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every year historic Grapevine Texas
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celebrates Christmas with a
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bang greaton is the Christmas capital of
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Texas there's no way you can visit and
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not be in a happy Jolly mood but in 2011
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the celebration of peace on Earth and
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Goodwill towards man is Shattered by an
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eerie 911 call hello great
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911 you need
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help
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hello something terrible must have
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happened you could tell that they were
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still gathered in that area where they
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were celebrating Christmas I think they
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were uh
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surprised who could have committed this
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horrific
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attack when you look at how these
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individuals have been murdered it's
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personal I could see the spiral start to
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happen
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police try desperately to make sense of
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this nightmare on
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Christmas it definitely was pushed by
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the fact that it was in the holiday
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season
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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an all-time favorite Christmas classic
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is the movie It's a Wonderful Life it's
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all about how the town of Bedford Falls
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comes together to overcome evil with the
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help of an
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Angel just Northwest of Dallas Fort
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Worth is a place that has become the
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Texas version of Bedford Falls grap Vine
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Texas is the historic town that hosts
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over 1,000 Christmas related events in
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the 40 days leading up to
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Christmas great by 911 but on December
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25
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2011 this little
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town faces pure
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evil so it was Christmas
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Day and I was spending the afternoon and
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dinner time with my then boyfriend and
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his
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family I had texted Sara Merry Christmas
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earlier in the in the morning but she
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didn't text back um and that wasn't
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really out of the ordinary just because
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you know it's Christmas
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SAR zor Vivian T's best friend is
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visiting her family in Grapevine
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Texas viven is not alarmed when Sora
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doesn't text her back on Christmas day
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until she gets a call from their mutual
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friend
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Simon
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um
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and that was like one of the weirdest
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conversations I've ever had just because
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I understood all the work words that he
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was telling me but like my brain did not
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want to like believe it and so like I
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remember be like wait a minute so like
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how like is our
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okay I remember like yesterday we got
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the 911 call around 11:30 great by 911
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where is your
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emergency hello great F
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911 you need help 911 calls come
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throughout it's it's normal business if
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you will and police work uh it doesn't
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matter what day of the week or if it is
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a holiday what was unusual about this
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particular call is this was a whispering
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voice and was hard to understand what
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they were trying to
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say you need
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help are you
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sick what was that
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do you need an ambulance or
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police
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hello this was a landline call so the
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address would populate when the call was
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made into the 911 Center we want to make
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sure that there is not an emergency and
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the people are safe so the officers
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responded
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accordingly the call was very eerie it
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was difficult to hear and understand
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what the caller was saying
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so the police responding were going
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blindly because they didn't have
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information as to what was going
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on so when the officers arrived at the
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scene it was extremely quiet they didn't
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hear anything that's what you do the in
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the entire time you're approaching the
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origin of the call you're evaluating
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what you're seeing hearing smelling and
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in this case there was nothing so they
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went to the door
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they knocked on the
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door again no
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response they probably didn't think that
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it was going to be a serious ordeal
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because this is a very safe community
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and it's Christmas
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Day the officer took it upon himself to
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peer into the windows to see if he could
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see anything and when he did that he did
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see a pair of legs lying on the ground
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not
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moving he actually went to another
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window to see a different View and he
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actually saw more people in the same
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position lying on the floor without any
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movement they request permission to
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breach entry uh force entry because it's
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without a search warant but it's Exogen
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circumstances so that emergency allows
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the officers to enter into that
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apartment that's what they
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did it didn't take long to determine
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what they had at
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hand when First Responders open the door
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they're caught completely off guard by a
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shocking scene amongst the backdrop of
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holiday cheer are multiple dead bodies
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that appear to have been shot while
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opening their presents on Christmas
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morning two middle-aged
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females a young female in her 20s one in
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her late teens a young man about 14
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years old and two middle-age
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males they had pretty good idea that the
