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everybody gather around grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music]
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street over look up at the street [Music] lights it has been almost 5 months since
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the shooting death of Kane corado he was shot on his bike on November 1st on Indian mounds Drive in Wyoming tonight
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police are now sharing a sketch of a person of interest in his death 13 on your sides mik AO is live from where it
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happened with reaction from his family and the new information from police Micah good afternoon it was this exact
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spot where C Coronado was killed back in November and all that's left here now is
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this small memorial this crossed here and their his families continued Hunt For answers now investigators with the
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Wyoming Department of Public Safety describ this person they're looking for is a 30-year-old male with a light with
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a thin light or Gray beard and may have been wearing a beanie or stocking cap police may have been say he may have
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been driving an older style gray four-door car as well Coronado's Grandma Tanya Ferguson spoke with us this
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afternoon about the subex description coming out today Ferguson said that while they're glad there's now a
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description she's wondering why it took almost 5 months for it to come out nonetheless every day she and her family
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still hope they can find Justice for a grand son I want Justice for kanaine I want
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Justice for my grandson you whoever you are took him and for what reason there was there
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is no reason Kane was shot at around 3:00 in the afternoon here off of Indian Mountain's drive so the suspect would
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have been leaving this area around that time and if you have any information on the murder of Kan Coronado or the
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suspect that you saw earlier uh this afternoon you're asked to call the Wyoming Department of Public Safety or
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Sim Observer look up at the street lights rning on over over look up at the street
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light running all over over well Captain we've got to go back to Tuesday November 1st
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2022 this is to Wyoming not the state but the city of Wyoming this is Wyoming Michigan police were called to the 2200
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block of Indian mounds Drive Southwest this was at 2:50 in the afternoon police are responding to a
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report of a shooting the shooting victim was 18-year-old Kane cornado who was shot in the neck this youngster Kane was
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an avid bike rider and a rather skilled bike rider at that Wyoming police were on the scene quickly they would later
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tell members of the media that Cain was alone at the time of the shooting a nice
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person a good Samaritan stepped in and was the first to give Kane CPR but unfortunately Cain would not survive the
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gunshot Captain it sounds like multiple shots were fired with only one hitting this young man but one was enough and
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very sadly on the afternoon of November 1st 2022 yet another Community lost another one of its young people due to
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gun violence well let's dive into some of the details of the actual crime what we do know is he was out riding his bike
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when he was shot so sadly Kane died lying beside his beloved bike on Indian mounds Drive in Wyoming Michigan K
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cornado is remembered as an 18-year-old who was just learning to find his way in
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this big world a Young Man Who Loved his friends and his bicycle it sounds to me
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Captain like Kane was having some trouble with home life and family life in his teenage years yeah and at the age
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of 18 when he was 17 he was kind of couch surfing he did live with his grandmother for a while and she's done
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some interviews on this case with the local news her name is Tanya Ferguson and police are still looking for whoever
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did this this this seems to be not a targeted murder but more of a random murder right one thing that I I believe
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would have been difficult for police in this investigation is given his can's Social
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Circle in his family life so he did not have a traditional family life or experience and I don't know the details
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of that or why but when he was 18 he was no longer living with his family he did
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stay close with his grandmother we know that and he was very close with one of his cousins uh he was living with some
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friends that were a little bit older I believe a husband and wife that were four or five years older than Cain and
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Kan had got a job he dropped out of high school but he got a job as a dishwasher
