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this is "nightline." tonight r. kelly in cuffs. turning himself in to chicago police. >> ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse. >> after decades of accusations and an incriminating documentary, he survived charges before, could a new sex tape be the crucial difference this time? plus, uber interrogation, the never-before-seen confeio video, the stunning defense fro homicidal rampage. how he says the app made him do it. and unsung singer. of bohemian rhapsody. hours from the oscars, the
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mystery man making freddie mercury's voice come alive. but first, the "nightline" five. tline" five.
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good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. r and b singer r. kelly turning
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himself in to police, facing ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse with women, one of which was 13. it now have may caught up with him. >> pretty much agree to it, no matter how the meaning it felt. >> i want you to know that you're not alone. >> it kept going and going and going. >> reporter: after decades of accusations, including these from the recent blockbuster docuseries, surviving r. kelly. >> i decided enough was enough. >> reporter: r. kelly, finally forced to face the music. tonight kelly appearing subdued as he left his studio to turn himself in to chicago police. the singer taken away in handcuffs will spend the night in jail. earlier in the day, kelly was indicted on charges going back two decades.
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>> ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims. >> reporter: three of the four women were between the ages of 13 and 17 at the time of the abuse. >> these charges are incredibly serious. they each hold a mass mximum of seven years in prison. he could spend 70 years in prison if found guilty on all charges. >> reporter: it spans 1998 through 2010, while he was releasing hits like "ignition" and "i wish." ♪ just think be about those days ♪ >> reporter: just hours after the indictment was handed down, attorney michael avenatti spoke out, claiming he was responsible for the break in the case. >> earlier this month we uncovered and recovered a videotape of over 40 minutes in length. the tape was shot in the late
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'90s, approximately 1999. it depicts two separate scenes, shot on two separate days within mr. kelly's residence at the time. >> reporter: avenatti shared a screen grab of what he says is kelly's face from the video. >> repeatedly on the video, both the victim and mr. kelly refer to the victim's age as being 14. >> reporter: the charges come in the wake of that six-part, lifetime docuseries seen by millions. and credited for bringing renewed attention to the allegations of sexual abuse and sex with underage girls that have swirled around kelly for years. >> why didn't anyone notice? we all noticed. no one cared because we were black girls. >> reporter: it shows the alleged abuse by r. kelly. >> it's been almost two years now, and we still haven't seen
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our daughter. >> they swept it under the rug. now they're going back and saying maybe it was true or there's truth in there or something was wrong back then, because, you know, 30 years later it's still happening. >> reporter: tamara simmons and jesse daniels are two of the executive producers behind the docuseries. >> when you sigh theee these pa emerge that date back to the '90s, it's hard to imagine what the survivors went through over the course of years, the same patterns and experiences that they've all shared. >> reporter: in light of the me too movement it was time to give these women a voice. >> some in 2017 there were a few articles that surfaced that detailed new alleged victims. parallel to that, the me too movement started to take off. once we started to get in touch with some of these women and dig
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a little bit deeper into their stories, and then it ballooned to many other people. >> you had this powerful person beloved in the african-american community and a victim that nobody cares about. >> it shows you how rich and powerful men can get away many things. >> reporter: more than 50 people were interviewed for the docuseries, including over a dozen alleged victims who accuse the r and b singer of physical and sexual abuse stretching over months and years. many who say they were just teenagers when they first met the star. >> rob was sitting there at the pool and being really nice. he asked how old i was, i told him i was 17. >> reporter: cook county's state attorney issued a call for anyone with information to come forward with their stories. >> i'm here to encourage victims of sexual assault or domestic violence related to these allegation to please get in
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touch with our office. >> reporter: six weeks later, she delivered the news of his indictment. ? this recent indictment shows that activism works. that good journalism works. if it weren't for the r. kelly campaign, the brave swieurvivor and accuser whose have come forward with their own stories we wouldn't be here today. >> reporter: this is not the first time kelly has been in legal jeopardy. in 2018 08 he was acquitted of charges of child pornography. >> though she was identified on the tape by other people including an aunt, because she was unwilling to say that she was a victim, it was determined there was no victim, thus there couldn't be a prosecution. >> reporter: in an interview with toure, r. kelly struggles to answer what many viewed at a basic question. >> do you like teenaged girls? >> when you say teenage?
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how old are we talking? >> girls who are teenagers. >> i have some 19 year old friends. >> reporter: r. kelly made his desire for younger women well-known. his marriage to aaliyah in 1 99 was annulled after it was discovered she was only 15 at the time of her marriage. he later married andrea kelly. she spoke about her ex-husband last year. >> do i believe he should serve time in jail? i do. >> reporter: would you like to see him arrested? >> yes. >> reporter: kelly says she was a victim herself for 13 long years of emotional and physical and sexual a. they have children together. did you fear for your life? >> yes. >> reporter: tonight r. kelly's lawyer insists his client is innocent. >> two of the cases are super old, not accurate, no the true.
