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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 02.04.25 | Off-Duty ATF Officer Permanently Paralyzed in Shooting Attack

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Off-Duty ATF Officer attempting to break up a fight shot in the back of the neck and permanently paralyzed. FFA Diva poisons competitor's goat!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Off-duty ATF agent Matthew Murray bowling with his family and friends when a fight breaks out near the front door of the Riverview, Florida bowling alley. Murray IDs himself as law enforcement and tries to break up the fight between two men and a woman. One of the aggressors, Christopher Smith, throws a bottle at Murray who hits Smith in the shoulder. Smith pulls a gun as

0:22.6

Murray walks away, shooting him in the back of the neck before running. Nancy, Murray's family calls

0:27.8

911 and he's rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Emergency surgery partially stabilizes

0:33.4

Murray, but doctors say he will be permanently paralyzed. Smith is arrested at a nearby home

0:38.6

just a few hours after the shooting, but the gun used in the attack has not been located. Smith does

0:44.2

admit to the shooting but says he only shot because Murray punched him. The teen denied Bond and a woman

0:49.9

who helped him hide after the shooting now charged as an accessory. Christopher Smith, 18, now charged with attempted murder.

0:58.0

Reigning show goat champ, 17-year-old Aubrey Van Landingham,

1:02.7

has serious concerns a younger student's Project Goat might upstage her goat Lacey

1:08.7

at an upcoming competition.

1:13.9

So what does she do? Van Landingham sneaks into the school barn, fills a bottle with pesticide, and feeds it to poor innocent goat Willie, the competitor.

1:22.6

Well, of course, Willie dies in his owner's arms the next day. Van Landingham's plan would have worked had the entire

1:28.9

incident not been caught on surveillance video. Van Landingham now charged with cruelty to livestock

1:34.7

and by court order barred from contact with family pets all over a goat competition. More

1:42.3

crime and justice news after this.

1:51.9

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

1:57.5

In a significant legal development, Yoni Barrios, the individual charged in the October 22 stabbing spree on the Las Vegas Strip has entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill

2:02.9

to charges of murder and terrorism. This deadly incident claimed the lives of two individuals

2:08.5

and injuries to six others, including performers dressed as showgirls and tourists. The 34-year-old

2:15.2

Barrios reached this plea agreement with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty.

2:19.8

He's now expected to receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

2:24.5

His attorney, Scott Coffey, emphasized that the agreement acknowledges Barrios' mental health issues.

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