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October 31, 2025 5 mins

New Jersey prosecutors have released audio from multiple 911 calls which were placed last month after a 17-year-old boy allegedly ran over two girls. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alarte hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sydney Sumner.
New Jersey prosecutors have released audio from multiple nine to
one to one calls, which replaced last month after a
seventeen year old boy allegedly ran over two girls. Seven
emergency calls were made after the teens struck and killed
Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, both seventeen, as they rode

(00:21):
e bikes in Cranford on September twenty ninth nine.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Was the edge of your emergency.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
The hit by car tailor and needs police ambulance to Philly.
Two people, one's under a car, one is down a street.
Doesn't not good?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Are they conscious of ring? Nobody's conscious?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Nobody, Everyone's done not moving ranks for fatal. Authorities claim
the suspect was driving seventy in a twenty five mile
per hour zone when he ran over the two girls
and drove away. Our friends at crime Online have more.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
The hit and run driver doesn't get far. Police find
the suspect vehicle, a black twenty twenty one cheap compass,
broken down from damage sustained in the crash, just blocks
away on Lincoln Avenue, with a bike still lodged in
the front bumper. The seventeen year old boy behind the
wheel is briefly detained and ultimately released to his family
with fifteen traffic tickets. While police continue to investigate the crash.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
The Neotas and Sala's families release a statement claiming their
daughter's deaths were not the result of an accidental hit
and run. They say the seventeen year old driver, a
coward of a man, has been planning an attack on
Maria for months. Friends and family say the teen, Maria's
classmate at Cranford High who once pursued Maria romantically, has
been harassing, stalking, and threatening Maria for at least three months.

(01:37):
Neotis had a protective order against the suspect, though prosecutors
have kept his identity private, traffic tickets reveal his name,
Vincent Battaloro. Reports indicate Battaloro parked outside Neotas's home for
three months and was never arrested. The teen posted to
his gaining YouTube channel about his campaign against Neotis for
deigning to complain to the school about his behavior.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I think Maria is hungry. It's I think we're going
to center a pizza. Sure, so you'll know I have
a vengeance against Strawford accusing me of sin. I'm in
the call of pizza to her house. Yes, ash at
the door, so fula or my dad wants to call

(02:23):
you Folluba. Don't fool me, stupid. You should not have
accused me of sending the porn and you should not
have dragged me into creating a police report.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
A day after the deadly crash, he took to YouTube
again to claim he was bullied. During the live stream,
he mentioned all the engagement he was receiving from viewers
who admonished him for solace in Neiotas's slings Battalaura was
arrested two days after Neotis and Solace's deaths. Though he
remains jailed on two counts of first degree murder, he
has not been charged as an adult. Union County prosecutors

(02:57):
have until December to petition to have the case moved
from juvenile to adult court. A trial is under way
for a Tennessee mother accused of neglecting her thirteen year
old son to death. Kadaris Maddox had cerebral palsy and
weighed just thirty eight pounds when he died. On July sixth,
twenty twenty two. An autopsy report said the boy died

(03:17):
of malnutrition. A home healthcare nurse testified that she frequently
arrived at the home to find Kadaris laying in a
bathtub wearing a disposable diaper, often filled with feces. Mayisha
Mays said his mother would invariably tell her she was
about to wash him off. Mays described the mother as
absent and unresponsive to her son, frequently ignoring him, blaming

(03:38):
him for family issues, and even saying she wished she
was dead. Mays testified that Kadaris was a happy child
away from his home during the week when his mother
let him spend time at her home. May's recall on
the stand. Once my husband got home, he would interact
more with him, dancing with Kadaris, singing with him. We
just wanted to make him feel at home. May said.
When she brought him back to the Mattox home, the

(04:00):
boy cried. Kadarus's pediatrician also testified about his alarming weight loss.
Doctor Gary Griffieth said that the child weighed forty seven
pounds at his last in person visit in December twenty
twenty and that his general examination was okay. He said
the weight was low even for a child with cerebral palsy.
But what I need is a second point, because then

(04:20):
that tells me what the rate is. Griffiath never got
that second point because Maddox never brought the boy back
to see the doctor. Cheyenne Maddox's standing trial for murder
and aggravated child neglect. The trial continues. A Missouri woman
has been charged with domestic assault after a violent fight
with her boyfriend ended when she hid him with garden
shears and tried to run him over with his truck.

(04:42):
During questioning, Newark told Douglas County Sheriff's deputies, if I
was going to run him over, I would have run
him over, you know what I'm saying. A probable cause
statement says that the pair had gotten into an argument,
leading the boyfriend to get into his truck to drive away.
Newark followed him into the truck and began hitting and
kicking him. The boyfriend was also fighting with her, and
at one point bitter on the hand. The boyfriend said

(05:03):
he struck back in self defense, matching Newark's claims. That's
when she said she grabbed the garden chairs and hit
him in the head. Deputies noted contusions on the boyfriend's
torso as well as a three inch cut on his head.
Newark had a bruise below one eye and a cut
on her thumb. After Newark hit him with the garden shears,
the boyfriend got out of the truck and ran for
the house. That's when Newark took over the driver's seat

(05:25):
and drove toward him, prompting him to take cover behind
a tree. Newark drove past him and he ran into
the house, locked the doors and called nine one one.
Newark broke the screens on two windows trying to get
in before deputies arrived. In addition to a charge of
domestic assault causing serious injury, Newark is charged with armed
criminal action. She was released from jail on Friday on

(05:46):
her own recognizance. The boyfriend was not charged for the
latest crime and justice breaking news. Be sure to follow
the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast app
with this crime Alert. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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