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shooter was in the apartment because
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they had to breach the apartment and get
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inside First Responders immediately
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check for signs of Life they sweep the
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other rooms to determine if there's an
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active shooter or any other victims
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inside the home once the scene is
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cleared they notify headquarters and the
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entire great VI Police Department is put
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on
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alert it appeared uh from the officers
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that were there at the scene what they
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described was that the Christmas gifts
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had already been
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open prior to the
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shooting then the first responder spot
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something that almost makes their hearts
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stop someone everyone knows and loves
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lying prone on the
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floor he's dressed as Santa and only he
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knows why he chose that could it be
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simply because he wanted to put the
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family at
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ease or could it be that the person
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dressed as the symbol of Christmas was
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in fact evil in disguise
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[Music]
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Great Vine Texas
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2011 nowhere in the entire lonar state
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is Christmas treated with such
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enthusiasm so the Carnage that Grapevine
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Texas police discover on Christmas Day
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is even more
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shocking Grapevine calls itself the
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Christmas capital of the state
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it's practically enshrined Christmas
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cheer into the
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law what occurred on Christmas the
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morning is so painful to grasp anywhere
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but perhaps here most of
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all so in 2011 we opened our presence
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early and I got a text from the city
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manager that said our police department
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and public servants were working a crime
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scene they were apparently seven people
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dead in the
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apartment my first thought was no it
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couldn't be not in gravine Texas we're a
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safe City we never do have any thing
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like
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this it's a deep sadness you know seven
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people killed on Christmas
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Day how does that
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happen the victims in the Grapevine
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apartment look like their family members
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is caught unawares by a shooter while
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they open presents why would someone
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want to annihilate an entire family on
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what should be the happiest day of the
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year the holidays for most people are a
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joyous time of getting together and this
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and that and even though those
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individuals are looking forward to the
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event and spending time with family it's
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still stressful there's extra cooking
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cleaning all of those things that go
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along but for V vable individuals that
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might not have support or might be going
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through some kind of internal
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conflict it might be the trigger that
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pushes them over the edge to a violent
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episode Great Vine police will not begin
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to know a motive until they first
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identify the
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victims a forensic unit begins
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processing the scene and officers start
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knocking on doors
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so when you have a crime scene like this
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where uh you have seven deceased people
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and Mak an identification is extremely
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important because it kind of tells you
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who belongs
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where you canvas out that area and try
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to find anybody that may have any type
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of information related uh to the
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crime so in cavas in the area to their
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surprise they didn't find anybody that
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heard any
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gunshots usually you have a gunshot
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whether it's one or multiple then you'll
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receive numerous 911 calls but only one
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person made a 911 call from that murder
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scene finding out who made this call
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would help them to determine what
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happened on this Christmas
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day they called dispatch and asked them
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to call back the number that the 911 one
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call came
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from they heard a phone
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ringing and it was located on the Cradle
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inside of the
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apartment it's possible that this call
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was made by a victim that was hiding
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from his or her as salent it's also
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possible that this call was the last
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communication from the
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last living person amongst these seven
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people Grapevine detectives discover the
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landline belongs to a woman named Fatima
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nasin ramti who leases the
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apartment in this case we were fortunate
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that we were able to get most of the
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names from driver's licenses that were
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either on them or nearby and from there
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we pulled their driver's license photos
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from a database and compared them to the
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people we had there at the
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scene acuren is a subscriber database
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that is used in investigations regularly
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because it not only identifies members
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of the household but potential relatives
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and from that information we can uh make
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a pretty good
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determination we knew three of those
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people lived in that
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apartment we determined that uh it was a
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mother a teenage daughter and a
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14-year-old
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son Fatima has two children a boy Ali
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and a beautiful daughter 19-year-old
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Nona my name is Katherine an Coronado
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and I was uh one of Nona's High School
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best
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friends I was a sophomore going into a
