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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 11.27.24 | Son Forces Family to Watch While He Executes Father

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Son holds family at gunpoint as he shoots his father in the head. Wanted man refuses to get off his riding lawnmower for cops. 

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0:00.0

Crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Kirk Haslett the second shares in Minnesota

0:05.8

cabin with his brother. As they finished dinner, Haslett's brother notices a man with a gun

0:10.6

approaching the home, but by the time he retrieves his own gun, the man now recognized as Haslett's

0:16.7

son, Kirk Haslett the third, has already fired three shots at his father. The younger Haslett

0:23.7

forces his uncle to sit on the couch and watch as he fires six more shots at his dad,

0:30.0

killing him. Nancy, police had been to the cabin a month earlier when Haslett the second called

0:34.9

police on his drunken son for allegedly threatening him.

0:38.3

It was then that Haslett III was trespassed from the property and the security camera installed.

0:43.9

After the shooting, the younger Haslett returned home and called police,

0:47.7

not to turn himself in, but to address an issue with his girlfriend.

0:51.6

The girlfriend says Haslett has, quote, not seen eye to eye with his father

0:55.6

for quite some time. Kirk Haslett III, 31, now charged with murder and kidnapped. Michigan police

1:02.8

attempt to arrest James Kerr, 41, at his home on outstanding warrants. Kerr, however, refuses

1:08.7

to get off his riding lawnmower to get arrested. He actually

1:12.9

chases an officer with the mower, but then rides away when the cop reaches for a taser.

1:18.7

Kerr eventually crashes the lawnmower in a ditch and pulls a handgun from a hidden holster

1:25.2

on the lawnmower. The officer immediately tases Kerr, who shoots himself

1:31.6

in the hand. He's arrested after a quick detour to the hospital, additionally charged with

1:37.8

resisting an officer. How about that fleeing felon on a lawnmower? That's a new one.

1:45.1

More crime and justice news after this.

1:50.8

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

1:53.5

Crime Online's John Lindley.

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