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

An eight-year-old girl rushed to North Carolina,

ER with severe injuries to her head and body.

The little girl dies.

Cops speak to the girl's legal guardian, her grandmother,

and five other children in the home,

and they learn grandma, Patricia Rick, 72, beat the little girl dead.

Crime Alert's John Lemley.

Nancy Rick's was the primary caregiver of her grandchildren,

including the child who died at her hands and her siblings.

Police are still investigating what sparked the brutal attack on the child,

but Rick's is reportedly not cooperating with the investigation.

Rick's is currently held without bond for the girl's death.

The other children now taken into protective custody,

grandma Rick's charged with murder and child abuse.

California cops see no way Mendoza driving erratically,

single for him to pull over.

He seems to comply, pulling into a gas station, parking a lot,

but then he gets out and starts shooting at the patrol car.

When officers shoot back, Mendoza takes off.

He's later found at home where he shoots at cops yet again, injuring one.

Mendoza was caught and arrested after the second shootout.

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