Man Accused of Walmart Killing Stabbed Woman in Prior Random Attack | Crime Alert 6AM 11.07.25

A Georgia woman says that a man accused of killing a teen last month at a Walmart randomly stabbed her in 2021. A young boy found wandering alone in Milwaukee earlier this week is related to a woman found shot to death in an alley on the same day. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office says missing 9-year-old California girl, Melodee Buzzard, was spotted in a small Utah town last month. Sydney Sumner reports. 

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Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news. Now, I'm Sidney Sumner.
A Georgia woman says that a man accused of killing
a teen last month at a walmart randomly stabbed her
in twenty twenty one. Police arrested forty eight year old
Delano Middleton last week for an October twenty third confrontation
at a Walmart on White Marsh Island, around eight miles

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east of Savannah. Police said eighteen year old J. T.
Schroeder kicked Middleton's shopping cart as Middleton walked by. The
encounter escalated, and Middleton allegedly stabbed Schroeder multiple times. Paramedics
took Schroeder to a hospital, where he died the next day.
Now Erica Young says that Middleton attacked her with a
knife when she worked at a U haul store on

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Okagee Road. According to Young, Middleton walked into the business
in October twenty twenty one, took keys from the counter,
and walked outside to steal a truck. Young said she
asked him if he needed help finding a vehicle, and
then he shoved a cart on top of her and
started stabbing her. Court records indicate that Middleton used a
six inch foldable knife during the uhaul attack, before driving

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off in a truck he stole. Young says Middleton told
her he wanted to watch her bleed out. She said
she had never had any contact with him and had
never met him before. Following a mental evaluation, a doctor
found Middleton incompetent to stand trial. In twenty twenty three,
he was ruled competent, but took a plea deal on
an aggravated assault charge. A judge sentenced him to two

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years behind bars and eight years on probation. Now. Young
says Middleton got away with stabbing her so he thought
he could get away with it again. Chatham Police have
not released additional information regarding the Walmart incident, pending a
full investigation. Schroder's father, however, says his son was never
ever confrontational unless he was confronted first. Schroeder was stabbed

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over ten times until he bled out and died. Middleton
remains behind bars at the Chatham County Detention Center on
murder charges. He has scheduled for a November twentieth court appearance.
Young believes the system failed Old Schroeder's family and says
she's sorry for their loss. A young boy found wandering
alone in Milwaukee earlier this week is related to a

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woman found shot to death in an alley on the
same day. Anya Raymond, thirty one, was found dead at
around nine am on November fifth, about five hours after
the boy was located some three miles away in North Milwaukee.
He was not wearing shoes or socks. Police described the
child as five or six years old and said he
was believed to be nonverbal. Police later said they'd located

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his family and he'd been reunited with them just after
four pm. Investigators did not say how the boy was
related to the dead woman, although social media posts indicate
he may have been her son. Rosetta Lambkin Johnson says
she found Anya's body in the alley and took off
running to call police. She said she didn't recognize the
woman and had heard no gunshots in the hours leading

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up to discovering the body. Johnson theorizes that Anya must
have been killed somewhere else and brought to the alley.
Anyone with information about the shooting should contact Milwaukee police
at four one, four nine three five seven three six
zero more crime and justice news. After this, the Santa
Barbara County Sheriff's Office says missing nine year old California

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girl Melody Buzzard, was spotted in a small town in
Utah last month. According to the Sheriff's office, Melody was
seen between the Colorado Utah border on October ninth, on
a return route after her mother, Ashley Buzzard, rented a
car in California and took a cross country trip. Ashley
Buzzard rented a car in Lompoc and embarked on the
trip on October seventh, with possible stops in Kansas and Nebraska.

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Security footage placed both Ashley and Melody Buzzard at the
car rental business while wearing wigs that same day. Investigators
said they believed that the wig was used to alter
Melody's appearance. They also noted that Ashley Buzzard is known
to wear wigs. Raquel Zick, Santa Barbara County's PIO says
Smelody was last seen on the Utah side of the
Colorado Utah border. Specifically, the pair stopped in the small

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town of Green River, Utah, on October ninth, an area
not on the route back home to California. FBI agents
arrived at the Bear Valley Country Store and gas station
on October twenty fifth, requesting security footage, but the owner
reportedly said footage is deleted after two weeks. The gas
station is situated just outside Panguitch, Utah, and investigators believe

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that Ashley Buzzard crossed the intersection of State Route twenty
and US eighty nine where the store is located. Agents
also stopped by the Junction Pitstop in Phillips sixty six
gas station Injunction, Utah. Employee Samantha Matthews told them that
she saw Ashley in a curly blonde wig on October
ninth at about five pm. Matthews reportedly said that the
wig wearing woman was in a car with a woman

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with purple hair who appeared to be in her late
twenties to mid thirties. The Sheriff's office previously said that
the rental car, a white twenty twenty four Chevrolet Malibu,
initially had California license plate nine MNNG one oh one.
On October eighth, Ashley Buzzard allegedly changed it to New
York license plate hCG nine six seven seven. Investigators have

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not determined when the plate was installed or whether additional
plates were used at other times during travel. The New
York plate seen on the car does not belong to
the vehicle or to Buzzard. Buzzard arrived back at her
Vandenberg Village home in the five hundred block of Mars
Avenue on October tenth. Melody was not with her. She
has remained uncooperative in the investigation. The Sheriff's office, along

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with the FBI, previously carried out search warrants at Buzzard's home,
but Melody remains unaccounted for. Melody is described as standing
four feet six inches tall, weighing sixty pounds, with brown
hair and brown eyes. She may be wearing a wig.
Anyone with information regarding Melody's whereabouts is asked to call
Santa Barbara County Investigators at eight oh five sixt' eight

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one forty one fifty. Anonymous calls can be made to
the tip Line at eight oh five six eight one
four one seven one. For the latest crime and justice
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I'm Sidney Sumner.