1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Chrime Alert, imancy, grace breaking crimes. Now, an eight year 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: old girl rushed to North Carolina eer with severe injuries 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: to her head and body. The little girl dies. Cops 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: speak to the girl's legal guardian, her grandmother, and five 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: other children in the home, and they learn Grandma Patricia Rix, 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: seventy two, beat the little girl dead Crimelines John Lemley. 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: Nancy Rix was the primary caregiver of her grandchildren, including 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: the child who died at her hands and her siblings. 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: Police are still investigating what sparked the brutal attack on 10 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: the child, but Rix is reportedly not cooperating with the investigation. 11 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: Rix is currently held without bond for the girl's death. 12 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: The other children now taken into protective custody. Grandma Rix 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: charged with murder and child abuse. California cops see no 14 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: aimand driving erratically, single for him to pull over. He 15 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: seems to comply, pulling into a gas station parking a lot, 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: but then he gets out and starts shooting at the 17 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: patrol car. When officers shoot back, Mendoza takes off. He's 18 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: later found at home where he shoots a cops yet again, 19 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: injuring one. Mendoza was caught and arrested after the second shootout. 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: Once detained Nancy, Mendoza reportedly asked authorities several times if 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: he had killed anyone. One officer was hit twice in 22 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: the gunfire at Mendoza's home, but is recovering at home. 23 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: Police also learned that Mendoza had been stalking police officers 24 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: for hours at three different locations, with intentions to kill 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: as many officers as possible. Mendoza thirty four tales cops 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: he was on a quote quest to kill. Several counts 27 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: of attempted murder of police officer have now been added 28 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: to Mendoza's lengthy rap sheet. More crime in Justice after 29 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking knees crime. 30 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: Alnes John Lemley, the estranged husband of a New Jersey 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: kindergarten teacher, is now under arrest. The body of thirty 32 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: three year old Lose Hernandez was found Tuesday in Kearney, 33 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: a day after she was reported missing. Hernandez's death was 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: ruled a homicide after an autopsy revealed the New Jersey 35 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: mother died a blunt force trauma to the head and 36 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: compressions to the neck. Police say they found her Nandez 37 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: buried in a shallow grave in a deserted industrial area. 38 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: Investigators say her Nandez didn't show up to work at 39 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: her school Monday, and welfare checks at her home led 40 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: them to believe a crime had taken place. Shortly after 41 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: her body was discovered three and a half miles away, 42 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of Caesar 43 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: Santana overnight, a Tesla driver accused of trying to kill 44 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: his wife and two young children by driving off a 45 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 1: northern California cliff, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder 46 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: and domestic violence. We hear more now from Sydney Sumner 47 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: with Crime Online. A judge has ordered forty one year 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: old Darmesh Patel of Pasadena held without bail. Patel was 49 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: seriously injured January second when the car plunged two hundred 50 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: and fifty feet off the cliff at Devil's Slide along 51 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: the Pacific Coast Highway south of San Francisco. Firefighters were 52 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: forced to cut the family, including Patel's forty one year 53 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: old wife and two children, a seven year old daughter 54 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: and four year old son, out of the wreckage. Both 55 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: children were hospitalized with serious injuries. San Mateo County District 56 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: Attorneys Steve Wagstaff says Patel also faces enhancement for great 57 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: bodily injury. A man suspected of injuring two Maryland police 58 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: officers with gunfire has been taken into custody after fleeing 59 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: from the vehicle he had stolen from a detective he shot. Federal, state, 60 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: and local law enforcement agencies surrounded the suspect in a 61 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: wooded area near a shopping mall in Foulston after police 62 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: used spike strips to disable the stolen vehicle. He was 63 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: taken into custody about five forty five am on Friday. 64 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: The suspect, earlier identified as twenty four year old David Lenthcom, 65 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: wasn't injured during the arrest, and charges were pending. He 66 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: was also expected to be transferred to the custody of 67 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: Baltimore County Police. A southern California man has been charged 68 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: with killing two women in nineteen eighty one after DNA 69 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,799 Speaker 1: evidence linked him to the crimes once again. Crime Online's 70 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: Sydney Sumner. Sixty eight year old Tony Garcia of Oxnard 71 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: appeared in court, but his arraignment was continued to February 72 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: twenty third. Garcia, a Navy veteran and formal martial arts teacher, 73 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: is accused of kidnapping, raping, and strangling twenty year old 74 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: at Rachel's and Dais and Camodillo in January nineteen eighty one, 75 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: in strangling twenty one year old Lisa Gonduck in Oxnard. 76 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: In December nineteen eighty one, Yndias was found in a 77 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: carport in Camarillo and Gonduck was found in a bathtub 78 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: after a reported apartment fire in Oxnard. Garcia lived for 79 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: decades only a few miles away from the crime scenes, 80 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: until he was finally linked to the killings. Masawda Shamps 81 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: calls himself the pro life spider Man. He climbs the 82 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: outside of tall buildings to raise awareness for an organization 83 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 1: raising funds for struggling pregnant ladies to Shamp's latest stunt 84 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: has him using a three foot wide external ventilation shaft 85 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: to scale a four hundred and eighty three foot Arizona skyscraper. 86 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: Cops and meet him at the top. The twenty two 87 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: year old arrested on trespass and criminal nuisance for the 88 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: latest crime, and Justice us go to crime online dot 89 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace