4.18.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: FSU Shooting | The Questions You Need To Be Asking

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Today Nancy Grace and Sheryl McCollum discuss the recent mass shooting at Florida State University, digging into the motive, the method, and the impact. They dissect the systemic failures, the overlooked warning signs, and the questions you should be asking.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
(0:10) Sherly and Nancy dedicate CRU to the recent FSU shooting
(1:00) Two people dead, six injured
(1:30) When the unthinkable repeats
(4:30) Shooter used sheriff deputy mom’s weapon
(4:45) “Had to be a swipe at his mom” -Nancy Grace
(6:30) Ripple effect mass shootings have
(10:00) Intentionality around the time of shooting
(17:00) “I don't know the answer, but asking why and trying to figure out what was going on in his mind is like going in your crazy aunt's attic and trying to make sense of it.” -Nancy Grace
(20:00) Support goes out to victims families
(20:30) The power of prayer

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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime- fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people and shines a light on cold cases.

In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/

Connect with Nancy:

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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.

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Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crime Roundup.
0:11.2	It is a beautiful day at Atlanta, X-Graise.
0:15.7	It really is, and it's good for me.
0:19.0	And I'm just right now thinking about what Florida has been through again.
0:25.8	I mean, you know, it just seems to me like we do the same thing over and over and over again.
0:34.9	And from what I understand, victims are fighting for their lives in a hospital right now.
0:41.0	You know, they go, it hit me, Cheryl, when Keith was murdered, my fiance,
0:47.2	and I used that basically as, you know, my North Star when I analyze cases, always on behalf of a crime victim,
0:57.0	you start your day normally.
0:59.1	You think, well, you know, think everything's fine.
1:02.0	You're too dumb to think it's not fine.
1:04.0	You just go about your business.
1:06.0	And then suddenly, the next thing you know, your life is completely ripped apart.
1:11.2	And that's the same thing that's happened to these families.
1:15.7	Two people dead as of this moment, unless it's gone up in the last hour and I don't know about it.
1:21.9	And six injured.
1:23.2	And I don't mean just injured.
1:25.3	I mean fighting for their lives.
1:27.4	I mean people stand in the hospital
1:29.2	hallways, praying in the waiting rooms, just prayer chains, chasing doctors down the hall,
1:36.6	the whole shebang again. And sometimes Cheryl, when I'm working a case, investigating a case,
1:44.5	it's not just the pain of that case and what I think the families are going through.
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