escalante's family

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Speaker 1: for a quick trip to the convenience store. As the

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Speaker 1: family crosses the street, a hummer speeds through the intersection,

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Speaker 1: plows into the nine year old, and keeps driving, dragging.

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Speaker 2: The little girl under the wheels.

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Speaker 1: Ashley's caught under Jeffrey Atkinson's car for half a mile

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Speaker 1: before finally becoming dislodged. EMTs find her with serious injuries,

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Speaker 1: her leg missing below the knee.

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Speaker 3: Nancy Surveillance footage captured Ashley's father chasing down the hummer

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Speaker 3: with one of her twin baby brothers in his arms.

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Speaker 3: Cops believe Ashley was dislodged from the truck when her

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Speaker 3: left leg ripped off. Her other leg was also terribly mingled.

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Speaker 3: Jeffrey Atkinson was driving to the bar he owns and

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Speaker 3: never realized he hit someone. When cops ask Atkinson to

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Speaker 3: submit to a breath test, he initially tells them it

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Speaker 3: isn't worth it. He's quote too drunk to pass.

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Atkinson, fifty five, blows up point three four blood alcohol.

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Speaker 1: Now charged with aggravated vehicular assault, child endangering and operating

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Speaker 1: a vehicle while under the influence.

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Speaker 2: Lance Green fifty nine knows he's had.

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Speaker 1: Too much to drink on a night out with his wife,

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Speaker 1: but he gets behind the wheel of his ram truck anyway.

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Speaker 1: On the way back to their Florida home, Green rear

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Speaker 1: ends the four truck in front of him. As cops arrived,

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Speaker 1: they see passenger Susan Green, crawling over Lance Green to

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Speaker 1: switch seats, making it appeer she was the one driving.

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Speaker 1: Green shows visual signs of impairment and refuses to cooperate

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Speaker 1: with cops. Of course, he eventually gets out of the

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Speaker 1: car and he's taken straight to jail for duy and resisting.

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Speaker 2: While Crime and Justice News after this.

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Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and Justice breaking news, crime

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Speaker 1: Online is John Limley.

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Speaker 4: In the wake of a deadly shooting at Appalachi High

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Speaker 4: School in Barrow County, Georgia. Troubling details are still ba emerging.

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Speaker 4: We hear more now from Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 3: The mother of Colt Gray, the fourteen year old charge

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Speaker 3: with killing two students and two teachers, reportedly contacted the

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Speaker 3: school with an urgent warning before the attack. A relative,

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Speaker 3: Annie Brown told our friends with The Washington Post that

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Speaker 3: Gray's mother reached out to a school counselor, describing the

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Speaker 3: situation as an extreme emergency in urging staff to locate

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Speaker 3: her son immediately. Brown provided text messages to the newspaper

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Speaker 3: showing the conversation with her sister. Additionally, phone records indicate

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Speaker 3: that a call was made to the school about half

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Speaker 3: an hour before the deadly shooting began. Colt Gray, who

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Speaker 3: has been charged with multiple counts of murder, allegedly used

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Speaker 3: a semi automatic AR fifteen style rifle in the attack.

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Speaker 3: His father, Colin Gray, now faces charges of second degree

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Speaker 3: murder for providing the weapon. The pair made their first

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Speaker 3: court appearance, during which their attorneys opted not to seek bail.

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Speaker 3: Last week's shooting follows a year old investigation into an

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Speaker 3: online threat involving Colt Gray. At the time, Jackson County

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Speaker 3: authorities decided not to press charges, citing ins evidence to

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Speaker 3: connect him to the threat posted on the social media

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Speaker 3: platform Discord. That investigation provided a glimpse into a young

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Speaker 3: boy grappling with his parents' separation and bullying at school.

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Speaker 3: Despite the earlier concerns, Colt's father, Colin Gray, had reassured

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Speaker 3: investigators that his son wasn't prone to violence, claiming the

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Speaker 3: teen had stopped using discord and had even suggested his

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Speaker 3: account was hacked.

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Speaker 4: Now to New York as federal authorities arrest a twenty

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Speaker 4: year old man in Canada plotting a mass shooting targeting

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Speaker 4: a Jewish center in Brooklyn, once again crime online Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 3: The suspect, Mohammed Shazab Khan, was taken into custody on

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Speaker 3: September fourth. Official say Kan aimed to carry out the

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Speaker 3: attack in the name of ISIS, time to coincide with

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Speaker 3: the one year anniversary of the October seventh Hamas attack

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Speaker 3: that escalated the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. US

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Speaker 3: Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that Khan, a resident of Canada,

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Speaker 3: had plans to cross the border and quote slaughter as

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Speaker 3: many Jewish people as possible. Khan has been charged with

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Speaker 3: attempting to provide material support to ISIS, also known as

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Speaker 3: the Islamic State of Iraq and alsham The charges stem

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Speaker 3: from a series of communications starting in November twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 3: when Khan began posting ISIS propaganda and expressing his support

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Speaker 3: for the terrorist group online authority say Khan discussed his

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Speaker 3: plans with two undercover officers, outlining a strategy to form

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Speaker 3: an ISIS offline cell in the US. His targets reportedly

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Speaker 3: included Jewish centers, specifically Hubbad locations, which he identified as

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Speaker 3: a potential site for mass violence. According to the Justice Department,

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Speaker 3: Khan and a US based accomplice sought AR style rifles, ammunition,

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Speaker 3: and other weapons for the attack. On August twentieth, Khan

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Speaker 3: informed undercover officers that he had chosen New York as

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Speaker 3: which authorities described as a prominent site for the ultra

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Speaker 3: orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn. Khan's attempt to travel

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Speaker 3: to New York was intercepted when his car was stopped

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Speaker 3: in Quebec, just twelve minutes from the US border.

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Speaker 4: Officials have charged con with multiple offenses, including attempting to

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Speaker 4: provide support to a terrorist organization.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Lewis, Selam seventy three heads out for Aaron's

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Speaker 1: telling family he'll be right back. Lewis heads to his

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Speaker 1: bank in Warm Springs, Oregon, and stops by the grocery,

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Speaker 1: but never makes it home. His family reports him missing

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Speaker 1: a few days later, his Toyota Silica found stuck in

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Speaker 1: the snow on his route home.

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Speaker 2: The car's locked and abandoned.

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Speaker 1: Inside, they find a hat he wears frequently and the

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Speaker 1: groceries he bought the day he disappeared. Louis or Louis

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Speaker 1: is Native American, white hair, usually tied in a ponytail,

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Speaker 1: a mustache, brown eyes. He wears reading glasses and has

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Speaker 1: a tattoo of the letter L on his left hand.

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Speaker 1: Lewis Selim now missing two years. If you have info

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Speaker 1: a lewis Selim called Warm Springs, Oregon PD five four

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