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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crimes Now. Brian Buyers

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Speaker 1: points a gun at employees in a Missouri sushi restaurant,

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Speaker 1: demanding money. While one person opens to register, the other

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Speaker 1: employees jump into action. One grabs the gun and fights,

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Speaker 1: while another throws places of food and a chair at

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Speaker 1: the armed robber. Crimealines John Limley. Nancy authorities arrest Buyers

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Speaker 1: and commend the employees for their bravery. Upon inspection, cops

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Speaker 1: discovered the gun Buyers was carrying did have the slide

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Speaker 1: from a glock style pistol, but the body was an

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Speaker 1: air soft gun, making the weapon incapable of firing shots.

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Speaker 1: Bryer sentenced to six and a half years in federal

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Speaker 1: penitentiary for armed robbery. An eighty two year old woman

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Speaker 1: passes away at an Iowa nursing home and a local

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Speaker 1: funeral home is called. When workers unzip the body bag,

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Speaker 1: the woman is still breathing. She is rushed to the spittal.

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Speaker 1: This incident comes only days after an Iowa memory care

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Speaker 1: facility was fined ten thousand dollars for a similar incident

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Speaker 1: in which a patient was declared dead, transported to a

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Speaker 1: funeral home, and then found breathing nancy. That woman, only

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Speaker 1: sixty six years old, was returned to care, but passed

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Speaker 1: away several days later. New York police investigating the Water's

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Speaker 1: Edge nursing home and workers could face charges for the

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Speaker 1: premature declaration of death. More criming justice needs after this

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Speaker 1: now with the latest criming justice breaking Knees crimealized John Lemley.

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Speaker 1: One person was killed and three more wounded in a

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Speaker 1: shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, adding

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Speaker 1: to the dozens of people already killed this year in

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Speaker 1: mass shootings across the United States. El Paso police said

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Speaker 1: hours after the gunfire that two people had been taken

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Speaker 1: into custody, though details of what led to the shoe

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Speaker 1: remained unclear. Authorities said that the Cilo Vista mall was

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Speaker 1: still considered a crime scene and that it would remain

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Speaker 1: locked down until authorities complete their investigation. The shooting happened

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Speaker 1: in a busy shopping area and across a large parking

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Speaker 1: lot from a walmart where twenty three people were killed

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Speaker 1: in a racist attack targeting Hispanic people in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: El Paso, with a largely Latino population of about seven

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand people, sits on the US border with Mexico,

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Speaker 1: where residents of both countries crossed frequently. Two Sheriff's deputies

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Speaker 1: who have been suspended for five days for their role

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Speaker 1: in the arrest of Tyree Nichols, failed to keep their

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Speaker 1: body cameras activated after they went to the location where

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Speaker 1: Nichols had been beaten by five Memphis police officers. Sidney

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Speaker 1: Sumner is with Crime Online. Shelby County Sheriff's Office deputies

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Watkins and John Tavious Bowers each violated multiple policy

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Speaker 1: after they reported to the location of nichols violent arrests.

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Speaker 1: On January seventh, Nichols had fled a traffic stop but

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Speaker 1: was caught near his home by Memphis Police Department officers

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Speaker 1: who punched him, kicked him, and hit him with a baton.

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Speaker 1: Video released by the city showed several law enforcement officers

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Speaker 1: standing around as Nicholls struggled with serious injuries while he

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Speaker 1: sat on the ground propped up against a police car.

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Speaker 1: Nichols was taken to a hospital in an ambulance that

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Speaker 1: left the location of the beating. Twenty seven minutes after

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Speaker 1: emergency medical technicians arrived. Nichols died at a hospital on

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Speaker 1: January tenth. Five Memphis police officers accused of beating Nichols

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Speaker 1: had been fired and charged with second degree murder. One

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Speaker 1: other Memphis officer has been fired but not charged criminally

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Speaker 1: for his role in the traffic stop that preceded the beating.

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Speaker 1: The University of Texas at Dallas has banned as student

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Speaker 1: from attending classes on campus while she serves house round

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Speaker 1: in Texas ahead of a trial in the Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: area stabbing that drew international attention. Authorities in Nevada have

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Speaker 1: said that twenty two year old Nika Nikuban attacked her

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Speaker 1: date in a hotel room last year and retaliation for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty death of an Iranian military leader killed

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Speaker 1: in a US drone strike. A university spokesman confirmed that

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Speaker 1: nikuben was admitted for the spring twenty twenty three semester

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Speaker 1: before university officials became aware that she was charged with

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Speaker 1: a crime and is under the jurisdiction of a Nevada court.

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says he will not allow his

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Speaker 1: state to execute any inmates while he is in office,

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Speaker 1: and called for the state's lawmakers to repeal the death

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Speaker 1: penalty crime onlines. Sidney Sumner Shapiro, who was innaurated last month,

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Speaker 1: said he will refuse to sign execution warrants and will

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Speaker 1: use his power as governor to grant reprieves to any

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Speaker 1: inmate whose execution is scheduled. In doing so, he is

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Speaker 1: exercising an authority used for eight years by his predecessor,

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Speaker 1: Governor Tom Wolfe, to effectively impose a moratorium on the

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Speaker 1: death penalty in a state where it is sparsely used.

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Speaker 1: Shapiro went further, asking lawmakers to repeal the death penalty,

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Speaker 1: calling it irreversible. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven states currently allow the death penalty. Missouri cops

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Speaker 1: answer recall at a convenience store and find someone used

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Speaker 1: a fuel pump handle to smash in a glass door.

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Speaker 1: The cops follow footprints in the snow to a nearby

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Speaker 1: home and find two juveniles with stolen tobacco products. They're

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Speaker 1: arrest there for BNA breaking and entering robbery and given

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Speaker 1: MIPS minors in possession as a cherry on top. For

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Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice needs, go to crime online

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Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace