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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Mom Refuses to Allow EMTs Access to Dying Child | Crime Alert 03.24.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Washington State EMTs respond to a call about a child overdosing, but the child’s mother refuses to let them inside. Owner of a stolen car more concerned about his mother's ashes left inside. 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Washington State first responders answer a child

0:06.3

overdose call. When EMTs arrived, the child's mother refuses to let them inside to treat the toddler.

0:12.5

Cops have to force their way in. Thankfully, the child's grandma already administered two doses of Narcan,

0:19.6

and after treatment, the child is expected to survive.

0:23.7

The mother, Summer Ward, found carrying a plastic bag full of meth.

0:29.0

Nancy, in addition to the three-year-old that overdosed, Ward is also a mother to a two-year-old.

0:33.8

Both children were taken into protective custody after the incident.

0:37.3

The meth was found in a small

0:38.5

plastic bag concealed in ward's clothes. It's unclear how her child was exposed to the drugs, but thanks

0:44.5

to the grandmother's quick thinking, the child should recover. Summer Ward, 27 now charged with child

0:50.0

endangerment, criminal mistreatment, drug possession, and obstructing an officer.

0:56.1

After his mom's death, Larry Carter Jr. commissions a custom Dodge Charger in her favorite color,

1:01.5

purple. Carter occasionally takes the car for joy rides like he used to with his mom. On the

1:06.5

rides, he always carries a portion of his mom's ashes. One morning, he finds his garage opened, the car stolen, along with it, his mom's ashes.

1:17.6

He immediately reports the theft and calls Florida cops again the next day.

1:21.9

Overnight, the thieves return and put the ashes in the mailbox.

1:27.4

Although there's no sign of the car yet, Carter's thankful to have his mother's ashes

1:31.9

returned.

1:32.9

Florida cops still searching for the suspects.

1:36.6

More crime and justice news after this.

1:40.3

A devastating crash on Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas, has left five people dead and several

1:47.4

others injured. Police say the driver responsible was under the influence. Authorities report that

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