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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I means he grace breaking crime news now.

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Speaker 1: Tommy Ellington bleeds out in his driveway after being shot twice.

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Speaker 1: From there, the shooter breaks into Nancy and Reverend John

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Speaker 1: Alfred's home. The reverend beaten and tied to a bed.

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Speaker 1: Nancy seventy six, kidnapped and forced to go to a

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Speaker 1: bank to withdraw money. When she and her kidnapper return home,

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Speaker 1: the kidnapper sets the home on fire. Nancy Alfred burned alive.

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Speaker 1: The reverend manages to escape with severe burns Nancy.

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Speaker 2: The attackers are identified as Kevin Munn and Lester Kearney

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Speaker 2: after his arrest. Munn was also implicated in a shooting

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Speaker 2: just months prior to the home invasion. Tommy Ellington was

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Speaker 2: found shot to death in his driveway, about a month

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Speaker 2: after his wife called nine to one one to report

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Speaker 2: a man with a gun prowling inside their home. Ellington

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Speaker 2: was the owner of a John Deere dealership, and investigators

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Speaker 2: believe Munn intended to pull a robbery plot on the Ellingtons,

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Speaker 2: similar to what befell the Alfords. Munn agrees to a

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Speaker 2: plead just a few months after his arrest, exchanging testimony

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Speaker 2: against his accomplice for the barring of the death penalty. However,

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Speaker 2: Munn was hospitalized during Kearney's trial for an overdose behind

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Speaker 2: bars and did not testify. Jurors could not reach a

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Speaker 2: decision on Kearney's guilt, but before he could be retried,

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Speaker 2: Kearney agreed to an Alfred plea and was sentenced to

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Speaker 2: thirteen years behind bars. Munn was never sentenced, but last

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Speaker 2: week attorneys formally entered his guilty please for both murders.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Munn guilty first degree murder in both cases, given

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Speaker 1: two life sentences. Caroline Miller and her two children's shop

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Speaker 1: in Georgia Walmart. She says a man approached her asking

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Speaker 1: where to find tailanol, then tries to kidnap her two

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Speaker 1: year old son, Mahintra Patel, fifty six, arrested on charges

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Speaker 1: of attempted kidnapping, assault, battery. The glad mom's story convinces

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Speaker 1: the grand jury to indict him, then shocking security footage

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Speaker 1: reveals it's not as it seems. In the video, Patel's

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Speaker 1: briefly seen with Miller and her children, who were riding

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Speaker 1: in a motorized car, but moments later he's seen with

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Speaker 1: an employee finding tail and all in a completely different

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Speaker 1: part of the store. His lawyer says he thought the

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Speaker 1: child was about to fall, so he reached over to

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Speaker 1: help reposition the boy on Miller's lap. Prosecutors have been

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Speaker 1: asked to drop the charges. More Criming Justice news after

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Speaker 1: this Now with the latest Criming Justice breaking news Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 3: John Limley, a South Carolina man, has been sentenced to

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Speaker 3: life in prison for killing a New Mexico state trooper

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Speaker 3: who stopped to help him. Jeremy Smith pleaded guilty to

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Speaker 3: federal charges after shooting Officer Justin Hare on March fifteenth,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, along I forty near tukham Cary. Harror

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Speaker 3: had pulled over to assist Smith with a flat tire.

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Speaker 3: Moments later, Smith opened fire, then stole the patrol car. Hair,

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Speaker 3: a thirty five year old father, was found fatally wounded

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Speaker 3: an hour later. The weapon was stolen from a South

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Speaker 3: Carolina woman, Phoenicia Machado, four, whom Smith is also accused

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Speaker 3: of murdering. He drove her car across the country before

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Speaker 3: being caught in Albuquerque two days later. US attorney Ryan

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Speaker 3: Ellison called Hair a hero and said Smith left quote

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Speaker 3: a trail of destruction. Smith still faces murder charges in

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Speaker 3: South Carolina, where the death penalty is possible. In the

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Speaker 3: wake of a tragic shooting at Florida State University, students

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Speaker 3: who previously endured the Parkland massacre are voicing strong opposition

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Speaker 3: to propose changes in Florida's gun laws. Crime Online Sidney

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Speaker 3: Sumner has more.

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Speaker 2: Just days after a deadly shooting at Florida State University,

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Speaker 2: twenty eight students, many of whom also survived the twenty

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Speaker 2: eighteen Parkland High School massacre, have penned a letter to

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Speaker 2: Governor Ron DeSantis urging him to oppose legislation that would

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Speaker 2: lower the firearm purchase age from twenty one to eighteen.

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Speaker 2: The current age restriction was enacted following the Parkland tragedy,

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Speaker 2: where seventeen lives were lost. Jacqueline corn, a co founder

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Speaker 2: of March for Our Lives and one of the letter's authors,

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Speaker 2: emphasized the danger of reversing this law, stating it would

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Speaker 2: be unthinkable and dangerous. The recent FSU shooting involved twenty

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Speaker 2: year old student Phoenix Ickner, who used his stepmother's former

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Speaker 2: service weapon to kill two individuals and injure six others.

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Speaker 2: Near the student union. The victims included campus dining director

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Speaker 2: Robert Morales and Aramark executive tiru Chaba. Governor Desantist and

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Speaker 2: some Republican lawmakers support the proposed age reduction, arguing that

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Speaker 2: individuals eligible for military service should also be allowed to

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Speaker 2: purchase firearms. However, Florida's Senate President Ben Alberton remains undecided,

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Speaker 2: expressing the need for careful consideration in consultation with law

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Speaker 2: enforcement before making a decision.

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Speaker 3: The legislative session concludes this week, leading the fate of

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Speaker 3: the proposed changes on s thanks.

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Speaker 1: John Martha ann Overholtzer, sixty six, travels alone on a

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Speaker 1: commercial tour of the Grand Canyon's south of Rim, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: reported missing when she fails to return to the bus

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Speaker 1: after taking a walk near the Grand Canyon visitor Center.

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Speaker 1: Last seen at the famous lookout Mather Point. Her cell

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Speaker 1: phones found about three and a half miles away below

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Speaker 1: the Canyon Rim along Hermit Road, near an area called

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Speaker 1: the Abyss. The silver haired, blue eyed woman is five two,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten pounds, wearing a long off white coat,

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Speaker 1: a gray hooded sweatshirt, and carrying a navy blue bag.

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Speaker 1: If you have seen Martha ann Overholtzer. Please call toll

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