Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 02.24.23

Episode Date: February 24, 2023

Star student killed on ride home from school event. Drunk driver literally runs into cops. 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. Three Tennessee students drive home together after a high school basketball game. All of a sudden, someone starts firing shots at the car. 17-year-old Christine Michael is killed. A 13-year-old girl injured. Two teen boys, Kevion Davis and Bishop Owens, arrested for the shooting. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy Christine Michael was class president and maintained a 4.0 GPA. Her classmates describe Michael as an inspiration.

The alleged shooters also appear to be high school students, but it's unclear if they attended the same school as their victims. Davis and Owens both charged with murder one. Drunk Kane Anderson speeds down a Tennessee highway and falls asleep at the wheel. Of course he does. Anderson's truck veers across the road and strikes a parked patrol truck with two deputies inside. The crash occurred early in the morning with little traffic on the highway. The deputies suffered minor injuries in the crash but acted as the arresting officers after determining Anderson was impaired. Anderson reportedly bonded out of jail later that day.

Anderson busted on DUI, drug possession and vehicular assault. More crime and justice news after this. With the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A Central Florida television journalist and a little girl were fatally shot Wednesday afternoon near the scene of a fatal shooting from earlier in the day. Authorities say they've detained 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses, who they believe is responsible for both shootings in the Orlando area neighborhood. Besides the Spectrum News 13 journalist and the nine-year-old girl, a TV crew member and the girl's mother were wounded during the second shooting. They were in critical condition at a local hospital. Orange County Sheriff John Mina. No one in our community, not a mother, not a nine-year-old,

and certainly not news professionals, should become the victim of gun violence in our community. Mina said they don't immediately have a motive for any of the shootings. Prosecutors have now charged a man with killing a Catholic bishop in a crime that stunned Los Angeles' religious and immigrant communities. With more, here's Sydney Sumner of Crime Online. 69-year-old Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was spatially shot multiple times Saturday in the bedroom of his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The suspect, Carlos Medina, is the husband of O'Connell's housekeeper. Medina had

done work at the bishop's home and was arrested Monday by a SWAT team. The L.A. County District Attorney's Office says that Medina is charged with one count of murder with a special allegation that he personally used a firearm. Medina faces 35 years to life in prison. He appeared in court Wednesday afternoon and his arraignment was postponed until March 22nd. According to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, O'Connell had been a priest for 45 years and was a native of Ireland. In 2015, Pope Francis named him one of several auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese. A Los Angeles judge has sentenced the man convicted of gunning down hip-hop star Nipsey Hussle to 60 years to life in prison. Superior Court Judge Clay Jack handed down the

sentence to 33-year-old Eric Holder, who was found guilty of the 2019 first-degree murder of the 33-year-old Grammy-nominated artist outside Hussle's South Los Angeles clothing store, The Marathon. After the month-long trial, jurors in July also convicted Holder of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a firearm for gunfire that hit two other men at the scene who survived. Jack sentenced Holder to 25 years to life for the murder, 25 more for a firearm sentencing enhancement, and 10 for assault with a firearm. He set several other sentencing additions and ordered that others run concurrently. He also gave Holder credit for the nearly four years he has served since the shooting. Charges are mounting against a Dances with Wolves actor accused of sexually abusing and trafficking indigenous women and girls in the U.S. and Canada for decades.

Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. A grand jury in Nevada indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on 19 counts, expanding on previous charges of sexual assault, trafficking, and child abuse to include kidnapping, lewdness, and drug trafficking. 46-year-old Chasing Horse now faces charges in four jurisdictions with the newest case brought by prosecutors on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. Police in Las Vegas have described Chasing Horse as a cult leader who used his position as a self-proclaimed medicine man to gain access to indigenous girls and women who he physically and sexually assaulted and took as underage wives. Prosecutors also accused him of grooming young girls to replace his older wives. His followers in the cult, known as the Circle, believed he had healing powers and could communicate with higher beings. Chasing Horse's public defender says she's looking forward to revealing holes in the

state's case during a preliminary hearing that was canceled Wednesday morning ahead of the indictment. She declined to elaborate. A father playing catch with his child in a Pennsylvania park makes a gruesome discovery. As the dad gets the ball from a creek, he sees a human foot sticking out of a trash bag. Dad calls police. The county coroner determines to everyone's relief that the remains are just a discarded sex doll. Okay, I guess that's good news. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.