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

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Speaker 1: Sumner To Florida teens were indicted Friday in connection with

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Speaker 1: the death of Dana Katroy, a fourteen year old Pace

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Speaker 1: girl found murdered earlier this month. Gabriel william sixteen, and

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Speaker 1: Kamari Blevins, fourteen, are facing first degree premeditated murder charges

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Speaker 1: for the death of Danic Katroit, fourteen, who had been

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Speaker 1: shot multiple times.

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Speaker 2: Deputies in Pace responded to a dead body call off

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Speaker 2: of Kimberly Road. They developed two suspects, one a fourteen

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Speaker 2: year old boy and another one a sixteen year old boy.

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Speaker 2: The sixteen year old boy, Gabriel Williams, stole his mother's

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Speaker 2: handgun and shot Danica Troy. Kamari Blevins is the fourteen

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Speaker 2: year old. They're being held on first degree premeditated murder charges.

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Speaker 2: And here's where it even gets worse. It's bad enough

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Speaker 2: you kill a fourteen year old, you're fourteen, you're sixteen,

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Speaker 2: shoot her multiple times, then they set her on fire.

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Speaker 1: Santa Rosa Sheriff Bob Johnson says the defendants lured Danica

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Speaker 1: to a wooded area, shot her, doused her body with

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Speaker 1: gasoline and set her on fire.

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Speaker 3: We do know that she had a crush on the

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Speaker 3: sixteen year old boy, and we believe that's why she

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Speaker 3: went out into the woods with them. She had no

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Speaker 3: idea she was going to be murdered, obviously.

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Speaker 1: Danica's mother reported her missing after the team vanished with

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Speaker 1: her scooter, while she had been reported as a runaway

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Speaker 1: on December first. Her burned body was discovered in paced

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Speaker 1: the following day. A witness reportedly claims Levin said the

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Speaker 1: initial plan was to shoot Danica. Once that Gabriel continued

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Speaker 1: to shoot, they then burned Danica's body and left the area.

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Speaker 1: Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the killing,

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Speaker 1: unconvinced that the shooting stemmed from a fight over social media,

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Speaker 1: where Danica called one of the suspects a worthless gangbanger.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you call somebody a name in eighth grade,

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Speaker 3: how many of name calling fights end up with somebody

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Speaker 3: being shot and burned to death. It just doesn't add

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Speaker 3: up to me. There was something else going on, and

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Speaker 3: we don't know what that is. My detectives interviewed them

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Speaker 3: both and they stuck with the story of yeah, they

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Speaker 3: got called a name, so that's why they killed her.

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Speaker 1: An arraignment for both defendants is scheduled for January eighth.

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Speaker 1: A reserved police officer and his wife have been arrested

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Speaker 1: and charged with subjecting their biological and foster children to

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Speaker 1: cruel and unusual punishment. Matthew and Cassandra Boatwright, thirty four

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Speaker 1: and thirty two, have each been charged with six counts

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Speaker 1: of second degree child abuse, four counts of strangulation, and

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Speaker 1: two counts of domestic violence. Matthew Boatwright faces an additional

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Speaker 1: domestic violence charge, along with two counts of assault with

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Speaker 1: the weapon and one count of felony firearm. Boatwright was

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Speaker 1: immediately relieved of his duties by the Quincy Police Department,

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Speaker 1: where he served as a reserve officer. Cassandra Boatwright was

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Speaker 1: also put on leave from her job as a Quincy

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Speaker 1: school's bus driver. Seven children were involved, two of them

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Speaker 1: foster placements, one under Matthew boat Right's guard ship, and

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Speaker 1: the remaining four the couple's biological or step children. All

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Speaker 1: seven between the ages of seven and fifteen, have been

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Speaker 1: taken into state custody. According to a probable cause statement.

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Speaker 1: The children told investigators they were forced to drink dish

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Speaker 1: soap mixed with water. They were hit with a leather

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Speaker 1: belt and a board as punishment, and they were frequently

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Speaker 1: handcuffed behind their backs and forced to sit for long

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Speaker 1: stretches of time. Four of the children said both parents

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Speaker 1: choked them. Two of the foster children reported that Matthew

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Speaker 1: Boatwright lifted one of them by his neck and pinned

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Speaker 1: into a bathroom wall while pointing a gun at his head.

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Speaker 1: He also pointed the gun at several young foster children

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Speaker 1: during the same incident. Investigators found three unsecured and unregistered

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Speaker 1: guns at the Boatwright residents, along with a board, belt

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Speaker 1: and handcuffs. The couple was arraigned and ordered held on

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Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars bonds. If they do post bond,

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Speaker 1: they are not allowed contact with the children involved in

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Speaker 1: the abuse and cannot have unsupervised contact with any miners.

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Speaker 1: A man charged with shooting his grandfather dead two years

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Speaker 1: ago with the behest of his mother has pleaded guilty

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Speaker 1: to second degree murder and will testify against the mother.

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Speaker 1: Jacob campaign in twenty two entered his plea deal last

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Speaker 1: week an open murder charge along with conspiracy and firearm

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Speaker 1: charges were dismissed. Campaign and his mother, Margaret CampaignOn, left

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Speaker 1: home on December seventh in Minnesota, heading to the home

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Speaker 1: of Margaret Campaignon's father in law, eighty seven year old

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Speaker 1: Alvin campaign In. Margaret Campaignan's husband told police he had

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Speaker 1: no contact with her and his children after they left,

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Speaker 1: and that he was concerned they were heading to his

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Speaker 1: father's house in Wisconsin. He reported a text from his

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Speaker 1: father that they had arrived, but Alvin campaign didn't reply

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Speaker 1: any further. Authorities found Alvin dead from a gunshot wound

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Speaker 1: on December nineteenth, then traced Margaret campaign and her son

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Speaker 1: via license plate readers, arresting them at a gas station

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Speaker 1: in Iowa that same day. Margaret and Jake campaign And

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Speaker 1: claimed that the man they killed was not Alvin. A

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Speaker 1: search warrant says Jacob told investigators they believed his grandfather

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Speaker 1: was already dead when they arrived at the house to

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Speaker 1: seek shelter. Quote Jacob advised that the spirits told him

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Speaker 1: Grandpa opened the well up behind the house and the

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Speaker 1: spirits killed him. Margaret campaign And made similar statements, telling

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Speaker 1: investigators the man they found was able to get up

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Speaker 1: like a twenty year old and was not her father

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Speaker 1: in law. The search warrant noted that many of the

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Speaker 1: claims they made about Alvin were similar to the plot

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Speaker 1: of the horror movie The Visit. Houghton County Prosecuting Attorney

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Speaker 1: Dan Helmer says he ultimately agreed to the plea deal

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Speaker 1: with Jacob after learning Iowa police did not honor his

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Speaker 1: request for a lawyer during questioning. At his plea hearing,

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Speaker 1: Jacob campaign and admitted driving to his grandfather's house and

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Speaker 1: shooting him, then shooting him again at his mother's encouragement.

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Speaker 1: His sentencing has not been scheduled, and he will testify

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Speaker 1: against his mother when her trial begins next year. For

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