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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A loving father in the

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Speaker 1: prime of his life, shot in the face over a hamburger,

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Speaker 1: a three dollar hamburger. You know, every morning when I

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Speaker 1: they am. I peak at them. I look in just

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Speaker 1: the best thing that ever happened to me. The thought

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Speaker 1: of them being raised, of growing up, whether their mother

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Speaker 1: or their father, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. A

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Speaker 1: father of a little boy just three shot in the

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Speaker 1: And with that I mean, see Grace, this is Crime Stories.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation

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Speaker 1: and series XM one eleven. Take a listen to our

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Speaker 1: friend Brett Lemoyne at Fox six. Dispatch recordings indicate the

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Speaker 1: female suspect was wearing a camouflage pattern jacket and pants,

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Speaker 1: carrying a silver handgun. Four female unknown ones got into

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Speaker 1: a silver Hannah accord. This wouldness said Noel unknown direction travel.

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Speaker 1: Police have not released any information about the suspect or

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Speaker 1: suspects In a statement to Fox six, A, George Webb's

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Speaker 1: spokesman shares one of our employees was shot while working

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Speaker 1: at our Wahwatosa store. The employee was immediately rushed to

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Speaker 1: the hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with the employee

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Speaker 1: impacted by this incident. That employee we're hearing about is

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Dad Anthony Rodriguez shot in the face after two

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Speaker 1: female customers you just happen to have a gun with

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Speaker 1: them and wearing camouflage, are angry over their three dollar hamburger. Really,

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Speaker 1: how about saying I'm missing my hamburger? Would that work? Oh?

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Speaker 1: H doublel No, this had to be settled in their

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Speaker 1: his mouth, entering his head, with me an all star

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Speaker 1: panel to make sense of what we know right now.

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Speaker 1: But take a listen to our cut seventeen WISN twelve.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember just lake on the ground and just

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Speaker 1: This twenty six year old George web Server says he

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Speaker 1: die here midnight, January thirtieth, Anthony Rodriguez says he was

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Speaker 1: his teeth, but he is alive with me, Anthony Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: Mister Rodriguez, I was so happy when I found out

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Speaker 1: you for that. What happened, mister Rodriguez, Well it happened

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Speaker 1: So you go in that night about nine thirty, you

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Speaker 1: What happened to the other employee. I can't remember what

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Speaker 1: with the force his tongue goes through the neck down

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Speaker 1: and to the spine. In the picture it looks like

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Speaker 1: it's actually from what I have touching the spine, and

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00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: if it had touched the spine, if it had gone

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Speaker 1: through the spine, he would either be dead or a

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Speaker 1: quadriplegic living on a ventilator the rest of his life.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you said? That's correct? Back to Anthony Rodriguez,

433
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: who is a living, walking, breathing miracle. Anthony, one of

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00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: the women leave and come back in with a weapon.

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00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: When did you realize she came in with a weapon. UM,

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00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: I actually never solved the weapon, to be quite honest,

437
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: I realized that I must have realized that after I

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00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: got shot and sent to the hospital and sitched up,

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00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: and a day or two later I woke up, and

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00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: that's when they were able to kind of give me

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00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: the details of what happened. What do you remember? I

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00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: just remember the the altercation and just trying to de

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00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: escalate the situation and that not working. What were you

444
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: telling them to calm them down? I can't really remember

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00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: offhand what I was telling them, but I was just

446
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: telling them that it's okay, like you just leave, It's fine,

447
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: like skull, it's you know. But they eight they had

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00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: our things in mind. I guess they wanted their voices

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00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: to be heard. Take a listen to our cut nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Nick Moore wis in these twelve early January thirtieth. According

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Speaker 1: to a criminal complaint, four young women at a corner

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Speaker 1: booth at the Wabbatosta George Webbs got quote impatient and

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Speaker 1: rude and were told to leave. Instead, police say twenty

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Speaker 1: year old twin sisters Brianna and Brianta Johnson argued with

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Speaker 1: staff and started to get physical. A source tells us

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00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: the women were upset about the speed of their order,

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Speaker 1: and when it did come, it was missing a hamburger,

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Speaker 1: a less than three dollar item at West. According to

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Speaker 1: the criminal complaint, Brianta, in the midst of the argument,

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00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: came outside here to their car and returned with a

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00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: gun and moore from Tony Atkins t m J four.

