Crime Alert 02.07.25 | Mom Burns Down Home with Sleeping Children Inside
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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Summary
Mom removes all the smoke detectors then sets house on fire, with her three sleeping children inside. Video game addict batters his roommate with a bologna sandwhich.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Reconda Singleton carefully removes all seven |
| 0:06.1 | fire alarms from her Grand Rapids, Michigan home, where her three children, ages 12, 10, and 7, |
| 0:11.9 | are sleeping. Then, after removing the fire alarms, she sprays a second floor bathroom with lighter fluid |
| 0:19.4 | and strikes a match. |
| 0:21.6 | Heads downstairs, repeats the process onto the living room couch, |
| 0:26.8 | then locks all the doors and stands outside watching as the fire spreads and her children |
| 0:34.0 | scream for help. |
| 0:35.8 | Singleton's middle daughter grabs the younger sister and jumps |
| 0:39.7 | from a second floor window to safety, but the 12-year-old Shemaya doesn't make it out. Nancy |
| 0:46.4 | body cam footage shows firefighters pulling Shemaya from a second-story window, unconscious. First responders |
| 0:52.7 | start CPR and transport her to a hospital, but |
| 0:55.7 | Shemaiah dies two days later. Singleton tells investigators she wanted to, quote, die with her three |
| 1:01.7 | daughters so they could be free, but Singleton made no attempt at suicide after lighting the house on fire. |
| 1:08.2 | Singleton was ordered in court to undergo inpatient mental health treatment last |
| 1:12.6 | year, and prosecutors fear they may be forced to take an insanity plea. Reconda Singleton 46 charged with |
| 1:18.7 | arson, child abuse, and murder. A Florida man's video game addiction lands him behind bars again. |
| 1:26.8 | Equavius Chandler gets in an argument with his roommate |
| 1:29.7 | when he arrives home and finds his PlayStation 5 missing from his bedroom. The roommate tells |
| 1:35.4 | Chandler he took it because he's too loud when he plays. Response? Chandler throws a bologna sandwich |
| 1:42.2 | at the roommate. Cops are called and would normally issue a misdemeanor, but Chandler throws a baloney sandwich at the roommate. Cops are called and would normally issue a misdemeanor, |
| 1:47.3 | but Chandler was previously convicted of choking his sister and threatening his father with a knife after losing his video game. |
| 1:56.8 | Well, history is repeating itself. |
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