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Warrant to see if theres something inside the truck that will help them with this investigation. We have not been able to confirm that this belongs to the suspect who went into the building with a gun today and was shot and wounded, but this is definitely the vehicle they are looking at here just outside the capitol. All right, darcy. We can see people walking by that truck, cars going by that truck which i got to tell you leads me to believe there is no immediate danger as you can see, people very, very close to that truck as they wait to get in there and search it. If they thought it was laced with explosives, they probably wouldnt let people get that close. They have people walking past it right now. Youre watching news at 5 00. What a wild afternoon on capitol hill that began around 2 30, 2 45 when Capitol Police shot a man inside the Capitol Visitors Center and that person is now currently undergoing minor injuries. A woman maybe 30, 40yearold woman, she was hurt by some flying debris probably in the response to this man pulling the gun. Again, an important thing to note is that no Police Officers were injured. There was a lockdown, but that was lifted at 3 40 this afternoon. Pat collins is down there now with someone who was in the thick of it. Pat, what do you got . Reporter wendy, i have ryan, hes from phoenix, arizona. You were inside the Capitol Visitors Center when this all came down. Tell me what you heard. Tell me what you saw. Tell me what you did. Well, at the time of the shooting i was a couple rooms away in the i believe it was the Old Supreme Court justice room, and we were just walking when my tour guide said that well, she didnt say there was a shooting, but she said something bunch of guards and Police Officers just running across, and then on the loud announcer they told us to all gather into this room and stay away from the doors and the glass. And then they held us there for 20 to 30 minutes, and then they finally released us after they said it was safe. Reporter scary . Yes, definitely. Yes, definitely it was scary. Reporter so what do you make of what happened here today, ryan . Reporter hopefully it was just a lone incident. You dont want anything else bad to happen. Capitol police did a great job taking care of preventing any other injuries or deaths, and i think they did a really good job. Reporter thank you very much. Ryan straneva, a tourist from phoenix, arizona. He was in the Capitol Visitors Center when this all came down. Just a few m Capitol Police chief Matthew Verderosa said theres no evidence of any conspiracy. This was one man who came in with a weapon, tried to get through the metal detector, pulled out the weapon, and he was shot and wounded by police. He says that this man is known to the Capitol Police, has been known to them from some other incidents that have happened here before. He says the vehicle the man got here in has been located. Theyre in the process of trying to search it. I think theyre going to try to get some warrants. We have some sound i think with the Capitol Police chief, Matthew Verderosa. During routine administrative screening, the individual drew what appeared to be a weapon and pointed it at officers. An officer fired and struck the suspect who was subsequently treated by medical personnel. The suspect was custody and transported to the hospital for treatment. Based on the initial investigates we believe that this is an act of a Single Person wlo hwho has frequented the Capitol Grounds before and there is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act. Reporter so, again, lone actor, known to the police. Theyve located his vehicle. The investigation still goes on. Wendy, back to you. Pat collins. Thank you, pat. Joining us now is nbcs Pete Williams who is going to fill us in a little bit more about the suspect, larry dawson. Is that his name . And what it means when theyre known to the Capitol Police. What is this incident that happened . Known to Capitol Police because of an incident in october when he Authorities Say disrupted a proceeding of the house. The house was in session. He was in the visitors gallery, and he shouted out that he was a prophet of god. He was charged at the time in superior court with disorderly and disruptive conduct on the Capitol Grounds, and then also charged with interfering with arrest according to the Court Documents. He pushed a Police Officer and he was charged with assaulting or interfering with a Police Officer. As a result of that, you will see on october 23rd he was issued a stay away order. Let me show you something here if i can hold this map up to the camera. He actually was sent this by the superior court. Its a map of the u. S. Capitol area with a line drawn around the Capitol Building and all of the on this side house Office Buildings, the Senate Office buildings, the library of congress, the Supreme Court, and the capitol itself. This was the stay away order that was issued in october, and then a warrant was issued for his arrest in december. He was told to report here, and he sent a letter to the court in january s im a minister and true prophet of god. I have been called and chosen and sent to you. I am not under the law. And he goes on to say im not going to submit