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new school new area didn't know anybody
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and I will never forget that this girl
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with long black hair walked right up to
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me and she said hi my name name is Nona
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you don't know me and I just want to
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tell you you are so pretty can we be
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friends Nona was such a free-spirited
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person and she was very
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sociable she still didn't know what she
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wanted to do she just wanted to get into
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college she just wanted to help her
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family she loved her
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family police ID the victims who
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actually live in the home but who are
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the others
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we had three other people that had a
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common address in Irving Texas uh so
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clearly they did not live there we
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determined from their information the
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three that lived in Irving that it was a
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mother father and a
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daughter the daughter is SAR zor Vivian
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to's friend so SAR and I met in college
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she was majoring in biology um she
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wanted to become a medical doctor she
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was always super caring and um you know
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just wanted to make things better in
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general for everyone you know and so
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that was um a big reason why she was
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drawn to that
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occupation she was very warm to everyone
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that she met super super generous her
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and her family as
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well SAR was close with her family in
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general she had a big family um a lot of
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cousins aunts uncles and it was just
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everyone just just all like one big
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happy group know's mother Fatima is the
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sister of Sara's mother
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Zera the middle-aged female that lived
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in Irving was the sister to the person
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that resided in the apartment police
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approached the last body lying on the
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floor dressed in a Santa
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costume they see a cell phone did Santa
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try to call
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911 uh phone was located it was on the
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ground in fact the battery cover had
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come off as if it had been dropped but
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it was located next to the individual in
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the Santa
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Su and then they see something very
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alarming Santa has a
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gun this is shocking it's possible that
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he was trying trying to defend himself
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from the as salent or could it be that
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this was the murder
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weapon he was wearing a Santa Claus
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costume you know that is a you could
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call it a splashy detail but it's also a
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tragic detail considering the
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circumstances two Santa left is SAR
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zor's father in his hand another
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confusing detail to add to the crime
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scene
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to the shock of the investigators a man
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to the left of Santa in an easy chair
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also has a weapon he's holding a Smith
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and Wesson
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handgun seeing two firearms in plain
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view well the officers would have had to
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try to determine are these the weapons
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involved two men each holding guns it
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begs the question is one of them the
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Killer and one the victim
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instead of celebrating Christmas with
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their families detectives in Grapevine
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Texas are investigating a tragic
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Christmas morning murder scene police
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have identified two families connected
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by two sisters who are targeted
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Christmas morning
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2011 the yasan panaz and the zores are
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originally from Iran on but they're
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Americans now and they have embraced
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Christmas
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traditions to go into any scene
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especially on a Christmas Day and to see
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seven people
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deceased it's it's
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unimaginable and to have somebody in a
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Santa
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suit and seeing two firearms in plain
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view you just can't connect those kind
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of dots it's a highly IR rational
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situation and
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scene police must now identify victim
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number seven a man dressed as
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Santa you evaluate the scene when you
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get there to see if there may be
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anything related to your crime scene and
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of course vehicles are not unusual in
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this case there was a white Toyota
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4Runner in running the registration we
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were able to determine that the person
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in the Santa suit also appeared to be
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the same registered owner to the Toyota
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Forerunner we were able to determine the
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identity as the person in the Santa suit
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as Aziz
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yasta he is the estranged husband of
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Fatima who's leasing the apartment and
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he's also the father of her two
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[Music]
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children the other person that was at
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the scene with the pistol was identified
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as the brother-in-law of Aziz as
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Muhammad two brothers-in-law azis and
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Muhammad both dead and both have guns in
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their
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hands they have to evaluate the scene to
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figure out who shot who uh how they were
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shot where they were shot
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from and there's another confounding
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detail
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Specialists noticed that the blinds had
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been moved or
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changed when he opened the blinds he
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realized there was blood spatter on the
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outside of the blinds and clearly the
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shooting had taken place inside the
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apartment and then also the wand that
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you used to manipulate the blinds to
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open and close had blood on one side but
