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

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton in Tennessee. The Brentwood Police Department is

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Speaker 2: seeking to connect with potential victims and anyone who may

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Speaker 2: have information regarding allegations against Michael Tate, the former lead

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Speaker 2: singer of the Christian band Newsboys. On June four, the

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Speaker 2: Roys Report and Independent Christian News outlet published claims that

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Speaker 2: Tate has a history of grooming and sexually assaulting multiple people.

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Speaker 2: The report highlighted a concerning predatory pattern and noted instances

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Speaker 2: of substance and alcohol abuse that allegedly began as early

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Speaker 2: as two thousand and four. In response to the allegations,

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Speaker 2: Tate publicly acknowledged his struggles with cocaine and alcohol on

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Speaker 2: social media, admitting to inappropriate physical contact with men. He

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Speaker 2: expressed remorse for his past decisions, stating quote, I am

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Speaker 2: ashamed of some of my life's choices and actions and

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Speaker 2: make no excuses for them. I will simply call it

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Speaker 2: what God calls it. Sin. I do not blame anyone

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Speaker 2: or anything but myself. While I might dispute certain details

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Speaker 2: in the accusations against me, I do not dispute the

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Speaker 2: substance of them. The Brentwood Police Department has initiated a

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Speaker 2: preliminary investigation, but currently has no active cases related to

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Speaker 2: these allegations. They urge anyone with information or potential victims

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Speaker 2: of Tate to come forward. In January twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: Tate announced he was stepping down from his role as

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Speaker 2: the lead singer of Newsboys after a fifteen year tenure,

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Speaker 2: though he did not specify the reasons for his departure.

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Speaker 2: In his Instagram announcement, he described the decision as quote

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Speaker 2: a significant and heartfelt one, stating while this may come

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Speaker 2: as a surprise given I've been touring ever since college,

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Speaker 2: I've made what I believe is the right decision after

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Speaker 2: much prayer and fasting more crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: The teacher accused of fatally stabbing two hikers at Devil's

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Speaker 2: Den State Park in Arkansas last month entered a not

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Speaker 2: guilty plead to murder charges. On Thursday, Andrew James McGinn

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Speaker 2: appeared before a state judge at Washington County's jail for

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Speaker 2: a brief hearing. Circuit Judge Joanna Taylor set his next

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Speaker 2: court date for November fourteen, and he remains in custody

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Speaker 2: without bond. McGann faces two counts of capital murder in

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Speaker 2: connection with the July twenty six deaths a forty three

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Speaker 2: year old Clinton David Brink and forty one year old

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Speaker 2: Christine Amanda Brink. The couple was hiking with their two daughters,

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Speaker 2: ages seven to nine, who were unharmed physically during the incident.

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Speaker 2: Authorities have not disclosed a motive for the attack at

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Speaker 2: the twenty five hundred acre state park, located about one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty miles northwest of Little Rock. McGann was

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Speaker 2: arrested on July thirty at a barber shop in Springdale.

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Speaker 2: He had not yet begun his position with Springdale Public

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Speaker 2: Schools and had previously worked in Texas and Oklahoma as

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Speaker 2: a teacher. Officials noted that he did not have any

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Speaker 2: prior criminal history. State police reported that McGann confessed to

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Speaker 2: the stabbings shortly after his arrest, and DNA evidence linked

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Speaker 2: him to blood found at the crime scene. In Louisiana,

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Speaker 2: the Shreveport Police Department is asking for your help in

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Speaker 2: locating a missing man. Mason Boyette, nineteen, was last seen

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Speaker 2: near the fifty one hundred block of Monk house drive.

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Speaker 2: He was last seen wearing a dark shirt and dark

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Speaker 2: distressed jeans and Adida's shoes. The SPD says Boyette lives

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Speaker 2: with autism and may be confused or frightened. He may

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Speaker 2: not come if you try to speak to him, and

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Speaker 2: may not be able to verbally tell you that he

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Speaker 2: is lost. Anyone with information on his whereabouts please contact

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Speaker 2: the SPD at three one eight sixty three three seven

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Speaker 2: three zero zero.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see What

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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