myself to civil law, but he believes only in divine law. So thats why he was known to Police Officers. Several officials have told us hes the one, 67 years old from antioch, tennessee. Im curious, they give him this which is sort of interesting, but the man may have some Mental Health issues. When Something Like this happens do they try to contact any kind of family or do they just let this person go initially until today to kind of wander and be on their own when they might possibly have some Mental Health issues and could be a problem again even to themselves . A good question. A couple points. Number one, theres nothing in the Court Documents to suggest at least from what we have seen, now, perhaps theres something further in the documents that hasnt come to light yet, that there was any mental h that would be the normal way. That either his defense or the prosecutors would move to have him examined to see if hes mentally competent to assist in his own defense. That is the only place in these preliminary stages where a persons Mental Health would come before the court. So we dont see any sign of that. But the other thing to bear in mind here is that the previous incident did not involve a firearm. So what the Police Officers today say is that he walked in and the initial word that id seen among the federal officials was that he presented a firearm. As you heard the Capitol Policeman say that he appeared to aim it at a Capitol Police officer. Of course, its illegal to have a firearm in the district. Its certainly illegal to walk into a federal building, and when you walk into the Capitol Visitors Center, there is a sign of all the things that you cant carry in, including firearms. He may well have known that. Whether he was intending to aim it, whether h surrender it or what, who knows, but the Capitol Police officers clearly were not going to wait to find out. I have to ask you, even with receiving this area, this is where you cant go right. At the point where he would get up to the magnetometer or start to go through the security process, would each individual Security Officer recognize him to say thats somebody on a red flag list, thats somebody who maybe should not be in this area or would that necessarily take a bit of time before he got through there before they would know, hey, his name, his face matches this person who shouldnt be here . I dont know whether the Capitol Police have a rogues gallery of people they tell their officers to watch out for. So many people come into the Capitol Building because he walked in and presented or drew out or got this gun almost immediately, so thats a good question, but in terms of how this apparently went down here, it would be somewhat academic immediate thing of concern. Sure. And there would be nothing as we talked before with the Visitors Center, theres nothing that would stop you from getting right up to the door of the Visitors Center because it is such an open area. Right. Now to be clear, you walk into the Visitors Center and then youre immediately confronted by the magnetometers so its apparently before he got through the mags be. Bear in mind, one of the reasons we have a Visitors Center is because of what happened in 1998 when he shot two Police Officers and made his way into the Capitol Building himself before he was subdued. Great work. We want to continue our Team Coverage on this story now. News4s Jackie Bensen has been at med star Washington Hospital center. She was one of the first to tell us that the ambulance had arrived from the capitol carrying that person who was hurt in the incident. Jackie . Reporter just in the last investigators go inside. We have some video that shows the ambulance parked in the horseshoe at the entrance to the emergency room with a u. S. Capitol Police Cruiser behind it. That was taken within minutes after this all happened. What we dont know right now is the condition of this suspect, this man identified by nbc news as larry dawson. We are told by the u. S. Capitol police that he is in surgery, but beyond that no information. As i did mention earlier, Washington Hospital center is a level one trauma center. They have great experience dealing with the type of traumatic injuries from gunshot wounds and things like that. We do not know, however, if the woman identified as a bystander was also taken here, but, again, this when there is some type of m incident, this is one of the main Trauma Centers in the district of columbia. When we get more information, well bring it to you. Back to you. Great work, jackie. Were going to continue to follow the developments in this story. Still a lot to learn and a lot of questions to answer. Were also working a number of other important stories today. A summit is going to bring World Leaders to the district and it may impact how you get around this week. Plus a new plea amidst an embarrassing admission. But again well stay on top of the breaking news. Again, one suspect wounded. Hes at the hospital where Jackie Bensen is. And you can see right there they have surrounded that silver pickup its about taking a stand. For too long, wall street banks had their way. They crashed our economy. But democrat Donna Edwards wont take their money because she stands up for us. As a single mom, she knows the challenges our families face. Shell be our voice. Tightening regulations on the big banks and fighting to keep dark money out of politics. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. Hes begun forgetting words. Forgetting where he lives. But when the day comes when he forgets who i am, ill still know who he is. The first time we said i love you we didnt use words. We still are. I lost my dad to alzheimers. Preventing alzheimers is within our grasp. Lets double the budget of nih and get it done. Im david trone and i approve this message. The lockdown is lifted on capitol hill after a man with a gun walked into the Capitol Visitors Center and presented the gun and was immediately shot by police. He is at the hospital right now, but were trying to learn something about this man. His name is larry dawson, and he apparently has been a bit of a troublemaker before with the Capitol Police and inside the Scott Macfarlane has been on the hill and he has a lot of sources up there. Scott, what can you tell us about this man, larry dawson, and how well what kind of relationship does he have with the Capitol Police just because of some of the trouble hes caused them allegedly . Reporter hes very well known to Capitol Police because he made a protest, a public protest, during a house session in the House Chamber in 2015. That gets you on Capitol Police radar very quickly. In fact, he had a stay away order from d. C. Superior court that covered not just the Capitol Building but its entirety of Capitol Grounds, and that in it is is transcendent. There are other individuals who have stay away orders but just for parts of the capitol complex, not all of it. We should tell you that there are be on the lookout orders and stay away orders for multiple individuals on cop toapitol gro and our romping heporting has s capitol pic of names and ping tou picture go with those names. Were here on the east side of the capitol. Congressional staffers are departing now. Weve been talking to folks who work for the u. S. House and Senate Committees asking them what they did during the lockdown and its what you expect. They sheltered in place in their offices or if they were in the hallway or the cafeteria, they found the near etiest office an sheltered there. Eleanor Holmes Norton among those in the lockdown. Maryland senator ben cardin was here today as well but he had just departed after meeting with the Supreme Court nominee and was back headed to baltimore. Congressional staffers tell me they stayed in shelter in place mode until it was lifted. But one added those of us who were here today sheltered in place. Many of those members were back home. Tourists were here in great number and often thats an incentive for staffers to stay home and avoid the long lines at the metal detectors. One footnote, behind me is the Capitol Visitors Center. Its kind of a below ground entrance. You should know the metal detectors on the East Entrance to the Capitol Visitors Center are truly just a few feet from the doors. No further than i am from this camera. Theres not much space between the doors to the Capitol Visitors Center and those metal detectors. Very little area for somebody to move with a firearm before they get to the magnetometemagnetome. Thats the story. More as it comes in, but for now, chris and pat, back to you. Scott, its wendy, and im just wondering if because you said this guy is this larry dawson is so well known, do you think, do we know if the guard as soon as he saw him come in we went, oh, boy, here is larry, and as soon as dawson presented the weapon that the guard able to a Police Officer was able to shoot right away to secure the situation . Do we know if he saw him come in and recognized him immediately . Reporter the u. S. Capitol police didnt speak to that, wendy, but i can tell you from our reporting that the Police Officers who work the magnetometers are very familiar with stay away orders and be on the lookout orders for individuals. They are truly the front lines but the new u. S. Capitol police chief who took over a week ago today told us their intelligence and analysis of potential threats begins far from the grounds and far from the city limits. They truly have Intelligence Officers deployed around the country to watch out for potential threats long before they get here. Individual today is from ant knoi dont think antioch, tennessee. This work cot begin before they get to the grounds but that space from the door to the metal detector is precious little space. Its just feet. Very little room f and today as we saw they were quite vigilant. Scott macfarlane, thank you so much. Well check back with you in a bit. Weve been showing you live pictures from the southwest section of the hill where youve been taking a look, looking at the pictures of that silver pickup truck. Darcy spencer is not far from there. Shes been keeping an eye on whats going on there. We heard from the police chief that they are waiting on a search warrant. What have you seen in terms of activity in and around that truck . Reporter first, let me tell you were on maryland avenue like you said on the southwest side of the capitol. You can see the Capitol Building here behind me. Were right outside of the botanical gardens. This is the truck. Its right here behind us. You can see u. S. Capitol