Teen Ballerina Gunned Down by Ex-BF in Thanksgiving Break Bloodbath| Crime Alert 6AM 12.04.2025
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Dancer Gunned Down by Ex in Botched Murder-Suicide After Breakup| Crime Alert 6AM 12.04.2025
Puppy love ends in lead -when an angry ex opens fire on his high school sweetheart. He then turns the gun on himself but survives. A Florida man who frantically reported his GF missing is now facing a murder charge, after her body is found floating in a canal. Plus, don't "Walk this, Way!" Jennifer Gould reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News Now. I'm Jennifer Gould. He couldn't live without her, so he made sure no one else could. That's the chilling motive behind the senseless execution of 18-year-old ballerina Emily Finn, who was allegedly murdered by her heartbroken ex-boyfriend Austin Lynch. |
| 0:22.1 | What began as high school puppy love dissolved into a possessive deadly rage |
| 0:27.9 | when Lynch, shattered by the breakup, turned what was supposed to be a simple handoff of belongings into a bloodbath. |
| 0:36.6 | Emily's friend Maya Tooth spoke to CBS-2 New York. |
| 0:40.8 | I can't believe this happened to her. She didn't deserve that. I'm going to miss her so much. |
| 0:48.0 | The savage scene unfolded around 1110 a.m. in Nasconse at New York, just days after Thanksgiving, Finn, a S-U-N-Y |
| 0:57.6 | freshman had returned home from break, and stopped by Lynch's home on Shenandoah Boulevard to return |
| 1:04.1 | the last remnants of their three-and-a-half-year romance. Lynch, a Marine recruit, whose 18th birthday fell on Thanksgiving Day, allegedly |
| 1:14.0 | greeted her act of closure with extreme violence. Suffult County authorities report, he retrieved a |
| 1:21.5 | legally owned 12-gauge shotgun and fired two deadly rounds, killing the Seville High School graduate instantly. |
| 1:30.2 | He then allegedly turned the weapon on himself in a botched murder-suicide attempt. |
| 1:36.5 | Lynch's parents, home at the time, heard the blasts and made the frantic 911 call. |
| 1:43.2 | Finn, a beloved dancer who had returned home from college for break, |
| 1:46.9 | was pronounced dead at the scene. |
| 1:49.5 | Lynch survived his self-inflicted wound |
| 1:52.4 | and was rushed to Stony Brook University Hospital, |
| 1:55.8 | where he remains in critical but stable condition under police guard. |
| 2:00.2 | Suffolk County authorities confirmed he faces second-degree murder charges. |
| 2:05.5 | The Suffolk County DA's office said he would be arraigned as an adult once medically cleared. |
| 2:12.2 | The couple's split was reportedly prompted by diverging paths, |
| 2:16.9 | then leaving for college at State University of New York, |
| 2:20.3 | while Lynch had recently enlisted in the Marines. Tributes of pink ribbons, Finn's favorite color, |
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