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Speaker 1: Crime Alert Imnancy Grace breaking Crime Needs Now. Surveillance video

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Speaker 1: catches a disturbing hit and run Baltimore, nine thirty pm.

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Speaker 1: A woman in a crosswalk of a Butcher's Hill area

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Speaker 1: neighborhood when a blue Amazon van hits her. The van

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Speaker 1: stops for a red light, then pulls forward as it

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Speaker 1: changes to green, but the woman still in front of

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Speaker 1: the van. The van rolls over her, stops, the driver

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Speaker 1: gets out to check on her. Thirty seconds later, the

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Speaker 1: driver gets back in, rolls over the woman with the

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Speaker 1: van's back tires, and drives off. The victim taken to

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Speaker 1: the hospital and lives Nancy.

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Speaker 2: The victim, now identified as twenty nine year old Chelsea Douglas,

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Speaker 2: is said to have several serious fractures after the driver

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Speaker 2: ran over her head and upper body. Her fiance says

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Speaker 2: Chelsea slipped in the icy crosswalk and was still struggling

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Speaker 2: to get up when the light turned green. Chelsea immediately

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Speaker 2: had concern for the driver, who has now been identified

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Speaker 2: as Jerome Young Junior, twenty six. Young allegedly asked Chelsea,

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Speaker 2: how did you manage to get hit in the brief

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Speaker 2: moment he checked on her. Originally charged with felony assaults,

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Speaker 2: but prosecutors have said Young was overcharged and the evidence

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Speaker 2: does not support them. Young has been released on bail

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Speaker 2: until new charges are filed.

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Speaker 1: The driver has been pulled away from his delivery duties.

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Speaker 1: Richard Curtis slides an employee at an Austin pizza shopping

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Speaker 1: note demanding they empty the register, and flashes a gun instead.

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Speaker 1: The employee lunges across the counter, putting Curtis in a headlock.

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Speaker 1: Another employee grabs the gun from his waistband during the fight,

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Speaker 1: and pistol whips the purp. Curtis continues fighting until the

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Speaker 1: manager comes from the back with a knife. The manager

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Speaker 1: asks do you prefer prison or death? Curtis stops struggling

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Speaker 1: and waits for cops. Richard Curtis, nineteen, now charged with

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Speaker 1: ag robbery. More crime and justice news after this Now

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Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines

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Speaker 1: John Linley.

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Speaker 3: A Detroit mother is behind bars, accused of murdering her

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Speaker 3: nine year old son and burying his body in their

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Speaker 3: former her backyard. A judge has ordered forty one year

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Speaker 3: old Brandy Pierce held without bond. She faces multiple charges,

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Speaker 3: including first degree and felony, murder, child abuse, and evidence tampering.

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Speaker 3: Authorities say young Zamar King was smothered to death on

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Speaker 3: October twenty fourth. Weeks later, Pierce allegedly abandoned their home,

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Speaker 3: taking her three year old son to Georgia. It was

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Speaker 3: a landlord preparing the house for new tenants who uncovered

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Speaker 3: the shallow grave on January sixth. Police in Brookhaven, Georgia,

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Speaker 3: contacted Detroit authorities in December over a separate investigation involving

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Speaker 3: the younger child. Pierce was arrested January tenth and extradited

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Speaker 3: to Michigan last week. Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy calls

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Speaker 3: the case one of the most callous she has seen

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Speaker 3: in her career. A probable cause hearing is set for

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Speaker 3: March seventh, with a preliminary examination March thirteenth. A jury

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Speaker 3: has convicted an Illinois landlord a first degree murder and

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Speaker 3: hate crimes in the brutal case killing of a six

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Speaker 3: year old Palestinian American boy. As Crime Online Sidney Sunder

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Speaker 3: tells us, the case, which drew national attention, raised alarms

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Speaker 3: about anti Muslim violence in the US.

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Speaker 2: Seventy three year old Joseph Cuba was found guilty of

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Speaker 2: murdering six year old Wooda al Fayumi and attempting to

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Speaker 2: kill the boy's mother, Hanan Shanin, in what prosecutors described

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Speaker 2: as a targeted hate crime. The attack happened on October fourteenth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, in Plainfield, Illinois, just days after war

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Speaker 2: broke out between Israel and Hamas. Shaheen testified that Cuba,

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Speaker 2: her landlord of two years, suddenly turned on her and

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Speaker 2: her son, telling her quote, you, as a Muslim must die.

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Speaker 2: He then stabbed her more than a dozen times before

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Speaker 2: going after Wadia, stabbing the child twenty six times and

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Speaker 2: leaving the knife in his body. Jurors saw graphic crime

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Speaker 2: scene photos and police bodycam footage showing the aftermath of

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Speaker 2: the attack. The trial also included emotional testimony from Shaheen,

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Speaker 2: first responders, and Cuba's ex wife. The jury deliberated for

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Speaker 2: less than ninety minutes before del delivering a unanimous guilty

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Speaker 2: verdict on all charges, including first degree murder, attempted murder,

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Speaker 2: aggravated battery, and hate crimes. Attorney Ben Crump, representing Shaheen,

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Speaker 2: called the verdict a measure of justice, but warned but

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Speaker 2: it won't erase the rising tide of hate fueled violence. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: civil rights groups, including c ai R Chicago, said the

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Speaker 2: attack was a painful reminder of the threats facing Muslim

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Speaker 2: and Palestinian communities in the US.

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Speaker 3: Chuba, who declined to testify as schedule for sentencing on

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Speaker 3: May second, he faces life in prison.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Martesse Williams, twenty eight, has plans to meet

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Speaker 1: a friend on the other side of town, tells roommate

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Speaker 1: he'll be back later that night. Martes leaves their shared

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Speaker 1: Baltimore home for the Randallstown or Liberty Reservoir area in

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Speaker 1: his buick. When he hasn't returned by midnight, roommate calls

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Speaker 1: Martes's parents. Martes reported missing. Six days later, cops find

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Speaker 1: the silver Buick Verano abandoned two miles from home. Martesse

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Speaker 1: Williams African American five, eight hundred and ninety pounds, short,

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Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, usually wears a goateea and has

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Speaker 1: a sleeve of tattoos left arm. Last scene wearing T shirts, shorts,

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Speaker 1: gold cross necklace and a watch. If you have info

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Speaker 1: on Martesse Williams, now missing nine years, called Baltimore County PD.

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Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.