Ex-Deputy Slaughters Son Before Dying in a Hail of Bullets in Highway Horror| Crime Alert 8PM 12.04.2025

A disgraced ex-deputy allegedly stabs his own son to death, then he dies, at the hands of fellow officers -following a high-speed, highway chase. 

A drunk Tesla driver kills a gorgeous young lawyer in a fiery wreck, then tries to pin the carnage on his mommy. Plus, a huge valet violation.  Jennifer Gould reports. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
The man who once wore the uniform of the Sacramento
County Sheriff's Office met his definitive violent end on Interstate
five hours after committing an act of unspeakable domestic slaughter
against the child. Marvin Morales, forty, a disgraced former deputy,

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turned lethal violence upon his own eleven year old son
in Elk Grove, California, a crime witnessed in real time
by the boy's mother via a chilling home security camera feed.
Her frantic eight AM called a nine one one reported
the live assault, triggering an immediate and massive police response

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to the seventy six hundred block of Feral Way. Arriving
officers were confronted with a horrific scene, the young victim
suffering from devastating multiple staff wounds. Despite being rushed to
a local hospital, the child, again only eleven years old,
was pronounced dead. A six year old sister was found

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present during the ordeal, but thankfully, miraculously, she was not hurt.
Sacramento County Sheriff spokesperson Sergeant Amar Gandhi spoke to the media, I.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Mean it's gross right. It's nobody wants to hear about
anyone involved in an incident, you know, previous like that,
especially at deputy, and then to have something like this
stem from an incident, I said. Our primary thoughts are
with that family right now.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Morales, the architect of this familial bloodshed, had already fled
the scene, sparking an urgent multi agency man hunt. The
fugitive's vehicle was quickly spotted heading southbound on I five.
A high speed pursuit tore down the freeway, involving Sheriff
Jim Cooper himself and deputies from multiple allied agencies. The chase,

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desperate dash from the domestic crime scene was brought to
a crushing halt near Lodi and Highway twelve when the
California Highway Patrol successfully deployed a tire shredding spike strip
As the disgraced ex deputies disabled car crashed, officers converged,

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and a fatal confrontation erupted. Morales was struck by a
barrage of law enforcement gunfire and later died of his
injuries at a nearby hospital. The killers fall from Grace
was already complete before the murder Morales was formally terminated
in February of twenty twenty four after an internal investigation

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revealed he had stolen narcotics from a suspect smoking them
inside a sheriff station's bathroom. He was later revived also
from a near fatal fentanyl overdose, and had tried to
actively deceive his colleagues about his illicit drug abuse. Confirmed.

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Two Sacramento County deputies and one Elkgrove officer were involved
in the fatal freeway takedown. No officers were hurt. The
officer involved shooting is now under investigation. More crime and
justice news After this, a twenty six year old hotshot

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allegedly operating his luxury car while intoxicated, turned a quiet
evening in uptown Dallas, Texas into a slaughter house. He
launched a brand new Tesla Model three into the air,
flipping it like a stunt car. The wreck crushed brilliant
twenty nine year old civil rights attorney Emma Hackney beneath

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four thousand pounds of twisted metal. His blood alcohol content
was reportedly twice the legal limit, yet he bizarrely blamed
his critically injured mom for grabbing the wheel. Hackney stunning
SMU law Grat, already making waves in Dallas courtrooms, was
in her white Porsche when Preston Petty came screaming down

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Cedar Springs Road at triple digit speeds, cops say. Witnesses
told police the black Tesla looked like it was just
shot out of a cannon, mowing down trees, sheering off
a crosswalk pole, and somersaulting straight onto Hackney's car in
a sickening explosion of glass and steel in the Texas street.

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The roof of her Porsche collapsed like a soda can,
witnessed Jason Keeling spoke to Fox four.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
The more I think about it, just so sad son.
She was just sitting in a car to red light.
That was it.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
First Responders found the rising legal star pinned and bleeding out.
She was pronounced dead at the hospital an hour later.
Her passenger is still fighting for life on a ventilator.
Petty reportedly reeking of li eyes glassy, staggered from the
wreckage and immediately pointed the finger at his fifty two
year old mom, Jennifer, who was airlifted in critical condition

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with a shattered pelvis and internal bleeding. He immediately complained
to officers that she had lunged for his phone, a
desperate alibi refuted moments later when his blood draw confirmed
a shocking point one six BAC that result put him
at double the Texas legal limit. Compounding the evidence that

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his alleged intoxication, not his mommy, was responsible for the carnage.
The tesla's black box recorder also reportedly clocked him at
over one hundred miles per hour in a thirty five
mile per hour zone. Dallas detectives were not buying the
mommy made me do it defense for a second. Petty

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was hauled off in cuffs, charged with felony counts of intoxication,
manslaughter and in intoxication assault with a deadly weapon, and
slapped with a half a million dollar bond. His mother,
still sedated and in the ICU, has not been charged
and finally talk about a massive detour. Lamar Williams, a

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nineteen year old valet at a prestigious Cleveland clinic in Ohio,
is now parked for good after he took up patients
one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars Mercedes Benz on a
one hundred and twenty eight mile per hour joy ride
all because he craved some fast food. That's a valet

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violation big time. The rookie, who was working for a vendor,
decided the luxury sedan was a better ride than his
own car for a late night fuel run to rallies.
Newburg Heights police quickly clocked the teen going double d
speed limit on I seventy seven, charged with aggravated speeding
and receiving stolen property. This valet thought he was put

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in his career in gear, but now his dreams of
luxury parking have officially hit a dead end. For the
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I'm Jennifer Gould.