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not the others so we concluded that
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somebody inside of the
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apartment after after the shooting had
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closed the blinds for Grapevine
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detectives this presents another
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possible scenario perhaps Muhammad and
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Aziz were defending their family from
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someone else someone that fled the
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scene we knew immediately that this was
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you know Uncharted Territory not only
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for the police department but for the
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citizens of of gravon to have to learn
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that this happened in their their City
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you could tell that they were still
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gathered in that area where they were
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celebrating Christmas um it didn't
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appear that you know there was any type
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of struggle I think they were uh
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surprised I don't think at that point I
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released a lot of
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information I believe I just gave them
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the amount of
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victims that's a number that jumps out
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that's not normal that's not normal
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anywhere that's not normal on Christmas
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Day
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anywhere a Christmas Day tragedy in
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Texas Four Women and three men were
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found shot to death in their home
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Apparently after opening their Christmas
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gifts in 2011 I was a news reporter for
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kxas the NBC affiliate television
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station here in Dallas
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Forth I'd gotten a phone call from a
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news manager some of the details of
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course weren't yet to to fully come out
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yet but there wasn't any question as to
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what the story of the day was going to
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uh it's still early in this
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investigation obviously though this did
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play out some almost 24 hours ago no
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there is no known motive at least as one
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that police are telling us about I think
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it was the largest Christmas massacre in
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the history of this country at that time
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I couldn't imagine what our uh police
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and uh paramedics were having to deal
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with in the crime scene like that it it
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became a national story uh really
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quick it's the chilling sound of near
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silence on the other end of a 911 call
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not long after that police in Grapevine
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Texas near Dallas found seven bodies in
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an
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apartment it wasn't long after that that
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it I was getting calls uh
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nonstop and that included International
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media I was receiving calls as far as
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away as Australia I had certainly
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Amplified uh given the fact that it is
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Christmas today and I think you know I
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can speak saf for the rest of the police
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department I don't think any members of
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the police department has encountered
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something like this on Christmas
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Day the murders continue to grab
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worldwide attention as investigators try
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to learn exactly what
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happened but you can't commit yourself
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to whatever your theory is you you have
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to prove that by the evidence at hand
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painstakingly piece by piece piece of
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information by piece of information to
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determine in your best ability what
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exactly
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happened the
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investigators relied on the cell phone
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information from the victims to really
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nail down the time that this crime
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occurred we were fortunate in the sense
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that we had phones and they have dat and
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time
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stamps detectives use the cell phone
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data to determine that Zara sent a text
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message at 11:15 a.m. on Christmas Day
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the 911 call came in at 11:34 a.m. and
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so it's determined that the time frame
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between 11:15 and
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11:34 was when this massacre
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occurred Sara's text reveals nothing to
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explain how or why the shooting occurs
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just minutes
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later investigators immediately Reach
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Out to people who receive text or phone
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calls from the
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victims that 14-year-old boy just 12
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minutes before he was killed called a
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friend and wished him Merry Christmas so
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he was relaxed and he thought everything
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was
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well 12 minutes later he's
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dead police speak to Ali's friend he
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says there's nothing strange about this
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family alli's parents are separated but
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that's not unusual
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the boy's father has only good things to
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say about aiz one of the nicest guys I'd
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ever met he was one of those that
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enjoyed buying drinks or dinner for his
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friends we had several sources that we
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spoke with the refer to asase as a
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nonviolent
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person the same goes for sora's Dad
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Muhammad no one can imagine him ever
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being
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violent her parents were
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like like the best people
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ever they often had a lot of events like
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at their house they made me feel so
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welcomed which is why they're so loved
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by the
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community then police learn about Nona's
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boyfriend he was a little bit of an
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older guy he was you know unfortunately
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a a high school dropout but you know
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She always told me like he did care
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about her a
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lot what we learned from the daughter's
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closest friend she was able to share
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that she did not like this boyfriend she
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always felt like they were always
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arguing about something I always told
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her she could do so much better I'm like
