Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 06.08.23

Episode Date: June 8, 2023

Man shoots into a crowd of children, injuring two. Trespasser breaks into a high school twice.   For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. As Adam Avicius walks past a branch of the Chicago Public Library, he gets into an argument with a teen boy. The argument turns into a fight. During the fight, Avicius drops a handgun, and when he picks it up, the teen runs toward a group of minors who come out of the library to see what's going on. Avesius shoots into the crowd, hitting the teen twice and a second 12-year-old boy in the back. After the shooting, Avesius tried to run from the scene,

but the other minors who had gathered outside the library chased Avesius and cornered him in a nearby store. Police had to separate the group from Avicius before they took him into custody. Cops recovered five shell casings from the scene and discovered the handgun Avicius was carrying had a defaced serial number. Avicius, 37, charged with aggravated battery. Chandler Simmons, 26, enters a Florida high school telling a security guard he's the new assistant wrestling coach.

Unconvinced, the guard escorts Simmons off the property. Days later, the high school's athletic director passes through the weight room heading home for the evening and discovers Simmons in the middle of a workout. The director calls cops who say Simmons told them he just wanted a free gym. Simmons apparently did not foresee the cost of a trespassing charge. Hey, they've got a weight room in the jailhouse, I'm sure. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. Federal authorities have announced that a wanted fugitive has been apprehended in Philadelphia

in connection with the shooting deaths of three individuals, including two children who were playing with kittens in the backyard of their Pennsylvania home. For more, we bring in Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. 27-year-old Ivan Claudio Rosero was apprehended without incident Tuesday night, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, after being found at a park. The May 30 killings in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, prompted the arrest of two further suspects, one of whom at a park. The May 30 killings in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, prompted the arrest of two further suspects, one of whom was a child. The prosecution says the other adult suspect and Rosero will both face the death penalty. The brothers, 8-year-old Jesus and 9-year-old Sebastian Perez Salome and another victim were killed. 19-year-old Joshua Lugo Perez

was the third victim and was allegedly the target of the gunman because of what the investigators have referred to as, quote, a previous argument. Although he shared a residence with the boys where the shooting took place, Lugo Perez was not related to the children. A Missouri man who attempted to help a friend escape from a small town jail while shooting and killing two guards has now been executed. At the state jail in Bonterra, 42-year-old Michael Tysias received a lethal injection of pinobarbital and was declared dead at 6.10 p.m. local time Tuesday night. Tysias was found guilty of killing Jason Acton and Leon Eggly in the small Randolph County Jail on June 22, 2000. In an appeal,

Tysias' attorneys claimed that a jury member at a sentencing hearing was illiterate in violation of Missouri law and requested the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution. That motion was denied by the court Tuesday afternoon. Our friends at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are telling us that a 67-year-old man has admitted to killing a woman in Missouri three decades ago, then abandoning her bound body in the woods. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that Kirby R. King has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and felony restraint in the death of Carla Jane Delcor.

The 22-year-old woman was found dead with her wrists and neck bound in Franklin County Woods, close to St. Clair, Missouri. Following the discovery of Delcor's body in 1987, King, whose social circles coincided with Delcor's, was questioned but never put on trial. King was arrested in 2019 and initially charged with second-degree murder after the Franklin County Sheriff's Office restarted the investigation in 2018. 32 years after Delcor's murder, investigators have not revealed if fresh information contributed to King's arrest. The chief prosecutor in Manhattan has disavowed over 300 convictions involving police officers found guilty of crimes. These are the most recent of more than 1,000 cases involving police officers either accused or found guilty that have been dropped statewide.

The most recent abandoned convictions, almost all misdemeanors, go back to 1996. Each includes one of nine cops who have since been found guilty of crimes committed while on the job. The offenses include accepting bribes, selling firearms without a license, lying under oath, and injecting drugs into suspects. The officers are no longer employed by their departments. According to the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutions resulted in the incarceration of over 50 people and the imposition of fines on another 130. Kennedy Walton visits with her mom at her home in a St. Louis suburb. That evening, Kennedy borrows her mom's car for a night out. Her roommate sees her leave Show Me's Bar and Grill around 2 a.m., but when she gets home, Kennedy Walton's not there.

Her phone goes straight to voicemail. A week later, the Chevy Tahoe Walton borrowed found abandoned two blocks from Walton's home. A witness says she saw a man park the car and get out. Kennedy Walton now missing over a year. If you have information on Kennedy Walton's disappearance, please call Belleville, Illinois PD 618-234-1212. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.