Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 09.27.23

Episode Date: September 27, 2023

Man shoots neighbor trimming trees. 'Cause the players tried to take the field,the marching band refused to yield.' 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. Brian Ford, 42, takes a step into his neighbor's yard as he trims tree limbs. Edward Druzelowski barrels out of his home with a gun, telling Ford to get off his property. Ford says he's almost finished.

Druzelowski warns Ford again. Ford replies, are you going to shoot me? Ford starts walking toward Drew Zalowski. Drew Zalowski fires, killing Ford. Nancy, in a phone call to 911, Drew Zalowski's wife told the operator he just meant to scare Ford. Drew Zalowski said he keeps the first round of his gun empty for safety reasons, and when Ford continued to advance on him after hearing the gun click after his first shot, Druselowski shot a second time, this time hitting

Ford. Druselowski also mentioned he had osteoporosis and feared what would happen if Ford pushed or hit him. Edward Druselowski, 78, now charged with murder too. Alabama's minor high school crushes rival Jackson Olim on the football field 27 to nothing. As the game ends, cops attempt to clear the field, but in the words of Don McLean, the marching band refused to yield. Alabama minors band director Johnny Mims ignores cops' request to silence the students, so police arrest him. Mims refuses to stop conducting, and when he shoves one cop, a second cop tases him. Johnny Mims, now charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and resisting arrest. That hit a sour note. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley.

An order now signed by a judge states that a white Texas shooter who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after shouting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to the victims of the racial attack. For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. After admitting to federal hate crime charges in the wake of one of the worst mass murders in American history, Patrick Crucious was given 90 consecutive life terms in July. According to court filings, the Justice Department and his lawyers were able to come to an agreement on the amount of restitution Crucious is ordered to pay.

U.S. District Judge David Guadarrama subsequently gave his approval. There is no evidence that the 25-year-old Crucious has any significant funds at his disposal. Police say that the then-21-year-old college dropout traveled more than 700 miles from his home near Dallas to shoot Hispanics inside and outside the business using an AK-47. Crucious published an online rant in which he predicted a Hispanic invasion of Texas just before the attack started. After federal prosecutors dropped the possibility of the death penalty, Crucious entered a guilty plea in February. However, when Crucious is tried in state court, Texas prosecutors have said they will

attempt to have him placed on death row. There is no definite date for that trial as of yet. According to court documents, Crucious is to pay $5.5 million, as spelled out in the agreement between the shooter and the government. A mother from western Michigan has been given a sentence of up to five years in jail after she crashed her SUV into an ice-covered pond, killing her three young sons. Leticia Gonzalez had entered a no-contest plea in August to three misdemeanor charges of a moving infraction resulting in death, as well as operating a vehicle while drunk, causing serious injury. According to our friends at WOOD-TV,

Gonzalez informed the court that she has been plagued with survivor's guilt ever since her children's murders, and an Ottawa County judge sentenced the Holland-area mother to a minimum of two years and a maximum of five years. It was in February of 2022 when Ottawa County police say Gonzalez drove her SUV off the side of a Holland Township road, jumped a curb, and rolled into an ice-covered retention pond. The woman's three sons, four-year-old Jerome III, three-year-old Jeremiah and one-year-old Josiah, were strapped into child safety seats at the time and drowned during the incident.

After being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of seven babies and trying to kill an additional six others in her care at a UK hospital. Authorities say a former neonatal nurse will now face a new trial in the allegation of attempting to murder a newborn baby girl. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Somner. After a jury found 33-year-old Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven infants in the newborn unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between 2015 and 2016, she was sentenced last month to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She was also found guilty of attempting to murder six additional infants. Following her 10-month

trial, a jury of seven women and four men was unable to reach a judgment on six counts of attempted murder involving five other babies. Letby had been charged twice with trying to kill one of the infants. The Crown Prosecution Service declared its intention to pursue a retrial in connection to one of these unresolved charges concerning a newborn girl who was only identified as child K. Letby, who was in prison, saw the court on Monday from there and only spoke to confirm her identity. June 10, 2024, has now been chosen as the tentative trial date. Under British law, which forbids the death penalty, Letby received the harshest punishment possible. She acted with, quote, malevolence bordering on sadism, according to a court.

Only three other women in UK history have ever received such a severe punishment. Risha Lewis, a Delaware mom of two little children, makes a visit to friends in Elkton, Maryland. She calls family to let them know she's heading back to Newcastle and will be home in about half an hour, but she never makes it. Over nine months after disappearing, Risha's car, a 97 Crown Vic, found abandoned in Newark, Delaware. Risha's cell phone remains active, but has not been used since her disappearance. Risha has a tattoo of red flames circling her upper arm.

She has a butterfly tattoo on her chest. Her family says Risha never leaves the house without a gold rope bracelet and matching necklace, plus a pendant reading, Mommy and Me. Resha Lewis, 26 at the time, now missing nearly 18 years. If you know or think you know anything about Resha Lewis's disappearance, contact Newcastle PD 302-573-2800. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

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