Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 10.09.23

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Erratic driver attacks officers with a knife. Pot dealer calls 911 to report a robbery.  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. Massachusetts cops in the middle of a traffic stop when a passing car pulls up, curses them out, and speeds off. Later, the car is spotted driving crazily. Cops try to stop the driver, Doug Haggerty, but he takes off, crashing into his own home. Haggerty gets out, wielding a knife, and slashes at the officers, injuring five of them. He's finally tasered and arrested. Nancy, Haggerty slashed the pursuing cops badly, cutting one officer's face and the back of his

head severely. As backup arrived on scene, including Chief Edward Walsh, who lived nearby, two more officers were cut several times, and Chief Walsh was stabbed in the torso before deploying his taser. One officer was airlifted to a hospital, a second driven by an ambulance, but each will reportedly make a full recovery. Hagerty, 35, facing multiple charges, including ag assault and resisting arrest. Eric Thomas calls cops to report a theft. When they get there, he's holding over 40 grams of pot, explaining someone stole $10 from him during his last pot sale. Well, he's promptly busted. Cops find this is not his first drug offense. While Thomas was heading to court to address previous drug offenses, the 33-year-old

emptied seven bags of pot from his pockets when he was going through security, admitting it was all for sale. Eric Thomas now charged with multiple drug-related felonies for the third time. Wow, he must have been high. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. We begin overseas as Russian President Vladimir Putin says hand grenade fragments were discovered in the bodies of those who perished in the plane crash that killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on August 23rd. For more, here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Putin claims that no evidence of a, quote, external impact on the private jet was discovered by investigators.

Ten individuals were killed when a flight that was traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed, including Prigozhin and two of his senior lieutenants from the Wagner private military contractor. Putin's assertion could not be independently verified. U.S. intelligence agencies first determined that the accident was caused by an intentional explosion, and Western officials have cited a long list of Putin rivals who have been murdered. The Kremlin referred to claims that he was responsible for the accident as an absolute lie. The results of a Russian probe have not been made public. Brazil, where the Embraer business jet was made, offered to join the investigation, but Moscow declined. Putin did not directly address the cause of the tragedy, stating only that the investigation was still ongoing, but his remarks seemed to imply that a grenade explosion took the

plane down. The biggest significant threat to Putin, who has been in power for more than 20 years, came from Prigozhin's spoiled uprising in June. The crash occurred exactly two months to the day after the insurrection began. Back in this country now, as Wisconsin authorities say, a man who illegally entered the state capitol with a loaded handgun and demanded to meet Governor Tony Evers later returned at night with an assault weapon after posting bail. According to Tatiana Warwick, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Administration, the suspect approached the governor's office on the first floor of the Capitol at 2 p.m. Wednesday, wearing no shirt and carrying a holstered revolver. A message from Capitol Police distributed to legislators and their staff stated that the 43-year-old man

threatened to stay until he saw Governor Evers to discuss, quote, domestic abuse toward men and would not leave until he saw the governor. According to Warwick, Evers wasn't in the building at the time. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have found that during the previous 10 years, the number of children killed by firearms has increased by 87 percent. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. Data on fatal and non-fatal shooting injuries from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Injury Reporting System in Atlanta were evaluated by researchers who discovered that the rate of fatal wounds climbed from almost 14 deaths per 100,000

children in 2011 to more than 17 deaths per 100,000 in 2021. According to a report published in the medical journal Pediatrics, 2,590 children died from gunshot injuries in 2021 as opposed to 1,311 in 2011. Over half of all non-fatal injuries fell during the same time frame, with motor vehicle injuries falling by 47 percent. In order to make a more precise prediction of the overall trends in pediatric injuries and aid in the development of preventative measures, the study examined patterns in both fatal and non-fatal injury among children. The report comes at a time when there have been increasing calls for stricter gun control in the U.S., particularly from political progressives. Kayla Decker separates from husband Daryl Decker when he goes to jail for domestic violence charges against her and her three children. Due to the abuse and Keala's struggle

with lupus, the children are placed in foster care. Keala keeps in close contact, visits regularly, attends weekly basketball games, and visits at church, hoping to reunite. Then, radio silence for months. Decker's social worker eventually reports her missing. Friends recall seeing her in person for the last time in December. All of her belongings and medications found in her home, where her cell phone last pinged in December. Kayla Decker now missing over nine months. If you have info on Kayla Decker, please call Kentucky State Police 270-782-2010. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

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