Police Officers out here basically standing guard all around this truck. We believe that they are waiting for that search warrant to get permission to go in and search this pickup truck to see what that it is, in fact, the suspects vehicle, but its definitely something were looking at. The police chief said during this press conference that his vehicle was located on Capitol Grounds. So this truck also has a tennessee license plate on the back of it. I want to tell you though the situation out here is still very calm. You can see that the sidewalks are open. Tourists are walking back and forth. Traffic is open on this street here. So they are keeping things open as much as possible. Theyre keeping people probably about 20 feet away from the truck again as theyre waiting for more reinforcements to show up and the search warrant to begin looking inside this truck to see what exactly is in there, if it could lead to any clues in connection with what happened inside the Visitors Center earlier this afternoon. Based on your own experience, i mean, were watching your life picture right there. Im seeing people on bikes, seeing jrs area. Based on the fact that people are getting so close to that truck, from your experience, what does that tell you about any potential immediate danger emanating from the truck or lack thereof . Reporter well, chris, i see what youre getting at. It doesnt appear there is any major threat that they perceive here dealing with this truck. You know, you can have a bomb dog come by here, sniff around. There are things they can do to try to defect if theres a potential for something dn dangerous inside the truck. They have a pretty calm posture. Not letting people get terribly close but allowing people to continue to come by here. So it sounds to me like it looks to me like there is concern about the truck. They are keeping some distance away but some a major concern. I didnt see a dog come by but we werent here throughout this process so its possible that a dog has already come through and there was anything detected around the truck. No, they dont seem highly concerned right now. Just looks like theyre basically waiting to be able to get inside and certainly hoping to find a treasure trove of evidence or something in here to help them understand maybe who this person is and why they acted and did what they did today allegedly. Again, we have not confirmed emphatically this is the suspects vehicle but thats what were looking at as a possibility right here right now. It sounds like what theyre doing, again, waiting for the warrants because they want to make sure this thing is legally as clean as possible so whatever they do find if they find anything in there, that it can proceed through the court system without anyone anything having to be thrown out because they didnt cross their ts and dot their is legally. Reporter thats exactly yeah. Yeah, thats exactly right because weve seen these cases before. You got to have a search warrant. Unless there is an imminent threat. There doesnt appear to be an to make sure that you have probable cause. You have to make sure you have a judges signature saying, yeah, in. They have to have those documentations and some level of proof to say this is why we need to go in and search. They want to make sure they get that so they can legally go in and whatever is found in the truck at some point the idea is to be able to use that as evidence in a court of law. Back to you. All right. Again, dotting the i, crossing the t to make sure as this investigation progresses to make sure they have all their ducks in the row. You wonder if because this is the monday after easter its hard to get to a judge. Those are uniformed officers. Theyre not bomb squad. You would think if theyre that close, just a few feet away from it, theres probably not any immediate danger. And like she said a dog could detected any explosives so they dont feel that that is going to be the threat. It could just be again information that they need about this man so that they can if they have to take him to court, they have something to take him to court with. Youre watching news4 at 5 00. Were staying on top of the breaking news and well be pushing out any ale a blustery evening out there. It will be windy throughout the day tomorrow. A wind advisory is in effect through most of the area. All the counties in tan, the entire d. C. Metro area. Winds out of the northwest at 25 miles an hour. Were currently at 63 degrees. Well be tracking breezy conditions tonight, tomorrow as well. With the winds tomorrow, we feel like temps are in the 40s and fef 50s. Our next chance of rain is later in the day on thursday. Tonight youll probably want to grab the light jacket or sweatshirt with the windy conditions. 