WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:03:12" NOTE recognizability:0.842 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.895676284347826 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.160 On this Monday afternoon, NOTE Confidence: 0.895676284347826 00:00:01.160 --> 00:00:03.254 we begin tonight with the latest on NOTE Confidence: 0.895676284347826 00:00:03.254 --> 00:00:05.054 a missing persons case turned murder NOTE Confidence: 0.895676284347826 00:00:05.054 --> 00:00:06.909 investigation in the town of Tonawanda. NOTE Confidence: 0.895676284347826 00:00:06.910 --> 00:00:07.654 Good evening, everyone. NOTE Confidence: 0.895676284347826 00:00:07.654 --> 00:00:09.142 I'm Scott Levin and I'm Mary NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:11.310 Alice. Demler Akita Houghton was NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:11.310 --> 00:00:13.460 reported missing over the weekend, NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:13.460 --> 00:00:15.770 but until today there was very NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:15.770 --> 00:00:17.840 little information shared by police. NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:19.478 But now tonight the woman's family NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:19.478 --> 00:00:21.200 spoke with two on your sides. NOTE Confidence: 0.844991143 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:23.640 Claudine Ewing. Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:23.650 --> 00:00:25.498 Scott and Mary. Alice Akita Houghton NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:25.498 --> 00:00:27.635 was abducted from her home in Buffalo NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:27.635 --> 00:00:29.609 and according to police killed in the NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:29.662 --> 00:00:31.790 town of Tonawanda days before her death, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:31.790 --> 00:00:33.320 the family learned her boyfriend NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:34.850 threatened her with a gun. NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:37.720 She was to start a new job today and now NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:37.797 --> 00:00:40.954 her family has to make Funeral arrangements. NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:43.276 Akita, Houghton was 40 years old, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.165 respected and her mother says NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:45.165 --> 00:00:46.673 she wanted a child. NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:50.280 She had a son born prematurely 7 weeks ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:51.808 weighing just over £1.00, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:51.808 --> 00:00:53.718 but according to her family, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:53.720 --> 00:00:56.160 Akita was in an unhealthy, NOTE Confidence: 0.871914728518518 00:00:56.160 --> 00:00:57.890 stressful relationship NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:00:57.940 --> 00:00:58.882 that Friday. NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:00:58.882 --> 00:01:01.864 She went to her girlfriend's house. NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:01:01.864 --> 00:01:05.146 And the girlfriend reported to me NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:01:05.146 --> 00:01:08.940 that he called her at least 50 times. NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:01:08.940 --> 00:01:11.170 And she said to him. NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:01:11.170 --> 00:01:12.556 Why would I come to your house? NOTE Confidence: 0.736415628333333 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:13.480 You're crazy. NOTE Confidence: 0.891393064 00:01:13.650 --> 00:01:15.305 She was living with her NOTE Confidence: 0.891393064 00:01:15.305 --> 00:01:16.960 mom in Buffalo on Saturday, NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:17.460 --> 00:01:18.846 so 7:00 o'clock in the morning. NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:18.850 --> 00:01:21.136 I got up and I looked in her room NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:21.136 --> 00:01:23.106 and her phone was going off. NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:23.110 --> 00:01:25.126 Her keys were on the bed. NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:25.130 --> 00:01:26.650 She wasn't around the NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:26.650 --> 00:01:27.610 house across the street, NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:27.610 --> 00:01:29.350 picked up the surveillance of him, NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:29.350 --> 00:01:33.088 coming here at 208 in the morning. NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:33.090 --> 00:01:36.618 They saw him her struggling with him. NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:36.620 --> 00:01:38.540 And her arms wailing as to NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:38.540 --> 00:01:39.820 try to protect herself, NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:39.820 --> 00:01:41.884 to get out and the car sped off NOTE Confidence: 0.853005618333333 00:01:41.884 --> 00:01:43.889 with the door open on her side. NOTE Confidence: 0.835816982 00:01:43.940 --> 00:01:46.808 Later a call from the baby's father's family, NOTE Confidence: 0.833170155882353 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:48.625 saying, I think you better NOTE Confidence: 0.833170155882353 00:01:48.625 --> 00:01:50.557 get to where these house we NOTE Confidence: 0.833170155882353 00:01:50.557 --> 00:01:52.345 think he did something to Akita NOTE Confidence: 0.827684345714286 00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:55.150 at his raintree island apartment in NOTE Confidence: 0.827684345714286 00:01:55.150 --> 00:01:57.098 Tonawanda. She saw the note he wrote NOTE Confidence: 0.82434002 00:01:57.320 --> 00:01:59.900 and the note said, I'm sorry, NOTE Confidence: 0.82434002 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.580 I'm sorry for what I did. NOTE Confidence: 0.7768643475 00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:03.870 Police found Akita's body in the NOTE Confidence: 0.7768643475 00:02:03.870 --> 00:02:05.348 parking lot. The fact that he NOTE Confidence: 0.83028039 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:08.996 shot her twice. That that says NOTE Confidence: 0.83028039 00:02:08.996 --> 00:02:11.560 something about that mentality, right? NOTE Confidence: 0.7275806 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:17.616 Cowardly. That's what we're going to label. NOTE Confidence: 0.7275806 00:02:17.620 --> 00:02:20.056 It is just being a coward. NOTE Confidence: 0.7275806 00:02:20.060 --> 00:02:21.266 You could have been a man NOTE Confidence: 0.7275806 00:02:21.266 --> 00:02:22.330 you could have walked away. NOTE Confidence: 0.868289331538462 00:02:22.540 --> 00:02:24.584 Police now tell the family that the NOTE Confidence: 0.868289331538462 00:02:24.584 --> 00:02:26.638 boyfriend was found dead in Pennsylvania. NOTE Confidence: 0.868289331538462 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:28.812 Her son Cannon remains in the NOTE Confidence: 0.868289331538462 00:02:28.812 --> 00:02:31.094 NICU and making progress and her NOTE Confidence: 0.868289331538462 00:02:31.094 --> 00:02:33.004 family while grieving is sounding NOTE Confidence: 0.868289331538462 00:02:33.004 --> 00:02:35.430 the alarm about domestic violence. NOTE Confidence: 0.857007793043478 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.376 We want to tell these young women out NOTE Confidence: 0.857007793043478 00:02:38.376 --> 00:02:41.241 here to when you see the red flag and NOTE Confidence: 0.857007793043478 00:02:41.241 --> 00:02:43.599 you know it's not getting better. NOTE Confidence: 0.857007793043478 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:45.500 Just keep get somebody tell NOTE Confidence: 0.857007793043478 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:47.830 somebody there is help out here. NOTE Confidence: 0.6214734006 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:51.140 Claudine Ewing Channel 2 news. So NOTE Confidence: 0.896405801875 00:02:51.150 --> 00:02:52.974 tragic thank you Claudine. NOTE Confidence: 0.896405801875 00:02:52.974 --> 00:02:55.254 If you are experiencing domestic NOTE Confidence: 0.896405801875 00:02:55.254 --> 00:02:57.585 violence or you know someone who is, NOTE Confidence: 0.896405801875 00:02:57.590 --> 00:02:59.864 you can call the national domestic NOTE Confidence: 0.896405801875 00:02:59.864 --> 00:03:01.840 violence hotline at this number NOTE Confidence: 0.882103431538462 00:03:05.550 --> 00:03:08.115 1-800-799-7233. Or you can chat NOTE Confidence: 0.882103431538462 00:03:08.115 --> 00:03:10.680 online with a specialist at NOTE Confidence: 0.882103431538462 00:03:10.776 --> 00:03:12.000 this web address thehotline.org.