1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,559 Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Alabama authority said on Thursday that three 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: buried bodies are likely those of a woman and her 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 2: two children who vanished in January. Aurelia Chalk, forty, and 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 2: her children, Nierka Chalk, seventeen and Anthony Garcia, two, were 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 2: last seen on January thirtieth at their home in Theodore. 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,159 Speaker 2: Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch said evidence found at the 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: home led them to believe foul play was involved in 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: their disappearances. Birch revealed last month that blood was discovered 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 2: in the home, in addition to cash and cell phones 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 2: that were left behind. He also said a mattress was missing, 12 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: which drew suspicion. Hector gamaliel Urgeta Guerrera, thirty one, was 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 2: arrested for kidnapping in early February. Mobile County District Attorney 14 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: Keith Blackwood said the charges will be upgraded to capital 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: murder following the discovery of the three bodies. Quote, this 16 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: is a horrific and gruesome murder. The state will seek 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: the death penalty in this case. The charges will be 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: signed today and we will move through the Alabama justice system. 19 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: The three bodies, which were buried in a wooded area 20 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: east of Summerdale, have not been positively identified as the 21 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: Chalk Family, authority, saying autopsy results will take. 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: Time, forensic identity will take some time. There is enough 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: evidence in this case for us to determine that this 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: is the Chalk Family that we've been searching. 25 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: For, Birch said. Guerra, who is from El Salvador, faced 26 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 2: aggravated attempted homicide charges in twenty fifteen. Since then, he 27 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 2: has been detained on charges related to terrorism and organized crime. 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: Guerrera is reportedly a certified member of the Serenials transnational gang. 29 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: A motive in the triple homicide also remains undisclosed, Burch 30 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: asking what motive would there be for killing a two 31 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 2: year old. A teenager who disappeared after leaving his prestigious 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 2: Long Island school in January to travel into New York 33 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: City has been found dead in the waters of the 34 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: Upper New York Bay off Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood. The 35 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: Suffolk County Police Department said the body of Thomas Medlin 36 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 2: was recovered on Saturday and positively identified on Thursday. Medland fifteen, 37 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: was last seen on video footage walking across a Manhattan 38 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: Bridge walkway at about seven o six pm on January ninth. 39 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 2: The last activity on his cell phone came three minutes later, 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: and a minute after that, a nearby surveillance camera captured 41 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: the sound of a splash in the water. The boy 42 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 2: was not seen leaving the bridge. Medland left school earlier 43 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: that day and took a train into the city. He 44 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: was seen at Grand Central station at about five thirty 45 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: pm before the trip across the East River via the 46 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: Manhattan Bridge, about a three mile walk from Grand Central. 47 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: Before the discovery of his body, his parents made heartbreaking 48 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: pleas for Thomas to come home. Nobody's mad at him. Ah, 49 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: we want him, come home. Mom loves him. Wasn't my 50 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: life a what? In co God? 51 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: Exchange my life for my boys' safety winter. 52 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 2: His parents said that he may have gone to meet 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: someone he met on the gaming platform Roadblocks, but investigators 54 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: later said the platform was not connected with his disappearance. 55 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this, A Florida man 56 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 2: was charged this week with aggravated manslaughter more than a 57 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: year after his five week old baby died from extensive injuries. 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: De Juan Patrick, twenty seven, was arrested by the Jacksonville 59 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: Sheriff's office on a warrant from Volusia County. His daughter, 60 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: Dollia Sebenhart, was admitted to a hospital on December second, 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, with severe injuries. She was unresponsive and 62 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 2: never regained consciousness before she was taken off life support 63 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 2: on December twelfth. An autopsy found extensive head trauma, broken ribs, 64 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: bruising across her body, and retinal hemorrhages the doctors say 65 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 2: were caused by being shaken and held with extreme force. 66 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: Felusha County Chief Medical Examiner James Fulcher later ruled her 67 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: death a homicide. Investigators spent fifteen months studying medical records 68 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: and other evidence in conducting interviews before determining that Patrick 69 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: shook the newborn. In Spain, Sheriff Mike Shitwood commented, the 70 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: arrest in this case won't bring Dollia back or give 71 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: her the childhood she deserved, but today we're speaking up 72 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: for her because her life mattered. Patrick is being held 73 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: without bond in Jacksonville, awaiting transport to Valusha County. A 74 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: main man has been charged with murder after shooting his 75 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: girlfriend multiple times at their home in Farmington, and then 76 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: claiming it was an accident. Maine State Police say a 77 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: nine one one call came in on Sunday at about 78 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: seven thirty pm after the shooting. First responders took the 79 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 2: badly wounded woman, twenty three year old Mikaela Rose DeSantis, 80 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: to main Health Franklin Hospital. From there, she was life 81 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 2: lighted to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she died. 82 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: Her boyfriend, twenty four year old Austin Duquette, was arrested 83 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 2: Monday evening, and affidavit filed in the case says that 84 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 2: Dasantis was shot twice in the chest and that investigators 85 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: found three spent shell casings on the floor of their condo. 86 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 2: Duquet meanwhile told a paramedic that his gun just went 87 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: off and that Dusantis was shot once. In the course 88 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 2: of two nine one calls he made, he told dispatch, 89 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 2: I had a gunshot go off and I can't believe 90 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 2: I did this, while apologizing to Dysantis. In the second call, 91 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: he told the dispatcher, my girlfriend has a gunshot wound 92 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 2: and it accidentally went off. He further said I would 93 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: never do this and I don't want to go to jail. 94 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 2: Duquett put Dysantis into a car and attempted to drive 95 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: to a hospital, calling his father and saying he was 96 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 2: being chased by police. The father's girlfriend placed a nine 97 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 2: to one one call, telling the dispatcher that Duquet said 98 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: something had happened to Dusantis and he was going to 99 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 2: kill himself. The father told him not to do that, 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 2: and the girlfriend hung off her nine one one call 101 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 2: when she was told police had stopped him. An ambulance 102 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 2: took Dasantis to the hospital. From there. Meanwhile, officers went 103 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: back to the condo where they found the spent shell 104 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: casings from a forty five caliber handgun, which they found 105 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 2: on the couch. The affidavit said that one round went 106 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 2: through the coffee table and the floor. Investigators were unable 107 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 2: to find that bullet. Another bullet went through a pillow 108 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 2: on the couch and into the back of the so 109 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 2: that bullet was found in the couch stuffing. A third 110 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 2: bullet was recovered from the floor behind the couch after 111 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 2: it went through another pillow. The Office of the Chief 112 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 2: Medical Examiner ruled DeSantis' death a homicide by multiple gunshot wounds. 113 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 2: Duquet's attorney, Verni Parratti, repeated his client's claims that he 114 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 2: shot his girlfriend multiple times by accident. Quote. This appears 115 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 2: to be a terrible accident, and we hope to get 116 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 2: more information in the near future regarding the circumstances of 117 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 2: the situation with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Sumner.