Crime Alert 11.28.24 | Teens Beat Mugging Victim to Death
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Two teens beat mugging victim to death. Rental applicant pretends to be an undercover to avoid background check.
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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. He starts feeling he's being |
| 0:11.1 | watched when two teens lunged toward him. He tries to defend himself, but the teens overpower him |
| 0:16.7 | and beat him to a pulp. EMTs find him unconscious, severely injured, phone and wallet, missing. |
| 0:23.0 | He dies in the hospital after a week in a coma. |
| 0:26.1 | Nancy, the teens are suspected in three other robberies that same day |
| 0:29.9 | and were found sleeping in the back of a stolen car. |
| 0:33.1 | Smith's family is devastated by the loss, still grieving another death in the family. |
| 0:38.5 | Smith's brother passed away from a brain aneurysm just three months ago in the same hospital where Smith died. |
| 0:44.0 | Smith's mother, Leila Sandoval, is looking for justice, saying, quote, they killed my son over a |
| 0:49.3 | credit card with a very low balance and a cell phone. These people have taken away my whole entire life. |
| 0:55.5 | The teens 14 and 16 now charged with three counts of robbery and assault. |
| 0:59.7 | Police will upgrade those charges. |
| 1:02.6 | William Milstein knows his application to lease a Florida home will be denied when the owner |
| 1:07.1 | gets his background check. |
| 1:09.1 | So Milstein comes up with a brilliant idea to get out of the background check requirement. |
| 1:14.9 | He submits a letter from the quote, Florida Department of Law Enforcement. |
| 1:19.3 | Informing the realtor, he's an undercover cop in the off-grid command unit and therefore cannot submit to a background check. Suspicious of all the |
| 1:29.2 | errors in the letter, the realtor contacts police. Turns out Milsteed has 13 prior felony |
| 1:36.1 | arrest, two for impersonating an officer. Milsteed 64 arrested for the 14th time on charges of impersonating an officer. |
| 1:46.4 | I don't think he got the lease. |
| 1:48.1 | More crime and justice news after this. |
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