Crime Alert 09.20.23
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Man shoots at driver turning around in his driveway. Joy rider steals an excavator.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.2 | A woman gets lost in a Missouri neighborhood, pulls into a driveway to get her bearings. |
| 0:07.9 | As she pulls in, the homeowner, a convicted felon, Eric Kellen, starts shooting at her. |
| 0:14.3 | She ducks down, tries to put the car in reverse, but is struck with shattered glass. |
| 0:19.2 | Unable to see, she gets out of the car, tries to run, but trips and falls to the ground, |
| 0:24.0 | breaking her knee. |
| 0:25.7 | Nancy, as a result of his felon status from a 2012 drug conviction, |
| 0:29.9 | Kellen is legally prohibited from owning guns. |
| 0:32.7 | It's unknown how Kellen came to be in possession of a weapon. |
| 0:35.9 | Neighbors called 911, but when cops arrived, a family member said Kellen had just left the property. |
| 0:41.4 | Cops eventually tracked Kellen down, and he admits to the shooting, |
| 0:44.8 | claiming he thought the driver was trying to steal his car. |
| 0:48.0 | Kellen 36, now facing assault and gun charges. |
| 0:51.8 | Jesse Smith spots an unsecured excavator at a construction site, |
| 0:56.4 | decides to take it for a joyride. |
| 0:58.9 | Of course, he does. |
| 1:00.3 | Smith plows through a storage unit with the excavator, taking out several power poles with the bucket, |
| 1:06.0 | as he drives down the street. |
| 1:08.0 | He ends the joyride at Walmart, where he busts through the exterior wall, |
| 1:12.6 | damaging the excavator so severely it won't operate. |
| 1:16.3 | Smith 47 charged with grand theft, trespassed property damage, and criminal mischief, |
| 1:21.8 | clean up on I-05, more crime and justice news after this. |
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