Teen Son Kills Father in Drunken Altercation | Crime Alert 05.08.25

Teen son accidentally kills his father in a drunken fight. Memphis food truck customers don't react after witnessing a shooting. 

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Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs Now. Julian
Welch Beto nineteen making something to eat at his home Melbourne, Florida,
when its dad, Francis Welch drunkenly gets up from the couch,
telling his son he doesn't deserve to eat because he's
not employed. Welch Betto ignores the dad, takes his plate
walks to the bedroom.

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His dad pushes him.

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The two began fighting and end up on the floor.
Welch Betto puts his father in a headlock and punches
him in the ribs. The father's fiance intervenes and breaks
up the fight. Five minutes later, nineteen year old Welch
Betto hears her scream Nancy.

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The teen walks out into the living room, finding his
father sprawled on the couch, unresponsive with his head tilted back.
The fiance calls nine one one and Francis Welch's rushed
to the hospital, but he dies due to internal bleeding
from his spleen, last rated by one of three broken ribs.
While Welch Betto was sober at the time of the altercation,
his father had an extremely high BAC ofo point three

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ninety one.

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Else Shabato arrested charged with manslaughter. Customers barely react when
a man's shot and killed at a food truck Memphis, Tennessee.
Security footage captures the disturbing side of people moving around
the lifeless body. One man even walks around to place
an order while the victim lies on the ground in

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a growing pool of blood. A witness pumping gas nearby
describes the moment the shooting takes place. He hears two
shots and hits the deck, then two more shots. Despite
gunfire and blue police strobe lights, its business as usual.
No one at the food truck or gas station will
even talk about what happened. Reporters attempt to speak with witnesses,

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they refuse, Police urging witnesses to call crime stoppers nine
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breaking nees Crime onlines John Linley a.

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Major break in a Cleveland, Ohio cold case. Authorities say
they've solved the twenty thirteen murder of nurse Elisa Sherman.
Gregory J. Moore, Sherman's former divorce attorney, was arrested in
Texas and is now charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy.
Prosecutors in Cuyahoga County say More lured Sherman to his

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locked downtown office, where she waited more than an hour
before being fatally stabbed and attack. Investigators believe he either
carried out or orchestrated. Moore had previously served jail time
for lying to police about his whereabouts that day. His
law license was suspended in twenty seventeen. The Ohio Bureau

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of Criminal Investigation reopened the case in twenty twenty one,
and prosecutors now say the evidence clearly points to Moore's involvement.
A second teenager has been charged in connecttion with the
massive wildfire that has scorched New Jersey's Pine Bearns, marking
the state's second largest blaze in nearly two decades. Crime

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Online Sydney Sumner has the latest on the investigation and
the ongoing containment efforts.

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The Jones Road fire, ignited on April twenty second in
Ocean County, New Jersey, has consumed over fifteen thousand acres,
prompting the evacuation of approximately five thousand residents and causing
significant property damage. As of the latest report, the fire
is eighty percent contained. This according to the New Jersey
Forest Fire Service. Authorities have now charged a second individual

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in connection with the blaze. A seventeen year old male
whose identity is held with due to his age, faces
charges of aggravated arson and hindering apprehension. Prosecutors allege he
assisted nineteen year old Joseph Kling of Waretown in setting
wooden palettes ablaze using gasoline in a wooded area, then
leaving the fire untended. Kling was arrested earlier in charge

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with aggravated arson, arson, and hindering apprehension. During a detention hearing,
his attorney stated that Kling did not intend to cause
a wildfire or property damage. Investigators report that both suspects
initially misled authorities by falsely claiming that a group of
individuals they encountered in the woods were responsible for starting
the fire. However, evidence from phone messages and witness testimonies

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contradicted their statements, leading to their arrests. The pine barrens,
situated between Philadelphia and the Atlantic Coast, are particularly susceptible
to wildfires due to their sandy soil, underdeveloped foliage and
strong winds. These conditions, combined with a prolonged drought, have
exacerbated the fire spread.

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The Jones Road fire has destroyed at least one commercial
building and several vehicles.

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Thanks John. Brandy Natasha Cole, seventeen, disappears after getting into
a pickup truck Tifton, Georgia. It's July seventh. She climbs
into a white four door king Cab near Pucket Park.
Never seen again. Inside the trout an African American woman
and four Hispanic men. Brandy's family says she struggles with drugs,
but follows one rule, checking in with mom every seven days.

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She never breaks the rule until that day. Her mom
fears she met with foul play. Today, Brandy's daughter, nineteen,
has no memory of her mom. Brandy five five, one
hundred and thirty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, slightly crooked teeth,
an a tattoo on her hand, a beat brother tattoo

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on her ankle. If you know anything about Brandy Natasha
Cole now thirty one, called tiff County Sheriffs two two
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and solve unsolved homicides with this crime art. I'm Nancy
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