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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Alfred

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Speaker 1: Lewis walks trails out of Houston Park searching for participants

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Speaker 1: for a social media video. Notice I did not say

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Speaker 1: willing participants. Lewis makes his choice and starts recording, then attacks,

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Speaker 1: beating his victims horribly. Bystanders pull him off the second

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Speaker 1: victim and call police, but the team leaves before cops arrive.

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Speaker 1: Police find the videos posted to tik tok, then track

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Speaker 1: Lewis down.

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Speaker 2: Nancy. Lewis attacked two men in Houston's Wortham Park. In

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Speaker 2: the first attack, Lewis tried to rob a man of

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Speaker 2: his cell phone at gunpoint and threatened to shoot him

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Speaker 2: in the foot if he didn't cooperate. The man refused,

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Speaker 2: so Lewis punched and choked him. In the second attack,

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Speaker 2: Lewis sucker punched a man in the back of the head.

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Speaker 2: We're now learning that Lewis had an accomplice, eighteen year

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Speaker 2: old Kingston Micer, who was behind the camera and arrested

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Speaker 2: several days after Lewis. He will face the same charges.

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Speaker 1: Alfred Lewis nineteen charged with aggravated robbery and assault. Florida

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Speaker 1: Copps Patrol Oldtown, Key West. On Halloween night, they spot

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Speaker 1: a banana relieving himself on the sidewalk outside of bar.

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Speaker 1: They tried to stop the University of Miami student Kyle Mortimer,

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Speaker 1: but the banana tries to split. Mortimer run, slips out

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Speaker 1: of a cops grasp, refuses to stand still so he

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Speaker 1: can be handcuffed. Mortimer, twenty, poses for a muckshot in

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Speaker 1: the banana costume. Now facing disorderly conduct. More crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and

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Speaker 1: justice breaking news. Crime aligns John Limley.

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Speaker 3: We began on the West Coast as a twenty three

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Speaker 3: year old man has been taken into custody by police

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Speaker 3: on suspicion of killing his grandmother. A woman discovered dead

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Speaker 3: with her head severed in a northern California residence with

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Speaker 3: more here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: The decapitated body of the sixty four year old woman,

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Speaker 2: Elvia Lopez Arroyo, was found near Santa Rosa, north of

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Speaker 2: San Francisco last Thursday by police responding to complaints of

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Speaker 2: a probable home the victim's twenty three year old grandson,

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Speaker 2: Luis Gustavo, a royal Lopez, who police say was seen

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Speaker 2: walking away from the crime scene was recognized by investigators

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Speaker 2: as the suspect. According to a police statement, investigators think

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Speaker 2: the man took the victim's head with him when he

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Speaker 2: left the residence. Official say Up patrol officer in San

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Speaker 2: Francisco identified the man from law enforcement bulletins and made

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Speaker 2: the arrest without incident. Detectives have reported that the victim's

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Speaker 2: head was discovered on the south bank of Santa Rosa

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Speaker 2: Creek on Saturday evening. The Sonoma County Main Adult Detention

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Speaker 2: facility is holding the suspect without bail on suspicion of murder.

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Speaker 3: We're learning from police that the suspect, who had been

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Speaker 3: imprisoned for assault with a deadly weapon, had just been

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Speaker 3: released from a California prison. Now to Florida, where a

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Speaker 3: dentist has been found guilty of murder and the twenty

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Speaker 3: fourteen shooting death of his one time brother in law,

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Speaker 3: a well known college professor, outside his home in Tallahassee.

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Speaker 3: The crime occurred after a long custody struggle with the

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Speaker 3: dentist's sister. The conviction indicated that jurors believed prosecutors claim

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Speaker 3: that the defendant, Charles Adelson paid to have Florida State

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Speaker 3: University law professor Don Markel murdered. According to our friends

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Speaker 3: at the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper. Jurors found Adelson guilty of

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Speaker 3: first degree murder, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, and

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Speaker 3: solicitation of first degree murder. At trial, prosecutors presented evidence

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Speaker 3: to the jury that Adelson paid to have the well

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Speaker 3: known professor killed and that he arranged for his girlfriend,

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Speaker 3: Catherine mcbanua, to pay Sigfredo Garcia to carry out the murder.

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Speaker 3: Garcia is the father of Catherine's two children. In Maine,

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Speaker 3: a fifteen year prison sentence has been handed to a

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Speaker 3: nineteen year old man who the FBI says constructed homemade

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Speaker 3: explosives as part of a plan to assault a mosque

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Speaker 3: in the name of the Islamic State Organization once Again

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Speaker 3: Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner Waterville resident Xavier Pelk and the prosecution came

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Speaker 2: to a plea deal in April when Pelkey admitted to

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Speaker 2: giving material support to terrorists in exchange for the dismissal

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Speaker 2: of a second allegation. Law enforcement officials say that Pelk

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Speaker 2: discussed the plot with two teenagers, one in Canada and

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Speaker 2: the other in Chicago, and that he intended to provide weapons, ammunition,

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Speaker 2: and explosives for a mass shooting at a Shecheite mosque

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Speaker 2: in other houses of worship in the Chicago area. After

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Speaker 2: discovering three improvised explosives in his home, FBI agents apprehended Pelki,

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Speaker 2: who was then eighteen years old. According to the FBI,

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Speaker 2: the devices were made of fireworks wrapped with pin staples

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Speaker 2: and thumb tacks as shrapnel. Detectives discovered a handwritten document

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Speaker 2: allegedly bearing the Islamic State group's name with details regarding

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Speaker 2: the intended mosk attack. The teens were portrayed by the

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Speaker 2: prosecution as a homegrown terror cell, but Chris MacLean, Pelki's attorney,

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Speaker 2: countered that they were simply spurred on by one another's

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Speaker 2: online arrogance.

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Speaker 3: The defense had requested a six year prison term, claiming

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Speaker 3: Pelke had admitted guild, had no violent criminal passed and

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Speaker 3: was only a few months removed from being charged as

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Speaker 3: a juvenile thinks.

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Speaker 1: Vern Morris works as the video game developer. He's Type

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Speaker 1: one diabetic and lives with his parents. Around one in

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Speaker 1: the morning, he's sick from low blood sugar. His mother

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Speaker 1: makes him a sandwich. He seems to improve, but Vern's confused,

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Speaker 1: slurring his speech. He says good night and goes to bed.

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Speaker 1: When the mom goes to test his levels. An hour later,

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Speaker 1: he's gone. Vern was not wearing a shirt or shoes

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Speaker 1: when he disappeared, leaving all his belongings behind. There have

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Speaker 1: been several possible sightings of Verne Morris in Utah and

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Speaker 1: Devada towns, but none confirmed. Vern Morris thirty four, now

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Speaker 1: missing two and a half years. There's a ten thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars reward for info leading to Morris. If you know

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Speaker 1: anything about Vern Morris, please contact Tully CDPD four three

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Speaker 1: five eight eight two eighty nine hundred. For the latest

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Speaker 1: crime justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this

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Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.