Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Horrific Kentucky Homicide Leads to Multi-State Hunt for Suspect | Crime Alert 10.07.26

Episode Date: October 7, 2026

A brutal murder in Kentucky leads to a multi-state manhunt ending in the arrest of a suspect in Tennessee. In Baltimore, tragedy strikes a youth football game when a 12-year-old girl is killed in a shooting triggered by a dispute over a parking spot. Meanwhile, an Atlanta robbery suspect leads authorities on a chase in a stolen police cruiser before crashing into a tanker truck on the interstate. Sydney Silvagni reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney. An unthinkable act of violence in Kentucky has resulted in an unlikely arrest over 250 miles away in Tennessee.

On September 23rd, Pineville police officers and members of the Bell County Coroner's Office responded to a home in Pineville, Kentucky, located approximately 125 miles south of Lexington. Inside, they found 41-year-old April Barlow Celio, a married mother of three, deceased. Responding officers quickly determined Celio's death to be a homicide. While performing an autopsy, the state medical examiner's office revealed Celio had been pregnant at the time of her death, but her unborn child had been forcibly removed from her wound. Police, Bell County Sheriff's deputies, and Kentucky State Police returned to Celio's residence

where they discovered what officials believed to be fetal remains. Two days after Celio was found dead on September 25th, two arrest warrants for first-degree robbery and kidnapping were issued by a Bell County District Court judge for 41-year-old Demarchus Kenneth Johnson Wright. On September 30th, two more warrants were issued for Johnson Wright's arrest on suspicion of murder and tamper. with physical evidence. That same day, Kentucky officials asked the U.S. Marshal Service for help locating Johnson Wright, who authorities believed was hiding in another state. By 11 p.m. that evening, federal marshals tracked him down to a home in Clarksville, Tennessee, over 250 miles away from the crime scene. A search warrant was executed, and materials relating to the case were recovered.

Records show Johnson Wright was residing in Tennessee at the time of Celio's death and had existed. resisting warrants for aggravated robbery, kidnapping, domestic violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Officials declined to comment on whether the two knew each other. Johnson Wright is held at the Montgomery County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Kentucky. Meanwhile, Celio's sister, Amanda DePaz, started a go-fund me for Celio's three children, writing, one moment she was here, someone we could call, hug, laugh with, and love. and now we are trying to figure out how to say goodbye to her far too soon. She was very loved by her family.

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A fourth victim, a 35-year-old woman, was treated for a graze wound to her back. Chloe's family remembers her as a beloved daughter, sister, and granddaughter. Her grandmother, Donna Reese, spoke to CBS about the tragedy. It's so heartbreaking, and this is just, Like, at a kid's event, like, we never expected that she was with her mom and her brother. This could have been way worse. Reese spoke about their close bond, recalling Chloe as a grandma's girl who called her every day after work. Chloe's mother, Kristen Reese, also spoke with CBS expressing how much she was going to miss her daughter. Chloe, I love you, I'm going to miss you, and you forever 12, you forever my baby.

Now, you have a live through me, and I know she is in a good place, and I know she has hit me, so that's all it matters. Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley stated the shooting began after an argument over a parking spot. Worley alleged two men fought and drew guns, firing multiple rounds down range and striking Chloe near the field. Police are searching for at least two male suspects. On Monday, October 5th, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott addressed the ongoing investigation. The detectives have been working around the clock to bring the people to justice and turn them over to the state.

Mayor Scott condemned the suspects, calling them so-called men whose argument cost a young girl her life. In Atlanta, Georgia, a robbery suspect is in custody after stealing a marked police car and crashing into a tanker truck on Interstate 675. Atlanta police identified the suspect as 30-year-old Phelon Thorpe, wanted for a Saturday robbery near the beach. Midtown Marda Station at 10th Street in West Peachtree Street. Investigators say Thorpe followed a woman from the station, claimed to have a gun, and demanded her purse and iPhone. After a physical struggle where Thorpe punched her with a closed fist, he took her phone and driver's license and fled. The victim was hospitalized and police released surveillance video before charging Thorpe with robbery and simple battery.

Shortly after 5.15 p.m. Monday, officers responded to Thomasville Drive, southeast after reports of a wanted, possibly armed man. When officers investigated, Thorpe got into a marked patrol car parked outside and drove away. Thorpe drove into neighboring Clayton County and crashed into a tanker truck on Interstate 675. He was apprehended with minor injuries and hospitalized. No officers or civilians were injured. It remains unclear how Thorpe accessed the cruiser or if a gun was recovered. Additional charges regarding the car theft and crash remain pending. For more crime and justice news, be sure to join us for crime stories with Nancy Grace on Fox One, YouTube, SiriusXM, and now streaming on 2B. With this crime alert, I'm Sidney-Silvani.

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