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he was you know actually collecting a weekly check at this point and he was a member of this this group so this group
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was called the big Rippers 616 so Kane and his fellow bike riding friends belong to a group called Big rippers
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616 shortly after the murder that group held a memorial ride for cane that they ran from downtown Grand Rapids Michigan
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to Wyoming Michigan which is very nearby right so this is all taking place on the
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west side of the state of Michigan and the area where he was shot is called Millennium Park if you look up some news
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news articles online and there's several good ones out there on this case some of
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them will show you exactly where Cain was found and it's believed that he was where he was found is where he the
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attack took place and the strange thing about this is police would tell us later
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that they are looking for a suspect that they have at least one witness who saw the shooter and saw the shooter's
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vehicle and so we have a a suspect description and a vehicle description but the strange thing and I was trying
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to get in touch with some local people there because I'm not familiar with this area but every map that I look at and
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the description that's provided about this Millennium Park he's riding a bike where people would ride bikes where
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people would walk where people would walk their dogs right he so he wasn't riding on the road he's
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in a park he crosses paths somehow with a motorist right and there's a chance that when their paths
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cross that the motorist is driving in an area where where there's no cars where there's no traffic where cars should not
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be and and very strange yeah and this is one detail that I wish that we knew and
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of course when we go through these cases there's a reason why they are unsolved and there's a lot of blanks to be filled
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in somebody obviously was very angry with Kane whether the person knew Cain or not it seems to be that police think
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that the the shooter did not know the victim and the victim did not know the shooter and so something took place
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while he was out riding his bike that day did it did their first interaction take place and then he's gunned down
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right then and there or or did they cross path as prior can we go over the eyewitness accounts of the event the the
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crazy thing here Captain is we know that police say that they were interviewing and and talking to Witnesses plural at
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the scene which would make sense this is this is a murder that took place in broad daylight and the victim shot the
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call comes in at 2:50 in the afternoon so the victim shot prior to that that Samaritan is attempting to save his life
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performing CPR on Cane we know that police were interviewing Witnesses plural one thing that I would like some
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clarification on is later when we get the description of the shooter that description is
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usually prefaced by saying a a witness Saul and then it gives the description so I wanted to know how many people saw
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this this vehicle and saw the this shooter and do we have do we have a mixed bag do we have several people that
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saw the vehicle but not the shooter and so unfortunately as we said Kane's out riding he he's writing this
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26inch bike it's most of the pictures that I've seen of him he's riding what I would describe as a a mountain bike you
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know a larger bike he was known as the one of the nicknames that this group gave him was the wheelie king of Grand
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Rapids that was my nickname in high school I wish that was my nickname in high school the wheelie King they show a
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lot of pictures of him online where he is he's riding a wheelie front wheel in the air back wheel on the asphalt and
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he's and he and doing it comfortably so they called him the wheelie king of Grand Rapids and one person uh Matthew
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Wayne Crawford who was was a friend and a member of this biking group he said uh
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quote Caine could wheelie further than anyone in Grand Rapids and that's a fact well I'd like to take him up on a
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challenge the only problem is my wheelies were done on roller blades Kane didn't have a driver's license but he
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didn't just ride for necessity he rode for fun as we said he was a member of this group so he's out riding that day
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like anyone would expect him to what transpires after that in that short period of time don't know exactly but
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what we are told is police are saying we are looking for one anyone that was in this Millennium Park area between the