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you have so much more potential but you
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know if this is somebody you you really
00:26:21
you know want to enjoy then you know be
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your boyfriend then so be
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it and he also didn't get along with
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Nona's
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dad Nona's boyfriend had once been
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arrested and detectives learned that
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she's actually the one who bonded him
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out this is concerning because given his
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background it's possible that he could
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be a suspect in this
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case I think that that played a a big
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part in a lot of the the
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drama at this point Point investigators
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are thinking is known as boyfriend the
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key to this horrendous
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crime is he the one who closes the
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blinds after murdering seven
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people investigators in great Bine Texas
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are dealing with a shocking tragedy
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Christmas Day
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2011 seven people shot dead including
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one man dressed as Santa news agencies
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around the world pick up the story
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police are under pressure to come up
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with
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answers the boyfriend was interviewed
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and he provided
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some important information for Christmas
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he had a pretty good Alibi we looked
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into uh his his information and what we
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were able to determine is he was with
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two friends at the
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apartment um and in fact there were text
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messages where he was trying to reach
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out and trying to contact
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Nona police also learned Nona and her
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father Aziz the victim dressed as Santa
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have argued since she was a teen
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girl when she was in high school the the
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father put up security cameras and would
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even board her door at night just to
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keep her from sneaking out so clearly
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there was issues there with following
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her parents' wishes but Aziz does not
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hold himself to the same standards he
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expects of his
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daughter although Aziz had high
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expectations for his family he did not
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live up to these expectations
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himself it was learned that he had a
00:28:48
history of picking up prostitutes and
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this is something that was very much
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against his belief system
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a friend of aiz shared information that
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indicated that Muhammad and his ziz
00:29:02
would get together reportedly to go on
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Hunting our fishing trips when in fact
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they were going to hotels and meeting
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with
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prostitutes he believes the
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brother-in-law Muhammad had shared that
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with his wife regarding Aziz doing these
00:29:21
activities but he didn't reveal his
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participation and that caused a big riff
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between him and aiz
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what we found out about aiz is at one
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point in time he was a very successful
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businessman he lost his livelihood when
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there was an embargo placed on his
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country origin which was Iran and
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because he could
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not import goods from his country and
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that's how he uh was a successful
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businessman was selling these uh
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artifacts and items from Iran he lost
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his entire
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business he did try to work at other
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businesses I believe real estate was one
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of those that He attempted to make a go
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at it and he just was not
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successful so his wife and his family
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suffered financially because of his
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situation non started looking for a job
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she was working at a bakery for a little
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bit then she moved to working at a
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restaurant she was just doing everything
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she could to just save up money for
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herself but also to help her
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mom a FMA appeared to be a very proud
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woman a woman who dearly loved her
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children and but she was also in a
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difficult
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place again being proud she just
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couldn't stay with disease anymore and
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that's why she moved
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out finally the medical examiner's
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report comes back it tells investig ERS
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a lot revealing how each victim is
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shot when you look at how these
00:31:06
individuals have been murdered it's
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personal they've been shot in the
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head aziz's family has been shot in the
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head one time execution style the niece
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shot in the
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head however there are two of them that
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stand stand out in the manner and the
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amount of times that they were
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shot zor and her husband Mohammad have
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both been shot three times compared to
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all the other victims that were shot one
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time zor was shot three times in the
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head her husband was shot once in the
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head which is consistent with the other
00:31:51
victims but then he was also shot twice
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in the abdominal area
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and why why are they different why were
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they killed in another manner it's a
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question that stands out that needs to
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be
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answered the postmortem of course does
00:32:10
not reveal a motive behind the murders
00:32:12
but it confirms something else
00:32:15
detectives already
00:32:19
suspect the medical examiner information
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revealed that one of the victims died
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from self-inflicted gunshot
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the person that was in the Santa suit
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had committed
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suicide aiz
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yasta on this case it's my opinion that
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Aziz is a family
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Annihilator family Annihilation is not a
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common event how
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however it is the most common form still
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of mass shootings within the United
00:33:03
States we don't tend to hear about it as
00:33:08
often as it occurs and it isn't until we
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get to a case like this one where there
