Woman Found Safe After She is Seen Kidnapped and Screaming on Ring Camera | Crime Alert 6AM 10.15.25

Wichita Police learn the identity of a woman, who reports in safe after being seen screaming as she is snatched from the front yard of a home. Family of a Milwaukee man killed in a police shootout says the video shows the shooting was justified. Man arrested for destroying the eternal flame at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta. Drew Nelson reports.

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
Police in Wichita confirmed that a woman seen being dragged
from a front porch and a viral video is alive
and safe. Detectives say the woman called them Tuesday afternoon
and said she was the person in the footage. Officers
met the thirty five year old at another location, then
brought her to city Hall for an interview. She told

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investigators she lives near where the video was recorded and
said her boyfriend was the man in the clip. Police
said they now believe the case is one of domestic violence.
The woman had no major injuries. Detective said the case
will be sent to prosecutors for possible charges. The video,
taken around two am Sunday on the fourteen hundred block
of North Falluccio, shows the woman walking toward a porch

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and calling out Kevin, before a man runs up, grabs
her and forces her toward the street. Yeah. Both people
then disappear from frame. The footage quickly spread online, prompting
dozens of tips and hundreds of man hours of police work.

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Police urged the woman to contact them, saying their top
concern was her safety. The Wichita Police Department thanked the
public for sharing the video, saying it likely led the
woman to come forward. Detectives continue to gather evidence and
conduct interviews. The names of the woman and her boyfriend
have not been made public. More crime and justice news

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After this, Milwaukee police released dashcam video showing the moments
before an off duty officer shot and killed a twenty
six year old man in a shootout, and now the
man's family says the officer was justified. The footage shows
what began as a fender bender on Mill Road turning violent.

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Investigator say Elijah Wilkes stepped out of his car and
struck the off duty officer in the face with a gun.
The two then exchanged gunfire. Wilkes was killed at the scene.
The Milwaukee Plice Department released a video just four days
after the shooting, well ahead of its fifteen day deadline
for public release. The family of Wilkes requested that the
video be shared early to address what they called misinformation

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spreading online. Attorney b Ivory Lamar, who represents the family,
told our TV news partners at Fox six the that's.

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Its point of that video is clear. It's within a
few feet away, So again the proximity is substantially more
reliable and you can depict the details that are very
critical here.

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Lamar said he and Wilkes's mother saw the video for
the first time the day after the shooting.

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When we saw the video for the first time, completely silent,
it was unimaginable. What actually took place is just something
that we just have to take acceptance in accountability.

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For family members said Wilkes made a fatal mistake. His aunt,
La Tree Spells said, quote, my nephew, he made a
decision that he should not have made, and that is
just something we have to live with. Wilkes was reportedly
on his way to his uncle's funeral that morning when
the crash happened. Police said the officer, who was a
forty year veteran of the force, was injured but survived.

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Lamar tells Wisen the family's decision to release the footage
was meant to help Milwaukee move forward. A twenty six
year old man is charged after police say he peed
on then destroyed the eternal flame at the Martin Luther
King Junior Center in Atlanta. Police officers were called to
the King Center around four thirty a m. Saturday. They

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found Brent Jones peeing in the reflection pool near the
crypts of doctor Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King.
Officers said Jones then stood in the middle of the
flame and stomped on it. Court records say the disturbance
began when Jones got into a fight with another man
and became angry when told to leave the property. Police
detained him at the scene. He was charged with criminal trespass,

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criminal damage to property, public in decency, and obstruction of
law enforcement. The King Center estimated the damage at around
three thousand dollars. A statement from the King Center called
the event quote a minor incident. It went on to say, quote,
while there was minimal damage to the Eternal Flame and
the surrounding area, the King Center remains fully open to visitors.
The Eternal Flame still burns with love, and we continue

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to welcome everyone with open arms and gratitude for the
incredible support of our beloved community. The Dream lives on.
Jeffrey Dean McDaniel as one of the fbis most wanted
for fleeing after allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a thirteen
year old girl in California. Investigators say McDaniel, now fifty eight,
repeatedly assaulted a young female relative in Placer County in

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September of nineteen ninety eight. He fled with her. The
girl was found in Mexico in two thousand. She told
authorities McDaniel took her across California and Nevada before reaching Mexico,
where he continued to assault her. She got pregnant. On
February twenty eighth of two thousand and one, Placer County
issued a warrant for McDaniel on charges of custody deprivation.
Two months later, a federal warrant. McDaniel may still be

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in Mexico, could be working in the computer industry or
involved in tattoo artistry. He's white, five feet eleven about
one hundred ninety pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Tattoos including skulls roses, a solar system on his left forearm,
an Egyptian pharaoh on his right biceps muscle, and a
green wedding band tattooed over the word Michelle. He also

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has blacked out swastikas on both arms and the name
Shelley above his right knee. Anyone with information is asked
to contact the FBI or the nearest American embassy or consulate.
You can call eight hundred, call FBI, or tips dot
FBI dot gov. If you want to remain anonymous. For
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Nelson