Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvoni. An intense manhunt is underway in Philadelphia
Speaker 2: as authority search for a suspect accused of wearing a
Speaker 2: creepy Chucky style Halloween mask while terrorizing innocent pedestrians across
Speaker 2: Center City. Philadelphia Police announced Thursday that an arrest warrant
Speaker 2: has been issued for twenty two year old Zimer Hughes
Speaker 2: following a series of disturbing early morning encounters near City Hall.
Speaker 2: According to Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith, investigators believe Hughes
Speaker 2: ran up at least six victims, attempting to scare, harass,
Speaker 2: and antagonize them while wearing the horror mask. Surveillance video
Speaker 2: captured one chilling incident showing the suspect aggressively chasing a
Speaker 2: female jogger through the streets. Captain Smith revealed that as
Speaker 2: the suspect pursued the woman, he chillingly asked her are
Speaker 2: you ready to die? The terrified jogger ran screaming for
Speaker 2: help and injured her leg during the ordeal. Investigators note
Speaker 2: that throughout these attacks, the suspect held a cell phone
Speaker 2: in his left hand, apparently filming the victim's reactions for
Speaker 2: his own purposes. Another victim, Jamika Wilson, is sharing her
Speaker 2: face to face encounter with the suspect. Early Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: Wilson was walking to a soul cycle class when she
Speaker 2: spotted the suspect following a woman outside City Hall. Wilson
Speaker 2: managed to wave and get her attention, allowing her to
Speaker 2: sprint away. The attacker then turned his focus toward a
Speaker 2: man carrying a heavy box, chasing him into a business
Speaker 2: and briefly struggling over the front door. That's when the
Speaker 2: masked man set his sights on Wilson. Faced with a
Speaker 2: split second decision, Wilson chose to stand her ground and
Speaker 2: fight back, recounting her thoughts to Fox News Digital.
Speaker 1: That was like, I have long straps, my bags are heavy.
Speaker 1: I think that the wisest thing in this scenario, especially
Speaker 1: from what I have seen so far, is actually to fight. Normally,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be my first inclination without having more information,
Speaker 1: but because he was so listless, because he didn't really
Speaker 1: seem to have intent or like a true goal, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, well I think that my chances are
Speaker 1: better than none.
Speaker 2: Wilson, a former art school student, who had taken a
Speaker 2: stage combat course, relied on her training to confront the attacker.
Speaker 2: After turning around, she assessed that the suspect did not
Speaker 2: appear to be holding any weapons. As she detailed to
Speaker 2: Fox News Digital, he looked.
Speaker 1: Surprised pretty much the entire physical altercation. He seemed surprised
Speaker 1: that I had turned around. Initially. I also was analyzing
Speaker 1: him because again, I'm not going to strike if I
Speaker 1: know that you have a weapon. I'm doing the due
Speaker 1: diligence to make sure that I'm doing the stapest thing.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't doing those same things, and so it
Speaker 1: seemed like he was seeming confused. I saw his head
Speaker 1: like tilt from side to side, like trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what he's supposed to be doing in the scenario.
Speaker 2: Taking advantage of the suspect's monerable stance, Wilson delivered a
Speaker 2: swift kick directly to his chest, causing him to stumble
Speaker 2: backward and flee. During his escape, the suspect pulled the
Speaker 2: mass down, exposing part of his face to a surveillance camera.
Speaker 2: Police quickly released that image, leading to his identified as
Speaker 2: Zimir Hughes. Officials warned that Hughes may have already fled Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: as he has known ties to California and Nevada. Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Police are currently working alongside the US Marshall Service to
Speaker 2: track him down and take him into custody. Once captured,
Speaker 2: Hughes faces serious charges including terroristic threats, harassment, simple assault,
Speaker 2: and intimidation. Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged
Speaker 2: to contact Philadelphia Police at two one five six eight
Speaker 2: six tips. More crime and justice news after this. In
Speaker 2: South Florida, a mother is behind bars facing severe felony
Speaker 2: charges after allegedly setting a fire inside her home while
Speaker 2: her two young daughters were inside, than pouring hot candle
Speaker 2: wax on them. Twenty six year old Melisa Campo Sanchez
Speaker 2: was arrested Monday, August seventeenth by Miami Dade authorities and
Speaker 2: charge with first degree arson, child abuse, and two counts
Speaker 2: of child neglect. The investigation began Sunday after Miami Dade
Speaker 2: Fire Rescue responded to a kitchen fire at the residence.
Speaker 2: An arson investigator determined the blaze was intentionally set using
Speaker 2: an open flame. Authorities subsequently learned Campo Sanchez posted two
Speaker 2: disturbing videos to her Instagram account. In one video, she
Speaker 2: reportedly wears a silver mask while spraying liquid onto clothing
Speaker 2: on the kitchen floor before lighting it with a red lighter.
Speaker 2: In the second video, she uses lit candles to pour
Speaker 2: melted hot wax onto her own leg and onto her
Speaker 2: daughter's hands. Investigators interviewed the eldest daughter, who recounted seeing
Speaker 2: her mother ignite clothing, throw a glass mug, and dance
Speaker 2: before dousing the flames with water. The child confirmed that
Speaker 2: Campo Sanchez then poured hot wax on them. Campos Sanchez
Speaker 2: was sedated at a hospital before being booked into the
Speaker 2: Turner Guildford Knight Correctional Institution. Turning to California, cold case,
Speaker 2: investigators have finally identified human remains found partially buried in
Speaker 2: the desert fifty years ago. According to an August eleventh
Speaker 2: release from the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, the victim
Speaker 2: has been identified as nineteen year old Rebecca Jean McMahon,
Speaker 2: also known as Becky Solis. McMahon was reported missing by
Speaker 2: her family on July third, nineteen seventy three, roughly a
Speaker 2: month after she was last seen in Bell Gardens, California.
Speaker 2: Mentioning a trip to Palm Springs. Her body was found
Speaker 2: in Hot Springs on January nineteenth, nineteen seventy four. For decades,
Speaker 2: fingerprint and dental comparisons failed to produce a match. In
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the regional Cold Case Homicide Team re
Speaker 2: examined the evidence using forensic investigative genetic genealogy. Laboratory technicians
Speaker 2: extracted DNA from bone samples and uploaded the profile to
Speaker 2: a consumer ancestry database, finding a potential close relative. McMahon
Speaker 2: was a Caucasian female with long brown hair and hazel eyes,
Speaker 2: standing five foot three to five foot four and weighing
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two one hundred and forty five pounds,
Speaker 2: with distinct tattoos of an SS on her ankle and
Speaker 2: a butterfly on her chest. Investigators urge anyone with information
Speaker 2: to contact the Cold Case Unit. For more crime and
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