Teen Stalker Vowed "Vengeance" Online Before Mowing Down Girls in Calculated Killing| Crime Alert 7PM 10.07.2025

An accused teen stalker taunted & vowed "vengeance" against one of his victims in an eerie live stream just hours before committing the double murder. He even posted the very day he slammed into the 2 girls at more than 70mph. 

A trio kidnaps, binds & forces a teen to play Russian Roulette, in a twisted plot to break up his romance. Plus, thugs rob a disabled vet, twice - but the crime is overcome by karma.  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.
Just days before a car allegedly slammed into two teenage
girls at seventy miles per hour in a horrific double murder,
The alleged accuser was streaming his dark obsession on YouTube,
chillingly vowing to punish one of his victims. Listen.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It is an absolute unfortunate situation and there's more to
the story that you're not getting. Making thrusts against my
family will not be tolerated.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
The disturbing footage reveals a calculated plot that culminated in
the annihilation of two seventeen year old lives on a
quiet New Jersey street. The alleged premeditated attack and folded
around five thirty pm on September twenty ninth in Cranford.
Victims Maria Niotis and Isabella Sallas, both seventeen, were riding

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an e bike when they were intentionally struck by an
suv driven by seventeen year old Vincent Battlauo of neighboring Garwood,
who then just fled the scene. The girls were airlifted
to a hospital, but died from catastrophic injuries. Authorities arrested
Battlelaua on October first, charging the team with two counts

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of first degree murder, declaring the high speed impact was
no accident. The families immediately ripped Battlauro as a quote
coward of a man end quote, alleging the crash was
quote planned for months end quote. Sport records and witness
accounts confirmed battle Lauro had been stalking Maria and Iotas

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for months. These two neighbors spoke to the media he.

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Has been parked up front of her house line online
and following yeah it was. The school was notified, the
police were notified, like for three months now and nothing happened.

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No Online. Battelauo expressed resentment against Maria and her mom
after they allegedly accused him of distributing child sex abuse material,
which led to his school suspension. In a chilling September
twenty third live stream, Battelaua raged, telling his audience quote
you all know I have a vengeance against this girl

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for accusing me. End quote. He then used a burner
phone on stream to prank Maria's family by ordering two
Pepperoni pizzas to their house. Bragging about the joke, while
later admitting he had previously been caught lurking outside their house.
Even after the double homicide, the troubled teen maintained his

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eerie performance. The day after the crash, Battelaua posted another
bizarre live stream listen.

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In a neighboring tap. Unfortunately, two girls were killed in
a hit and run crash. I wish my sincerious condolences.

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Despite being questioned and briefly released the day of the incident,
prosecutors swiftly moved to arrest him, hitting him with two
counts of first degree murder. He is currently locked down
in juvenile custody, but the charges extend far beyond homicide.
Battalaua was also slapped with fifteen other tickets, including leaving

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the scene, reckless driving, and driving without a valid license,
registration or insurance card. The Union County Prosecutor's office is
aggressively quote exploring all legal options available for prosecution end
quote to try the seventeen year old as an adult
for the monstrous, cold blooded crime. The investigation continues more

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crime and Justice news. After this, the chilling click of
a revolver's cylinder was the sound of terror for ann
eighteen year old Arkansas man who was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint,
bound in a remote basement, and forced into a lethal

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game of Russian Roulette by three men intent on forcing
him to end his romance. The horrifying ordeal, which unfolded
in Sherwood, Arkansas, involved death threats against his entire family
and led to the arrests of a college director and
two other suspects. The nightmare began as the unnamed victim

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was returning his girlfriend's car near her Sherwood home around
three in the morning. Jackson Homan twenty three allegedly ambushed
the teen, attempting to drag him from the vehicle before
he was overpowered by Homan and two accomplices, Charles Charlie
Holman twenty and Robert Ellard fifty four. The trio shoved

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a handgun against the victim's head and drove him ten
miles to a house in North Little Rock. Once inside
the home, violence reportedly escalated. Police reports revealed the victim
was stripped of his shoes and socks and then secured
to a chair in the basement using an extension cord. There,
the suspects allegedly loaded a single round into a revolver,

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spun the cylinder, and compelled the terrified teen to play
Russian roulette. The men took turns pointing the weapon at
his head, clicking the trigger while issuing a cold blooded
ultimatum and the relationship. Immediately and leave Little Rock or
face annihilation. One of the perps reportedly warned, quote, we

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will kill you. Will kill your mother and the rest
of your family. End quote, according to the police affidavit.
The men, though, eventually untied the victim and released him
with a dire warning to stay silent. The teen, shaken
to his core, waited several days before finally confiding in
his mom, who then reported the incident to Sherwood police.

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The investigations swiftly led to the arrest of all three suspects.
They were booked into Pulaski County Jail on five hundred
thousand dollars bond, each, facing felony charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping,
and terroristic threatening crimes that could carry decades in prison.
But the case took a stunning turn when it was

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revealed that Robert Ellard was the director of financial aid
at the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College. At the
time of his arrest, the school fired him days later.
The Homan Brothers, friends of the girlfriend's late brother, allegedly
spearheaded the plot, driven solely by disapproval of the relationship.

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And finally talk about a repeat offender. Alan Prudholm, a
disabled man in Oklahoma City. He's a veteran, by the way,
was hit by thieves not just once, but twice in
eight days. This wasn't just a simple break in either.
The second time, he was forced to watch as they
plundered his mobility aids. They rolled right out the door

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with his manual wheelchair and all his medication. Prudom was
completely powerless to stop the invasion, but that didn't stop
him from confronting the thieves, as he tells News nine, and.

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I said, why are you doing this to me? And
he said it happened to me. I said, yeah, but
you're not a paraplegic. You know you can do for yourself.

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Cops quickly nabbed the alleged creep, a neighbor of all things,
Johnny Johnson, the third, who now faces a first degree
burglary charge, but the search is still on for his accomplice. Prudhom,
who survives on disability, stated he was left quote struggling
to cover basic bills end quote. But wait a second,
the whole saga took a massive turn Prudeom's go fundme appeal.

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It just blew up. Thankfully, organizations even donated a brand
new chair, proving the final score. As always, karma over rhyme.
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