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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 10.28.24 | Jogging Trail Shooter Caught by Coincidence

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa Lotkis' killer caught quickly with bystander video and pure coincidence. Would be thief chooses prison over death. 

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0:00.0

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

0:03.6

Alyssa Lottkis 34 sets out for a jog on the Mill Creek Greenway, Nashville.

0:08.5

When a man starts following her, others on the trail suddenly hear screams for help followed by gunfire.

0:15.0

Bystanders find Alyssa bleeding from a gunshot wound.

0:17.6

She dies at the hospital.

0:19.4

Surveillance video captures an Asian male covered in blood running from the trail to a dark colored car.

0:26.4

A cop happens to recognize the suspect as Paul Park.

0:30.0

The officer investigated the suicide of Park's twin brother just the month before.

0:34.0

Nancy, a parked car catches dash cam footage of Park running to his car and gets a partial shot of his

0:39.6

license plate. It was from that footage a police officer recognized Park.

0:44.0

Park reportedly had no connection to Lockett's, a doctor of speech pathology.

0:48.0

A Nashville citizen on the Greenway that evening says Park pulled up next to her car as she was leaving and asked

0:54.2

her what had happened with a smirk on his face. Paul Park 29 now charged with

0:58.8

murder. Richard Curtis flashes a gun sliding an Austin Pizza Shop employee a note demanding the money

1:06.0

from the register. Instead, the employee lunges across the counter putting Curtis in a headlock.

1:12.3

Another employee grabs Curtis's gun and pistol whips him.

1:15.9

Curtis continues fighting until their manager comes from the back with a knife. The manager

1:20.6

asks Curtis, do you prefer prison or death?

1:24.2

Curtis stopped struggling and calmly waits for cops to arrive.

1:27.9

Richard Curtis, 19, now charged with aggravated robbery. More crime and justice news after this.

1:34.0

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

1:41.0

Crime Online's John Lemley.

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