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hours of 2 and 300 p.m. on November 1st 2022 so this is still a relatively fresh
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case you know this is not even two years old at this point with us having this conversation and so we're looking for
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one anyone that was in the area between the hours of 2 and 300 p.m. on November 1st 2022 they're also looking for the
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person that's described as a shooter so as far as an autopsy and a lot of that information goes there's not a lot to
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discuss here unfortunately he was shot in the neck and died on the scene and he was
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unable to tell the person performing CPR or First Responders or police when they
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arrived on the scene very quickly who shot the description we get of the crime and of of the
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shooting It's Des described as you know I heard several shots is what one of the
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earwitnesses is telling police I heard several shots I don't know how many shots exactly were fired unfortunately
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we do know that one hit this young man in the neck and that is what killed him I don't know Captain if the the ear
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witness is the same as the eyewitness who spotted the suspect but I would like to talk about this suspect here because
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this is something that police and the the Wyoming Michigan Police Department would want discussed this is something
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that we need to crowdsource and I know that they've attempted to crowdsource this locally I would imagine that
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they've received some tips over time here but with this case one thing that I found odd is the description is not
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available to the public in the early stages of the investigation that is wonky donkey that doesn't make any sense
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well and I have I have to believe that there's likely good reason for that that's what makes me suspect that maybe
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there's more than one eyewitness one would hope but but I think you're spoton if there's multiple
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eyewitnesses and one witness is saying well I saw a younger man or I saw a older man go back to the deli case right
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we have a sketch of one man and then years later we have a sketch of a younger man so okay so maybe it is a
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little wonky donkey but if I'm law enforcement and I have multiple depictions of this person and
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they're not lining up and we know I would surmise that these eyewitnesses aren't
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lying to law enforcement but again I was a banker before I was a account as a banker and they did test after test
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after test four people could get robbed and they have four different descriptions of the robber it's just
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human nature especially in such a dramatic situation well what we did get in the early stages of the investigation
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was a vehicle description so police were looking for a vehicle that has been described as a gray or silver
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fordor Chevrolet Cavalier 2000 to 2005 model also known as the buttface mobile because whoever shot him is a buttface
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well one thing that I'm curious about here Captain I'll call you George Gray or silver fordor Chevrolet cavaliere
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2000 to 2005 model that is rather descriptive to to go to make and model and narrow it down to a few years we've
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seen this other cases typically what happens here is you go from getting a description of the vehicle from
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eyewitnesses to then showing them here's a 2001 Chevy Cavalier fordor did it look
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like this right here's a you you show them pictures of multiple vehicles and which one did it look like unless
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somebody specifically told them it's a Chevy Cavalier how did you know it was a Chevy cavaliere well I've seen a
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thousand of them or I used to own one right um I believe somebody that used to own one
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I mean it's hard it's hard to even admit if you own a Chev Chevy Cavalier well the other part of that is
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some of the news that's that's come out looking for the suspect has a slightly different description so again described
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as a gray or silver four-door Chevy Cavalier but but they say in those other descriptions that it was a gray or
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silver four-door vehicle likely or similar to a Chevy Cavalier 2000 to 2005 model year it's tough though too because
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cars especially a Chevy Cavalier which was so popular and if anybody's butt hurt guess what the captain owned and
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drove a Chevy Cavalier so it's very Cavalier of you is very Cavalier of me to say but but they change their models
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often so it's like some times when they come out with a new model it looks more like a a Malibu or or or whatever well
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and I wanted to be clear in in that statement because if this information should hit somebody's earballs and they
