Teen Son Kills Father in Drunken Altercation | Crime Alert 02.27.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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Teen son accidentally kills his father in a drunken fight. Memphis food truck customers don't react after witnessing a shooting.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now, Julian Welch Beto 19, making something to eat at his home, Melbourne, Florida, when his dad, Francis Welch, drunkenly gets up from the couch, telling his son he doesn't deserve to eat because he's not employed. |
| 0:16.6 | Welch Beto ignores the dad, takes his plate, walks to the bedroom. His dad pushes him. |
| 0:21.7 | The two began fighting and end up on the floor. |
| 0:24.7 | Welch Beto puts his father in a headlock and punches him in the ribs. |
| 0:28.3 | The father's fiancé intervenes and breaks up the fight. |
| 0:31.7 | Five minutes later, 19-year-old Welch Beto hears her scream. |
| 0:36.3 | Nancy, the teen walks out into the living room, finding his father |
| 0:39.3 | sprawled on the couch, unresponsive, with his head tilted back. The fiancé calls 911 and |
| 0:44.9 | Francis Welch is rushed to the hospital, but he dies due to internal bleeding from his spleen, |
| 0:49.9 | lacerated by one of three broken ribs. While Welch Beto was sober at the time of the altercation, |
| 0:55.8 | his father had an extremely high BAC of .391. Welch Beto, arrested, charged with manslaughter. |
| 1:04.5 | Customers barely react when a man shot and killed at a food truck, Memphis, Tennessee. Security |
| 1:09.3 | footage captures the disturbing side of people |
| 1:11.9 | moving around the lifeless body. One man even walks around to place an order while the victim |
| 1:18.3 | lies on the ground in a growing pool of blood. A witness pumping gas nearby describes the moment |
| 1:25.0 | the shooting takes place. He hears two shots and hits the deck. |
| 1:28.7 | Then two more shots. Despite gunfire and blue police strobe lights, it's business as usual. |
| 1:35.7 | No one at the food truck or gas station will even talk about what happened. |
| 1:39.3 | Reporters attempt to speak with witnesses they refuse. Police urging witnesses to call |
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| 2:03.6 | A Florida man is behind bars accused of attempted murder after opening fire on two tourists in Miami Beach, believing they were Palestinian. |
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