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Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson. Amber Zek is dead at twenty years old.

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Speaker 1: Police in Minnesota say a co worker who said he

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Speaker 1: didn't like her walked over to her workstation and bashed

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Speaker 1: her with a sledgehammer at the manufacturing plant that employed them.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors say he planned to kill her for a long time.

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Speaker 1: The death of the young welders shocks the state and

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Speaker 1: sends a wave of grief and anger through women in

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Speaker 1: the trades across the country. A visitation in Hutchinson marks

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Speaker 1: the latest moment of mourning for Amber, whose life ended

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Speaker 1: inside advanced process technologies. In Cocado, A steady line of

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Speaker 1: people moved through Saint Anastasia Catholic Church. Family member Shannon

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Speaker 1: Visser spoke to our TV news partners at Fox nine Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: Great Now, we are just trying to bless Amber and

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Speaker 2: remember Amber in every part of her life that has

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Speaker 2: touched people and touched everybody in this community.

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Speaker 1: Loved ones describe her as joyful and ambitious. Investigators say

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Speaker 1: Ambe was busy at her station when coworker David Bruce

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Speaker 1: DeLong walked over with the sledge Deputies found her with

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Speaker 1: fatal head trauma and significant blood loss. The bloody hammer

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Speaker 1: lay nearby. Surveillance video showed DeLong leaving his workstation moments earlier.

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Speaker 1: He allegedly told a witness quote, I hit her with

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Speaker 1: your hammer. She is by your toolbox, she is gone.

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Speaker 1: DeLong faces a second degree murder charge. Wright County District

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Speaker 1: at Turning Brian Lutz is evaluating first degree premeditated murder,

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Speaker 1: which would require a grand jury. A judge has ordered

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Speaker 1: a competency evaluation. The company has paused production and says

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Speaker 1: it is cooperating with investigators. Hundreds of women in the

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Speaker 1: trades convened an emergency meeting of the National Association of

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Speaker 1: Women in Construction. Members shared stories of gender harassment, safety fears,

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Speaker 1: and the sense that Amber's murder represents something bigger.

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Speaker 3: Our heart breaks for her family, for her friends, for

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Speaker 3: all those who were touched by what happened to her.

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Speaker 3: This was not thing that such a young woman deserved ever. Ever.

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Speaker 1: Ever, That's Association president Rita Brown Workers Nationwide made a

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Speaker 1: showing by wearing blue in Amber's honor. Trade unions issued

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Speaker 1: statements calling for safer work sites, more accountability, and a

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Speaker 1: cultural reset around hostility. Toward women. Amber had completed a

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Speaker 1: ten month welding program in the spring of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: She was known for her precision and pride in her work.

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Speaker 1: Her obituary remembered her standard quote, if you are not

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Speaker 1: going to do it right, don't do it at all.

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Speaker 1: Friends and family said she loved the outdoors, took care

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Speaker 1: of people without being asked, and never hesitated to help

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Speaker 1: with a hard task. The response has poured into her

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Speaker 1: family's online fundraiser as well. The GoFundMe stands at one

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Speaker 1: hundred twelve, nine hundred and seventy six dollars toward a

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Speaker 1: one hundred twenty thousand dollars goal, with North America's Building

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Speaker 1: Trades Unions the top donor at five thousand dollars. Donors

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Speaker 1: left messages about their own experiences in mail dominated trades

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Speaker 1: and their heartbreak at Amber's death. One contributor writing quote,

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Speaker 1: as a woman working in a traditionally male job who

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Speaker 1: gets discriminated against constantly, I stand with Amber. Another donor

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Speaker 1: posting quote, we may not have known each other, but

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Speaker 1: we were sisters in the trades. More Crime and Justice news.

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Speaker 1: After this, you see that.

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Speaker 2: Red flat runaway.