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think that they have some relevant information right to provide to police don't dismiss somebody as being a good
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suspect just because they drove a gray or silver four-door vehicle that was not a Chevy Cavalier right do could have
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been a for escort yes do know that some of the some of the call for Action here some of those calls to action are saying
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that it was similar to a Chevy Cavalier or could have been a Chevy Cavalier so don't dismiss somebody just because it's
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not that exact make and model later what we get is oh hold on one second just to
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repeat this over and over if you saw something say something if you have any information at all say something what's
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the worst thing that could happen they take the report and they don't use the information it's it's better and and
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look a lot of people that witness crimes years down the line they'll feel guilty and go well I need to tell police
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well if it's 10 years down the line or 15 years down the line the details become more and more blurry so if you
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saw something say something the other thing too here Captain is this case reminds me of one that we covered not
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too long ago and I don't want to go into the specifics of that case and you know
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why uh we don't need to inform all the listeners on everything but in that case it seemed like a random shooting that
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one took place in the middle of the night similar situation except for our victim was not alone and we did have a
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witness in that case it was just simply an earwitness so that case we had very little information and it seemed like a
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stranger on Stranger crime that their paths just happened to cross in the middle of the night somebody pulls out a
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gun and shoots the other person victim dies and in that case I to be honest with you while we when we covered it and
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US delivering the information to all the beautiful listeners out there I was giving the tone of being hopeful that
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the case would be solved while on the inside feeling like it was such a random crime and that that I didn't see the
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likelihood of it being solved you and I now know that it has been solved that they've definitively linked that to a
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very good suspect in that case to the point where police will be willing at some point to
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say such and such person committed this murder this case reminds me of that one because I sit here and I go man this
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how difficult can this be for detectives you you arrive on the scene you have a victim who you have to spend days now
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making sure that this wasn't a target attack a targeted attack you have to spend days making sure that Kane didn't
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upset somebody or aggravate somebody in his Social Circle or even in his family to the point that they track him down
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find him on the street and and gun him down what we do have is police telling us today and actually within weeks of
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that of the their investigation they are saying we've ruled that out we've ruled
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out the possibility of of him being targeted we couldn't find anything or any evidence to suggest that somebody
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would want to take revenge on Caine so now what we're looking for what we're left with is this vehicle description
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and the description of the suspect so the suspect is described and Captain you'll know what I'm talking about
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because we've looked at this case now for a couple days I'm a little surprised at the how brief the description is of
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this suspect when the composite sketch of the suspect is so detailed right so the brevity of the uh description of
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this person seems odd to me so here's the the description a witness to described the
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suspect as a 30-year-old white man anybody that's seen the composite sketch will I think will agree with me that if
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this man is 30 it's been a rough 30 years for this person yeah a 30-year-old white male he had a thin light gray
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colored beard and was wearing a beanie or stocking cap the witness also recalled the suspect having a thin build
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and wearing scruffy clo clothes so scruffy clothes is one thing the the the image of this person is Scruffy from
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head to toe from the tip top of that beanie cap to to this suspect's toes his his face is disheveled to say the the
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least yeah when you see the picture and you you hear this this description my thought was does this individual live in
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their car the other thing here Captain that's interesting they say scruffy clothes
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scruffy beard too this beard is it's a disgrace to beards yeah he's a beardo weirdo but or weirdo beardo what we have
