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Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm as he grace breaking crime needs now.

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Speaker 2: A violence stabbing incident occurred at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan,

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Speaker 2: leaving multiple people injured. According to a statement from the

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Speaker 2: Grand Traverse Sheriff's office, at least eleven people have been

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Speaker 2: sent to the hospital following the attack that took place

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Speaker 2: on Saturday, July twenty six. Authorities have apprehended a suspect.

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Speaker 2: He has been identified as forty two year old Bradford

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Speaker 2: James Gill. According to the county Sheriff Michael Shay, Gill

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Speaker 2: has a prior record of assault incidents and controlled substance violations.

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Speaker 2: Shay said Sunday at a news conference that law enforcement

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Speaker 2: reported that a deputy was on the scene within minutes

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Speaker 2: of the incident. The GTSO indicated that the suspect use

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Speaker 2: a folding knife to carry out the attacks and is

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Speaker 2: believed that he acted alone. Sheriff Michael Shay addressed the

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Speaker 2: media saying there is no information suggesting the involvement of

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Speaker 2: any additional suspects. It seems this was a random, complete

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Speaker 2: act of violence. Let's listen.

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Speaker 1: In four to forty.

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Speaker 3: Three pm, Central Dispatch began receiving calls stating that there

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Speaker 3: was a man with a knife inside the Walmart store

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Speaker 3: in Garfield Township, Grand Trevors County, Michigan, actively stabbing people.

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Speaker 3: A Grand Trevors County Sheriff's deputy was near the location

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Speaker 3: and arrived at four forty six pm. At the time

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Speaker 3: of the deputy's arrival, multiple citizens, including one who was

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Speaker 3: armed with a pistol, were confronting the male suspect in

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Speaker 3: the parking lot and preventing him from harming further people

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Speaker 3: and leaving. The deputy took the suspect into custody without

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Speaker 3: further incident. During the incident, eleven individuals were injured by

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Speaker 3: the suspect. The weapon used was a folding knife with

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Speaker 3: a three and a half inch cutting blade.

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Speaker 2: All victims are currently receiving treatment at the Munson Medical Center.

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Speaker 2: By standards, the Walmart played a role in both the

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Speaker 2: apprehension of the suspect and the care of the injured.

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Speaker 2: According to a Facebook update from months in healthcare, five

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Speaker 2: victims are in serious condition, six remain in critical condition.

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Speaker 2: Sheriff Shay reported that among the victims, six are male,

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Speaker 2: five r female. A spokesperson for Walmart expressed their dismay,

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Speaker 2: saying violence like this is unacceptable. Our thoughts are with

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Speaker 2: those who are injured. We are grateful for the rapid

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Speaker 2: response of first responders. We will continue to cooperate and

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Speaker 2: work closely with law enforcement during this investigation. Bystanders who

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Speaker 2: are in the store shopping say the man rushed in

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Speaker 2: and begin stabbing anyone he came close to. The Gtso

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Speaker 2: conveyed their condolences, saying our thoughts and prayers are with

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Speaker 2: the victims and the families. The investigation is ongoing. The

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Speaker 2: suspect is currently behind bars.

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Speaker 4: Nicole, thank you.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after.

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Speaker 2: This, four family members in Florida have been taken into

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Speaker 2: custody and faced charges related to alleged child abuse involving

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Speaker 2: several adopted and foster children under their care. Brian Griffith

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Speaker 2: forty seven, Jill Griffith forty one, dally In twenty one,

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Speaker 2: and Liberty Griffith nineteen were charged with aggravated child abuse

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Speaker 2: after reports surfaced of mistreatment towards nine children between the

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Speaker 2: ages of seven and sixteen living in their Fort White home.

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Speaker 2: According to a statement from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office,

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Speaker 2: the investigation began when deputies were called to assist the

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Speaker 2: Florida Department of Children and Family with a court ordered

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Speaker 2: removal of the nine children from the Griffith's home. This

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Speaker 2: order was prompted by concerns raised by a mandatory reporter

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Speaker 2: from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints

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Speaker 2: in Branford, Florida. They reported a potential abuse occurring in

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Speaker 2: the home. Involved in the investigation included five biological children

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Speaker 2: and four who were adopted. Alarm was raised when church

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Speaker 2: members noted that one of the Griffith's children possessed a

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Speaker 2: quote functioning electronic stun gun shortly before the allegation surfaced,

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Speaker 2: leading to worries about possible unequal treatment between the biological

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Speaker 2: and adopted children. During police interviews, the children reported being

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Speaker 2: confined under the bunk bed, where they were secured with

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Speaker 2: screws in the plywood. They were subjected to vinegar spraying

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Speaker 2: as punishment, beaten with a cane, and made to lie

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Speaker 2: on the floor with the plywood pressing down on them,

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Speaker 2: they said. Additionally, the children claimed they were not sent

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Speaker 2: to school, lacked basic literacy education, and were given medication

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Speaker 2: without prescriptions. And arrest weren't revealed that Brian and Jill

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Speaker 2: adopted their children in Arizona before moving to Fort White,

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Speaker 2: and they maintained that the stun gun was merely a

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Speaker 2: quote fake toy, despite evidence proving it was a real weapon.

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Speaker 2: The arrest warrant also noted that church employees informed child

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Speaker 2: welfare officials that the Griffiths typically adopted or fostered African

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Speaker 2: American children and expressed concerns regarding the treatment of those children. Particularly,

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Speaker 2: it was reported that the foster or adopted children did

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Speaker 2: not know their last names or personal basic details. The

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Speaker 2: CCSO indicated that a tenth foster child lived in the home,

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Speaker 2: but was not present during the investigation. That child was

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Speaker 2: later found and police say he is safe with biological

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Speaker 2: parents in Arizona. Additionally, an unnamed foster child mentioned in

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Speaker 2: the arrest warrant has accused Dillion, the older Griffith's son,

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Speaker 2: of sexual assault. Brian, Jill, Dillion, and Liberty have been

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Speaker 2: taken to the Columbia County Detention Facility, where they are

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Speaker 2: each being held on a bond of five hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Jason huff, an Army vet works as a Department of

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Speaker 1: Corrections officer Cameron, Missouri, November twelve. He drives about half

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Speaker 1: an hour to Saint Joseph to run errands. He's seen

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Speaker 1: shopping at several stores, behaving normally. He never comes home.

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Speaker 1: He's last seeing filling up his tank at a Trek's

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Speaker 1: mart about twenty minutes south of Saint Joe. The next day,

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Speaker 1: his twenty fourteen VW found abandon on a rural road Plattsburgh,

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Speaker 1: twenty five miles east of the gas station. It's a

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Speaker 1: possible route home to Cameron. His brother, sister's adult daughter

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Speaker 1: worried sick, saying the grandfather would never leave without telling

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Speaker 1: his family. Jason Huff now missing three years. If you

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Speaker 1: have info on Jason Huff, called Cameron PD eight one

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Speaker 1: six sixty three two sixty five twenty one.

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Speaker 4: especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides. With this primary imancy,

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Speaker 4: Grace

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Speaker 3: Yeah