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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: A nine year old boy in Wisconsin is fatally shot

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Speaker 1: in the early hours of Monday, with his stepfather now

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Speaker 1: facing charges in connection to the incident, leaving the town

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Speaker 1: of Geneva in shock. Police responded to a home at

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Speaker 1: approximately two to twenty five am after receiving reports of

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Speaker 1: his shooting. Upon arrival, officers found Michael Mayer, nine, suffering

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Speaker 1: from gunshot wounds. Emergency responders attempted life saving measures and

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Speaker 1: transported him to a nearby hospital, but he was pronounced

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Speaker 1: dead there. Michael's stepfather, fifty two year old Stephen D.

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Speaker 1: Merkle Junior, was arrested at the scene. He's been charged

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Speaker 1: with first degree reckless homicide and is being held at

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Speaker 1: the Walworth County Jail in a two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars cash bond. During a court appearance on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Walworth County District Attorney Zeke Wiedenfeld addressed the severity of

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Speaker 1: the case. This is a serious charge and a serious incident.

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Speaker 1: It is a reckless homicide involving a young child. Com

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Speaker 1: Missions for telephone harassment salt battery does go back into

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Speaker 1: the nineties, but he does have an ongoing record. Authorities

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Speaker 1: have yet to confirm whether the shooting was intentional. The

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Speaker 1: investigation is being handled by the Town of Geneva Police

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Speaker 1: Department with the Walworth County Sheriff's office. Town of Geneva

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Speaker 1: Police Chief Anthony Mascelli, expressing the emotional toll of the

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Speaker 1: incident on his officers, quote, it's a hard scene for

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Speaker 1: any officer in a career in law enforcement. You never

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Speaker 1: want to see that. A GoFundMe campaign created to assist

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Speaker 1: Michael's family describes him as a quote bright, funny boy

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Speaker 1: who had two sisters. The fundraiser has received significant support,

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Speaker 1: raising thirteen thousand dollars to help cover funeral expenses and

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Speaker 1: support his grieving family. Merkele lists scheduled to return to

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Speaker 1: court later this week for the filing of formal charges.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this A shooting at

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Speaker 1: a high school in Tennessee leaves one student dead, another injured,

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Speaker 1: and the suspected shooter, who shot himself is dead as well.

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Speaker 1: Police say the incident unfolded late this morning at Antioch

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Speaker 1: High School in Nashville. Two students were shot in the

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Speaker 1: school cafeteria by another student. Following the shooting, the suspect

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Speaker 1: turned the gun on himself. Authorities were called to the

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Speaker 1: scene at eleven eleven am. The school went into lockdown

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Speaker 1: as officers secured the area and ensured there was no

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Speaker 1: further threat. Metro Nashville Public Schools confirmed that quote the

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Speaker 1: person responsible for the shooting is no longer a threat.

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Speaker 1: Students were gathered in the auditorium before being transported by

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Speaker 1: bus to a reunification site at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital

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Speaker 1: on Murcurysboro Pike. Parents have been instructed not to approach

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Speaker 1: the school directly, but to go to the designated site

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Speaker 1: for updates and reunification. A hotline has also been set

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Speaker 1: up for parents seeking information. Law enforcement agencies, including the

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are assisting the investigation.

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Speaker 1: Community leaders are expressing their sorrow and calling for action,

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Speaker 1: including Democratic Representative John Ray Clements of Nashville and says, quote,

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Speaker 1: we will continue to fight for common sense gun safety

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Speaker 1: solutions that protect our children and communities from gun violence.

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Speaker 1: Metro Nashville police and school district officials have not yet

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Speaker 1: released additional details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting.

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Speaker 1: Antioch High School serves about two thousand students. A college

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Speaker 1: freshman in Washington disappears without a trace after leaving her home,

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Speaker 1: sparking a mystery that remains unsolved thirteen years later. Marizella

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Speaker 1: May Perez, eighteen years old, was last seen March fifth

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Speaker 1: of twenty eleven in Seattle. She left her home in

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Speaker 1: the renar Beach neighborhood headed for the University of Washington,

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Speaker 1: where she was a freshman. She never arrived. Surveillance footage

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Speaker 1: showed her at a Safeway store in the university district

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Speaker 1: between two and three pm. She purchased orange juice, garbage bags, tylanol,

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Speaker 1: and over the counter sleeping pills. After leaving the store,

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Speaker 1: she vanished. The last activity on May's phone occurred at

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Speaker 1: two forty five pm. A text message was sent to

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Speaker 1: her phone at that time, but after that it was

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Speaker 1: turned off and has not been recovered. Note in her

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Speaker 1: family insists it was uncharacteristic of her to leave without contact.

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Speaker 1: Her parents, who live in New Jersey, were close to

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Speaker 1: her at the time. She was living with her aunt

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Speaker 1: and uncle in Seattle. May had recently gone through a

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Speaker 1: breakup and reportedly struggled with depression. A private investigator hired

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Speaker 1: by her family suggested she may have taken her own life,

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Speaker 1: but her parents disagreed, saying she appeared happy in the

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Speaker 1: days before her disappearance. May is described as five foot

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Speaker 1: five inches tall and weighing one hundred ten pounds. She

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Speaker 1: has brown hair with red highlights, green eyes, and a

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Speaker 1: tattoo on her left arm reading La hot i magaging mios,

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Speaker 1: which is all will be well in tagallog. She was

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Speaker 1: last seen wearing a dark hooded jacket, light colored hooded sweater, jeans,

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Speaker 1: and light brown lace up boots. She carried a denim

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Speaker 1: drawstring backpack with a rainbow butterfly design. Her disappearance case

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Speaker 1: remains open but unsolved. The Seattle Police Department continues to investigate.

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Speaker 1: Anyone with information is urged to call two six six

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Speaker 1: eight four fifty five eighty two and for the late

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson.