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Welcome back to Crime Wire Weekly, the show that brings
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you straight into the wildest, darkest, and most jaw dropping
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crimes happening right now. This week, We've got a lineup
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that's equal parts ridiculous, heartbreaking, and straight up terrifying. We're
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going to start all the way in Mexico, where federal
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forces take down drug kingpin L Mincho in a massive raid,
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but the cartel is already hitting back pretty hard and
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the violence is spreading throughout that country. In Missouri, two
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deputies are killed and one injured, leading to a twelve
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hour manhunt. We're going to catch you up on this story.
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We head to the Spotlight, where an American idle former
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contestant is charged with murdering his wife and claiming it
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was a home invasion. In Wisconsin, an elementary school teacher
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is caught with cocaine after she used it in the
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school bathroom. Yep, you've heard that one right. In New York,
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a man allegedly grabbed a crossbow and went after his
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own sister because they couldn't agree on the thermostat. In
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North Carolina, a woman says she accidentally shot her boyfriend
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while cleaning her shotgun and prosecutors say it was no accident.
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She's now facing murder charges. We got these stories plus
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much more today, so let's get into it. I'm Jim Chapman.
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And I'm Kelly Jenny's what's going on with you, Jimmothy.
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We've got a lot of good stories today. Yeah, a
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lot of uh, I guess, wild things happening in the
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crime world.
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Yeah, like well round, I mean I had to say
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well rounded, but like all over the map here in
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story and in location.
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Yeah. Yeah, so we're gonna get I guess we'll jump
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right into it, get it. And we're going to start
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out across the border in Mexico. And of course this
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big trending story right now, no matter where you look,
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in a major blow to one of Mexico's most powerful
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criminal organization organizations. Security forces killed Nemessio. How you like that?
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Been practicing my Spanish name pronunciation Nemessio Cervantes. I know
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y'all are all impressed, because I do have some some
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not spell checkers, but dialect checkers and whatever out there.
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We also have like an internal thing here between Jim
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and I where we see who pronounces things better, and
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then we'll look it up and.
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I'll bet on it nine to nine percent of the time.
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I jacked it up, and I'm not sorry about it.
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The elusive leader of the New Generation cartel, he's known
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as Elmento, and this happened during a Sunday military operation
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in the western state of Jalisco. The death of the
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fifty nine year old kingpin has unleashed a swift and
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fierce retaliation, with cartel gunman torching vehicles or erecting fiery
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roadblocks and clashing with authorities across at least twenty states
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in the country. Savantes is a former police officer who
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rose to command of the cartel since its founding in
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twenty ten, and was one of the world's most richest
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fugitives by any definition. The US State Department had actually
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placed a fifteen million dollar bounty on his head, and
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it's estimated he was worth anywhere between five hundred million
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and one billion with a b one billion dollars. So
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you know, when you got that kind of money, it's
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it's not hard to kind of evade.
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Yeah, you get power and influence.
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Power and influence, and you can use money to hide
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wherever you want. Pretty much now, according to the Mexican
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Defense Secretary. Uh, the operation unfolded in the town of Toapolopa.
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I probably messed that one up, and we're going with
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Topolopa in southern Hahalis Intelligence including US provided information that
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helped track Elmencho's Romanic partners. Partners. Yeah, I'm sure he
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has multiple. But essentially what happened there was he went
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to meet it's supposedly an OnlyFans model. Of course, that
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is one of his partners. Beautiful girl by the way,
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and I only know that because of the pictures on.
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It has nothing to do with only fans. But he
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went to meet her. They were supposedly tracking her, and
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that's what led them to him. So he and his
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two bodyguards gott in a fear shootout. They eventually killed
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Elmentcho and eight other members of his cartel. What about
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the only fans, No, she was not killed. President Claudia
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shinebamb She confirmed the operation's success on Monday, saying that
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Mexican forces acted with absolute coordination and no US troops
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participated on the ground. They only shared intelligence. Quote. Peace,
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security and normalcy are being restored. The victory, however, did
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come at a steep price, and it triggered immediate chaos.
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Within hours of the announcement, suspected members of the cartel
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launched coordinated attacks. They set buses on fire, cars on fire.
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They blocked major highways in Portuctou, Bayarta. How you like that,
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a popular Pacific Coast resort town. You could see the
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black smoke. If you watch Singing In or Fox News,
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you could see these flumes of black smoke just flying
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through the air. This costs major cancelations of airlines, including
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United American and Delta. And the problem with that is
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that area is a touristy area and there's a lot hundreds,
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as a matter of fact, of US citizens that got
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stranded in that area while all this is going down.
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And we'll talk about that in a second. But analyst
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the warning that Elmncho's death could create a power vacuum
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and cause even more chaos. We'll talk about that a
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little bit. But there you haven't. And incidentally, before we
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say anything else, I did look up what el Mincho meant,
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because yeah, because el choppo means shorty, well, el mincho
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doesn't actually mean anything. It has no literal meaning. It's
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just a nickname.
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Because we have the ice cream place minche's and I
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was like, are these little minchos.
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He owns it? Yeah, right, it's the front. That's how
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he washes his money. Joe. Yeah, but so no literal
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meaning there. But look, there's nothing bad about that guy
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being killed.
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He was, Yeah, I have a friend in law enforcement.
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And she even shared some screenshots of some messages she
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was sharing with a friend that lives in Porto Varta,
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and the conversation is literally terrifying of what those peeople
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are dealing with and what they're going through. And these
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people do not have the means to. When I say
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defend themselves, I mean, you're up against the cartel. And
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if this one guy was that rich, you know how
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much money the cartel has. And everybody knows in Mexico
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that the cartel and the government are in bed together.
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Everybody knows that. No wonder this guy was caught and
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now rose to the ranks of whatever he was leader.
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So these the victim, the true victims here are just
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the average everyday folk.
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Yeah they are. And look, this is a major deal.
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This guy was trafficking one third of the drugs into
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the United States. One third, So does that mean that
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thirty three percent of the drugs coming in the United
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States is going to now stop. Of course, not someone
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is going to take up that role, but you did
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cut off the head of the snake, and so causing
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some sort of leadership chaos can be an advantage to
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the United States as far as drugs being trafficked into
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this country. I think that you haven't seen the last
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of this. Let's just say that I think that, uh,
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you know, this is just my personal opinion, but I
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think that sometimes things occur for other things to occur.
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And I'll leave everybody to their own judgment to know
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what I mean, but I think this was intentional.
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Yeah, I won't be traveling there anytime soon.
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Yeah, don't go to Mexico.
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Nothing against the people, but it's just not worth the risk.
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And the crazy thing about it is the World Cup
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is supposed to be played in that city that I
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guess state. I guess they have states like in the
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United States, but in that area next month. I don't
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know how that's going to happen with all this.
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We're worried about the security around that because.
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Yeah, i'd be like, we're not playing I'm good, but.
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Yeah, we'll have to say how that one plays out.
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But the fear and I won't belabor it, but just
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the fear of knowing that those people have unlimited resources
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and unlimited terror opportunities and they don't care. I would
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be terrified for my family. So my heart goes out
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to those people that are just Yeah, and.
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It's gonna take something like the United States Military to
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go in there and just totally clean it out. That's
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really the only way that's going to get accomplish. I mean,
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you get sixty eighty seals and thirty Green Berets in
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there and they'll wipe all of them that. I mean,
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they're that good. Yeah, but you know it would take
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something like that.
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Gotcha. All right, let's come back to the States and
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we're going to go to Highlandville, Missouri. Now, if you've
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listened to our show for any amount of time, you'll
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know that both Jim and myself we are huge fans
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of law enforcement. We believe in the big support Yeah,
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the good guys. Right, we want the good guys and
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we want right to win. Well, these are the stories
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that we don't want to cover. We don't like to cover,
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but it's in our face and we wanted to share
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it with you. So we want to also thank our listener,
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Christina Turner. She's the one who referred to us this
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story and we just we appreciate you taking the time
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to send it to us. So Christina, this one's for you, friend,
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and thank you so much so. Two Christian County Sheriff's
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deputies were fatally shot Monday afternoon and early Tuesday in
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the southwestern Missouri area, to first during a traffic stop
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and the second hours later during a shootout that ended
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in the suspect's death. The incident began around four pm
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on Monday, February twenty third, when Deputy Gabriel Ramirez, who
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was thirty years old, pulled over forty five year old
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Richard Dean Bird near Highlandville during a routine traffic stop.
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Bird opened fire, killing Ramirez before fleeing the scene in
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a white two thousand and one Chevy extended cab pickup
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truck with the Missouri license plate of nine mg X
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three six. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a
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blue alert was immediately issued, which is a large scale
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manhunt involving about one hundred officers from multiple agencies, and
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this included state troopers, the US Marshall Service atf the
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FBI all the guys were up in this and that
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was launched. Birds abandoned truck was later located in a
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wooded area near Reed's Spring in the neighboring Stone County.
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Early Tuesday morning, around midnight, law enforcement used a Missouri
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Highway Patrol helicopter, which was equipped with that heat mapping technology,
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to locate Bird hiding in the woods near the Highway
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one sixty roundabout close to Red Springs, and as deputies
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moved in to apprehend him, he then began to open fire.
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In the exchange of gunfire, a second Christian County deputy
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was killed. Two additional deputies, one from Christian County and
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one from Webster County. They were wounded with non life
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threatening injuries. Bird was fatally shot by police who were
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returning gunfire. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole addressed the situation
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Tuesday morning, confirming the deaths and expressing the department's grief. Unfortunately,
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we lost two of our own tonight, but doing what
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they took an oath to do, loved and enjoyed. They
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gave their life not only for citizens they served, but
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for other officers and deputies involved as well. Long day,
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trying day upcome days will be harder. We do what
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we have to do to make sure our citizens are safe.
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That's what we did today. Took the bad guy off
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the street and sent him where he needed to be.
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In a blunt assessment of the confrontation, the sheriff stated,
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really plain and simple, if you want to have a gunfight,
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we'll have a gunfight, but you're gonna end up dead.
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And that's exactly what happened tonight with the suspect. Stone
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County Sheriff Doug Raider described the events as probably the
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worst day in the history of Christian County Sheriff's Office,
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but noted the wounded officers are expected to recover. Ramirez,
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who served in the military before joining the Christian County
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Sheriff's Office Patrol Division in July of twenty twenty five,
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was the first deputy killed. The name of the second
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slain deputy has not been released pending notification of the family,
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and Missouri Governor Mike Keho said he was in contact
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with the Sheriff coal or with Sheriff Cole throughout the
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search and urged anyone with information to come forward. The
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crime scene, including a taped off house and a wooded
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area near Reed's Spring, remained active Tuesday morning as investigators
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from multiple agencies continued processing every ividence. Highway one sixty
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was closed during the manhunt, but it has now reopened.
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No motive for the initial shooting has been released, and
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the investigation remains ongoing. The Christian County Sheriff's Office and
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surrounding agencies have received an outpouring of support from law
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enforcement across the region, and many departments offering their prayers
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for the fallen deputies, their families, and the wounded officers.
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Yeah, and so this guy had already had a history
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of shooting at the police. Twenty fourteen, shoots at a
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police officer, thank god, did not hit the police officer.
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He goes to jail for.
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That, gets out an attempted murder.
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Yeah, on attempted murder, and now has another confrontation, shoots
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kills one, runs, shoots kills another. And thank god that
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they eventually called him twelve hours later, and he got
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what was coming to him, quite frankly.
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