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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner, a North Carolina repeat offender arrested in

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Speaker 2: Florida for allegedly stabbing a pregnant mom with a stake

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Speaker 2: knife in what police are calling a random attack. The

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Speaker 2: Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department announced the arrest of Marvina Butler Hardy,

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Speaker 2: accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the parking lot

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Speaker 2: of the Harris Teeter grocery store in Cottswold on March eighteenth. Ponto,

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Speaker 2: We're at the Sharon amity Mere Theater.

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Speaker 1: It's always a stabbed by someone that got their car

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Speaker 1: and stabbed him.

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Speaker 2: And you're pregnant, pregnant. A bystander called nine P one

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Speaker 2: one after witnessing the attack, with officers responding to a

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Speaker 2: stabbing report. The pregnant woman sustained non life threatening injuries

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Speaker 2: and is expected to make a full recovery. According to

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Speaker 2: law enforcement, Butler Hardy had no connection to the victim

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Speaker 2: this time.

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Speaker 1: It appears that the victim and the suspect did not

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Speaker 1: know each other and had no prior interaction.

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Speaker 2: Officers alleged Butler approached the female victim outside the grocery

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Speaker 2: store at approximately eleven thirty am. The thirty eight year

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Speaker 2: old mother says she was getting her toddler out of

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Speaker 2: their car seat when Butler Hardy, who pulled out of

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Speaker 2: the space behind her, stopped her car, got out, cursed,

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Speaker 2: and attacked her with a knife. Quote. I was facing

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Speaker 2: my toddler getting him out of his seat, and thankfully

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Speaker 2: turned around and she was coming at me with a

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Speaker 2: steak knife. I pushed and kicked and screamed, and thankfully

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Speaker 2: I think that scared her off. The victim suffered a

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Speaker 2: stab wound to her sternum, but she and her unborn

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Speaker 2: child are okay. Following the seemingly random attack, CMPD released

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Speaker 2: surveillance video of the suspect, later identified as Butler, and

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Speaker 2: a b on the lookout for her vehicle.

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Speaker 3: One of the windows is taped up and it's also

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Speaker 3: missing a hubcat.

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Speaker 2: On Monday, a Florida State Highway Patrol trooper spotted a

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Speaker 2: silver Hyundai matching cmpd's description traveling south on I ninety five.

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Speaker 2: The trooper pulled Butler Hardy over and she gave him

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Speaker 2: an ID card instead of a license. When asked why,

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Speaker 2: she reportedly said her license was suspended. The trooper checked

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Speaker 2: with another who confirmed Butler Hardy was the suspect in

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Speaker 2: the Cotswold stabbing. She was promptly arrested on charges of

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Speaker 2: assault with a deadly weapon and battery on an unborn child.

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Speaker 2: She's now behind bars at the Flagler County Jail awaiting

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Speaker 2: extradition to Mecklenburg County. Records show Butler Hardy has a

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Speaker 2: lengthy rap sheet of nine prior convictions, six felonies and

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Speaker 2: three misdemeanors tied to theft related offenses, along with more

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Speaker 2: recent convictions for firearm possession and misconduct in custody. Butler

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Speaker 2: Hardy last regained freedom in April of last year, and

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Speaker 2: completed probation requirements earlier this year. The victim telling WSOCTV

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Speaker 2: she is shocked Butler Hardy is free to roam the streets,

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Speaker 2: but grateful she is behind bars once again.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping this charge is enough to keep her behind bars,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Lean out of much shots do you

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Speaker 1: see of this woman? And you wouldn't think that she

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Speaker 1: was on the streets.

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Speaker 2: More crime and justice news After this in Chicago, Mayor

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Speaker 2: Brandon Johnson under fire for his comments that the city

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Speaker 2: must stop assaults on immigrants. The same day, college freshman

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Speaker 2: Sheridan Gorman was buried shot dead by Venezuelan national Jose

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Speaker 2: Medina Medina on March nineteenth. Johnson made his initial comment

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon at a windy City No King's rally to

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Speaker 2: MS Now, we have to.

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Speaker 4: End the assaults against immigrants. We have to get active.

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Speaker 4: We have to make sure that we're participating in our

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Speaker 4: democratic process. We've already seen elections shift around this country,

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Speaker 4: so things are happening. We have signed multiple executive orders

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Speaker 4: to force Ice out of the city of Chicago.

