Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Stabbing suspect: ‘I’m here because I attacked a young woman’
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TONIGHT, THE MAN
POLICE SAY DROVE
HUNDREDS OF MILES,
BEFORE STABBING A
WARWICK PHARMACY
CLERK IN AN APPARENT
RANDOM ATTACK ---
-HAS TO COME UP WITH
THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS---- IF HE WANTS
TO BE RELEASED ON BAIL.
HE MADE ANOTHER
COURT APPEARANCE THIS
AFTERNOON --- WHILE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF
THE VICTIM WORK TO
HELP HER RECOVER.
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER STEPH
MACHADO IS LIVE IN
WARWICK WITH
THE LATEST
DEVELOPMENTS.
TONIGHT THE COMMUNITY
IS COMING TOGETHER FOR
ALYSSA GARCIA AS THE
COURT CASE AGAINST THE
MAN CHARGED WITH
STABBING HER MOVES
FORWARD.
41 YEAR OLD JACOB GALLANT
HAS BEEN DEEMED
COMPETENT--FOR NOW--TO
FACE A CHARGE OF "ASSAULT
WITH INTENT TO MURDER".....
HIS ATTORNEY CHRISTOPHER
SMITH ASKING A JUDGE TO
RESCIND THE ORDER FOR A
COMPETENCY EVALUATION....
WE WERE IN THE COURTROOM
WHERE THE JUDGE DID NOT
ALLOW AUDIO RECORDING....
SHE ASKED GALLANT IF HE
KNEW WHY HE WAS THERE....
HE RESPONDED...."I AM HERE
BECAUSE I ATTACKED A YOUNG
WOMAN THE OTHER DAY."
THE JUDGE DECIDED HE WAS
COMPETENT....FORMALLY
ARRAIGNED HIM ON THE
CHARGE AND SET HIS BAIL AT
$100,000 DOLLARS....SHE SAID IT
WAS A HIGHER BAIL THAN
NORMAL FOR THIS CRIME
BECAUSE OF GALLANT'S
POSSIBLE DANGEROUSNESS
TO THE PUBLIC....A CLINICIAN
WHO INTERVIEWED HIM
DEEMING HIM BOTH "HOMICIDAL
AND SUICIDAL"....HE HAS TO PAY
10% TO BE RELEASED FROM
JAIL...
GALLANT IS ACCUSED OF
STABBING ALYSSA GARCIA....AN
18 YEAR OLD WOMAN HE HAD
NEVER MET....WHILE SHE
WORKED AT RITE AID,
STOCKING SHELVES....
POLICE SAY HE ADMITTED TO
BUYING A BUTCHER KNIFE WITH
THE INTENTION OF STABBING
THE FIRST PERSON HE SAW....
THAT YOUNG WOMAN
SURVIVED, BUT WAS SEVERELY
HURT.
GARCIA IS A SENIOR AT PILGRIM
HIGH SCHOOL...PRINCIPAL
GERALD HABERSHAW TELLING
EWN....
"The Pilgrim High School
community is very saddened that
one of its students is suffering
from
the result of an unthinkable
act. We
will continue to help and
support
Alyssa and her family through
this
difficult time. Our thoughts and
prayers are with the Garcia
family."
AND THE PRINCIPAL SAYS
STUDENTS ARE IN THE
PROCESS OF ORGANIZING
A NUMBER OF
FUNDRAISERS FOR
ALYSSA....
THERE'S ALSO A
GOFUNDME PAGE SET UP
BY HER FRIENDS...YOU
CAN FIND IT ON WPRI.COM.
ALSO AT LAST
CHECK....GALLANT HAS
NOT POSTED HIS
BAIL...AND IS STILL BEHIND
BARS.
LIVE IN WARWICK STEPH
MACHADO EYEWITNESS
NEWS
