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Staring at your tiny one carry out one thing they’re obsessed on can manufacture lasting memories for a guardian.

It changed into June 30, 2017, in Crosby, Texas. Craig Lackey changed into at his 25-yr-old son Scurry’s softball game observing him play the first game in a double-header. “He grew up as a young tiny one playing ball all his life and staunch through high college and the total lot,” Craig suggested Dateline. Debbie Diaz, Scurry’s mother, suggested Dateline Scurry’s life rising up revolved around baseball. “Baseball changed into his command. He changed into repeatedly in all-stars from the age of 5 years old… We even went to the Dixie League World Assortment,” she acknowledged.

Scurry’s first game that day changed into a gain. His father had to dash dwelling after that to prepare for work day after as of late. “I bought to gaze him carry out what he appreciated to establish up out — which changed into play ball,” Craig acknowledged. 

Craig had no thought honest how lasting that memory would want to be. 

“[Chase] gave me one of his patented astronomical endure hugs and acknowledged ‘I cherish you, Pop,’” he remembered. “And I hugged him help laborious, and that’s the ideal time I’ve seen him since — for seven years now.”

That changed into the ideal time somebody in Scurry’s household saw him. There were a couple of unconfirmed sightings in the days that followed. In keeping with Debbie, one of Scurry’s neighbors later acknowledged that Scurry had helped him dash a couple of days after that baseball game. 

Debbie knew Scurry had been planning a dash back and forth. “He had been telling me he changed into going to California,” she acknowledged. “And I acknowledged, ‘Son, you’re footloose and admire-free and never married.’ And, I indicate, no children… I indicate, ‘Toddle and explore the sector.’”

“He changed into adventurous. He changed into a thrill seeker,” Debbie acknowledged. But most of all, Scurry changed into known for being funny, even a success the “Most Humorous” title in high college. “He changed into is known as being a extraordinarily funny guy, in search of to fabricate everybody laugh.”

On July 2, Scurry’s household realized that no one had heard from him since that softball game, which changed into ordinary. Enthusiastic, his sisters Heather and Stephanie went to his condo in Houston. 

In keeping with Craig, neither Scurry nor his canine, a delicate-colored Maltese named Champ, changed into there. And what changed into there changed into alarming.

Dateline exchanged emails with Senior Deputy Thomas M. Gilliland of the Harris County Sheriff’s Role of job Media Household and Public Data Role of job about the case. He acknowledged Scurry’s property, alongside with his “driver’s license, debit card, SSN, and passport had been located in the condo.” 

In keeping with Scurry’s household, his truck and keys had been additionally left in the help of. 

Scurry’s household filed a missing particular person’s myth with the Harris County Sheriff’s Role of job on July 2, 2017. It has now been 7 years without a answers. 

When requested if authorities suspect sinful play in the disappearance, Gilliland answered, “We can not no doubt rule out one thing at this level.” 

Scurry’s household build flyers up around his condo complicated and searched the encompassing dwelling. In keeping with Craig, they combed the dwelling around the complicated which included a park. Their search efforts was up nothing.

When requested about legislation enforcement’s search efforts, Gilliland suggested Dateline, “A missing particular person myth and trak flyer had been generated and his files changed into build into the nationwide database as a missing particular person. That is executed so if another legislation enforcement company comes into contact with him this can also merely flag as a missing particular person.” He added that no evidence changed into recovered from any searches. 

Scurry’s household has taken to social media to lend a hand place attention. They began a Fb neighborhood known as “Discovering Scurry Allen Lackey” in the hope of reaching somebody who’s conscious of one thing about what took space to Scurry. “I honest are trying to mediate he’s mute accessible,” Debbie suggested Dateline. 

Scurry would be 32 years old as of late. He is 5’10” and 150 lbs., with brown hair and eyes. He has a scripture tattoo on his appropriate arm, phrases all the scheme in which through his greater chest, and one on his left wrist. 

The Harris County Sheriff’s Role of job additionally suggested Dateline that Scurry’s case is “no doubt initiate and mute stuffed with life pending any extra files.” 

“We feel that somebody is conscious of the conditions of Mr. Lackey’s disappearance and hotfoot somebody with files to contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Role of job Waste unit,” Gilliland acknowledged. They are going to additionally be reached at 713-274-9100. It’s possible you’ll possibly additionally name Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS (8474).

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Anna Turning

Anna Turning is an Affiliate Producer with Dateline NBC. 

A video showing music legend Sean “Diddy” Combs violently attacking his then-girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 has put the embattled star in heightened peril as he faces a federal sex-trafficking investigation.

