MINI TRUE CRIME ROUNDUP: Digging into a Western NY family killer case and the Karmelo Anthony trial

**Lauren Barry** (0:02)
This is a True Crime in Real Time Update from The On Deadline Podcast. We explore crime stories covered by Audacy's radio newsrooms from coast to coast. I'm your host, Lauren Barry. This week, we'll hear about a family annihilator case that has shocked communities in Western New York, with a focus on how such cases can impact the mental health of investigators who work on them. We'll also take a deep look into the Karmelo Anthony case in Texas.
Eighteen-year-old Anthony is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death last year at a Frisco track meet.
Anthony's trial began this week and it's already causing controversy. A June 1st crime spree in Western New York has left local communities reeling this week, according to Audacy Station WBEN News and Talk in Buffalo.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:06)
A Chiktawaga man has been charged with killing his wife, two young children and a store clerk in Buffalo.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:13)
Saleh Mohammed arraigned on four counts of murder in the second degree, one count of murder in the first degree. Erie County District Attorney Mike Kane detailed what happened Monday.

**Mike Kane** (1:21)
About 3.3 in the afternoon, at Chiktawaga, police officers responded to a scene at a home on Ellen Drive. The police found three victims, the defendant's wife and his two children, a 26-year-old woman and her two sons, a four-year-old and a three-year-old, both little boys. They had both been shot to death. A little bit earlier, about 2.3 or 2.4 in the afternoon, the Buffalo Police Department, Buffalo Police Officers, responded to a store on Grant Street near military for reported shooting. They entered the store and a store clerk, a 43-year-old man was found, he was shot and he died at the scene. He was also shot to death by the defendant.
I will note that if the defendant is convicted of the highest count of these charges, murder in the first degree, he will face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:26)
Buffalo Police Chief of Detectives, Joe Reardon, on responding to the scene.

**Joe Reardon** (2:30)
It's never a good scene to have to walk into with the, you know, human life dead right in front of you, right there, especially when it's children, it affects the investigators and stuff like that, so everybody's working together as a team, getting things done, and I just appreciate all the help we've received.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:49)
What must have been a horrible scene walking into this?

**Joe Reardon** (2:52)
I could imagine, I didn't think I didn't have to go into myself, but I could imagine.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:55)
The murders rocking two Western New York neighborhoods, WBEN's Brayton Wilson brings us more.

**Brayton Wilson** (3:01)
North District Councilman, Joe Golumbak, says Monday's fatal shooting of a store clerk along Grant Street rattled a number of his constituents in the Black Rock neighborhood, but believes there is a sense of relief knowing that it was a targeted shooting rather than a random act of violence.

**Chris** (3:14)
It wasn't like, you know, you were walking down the street and you could have been shot.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:18)
This was, it looks like somebody going after somebody in particular.

**Chris** (3:22)
So there's a little bit of a relief in that regard.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:25)
But once again, it's just tragic.

**Brayton Wilson** (3:27)
One customer who patroned the store often was Chris from Kenmore, who's among those still in shock upon hearing of Monday's fatal shooting.

**Chris** (3:33)
I go to that store every day and he was the nicest man you would ever meet in your life. This guy go out of his way. I give you the shirt off his back and why does it got to happen to people like that? Why has it got to happen at all? I'm stunned by it. I am absolutely stunned and feel so bad for the family. That store is open no matter what. Blizzard, they never close and this just stinks.

**Brayton Wilson** (3:57)
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan says the recent crimes happening across different parts of the city have been a bit different, especially with the weather now warming up. He notes that Buffalo Police, led by new Commissioner Erica Shields, continues to work closely with the community to build stronger relationships in an effort to get a handle on what's happening.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:12)
Crime and acts of crime are all moving targets. Sometimes you fall into patterns with that and we've done a good job of interrupting the pattern crimes. But what we've been seeing in the last six weeks is something different and that is just a series of crimes unrelated to any other crimes.

**Lauren Barry** (4:30)
Former Buffalo Police Commissioner Joe Grimaglia joined a new morning out of WBEN Wednesday to discuss the case and how law enforcement officials are impacted when they witness horrific crime scenes.