7 00 temperature around 61. By 11 00 p. M. Weve fallen into the low 50s. Tomorrow a High Temperature around 60 degrees that will hit at 4 00. So a chilly day but sunshine. We start out with temperature around 44. We lose the wind on wednesday. Temperatures in the low 60s once again. And then again rain arrives later thursday, continues friday. High temperatures then around 70. Were going to send things to break right now. When we come back, well narrator all that political mail mlets simplify. Lming. Only one candidate has been endorsed by the Washington Post Kathleen Matthews. As a journalist and progressive leader at marriott, she has a broad and deep facility with policy. St says on gun control, clean energy, education and Health Research Kathleen Matthews has greater potential, following the van hollen model, to move the ball forward. Kathleen im Kathleen Matthews and i approve this message. Were tracking the latest on the breaking news. The suspect who pulled a gun at the cat in surgery right now. Sources tell us larry dawson walked up into the Security Check point and pulled out a weapon and that Capitol Police opened fire striking dawson. Another one was hit by some ricochet of some material. She suffered some minor injuries. Lets get back to larry dawson and Pete Williams joins us once again. What kind of weapon was it . According to several Law Enforcement officials, what mr. Dawson had with him when he entered the Capitol Visitors Center this afternoon was a pellet gun. Now, a pellet gun is Something Like a bb gun. It does not fire full up rounds of ammunition but some of the pellet guns can be kuwaquite realistic looking. In any event, when he drew the weapon and according to the Capitol Police officer, the police chief you heard from a while earlier this afternoon, he appeared to aim it at one Capitol Police officer and then either that officer shots at him. We dont know exactly how many rounds were fired. That is yet to be determined. He was wounded, taken to the hospital, and as you say a bystander, a woman apparently was hit by some sort of flying debris and she was she received minor injuries. As for the suspect, several Law Enforcement Officials Say his name is Larry Russell dawson, hes 67 years old from antioch, tennessee, and that he had actually been arrested here in washington in october for disrupting a session of the u. S. House, that he was in the visitors gallery, shouted out he was a prophet of god. He was taken away. He pushed a Police Officer so he was charged with the disruption and interfering with police and as a result of that he was under a court order to stay away from the capitol, but that order apparently meant nothing to him because he sent a letter to the court in january saying basically i believe in divine law, not civil so it is not, Authorities Say, an act of terrorism. n it is not a political act although on his website he says he wants the congress to increase the minimum wage but theres no indication there was any kind of political motive behind what he did, and several Law Enforcement officials have said that he has a history of mental problems. And in his letter he says that hes been called upon and cho n chosen, that hes not under the law, that hes only under the divine love of god, not civil law. He says no longer will i let myself be governed by flesh and blood. You said hes a minister from antioch, tennessee. Any troubles with him in tennessee . Tennessee authorities have any record of him . I just dont know the answer to that. Oh, okay. Is it likely we know antioch is a suburb of nashville. Is it likely after this first incident, pete, that authorities here would have made some contact with authorities there in tennessee to say there . You know, i dont know, but i frankly doubt it. Lets think about looking at in hindsight after he pulled out what we believe is a pellet gun, that makes it seem much more serious but remember last october. These charges against him i assume are misdemeanors. Lets see. Certainly one is a misdemeanor. I suspect both are. And so theyre not all that serious. All hes accused of doing in october is pushing a policeman and yelling during a session of the house. I would be very surprised if this isnt receive simply routine Court Proceedings and Law Enforcement proceedings at the time. There was no great concern about him as a dangerous person. And i have been in a lot of hearings up on the hill where they get interrupted all the time by various groups. So that in itself not all that unusual. Right. But i wonder in the current climate of our country and of the world if relooking at these procedures and maybe do a little more outreach or something in the future for someone like this. I dont know if they have the man power to do that or whatever. Interesting. Thank you, pete. So a pellet gun. Thats what it seems like. Thank you, pete. The secret service closed off the white house along the fence line there. Were told they did that out of an abundance of caution but the white house complex itself was not locked down. They had the White House Easter Egg Roll today. I was there with my wife and kids just about an hour before all this started happening. Thousands of parents, kids. So very good news that nothing and no disruption of that. No, not at all. Just an abundance of caution. Were following these new developments on this breaking story. Tonight in other news weve been covering here on news4, new developments on a person hit by a train this morning. Shifting gears a little bit to sof area. Now were learning that person was a suspect in multiple shootings over the weekend. Police think he wanted to kill himself. News4s Tracee Wilkins is live in hahnham withlanham with a lo investigators were able to put this together. Reporter were told this was an apparent suicide this happened on the train