"I Just Smoked a Dude" Says Officer After Shooting Unarmed Man. Bodycam Shows Him Running Away | Crime Alert 4PM 04.29.25

A devastated mother speaks out after a police officer shoots an unarmed man fleeing on foot, then tells fellow officers, “I just smoked a dude.” A man in New York is charged with raping a dead body found on a subway train in Lower Manhattan. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime news.

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Now, I'm Drew Nelson. A devastated mother speaks out after
a police officer shoots an unarmed man fleeing on foot,
then tells fellow officers quote, I just smoked a dude.

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MO. There's intuition. I don't know. Ambulance in the fire
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Newly released dashcam footage shows former Rusk County Sergeant Shane
Iverson fatally shooting twenty nine year old Timothy Randall during
a twenty twenty two traffic stop in Turner Town, Texas.
Randall had been pulled over just after midnight for allegedly
running a stop sign. His mother, Wendy Tippett, said he
had called moments earlier to let her know he'd be
home soon. The video shows Randall stepping out of his car,

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placing his wallet in his pocket, and telling Iverson, quote, Officer,
I don't have anything on me, thing on your ship.

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Can you just tell me? Officer? Please?

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Can you tell me what I'm under? Rest?

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Ford leave.

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Good out, I need an ambulance.

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Call everybody, I've got a shooting.

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I'll stay with him buddy forty five. I need everybody.

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I just smoked a dude.

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The bullet tore through Randall's ribs, lungs, and heart. He
collapsed farther down the road. He was unarmed. Randall died
on the scene. No criminal charges wherever filed. A grand
jury declined to indict. Iverson quietly retired. It wasn't until
Tippett filed a federal lawsuit that she learned what had happened.
The sheriff's office said refused to release the footage. She

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tells NBC News no one would tell her anything. A
federal judge denied Iverson's request for qualified immunity in January,
writing that quote Randal never threatened Iverson and that quote
a reasonable juror could find the use of deadly force
was excessive. The judge also noted that Iverson's wandering and
the gunshot came within a single second, allowing Randall no
time to comply. Randall had a pass record and drugs

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in his system, but he had no weapon. Tippett said
she arrived minutes after the shooting and saw police placing
crime scene tape.

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Determined to go home and be with a amply and
fam laying in the coat.

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The civil lawsuit is ongoing. Iverson's lawyers argue his actions
were justified. Tippett says she won't stop until there is
justice for her son. More crime and justice news after this.
A man in New York is charged with raping a

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dead body found on a subway train in Lower Manhattan.
Police save forty four year old Felix Rojas turn himself
in nearly three weeks after the crime. He was charged
with first degree rape. The attack took place around midnight
April ninth, aboard a southbound R train. Surveillance footage showed
Rojas dragging the lifeless body of another man to the
floor and performing sex acts on it. He waited until

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the train car was empty before assaulting the corpse. He
then fled at the Whitehall Street station. The victim was
later identified by family as thirty seven year old Jorge Gonzalez,
a father of one who had battled cirrhosis and alcoholism.
He boarded the train around eight pm and was likely
dead four hours before the attack. The cause of death
remains unknown. His estranged wife, Teresa Gonzalez, told The New

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York Post she hadn't seen him in five years, but
remembered him as a man with dreams. Quote, he wasn't
just a random person. He was a father, He was
a family man. The incident drew national outrage after police
released a still from the trained security footage showing a
man in a yellow hoodie. The image led to Rojas.
His son reportedly recognized him and alerted police. The investigation

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is ongoing. Authorities are also seeking a woman who may
have handed gonzalez as a cigarette and was last seen
going through his pockets after he lost consciousness. Gonzalez immigrated
from Mexico about twenty years ago. His widow, Teresa says, quote,
I want this person off the streets. If he's willing
to do that, what else is he willing to do?
A pregnant teenager vanishes while walking to school in California,

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and police now believe if she was murdered by someone
she once called a friend. Seventeen year old Wanita gen
Nelson disappeared from Boulder Creek December fourteenth of nineteen ninety eight,
last seen on West Park Avenue that morning walking to
San Lorenzo Valley High She never made it. She was
reported missing later that day. At first, police thought Juanita
had run away. She had done so before. Months passed,

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then years. Police eventually began to think foul play was involved.
They later said they had been told Janita had been killed.
Two people claimed the man had confessed to them. Police
believe this man was a former friend of hers. He
is now in prison for a different crime. He has
not been publicly named. Police have searched for Janita's body
in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Bear Creek Road and
found nothing. Still, they believe the case is a murder.

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In two thousand and three, wan Itita was declared legally dead.
A memorial was held that March. Anyone with informations to
contact Santa Cruz County Sheriffs at eight three one, four
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favorite podcast. Out with this crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson.

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How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.

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For an in depth look at the facts, see what
happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children.