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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 02.21.25 | D.C. Teens Beat Man to Death in Mugging

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Two young teens beat a man to death for his cellphone and wallet. Man previously arrested for impersonating officers tries to avoid a background check...by pretending to be a police officer!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Brian Smith, a well-known D.C. area DJ,

0:06.4

walks home in the early morning hours from a Saturday night shift. Two teens lunge at him. He tries to defend himself.

0:12.7

The 14 and 16-year-old overpower him and beat him to a pulp. E.M.T.s find him unconscious and severely injured.

0:22.0

Phone and wallet missing.

0:25.1

Brian Smith dies in the hospital a week later.

0:29.0

Nancy, the teens are suspected in three other robberies that same day and were found sleeping in the back of a stolen car.

0:31.8

Smith's family is devastated by the loss, still grieving another death in the family.

0:36.4

Smith's brother passed away from a brain

0:38.3

aneurysm just three months ago in the same hospital where Smith died. Smith's mother, Leila Sandoval,

0:43.7

is looking for justice, saying, quote, they killed my son over a credit card with a very low balance

0:49.0

and a cell phone. These people have taken away my whole entire life. The teens 14 and 16 now charged three counts robbery and assault,

0:56.6

but police expect to upgrade those charges to felony murder.

1:01.5

William Milstein knows his application to lease the Florida home

1:04.6

will be denied when the owner gets his background check,

1:07.4

so he comes up with a brilliant plan to get out of the requirement. He submits a letter

1:12.3

from the, quote, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, informing the realtor that he, Milsteed, is an

1:19.7

undercover cop in the, quote, off-grid command unit, whatever that is, and therefore cannot submit to a background check. Suspicious of all the

1:30.4

errors in the letter spelling and grammatical, the realtor immediately calls police. Turns out

1:36.1

Mill State has 13 prior felonies, two of them for impersonating an officer. And this makes 14.

1:42.8

Guess what? I don't think he got the lease. More crime

1:46.1

and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

1:53.3

crime online is John Limley. An 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty in a shooting that

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