Night for steph as we say good morning on this thursday morning. It will be a big day in d. C. , the big republican meeting there. Donald trump facetoface with the House Speaker paul ryan. Its just hours away from trump and ryan and other Party Leaders meeting on capitol hill to work on unifying the gop after ryan said he wasnt ready to endorse trump. A live picture there of washington and trump is getting slammed by democrats and republicans alike for not releasing his taxes. Well get the latest right now from d. C. Abcs Stephanie Ramos with us. Good morning, stephanie. Reporter good morning. What a meeting, right . If i only had an invite. Donald trump seems to be ready to build closer alliances with Top Republican leaders and today is where it starts. The countdown to this capitol hill date is on. We just need to get to know each other. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan calling his meeting with donald trump as more of a meet and greet. I dont really know him. I met him once in person
Whipping that he took as they robbed him on the train. Broke his glasses. Stock his iphone. Wallet, shoes, book back. Took my house keys. Zach by the time they exited at the suitland station the next stop he was covered in blood. They said get down on the ground. Ill shoot you. They said if you get up, i will shoot you. Sam scary tough. Yes, it was. Sam he says he tumbled off the car at the next station where they called an ambulance. He said you see few cops on the green line at night. Its unfortunate. Cant think too much about it. It happened. It could happen anywhere. It had to happen on the metro. Im on my way to work. We just received the photographs. Momentarily. From metro. These are three suspects that metro is looking at. People that were leaving the train stationed there around this time. Of coue attacked him and the train left from the branch avenue. The next station was suitland. Where the people metro believes got off. These are suspects in this case. This young man told u
Questions reporters, metro g. M. Paul wiedefeld mandated the agency publicize all Violent Crimes the same day they happen. Members of congress applaud that decree. I think people are more concerned with incidents like that, than they are with smoke in the car. I feel that he will take to heart what we said today and put more information out. Kevin Metro Transit Police say they did not arrest hicks after his alleged master base incident master base incident because they were waiting for the arrest warrant to come down. He used his smart trip card after the alleged crimes and undetected until after the fact. Im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison now to the violence on the green line. Last night a 24yearold man way to work at the branch avenue station at 9 00. He says he boarded an empty car and that the group followed him. As soon as the train left the station he says they attacked him and that one of them was holding a gun. Hit me with the pistol. He took my shoes. That is when the friend c
Away suffering from gunshot wounds. Police believe this started with an attempted robbery. Go to District Heights right now for the latest on the investigation. County policeges assisting District Heights police this afternoon with this double homicide. We in getting updates from the police chief here we had been getting updates here from the police chief. Friends of the victims arriving here. Earlier, our cameras captured one young lady, very difficult to watch. She was very, very emotional. She dropped to the ground. She was yelling, oh, my god. Detectives questioned her for some time. Her, trying to figure out how she knew the victims and if she had information they could possibly use with this double homicide. What we know Police Arrived and found one man, and look at that vehicle. You can see the back window was shot out. He was dead when Police Arrived. Another man, a second victim, about a block away was also shot as was later pronounced dead well. Our preliminary information is
News 4s Erika Gonzalez is live and can tell us whats going on out there. Reporter hey, barbara. We can confirm there are at least two people dead in what you mentioned was police are calling a targeted attack. Still this morning so many more questions than answers. Police say it was a robbery that escalated to a homicide. This car and the individuals in the car were targeted. Reporter around 4 30 this Morning Police were called to this neighborhood in district heights, reports of gunfire. Police found a car crashed into a tree and at least one victim inside. Inside of the car we found one individual who has since been deceased. Also, there was another individual who we determined from our investigation had gotten out of the car and was subsequently found in the 6500 block of reporter upon hearing the news loved ones began grieving on scene. While investigators are staying tight lipped about a suspect, it seems more details could be coming soon. Our investigation is continuing. And as e