'Stalker' Teen Driver Mows Down Girls in 'Calculated' E-Bike Killing| Crime Alert 8PM 10.02.2025

Family & friends say a stalker's ignored warnings have ended in the bloody E-bike carnage of two, innocent New Jersey girls. 

A grisly discovery in a California; a missing woman's body is found - stuffed inside a secret wall. Plus, a waiter spills the tea...on a possible robbery. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Jennifer Gould.
The suburban streets of Cranford, New Jersey were instantly transformed
into the scene of a calculated execution, a whrror the
victim's families insist was no accident. A seventeen year old
driver allegedly ended months of harassment by deliberately striking two

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teenagers riding an e bike, leaving the two girls, Maria
and Niotis and Isabella Solis, both seventeen, to die in
the roadway. The perpetrator, I did as, seventeen year old
Vincent Battaloro from neighboring Garwood, was taken into custody shortly
after the incident. He has been charged with two counts

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of first degree murder. The grotesque details reveal a chilling
lack of remorse. Witnesses say the crash occurred around five
twenty six pm on the fortieth block of Burnside Avenue.
Battalauo allegedly struck the girls while driving a black twenty
twenty one Jeep Compass with tinted windows. According to witnesses,

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he then continued driving, dragging one of the bikes and
victims beneath his jeep until the bike disabled the suv,
forcing it to stop. High school student Amandapota spoke to
the media, it's just absolutely sickening, Like I literally wanted
to puke. It was so horrible. I just feel so

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awful for the family and the mother that I saw.
It was just it was really bad. Battaloro then fled
the scene on foot. Niotas and Salas were rushed to
area hospitals, but sadly died of their catastrophic injuries. The
families of the victims have since issued an impassioned statement
stating quote, this was not an ebych accident and it

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was not a hit and run. This was murder in
the first degree end quote. They confirmed that the suspect
had been plotting this attack against Maria for months, explicitly
targeting her. Isabella was killed, they say only because she
was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neighbors

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and friends corroborated the claims. These two neighbors spoke to
the media, he's been parked up front of her house's
line online and following yeah, it was. The school was notified,
the police were notified, like for three months now and
nothing happened. No, he was never stopped. No. Despite the

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escalating threat, which was allegedly reported to the Cranford Public
Schools and led Maria to file police complaints, the lethal
assault was not averted. Battalora was identified and issued fifteen
municipal citations for the incident, including leaving the scene of
an accident, reckless driving, speeding, and driving without a license

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or insurance. He is the nephew of Westfield Police Chief
Christopher Battaloro, who issued a statement condemning his nephew's actions
and demanding full legal consequences. Although the proceedings are currently
sealed as a juvenile matter and Union County Family Court,
the severity of the charges first degree murder means prosecutors

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can seek to waive the case to adult court, which
is legally possible for juveniles fifteen or older in homicide cases.
Anyone with any information is urged to contact the Union
County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Task Force at nine zero eight
three seven zero four three one eight or Cranford Police

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at nine zero eight two seven six zero one seven
to one more crime and Justice news. After this, the
desperate search for a missing young woman ended in a
grotesque discovery behind a secret wall, revealing a killer's sickening

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attempt to bury his crime in plain sight. After days
of frantic searching, the body of Raniah Lewis, twenty eight,
was found crammed into a concealed attic space inside a
home in Vallejo, California. Her distraught mom, Terry Lewis, spoke
to KTVU Fox two News, what did she do to you?

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For you to kill her and then put her in
a wall. The horrifying ordeal began when the Vallejo Police
Department received a missing person report. Lewis's mom, Terry, used
the tracking app Life three point sixty to trace her
daughter's last location to a residence in the unit block
of fourteenth Street. Police conducted an immediate cursory of the

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rooms and closets, but found nothing. Authorities grew deeply concerned,
securing an ebony alert with the California Highway Patrol and
bringing in the FBI for expert investigative support. The investigation
led detectives right back to the same house. After securing
a search warrant, officers conducted a thorough search on September thirtieth.

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It was during this painstaking examination that they found a
quote concealed entry into the attic end quote inside that
hidden space, detectives made the harrowing discovery of Lewis's remains.
She was described by loved ones as the youngest daughter
and a family oriented person who loved to cook. The suspect,

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Douglas Shaw, forty one, was arrested at his job. Police
stated that Shaw confessed committing the heinous crime to detectives.
He was subsequently booked into Solano County Jail on a
charge of murder. The relationship between Shaw and Lewis, as
well as a motive, remain unclear. Finally, check please, or

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in this case double check. A quick thinking waiter and
Griffin Georgia may have prevented a major withdrawal of justice.
After overhearing two men allegedly plotting a bank shooting, the
server did not just spill the tea. He saved the
day by calling the cops on his customers, David Kelly
seventy three and Brian Harden forty eight. Police raced to

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the scene and eventually caught up with the dynamic duo
in their car, which was parked right outside a Wells
Fargo the two were whisked away and charged with felony
terroristic threats and acts. Looks like their dine and dash
plan for a massive payday got cut short and now
they will be stuck making their deposits in the local jail.

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