Texas Mom Locks 11YO Autistic Boy with Rotting Teeth in Filthy Room | Crime Alert 6AM 10.17.25

A Texas woman was arrested last week after her 11-year-old autistic son was reportedly found severely underweight and with other injuries indicative of abuse. Investigators believe they know the identities of the shooters who opened fire at a crowded South Carolina bar on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 20 others. Sydney Sumner reports. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Sidney Sumner. A Texas woman was arrested last week
after her eleven year old autistic son was reportedly found
severely underweight and with other injuries indicative of abuse. At
a preliminary hearing, prosecutors laid out the horrible conditions the
boy was left in so in that case that the
defendants starred the child that made the child live in

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a feces still room up locked away. Baytown Police said
that in May, Rachel Blaylock's son was found in a
locked room by himself, despite several other people living in
the mobile home. The boy, who weighed forty six pounds,
had rotting teeth and was covered in dried feces. Medical
records stated that the boy was hospitalized with feces on

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his teeth, in his ears, and under his nails. Investigators
noted the smell of feces and other bodily fluids throughout
Blaylock's home. Blaylock, forty one, allegedly claimed her nonverbal son,
who could not use the bathroom on his own, would
throw feces around his room. A Child Protection Services investigator
instructed an officer to tell Blaylock that her son needed

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medical care. Blaylock allegedly responded, quote, I can't just drop
everything I'm doing and take him to the hospital so
a quack doctor can say, oh, I don't know what's
wrong with him, so we can see another one. Blaylock
admitted to replacing her son's door with a screen door
she kept locked because he would flee the home naked. Meanwhile,
the boy's grandmother, who described Blaylock as not a very

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good mom, managed to unlock the door a couple times
to give him food and water. Baytown police arrested Blaylock
on October seventh. She allegedly told arresting officers that a
container on her belt loop held her baby daddy's ashes. However,
testing concluded it was crystal meth. Prosecutors argued Blaylock's son
is a victim of her drug abuse.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
All the possession of controlled substance is often considered a
crime with at a victim. The context here indicates that
that is not the case.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Blae is charged with injury to a child in possession
of methamphetamine. Her bond was set at two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. Reports indicate that the eleven year old
boy is now in foster care. Now to South Carolina,
where investigators believe they know the identities of the shooters
who opened fire at a crowded bar on Sunday, killing
four people and wounding twenty others. Beauford County Sheriff PJ.

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Tanner said that no witnesses have come forward to confirm
details of the mass shooting that sent hundreds of people
gathered for a high school reunion event scattering.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
We know that there were two, possibly three within this
crowd that had an ongoing feud with each other, and
as a result of this ongoing feud, this this disagreement,
this inability to communicate like we're doing now, they resorted

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to pulling guns.

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When asked by reporters that there was still a danger
to the public since the the shooters were still at large,
Tanner replied, I.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Cannot tell you that you're safe in Beaufort County.

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Tanner said the FBI is assisting enhancing security video of
the scene, while the State Law Enforcement Division is analyzing guns, ammunition,
and shell casings. Gunfire rang out at Willy's Bar and Grill,
a well known hotspot on Saint Helena Island, known for
its Gula inspired cuisine. The coroner's office identified the dead
as Kashawn Glaze twenty two, SHIROD Small's thirty three, Amos

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Gary fifty four, and A Shawntech Milledge twenty two. Gary
was working security at the unofficial alumni event for graduates
of Battery Creek High School. The sheriff also said that
four people who had been hospitalized in critical condition were
now doing much better. An Alabama judge sent a murder
case to a Lee County grand jury Wednesday following the

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September killing of a beloved retired Auburn University professor. Harold
Rashad Dabney, the third, twenty eight, is facing capital murder
during a kidnapping in capital murder during a theft charges
in connection with the death of doctor Julie guard Schunell
fifty nine. During the forty five minute hearing at the
Lee County Justice Center Wednesday, Dabney didn't speak as Lee

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County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Tickle found probable cause for the
charges based on evidence presented by Auburn Police detective Taylor Clark.
Clark was the only witness at the hearing, police found Chunell,
a professor Amerita, dead on September sixth that Keesl Park
in Auburn. Clark stated that Keesl Park security footage showed
Chunell arriving at the park with her dog at around

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nine thirty am on September sixth in a red Ford
F one fifty. At one fifty four pm, police responded
to the scene after a witness at the park discovered
the professor's body near a walking trail. Clark said that
upon arrival at the park, he located Schunell's body around
twenty five to thirty yards away from the trail behind
a tree. Clark, who said it appeared that Chunell had

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been dragged, added he found her visor in doggley soaked
in blood. Clark said that she had been stabbed in
her ne chest, right hand, and forearm. Security footage from
the park's parking lot showed a man matching the defendant's
description using a keyfop to locate Schunell's truck at around
ten twenty nine a m. He got into the truck
and drove away. The following morning, while following up on

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a call regarding a suspicious person, police encountered Dabney. While
searching him, they found Schunell's Max credit card in his underwear.
He also had on Adida's shoes that appeared to match
the same pair worn by the suspect in the park's
security footage. Clark said that a fingerprint found on the
truck also matched Dabney. Blood evidence found inside the truck
and under Schunell's fingernails is currently being tested at the

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Department of Forensic Sciences. The weapon used during the attack
has not been found. Dabney remains behind bars without bail.
The Lee County District Attorney's Office is seeking the death
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favorite podcast app with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.