Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Knicks Win Celebrations Spiral into Chaos Across NYC | Crime Alert 06.15.26

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Knicks win celebrations see a teen shot, widespread property damage, and 10 injured NYPD officers. Shooter identified in Friday Midland attack that left 10 injured and one dead. Florida father abandons four-year-old child in bid to escape arrest on active warrants. 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. A historic night of celebration in New York City turned into absolute chaos as a long-awaited championship victory devolved into a night of gunfire, stabbings, and widespread riots.

Officers responded to a shooting at approximately 201 a.m. early Sunday morning near 42nd Street and Broadway. A 17-year-old male was shot once in the... the left foot. Due to the massive, unruly crowds, responding ambulances could not access the scene, forcing NYPD officers to transport the bleeding teenager to Bellevue Hospital themselves. He remains there in stable condition. Three persons of interest were immediately taken into custody and a firearm was recovered at the scene. The violence erupted just hours after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94 to 90 in game five of the NBA finals down in Texas. Even though

the franchise's first NBA title since 1973 was clinched thousands of miles away, the NYPD maintained a massive presence around Madison Square Garden. Ahead of the game, New York City Mayor Zoran Mandani urged fans on social media to celebrate responsibly, writing, look out for one another, and make this a night that reflects the very best of our city. Those calls for peace were utterly ignored. One social media video showed individuals jumping onto the roof of an NYPD patrol vehicle and smashing its windshield. Flames erupted from a school bus that was intentionally lit on fire on 42nd Street near 8th Avenue. A total of five school buses were set ablaze or completely destroyed by rioters wielding baseball bats. These buses were actively being used to transport people from Manhattan to MetLife

Stadium for the World Cup Games. Amid the unfolding madness, multiple personal vehicles were destroyed. Rioters let dangerous fireworks directly inside tightly packed crowds and individuals scaled light poles, traffic lights, and construction scaffolding as massive brawls broke out. The NYPD executed 63 arrests. The laundry list of charges includes assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstruction of governmental administration. The toll on law enforcement was also heavy.

Ten members of the NYPD were injured during the riots, including one officer who was punched squarely in the face and another who was struck by a glass bottle. More Crime and Justice News after this. Happy Pride Months, Toronto. Pride is an opportunity for you to create your own space, to celebrate your existence. IHeart Radio is proud to be an official sponsor of Pride Toronto Festival and we won't stop. Celebrate Pride. Turn up the love and listen to IHeart Pride Canada.

Your 24-7 radio stream and the only playlist you need for your Toronto Pride celebrations. Pride is so great because it gives a whole bunch of people this visibility that they've never. We have a ton to celebrate Toronto. Happy pride. Iheart radio. In Midland, Texas, officials have identified the gunmen who barricaded himself inside a building on West Wall Street Friday morning as 45-year-old Victor Mata Villa Real. The incident began around 8 a.m. when Villa Real opened fire on law enforcement officers and innocent bystanders. The gunfire claimed the life of Ed Scott, a city of Midland employee, and left 10 others injured. Jeremy Beard was driving to work when the shooting started. Beard says he could actually feel the vibrations of the gunfire breaking through the loud music in his SUV.

When he looked at the pickup truck next to him, he saw the driver doubled over and clutching his stomach. Beard managed to speed away to safety as further gunshots rang out, later expressing deep heartbreak that he wasn't able to help the wounded driver. Responding officers were instantly pinned down behind their patrol vehicles. It was only after heavily armored tactical vehicles arrived that those officers were rescued. Police then moved through Highway 80 to extract civilians. aliens trapped inside their cars and deny the shooter further targets. Villarreal eventually retreated into an abandoned veterinary clinic, sparking a tense hours-long

standoff. At approximately 12.30 p.m., tactical units entered the building and found Villarreal dead inside. Investigators have since revealed that Villa Rial was already a wanted man. He had an active warrant for the attempted capital murder of a police officer after firing shots at an officer during a high-speed pursuit just two days prior on Wednesday. Nine victims were rushed to Midland Memorial Hospital, where two remain in critical condition, and two were in fair condition. The city of Midland issued a statement remembering Ed Scott as a loving father, husband, and an integral figure in local softball organizations. Finally, in Orlando, Florida,

a routine traffic stop escalated into a high-speed pursuit that ended with a suspect committing a heartless act of child abandonment. The Orange County Sheriff's Office attempted to pull over 24-year-old Jason Kenan on Tuesday. Kennan, who was wanted on multiple active, arrest warrants refused to stop his car. With him was an adult passenger and two young children, aged one and four. A sheriff's helicopter tracking the vehicle from above captured Kennan plowing directly into the rear end of a black SUV at a stop sign. Kenan kept driving, eventually pulling into a residential neighborhood where he forced the adult passenger and the one-year-old child out of the car. The four-year-old child desperately tried to escape the vehicle as well,

but Kennan accelerated before the toddler could get out. I stopped and letting out a passenger. Took a baby out of the back of the car. Another child tried to get out of the backseat, but he kept driving. So you got one kid in the backseat of the car. Kenan then pulled up near a building, stepping out of the vehicle, and yanked the four-year-old child out of the back seat. The young child began desperately following Kenan as he fled on foot from law enforcement. Doors open.

He's getting the child out now, and he's running southwest. The kid's running behind him, moving southbound. In a desperate bid to move faster, Kenon kicked his shoes off his seat. feet and began running barefoot in the exact opposite direction of the toddler, completely abandoning the child to save his own skin. I already left the kid behind, coming back out of the parking lot, continuing south, right to that more car. Kenan ran directly out into the roadway, attempting to scale a large fence leading to a heavily

wooded area. But his run came to an abrupt end as two police cruisers converged on his position with deputies drawing their weapons and screaming orders. Come on. You're going to get paid. You're on the grill. You're on grill. Another responding deputy rushed to rescue the abandoned four-year-old child who was found wandering nearby, terrified, and sobbing.

It's okay. It's okay. Only big boys get the stars. The brave ones. The brave big boys. You're a brave big boy. Give me a bump. When deputies recovered the weeping four-year-old, the child was clutching Kenan's discarded shoes. Miraculously, neither child was physically injured during the high-speed ordeal. Court records show that Kenan now faces seven strict criminal charges, including aggravated fleeing and alluding, two counts of child neglect, leaving the scene of a crash, reckless driving, possession of marijuana, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Authorities have not yet specified which act of warrants triggered Tuesday's initial pursuit. For the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app. With this crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvani.

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