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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 01.23.25| Tennessee Homeowner Shoots at Family Sledding "On His Property"

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Homeowner fires shots feet away from a toddler, claiming family of 6 is trespassing. Disney employee in charge of restaurant menus sentenced for revenge destruction. 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now.

0:03.0

A Tennessee family of six grabs sledding gear to enjoy the snow.

0:07.0

Suddenly, they hear gunshots and see a man seemingly shooting directly at them from his backyard.

0:13.0

The parents scream for him to stop as bullets call snow to fly up just feet away from their one-year-old boy.

0:20.0

Benjamin Cook insists the family's on his

0:22.9

property and fire several more shots as the family runs for it. Nancy, the family immediately calls

0:28.6

police when they make it to safety. Neighbors show officers photos of Cook carrying a black

0:33.5

rifle in the same snow gear he answers his front door in. Cook confirms he did fire

0:38.3

shots at the family, reiterating that they were on his property. Though the property line is not

0:43.5

the legal issue here, investigation reveals the family was not on Cook's property before

0:48.7

Cook is carted off to jail. Benjamin Cook, 56, now charged with six counts ag assault. Michael Schuer furious

0:57.7

when Disney removes his job duty, the task of creating menus for park restaurants.

1:03.5

Schuwer discovers his password still work, so he makes several edits to every menu, changing

1:09.9

the font to wingdings, made up symbols,

1:13.8

add profanity, and marks dishes containing peanuts as being allergen-safe.

1:20.0

She were also accesses employees' personal info and eggs one of the employees' homes.

1:25.9

She were pleased guilty to multiple charges in hopes of a more favorable sentence than the maximum

1:31.0

10 years and thousands in fines.

1:33.8

More crime and justice news after this.

1:39.5

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online is John Limley.

1:43.2

In Tennessee, sentencing for five former Memphis police officers convicted in federal court for

1:49.0

their role in the beating death of Tyree Nichols has been delayed until after their state

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