Space Force Sergeant Sentenced For Chasing Down and Shooting Teen to Death | Crime Alert 08.20.25

A former Space Force sergeant is sentenced to 54 years in prison for chasing down two teens and shooting them, killing a 14-year-old. A Florida man is charged with stalking and battery after police say he used his sprinkler system to soak two disabled children and their father for more than a year as they got on and off their school bus. Drew Nelson reports.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson,
a former US Space Force sergeant A sentenced to fifty
four years in prison for chasing down two teenagers and
shooting them, killing a fourteen year old. On July fifth,
twenty twenty three, or As Sure heard a car alarm
outside his home in Aurora, Colorado. He armed himself with
a pistol and went outside. He saw two teens dressed

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in black and believed they were trying to steal his
Hyundai Lantra. The teens fled in a Kia Rio. Sure
got into his car and gave chase. The teens crashed
four blocks away. They jumped out and ran. Sure opened
fire and kept firing. He shot fourteen year old Xavier
Kirk in the back and head. He shot the thirteen
year old driver in the back. Xavier died in the hospital.

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The younger boy made it to a relative's house and survived.
Police found eleven shell casings from Sher's gun. No other
weapons were found on the boys or in their car.
Investigators said there was no proof that anyone shot at Sher,
despite his claim of self defense after hearing the shots.
The Elantra was never hit the car the teens drove
had not been reported stolen. A jury found him guilty

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in June of second degree murder and second degree attempted murder.

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I can't express enough how much pain and grief that
were going to for two years to pass by and
still having the absence of my nephew and the memories
that we have of him will be terrrished forever.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Family members, speaking in court just before Judge Karen dats
sentence shared to thirty six years for murder and eighteen
years for attempted murder, she said his actions were grave.
The surviving team wrote a statement that prosecutors read aloud.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
That night, my friend and I made a mistake. We
took a car that didn't belong to us. I'm not
proud of that, and I've had to live with the
consequences of that choice. But no mistake, especially one that
didn't involve any violence, should ever lead to someone being hunted, down,
shot and killed.

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Sure wept as he apologized before receiving his sentence.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I am sorry for the events that occurred that night,
for the pain, for the grief and trauma that have followed,
and for the impact that my case had on so many.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Lives Sure was taken away to begin his sentence immediately.
More crime and justice news after this. A Florida man
is charged with stalking in battery after police say he
used a sprinkler system to soak two disabled children and

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their father for more than a year as they got
on and off the school bus. Antonio Roman, age sixty one,
turned himself into Marion County deputies, now facing four counts
of stalking, two counts of battery, and two counts of
battery under a disabled person. He bonded out of jail
two days after his arrest. The case began on April thirtieth,
when a neighbor in Ocalla reported that Roman had been

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drenching his family with water twice a day. The family
said the abuse started on August eighth of twenty twenty four.
Each morning and afternoon, Roman acts evaded his sprinklers as
the school bus arrived to load and unload two children
with special needs. It got so bad that the father
eventually wore swim gear to the bus stop. Investigators conducted
surveillance on Roman's home. They saw the sprinklers turn on

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when the bus pulled up and shut off as it
left the system was aimed directly at the bus stop.
Deputies said Roman had installed surveillance cameras and used them
to track the bus's arrival. He then manually turned on
the sprinklers to spray the children and their father. The
family told officers the sprinklers had hit them more than
four hundred times. Video shows them being sprayed as they

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walked through a stream of water to board the bus.
Their father has a leg amputation. Roman admitted to deputies
that he was angry the school bus was using part
of his driveway as a wheelchair ramp. Twenty four year
old Benjamin Smith was last seen around four pm on
July fourth, of twenty seventeen into Harris, New Mexico. Ben
had just been celebrating the holiday, eating hot dogs and

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having a few beers. He told the woman he lived
with that he planned to walk to the park, then
go to an Albuquerque Isotopes baseball game and watch the fireworks.
The game was set for five thirty. He promised to
be back in time. He left behind his phone, medication
and most of his belongings. That medicine was vital to
his health. He carried it everywhere and took at the
same time each evening. Smith had been living with the

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mother of a friend who had died. She said he
was cheerful that day and looked forward to celebrating Independence Day.
He was last seen wearing an off white T shirt
with cartoons and the words endangered Feces, khaki shorts, and
black champion sneakers with blue trim and souls. He may
have had a silver bracelet with a multicolored stone. Ben
Smith is white, somewhere between five six and five nine,

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one hundred thirty to one hundred forty pounds, its sandy
brown hair. His eyes were different colors, one blue, one green.
Anyone with information should call the berno Leo County Sheriff's
Department at five O five four six eight seventy one hundred.
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I'm Drew Nelson, M