Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 12.11.23

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

Carjackers take off in stolen car, with a toddler in the back seat. Man refuses to pay for a tattoo, but pays his bail for stealing said tattoo.  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. A woman gets distracted pumping gas in Delaware. Randy Purnell and Aaron Douglas take advantage of that and take off in her running car. The woman runs after them, screaming, and calls 911. Her one-year-old daughter is in the back seat. That afternoon, Purnell and Douglas stop at a Pennsylvania liquor store, ask a customer to hold their baby, and take off. The little girl returned to mom. The hunt for the carjackers is on. Nancy, the toddler was taken to a hospital where doctors confirmed she was unharmed before she was taken home.

From the liquor store, police tracked down the woman's stolen car, a 2010 Nissan Altima, and took Purnell and Douglas into custody. Police reportedly also found a stolen Nissan SUV with the suspects. Purnell, 42, Douglas, 35, now charged with grand theft, kidnap, and endangering a child. Max Kragekant asked a Florida tattoo artist to ink the Waffle House sign on his calf. To go cheap, he skips out on the iconic yellow and chooses black and white. When it's all said and done, he refuses to pay for the tattoo. The tattooist argues, then searches Kragekant for a wallet only finding six bucks and a driver's license. Cops are called and Krage can't hold off to jail, but he pays his $150 bond, which is more than half of what the tattoo would have cost in the first place. He probably

could have gotten a jailhouse tattoo for free. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. According to authorities in Nevada, the 67-year-old gunman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who shot and killed three faculty members and injured a fourth during an approximately 10-minute spree, had a list of targets inside the institution in addition to more than 150 rounds of ammunition. With the latest, here's Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. The suspect, Anthony Pulido, a longtime business professor who resided in nearby Henderson, Nevada, was identified by Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMayhill as the person shot and killed by law enforcement.

At a press conference, the sheriff stated that while police are still looking into a motive, they do know that Pulido had applied for multiple jobs at different Nevada colleges and institutions and had been turned down each time. However, Polito did have an adjunct faculty contract with Roseman University of Health Sciences in Henderson, and from October 2018 to June 2022, he taught two courses in the Master of Business Administration program at the university. According to school spokesperson Jason Roth, he left after the program was discontinued. According to Sheriff McMayhill, it was around midday on Wednesday that the gunmen rampaged through the upper three stories of UNLV's five-story Lee Business School, frightening both professors and students as they cowered in classrooms and offices. McMayhill says that about 15 minutes before the incident, Pulido drove a 2007 Lexus to UNLV.

Shortly after 11.30 a.m., he exited his vehicle, put items in his waistline, and went into the business school. About 15 minutes later, there were the first reports of gunshots. UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield named Patricia Navarro-Velez and Jerry Chang as two of the deceased victims who were professors of business at UNLV. Whitfield stated that after family members are informed of the death, the identity of the third victim will be disclosed. During a mental health crisis in August, a man accused of killing six people in a shooting rampage through two major Texas cities was approached by sheriff's officers and could have been detained on a violation for ripping off an ankle monitor. Instead, the officers left Shane James Jr. naked and screaming

profanities at his family members through a barricaded interior door. Deputies might have taken James into custody and removed him from the room if the meeting had occurred a month later, when a new state statute had rendered turning off an ankle monitor a felony in Nevada. According to Florida officials, a 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a 20-year-old man during a Halloween weekend mass shooting in Tampa's Ybor City. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. According to Tampa Police Chief Lee Bearcaw, the adolescent is also charged with attempted aggravated violence and attempted

murder in connection with the incident. Bullets and shot casings, he said, linked the boy to the 20-year-old victim, Harrison Boonstoppel. Detectives say a fight between two groups erupted in the early morning hours of October 29th while people were celebrating Halloween in one of Tampa's entertainment districts. 22-year-old Tyrell Stephen Phillips was arrested later that day and charged with second-degree murder with a handgun. He is charged with the murder of 14-year-old Elijah Wilson. At a press conference last week, Chief Bearcoss said that a third suspect who officials say fired shots into a crowd has been charged with attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery with a

handgun. That suspect was identified as 21-year-old Dwayne Tillman Jr. Chief Bearclaw stated that authorities suspected there was a second gunman in the shooting and that a $27,000 reward is available for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Thanks, John. Matthew Grant, a Rochester Tech student, tells roommates he's heading out to meet a friend, but he never comes back. His roommates report him missing the next day. Surveillance video shows him leaving campus and getting on the freeway. He exits an hour and a half later near Syracuse. His phone shows he was studying maps of the Adirondack Mountains, the North Country, and the Appalachian Trails in weeks leading up to

his disappearance. The Grant family says Matthew told them he wanted to explore the outdoors beyond Rochester and they think something horrible happened to him while hiking. Matthew Grant now missing three weeks. Last seen wearing a green jacket and jeans, driving a gray Jeep Cherokee with Michigan plate number E-Elephant-S-Sally-R-Robert-8141. Repeat, ESR-8141. Please call 911 with any info or sightings of Matthew Grant. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.