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00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: Anthony Roddy Riguez says it could have all ended here

463
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: at this George Webb. When he asked for women to

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Speaker 1: leave the restaurant, that's when he was attacked by one

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Speaker 1: of the women and shot by her sister. According to

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Speaker 1: a criminal complaint, I feel lucky, man. It's incredible just

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00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: where I'm at and just being able to walk and speak.

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00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: If you listen closely, you can hear the raspiness of

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00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: Anthony Rodriguez's voice is because a bullet is permanently lodged

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00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: near his throat. The bullet went through my upper lip

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00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: right here, and then it knocked out the right side

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00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: of the right side of my teeth. The cause of

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00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: that bullet, he says, I can definitely tell you that

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00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: it started because they were missing a burger from their order,

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00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: and everything just kind of escalated from there missing a

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00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: burger from their order. How I would love to prosecute

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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: this case, and it would be over my cold dead

478
00:31:53,080 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: body that they got anything less than thirty cold dead body.

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00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: Anthony Rodriguez amazingly is with us right now. Anthony, what's

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00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: the last thing you can remember from that night with

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00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: the Once I got to the hospital, I remember just

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00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: staring up at the at the I remember getting put

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00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: to the ground. I remember hearing a bang, and I

484
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: just remember staring up at the ceiling, not being able

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00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: to really move, and I have another coughing up blood

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00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: and coughing up teeth, just trying to control my breathing

487
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: as best I can, but just talk, telling myself like

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00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to die here. This isn't the way that

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00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: I wanted to go. It's it was the longest you know,

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00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: do you think that it's It probably wasn't a long

491
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: time for MSS and for everyone to do the thing,

492
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: but it has to be the longest couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: that I have experienced in my life. I was just

494
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: trying to take you in what you just told us.

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00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: You can remember coughing up blood and teeth and thinking

496
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: you were going to die? Is that right? Best man?

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00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: Did it hurt? Could you feel pain? Fortunately for me,

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00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: I don't really remember feeling the pain. I just remember

499
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: the inability to move. I remember trying to first like

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Speaker 1: get up and brush it off like it was normal,

501
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: and then I'll be back down to the ground right away,

502
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: and just not really being able to move after that,

503
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: and struggling to do what I can to maintain my

504
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: breathing and just maintain what real body of littlements I could.

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00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, it's admitted live as possible. What

506
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: were you thinking about? What went through your mind? My

507
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: sons says, hoping that he is okay, sound asleep. So

508
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: in the middle of all that, you're lying there, blood

509
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: coming out of your mouth, spinning out, teeth, can't move,

510
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: and you think about your son, your three year old son, Yes, ma'am.

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00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: Unfortunately I felt like a long time. So once I

512
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: was able to keep my breathing at a steady steady,

513
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: thinks that's that's all you can do. Is they think

514
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: about what's good your life? What do you mean you

515
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: try to I guess the strategy was to think of

516
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: as much positive things as possible and hope that you

517
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna get doing. You know, doctor Kendall Crowns. I've

518
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: asked you this many many times. Could the victim feel anything?

519
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: And you usually tell me, nah, I didn't feel anything.

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00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: That's total BS. You hear what Rody gets just said, right, Well,

521
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: I did hear what he said, and I agree that

522
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: some victims don't feel it because they are dead instantly,

523
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: and some victims that survive will feel pain. I mean,

524
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: anybody that survives gonna feel pain from it. Anthony Rodriguez,

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00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: You've got to know a midst of all of this,

526
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: how lucky you are, how an angel was on your

527
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: shoulder that night. Take a listen to our cut one.

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00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: This is Karen Dillon CBS two. Does the name Crystal

529
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: Nievs ring about? As the rain trickled down, the family

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00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: of nineteen year old Crystal by Ronnievez gathered outside the

531
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: Burger King East Charlem where she was killed, to lay

532
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: flowers in her honor and to pray for justice. Police

533
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: have released these images of the robbery that took place

534
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: just before one Sunday morning at the Burger King on

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00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: East one hundred and sixteenth Street near Lexington Avenue. That's

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00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: where beron Nievez was working as a cashier when an

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00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: unknown male masked and dressed in all black entered the

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00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,479
Speaker 1: restaurant and demanded money. Police say beron Nievez was shot

539
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: in the torso as the robbery progressed. Police say two

540
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: other people were injured during the course of this robbery.

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00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: A female manager at the restaurant was punched in the

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00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: face and a middle customer was likely pistol whipped. Both

543
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: are expected to recover. Family members tell us byron Nievez

544
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: and her family had just moved to New York from

545
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico a few years ago. The teenager had only

546
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 1: been working at Burger King for the past few months.

