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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace breaking crime news now.

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Speaker 1: As Brianna Long, twenty one, and coworker closed up the Riemerton,

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Speaker 1: Georgia bar where they work, two patrons argue outside. It

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Speaker 1: turns into a fight. Gunfire erupts others lingering outside run

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Speaker 1: for cover, but the employees both are wounded. Despite his injuries,

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Speaker 1: Brianna's coworker calls nine to one one, telling dispatch Brianna

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Speaker 1: is losing a lot of blood. She's rushed to the

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Speaker 1: hospital but dies. The shooters are nowhere to be found.

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Speaker 1: Police have few leads.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Remerton police immediately calling the GBI for assistance in

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Speaker 2: the case. A twenty five thousand dollars reward for information

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Speaker 2: is offered. Ultimately, shellcasings from the scene lead agents to

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Speaker 2: guns tied to the five to two eight gang. The

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Speaker 2: gang is accused in several more murders, robberies, and assaults

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Speaker 2: in nearby Valdosta. More than a year later, interviews lead

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Speaker 2: authorities to two of seven charged in a forty four

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Speaker 2: count racketeering case against five to eight. Authorities believe Scion

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Speaker 2: Clayton and Kimone Green. We're looking for an another individual

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Speaker 2: involved in a gang dispute when they fired shots outside

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Speaker 2: the pier.

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Speaker 1: See On Clayton twenty three and Kimonne Green twenty three,

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Speaker 1: both already in custody for other cases, now charged with

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Speaker 1: malice murder in twenty one year old Brianna's death. Heather Larson,

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Speaker 1: the owner of Mama's Minerals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, notices

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Speaker 1: one of her largest and most valuable crystals is gone.

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Speaker 1: She checks surveillance cameras and pinpoints the moment a customer

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Speaker 1: steals the huge crystal just the night before. As she

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Speaker 1: reaches for the phone to call police, that these strolls

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Speaker 1: back into the shop crystal in hand. The man says

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Speaker 1: he's had nothing but bad luck since he took the

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Speaker 1: crystal and apologizes. She's now unsure whether she should have charges.

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Speaker 1: The crystal value at nearly four grand. More crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news after this Now with the latest crime and

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Speaker 1: justice breaking news. Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 3: John Linley in Illinois a shocking turn in the Highland

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Speaker 3: Park mass shooting case. Just as the trial was set

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Speaker 3: to begin. The man accused of killing seven people at

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Speaker 3: a Fourth of July parade in twenty twenty two has

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Speaker 3: abruptly pleaded guilty. Appearing in a Lake County court room,

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Speaker 3: Robert Cremode, the third withdrew his not guilty plea and

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Speaker 3: admitted to the attack that left dozens injured. He now

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Speaker 3: faces a mandatory life sentence. Prosecutors had been prepared for

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Speaker 3: trial with extensive evidence, including DNA and a videotaped confession.

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Speaker 3: Survivors and families bracing for a long legal battle, were

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Speaker 3: stunned by the sudden plea. Lake County State's Attorney Eric

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Speaker 3: Reinhardt called it a step toward justice, but acknowledged the

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Speaker 3: community's pain. Security was tight at the courthouse. Sentencing is

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Speaker 3: set for April twenty third, when victims and families will

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Speaker 3: have their say. Meanwhile, civil lawsuits continue against the gunmaker

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Speaker 3: and officials accused of negligence. The attack, which unfolded as

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Speaker 3: crowds enjoyed a parade aid in the affluent suburb thirty

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Speaker 3: miles north of Chicago, left behind a community forever changed

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Speaker 3: to Georgia Now and a new federal lawsuit alleging that

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Speaker 3: Atlanta police have unlawfully targeted opponents of the city's controversial

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Speaker 3: public safety training center known as cop City. Crime Online

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Speaker 3: correspondent Sidney Sumner Reports.

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Speaker 2: The lawsuit, filed by activist Jamie Marcicano, accuses Atlanta police

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Speaker 2: of systematically targeting critics of the training center, using false

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Speaker 2: arrests to suppress opposition. Marcicano, one of the dozens facing

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Speaker 2: domestic terrorism and racketeering charges, was arrested near a twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three music festival after a group attacked the construction site.

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Speaker 2: Authority cited muddy clothing and a shield as evidence, claims

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Speaker 2: Marcicano's attorneys call baseless. The lawsuit also highlights multiple cases

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Speaker 2: where police allegedly arrested individuals linked to the Stop Cop

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Speaker 2: City movement without costs. City officials defend the one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifteen million dollar facility, saying it will improve training

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Speaker 2: and replace out infrastructure. Neither Atlanta police nor city representatives

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Speaker 2: have commented on the lawsuit.

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Speaker 3: As legal battles over the training center intensify, questions remain

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Speaker 3: about free speech and law enforcement tactics.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Bethany Brown, thirty nine, celebrates her daughter's six

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Speaker 1: birthday at grandma Brenda Barnes home Taylorville, North Georgia. After

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Speaker 1: the party, Brown with her children and boyfriend Tony Swainey,

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Speaker 1: head home. Hours later, Bethany calls Brenda, upset about an

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Speaker 1: argument with the boyfriend. Next morning, Swainey finds Bethany gone,

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Speaker 1: not answering, calls her current purse, still home, phone missing, pinging,

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Speaker 1: unsuccessful boyfriend. Swainey cooperating with investigators and Pasta Paully. Alexander

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Speaker 1: County Sheriff searched multiple places suggested by family. No signs

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Speaker 1: of Bethany. Bethany five five, one hundred and thirty five pounds,

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Speaker 1: brown hair, blue eyes, butterfly tattoo left hip. If you

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Speaker 1: have info on Bethany Brown, please please call Alexander County,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina Sheriffs eight two eight six three two one

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Speaker 1: one one one. For the latest crime in justice news,

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Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.

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Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.