Monster Mom Beats Disabled Daughter to Death Because She "Didn't Want That Child Anymore"| Crime Alert 6PM 11.17.2025

A mom is behind bars, accused of savagely beating her daughter, who has special needs, to death because she didn't want her anymore.  Officials say the girl's injuries resembled that of a car wreck. 

A lunatic fires a gun into a car in a case of road rage killing a boy heading to school. Plus, a would-be assassin foiled by an empty gas tank. 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.
A Michigan mother who once fought for custody of her kid,
is now charged with savagely beating her nonverbal, autistic fourteen
year old daughter to death, mere days after allegedly telling
relatives she didn't want the child anymore. Vanjie Everheart, thirty seven,

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of Ferndale, is facing first degree murder and child abuse
charges for slaying of her daughter, Kylie Clark. Prosecutor's allege
ever Heart inflicted blunt force trauma to the back of
the sixty pound Kylie's head, injuries so severe it looked
like something from a high speed car crash. Official say.

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The teen, diagnosed with severe autism and rare Cornelia delaying syndrome,
never woke from the attack. Kylie's great uncle, Jeffrey Clark,
unleash the family's raw fury, he spoke to local for
News Detroit. She's just rotten. I mean, it's her own
flesh and blood.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
For Kylie's mother lied right from the get go, you
know about pretty much everything.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
The web of deception began when ever Heart rushed Kylie
to a Detroit area hospital, claiming the girl had choked
on a sandwich. Her story, though, instantly crumbled, shifting first
to a banana, then pinning blame on her boyfriend, who
passed a polygraph test. Surgeons at Henry Ford Saint John

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Hospital removed part of Kylie's skull to relieve catastrophic brain swelling.
Kylie lingered on life support with family at her side
before she was pronounced dead five days later. Medical examiners
ruled the death a homicide. The timing was chilling too.
The attack came mere days after Kylie's dad moved to

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gain full custody, citing mounting welfare concerns. Averheart's response to
relatives was a stunning declaration of abandonment of quote you
can have her, I don't want her end quote. Family
members say Kylie was entirely reliant on caregivers and communicated
only through expressions such as her beaming smile, and she

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had a simple love for music and favorite snacks. Child
Protective Services had probed Averheart multiple times over neglect, flagging
her home previously, yet Kylie remained tragically confined to a
locked bedroom in isolation. Family had sensed trouble months earlier,
noting unexplained bruises and evasive answers from Averhart. Averheart remains

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in the Wayne County Jail without bond. Her arrangement is
set for November twenty sixth. If convicted of first degree murder,
she faces a mandatory sentence of life in state prison
without the possibility of parole. More Crime and Justice news
after this and eleven year old Nevada boy on his

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way to school was executed in a shocking act of
road rage after a gun toting maniac allegedly opened fire
on a jam packed freeway during the morning commute. Here's
Henderson Police Chief Reggie Raider at the news conference.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I just want to remind everybody that we lost to
life today that we didn't have to lose. It is
not worth it to engage in this type of behavior
on either party. I would rather you be stuck in
traffic and lay for your destination than have to go
to a funeral for a loved one or potentially spend
the rest of your life in prison.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
The victim, who was seated in the back of his
Smalle SUV, was struck by a single fatal bullet in
the senseless attack around seven thirty am. The alleged shooter,
Twenty two year old Tyler Matthew Johns, was arrested after
the clash erupted on Interstate two point fifteen, the congested
Las Vegas Beltway in Henderson, sixteen miles south of Las Vegas.

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Chief Raider confirmed the deadly confrontation began when the drivers
of the two vehicles started quote jockeying for a lane
after merging end quote weaving past each other on the freeway.
The escalation was swift and explosive. One car swerved past
the other on the shoulder, prompting both drivers to roll

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down their windows and erupt in a screaming match. It
was then that Johns allegedly pulled a handgun and fired
one lethal shot into the victim's car. The child's stepfather,
who was driving the vehicle, immediately rammed his car into
John's four door sedan, forcing both vehicles to screech to

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a halt in the middle of the road. Both men
then leapt out and erupted into another violent altercation. A
passing Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer witnessed the fight and
broke up the chaotic scene, hauling the suspect into custody.
Life saving measures were performed on the critically wounded boy

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at the scene, but unfortunately and tragically, he was pronounced dead.
Johns was charged with open murder and discharging a firearm
into an occupied vehicle. He's currently being held at Henderson
Detention Center without bond. The incident is still under investigation.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact

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the Henderson Police Department tip line at seven zero two
two six seven four seven five zero. And finally foiled
by fuel, a jilted and jealous Waco, Texas teen dad
nearly turned his love triangle into a blood bath, but
his biggest obstacle wasn't the law, It was the price

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of gas. Jugo Carlin nineteen was allegedly boiling with jealousy
over his baby mama's new bow. Cops say he prepped
a hit, texting friends quote I'm a smoke this blank
end quote and arming himself with an AR fifteen rifle
strapped with a terrifying one hundred round drum. But the

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wannab assassin's plot hit a dead end when he had
to beg buddies for gas money and a ride to
carry out the slaughter. Fate intervened when the getaway car,
crammed with guns and three armed accomplices, was pulled over
for a rootine traffic stop of all things. Police seized

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the massive arsenal and booked Carlin on a felony charge
criminal solicitation to commit murder. He's being held on a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond. His car accomplices
were charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. This team
tried to put a hit on his rival, but his
murder plot ran out of gas before it could even

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get on the road. Thankfully for the latest crime and
justice news. Followed the Crime Alert hourly update on your
favorite podcast app with this crime Alert, I'm Jennifer Goold.