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>> reporter: and vows to fight every accusation. >> mr. kelly is strong. he's got a lot of support. and he's going to be vindicated on all these charges. one by one, if it has to be. >> reporter: but others believe the indictment may only be the beginning of his legal problems, as more women continue to come forward with new stories of abuse. attorney gloria allred who is representing several of his alleged victims has a message for the singer. >> to r. kelly, i'm sending this message. you have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. your victims are now surrounding you and crying out for justice. your time has come to face the many women who have surfffered silence for so many years. >> if convicted, he could face up to 70 years in prison. up next, the uber driver who went on a shooting rampage. the first look at the police interrogation video and the shocking reason he gave for why he did it. he did it.
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it was a horrific shooting rampage. a michigan uber driver killing six people in a matter of hours. tonight the stunning reason he told police what drove him to do it. here's abc's matt gutman. >> i'm not a killer, and this is what i, and i, and i know that i have killed. >> reporter: you're watching never-before-seen video of jason dalton being interviewed by police, explaining why he's just
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gone on a murderous rampage because his uber app made him do it. >> i know you guys are going to have a hard time believing this, but it literally took over mind and body. >> the uber app? >> yes. >> i wasn't believing anything of it, but if it's something that's going to make him talk, you're not going to want to shut him down. >> it switched from red to black. and it's in that black mode. it literally has control of you. >> reporter: before february 20, 2016, jason dalton seemed like any ordinary family man in kalamazoo, michigan, a man who just started to drive for uber to pick up extra cash for vacation, but he starts an eight-how much rain of rohterro. >> we were going sonent iought about hitting him. finally, he, like, slammed on his brakes.
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>> what kind of car is it? >> chevy equinox. >> reporter: right after that, he heads home, puts on his bulletproof vest and grabs a semi-automatic. he goes by a woman driving a group of her daughter's friends. ? >> we were talking and all that ended when i saw this car speeding. he was instantly flight frontri of me. i told the girls run, and do not come back. i tried to get under a car. and i realized, if i keep moving, if i keep moving, if i keep moving, then he just continued to so i laid there. and i pretended that i and i was going to tell myself,
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i just hope the children are okay. lord, please, i can never forgive myself. just make sure that they're okay. >> physically blocked some of those bullets from where those kids were going. >> yes. would i do it all over again? hell, yeah, i'd do it again. >> reporter: she was shot four times, rushed to the hospital. now dalton wants to switch cars. meets his wife at his parents' house where he has these ominous words. >> he gave her a gun, said, i'm not going to tell you what i'm going to do, but when you watch the 11:00 news tonight, you'll know that it was me. >> reporter: he leaves her bewildered but then continues to pick up passengers. he then pulls into a local car dealership where father and son rich and tyler smith were shopping for a truck. >> jason dalton walked up to them and then started to shoot and shoot and shoot.
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>> reporter: just minutes later. >> ten units. shots fired, crack aer barrel. >> reporter: daltonup, and we b look at the same time and see there was something moving. he opens the door and sees addie. we see that she has an obvious gunshot wound to the head. >> the housephone rang. she said we're from browns and methodist. i'm trying to find the parents of an abigail. her comes were, you need to get up here as soon as possible because she's not going to make it through the night. they walks us up to this room in the icu. and that's when i saw her for the first time. couple hours later, she flat
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lined. they tried to do cpr. and that was horrific to see. we told them to let her go. if it was meant to be, it was meant to be. at that point, we started to say our good-byes. i was holding abbey's hand. and i looked right at her. i said, if you can hear me, if you can hear me at all, give me a sign. and she squeezed me. and at that point i knew right there she was back and that she was going to fight like holy hell. >> reporter: but the shootings had set off fear in the western michigan town. >> very tense situation. in kalamazoo county, multiple people have been shot and killed. >> definitely a serial killer. >> reporter: jason dalton has killed six people. what he doesn't know is that now police are closing in on him.
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>> i heard radio traffic advising that he is following a black hhr that has left one of the bars downtown. when he came to a stop, he just sat in the vehicle. >> he's caught in the chevy hhr with the gun that killed the people at the cracker barrel in his pocket. >> how have you been treated? >> i've been treated okay. >> he was not aggressive at all. he just chose not to answer some of our questions. >> do you know how many people you killed tonight? >> i'd just like to plead the fifth. >> we kept asking him why, what happened? what happened in your life to make you do this? >> reporter: we may never know the answer to those questions. >> jury selection begins tomorrow in the murder trial of so da rorter: as the trial is about to begin, dalton has another surprise. going against the expectation that he would try to plead insanity. >> how do you plead? >> guilty.
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>> you are sentenced to a period of life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> have you watched any of the news and seen jason dalton? >> yes. whenever i see him, i flip him off. i can't stand him. sometimes i'd like to trade places with him, to where he could have the gunshot wound and i could be normal, but not in jail, because i almost died. and my mom was a basket case. she sat by my bed the whole eight days, five days, however long i was in a coma. >> reporter: did she smile when she saw you open your eyes again? >> i remember her crying with happy tears. >> our thanks to matt gutman. up next, the unsung talent behind the oscar nominee. i'm mildly obsessed with numbers. so, i started with the stats regarding my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. like how humira has been prescribed to over 300,000 patients. and how many patients saw clear or almost clear skin
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