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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup, you beautiful bastards. |
0:02.1 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. |
0:03.7 | You daily dive into the news, and we have a lot to talk about today. |
0:07.3 | So you just hit that like button, and let's jump into it. |
0:13.8 | If you live in or near North Carolina or you know someone who does listen up. |
0:18.5 | Right, because currently there is a convicted child murderer who's on the run after escaping custody in North Carolina. So meet Ramon |
0:24.7 | Alston, who in 2018 was convicted for the 2015 murder of one-year-old Malia Williams. And this |
0:30.0 | little one-year-old was just playing outside her family's apartment on Christmas Day when someone |
0:33.3 | opened fire from a car driving past, with Malia getting hit, then taken to the hospital where she ended up dying three days later. |
0:39.3 | Before this, Alston was sentenced to life in prison at the Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor, North Carolina, |
0:44.2 | and that is where he has been since until this week. |
0:46.3 | Because on Tuesday, Alston was being transported to the UNC Gastroenterology Hospital in Hillsborough for a follow-up medical appointment. According to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, the prison transport van rolled up to the hospital around 7 in |
0:56.7 | the morning. When the officers opened the door, Alston just jumped from the van and ran into the |
1:00.2 | nearby woods. With the department also saying he had freed himself from his leg restraints, but |
1:03.4 | still had handcuffs and a waist chain on. Also, if you're wondering, yes, according to the department's communications director, Keith Akree, police did have weapons at the time of Alston's escape, but they didn't fire because, quote, it all happened so quickly. |
1:14.9 | And so now, two days later, this baby killer is still on the run. |
1:17.2 | With sniffer dogs being brought in, helicopters sweeping over the area, Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood, saying they've even talked to Alston's family in the area with varying degrees of cooperation. |
1:25.9 | But still, there's just no sign of him. |
1:28.0 | And at this point, the U.S. Marshals and the FBI have jumped in on the hunt. According to |
1:31.1 | accree, 335 law enforcement personnel from 19 different agencies have covered 1,335 acres of |
1:37.2 | land in this search. Between the state, the FBI and the U.S. Marshals, the reward for information |
1:41.5 | leading to Alston's capture has been bumped from 25,000 to 50,000. |
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