Grandfather of Victims Tries to Shoot Their Killer at Courthouse | Crime Alert 05.26.25
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🗓️ 26 May 2025
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Grandfather of two young children killed in a car crash fatally shot while trying to take vengeance. Macon, Georgia authorities investigate two shootings less than 24 hours apart.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Sidney Sumner. Danville, Indiana, a man with maybe vengeance, maybe suicide on his mind. |
| 0:15.9 | Just before 1 p.m., Mark Votter stands near the courthouse as two Hendricks County deputies begin escorting |
| 0:22.5 | inmates from a transport van. The 65-year-old reveals a concealed weapon, a handgun. He fires at least |
| 0:29.1 | once toward the group of inmates and officers. Deputy Zachary Emmett and Nathan Phillips return fire. |
| 0:35.4 | They strike Votter, who dies there. No one else is hurt. The Indiana |
| 0:39.5 | State Police take over the investigation. They later revealed the man he thought was on that |
| 0:44.4 | transport had his court date postponed. Sedoni Petty, accused of slaughtering Votter's two |
| 0:50.0 | grandchildren in a car crash, was not in the van that afternoon. Petty was running from police |
| 0:55.4 | in a stolen Honda Civic when he slammed the car into the side of a Ford Explorer with three-year-old |
| 1:00.7 | Aries and two-month-old Iris in the back seat. Their father, the driver, survived, but both |
| 1:06.1 | Iris and Ares burned to death when the explorer exploded. Votter shot into the crowd did not injure |
| 1:12.2 | anyone, but the sheriff's deputies did not miss. Just a few days before the shooting, Votter spoke |
| 1:17.8 | with the media at a walk of honor for Aries, saying it should have been his grandson burying him, |
| 1:22.8 | not the other way around. Neighbors believe Votter planned the attack for weeks, remembering a conversation where |
| 1:28.8 | Votter commented he didn't have long to live. The two deputies involved in the deadly shooting |
| 1:33.7 | are placed on administrative leave. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest |
| 1:41.3 | crime and justice breaking news, crime aligns John Lemley. |
| 1:44.9 | Four people are dead and eight others wounded after a violent weekend in central Georgia. |
| 1:51.0 | Authorities in Macon, a city about 160,000 residents in Bibb County are investigating two separate shootings that occurred less than 24 hours apart. |
| 2:01.7 | The most deadly took place early Sunday morning, May 18th, just after midnight, outside the Midtown Dackery Bar and Grill. |
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