The video shows Combs chasing, kicking, dragging and hurling a glass vase at Cassie, a singer whose real name is Casandra Ventura. It corroborates parts of a civil lawsuit Ventura filed against Combs last year, which was settled a day after it was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Allegations against Combs have piled up in recent years and he has steadfastly denied wrongdoing, including when Ventura filed her suit. But after facing intense backlash, Combs on Sunday posted a video on Instagram in which he apologized for his behavior in the video.

“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” he said. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”

Combs said he entered “therapy and rehab” after the incident. “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now,” he said.

The video is not related to the federal probe, but it has drawn more attention to the ongoing investigation.

Law enforcement sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told The Times that Combs is the subject of a sweeping inquiry into sex-trafficking allegations that resulted in a federal raid in March at his estates in Los Angeles and Miami. Combs has not been charged with any crime and has denied any wrongdoing. The probe was launched after three women accused him of rape, assault and other abuses dating back three decades. One of the allegations involved a minor. It’s unclear whether those accusations, which Combs denies, are connected to the investigation.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office called the video “extremely disturbing and difficult to watch” but said there is no current investigation into it.

“If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, unfortunately we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted,” the statement said. “As of today, law enforcement has not presented a case related to the attack depicted in the video against Mr. Combs.”

But legal experts said the video, first obtained by CNN, is a major blow to Combs’ denials that he mistreated women and is likely to shift public opinion about the star.

“This video paints him in an awful light. If the people were giving him the benefit of doubt, that is over,” said Los Angeles defense attorney Lou Shapiro. Combs’ apology “was the only play, especially since the statute of limitations has already passed,” he said.

Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, agreed.

“There is no legal or moral justification for what Diddy did. He violently attacked a defenseless woman,” Rahmani said, adding that the “video doesn’t lie.”

When Ventura filed her lawsuit, Combs’ attorney said the claim was “riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’ reputation and seeking a payday.”

The video, both Shapiro and Rahmani said, presents major credibility challenges. “The problem here is he denied hitting [Ventura] and then in this video he is even kicking her when she is down,” Shapiro said.

“Diddy’s sharp denials early on are going to hurt him as the investigation progresses,” added Meghan Blanco, an Orange County defense attorney who has experience with federal sex-offense cases.

“Any apology needed to be detailed enough for the public to gain some insight into why he behaved so violently in the first place, and why, after attending counseling and engaging in years of self-reflection, he continued to deny assaulting Cassie,” she said. “This fell far short of that.”

The video could require Combs’ legal team to argue his treatment of Ventura was an isolated event and not a pattern of behavior toward women, Blanco added.

The recording, dated March 5, 2016, shows Ventura in a hoodie and carrying a duffel bag, walking in a hotel hallway toward an elevator. Combs can be seen running down the same hallway, shirtless and holding a towel around his waist.

The lawsuit said it occurred at the InterContinental hotel in Century City. After Combs fell asleep, Ventura attempted to leave the room, the lawsuit said, but he awoke and “began screaming” at her. “He followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her,” the complaint said. “He grabbed at her, and then took glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her, causing glass to crash around them as she ran to the elevator to escape.”

Security footage captured from another angle shows him grabbing Ventura’s head and throwing her on the ground, where he kicks her multiple times. He can also be seen picking up her bags and trying to drag her back to the first hallway.

The footage also shows Ventura using a hotel phone by the elevators, as well as Combs going back to his hotel room and then separately seemingly shoving Ventura into a corner. He is also seen throwing a vase in her direction.

Ventura also accused Combs in her lawsuit of raping her, forcing her to engage in sex acts with male sex workers and introducing her to “a lifestyle of excessive alcohol and substance abuse” that required her “to procure illicit prescriptions to satisfy his own addictions.”

Little is known about the federal probe, including the identities of any alleged victims. People with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to speak publicly said federal investigators are seeking telecommunications and flight records related to Combs. Back in March, investigators searching Combs’ Holmby Hills home emptied safes, dismantled electronics and left papers strewn in some rooms, sources told The Times.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigates most sex-trafficking operations for the federal government. Legal experts say one reason the agency could be involved in this case is because the women involved in the allegations against Combs might be from other countries.

Combs’ lawyers have strongly criticized the federal probe, calling the searches of his homes “militarized” and a “witch hunt.”

“This unprecedented ambush — paired with an advanced, coordinated media presence — leads to a premature rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” attorney Aaron Dyer said in March.

In addition to the federal investigation, Combs faces the civil lawsuits from the three women. He has denied wrongdoing.

The lawsuits were filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a law that went into effect in November 2022 in New York that allows individuals who believe they were sexually assaulted a one-year window during which they can sue their abusers, even if the statute of limitations for prosecuting the underlying alleged crimes had expired.