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is this very detailed composite sketch we have the description of the vehicle that was seen in the area at the time
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and they're connecting these things saying that this is what's going to help us find the shooter help us find the
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killer right what I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is if somebody got this detailed of a look of this
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suspect how do we not have a little bit better of a description of the vehicle or even some type of license plate
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information did this car not have plates on it right or in some states they only
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have to have plates on the back did they only see the car from the front exactly
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there's there's a little bit of information that's missing here and I'm hoping that police and detectives are
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not holding back anything that could help provide additional information to the public that could get them the right
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mates cheers to you Colonel cheers to you captain and cheers to everybody out there all the beautiful listeners yeah
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and the Beautiful listeners are the ones that we are talking to and police are doing the right thing here Captain they
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are keeping the story in the media they're keeping the description of the suspect the suspect vehicle in the media
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because they know what is going to solve this case what is going to lead detectives to their suspect is you The
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Listener you the viewer out there that will see something and say something like the captain and I are requesting so
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we are reaching out and addressing those of you up in the great state of Michigan
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especially the West part of the state take the time to go to our social media take the time to google k Coronado's
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name and look at the suspect description look at the composit sketch of the suspect and look at the vehicle so they
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they even provided stock footage or stock photo of a similar type vehicle so for those of you that can't close your
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eyes and and create an image in your mind of a of a Chevy Cavalier of those years or if you need a bit of a
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refresher they have that information available for your eyeballs on the internet and that's what we are hoping
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to do here this week this is a case that is near and dear to the hearts of the people of this community this was a
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young man 18 years old he's doing what what any of us would want to do on a nice day right hop on a bike and take a
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nice enjoyable bike ride down to the park area this Millennium Park where he was shot he's Kane unfortunately was
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found shot near this park and it appears to me I don't know Captain was he making
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his way to the park or or coming from the park if we believe and I do believe captain that this could be a road rage
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type situation if that in fact is the truth then my guess would be that he was heading toward the park because the park
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itself while I've never been there is described as the largest urban park in West Michigan so not just in this
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general area the largest urban park in the west half of the state it's located on the southwest side of Grand Rapids
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remember gr Grand Rapids is very near Wyoming Michigan the city where this unfortunate event took place and the
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Millennium Park connects four of the major cities in the area Al together including Grand Rapids Wyoming Granville
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and Walker so this park is rather large once you when you see on the map where he was shot where he was found I think
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it will be obvious to most that he was probably making his way toward that park because he very likely would not have
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encountered any cars while in the park and I I apologize for not giving a better description but
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the way that it looks to me and the way that it's laid out does not suggest that
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there would be cars driving around in this park yeah can a hunch of mine is possibly somebody sleeping in their car
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in a park or living out of their car in a park yes but he would have been coming if he was
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heading toward the park he would have been coming off of a busy road right and so part of me wonders if he if that's
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where he encountered the shooter right maybe it's a road rage situation where maybe he was riding his bike or cut off
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a car or something happen and the the driver got pissed off and decided Well I'm going to show him yeah so on that
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path there Captain there there should not be vehicles on the path he's not on the actual path it he's making his way
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toward that path but this the location where this went down and again we have the ear witness who is saying I heard