tracks earlier this morning and that this man may have taken his own life because he had been involved in not one, but two different shootings. One of them happened right here in prince georges county. It was a suicide that shut down the marc Baltimore Penn line this morning as police investigated the body of a man struck by a train in lanham. He was a suspected murderer on the run. Police have identified the decedent as 52yearold dell prado of greenbelt. The shooting occurred just outside of the travel center. Reporter yesterday afternoon around 1 00 p. M. At a truck stop in jessup, howard say del prado shot two men. In an unexpected twist howard counsel tip police now say the double shooting may have been a case of mistaken identity. Del prado may have been looking for someone else. After that double shooting, sources tell me he shot and injured a woman in the 8600 block of greenbelt road. Im told he was in a relationship with this woman and that relationship somehow led to these multiple shootings. The woman again survived the shooting and one of the people who was shot also survived. A third died, and, again, yes, it sounds like it was mistaken identity. Those were not the two men who this gunman was looking for. This investigation is continuing. Well have more coming up on news4 at 6 00. Reporting live, im Tracee Wilkins, news4. Great work, tracee. Thank you. It has been quite going on on the hill. The lockdown is over. The suspect who was shot is in the hospital right now, but that truck they are getting a warrant to search it. They believe it is the suspects truck. They just want to see if theres any evidence so that police have circled it off and theyre waiting for a warrant so they can go inside and see if there is anything there that will give them any more information about this man who went to capitol hill today to the Visitors Center with a pellet gun but it looked like a real gun and he was not by Capitol Police. Iain, hes in surgery, and its about taking a stand. For too long, wall street banks had their way. They crashed our economy. But democrat Donna Edwards wont take their money because she stands up for us. As a single mom, she knows the challenges our families face. Shell be our voice. Tightening regulations on the big banks and fighting to keep dark money out of politics. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. As a Small Business owner, you know things have a way of moving fast. But if your network cant keep up, it can really slow you down. So switch to the 100 Fiber Optic Network of verizon fios. Youll get 99. 9 network reliability, and the fastest wifi available. Get fios 50 meg or higher internet and phone for your last chance to get 250 back. Hurry, this offer ends soon. Call or go online today. Small business is better on a better network. With everything going on down at the capitol, it can be easy to forget there are a lot of other developments in some other stories as well. The proposed plans to redraw some of the School Boundaries in Loudoun County is sparking outrage among some parents. Some claim the School Boards move with segregate schools based on economic class. David culver is outside headquarters in ashburn. I assume you have talked to folks on both sides of the issue. Reporter we sure have. And the school board is considering several different options when it comes to combatting some of this overcrowding within some of the local schools. But one of the options theyre considering is known as plan 12, and its had dozens of parents reaching out to us telling us their side of things. Folks supporting it. Others adamantly against it. Not much in between. Its just frustrating because it feels like the board isnt really listening to all of us. Reporter holly landsbury wants her kindergartenage daughter to have what she had a Loudoun County Public School education that led to academic success. You want your child to get the best indication possible. Reporter she backs the educate dont segregate lcps group. They worry a proposed plan 12 would force nearly 2,000 other students to different schools. More than half the students at two of the knewly redistricted students would be low income and english language learners. Its taking sections of the downtown area and putting them into school so the outlying schools are becoming very a lot less diverse and thats just not the world we live in. I see it allowing them to attend their neighborhood schools. Jill is a school board member. Its very unfortunate its come to this. I might get emotional. Its very personal to me. I taught these students. Reporter she believes plan 12 will benefit the community. The current boundaries are gerrymandered. They are taking the ethnicity and economic status and putting them in schools as a factor and thats unfair. Reporter holly, along with other parents are not quite sure what the next school year will bring for their kids. I want her to be challenged and i want all the kids to succeed. Reporter members of the school board are gathering tonight. They will have a work session. Tomorrow they have the Public Meeting where folks in the community are going to weigh in. That is going to be followed by the vote. