Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 02.15.23

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

The owner of a stolen car kills 12-year-old thief. State representative attacked in her apartment building. For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. A man uses an app to track a stolen car and finds it several miles away. The man then exchanges gunfire with people in the car, but the driver speeds off. Cops find the car nearby and a 12-year-old boy behind the wheel bleeding from a gunshot wound. The boy rushed to the hospital but dies. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy, authorities are still investigating the shooting

and have not identified which party began the shootout. Depending on the answer, the car's owner could face charges. The use of deadly force is legal in self-defense, but not in the defense of property. The Denver medical examiner has ruled the boy's death a homicide and the car's owner could face charges. Minnesota State Rep Annie Craig takes the elevator from her D.C. apartment when Kendrick Hamlin gets in and attacks her. Craig fights Hamlin until the doors open and building security detains Hamlin until police arrive. Investigators do not believe the attack was politically motivated

and commend Representative Craig for defending herself from the attacker. Craig, in turn, thanked the D.C. Police Department for their swift handling of the matter and asks for privacy over the incident at this time. Craig suffers minor bruises from the attack, otherwise unhurt. Hamlin now charged with assault. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A man driving a U-Haul truck swerved onto sidewalks and plowed into cyclists and scooter riders

in New York City Monday, killing one person and injuring eight others before police were able to pin the careening vehicle against a building following a miles-long pursuit through Brooklyn. The driver was arrested and taken to a police station. His son identified him as 62-year-old Wang Soar, a troubled man with a history of harmful behavior and stints behind bars.

The mayhem unfolded after a harrowing 48 minutes as the truck tore through Brooklyn's bustling Bay Ridge neighborhood, hitting people at several points along the way before veering on and off a highway as police gave chase. Police Commissioner Keechent Sewell described it as a violent rampage, but said there was no evidence of terrorism. A gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself miles away after an hours-long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark. We hear more now from Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Police announced the man's death early Tuesday, four hours after the

shootings broke out at Berkeley Hall, an academic building, and later nearby at the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study. Hundreds of officers had scoured the East Lansing campus for the suspect, whom police describe as a short black man with red shoes, a jean jacket, and a ball cap. Authorities say the 43-year-old man was confronted by police off campus before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect's name was not immediately released, nor any details about the gun or what police found at the scene. However, police do say the man was not a student or employee and had no

affiliation with Michigan State. The lawyer for an Arizona rancher being held on $1 million bonds says her client did not shoot and kill the Mexican man whose body was found on his property last month near the U.S.-Mexico border, but earlier that day had fired warning shots at smugglers carrying AK-47 rifles and big backpacks on his land. A defense request made last week in Santa Cruz County Justice Court asked that the $1 million bond set in the first-degree murder case against George Allen Kelly be lowered or lifted. 73-year-old Kelly remains in custody at the Santa Cruz County Jail in the January 30th killing. A preliminary hearing in the case is set for Monday, February 20th.

A 75-year-old man has been arrested and charged in a California cold case from 2005. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner has details. Philip William Frazee was arrested by investigators from the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office. He has been formally arraigned in the Siskiyou County Superior Court and charged in the unlawful killing of Patricia Joseph, a woman whose body was found in the Klamath River several days after being reported missing. She was found partially clothed and had been in the water for several days, and a forensic autopsy revealed she had died from multiple blunt force traumas and asphyxia.

Joseph was 56 at the time of her death. Joseph's death was solved by a cold case and forensic evidence team that was established by Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue in early 2021. Carlene Stiller sees a puddle in the parking lot at a Florida public library and decides it's large enough to bathe in. Stiller strips naked and she takes a bath in the water. She's been arrested for indecent exposure. Wow, they could write a book about her. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

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