Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
Speaker 1: A week long preliminary hearing concluded Friday for the man
Speaker 1: accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Utah County prosecutors
Speaker 1: aimed to show enough evidence against twenty three year old
Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson to proceed to trial for the September tenth
Speaker 1: aggravated murder on the Utah Valley University campus. The state
Speaker 1: is actively seeking the death penalty. Robinson's lawyers called a
Speaker 1: final witness, trying to raise doubts about the prosecution's case.
Speaker 1: The defense previously challenged the reliability of ballistics tests on
Speaker 1: a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk's body, which an ATF
Speaker 1: expert labeled inconclusive. They also fought the release of a
Speaker 1: recorded interview with Robinson's roommate and boyfriend, Lance Twiggs. In
Speaker 1: private discord chat messages Robinson wrote on Friday, defense attorney
Speaker 1: Michael Bert grilled ATF Section Chief Caitlin Oliver about testing
Speaker 1: on an unknown item. Judge Graff ruled no further exhibits
Speaker 1: would be shown in court or via live stream. After
Speaker 1: cameras accidentally flashed photos of a burned note Robinson wrote
Speaker 1: to Twiggs. Graff had previously blocked the note's public release.
Speaker 1: Bert used Oliver's testimony to highlight DNA limitations, noting government
Speaker 1: policies don't allow analysts to call DNA evidence infalliable. Oliver
Speaker 1: admitted third party DNA transfer as possible, agreeing that shaking
Speaker 1: hands could migrate genetic material onto a weapons trigger. Deputy
Speaker 1: Utah County Attorney Chad Grunnander questioned her relevance, stating prosecutors
Speaker 1: already met their burden through four days of overwhelming testimony.
Speaker 1: Judge Graff will rule on the trial advancement after reviewing
Speaker 1: transcripts and written briefs. Oral arguments are set for September first.
Speaker 1: Robinson has yet to enter a plea next. A North
Speaker 1: Carolina couple accused of performing exorcisms on their adopted children
Speaker 1: will spend decades in prison after pleading guilty too the
Speaker 1: murder and abuse of their four year old son, Skyler Wilson.
Speaker 1: Joseph Paul Wilson, forty five and Jody and Wilson, forty two,
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty in Surrey County Superior Court to second degree
Speaker 1: murder and child abuse related charges Both were sentenced to
Speaker 1: thirty two to forty years in prison and waived their
Speaker 1: rights to appeal. The Wilsons used dangerous disciplinary methods learned
Speaker 1: from alternative parenting books, which escalated to prolonged physical restraint
Speaker 1: with duct tape. On January fifth, twenty twenty three, Jody
Speaker 1: wrapped Skyler in a bedsheet and used duct tape to
Speaker 1: restrain him face down on the floor of their Mount
Speaker 1: Airy home for several hours. Joseph knew of the restraint
Speaker 1: and had purchased duct tape and bandages earlier that day
Speaker 1: for that purpose. When Joseph returned home for lunch and
Speaker 1: found Skyler restrained, he left him there and went back
Speaker 1: to work. After Jody eventually released Skyler and realized he
Speaker 1: was severely injured, she messaged her husband to hurry home.
Speaker 1: Joseph later called nine one one, reporting Skyler was having
Speaker 1: a seizure, while Jody could be heard in the background
Speaker 1: saying it's my fault. Emergency personnel found Skyler unresponsive. He
Speaker 1: died four days later at Brenner's Children's Hospital after being
Speaker 1: removed from life support. An autopsy determined Skyler died from
Speaker 1: a hypoxic ischemic brain injury caused by compressional and positional
Speaker 1: asphyxia from prolonged restraint, with starvation keto acidosis as a
Speaker 1: contributing factor. A former foster parent had reported concerns to
Speaker 1: social services less than a month before his death. More
Speaker 1: crime and justice news After this, A chaotic scene in
Speaker 1: Summit County ended Tuesday night with the arrest of Julius Edwards,
Speaker 1: a man wanted for attempted murder who led police on
Speaker 1: a multi jurisdictional pursuit, including onto a golf course. The
Speaker 1: violent chain of events began around six am in Canton,
Speaker 1: where police responded to a home and found a thirty
Speaker 1: three year old woman bleeding from apparent stab wounds on
Speaker 1: the second floor with a large knife protruding through her
Speaker 1: right arm. Officers found a blood trail leading to the driveway,
Speaker 1: and a male voice came through the front door ring camera,
Speaker 1: identifying himself as Edwards, stating he wanted to kill her
Speaker 1: and believed he did. Hours later, troopers spotted Edwards driving
Speaker 1: a gray Kia Tellur Ride he fled initiating a pursuit.
Speaker 1: Edwards ran a red light on Arik's Road, causing a
Speaker 1: serious crash that injured multiple people. Edwards then fled on foot,
Speaker 1: fired at a pursuiting trooper, and vanished into the woods.
Speaker 1: He then carjacked a silver Chrysler Town and Country minivan,
Speaker 1: sparking a second pursuit. Edwards drove the stolen minivan directly
Speaker 1: through the fox Den golf Course in Stowe, forcing golfers
Speaker 1: to flee. News five Cleveland spoke with golfer's logan Conrove
Speaker 1: and Joe Messina about the terrifying encounter. It was coming
Speaker 1: right at us too, and my girlfriend was driving the
Speaker 1: cart and I was like, you got to move the cart.
Speaker 1: We got to move off to the left. I thought
Speaker 1: he was going to flatten either my card or Joe's,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad we were able to get out of
Speaker 1: the way and come out unscathed. The chase continued through
Speaker 1: nearby properties. Resident Michael Burrows described the moment the pursuit
Speaker 1: tore through his property to News five Cleveland. And I
Speaker 1: heard these sirens and he could hear them. It's not
Speaker 1: like they were in my yard. Well, they were in
Speaker 1: my yard. He kept going through and then he went
Speaker 1: out on the road and you can see the skid
Speaker 1: marks out there. He made a quick left. The pursuit
Speaker 1: ended near Saybrook Boulevard when Edwards crashed into a Summit
Speaker 1: Metro Parks police cruiser, totaling it and causing it to
Speaker 1: roll over. The officer managed to jump out of his
Speaker 1: vehicle just eight seconds before impact, suffering only minor injuries.
Speaker 1: Edwards attempted to run, but was captured by Stowe Police
Speaker 1: and state troopers. He is now in custody while his
Speaker 1: stabbing victim recovers in a hospital. For more crime and
Speaker 1: justice news, be sure to join us for crime stories
Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace on Fox one YouTube Serious XM and
Speaker 1: now streaming on two B with this crime alert, I'm
Speaker 1: Sydney Silvannie