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00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: The family is now pleading with person responsible to turn

548
00:36:44,560 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: themselves in. Bunch Stories tell me joining us from WIS

549
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: and she's been on the case from the very beginning. Hillary,

550
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: what did the surveillance video reveal? So it pretty much

551
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: matched up with Anthony's story minus a few details. So

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00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: what it shows is after the you know, at the

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00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: table with the food incident, so they start kind of

554
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: making their way towards the register at one point, Brianta Johnson,

555
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: So these are two the suspects are two twenty year

556
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: old twin sisters. So Brianta Johnson is wearing a blue hoodie.

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00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: The video shows her go outside and returns with a gun.

558
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: And at some point when they're at the register and

559
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: there's this confrontation, it says that let's see one of

560
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: the soy somebody takes a punch at Anthony and then

561
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: and Brianta takes out the gun and hands it to

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00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: her sister, Brianna, and she it shows let's see that

563
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: she attempts to pistol whip Anthony and he's lying on

564
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: the ground and she extends her hand, aims and shoots

565
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: him in the face. And then the sister the video

566
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 1: shows stumps Anthony in the face and then all four takeoffs.

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00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, I believe I'm going to circle back now

568
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 1: to your discussion of anger, how they were angry. I'm

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00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: angry right now. I'm angry right now, but I can

570
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: tell you this much. I'm not gonna shoot anybody, even

571
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: though I want to, because I don't want to be

572
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: separated from the twins and my husband. Bam. It's called

573
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: impulse control. Anger is not a defense under the law.

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00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: They hit him in the face, they stop on him,

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00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: they specifically get out the gun, handed off, aim for

576
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: his face, and pull the trigger. That is intent. Oh, absolutely,

577
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: And I think that video is simply going to corroborate

578
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: what Anthony has described, that the sequence of events as

579
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: it unfolded proves nothing other than intent. And this is

580
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: one of those things I know, I know some people

581
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: have used the term argument. Doesn't sound like an argument.

582
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: This sounds like unprovoked anger spiraling out of control. When

583
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: here we have Anthony taking advantage of an opportunity to

584
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: make more money for a young family at home, literally

585
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: on the precipice of wondering whether he's ever going to

586
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: see his precious son again. Talk about not recognizing how

587
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: dangerous a job working the nightships can be at a restaurant,

588
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: And I'm just so blunt, We're so blessed, Anthony that

589
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: you're with us to be describing this. Hilary Matts. Where

590
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: are these two Brianta Johnson and Brianna Johnson. So they

591
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: are both in the Milwaukee County jail being held on

592
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars cash bail. They are both charged

593
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: with attempted first degree intentional homicide. They better not get

594
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: a bond. A lowered bond or a cheap plea deal. Anthony,

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00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: I am looking at a picture of you and you're

596
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: holding your son. You've got a beautiful smile. I mean

597
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: it looks like you wore braces. That looks like a

598
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: mouthful of orthodontia to me, I'm currently paying for two cents. First,

599
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: what perfect, Keith. You've never hear war braces in my life.

600
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: How are you going to get teeth back? And what

601
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 1: can they do about your tongue? And are you supposed

602
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: to go the rest of your life with bullet fragments

603
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: in your body? It's still a lot of the medical questions, unfortunately,

604
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: are still up in the air. They want to wait

605
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: until things heal up more. But it sounds like I

606
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: will be able to get my get tea replaced at

607
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: the very least. My tongue has been stitch back together

608
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: in a way, and and that's why I'm able to

609
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: speak in articulately as much as I can right now.

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00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 1: Praise God, Praise the Lord, Anthony. Do you have family

611
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: that can help you right now? Yes? I have a

612
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: very very good support system. My mother has been very

613
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: generous and um letting me stay to stay back with her,

614
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: and she's been helping me with the doctors and making

615
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: sure that I'm healing correctly and almost keeping me in

616
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 1: my place because sometimes i feel like I'm not doing

617
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: enough and I'm just staying still. But she tells me

618
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: the slow down and just make sure that healing does

619
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: what boy should be doing. Well, you know what they say,

620
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: they are no good men left Anthony Rodriguez, father to

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00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: a three year old boy, trying to work extra hours

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00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: to support his son. The go fund me all in

623
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: for Anthony. We waked as justice unfalls. Nancy Grace Crime Story,

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Speaker 1: signing off Goodbye friend,