California Officer Held Hostage in Armed Robbery Suspect's Speeding Car | Crime Alert 04.29.26
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Officer responding to an armed robbery taken along for a getaway ride, forced to shoot suspect to bring the car to a stop. Ohio semi-truck driver with fraudulent ID kills young family in fiery crash. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.4 | Crime Alert, hourly update. |
| 0:07.5 | Breaking Crime News Now. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Sidney. |
| 0:10.8 | New harrowing body camera footage has been released by the Antioch Police Department, |
| 0:15.4 | documenting a chaotic sequence of events that began with a routine robbery call |
| 0:19.7 | and ended with a police officer being |
| 0:21.8 | kidnapped and forced to discharge his weapon inside a speeding getaway car. The incident started in the |
| 0:28.2 | pre-dawn hours of February 20th, right around 5.16 a.m. Antioch officers were dispatched to a |
| 0:34.7 | food max grocery store on Lone Treeway after reports came in |
| 0:38.7 | of an armed robbery in progress involving multiple suspects. Surveillance video from the scene |
| 0:44.4 | shows a stolen Infinity SUV literally smashing through the front glass doors of the store. |
| 0:50.2 | Two men jumped out and allegedly threatened a clerk with a handgun. When Officer Travis Donaldson arrived on the scene, he attempted to intervene. |
| 0:58.2 | He approached the passenger side of the suspect's vehicle, but as you're about to hear, |
| 1:02.7 | the situation escalated from a detention to a life-threatening struggle in a matter of seconds. |
| 1:08.0 | Let me see your hands. |
| 1:08.8 | Hey! Hey! |
| 1:10.2 | Let me see your head. Let me see your hands. Hey! Hey! Let me see your head. |
| 1:12.7 | Let me see your hand. |
| 1:14.9 | Hey! |
| 1:16.3 | As Donaldson was shouting those commands, the suspect identified later as 23-year-old Dominic |
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