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Speaker 2: The statement drew heavy criticism, coming on the same day

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Speaker 2: New York parents Thomas and Jessica Gorman buried their youngest daughter. Sheridan,

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Speaker 2: a freshman at Loyola University, was just a four minute

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Speaker 2: walk from campus with friends hoping to catch a glimpse

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Speaker 2: of the northern lights over Lake, Michigan, when Medina appeared

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Speaker 2: from behind a lighthouse, his face hidden behind a ski mask,

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Speaker 2: and opened fire on the college students.

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Speaker 1: Miss Sheridan Gorman was kind of just the first in

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Speaker 1: the group and the person they ran into shot her,

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Speaker 1: so one shot and killed her just tragic. The other

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Speaker 1: students ran, the shooter fled.

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Speaker 2: Alder Woman Maria had An also facing scrutiny over her

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Speaker 2: implication the group should not have been out at such

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Speaker 2: a late hour.

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Speaker 1: A lot of young people come out here after dark.

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Speaker 1: Weather's milder. We'll see that more as the spring and

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Speaker 1: summer comes along. You know, they were kind of down

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Seems they stumbled onto someone.

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Speaker 2: Medina currently hospitalized receiving treatment for tuberculosis he was exposed

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Speaker 2: to in a migrant shelter when he arrived in the

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Speaker 2: US in twenty twenty three. According to his attorney, Medina

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Speaker 2: spent several months in Texas under border patrol detention before

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Speaker 2: he was bussed to Chicago as a result of their

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Speaker 2: sanctuary city policy, though the Texas Governor's office claims to

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Speaker 2: have no record of bussing Medina anywhere. Medina's attorney claims

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Speaker 2: he grew up in Venezuela and was forced to flee

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Speaker 2: to Columbia with his mother when the government threatened to

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Speaker 2: seize their home. In twenty eighteen. The attorney says Medina

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Speaker 2: was shot in the head during a robbery and sustained

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Speaker 2: severe damage to his frontal lobe, resulting in developmental delays,

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Speaker 2: including an inability to read or write. A prominent limp,

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Speaker 2: also an alleged result of the twenty eighteen robbery, helped

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Speaker 2: police track Medina on surveillance footage from the side of

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Speaker 2: the shooting all the way to his home, where he

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Speaker 2: was arrested just under forty eight hours after killing Sheridan.

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Speaker 2: Prior to the shooting, Medina had only been on law

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Speaker 2: enforcement's radar wont since his release in Chicago for shoplifting

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Speaker 2: from a Macy's. Medina released on bail for the misdemeanor offence. However,

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Speaker 2: he never returned to court, and there was an active

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Speaker 2: warrant for his arrest at the time of the shooting.

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Speaker 2: In a Tuesday press conference, when asked if Johnson would

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Speaker 2: like to apologize to the Gorman family, the mayor only

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Speaker 2: doubled down his original statement.

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Speaker 1: Would you like to take this opportunity to apologize to

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Speaker 1: the parents of Sheridan Gorman.

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Speaker 3: Here's what I'll do again. I will again acknowledge the

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Speaker 3: tragedy of the loss of life here. Burying a child

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Speaker 3: is something that no parent should have to do. The

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Speaker 3: tragedy that occurred is one that quite frankly, it challenges

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Speaker 3: us to do better to ensure that we are protecting people.

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Speaker 3: And you know, as far as the call for no

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Speaker 3: kens what I said and I still stand by this.

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Speaker 3: We do have to ensure that the immigrant community is

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Speaker 3: not being assaulted violating people's constitutional rights. That doesn't make

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Speaker 3: us safer.

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Speaker 2: The Gorman family releasing a statement condemning Johnson's stance in

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Speaker 2: what they characterize as a blame game quote. We are

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Speaker 2: not interested in political arguments or in watching responsibility shift

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Speaker 2: from one place to another. If there were failures, as

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Speaker 2: the governor himself has acknowledged, then everyone one of them

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Speaker 2: must be identified, examined and addressed directly. The location of

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Speaker 2: those failures matters less than the willingness to confront them. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: our daughter is not a policy debate. She is a

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Speaker 2: life that was taken and that demands accountability. Medina is

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Speaker 2: next expected in court on April fifteenth, though it's unclear

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Speaker 2: if he will be well enough to attend in person.

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