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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 04.21.23

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

16-year-old at the wrong address shot by the homeowner. Girlfriend shot dead after refusing to have her boyfriend's baby.

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0:00.0

Prime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Ralph Yarl's mom asked him to pick

0:05.0

up his younger siblings from her friend's house. He makes his up the numbers in the address

0:09.2

and knocks at the wrong door.

0:10.5

Homeowner, Andrew Lester, comes to the door, shoots through the glass, hitting the

0:15.9

honor student Yarl in the head, shooting twice more after the teen boy falls to the ground.

0:21.7

Crime Online's John Lemley Nancy Lester told police that he was in bed when the doorbell

0:26.8

rang, so he answered the door with a 32-calibre revolver. Lester said Yarl was pulling on his

0:32.9

screen door and assumed he was a burglar, so he shot him out of fear. At the hospital,

0:38.4

Yarl told police he was just waiting on the front stoop when he was met with gunfire.

0:43.9

As Yarl ran away, he heard Lester yell, don't come around here.

0:47.7

Yarl released from the hospital now recovering Lester 84, charged with aggravated assault

0:53.0

and felony gun use.

0:55.1

Jade Alvarez gets arrived from a friend to boyfriend at a bird's house. That's the

0:59.7

last time Jade is seen alive. That night, Bird asks Alvarez to have a baby with him. Alvarez

1:06.8

refuses. Bird gets angry and shoots his lover. Alvarez dead.

1:11.7

Alvarez's friend became concerned when the mother to a three-year-old son would not

1:16.4

return her phone calls. She told authorities she left Alvarez with Bird. Bird, who had

1:22.2

an outstanding warrant for aggravated robbery, was arrested and questioned, admitting to authorities

1:27.7

he shot and killed Alvarez. Based on Bird's confession authorities identified Alvarez

1:33.2

as a woman they found shot dead several days before the arrest.

1:37.2

Bird, 23, now charged with murder. More crime and justice news after this.

1:43.6

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online is John Lennlite. A sister

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