Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 10.07.24 | Suspect Throws Explosive into Courthouse Where He's Set to be Tried

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

Man throws his backpack full of explosives into a courthouse, injuring 5. Homeowner somewhat relieved to see this masked bandit! 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. Nathaniel McGuire shows up to a Santa Barbara courthouse to face charges for carrying an unregistered gun. He takes off his backpack as he approaches security, but throws the bag past the checkpoint and runs. The backpack explodes, injuring five people. McGuire, apprehended in the parking lot, found wearing body armor underneath his shirt. Nancy, the five victims did not have life-threatening injuries and have all been released from the hospital. Cops also found several loaded firearms in McGuire's vehicle and believe he planned to open fire had he gotten to them. Officials also

believe McGuire may be tied to several arson cases in the weeks leading up to the courthouse attack. McGuire allegedly planned the attack because officers seized the unregistered firearm found in his possession. Nathaniel McGuire, 20, now charged with attempted murder and manufacturing an explosive device. Amy Rosenbaum wakes up in the middle of the night hearing strange noises downstairs. She calls 911 thinking it's a home intruder, but tells police to stand down when she comes face to face with a raccoon trying to get comfy on her sofa. The masked bandit let himself through the dog door, got food and water, then tried to curl up for a nap. With her eyes still on the raccoon, Rosenbaum opens the sliding glass door and with no prompting, the raccoon huffs, climbs off the couch, and does a walk of shame back outside.

So far, the bandit is facing no charges. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. In Chautauqua County, New York, preparations are underway for the trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of a brutal knife attack on renowned author Salman Rushdie in October 2022. Matar faces charges of attempted murder after allegedly slabbing Rushdie more than a dozen times during a speaking event at the Chautauqua Institution. The attack left the 77-year-old author blinded in one eye. As jury selection approaches for the trial set to begin on October 15, District Attorney Jason Schmidt indicated that the prosecution does not plan to introduce the fatwa against Rushdie,

which authorities believe motivated Matar. Schmidt noted that the violent assault was witnessed by an audience and recorded live, making the matter of motive secondary to the facts of the case. Despite this, Judge David Foley acknowledged the difficulty of finding jurors who haven't been influenced by extensive media coverage of the attack and the decades-old fatwa. Judge Foley stated that potential jurors will undergo questioning to assess any implicit biases, especially since Matar, a resident of Fairview, New Jersey, is the son of Lebanese immigrants and practices Islam. Matar's defense attorney, Nathaniel Barone, has voiced concerns that current global tensions might sway jurors' opinions against his client, who he says experienced racism growing up. Barone is seeking assurance that the jury will be carefully vetted to ensure fairness. issued in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini over his novel The Satanic Verses spent years in hiding. While he resumed public life in the late 1990s and has traveled freely in recent years,

the attack on him in 2022 shocked the literary world. Rushdie, who has written about the ordeal in a memoir, is expected to testify early in the trial. Matar also faces a federal indictment that includes terrorism-related charges accusing him of acting on the fatwa that called for Rushdie's death. South Carolina's Supreme Court has scheduled the execution of Richard Moore, marking the second execution in the state after a 13-year halt in the use of capital punishment. We turn now to Crime Online's Sydney Sumner for more. Richard Moore, convicted of killing store clerk James Mahoney in a 1999 robbery, is set to be executed on November 1st.

59-year-old Moore entered Nicky's Speedy Mart in Spartanburg County unarmed during the robbery. After a confrontation with Mahoney, Moore took one of the clerk's guns and the two exchanged gunfire, resulting in Mahoney's death. Moore's case stands out because his jury did not include any African Americans, an issue his defense has raised as a point of concern. His lawyer also argues that South Carolina has never executed anyone in modern times who initially entered a crime scene without a weapon and later acted in self-defense after being threatened. Moore will have the option to choose his method of execution, lethal injection, electrocution, or the newly implemented firing squad. If he does not select a method, he will

be executed via the electric chair. South Carolina's prison system is required to ensure that all three methods are available and must prove that the lethal injection drug pentobarbital is stable and properly prepared. Moore has a week to make his decision after these conditions are confirmed. In 2022, Moore opted for the firing squad, but the execution was delayed due to legal challenges over the availability of lethal injection drugs. This execution will be one of the first under South Carolina's updated laws, which now use a single drug, pentobarbital, in lethal injections, a protocol similar to that of the federal government. Thanks, John. Madison Rich, 17, all set to move into her dorm freshman year at Cleveland State University,

but days before the move-in, she disappears from her Lakewood, Ohio, home. She left foot the afternoon, August 15, promising to be home for dinner. She never came home. Three days later, her phone pings near a motel half an hour from home. No one at the motel recognizes her. Three days after that, her phone pings again, two miles from the motel before it's turned off or dies. Madison Rich, 17, 110 pounds, shoulder length, brown hair, blue eyes. She wears glasses and has a spider web tattoo on her left arm. If you have info on this teen girl, Madison Rich, now missing seven weeks, call Lakewood, Ohio PD 216-521-6773. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. And please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories.

With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.