Slain suburban jogger heard screaming on dashcam moments before murder

A Nashville female was heard screaming for thief by witnesses earlier she was recovered dormant – police were capable to way her alleged slayer down utilizing dashcam footage from a adjuvant civilian and a detective who had worked a lawsuit involving his twin.

Last week, nan Metro Nashville Police Department announced nan apprehension of 29-year-old Paul Park successful relationship pinch nan decease of 34-year-old Alyssa Lokits. 

The female was exercising connected nan Mill Creek Greenway way successful Nashville connected Monday, Oct. 14. Security cameras show Park allegedly emerging from betwixt 2 parked vehicles and "following her astatine a brisk pace," nan section wrote successful a property release. 

After nan 2 near nan position of nan camera, witnesses heard a female shriek "Help! He's trying to rape me!" Then, constabulary said, nan witnesses heard gunfire. 

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Paul Park, 39, was arrested by nan Metro Nashville Police Department connected Oct. 15 successful nan decease of Alyssa Lokits.  (Metro Nashville Police Department)

Park was seen a short while later pinch scratches connected his arms and humor connected his clothing arsenic he returned to his grey BMW sedan. 

Detectives didn't get a break successful nan lawsuit until a section resident provided them pinch dashcam footage, which showed portion of Park's licence sheet and a clearer image of his face. 

A homicide detective who reviewed nan footage recognized Park arsenic nan identical copy relative from a termination lawsuit that she had worked successful December 2021, CBS News reported.

"I believe that we don't person an incident wherever we don't person a dashcam, aliases we don't person personification helping america for illustration we had successful this case," MNPD Chief John Drake said astatine a property conference. "I'm truthful thankful that our group sewage connected this – we request technology."

Even without nan adjuvant civilian's footage, caller exertion pioneered by artificial intelligence package tin thief constabulary analyse cases for illustration nan Nashville killing. Veritone is 1 of nan companies spearheading that movement.

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The licence sheet of Paul Park's grey BMW sedan wasn't captured connected surveillance footage – but acknowledgment to a partial licence sheet number captured by a hiker's dashcam, constabulary were capable to apprehension nan accused killer.  (Metro Nashville Police Department)

Veritone Track, 1 of respective functions successful a suite of services for rule enforcement, uses artificial intelligence to tally 1 photograph aliases video of a conveyance – like nan video captured connected nan park's surveillance footage – against stoplight cameras, body-worn cameras and different municipal surveillance footage disposable to constabulary to find a match. 

"Both national and section law enforcement person a awesome information problem," Veritone CEO Ryan Steelberg told Fox News Digital. "They are now capturing assemblage camera [footage] and dashcams. They person cameras each complete nan city. Citizens are uploading videos."

"They simply do not person nan budgets aliases nan unit to commencement going done each this audio and video content," Steelberg continued. "Machines are needed to thief rule enforcement sift done this tonnage of data."

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In cities pinch high-resolution cameras disposable to police, Steelberg said, nan exertion tin discern nan make and exemplary of a car, and moreover mini imperfections for illustration dents that make it guidelines out. 

"Typically, erstwhile we're successful an investigation, we are getting very, very bully astatine finding, for example, that achromatic Honda Accord 1986 that has a dent connected its near side," Steelberg said. 

Nashville Police announced a fishy was arrested little than 24 hours aft nan execution of Alyssa Lokits.  (Metropolitan Nashville Police/Vanderbilt University)

According to Amnesty International, nan New York Police Department has entree to much than 20,000 video feeds passim nan city's streets, subways and parks. Philadelphia constabulary person entree to 7,000 camera feeds, The Inquirer reported. 

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Drake noted astatine nan property convention connected Park's apprehension that much information cameras and licence sheet readers could thief pinch rule enforcement successful his city. 

"One of our members present [was] talking to nan Shelbyville constabulary chief, and they conscionable sewage licence sheet readers and... 12 cameras," he said. "Within 2 hours, they sewage 2 stolen cars... I dream that this metropolis realizes that this is simply a very valuable instrumentality that each region that touches Davidson County has... it's thing that we desperately need."

Retired NYPD inspector and lawyer Paul Mauro said that while nan package could beryllium useful successful immoderate scenarios, for illustration Lokits' killing, users would beryllium "beholden to nan value [of municipal cameras]" and could perchance look ineligible issues. 

"I don't cognize if astir municipal cameras are up to that," Mauro told Fox News Digital. "Most municipalities don't person a batch of money, they can't prosecute cops these days – this is each assuming that they person penetrative and meticulous cameras."

Mauro cited United States v. Antoine Jones, a 2012 Supreme Court determination that wished Americans person law protections against GPS surveillance by rule enforcement, and that GPS search is simply a considered a "search" that requires a warrant nether nan Fourth Amendment.

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"Under existent rule correct now, you tin put that licence sheet into an LPR licence sheet scholar and if a licence sheet scholar elsewhere picks it up... that's perfectly legal. What [Veritone] seems to beryllium promising is that they tin do that to cars without nan necessity of getting a plate," Mauro explained.

"But if you spell immoderate further than that, let's opportunity for instance: 'Look, we sewage this car, we don't cognize who's driving it but put it into nan AI truthful we tin travel it astir and spot who he visits,' that's a very different story."

"[If needed], you tin get a hunt warrant – there's nary logic that you can't get a hunt warrant," Mauro said.