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several shots and then we know that the Good Samaritan then found the victim attempts
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to PO perform CPR tries to save the life of this young man and at this spot the the media the
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local news teams did some Gang Busters work on this case because one thing they tell us and one thing they discovered
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immediately when they went to the area to report the story and they started talking to people there it was quickly
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pointed out to the media that look you see this sign this sign says do not enter this is this spot is one way but
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the people that frequented this area they start telling the media look we think that and I think they're saying
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this jokingly but they're like we think that some people think that this sign is
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just a suggestion because cars are frequently coming into this do not enter area right now we've all been out
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driving and encountered a situation where it's not obvious if you missed the sign in certain locations it's it's not
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obvious that you're not supposed to drive into that area so that to me paints a bit of a picture of maybe how
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this went down we have an avid bike rider this dude Kane loved his bike he loved being a part of this bicycle group
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of this he the wheelie King the wheelie king of Grand Rapids there is none higher you can see this picture he's out
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riding his bike going toward this Millennium Park which would be a desired location for one to go and ride their
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bike this vehicle this older model vehicle 2000 to 2005 possible Chevy Cavalier enters going the wrong way a do
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not enter section MH of the road was there a did did he did he hit the young man on his bike was there
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close to a near miss and then some words exchange and now we have a road raid situation where this guy this man again
00:35:18
described as as 30 years old male white scruffy looking very ugly beard wearing in a
00:35:27
beanie cap gets out pulls the gun fires some shots to in the direction of this young man one of them hitting him he
00:35:35
gets in the vehicle and flees the area yeah Captain buttface unfortunately we don't get a witness that can give us a
00:35:42
license plate yeah Captain buttface and the buttface mobile back in the day the captain it might surprise you but I used
00:35:49
to babysit often and I had a scenario where we rode our bikes to the park it was just me I think it was in Middle
00:35:57
school at the time and he was very proficient at riding bikes he could do wheelies he could jump things he could
00:36:04
do tricks and so he wanted to ride his bike and I'm like well your parents don't want me to let you ride your bike
00:36:11
by yourself so I'll go with you now I'm riding a bike with him and we went to cross it was a little bit of a busier
00:36:18
road but we went to cross there was no cars that we could see so we started Crossing and a car drove by thought that
00:36:27
we weren't Crossing I guess the road fast enough and and honked at us mhm the kid I was babysitting then flips the
00:36:34
bird we are probably five six blocks from his house by the time we get back to his house the car had turned around
00:36:46
and was then sitting in his driveway two grown men now want to fight a kid in in
00:36:54
high school babysitting a kid in Middle School just because they honk their horn
00:37:00
and a kid in Middle School flipped them off mhm that's what I see happening I'm not saying that he flipped him the bird
00:37:09
or anything but I'm just saying I think there was some kind of Confrontation and
00:37:14
maybe and call me Captain Obvious but maybe he was when this confrontation happened maybe it happened on a busier
00:37:23
section and he was trying to get to the park knowing that Vehicles can't come here yeah does that make any sense a
00:37:32
general description again we've not been to this area so it's it's difficult for
00:37:36
us to wrap our heads around some of this but this Indian mounds Drive Southwest is across the Grand River from
00:37:45
this very large Millennium Park and the park is so large that it's difficult to ascertain where the park starts and
00:37:54
stops right what what is this Indian mounds Drive part of the park because when you look at it on a map it that
00:38:00
would seem to make some sense but I'm with you I I think that this look road rage is a real thing unfortunately and
00:38:08
it's caused some people to do some horrible things to one another over the years and I think I don't think that
00:38:15
it's coincidence that the media is reporting hey when we went to this area and started talking to people the thing that
00:38:22
was pointed out to us is these cars that regularly enter the wrong way or we have cars
00:38:30
where there they should not be where people are out doing recreational type activities they're walking their dogs
00:38:38
they're they're skating they're biking most people are not going to react kindly to to a vehicle speeding by and
00:38:46
almost hitting them or hitting their dog yeah so you're saying it's a it's a it's
00:38:51
a situation where a car goes into a a place they're not supposed to be and then maybe and that moment he reacts hey
00:39:00
buttface you're not supposed to be driving your car here and then dude pulls a gun and and now we know the rest
00:39:06
of the story but so that Grand River is so close to this street when police get to the scene they're not just
00:39:15
interviewing anybody that they can find on the road or people out doing those recreational types of activities right
00:39:23
they also get in a boat and they are out looking for people in boats that could have possibly heard
