Father Charged for Providing School Shooter Daughter Guns | Crime Alert 05.22.25

In her manifesto, school shooter called her father "stupid" for giving her access to guns. Police officers charged in wrongful death now training others to avoid their mistakes. 

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Crime Alart Hourly Update breaking crime Sydney.

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Sumner in Madison, Wisconsin, the father of a fifteen year
old school shooter is facing felony charges for giving her
access to the guns used in a deadly attack. Forty
two year old Jeffrey rupe Now appeared in court to
face charges of two counts of providing a firearm to
a minor resulting in death and one count of contributing
to the delinquency of a child. If convicted, he faces

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up to eighteen years behind bars. His daughter, Natalie Rupnow,
opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in December, killing
teacher Aaron West and fourteen year old Ruby Bergara, wounding
six others than taking her own life. According to investigators,
rupe Now admitted to buying the guns for her and
giving her the code to a safe. In writings found

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after the shooting, Natalie blamed her father, calling his action stupid.
Prosecutors requested one hundred thousand dollars bail. The court set
it at twenty thousand dollars, with GPS monitoring and strict conditions.
If he's released. A status hearing is set for June ninth.
In Colorado, three officers once charged in the fatal police
shooting of Christian Glass are avoiding trial by helping train

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others on what went wrong. In June twenty twenty two,
twenty two year old Christian Glass experiencing a mental health
crisis called nine one one after his car got stuck
near the mountain town of Silver Plume, Colorado. Body camera
footage shows Glass holding a small knife inside his vehicle
while officers from multiple agencies surrounded him, trying to coax

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him out. Clear Creek County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Bwen eventually
broke the window, leading to a confrontation where Glass was tased,
then fatally shot. Bwen was convicted in February of criminally
negligent homicide and sentenced to three years in prison, the
maximum allowed. Six other officers were charged with failing to intervene.

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Now three of them, Tim Collins, Britney Morrow, and Ryan
Benny have had those charges dropped. In exchange, they participated
in a training video and received further instruction in de
escalation tactics. Prosecutors say the decision was made in part
to spare Glass's family from more trials and to bring
lasting reform. Fifth Judicial District Attorney Heidi McCullum says the

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video is already being used to teach law enforcement nationwide
how not to respond to people in crisis. One officer
still faces charges and two others had their cases dismissed
earlier due to jurisdictional limits in Colorado's police accountability law.
Christian Glass's parents and their attorney praised the approach, calling
it a step towards safer policing. More crime and Justice

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news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
breaking news. Crime Alindes John Lemley, a New.

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York corrections officer, has admitted to covering up evidence after
a deadly prison beating caught on bodycam. Thirty six year
old Nicholas Gentilay pleaded guilty to attempted tampering with evidence
and the death of inmate Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility,
about one hundred eighty miles northwest of New York City.

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Gentile acknowledged wiping up Brooks blood and failing to report it.
Under a plea deal, he avoids jail if he resigns
and obeys the law. He was originally indicted on a
felony the forty three year old Brooks died after being
beaten three times on December ninth. Bodycam footage shows officers

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assaulting him while handcuffed. Six guards face second degree murder charges.
Gentile was one of ten officers indicted. One, Christopher Walrath,
has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, three others have pending plea deals.
Prosecutor William Fitzpatrick is also investigating a second deadly beating

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at nearby mid State Correctional facility. A southern California family
faces grave allegations of prolonged child abuse crime. Online correspondent
Sidney Sumner brings us the latest.

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In Victorville, California, authorities have charged sixty year olds Kenneth
Michael Key and Tina Marie Sheffield Key, along with their
twenty three year old daughter, Caitlin Morassa Key, with six
counts of torture and one count of child abuse each.
The charges stem from allegations that the trio subjected six
children aged four to sixteen to years of physical, emotional,

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and mental abuse. Prosecutors detailed daily beatings, strangulation, leading to unconsciousness,
and deprivation of food and water for days. The investigation
began on February thirteenth, when a tip to a child
abuse hotline prompted immediate action. The children were swiftly removed
from the home and the keys were arrested earlier this week.

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All three defendants are being held on a million dollar
bill each. Their arraignment is scheduled later today via video
conference at the Rancho Cucamonga Superior Courthouse. This case echoes
the twenty nineteen conviction of David and Louise Turpin, who
were found guilty of torturing and abusing their thirteen children
in a similarly harrowing case. For the latest crime in

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I'm Sidney Sumner.