Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 05.01.23

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

Teenager saves mom from rape at gunpoint. Delivery driver found dismembered and dumped in the trash.  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, 6 a.m. A Texas mom getting in her car when Jeremy Wright enters the open garage with a gun demanding cash. The woman doesn't have money, so Wright then demands sex from the young mom. The woman's teen daughter still in the home hears Wright in the garage with mom and calls 911. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy, officers arrived at the home just three minutes after the woman's 14-year-old daughter dialed 911. The girl and her siblings were safely evacuated from the home before police entered the garage and apprehended Wright,

who does not have any prior charges as an adult, but does have a lengthy juvenile record. Wright now charged with aggravated robbery and sex attack. Randall Cook texts his wife he has one more Uber Eats delivery and he'll be home. But when Cook drops off Oscar Solis' order, Solis pulls him inside, robs him, and kills Randall Cook. When Cook did not return home, his wife reported him missing, and Uber Eats gave authorities his last known location. At Solis' home, cops spoke with his roommate, who turned over surveillance footage that cut out just after Cook rang the doorbell. The roommate also gave investigators permission to search the trash.

Police find Cook's dismembered body in the trash. Solis, who of course has a lengthy rap sheet, charged with murder. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A 17-year-old is in custody in connection with the shooting death earlier this month of Coco DeDahl, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender black women and the dangers they face. For more now, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. The teenager faces charges of murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of the 35-year-old transgender woman, Rashida Williams. The teenager turned himself in at a

precinct in northwest Atlanta, identifying himself as the person of interest being sought in the case while also denying shooting anyone. Police had previously released surveillance images of a man wearing a sports jersey walking up to the entrance of an apartment building. Authorities said detectives wanted to identify the person, quote, to assist with the current investigation on the homicide. In addition to the murder and assault charges, the teenager faces account of possessing a gun during the commission of a felony. The suspect is being held in Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. A judge ordered a former student who opened fire at an Indiana middle school in 2018, wounding another student and a teacher to remain in custody after a corrections employee

said that he fist-bumped her breast. The former student, who was 13 at the time of the shooting, has been detained since shortly after he opened fire at Noblesville West Middle School on May 25, 2018. He shot a 7th grade science teacher and another 13-year-old student. The teacher, Jason Seaman, cut the shooting short when he tackled the shooter and pinned him to the ground. Seaman was shot three times and the student, Ella Whistler, was shot seven times. No one was killed. The white woman who accused black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955, causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the civil rights movement,

has died at 88. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to her death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's office. The last chance to hold anyone accountable for the kidnapping and murder that shocked the world died with Donham. Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago so the world could see her 14-year-old son's mutilated body, which was pulled from a river in Mississippi. In August 1955, Till had traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi. Donham, then 21 and still going by Carolyn Bryant, accused him of making improper advances on her during her shift at a grocery store in the small community of Money.

The Reverend Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi's racial social codes of that era. A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail last weekend and fled to Texas after allegedly stealing a public works vehicle has been arrested in Houston. Jerry Raines was apprehended days after he and three other inmates escaped Saturday night from the Raymond Detention Center near Jackson, Mississippi's capital. Raines is the second escaped prisoner to be found in a multi-agency hunt. Dylan Arrington died after barricading himself in a central Mississippi home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies. He is suspected of killing a man

and stealing his pickup truck after the escape. Daniel Barrera pulled over for driving on a revoked license. Florida cops find a gallon-sized Ziploc bag full of heroin. Barrera tells cops his family in Guatemala sent him the bag, and he thought it was just chili powder. Well, needless to say, Barrera charged with drug trafficking. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

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