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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson. A man in New York kills four family

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Speaker 1: members and himself during a meeting about the sale of

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Speaker 1: their late mother's home, Belisa. Nassau County found a man

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Speaker 1: dead on the lawn of his home in siast. That

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Speaker 1: was only a clue of what awaited first responders inside.

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Speaker 2: Forty one years That is probably one of the most

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Speaker 2: horrific scenes I've ever seen walking into that back room

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Speaker 2: of that house where these four victims lie after being

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Speaker 2: shot multiple times. And also the individual the shooter of

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Speaker 2: being on the front lawn also committed suicide.

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Speaker 1: That's Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. The victims are

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Speaker 1: identified as family members who had gathered to discuss the

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Speaker 1: sale of the house after the recent death of ninety

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Speaker 1: five year old Teresa Martha de Lucia. Teresa was laid

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Speaker 1: to rest on Friday. Her death left the family to

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Speaker 1: decide what to do with the home where she and

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Speaker 1: her son, Joseph de Lucia Junior had lived. Distraught over

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Speaker 1: the loss of his mother and fearing he would have

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Speaker 1: nowhere to go, the fifty nine year old became violent.

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Speaker 1: He used a Mossburg twelve gage to kill his siblings

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Speaker 1: Joanna Kerns aged sixty nine, Frank Delucief sixty four, Tina

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Speaker 1: Hammond sixty four, and his niece Victoria Hammond thirty. Neighbors

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Speaker 1: say Joseph had been deeply affected by his mother's death

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Speaker 1: and the prospect of losing the family home. He had

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Speaker 1: lived there his entire life and was struggling with mental

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Speaker 1: health issues. Police say Joseph had a perception that he

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Speaker 1: was being cut out of his mother's will and would

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Speaker 1: be left without a place to live. Despite assurances from

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Speaker 1: his family, he felt like he was losing everything. He

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Speaker 1: fired twelve shots in total, hitting each of his four

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Speaker 1: victims multiple times. Neighbors described hearing the shotgun blasts and

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Speaker 1: seeing police swarm the quiet cul de sac. Joseph was

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Speaker 1: reportedly sitting in his mother's favorite chair on the lawn

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Speaker 1: before turning the gun on himself. More crime and Justice

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Speaker 1: news After this, an Arizona man is arrested after allegedly

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Speaker 1: making death threats on social media against former President Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: who was visiting the state at the time. Ronald Siverood,

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Speaker 1: sixty six years old, was taken into custody in co

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Speaker 1: Chease County after authorities tracked him down following threats he

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Speaker 1: made online. According to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, they

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Speaker 1: were alerted to the threats earlier in the week. They

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Speaker 1: said quote the message contained language that indicated bodily harm

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Speaker 1: to the candidate. With mister Trump's scheduled to visit the

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Speaker 1: US Mexico border in Cochise County that same day, finding

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Speaker 1: Silverwood quickly became a top priority for local law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: After receiving intelligence that he might be in the Saint

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Speaker 1: David area, multiple Sheriff's units were deployed to locate him.

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Speaker 1: Silverwood was arrested without incident during a traffic stop, booked

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Speaker 1: on two counts of threatening as well as several outstanding warrants,

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Speaker 1: including failure to register as a sex offender and charges

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Speaker 1: for DUI and hit and run. The forty fifth president

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Speaker 1: moved forward with his event, daring Vice President Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: to visit a spot nearby where there's no border wall.

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Speaker 2: What you have to do is walk up there, if

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Speaker 2: you have the courage to do it, and go to

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Speaker 2: that open section.

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Speaker 1: Stand there for a little while. You'll be running back

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Speaker 1: here very quickly. Mister Trump was surrounded by law enforcement

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Speaker 1: of officials and families of victims of crimes by individuals

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Speaker 1: who had crossed the border unlawfully. Trump was briefed on

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Speaker 1: the situation by law enforcement before his event. When asked

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Speaker 1: about the threats against him, he stated he hadn't been

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Speaker 1: aware of the ongoing investigation, but wasn't surprised by the news.

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Speaker 1: Quote I have heard it was very unsafe to make

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Speaker 1: this trip. There were some people who really didn't want

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Speaker 1: me to make it. The Secret Service is now investigating

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Speaker 1: the threats made by Sivred. The agency responsible for protecting

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Speaker 1: former presidents, confirms they were looking into the matter, but

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Speaker 1: declined to provide further details, citing the ongoing investigation. Sivred

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Speaker 1: remains in custody pending further court action, as authorities continued

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Speaker 1: to examine the nature and scope of his strets. A

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Speaker 1: man in Indiana is senenced after trying to poison his

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Speaker 1: wife so he could marry her daughter. Alfred Rufe, seventy

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Speaker 1: one years old, pleaded guilty to aggravate a battery posing

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Speaker 1: a risk of death in Wayne County Court. He received

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Speaker 1: a sentence of four years in prison five years probation.

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Speaker 1: A more severe charge of conspiracy to commit murder was dismissed.

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Speaker 1: The case began early twenty two, twenty two, when Rufe's

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Speaker 1: wife contacted police told them her husband had confessed to

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Speaker 1: trying to kill her with poison. She had been hospitalized

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Speaker 1: six times in the previous weeks with unexplained headaches, drowsiness,

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Speaker 1: and other symptoms. At the hospital, she tested positive for ecstasy, cocaine,

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Speaker 1: and benzodiazepines, though she denied ever using drugs. Police responded

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Speaker 1: to the home and reportedly heard Rufe admit to spiking

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Speaker 1: his wife's drink. Rufe's wife gave him a Coca Cola

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Speaker 1: with a powdery substance. At the station, Rufe confessed to

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Speaker 1: powder months earlier. He admitted to having a relationship with

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Speaker 1: the powder to make his wife's sleep. Police report quote

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Speaker 1: Rufe stated that the substance would then make his wife

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Speaker 1: go to sleep for approximately thirteen hours or so. He

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Speaker 1: stated that he would do this to eventually kill her.

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Speaker 1: Rufe claimed that after his wife's fell asleep, the daughter

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Speaker 1: and a friend would come to the house. The women

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Speaker 1: would then quote put on a show and Rufe would

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Speaker 1: have sex with w one of them while the other

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Speaker 1: for the sex acts. The daughter had also allegedly talked

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Speaker 1: could inherit the life insurance policy. She told Rufe they

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Speaker 1: could marry after they quote took care of his wife.

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Speaker 1: Rufe admitted to poisoning his wife's drink about a dozen

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Speaker 1: times between September and December of twenty twenty one. He

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Speaker 1: finally confessed to his wife January third, because he quote

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Speaker 1: felt bad, but his wife said she had grown suspicious

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Speaker 1: and confronted him first. She told officers that Rufe admitted

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Speaker 1: to drugging her so he could sleep with her daughter

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Speaker 1: and the friend. Authorities are still investigating two other suspects

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Speaker 1: linked to the case, but no arrests have been made.

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