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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson. The unimaginable happens again in the Atlanta suburbs.

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Speaker 3: A mass shooting unfolds an Appalachi High School in winder Georgia,

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Speaker 3: leaving four dead and nine injured. Here's what we know.

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Speaker 3: Earlier today, CNN reports the school received a phone call

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Speaker 3: warning of shootings at five schools, with Appalachi named it's

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Speaker 3: the first target. Hours later, the gunshots echoed through the hall.

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Speaker 3: So A fourteen year old boy is believed to be

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Speaker 3: the shooter. He's in custody ninety five point five. WSB

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Speaker 3: reports he is a student at the school. Witnesses described

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Speaker 3: chaos and terror. Hayden Bowen Jackson is a ninth grader

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Speaker 3: at the school. She talked to WSB radio.

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Speaker 4: They bust kicked the door and shot four times. He

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Speaker 4: just went out the room laughing, and.

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Speaker 3: Jackson says two of her friends were killed and she

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Speaker 3: saw four others get hurt. Quote. I prayed to God

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Speaker 3: that I was going to make it out alive, she says.

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Speaker 3: WSB reports. A mother at the school, Aaron Clarke, shared

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Speaker 3: text messages from her son Ethan quote. School shooting I'm scared.

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Speaker 3: I love you. She says she rushed to the school

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Speaker 3: and found her son safe but shaken. Barrow County Sheriff

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Speaker 3: Judge Smith says it's an evil thing.

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Speaker 5: This is going to take multiple days for us to

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Speaker 5: get answers as to what happened and why this happened.

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Speaker 3: Sheriff Smith confirmed four deaths and nine injuries at the school.

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Speaker 3: On Capitol Hill Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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Speaker 5: But before we began, I want to address the tragic

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Speaker 5: shooting that occurred this morning at a high school in

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Speaker 5: winder Georgia. We are still gathering information, but the FBI

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Speaker 5: and ATF are on the scene, working with state, local,

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Speaker 5: and federal partners. I'm devastated for the families who have

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Speaker 5: been affected by this terrible tragedy. The Justice Department stands

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Speaker 5: ready to provide any resources or support that the Windor

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Speaker 5: community needs in the days ahead.

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Speaker 3: President Biden, addressing the nation, says, quote, we cannot continue

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Speaker 3: to accept this as normal. He urged Congress to pass

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Speaker 3: what he called common sense gun safety legislation. Stay with

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Speaker 3: Prime Alert. We will have the latest on this breaking

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Speaker 3: story as it becomes available.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer goold A gruesome discovery in the heart of

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Speaker 1: Long Island. A decaying body was found in a suitcase

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Speaker 1: near an apartment building near Huntington Station. The grizzly find

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Speaker 1: was made around noon when police responded to reports of

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Speaker 1: suspicious activity in a wooded area off Nassau Road. A

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Speaker 1: passerby had complained of a foul odor emanating from a

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Speaker 1: black suitcase and flies swarming around it, prompting authorities to investigate.

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Speaker 1: This neighbor, who did not want to be identified, spoke

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Speaker 1: to ABC seven News the.

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Speaker 4: Smell wiz rancid potent, which is something I've never smelled before.

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Speaker 1: Upon arrival, officers made a horrifying discovery. The suitcase contained

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Speaker 1: the remains of a deceased person. The body was badly decomposed.

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Speaker 1: It's unclear how long the victim had been there. This

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Speaker 1: man spoke to News twelve Long Island.

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Speaker 4: This can happen anywhere anywhere.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what neighborhood you live in. The scene

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Speaker 1: was cordoned off as police investigators combed through the area

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Speaker 1: for clues. Forensic teams and canines were also deployed to

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Speaker 1: gather evidence, while residents watched in shock.

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Speaker 2: This, though, is not.

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Speaker 1: The first time Long Island has been rocked by such

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Speaker 1: a crime. Just months ago, dismembered human heads were found

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Speaker 1: in a separate incident in Amityville. That case involved two

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Speaker 1: victims and four suspects who were charged with various crimes

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Speaker 1: related to those murders. As for this case, who's the victim,

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Speaker 1: who put the body in the suitcase and why well

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Speaker 1: all remains a mystery for now. The cause of death

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Speaker 1: also has yet to be determined, and autopsy will be

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Speaker 1: conducted by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office. It could

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Speaker 1: take days, depending on the condition of the remains.

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Speaker 4: I'm Nicope Parton. In Pennsylvania, a grandmother is behind bars

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Speaker 4: after she brutally beat her three year old granddaughter and

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Speaker 4: then left her to die a slow, painful death alone.

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Speaker 4: Denise Johnson, fifty six, says that she quote beat her

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Speaker 4: butt for not listening en quote. According to w p

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Speaker 4: x I, Johnson has been charged with one count of

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Speaker 4: criminal homicide in the first degree, three counts of aggravated assault,

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Speaker 4: as well as endangering the welfare of a child, and

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Speaker 4: abuse of a corpse. Ayla lyric Ann Miller, just three

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Speaker 4: years old, was brutally beat by her grandmother with other

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Speaker 4: children in the home being witnessed to the account, Aila

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Speaker 4: was found dead in her bed, wearing her little pink

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Speaker 4: and blue skirt, in the apartment where her grandmother lives.

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Speaker 2: When I was little, we went to my grandmother's house,

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Speaker 2: and she was somebody that was there to help and nurture.

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Speaker 2: So when I think of a grandmother, that's what I

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Speaker 2: think of. I don't think of somebody it's gonna kill

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Speaker 2: a chow. I just can't imagine me doing anything like

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Speaker 2: that to my grandchildren, or anyone I know personally doing

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Speaker 2: anything like that to their grandchildren.

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Speaker 4: According to the arrest warrant, the left side of the

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Speaker 4: little girl's face showed significant bruising. She had a black

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Speaker 4: eye and bruises around her ear. The girl had severe

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Speaker 4: injuries to her left hip bone and the right side

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Speaker 4: of her body. She was covered in bruises from her

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Speaker 4: ear to her chest. The three year old was covered

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Speaker 4: in bruises on her forearm and elbow, and had cigarette

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Speaker 4: burns on her ankles and an infected wound on her foot.

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Speaker 4: It was her uncle who called nine to one one.

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Speaker 4: First responders arrived and found the child cold to touch

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Speaker 4: with blood on her bed. She was pronounced dead at

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Speaker 4: eleven forty six am. According to investigators, the girl had

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Speaker 4: been living with her grandmother for roughly a month. After

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Speaker 4: the little girl's body was moved from the home and

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Speaker 4: taken away, police in a text message to the missing grandmother. Eventually,

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Speaker 4: the woman was taken to the police department, where she

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Speaker 4: admitted what she had done, saying she was sorry. Her

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Speaker 4: sister also gave testimony to police, saying that she had

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Speaker 4: been told by the grandmother that she did indeed punch

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Speaker 4: the little girl in the face. At one point, the

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Speaker 4: little girl fell backward into a coffee table really hard,

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Speaker 4: according to both testimonies. The grandmother said she placed the

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Speaker 4: little girl in the bed, leaving her there to suffer

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Speaker 4: and die over the next few days. Other children in

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Speaker 4: the home who witnessed the abuse said little Aila had

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Speaker 4: been beaten and her nose began to bleed. One little

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Speaker 4: girl said she was told by the grandmother to get

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Speaker 4: the belt. When she returned it to the grandmother, The

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Speaker 4: belt was used to beat the three year old child.

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Speaker 4: The grandmother, Denise Johnson, is currently being held without bond

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