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, what the Latino Community has to say about some of no controversy surrounding this vote and some here is considering. Wendy, well talk about those on news4 at 6 00. See you then. Well go back to the hill with a live picture of the this is a truck that belonged to a suspect who allegedly brought a pellet gun into the Capitol Visitors Center this afternoon. The mans name is larry dawson. That gun looked very much like a real gun and he may or may not have pointed it, but he was shot by Capitol Police. Hes in surgery and they are now waiting to search his car. Waiting on a search warrant to get in there. Again, were staying on top of this story, bringing you any new developments. You can stay online and get the latest. Well be pushing out alerts on th they say character is what you do when no one is watching. David trone banned the box so people whove paid their debt to society could have a chance. They named a center after him. And because education was his way out david offered it free to employees. And over 14 years ago began offering them partner benefits. Evening the Playing Field has always been davids mission. In Congress Itll be his job. Its not how you run, its how you live. Im david trone and i approve this message. Well, as you know, it has been a chaotic afternoon for lawmakers and tourists and visitors and staff up on the hill. Lawmakers wanted to make sure everyone know that their staff was safe. These are some tweets in senators today. First from maryland senator ben cardin who told everybody earlier today his staff was safe. Connecticut senator chris murphy reporting in and new york senator chuck schumer. Many not only reporting in that everyone was safe but praising the work of the Capitol Police and thanking them for keeping staff and visitors safe when a man walked into the Visitor Center with what looked like a gun. It turned out to be a pellet gun but it looked like a real police. Thanks, wendy. Weve uncovered new information on a man from Reston Police think is behind a crime spree including a Home Invasion and a fire that nearly killed someone. Julie carey discovered these details in some Court Documents today. Reporter these are the newly unsealed Court Documents that point to the man who once rented the basement of this townhouse as the suspect who started the fire and nearly killed the homeowner. He is also a suspect in a Home Invasion that took place a day earlier. Antoine green, he grew up in reston and now hes accused of a longrunning crime spree. The 35yearold has not yet been charged with the arson fire that destroyed this townhouse but this search warrant document connects him to two crimes. December 3rd who suspects knock on the door of this town home. One grabs the 67yearold resident and throws her to the with electrical cords. The suspects flee with her vehicle but dump it later. Inside police find mail addre addressed to antwan green. Then december 4th, just hours later, green is suspected of starting this townhouse on fire. Neighbors tell news4 he rented out the became but had just had a falling out with the town homeowner. She received critical injuries jumping from the secondstory window to escape the flames. Residents realli recalled her cr help. He woke up and heard her hollering for help. Reporter these Court Documents again report to antwan green. They say he was captured on video at a nearby Convenience Store just before the fire. He was buying a lighter, charcoal, ant ligd lighter flui. A juvenile informant tells police green was present at both the Home Invasion and the fire. Again, while green has not yet been charged with the arson here or the Home Invasion, he is behind bars facing a long list of other crimes strangulation to malicious wounding. In reston, im julie carey, news4. As if d. C. Traffic isnt already horrific, the Nuclear Security summit is coming to town and it will create more headaches or commuters. The roads highlighted on this map will be closed when the summit starts wednesday night. Thats at the Washington Convention center, but its going to take over a huge area around the convention center. Security fencing is already being put in place. The summit runs through saturday, so beware. Drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, bus riders, everyone is going to be impacted by this. Some parking restrictions already are in place as we speak. So make sure you pay very close attention to the signs. The whole area, again, will be shut down starting wednesday night. I got to tell you, before we were all sort of what was happening at the capitol all i could think of was, man, we started the day overcast, cloudy, and then the clouds moved out. Beautiful, beautiful day. It was gorgeous. And now galeforce winds. I heard you were out at the easter egg roll, and youre absolutely right. The rain coming through this morning and then it just cleared. Right about noon, just the skies opened up. Then we had that wind, and, boy, ask that wind gusting up out there. Were talking about wind gusts up to 40, 50 miles an hour. So those strong Winds Continuing not only tonight but also through the overnight and through much of the day tomorrow. We will be sunny tomorrow, a little cooler, but breezy. We do have more rain returning on thursday and friday. I know with those road closures out there, you might want to bring that umbrella if youre headed