A Michigan family crushed when a judge decides to not send a teen to jail after he caused the death of a friend in a single car crash while doing 105 MPH in a 25 MPH residential zone. Also a grandmother saves the life of her one-year-old grandchild jumping from a second floor window while their house becomes an inferno killing a seven months pregnant mother and two of her children. Heroic grandmother in ICU, baby stable.
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Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Dave Mack.
A Michigan mom is devastated by a judge's decision to
not send a team to jail for causing a wreck
at a high rate of speed, leading to the death
of her son. Eighteen year old college freshman Flynn mccrell
is home for Thanksgiving break when a friend, sixteen year
old Karen and Tag, picks him up in his mother's BMW.
(00:22):
Five minutes later, Teg is going over one hundred miles
per hour in a twenty five mile per hour residential
zone in gross Pointe, Michigan, when he loses control of
the vehicle, hitting a pole and then a tree, killing mccrell,
instantly splitting the car in two, reducing the BMW X
three M series into a pile of unrecognizable metal and glass.
The family of Flynn mccrell push to have Tag's mother,
(00:45):
Elizabeth Puli O'tegg, investigated by police after text messages reveal
she was not only aware of her son's speeding, she
had intimate knowledge of his driving habits through the life
three sixty GPS app shortly before the wreck that caused
the death of Flynn mccrel. Teg wrote to her son
telling him to quote slow the blank down. Despite being
aware of her son's reckless driving. Puli o'tagg also allows
(01:09):
her son to continue to use her brand nude BMW.
Mcrell's parents compared Pulli o'tagg's behavior to another pair of
Michigan parents, Jennifer and James Crumby, the parents of Oxford
High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, who were held responsible for
their child's actions in a school shooting. Police released video
showing Tag filming himself driving recklessly and well over the
(01:30):
speed limit on numerous occasions. Karen and Tagg is now eighteen.
He was initially charged with second degree murder for killing
fle mccrell in the deadly crash in November twenty twenty three,
but was able to get the charge reduced to manslaughter
with a motor vehicle. Teg, who is sixteen at the
time of the crash, was charged with adult designation, meaning
the judge could sentence him as a juvenile, as an adult,
(01:53):
or create a blended sentence. Judge Mark McClory opted to
sentence the teen to serve probation at a level two.
June Uvenile Placement Facility, which is an out of home
residential facility. His time at the facility will be determined
by his progress, allowing him to be released on probation
once he completes his treatment. However, if take is found
in violation at any term of his probation, he will
(02:15):
be sentenced as an adult to nineteen to thirty eight
months to be served at the Wayne County Detention Facility.
Wayne County prosecutors declined to charge the teen's mother. Investigators
have determined that a fire that killed a pregnant mother
and two of her children in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood
(02:37):
of Philadelphia was intentionally set. Early in the investigation, fire
police and ATF were investigating the cause of the fire,
with the focus being on the front steps as the
accelerants sniffing dogs kept leading investigators there. The woman who
died was thirty one year old Ashley Thompson, who was
seven months pregnant, and the two children who also died
(02:59):
in the fire were four and five year olds, a
Leah and Assad, Ashley Thompson's children. Another woman inside the
home when the fire broke out was the children's grandmother,
who grabbed a one year old child and jumped from
a second story window. She remains in critical condition in
the hospital and the child she saved is in stable condition.
Neighbor Yasinia Yeves described what she witnessed. We looked up,
(03:22):
the window was already engulfed conflames by the time my
husband came down, so she had already jumped out the window,
and there there was no going back in to help
anybody else. Ashlely Thompson was found dead on the second floor,
and the two children died after being transported to the hospital.
Officials said the firing gulfed the home so quickly that
he gave the people inside barely any time to escape.
(03:43):
Police do not have anyone charged with the crime, but
they do have a person of interest in custody. R
Kelly back in the news after spending two days at
a North Carolina medical facility over the past weekend. His
lawyer files a third supplement to his emergency motions seeking
release from prison due to for his safety. Kelly claims
the reason he ended up in the medical facility to
(04:04):
start with was due to an overdose he suffered from
medications provided to him by prison employees. While he was
in solitary confinement. Kelly's lawyer claims he was placed in
solitary confinement as punishment for filing the emergency motion to
be released from the prison. The third supplement to his
emergency motion states Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount
(04:25):
of medication that significantly exceeded as safe dose and caused
mister Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy. Kelly
takes medications for anxiety and to help him sleep, in
addition to other medications. The third supplement also claims that
doctors informed Kelly he had blood clots in his legs
and lungs that required surgery, but prison officials refused to
(04:46):
let him undergo the procedure because it requires a week
of recovery. Mister Kelly's life is in jeopardy right now
because the Bureau of Prisons denied him necessary surgery to
clear clots from his lungs. The supplement says, he could
die from this condition and they're letting it happen. There
is no legitimate explanation for that. Kelly's lawyer, Bo Brindley
(05:06):
also says that the alleged overdose happened almost immediately after
he spoke publicly about this singer being kept in solitary confinement.
Brendley says the incident occurred on June thirteenth, when Kelly
woke up in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institution
in Buttoner, North Carolina. Feeling faint and dizzy. He started
to see black spots in his vision, then struggled to
(05:27):
get up on his feet. Unable to walk, Brindley says
Kelly crawled to the door of the cell and lost consciousness.
The singer has allegedly been in solitary confinement ever since.
Brinley filed an emergency motion seeking a temporary furlough for
his client on June ten. The emergency motion claimed that
officials within the Bureau of Prisons were plotting to kill Kelly,
(05:48):
and requested that the singer be granted a temporary furlough,
during which he replaced under house arrest. Watch Crime Stories
with Nancy Grace on Merit TV Monday through Friday six
and nine pm Eastern. Check your low listings for channel assignment,
and subscribe to the Crime Stories with Nancy Grace podcast
on your favorite podcasting app.
Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Dave Mack.
A Michigan mom is devastated by a judge's decision to
not send a team to jail for causing a wreck
at a high rate of speed, leading to the death
of her son. Eighteen year old college freshman Flynn mccrell
is home for Thanksgiving break when a friend, sixteen year
old Karen and Tag, picks him up in his mother's BMW.
(00:22):
Five minutes later, Teg is going over one hundred miles
per hour in a twenty five mile per hour residential
zone in gross Pointe, Michigan, when he loses control of
the vehicle, hitting a pole and then a tree, killing mccrell,
instantly splitting the car in two, reducing the BMW X
three M series into a pile of unrecognizable metal and glass.
The family of Flynn mccrell push to have Tag's mother,
(00:45):
Elizabeth Puli O'tegg, investigated by police after text messages reveal
she was not only aware of her son's speeding, she
had intimate knowledge of his driving habits through the life
three sixty GPS app shortly before the wreck that caused
the death of Flynn mccrel. Teg wrote to her son
telling him to quote slow the blank down. Despite being
aware of her son's reckless driving. Puli o'tagg also allows
(01:09):
her son to continue to use her brand nude BMW.
Mcrell's parents compared Pulli o'tagg's behavior to another pair of
Michigan parents, Jennifer and James Crumby, the parents of Oxford
High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, who were held responsible for
their child's actions in a school shooting. Police released video
showing Tag filming himself driving recklessly and well over the
(01:30):
speed limit on numerous occasions. Karen and Tagg is now eighteen.
He was initially charged with second degree murder for killing
fle mccrell in the deadly crash in November twenty twenty three,
but was able to get the charge reduced to manslaughter
with a motor vehicle. Teg, who is sixteen at the
time of the crash, was charged with adult designation, meaning
the judge could sentence him as a juvenile, as an adult,
(01:53):
or create a blended sentence. Judge Mark McClory opted to
sentence the teen to serve probation at a level two.
June Uvenile Placement Facility, which is an out of home
residential facility. His time at the facility will be determined
by his progress, allowing him to be released on probation
once he completes his treatment. However, if take is found
in violation at any term of his probation, he will
(02:15):
be sentenced as an adult to nineteen to thirty eight
months to be served at the Wayne County Detention Facility.
Wayne County prosecutors declined to charge the teen's mother. Investigators
have determined that a fire that killed a pregnant mother
and two of her children in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood
(02:37):
of Philadelphia was intentionally set. Early in the investigation, fire
police and ATF were investigating the cause of the fire,
with the focus being on the front steps as the
accelerants sniffing dogs kept leading investigators there. The woman who
died was thirty one year old Ashley Thompson, who was
seven months pregnant, and the two children who also died
(02:59):
in the fire were four and five year olds, a
Leah and Assad, Ashley Thompson's children. Another woman inside the
home when the fire broke out was the children's grandmother,
who grabbed a one year old child and jumped from
a second story window. She remains in critical condition in
the hospital and the child she saved is in stable condition.
Neighbor Yasinia Yeves described what she witnessed. We looked up,
(03:22):
the window was already engulfed conflames by the time my
husband came down, so she had already jumped out the window,
and there there was no going back in to help
anybody else. Ashlely Thompson was found dead on the second floor,
and the two children died after being transported to the hospital.
Officials said the firing gulfed the home so quickly that
he gave the people inside barely any time to escape.
(03:43):
Police do not have anyone charged with the crime, but
they do have a person of interest in custody. R
Kelly back in the news after spending two days at
a North Carolina medical facility over the past weekend. His
lawyer files a third supplement to his emergency motions seeking
release from prison due to for his safety. Kelly claims
the reason he ended up in the medical facility to
(04:04):
start with was due to an overdose he suffered from
medications provided to him by prison employees. While he was
in solitary confinement. Kelly's lawyer claims he was placed in
solitary confinement as punishment for filing the emergency motion to
be released from the prison. The third supplement to his
emergency motion states Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount
(04:25):
of medication that significantly exceeded as safe dose and caused
mister Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy. Kelly
takes medications for anxiety and to help him sleep, in
addition to other medications. The third supplement also claims that
doctors informed Kelly he had blood clots in his legs
and lungs that required surgery, but prison officials refused to
(04:46):
let him undergo the procedure because it requires a week
of recovery. Mister Kelly's life is in jeopardy right now
because the Bureau of Prisons denied him necessary surgery to
clear clots from his lungs. The supplement says, he could
die from this condition and they're letting it happen. There
is no legitimate explanation for that. Kelly's lawyer, Bo Brindley
(05:06):
also says that the alleged overdose happened almost immediately after
he spoke publicly about this singer being kept in solitary confinement.
Brendley says the incident occurred on June thirteenth, when Kelly
woke up in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institution
in Buttoner, North Carolina. Feeling faint and dizzy. He started
to see black spots in his vision, then struggled to
(05:27):
get up on his feet. Unable to walk, Brindley says
Kelly crawled to the door of the cell and lost consciousness.
The singer has allegedly been in solitary confinement ever since.
Brinley filed an emergency motion seeking a temporary furlough for
his client on June ten. The emergency motion claimed that
officials within the Bureau of Prisons were plotting to kill Kelly,
(05:48):
and requested that the singer be granted a temporary furlough,
during which he replaced under house arrest. Watch Crime Stories
with Nancy Grace on Merit TV Monday through Friday six
and nine pm Eastern. Check your low listings for channel assignment,
and subscribe to the Crime Stories with Nancy Grace podcast
on your favorite podcasting app.
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