00:33:14
are so many victims that it actually
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makes the news it happened Christmas day
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in the state of Texas tonight Brandon
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Todd explains how the holiday quickly
00:33:24
turned into a nightmare for this family
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there's a final twist revealed in that
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medical examiner's report a Twist that
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shows how Aziz tries to implicate his
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own brother-in-law in the
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murders this uh particular scene was
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highly unusual in the sense that I've
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never seen a stag crime scene of a
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violent
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nature they've had these 911 tapes
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they've been going over and over and
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over them trying to listen and hear
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what's on there because the voice on
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there is very faint they needed
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additional software brought in to
00:34:02
identify exactly what he was saying
00:34:04
they've been able to do that now we're
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going to play it for you so you can hear
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it for yourself you need
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help are you
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sick what was
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that apparently yes Dum was trying to
00:34:23
cover up this crime and make it look
00:34:25
like it was a shootout there that his
00:34:27
brother-in-law perhaps was responsible
00:34:29
for these
00:34:31
murders in this case placing a pistol in
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Muhammad's
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hand he had a pistol in his right hand
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but he did not have the indications that
00:34:45
he would have been a shooter based on
00:34:48
his injuries based on the blood
00:34:52
spatter there's also the pistol had um
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Blood on the handle that was not
00:34:59
consistent with the the blood that was
00:35:03
on Muhammad's
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hand it is Aziz Blood on the handle and
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Aziz bloody fingerprints on the
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blinds when you have a scene it's if you
00:35:18
will connecting all the dots all the
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dots you can if aiz
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residents uh revealed information they
00:35:26
can tie them to those weapons
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that's
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important but also because we now know
00:35:32
that he committed
00:35:34
suicide it's not common but it's not
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uncommon for people to leave a suicide
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note and so that would be important too
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and that's why we conducted the search
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at the
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residents no note was found uh regarding
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his suicide at the residence
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we did find numerous other indications
00:36:06
of Contraband if you will that tied them
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to the pistols that were there holsters
00:36:13
ammunition and um also I believe we even
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found receipts for two of the
00:36:19
weapons what most likely happened that
00:36:22
Christmas day is that Aziz showed up to
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his family's celebration where ing a
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Santa
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costume his family probably thought that
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he was just being in the Jolly mood and
00:36:35
maybe trying to make amends with his
00:36:38
estranged wife and his children however
00:36:41
in reality Aziz was most likely using
00:36:44
that costume to hide the two
00:36:53
weapons Great Vine Texas
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2011 the iconic Christmas celebrations
00:36:58
in this Texas town are now marred by a
00:37:02
horrifying murder suicide the tightly
00:37:06
knit Community wants answers why did a
00:37:10
man named Aziz yasen P perpetrate such a
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horrible
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act this isn't a who done it it's a why
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done it so I remember having a specific
00:37:21
conversation of wait he was okay he was
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wearing a Santa Claus costume when he
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killed his entire
00:37:29
family you know I'm a father you know I
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I I know what a family gathering is like
00:37:36
I know what family Strife feels like I
00:37:39
know what bad feelings are
00:37:42
like
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but what what person would ever consider
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doing that
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um even if you have all the facts we'll
00:37:54
never know we'll never get it
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uh again the big question obviously is
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the motive in this case perhaps it may
00:38:02
never be known we do expect to learn
00:38:04
more information from great B police
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later this
00:38:08
morning anytime you have a homicide like
00:38:11
that you still investigate it like you
00:38:13
have a suspect that that you need to
00:38:16
make a case on to take to
00:38:18
trial knowing that what our detectives
00:38:21
did how many family members that they
00:38:23
spoke with friends a multitude of
00:38:26
friends and
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just making sure that they were covering
00:38:29
the the bases and and trying to develop
00:38:33
something that was a plausible motive to
00:38:35
it and it took a long
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time we learned that his sister-in-law
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did not think highly of
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aeas
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she looked at him as a failure as a
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provider for the
00:38:52
family and I think Aziz took that very
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personal he he did not like his
00:39:00
sister-in-law at all she to me she came
00:39:03
across as a as a strong woman who's not
00:39:06
afraid to voice her opinion and that did
00:39:10
not set well with
00:39:15
diseas everyone was of the opinion that
00:39:19
aiz had it out for a
00:39:22
sister-in-law it was a a very strained
00:39:26
relationship she did not respect him and
00:39:29
many people eluded to this that he
00:39:32
seemed to blame her for everything that
00:39:36
was wrong in his
00:39:38
life then Aziz hears about the zere's
00:39:41
Christmas Eve party to which the entire
00:39:44
extended family is
00:39:46
invited except for
00:39:49
him one of the things that came out was
00:39:52
aiz felt slighted that he wasn't invited
00:39:55
to a Christmas party
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that was held by his brother and
00:40:00
sister-in-law what was I think what
00:40:04
upset him more was previously at
00:40:06
Thanksgiving they had all been together
00:40:09
and they reportedly had a great family
00:40:11
gathering and I think they gave him some
00:40:13
false hope because then came Christmas
00:40:16
Eve big family party he was not invited
00:40:20
his family was there I I think he felt
00:40:23
not only offended but
00:40:26
slighted aziz's absence at the Christmas
00:40:29
party people would have noticed that
00:40:32
they're all very close-nit group and the
00:40:35
whole family was there except for the
00:40:37
husband and he just looked at this as
00:40:39
another step of interfering with his
00:40:42
relationship with his
00:40:45
family and from that came Christmas Day
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the next
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day the family had a plan that day he
00:40:57
had begged to attend uh Christmas day to
00:41:01
give his children
00:41:04
gifts the mother was not excited about
00:41:07
that so they came up with the plan that
00:41:09
they would have lunch he would show up
00:41:12
he would give them their gifts and then
00:41:14
they would have to leave to go attend
00:41:16
the Dallas Mavericks basketball
00:41:21
game he clearly had a
00:41:24
plan to do what he did
00:41:28
you don't just
00:41:29
take two
00:41:31
firearms and put them in a Santa suit
00:41:34
and go have lunch with your family and
00:41:36
then shoot
00:41:41
him he was at a deep dark place of
00:41:45
Despair and I I just think it it took
00:41:49
all rationale from him and he did what
00:41:51
he did because in his mind I feel like
00:41:54
he felt there was nothing else left to
00:41:56
do but exact
00:42:03
Revenge I want the world to remember and
00:42:07
those that did know Nona and her family
00:42:10
who they were and the light that They
00:42:13
Carried the light that she carried she
00:42:15
really carried her family in such a
00:42:18
positive
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way it's
00:42:24
harsh
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I I'm a very blessed person I've been
00:42:29
married to the love of my life for over
00:42:31
36 years we have two beautiful grown
00:42:33
children and to see a beautiful family
00:42:38
killed or two beautiful families killed
00:42:41
by an
00:42:42
individual uh it affected me
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deeply and a strange husband fueled by
00:42:55
anger and bent on on Revenge and all
00:42:59
added up to the Christmas spirit gone
00:43:01
horribly wrong for a family who wanted
00:43:04
only to embrace the warmest of
00:43:08
holidays I'm Nancy Grace thank you for
00:43:11
joining us here on the Christmas
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killings
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