downtown to areas with the road closures. Wind advisory goes until midnight for the areas shaded in the highest winds. Gusting up to 40, 50 miles an hour and look at this. The wind gusts here in leesburg, 44. Up to 40 in martinsburg. Oh, boy, hold onto your hat type weather. Hold onto the steering wheel. It is a windy day. Temperatures right now in the 60s, upper 50s. With that wind feels a little cooler. The clouds departed. We have a few high clouds building in but otherwise we had sunshine. As we continue into the evening, temperatures will fall into the 60s. Still very windy. Winds really not coming down until about id say about midnight, 1 00 a. M. , and then theyll still be breezy tomorrow. Not necessarily windy but breezy. Well have wind gusts 25 miles an hour through the day tomorrow. So when you wake up tomorrow morning, head out to work, put the kids on the bus stop, it will feel like were in the thirds. Well eventually wasrm up to 60. Look at these winds staying with us all throughout the day tomorrow. Again, not quite as windy as today, but still breezy. Hour by the time you head home and then they will die down by the time we head into wednesday. Wednesday looks beautiful. Unfortunately, the beauty of the Cherry Blossoms probably coming to an end. Petals are already coming down. Probably makes for some good photos out there. Definitely a jacket tomorrow if youre headed out to the tidal basin. We have a cold weekend ahead of us. Mid50s by sunday. Much cooler, some canadian air embarking on our region by the time we get into the weekend. We are looking at some rain thursday into friday and then the weekend much cooler leading into early next week. All right. Thank you, lauren. Were still keeping an eye on that truck thats sitting down there that theyre waiting to but jamie raskin is the only democrat for congress whos authored landmark progressive laws marriage equality, equal pay for women, green maryland act, assault weapons ban, and more. Raskin im jamie raskin, and i approve this message. U. S. Officials have just confirmed that four americans were killed in those terror attacks in brussels, but the latest two victims, theyve not been identified yet. But were learning more about the young couple who met at Vanderbilt University and died simply dropping off someone at the airport. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has an update from brussels. Reporter the tributes are piling up for justin and stephanie schultz. President obama calling their family saying the couple epitomized all that was good about america. Theyd met at Vanderbilt University, became accountants, got married, moved abroad two years ago. On tuesday they were dropping stephanies mom off at the Brussels Airport when the world shook. Also killed at the checkin terminal, dutch siblings, sasha and alex headed to new york. Theyd hoped to become american citizens. Alex set to be married. Monday i went to sleep hoping i would go pick up my aunt at the airport. Reporter alee that was heading to rhode island for a relatives funeral. She texted this photo shortly before she died. While families grieve, others are thankful. Im just glad hes alive. Reporter this morning Richard Norby is out of his medically induced coma. In a Facebook Post his family describing how they burst into sobs of joy. He was with a group of mormon missionaries from utah. How are you doing . Im doing awesome. Im feeling good. Reporter 20yearold joe also improving today. His parents hoping to bring him back home later this week. It starts to sink i sit and think about it and think how tragic it could have been and how tragic it was for so many people. Were really lucky. Really, really lucky. Reporter in addition to justin and stephanie schultz, overnight the state department confirmed that two more americans were among the dead. Their identities have not been released. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, brussels. News4 at 6 00 begins with breaking news. Right now at 6 00, lots of new information coming in about that shooting at the capitol Visitor Center today. In just the past half hour, nbcs Pete Williams told us the suspect was armed with a pellet gun. He pulled that gun as he was approaching the Security Check point. Sources say he pointed it, and thats when Capitol Police opened fire. That man has been identified as larry dawson. He is in surgery at the hospital right now. Apparently hes no stranger to Capitol Police. There before after interrupting a session of the house. The lockdown on the hill has been partially lifted now, but the Visitor Center is still closed. We have Team Coverage on the hill and outside the hospital where we believe dawson was taken, and we start with pat collins. Pat . Reporter doreen, it happened around 2 40 this afternoon. A man with a gun tries to go into the capitol Visitor Center. A metal detector goes off, he pulls out a gun, a cop sees it and wounds that man. Here is what some visitors had to say. It was just shock like what was even happening. Like the police were just running around. Our tour guide, she was a freshman in college. She had no idea what was going on. She was trying to call her Office Building to figure out if there was any word on what was happening. Reporter kay yot snchaotic . Definitely. Reporter scary