Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 07.10.23

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

Confrontation over movie seats results in deadly shooting. Skittles 'attack' leads to assault charges.  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. Michael Tenorio and his wife get seats in a New Mexico movie theater, but whose seats are they? Enrique Padilla confronts the two, saying they're in his seats he purchased for himself and his girlfriend. Despite theater staff trying to help resolve the issue, it escalates. Padilla throws a bucket of popcorn at Tenorio. Tenorio shoves Padilla. Then Padilla pulls out a gun and shoots Tenorio dead. Nancy, Padilla ran after the shooting, joining the crowd of other panicked moviegoers exiting the theater. The

19-year-old was found hiding behind bushes near an emergency exit, and investigators found a discarded gun nearby. An off-duty police officer attempted CPR on Tenorio, but the husband died from his injuries. Padilla was also taken to the hospital for injuries sustained in his fight with Tenorio. Padilla, 19, now charged with homicide, shooting in an occupied building and tampering with evidence. Chiston Statina walks into a Minnesota restaurant and starts pelting customers and staff with Skittles. Employees call cops, giving a detailed description of Statina's facial tattoos. Police recognize the candy thrower immediately. He's been arrested twice in just

a few months. Cops track Statina to a nearby business. When cops try to cuff him, he resists and tries to trip an officer. Statina, eventually subdued by three cops and charged with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct. By Skittle. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A Nevada teenager who pleaded guilty to charges including attempted murder for the assault on a female Las Vegas high school teacher more than a year ago that left her with multiple injuries has been given a sentence of 16 to 40 years in state prison. For more, we turn to 22 to 55 years in prison. In a plea agreement that avoided trial in connection with the after-school attack at El Dorado High School, the defendant also admitted guilt to attempted sexual assault and violence with a deadly weapon, resulting in great bodily damage.

Other charges against the teen were dismissed. Crime Online is not naming the teen because of his age nor the teacher because of the nature of the crime. In court, the accused apologized and expressed regret for his actions. His court-appointed attorney, Tyler Gaston, explained to the judge that the side effects of an asthma medicine his client was taking were to blame for his client's behavior. The drug is said to produce mood swings, night terrors, and hallucinations. The attack in April 2022, which happened after classes had ended for the day, caused the teacher to leave her job. She told the judge that she felt imprisoned psychologically and physically. The death penalty may be sought in the case of a man suspected of killing five

neighbors in Texas after some of them complained that gunshots were keeping an infant awake. The man was indicted for capital murder of multiple people. Francisco Oropesa, a 38-year-old Mexican national who had been deported numerous times in the years prior to the attack in April outside Houston, is a Mexican national, and the prosecution has not yet decided whether to seek the death sentence against him. He is already facing five counts of murder as of May. In August, Doropeza is due to appear in court. His attorney, Anthony Oso, stated that his client will enter a not guilty plea. A man detained earlier this month in California

has been sent back to Florida to stand trial for the murder of a woman in 1984. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to a statement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, 65-year-old Donald Santini has been arrested and taken to a Florida jail on a charge of first-degree murder. After Santini's arrest on June 7th, Florida detectives flew to San Diego, at which point he was subsequently extradited to Tampa. Santini had been evading capture since June 1984 when Florida officials secured an arrest warrant connecting him to the strangulation death of 33-year-old Cynthia Wood from Bradenton. Three days after Wood disappeared on June 6th of that year, her body was discovered in

a wet ditch. Santini was last spotted with Wood. According to the arrest warrant, a medical examiner determined that Santini had strangled her and his fingerprints were discovered on her body. Santini appeared numerous times on the TV program America's Most Wanted in 1990, 2005, and 2013. Christian Hughes, 20, flies to San Francisco to visit friends, telling his mom she should pick him up at the airport three days later. The night before the flight home, Hughes and his friends turn in around midnight. When the friends wake up the next morning, Hughes and all of his belongings are gone. 24 hours later, Hughes' family reports him missing. Christian Hughes,

now missing over 10 years. If you have info on Christian Hughes' disappearance, please call San Francisco PD, 415-553-1071. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.