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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: Seven police officers in Texas are shot while responding to

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Speaker 1: a suicide call, ending in an hour's long standoff and

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Speaker 1: the death of the suspect. The incident taking place at

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Speaker 1: an apartment complex in the Stone Oak neighborhood of San

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Speaker 1: Antonio last night. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus says

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Speaker 1: officers initially responded to a call from a family member

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Speaker 1: about a suicide in progress. When the first officer arrived

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Speaker 1: at the scene, the suspect, in his forties opened fire.

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Speaker 1: Six more officers were shots as they arrived. The wounded

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Speaker 1: officers all sustained non life threatening injuries and were taken

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Speaker 1: to a hospital. Water radle the scene and the suspect

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Speaker 1: barriitaded himself inside the apartment for several hours. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the event, the suspect was found to be deceased.

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Speaker 1: The chief says they don't know if he shot himself

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Speaker 1: or if he was shot by officers. The suspect, whose

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Speaker 1: name has not been released, had a history of recent arrests.

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Speaker 1: He was taken into custody on January eighteenth on charges

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Speaker 1: of assault and driving while intoxicated and was on bond

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Speaker 1: at the time of the shooting. Residents of the apartment

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Speaker 1: complex described the chaotic scene, with witness Joseph Laredo telling

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Speaker 1: WOAI quote, I heard a loud pop, Then I went

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Speaker 1: outside and saw one of the SAPD officers down. They

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Speaker 1: were putting a tourniquet on him and dragging him away.

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Speaker 1: Then he recounts seeing the suspect open fire on more officers.

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Speaker 1: Evacuations were carried out for residents who could safely leave

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Speaker 1: their apartments, while others were told to remain inside and

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Speaker 1: shelter in place. The investigation continues and police are working

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Speaker 1: to determine the exact cause of the suspect's death. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this, A Texas man is

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Speaker 1: sentenced to eighteen months in prison for attempting to extort

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Speaker 1: nearly one million dollars from former Congressman George Santos by

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Speaker 1: offering to destroy evidence in Santos corruption case. Hector Medina,

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Speaker 1: aged forty, admitted to creating a fake identity as a

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Speaker 1: politically connected fixer. He tried to convince Santos he could

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Speaker 1: quote have evidence that is on you removed, disappeared prosecutor

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Speaker 1: say Medina used the alias Michael Soto and targeted other

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Speaker 1: high profile defendants, including convicted rapists Slash That seventy Show

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Speaker 1: actor Danny Masterson. He did not succeed in any case.

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Speaker 1: Medina's lawyer, Joseph Feith, says his client's plan was to

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Speaker 1: pay off gambling debts. He described the scheme as lacking

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Speaker 1: quote the sophistication and credibility necessary to pose any real

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Speaker 1: threat of success. In September, Medina pleaded guilty to identity

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Speaker 1: theft and wire fraud. His case came just weeks after

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Speaker 1: Santos admitted to deceiving voters, donors, and even stealing the

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Speaker 1: identities of nearly a dozen people, including family members, to

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Speaker 1: fund his campaign. Beith says, quote, it's fairly unusual where

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Speaker 1: you'd have the defendant and victim both charged in separate

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Speaker 1: instances with the same crime. My client is just happy

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Speaker 1: his case is over, irrespective of what mister Santos is

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Speaker 1: going to have to deal with. Santos has not commented

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Speaker 1: on Medina's case, but said he submitted a statement to

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Speaker 1: the judge earlier this week. Month. Santos requested a sentencing

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Speaker 1: delay in his own case to pay off fines by

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Speaker 1: creating episodes of his podcasts known as Pants on Fire.

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Speaker 1: He faces a minimum of two years for identity theft

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Speaker 1: and up to twenty two years in prison overall sentencing

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Speaker 1: as scheduled for April twenty fifth. A Sacramento infant remains

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Speaker 1: missing thirteen years after his disappearance, with no evidence to

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Speaker 1: confirm his fate. Dwight Stallings was last seen April twenty

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Speaker 1: eleven in Sacramento, California. At the time, he was in

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Speaker 1: the care of his mother, Tanisha Edwards. Edwards had previously

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Speaker 1: lost custody of her two older children due to substance

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Speaker 1: abuse issues. Despite failing drug tests, she maintained custody of Dwight.

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Speaker 1: Child Protective Services attempted to check on Dwight several times

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Speaker 1: in April twenty eleven, but Edwards and the child were

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Speaker 1: not found at their residence. In May of twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: a warrant was issued for Edwards to produce her son.

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Speaker 1: Family members last heard Dwight's voice in the background during

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Speaker 1: a phone call on May eighth. Edwards later failed to

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Speaker 1: appear at a planned birthday party for Dwight and stopped

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Speaker 1: providing clear information about his whereabouts. She gave conflicting accounts

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Speaker 1: to investigators, including claims that Dwight was with relatives, had

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Speaker 1: been abducted, or had died of natural causes. None of

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Speaker 1: these accounts were substantiated. Edwards's explanations became increasingly inconsistent. She

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Speaker 1: eventually claimed she gave Dwight to two women in Nevada,

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Speaker 1: describing them as relatives of Dwight's father, Haswanse Stallings. Stallings

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Speaker 1: denied knowing these women or any involvement in Dwight's disappearance.

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Speaker 1: CPS did not file an official missing persons report until

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve. By this time, Edwards had been arrested for

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Speaker 1: probation violations and drug charges. In twenty fifteen, she pleaded

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Speaker 1: no contest to child endangerment and lying about Dwight's whereabouts.

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Speaker 1: She received an eleven year prison sentence. Investigators believed Dwight

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Speaker 1: may have been a homicide victim or as living under

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Speaker 1: another name. They have no evidence to confirm he is alive.

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Speaker 1: Barbara Edwards, Dwight's grandmother, expressing frustration with CPS, telling k

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Speaker 1: TXL quote, if they had left him here the last time,

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't be good on. She and Dwight's siblings hold

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Speaker 1: on to memories of him as a baby, remembering his

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Speaker 1: laugh and the way he crawled. Barbara shared her heartbreak,

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Speaker 1: saying quote, we miss him. I love Dwight even though

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Speaker 1: he's not here. For the latest crime and justice news,

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