00:39:31
something or saw something as well so they were out actively taking statements from anybody that they could find in
00:39:37
this area and then again doing the right thing by crowdsourcing by reaching out to the general public in the community
00:39:45
and saying we need information from you we've interviewed everybody in the area that we could find there that day at
00:39:52
that time we need other people were you in the park that day were you driving by
00:39:56
and maybe saw something important maybe somehow you ended up behind this vehicle
00:40:01
on the road you have a highway there 196 maybe ended up on the road behind this individual in this this vehicle again to
00:40:10
be clear they are comparing the vehicle some some articles say Chevy cavaliere 20 2000 to 2005 other articles are
00:40:20
saying that it's comparable to or could be a Chevy cavaliere some additional information here on the suspect Captain
00:40:30
is one again one thing that was difficult for me to understand is it appears that this eyewitness gave a very
00:40:40
detailed description even though we get a brief description wordwise the the this com the composite sketch is very
00:40:48
detailed now one other news Outlet is stating that the suspect appears to be 30 years of age approximately with a
00:40:57
medium build and witness is or a witness said that he had a thin scruffy beard with concaved cheeks or concave
00:41:10
cheeks and all this will be very obvious once you see the the composite sketch and again we'll have that information
00:41:17
for you on our social media yeah I will post a picture of the composite sketch on Twitter Instagram and Facebook please
00:41:27
share cuz somebody out there might go hey that's my uncle that's my uncle buttface well and every week you know we
00:41:34
thank you and we we thank you for listening and we thank you for telling a friend even if you don't share this
00:41:40
episode with a friend share the composite sketch of the suspect and share the description of the vehicle
00:41:48
with somebody or on your social media as well right we always look at crime Trends in the area when we're looking at
00:41:57
these cases because we want to know what's going on is there is there something a bigger thing going on in
00:42:04
this area that could give us some insights into who we might be looking for so I found this bit of information
00:42:13
from a source called M live and they're discussing the gun assaults and gun violence increasing in this in this
00:42:23
exact area around this exact time and I'll read you the report that I found it's short here Captain it states that
00:42:30
from 2020 the years 2020 through 2022 those were the deadliest years in Grand Rapids has seen with a 72%
00:42:41
increase in gun assaults now this article is from 2023 so I don't know if that increase continued Beyond 2022 but
00:42:52
unfortunately C cornado was killed November 1st 2022 72% increase in gun assaults in the
00:43:00
Grand Rapids area the greater Grand Rapids area goes on to say additionally Grand Rapids recorded around 23 homicide
00:43:08
cases in the year of 2022 making it the second deadliest year in the last five years with half of the cases according
00:43:17
to M live being preventable and I'm guessing law enforcement are telling mli half of these cases 23 homicides
00:43:27
were preventable wow this is another article from late last year it actually came out December 27th 2023 this is from
00:43:35
woodtv.com I believe that they're at of Grand Rapids Michigan here Captain they are stating West Michigan's Chief
00:43:43
Federal prosecutor says the Region's urban areas continue to see a rise in violent crime in a wide ranging
00:43:53
interview with News 8 the us attorney for the Western District of Michigan highlighted several
00:44:00
concerning crime trends that have taken lives in the year of 2023 they citing illegal guns getting
00:44:07
into the wrong hands is partly driving the surge in gun violence quote we have a proliferation of illegal guns in our
00:44:17
communities right now which is helping Drive the gun violence epidemic which is killing more young people than ever
00:44:24
before this man the attorney general in the area his name is Mark Totton and he goes on to say quote it's the number one
00:44:33
killer of young people right now end quote it's sad I said it last week we can do better we should do better and I
00:44:41
don't want to get into a whole gun debate longtime listeners of the show will know that we we are we are we are
00:44:48
pro gun for the most part but there the every everything can be corrected stop saying we unless you have a m in your
00:44:56
pocket right I do have a mouse in my pocket and he is loaded he he is armed to the yeah he's got all kinds of guns
00:45:03
he has big look while I Am pro gun I also believe that every situation can be sculpted can be tailored and can be
00:45:13
tightened and tweaked to fit the community all right I'm I don't want to make it a hard and fast Rule and say
00:45:20
nope I'm right you're wrong no everything is Up For Debate as far as I'm concerned you're flexible on this
00:45:25
stay water is what we always say every situation is a fluid situation but one thing that I
00:45:32
absolutely hate and will not stand for is guns getting in the hands in the wrong hands so listen to this
00:45:39
information it states that a man by the name of Jerel Martin of Grand Rapids this is recently this is from 2023 he
00:45:48
was sentenced to just over three years in prison this for buying at least 45 guns and selling them to convic
00:45:57
felons who is not supposed to have guns convicted felons who is not supposed to have guns convicted felons this guy was
00:46:07
getting his hands on a bunch of guns and then selling them to convicted felons 45
00:46:12
guns in fact she get a year for every gun he sold a case that we covered last week a man gets out of prison goes and
00:46:21
kills another man in his apartment using a firearm yeah guess what he's not supposed to have a gun either how did he
00:46:29
I hope that when Sheldon Johnson is convicted and I hope what they're working on right now is figuring out how
00:46:36
he got his hands on that gun yeah because there's could be a situation like that in the Bronx where you got
00:46:44
somebody selling guns to convicted felons putting the guns in the hands of bad people that and I really wish do you
00:46:53
