NFL STAR & WIFE SHOT DEAD IN BED AT LUX CONDO: SHOCK SUSPECT

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dawn and Antonio Armstrong, married for 18 years, seem to have it all: thriving businesses, a happy marriage, three successful children, and a beautiful home.

The home, however, became the place where the Armstrongs died, shot in their beds in the middle of the night. Their middle son, AJ, calls 911saying he heard gunshots coming from his parents' room on the floor below him.

Dawn and Antonio Armstrong die after being shot. Hours later, 16-year-old AJ is arrested and charged with the murders.

Two mistrials have been declared in the case, and now Texas prosecutors say they will try AJ Armstrong a third time.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective; Former S.W.A.T. officer; Attorney (Gadsden, AL), The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C.; Twitter: @ShelnuttLawFirm
Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist; Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: "Caryn Stark"
Lisa M. Dadio - Former Police Lieutenant, New Haven Police Department, Annie Le Lead Detective, Professor of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigations at University New Haven
Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet,: Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"
Jonathan T Gilliam, Former FBI Special Agent, Former Navy SEAL and Author of the best selling Book, SHEEP NO MORE: The Art of Awareness and Attack Survival; Twitter: @JGilliam_SEAL
Dave Mack CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:29.8	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:34.8	The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public
0:39.6	can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal.
0:45.7	To make them make sense if you will, when all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
0:51.5	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app,
0:55.9	Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:05.2	An NFL star and his wife found dead shot to death in their own bed in their own home.
1:16.0	What happened? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here
1:21.3	at Fox Nation in Series XM-111. First of all, take a listen to this.
1:27.1	5314 Paul Meadows Street, time stamp 140 AM, the morning of July 29, 2016.
1:35.1	Inside a seemingly scared and Tony Armstrong Jr. on the phone with a 911 dispatcher,
1:41.2	claiming minutes earlier, he heard gunfire. Any medical attention needed has the dispatcher?
1:47.2	Yes, reply the then 16-year-old video recorded later that morning by a crime scene unit
1:53.1	investigator for the Houston Police Department traces the trail to the second floor master bedroom.
1:58.7	The place where Antonio Armstrong Sr. and wife Don were shot, both died.
2:04.6	He played football for Texas A&M before joining the Miami Dolphins as a linebacker.
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