1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now Mama, he 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: shot me on purpose, A startling claim from a nine 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: year old Trey Michael ledwise and a ten year old 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: friend playing when shots ring out. Family says Trey Michael 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: lost his right kidney, half his left lung, and his 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: intestines were shattered by the bullet. The unnamed ten year 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: old friend arrested for ag battery and Gevian possession of 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,959 Speaker 1: a gun. Jennifer Gould has the details, Nancy. 9 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: A routine playdate in Alexandria, Louisiana exploded into a scene 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: of unthinkable violence when that ten year old boy allegedly 11 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: pointed a handgun at his nine year old friend and 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: pulled the trigger, leaving the child with life altering internal carnage. 13 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: The shooting on Chester Street was initially written off by 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: authorities as a tragic mishap between two children handling a five. However, 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 2: the narrative took a sharp, sinister turn when the victim, 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 2: Tray Michael, had his breathing tube removed. In his first 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: moments of consciousness, the boy gasped out a bombshell accusation 18 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: to his mom, Lakeisha Lgurgis. She spoke to ka LB 19 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 2: News five when the two first came out his mouth 20 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: and he was able to talk. The first word was mama, mama. 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: He shot me on pravase. The sheer force of the 22 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 2: bullet shattered Trey Michaels intestines, forcing surgeons to perform a 23 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: brutal triage that included removing his right kidney and half 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 2: of his lung. As of late January, the resilient survivor 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: is back home, but his body remains a road map 26 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 2: of the trauma he endured. Ligurgis, who rushed to the 27 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: hospital in a blind panic, has now since become a 28 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: vocal advocate for gun safety, begging parents to take the 29 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: guns away before another kid is mangled by unsecured weapons. 30 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: The ten year old suspect, whose name is shielded by 31 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: juvenile law, was hauled off to the Renaissance Home for 32 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: Youth after detectives determined the shooting was a calculated active battery. 33 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 2: He faces charges of aggravated second degree battery and juvenile 34 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 2: possession of a handgun. While the boy sits in detention, 35 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: though a major question remains how did a ten year 36 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: old gain access to a loaded weapon. Rumors within the 37 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: community suggest the gun belong to a family member of 38 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: the suspect, but no adults have yet been charged for 39 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: the negligence that allowed this playdate to turn into a 40 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: firing squad. The investigation continues. For the latest crime and 41 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 2: Justice news, follow Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your 42 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: favorite podcast app. You can also watch crime stories on 43 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: Fox one and YouTube, and of course, follow the Crime 44 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 2: Alert hourly update wherever you listen to podcasts. 45 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer. More Crime and Justice news after this. 46 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 2: A cold blooded teenage gunman who turned a quiet North 47 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: Carolina neighborhood into a suburban slaughterhouse has finally surrendered his 48 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 2: fight in court. Austin Thompson, the now eighteen year old 49 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: accused of a twenty twenty two shooting spree that left 50 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: five people dead and a community shattered, followed a bombshell 51 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 2: notice of a plea flip that he is guilty of 52 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: all charges. Robert Steele's fiance was among those killed. He 53 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 2: spoke to WRL. 54 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 3: News that young man took the best person I had 55 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 3: ever met away from me. I don't care why, but 56 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 3: I want to look him in the face when he 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 3: faces justice. 58 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: The move bypasses a February trial and sends the case 59 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: straight to a sentencing phase where Thompson faces life behind 60 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 2: bars for the carnage he unleashed in Raleigh, North Carolina. 61 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 2: The massacre began on October thirteenth, twenty twenty two, when 62 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 2: a then fifteen year old Thompson donned camouflage and allegedly 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: executed his own sixteen year old brother, James Thompson, inside 64 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: their Sehe Lee Way home, armed with a shotgun and handgun. 65 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 2: He then stocked the Hendingham neighborhood and Noose River Greenway, 66 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 2: picking off victims who never saw him coming. The fall 67 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 2: and include off duty Raleigh police officer Gabriel Torres twenty nine, 68 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 2: who was shot in his car, Mary Marshall thirty four, 69 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 2: killed while walking her, Nicole Connor's fifty two gunned down 70 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: on her porch, and Susan Karnat's forty nine, who is 71 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 2: murdered while out for a jog. Thompson was eventually cornered 72 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: in a barn after a five hours standoff, suffering from 73 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: a self inflicted gunshot wounded the head that left him 74 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 2: with permanent severe brain injury. In a three page court filing, 75 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,239 Speaker 2: Thompson's attorneys admitted that while the teen's brain damage leaves 76 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: him quote unable to explain his homicidal motives end quote, 77 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 2: he accepts full responsibility for the quote unquote deep pain 78 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 2: he caused. Thompson faces five counts of murder and multiple 79 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: counts of attempted murder for the wounding of Marcillan Gardner 80 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 2: and Officer Casey Clark. Because he was a juvenile at 81 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 2: the time of the killings, he is ineligible for the 82 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 2: death penalty under state law, but is staring down the 83 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 2: barrel of life without par role. The teen's father, Alan Thompson, 84 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: has already pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for the negligent 85 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 2: storage of the firearms used in the bloodbath. His motive 86 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: remains unknown and finally talk about a parenting master class 87 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 2: in doing the right thing In Love Joy Georgia Laqwan Stephens, 88 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: sixteen found out that blood isn't thicker than the law. 89 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: In the ultimate reality check, the teen's dad made the 90 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 2: heartbreaking choice to turn him in after a two day manhunt, 91 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 2: an amazing parental pivot to school his son. Dad's house 92 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 2: is not a safe house for suspects. Stevens is accused 93 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 2: of blasting another kid in the face and neck through 94 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 2: a car window, plus a second separate shooting spree. While 95 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 2: the teen tried to play hide and seek with the GBI, 96 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: his father decided to play by the rules, which meant 97 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: calling the precinct Instead of enabling a fugitive, This dad 98 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 2: chose justice over a jailhouse, proving that sometimes the most 99 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: inspiring act of love is tough love. Nancy. 100 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: For the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot 101 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: com and please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, 102 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: where we do our best define missing people, especially children, 103 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm 104 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.