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Speaker 1: Crime Alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm as Grace.

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Speaker 1: A former garbage truck driver who paralyzes a teen after

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Speaker 1: recklessly reversing down a one way street gets no jail time.

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Speaker 1: Cecilia Davis Johnson, forty eight, driving for Buffalo, runs a

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand pound truck over a teen headed to school,

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Speaker 1: then goes forward, running over the teen again. The teen hospitalized,

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Speaker 1: has a leg amputated, and is now paralyzed waist down.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Gould has the details.

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Speaker 3: Nancy, a former Buffalo Department of Public Works driver who

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Speaker 3: used a sixty thousand pound garbage truck to transform a

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Speaker 3: teen's life into a cycle of amputations and paralysis, will,

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Speaker 3: as you said, spend zero days in a jail cell.

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Speaker 3: Sassia Davis Johnson, forty eight, was sentenced to only three

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Speaker 3: years of probation in Buffalo, New York after a reckless

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Speaker 3: driving display that left eighteen year old Claw Ray permanently mangled.

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Speaker 3: She's very, very remorseful for what happened. Despite facing nearly

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Speaker 3: a year behind bars, the grandmother and former city employee

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Speaker 3: walked out of court with a mere license revocation and

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Speaker 3: a supervision order. The carnage unfolded on October second, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four, at approximately eight sixteen am, near the intersection

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Speaker 3: of Rhode Island and Fourteenth Streets. As children flooded the

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Speaker 3: sidewalks for school, Davis Johnson made the fatal decision to

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Speaker 3: throw her massive rig into reverse, barreling the wrong way

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Speaker 3: down a one way street. Clawray, then just seventeen and

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Speaker 3: heading to class, never stood a chance against the steel behemoth.

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Speaker 3: The impact was not a singular strike either. His attorney,

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Speaker 3: Charles Desmond, reveal the truck ran over the boy, pulled forward,

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Speaker 3: and then crushed his body a second time. The forensic

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Speaker 3: toll of the accident is staggering. Ray has remained hospitalized

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Speaker 3: for fourteen months, enduring more than thirty agonizing surgeries.

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Speaker 1: Claud He's not doing well. He's still hospitalized. He's been

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Speaker 1: hospitaled since the date of the incident.

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Speaker 3: One leg has been amputated, and he remains paralyzed from

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Speaker 3: the waist down with no discharge date in sight. While

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Speaker 3: the defense argued the act was unintentional, the prosecution highlighted

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Speaker 3: a laundry list of negligence. Davis Johnson ignored a spotter

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Speaker 3: who stayed inside the cab and operated the vehicle despite

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Speaker 3: a broken and disabled backup camera. The judge acknowledge the

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Speaker 3: act was reckless but not intentional, granting a reduced please

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Speaker 3: deal that the victim's family reportedly consented to. While Davis

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Speaker 3: Johnson is no longer employed by the city, the Ray

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Speaker 3: family has filed a massive lawsuit against the City of Buffalo,

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Speaker 3: citing a total failure in training and equipment maintenance. For

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Speaker 3: the latest crime and Justice news, follow Crime Stories with

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Speaker 2: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer more Crime and Justice news. After this, A.

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Speaker 3: Seventy five year old granny has been left permanently blinded

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Speaker 3: and mutilated because a quote unquote notorious violent predator was

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Speaker 3: freed once again and allowed to roam on Seattle's streets.

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Speaker 3: The victim's angry sons, son Andreos Diricus, spoke to Komo.

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Speaker 1: News like, oh yeah, he's unusual, like usual, what attacking people?

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Speaker 2: Seebelians Like, what the hell is wrong with your system?

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Speaker 3: Jeanette Markin was standing on a downtown corner clutching a

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Speaker 3: food order after a routine errand when she was targeted

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Speaker 3: in a random stomach churning ambush. Forty two year old

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Speaker 3: Fallet Peya crept up behind the unsuspecting senior and swung

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Speaker 3: a heavy wooden board spiked with protruding screws and bolts.

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Speaker 3: He swung it with both hands like a baseball bat.

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Speaker 3: The savage impact shattered Markin's face, fracturing her skull, nose,

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Speaker 3: and cheekbone, while a jagged screw gouged out her right eye.

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Speaker 3: As Markin collapsed in a pool of blood outside the

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Speaker 3: King County Courthouse, surveillance footage captured her attacker just calmly

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Speaker 3: strolling away from the carnage. Horrified bystanders rushed to the

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Speaker 3: granny side, with one quick thinking witness snapping a photo

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Speaker 3: of the fleeing suspect that led to his immediate arrest

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Speaker 3: by a King County Sheriff's deputy. When Seattle police arrived

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Speaker 3: to take custody at Paya, the shock of the crime

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Speaker 3: was eclipsed by a damning admission of familiarity. In a

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Speaker 3: separate exchange with paramedic, An officer described on bodycam Paya

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Speaker 3: as a quote unquote regular who quote unquote usually punches,

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Speaker 3: adding with chilling nonchalants that quote. Today he decided to

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Speaker 3: escalate end quote. Paya's rap sheet is a road map

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Speaker 3: of judicial failure. In twenty twenty five alone, he was

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Speaker 3: booked into the King County Jail eight times for offenses

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Speaker 3: including assault, indecent exposure, and weapons charges, yet records show

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Speaker 3: not a single one of those those arrests resulted in

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Speaker 3: a felony charge before he allegedly blinded markin. His violent

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Speaker 3: streak dates back to a twenty eleven stabbing spree where

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Speaker 3: he knifed a victim eight times, yet served only eighteen

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Speaker 3: months of community custody. Charged with first degree assault with

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Speaker 3: a deadly weapon. Peya is now being held on a

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Speaker 3: one million dollar bond pending a mental evaluation, and finally

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Speaker 3: talk about a high octane home defense. A Sherman Oaks

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Speaker 3: mom took the term protective parent to a literal collision

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Speaker 3: course when she returned home to find masked burglars terrorizing

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Speaker 3: her family While her kids and their granny huddled inside

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Speaker 3: the house. The mother pulled into her driveway in a

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Speaker 3: Mercedes G wagon and slammed into the suspect's white Honda,

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Speaker 3: pinning the getaway driver inside. The impact sent to hooded

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Speaker 3: henchmen sprinting for their lives while that third one struggled

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Speaker 3: to crawl out of the wreckage. The woman's husband, who

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Speaker 3: did not want to be idd spoke to KTLA five news.

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Speaker 1: If they can catch those guys, I'm one hundred percent sure.

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Speaker 1: It's not the first time.

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Speaker 3: Before the strike, the crew had disabled the home's surveillance system,

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Speaker 3: but they did not account for a mother's adrenaline rush.

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Speaker 3: While the thieves did take off LAPD investigators recovered crowbars,

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Speaker 3: walkie talkies, and ID from the smashed car, which will

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Speaker 3: hopefully lead to their capture. Proof of Mama Bear's instinct

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Speaker 3: can make all the difference. Nancy.

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Speaker 2: especially children, and helped solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,

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