Afternoon Report: Sunday, December 14, 2025

We're starting to learn more about the victims in the deadly shooting at Brown University, President Trump offers his condolences to the victims in the Australia and Brown University shootings, and the Heisman trophy was awarded last night. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WVZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
News twenty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon.
I'm Suzanne Soasville. Here's what's happening. We're starting to learn
more about the victims in yesterday's deadly shooting at Brown University.
Two students were killed and nine other people injured in

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the attack, with one remaining in critical but stable condition
this afternoon. According to the AP, a North Carolina private
school called Durham Academy has identified its former student, Kendall
Turner as being in critical but stable condition, though officials
are unlikely to name Turner or the other victims until

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further along in the investigation. In a statement, Durham Academy says, quote,
our school community is rallying around Kendall, her classmates, and
her loved ones, and we will continue to offer our
full support in the days ahead. As for the investigation,
officials have not provided further updates since the most recent

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press conference at noon. We do know a person of
interest is in custody, described as a man in his twenties,
but the motive for the shooting is still unknown. A
shelter in place order has been lifted, and university president
Christina Paxson says emotional support resources are available for those

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in the community.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
We have we've pulled out all the stops, we have
religious life, student services, everybody we can to be there
to support our community. A lot of recovery ahead of us.
So my main goal in the coming days and weeks
and months it will take a long time, is to
bring people back together and help them feel safe and

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sec're on campus.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Ams and classes for the rest of the semester have
been canceled. Keep it right here on WBZ News Radio
for the very latest, or download the iHeartRadio app. Now
to Australia, where authorities say sixteen people are dead after
a terrorist attack at Sydney's Bondai Beach as members of

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the Jewish community were celebrating the start of Hanukkah. The
BBC's Wie Russ has the very latest.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
The child is among the dead. Forty people remain in
hospital following the attack at an event to mark Hannakah. Earlier,
the police in one of the suspected attackers had been
killed while another was in critical condition. It's not clear
if the updated figure includes either of them. The Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Essenia, who said he'd warned his Australian counterpart,

(02:47):
Anthony Alpinisi the calling for a Palestinian state was pouring
fuel on the anti Semitic fire.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
During an event inside the White House this afternoon, President
Trump offered his condolences to the victims in Australia and
att Brown University. He also mourned the loss of two
US soldiers and an interpreter who were killed in an
ambush attack yesterday in Syria. The gunman is allegedly tied
to ISIS, and the President hinted that retaliation is on

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the way.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
There will be a lot of damage done to the
people that did it.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
They got the person, the individual person, but there'll be
big damage done.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
President Trump also asserting that the Syrian government had nothing
to do with the ambush attack. In the forecast blustery
and cold tonight with a low of seventeen, but those
real field tempts dropping to five below zero in some
spots Tomorrow Sunday to start, then becoming a bit cloudy,
breezy and cold, with a high year thirty On Tuesday,

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partly sunny and less windy, with a high of thirty
three On Wednesday, a mix of sun and clouds, a
breezy but much less cold, with a high of forty five.
Right now in Boston we have some light snow and
twenty nine degrees. The Patriots are taking on the Bills
right now in Foxborough, currently losing thirty five to thirty

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one with just forty nine seconds left in the fourth quarter.
But off the field, Anne Michael May, wife of Patriots
QB Drake May, has become a superstar in her own right.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's been a big year for the Mays, with Drake
playing MVP caliber football and and Michael becoming a social
media sensation for her baking videos. She's been doing a
challenge this month called Bake Missy, baking.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Something new every single day of December until Christmas.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
So I had to ask Pat's nation which treat is
their favorite? The peppermint chocolate chip something that she has maken,
and I look you amazing right there, That's probably one
of my favorites. So I'm not my wife trying to
make that.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
The Christmas crack. I like the peppermint cookies that she made.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
I'm going to say the candy cane cookies it's definitely
like the best.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, that's the ones that Drake may really likes.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, Like I didn't like the cinnamon oat bars were
like Super Goods makes sugar oat bars, and I wish
I could try it.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
But as long as she's keeping drinking nice and healthy.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, nice and warm good companies too much enough so
that you're like happy.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
From Foxboro Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
The Heisman Trophy was awarded last night.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
College football's most prestigious trophy was awarded in New York
City Saturday night. The twenty twenty five Heisman goes to
Fernando Mendoza, quarterback for number one Indiana.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm not a loss of words.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Power.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Thank you, thank you, everybody, Thank you everybody.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Mendoza guided the Hoosiers to their first number one ranking,
throwing for twenty nine hundred and eighty yards at the
national best thirty three touchdown passes while also running for
six scores, becoming the first Hoosier to win the Heisman
since its inception in nineteen thirty five.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Dave Packer ABC News.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
A Dorchester man is being held on ten thousand dollars
bail after allegedly stealing cars from park warking garages in Boston.
He also apparently dragged a police officer who approached one
of the vehicles. Anthony Crumbley's faces several charges, including breaking
and entering with intent to commit a felony and larceny

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of a motor vehicle. Crumbly is due back in court
on January sixth for a pre trial hearing. You are
now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day,
Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
Suzanne Sosville, WBZ, Boston's news radio