know how much damage 45 guns being sold legally to convicted felons could do I don't think outrageous I don't
00:47:02
think that three years in prison I don't I don't think that that is a large enough sentence a lengthy enough
00:47:08
sentence to deter some of these people from doing no and that's the problem you go oh I I might get a couple years it's
00:47:17
worth risking the biscuit you need to make sure that the sentence that they get is not worth them risking the
00:47:25
biscuit if they go hey if I get caught selling these guns I get 5 years for every gun I sold and I sold 40 of them I
00:47:34
I'm not risking that biscuit I remember a time where in some states you would get a lengthier prison sentence for
00:47:40
selling marijuana than for selling 45 guns to convicted felons now ridiculous and I said do you know what kind of
00:47:49
damage that could cause somewhere there's somebody yelling at me and guess what you should yell at me I'm not
00:47:54
always right yell at me all you want wrong yelling at me don't yell at the mouse in my pocket he did nothing wrong
00:48:01
he dis owns a lot of guns he's my only friend you might say stop speculating what this guy could have done or what
00:48:08
damage could have been done I don't have to speculate because here we go according to a Federal indictment this
00:48:14
is at the federal level at about the highest level that they get according to a Federal indictment on this specific
00:48:21
case those weapons that were sold it's been confirmed by law enforcement that those weapons were used in multiple
00:48:29
shootings in West Michigan some of which turned deadly this is their words not mine look the
00:48:37
criminals if they want to kill somebody they're going to kill you with a gun kill you with a knife they'll strangle
00:48:44
you it's against the law to sell firearms to a felon and so if you do so you should again spend way longer than 3
00:48:53
years in prison and we know that that oh he he was well behaved so he got out in
00:48:59
a year but back to this case what can listeners do to help bring Justice in this case people you ban together
00:49:08
communities ban together when when citizens when Good People Unite that's how we fight crime that's how we fight
00:49:17
gun violence and I I want to take this moment here to get the listeners angry cuz sometimes you have to get people
00:49:25
angry to get action yeah from that that illegal guns case that we just discussed
00:49:32
of those firearms that were sold to convicted felons one of them was used to kill somebody in the city of Flint
00:49:40
Michigan one of those guns fired multiple shots on the blue bridge when it was filled with people in downtown
00:49:48
Grand Rapids Michigan and one unfortunately killed a 2-year-old in Wyoming Michigan Jesus Christ so the
00:49:55
call to action here people is share this composite sketch of the suspect who is responsible for the death and the murder
00:50:04
of C Coronado a young man who was 18 years old out riding his bike this was a man just starting his life working his
00:50:14
first job living in a in a good situation with good people and working to better himself when in Hell he's the
00:50:21
wheelie King and I want to applaud the Wyoming Police Department for keeping this case in the media to keep for
00:50:29
keeping the suspect composite sketch in the media keeping the vehicle description in the media and readily
00:50:36
available to the eyeballs of all and here we are delivering it to the earballs of everybody willing to listen
00:50:44
this is a case that as as random as the crime may seem on the surface as we talked about in the first half of the
00:50:54
show a very similar crime in the state of Ohio happened not too long ago that seemed just as random and maybe even a
00:51:03
little hopeless at the time when we reported on it but that case has found that file has now moved into the solved
00:51:12
pile and the very least that we could do for Cain is to share this information and find this person this person is very
00:51:22
distinct looking and I we want to we want to sh share this composite sketch and hopes that it that the right person
00:51:32
sees it and can provide the right information to law enforcement there is a reward for information in this case at
00:51:41
one time captain that reward was $5,000 I believe it's been increased to $6,000 this is being offered by an
00:51:50
organization called Silent Observer they're offering cash for information regarding this case uh reward will go to
00:51:58
anyone who helps police find the suspect we have Crime Stoppers that's involved as well so if you want to call in a tip
00:52:06
anonymously you can do so with the local Crim Stoppers but the investigating agency is the Wyoming Michigan Police
00:52:15
Department anyone with information regarding the murder of Cain Coronado that took place November 1st
00:52:22
2022 please reach out to the Wyoming Michigan Police Department you can reach them at 616
00:52:33
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00:53:05
maybe my favorite True Crime book to have come out this year so far so this is by a great guy his name is Bob
00:53:13
ciphers he's an award-winning journalist and CBS reporter I was familiar with his
00:53:18
work before this book came out this is his first True Crime book and he was one of the original newspaper and news
00:53:27
reporters covering the case when it first happened back in 1992 so the name of the book is dead end inside the hunt
00:53:34
for the interstate 70 serial killer by Bob ciphers a little additional information here for those that don't
00:53:42
remember back in 1992 a store clerk was found shot to death in broad daylight at
00:53:48
the boot Village in St Charles Missour nothing was stolen there was no sexual assault so the motive seems unclear here
00:53:57
this a very bizarre crime they thought it was an isolated murder and later they find out that there were others that
00:54:04
were connected to this murder other victims in Indianapolis witch Tero and Raytown and the media quickly dubbed the
00:54:11
suspect the I70 serial killer he's never been caught never been captured Bob is keeping hopes alive with this book
00:54:19
there's new information in this book again it's called Dead End inside the hunt for the interstate 70 serial killer
00:54:25
by Bob ciphers you can find that recommendation and many more on our recommended page on our
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