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Speaker 1: Those are the words of a Georgia woman who ignored

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Speaker 1: her own warning and nearly died because of it. Recovering

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Speaker 1: into Cab County near Atlanta after her ex boyfriend shot

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Speaker 1: her ten times, kidnapped her, and drove her through multiple

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Speaker 1: counties while she pleaded for her life, Shamae Pitt, twenty three,

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Speaker 1: told WSB she met her ex Joshua Woodruff on November

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Speaker 1: two to talk, then watch the man explode into violence

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Speaker 1: inside her car, she spoke in an exclusive interview.

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Speaker 2: He steps back, he steps forward, and he starts shooting

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Speaker 2: me up. My ears are ringing, but I come into

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Speaker 2: a realization that he's shooting at me.

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Speaker 1: Pitt says. She sat bleeding from ten gunshot wounds as

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Speaker 1: Woodroff drove her from Snapfinger Road in unincorporated to Cab

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Speaker 1: County to Douglasville. She said she heard him making two calls.

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Speaker 2: Basically asked them what's to do with my body? I'm scared?

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Speaker 2: I asked them, Can I just can I Can I

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Speaker 2: just write a letter to my son?

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Speaker 1: Pitt says. Woodroff abandoned her at a hospital after hours

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Speaker 1: on the road. Paramedics moved her to another trauma center

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Speaker 1: while security detained. Woodruff Police charged him with aggravated assault

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Speaker 1: and false imprisonment. Pitt's mother, Sherry Tucker, wants the charge

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Speaker 1: is upgraded, including a charge for a modified assault rifle.

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Speaker 2: He needs to be chried for bringing over county lights.

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Speaker 2: He needs to be federally charge for having automatic which

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Speaker 2: was federal effect.

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Speaker 1: The attack has left Pitt with an overwhelming stack of

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Speaker 1: medical bills. A GoFundMe set up in her name has

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Speaker 1: raised only seven hundred and thirty dollars toward a twenty

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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars goal. On the campaign page, Tucker wrote, quote,

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, November second, he ambushed her in an act

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Speaker 1: of unthinkable violence. He shot my daughter ten times with

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Speaker 1: an AR rifle that had an internal switch and was

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Speaker 1: loaded with seven sixty two AAC blackout round ammunition. She

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Speaker 1: tried jumping out the car on the highway, but couldn't

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Speaker 1: due to all the broken bones, as he constantly threatened

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Speaker 1: to shoot her in the head. Through it all, my

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Speaker 1: baby begged for her life, and by the grace of God,

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Speaker 1: she survived. Sami is now fighting through surgeries and a

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Speaker 1: long recovery to take care of her four year old

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Speaker 1: autistic son, A traffic case in Florida ends with a

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Speaker 1: drunk driving arrest and an unplanned home visit by police

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Speaker 1: after officers find a door Dash driver passed out at

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Speaker 1: a traffic light. Cape Coral police say they found twenty

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Speaker 1: five year old Luis an hell Alania Astraea slumped over

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Speaker 1: the wheel of his Toyota Sedan at Skyline Boulevard in

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Speaker 1: Cape Coral Parkway. Body camera footage shows officers shouting for

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Speaker 1: him to put the car in park. They found an

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Speaker 1: open bier inside his vehicle. The breathalyzer recorded a point

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Speaker 1: one five blood alcohol content, nearly twice the legal limit.

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Speaker 1: He was charged with DUI and driving with a suspended license.

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Speaker 1: Spoke into the Lee County jail. Officers learn he was

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Speaker 1: on a door Dash run and concerned themselves with the

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Speaker 1: late delivery. Bodycam shows an officer confirming the address, shrugging,

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Speaker 1: and deciding to finish the job. The department reported that

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Speaker 1: quote the actions of the officer helped ensure the resident

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Speaker 1: received the meal safely and without unnecessary delay. Astraya appeared

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Speaker 1: confused on scene and spoke to officers in Spanish. Door

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Speaker 1: Dash later said the company had permanently removed estraya from

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Speaker 1: the platform. A spokesperson told ABC News the company has

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Speaker 1: quote zero tolerance for driving under the influence and thanked

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Speaker 1: officers quote for keeping the community safe and going above

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Speaker 1: and beyond to deliver this customer's dinner. For the latest

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly update on

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