Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 05.24.23

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

Tensions between motorcycle clubs leads to deadly shootout. Hard-headed perps have to be physically separated to end a fight.  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. Past disagreements spur bad blood between Florida's Thug Riders Motorcycle Club and Georgia's OutKast. A showdown takes place in Augusta. The confrontation quickly devolves into gunfire. More than 150 shell casings found at the scene. Two people dead, four injured. Nancy, those shell casings were found up to a block away from the outcast's clubhouse. Motorcyclists from both sides were among the dead, injured, and arrested. Unfortunately, a first responder accidentally hit one of the dead victims with a car

while trying to clear a path for emergency vehicles, and the incident is being treated as a traffic accident. Twelve people now charged with murder and aggravated assault. Florida cops respond to a 911 call about a fight and find the suspect still locked in battle. Cops say the two perps were pretty hard-headed, but officers were able to break up the fight between two billy goats and wrangle them into separate holding cells at the Putnam

County Jail. Police put out a Facebook post searching for their owners, captioned, it's 10 p.m. Do you know where your kids are? Bad joke. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. An ex-convict has been charged with first-degree murder and the death of a woman stabbed 15 times while being attacked from behind on a desert trail in northeast Phoenix last month. In addition to announcing the grand jury indictment, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office stated that it's currently investigating the case to decide whether 22-year-old Zion William Teasley will face a death

sentence. According to Phoenix Police, the body of 29-year-old Lauren Heike was discovered near a hiking path on April 29th, but it's thought that she was murdered the day before. The former University of California Davis student, accused of two fatal stabbings and an attempted murder that rattled the normally quiet city west of Sacramento has been ordered by a judge to psychiatric evaluation. Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Carlos Dominguez's attorney asserted in Yolo County Superior Court that his client lacks the mental capacity to stand trial.

According to our friends with the Sacramento Bee, the 21-year-old Dominguez attempted to speak many times throughout the brief procedure while seated next to his court-appointed public defender. Dominguez stated he didn't want a lawyer before he departed. Family members of the second victim, 20-year-old UC Davis student Kareem Abu Najam, were also in the courtroom, some sporting t-shirts bearing the young man's image. According to police, the stabbings, which happened over a few days and shook the neighborhood, have not yet been linked to a specific motive. Some local stores closed early and most students stayed at home or went out in pairs. Prior to his being dismissed by the university April 25th for academic reasons,

Dominguez was a third-year student majoring in biological sciences. Overseas now, as Danish prosecutors announced that if a 23-year-old man is found guilty of murder and attempted murder in connection with a mall shooting in which three people died, they will ask that he be held in a safe mental health facility. The incident that occurred July 3, 2022, in the large Fieldsail Complex outside of Copenhagen has been ruled out as terrorism by Danish officials. Due to a court order, the alleged shooter cannot be identified. The suspect was apprehended 13 minutes after the shooting began and is believed to have picked his victims at random. Instead of asking for a prison sentence when the trial begins June 12, the prosecution will ask that he be committed to a mental health hospital without a set time limit. In connection with the drug-related death of her four-year-old son,

a Detroit mother has been charged with criminal murder and child abuse. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Siobhan Boone was charged and then arrested Sunday in the 36th District. On April 10, 2022, Anthony Upshaw Jr. went into cardiac arrest while in his bedroom, later dying at a medical facility. The prosecutor's office reports that a medical examiner found fentanyl in the boy's system. Authorities were unable to immediately pinpoint the cause of death since they were unsure of how the drugs entered the boy's body. 40-year-old Boone dialed 911 on Friday and was

then escorted to the homicide unit of the Detroit police, where she surrendered to officers. Boone is also accused of delivering a drug that caused death. She will go through a preliminary examination June 7th after a probable cause hearing scheduled for May 31st. Craig Melton agrees to give two guys a ride to Belcourt, North Dakota, 250 miles from Melton's Fargo home. Two days later, Melton has not returned. His roommate reports him missing. Cops find Melton's maroon Saturn abandoned near the Belcourt destination. The back dash and seats have been ripped out of the car. They're missing. No one has been able to ID who Melton was driving to Belcourt,

but family members don't believe they were strangers. It's now been two and a half years since anyone has seen 34-year-old Craig Melton. If you have information on his disappearance, please contact Fargo PD 701-235-4493. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.