Tonight. Smoke and flames billoing from the roof of a townhouse in laurel. Crews are trying to keep that fire from spreading. Chopper 4 has dramatic pictures. First in gaithersburg, new video from the scene of a Deadly Police involved shooting off lake katrine terrace where Jacquie Ben Senn is right now with details. Doreen, we know that two people a Montgomery County Police Officer and another person were found with gunshot injuries moments ago, we learned one of the people has been pronounced dead. Police wont say which one. Police were called to the home on lake katrine terrace just off woodfield road near the Montgomery Air park about 8 30 p. M. Its not clear at this point who made the 911 call. An unidentified woman in obvious Emotional Distress left the scene with detectives. What we have here on the scene is an officer involved shooting involving an offduty officer. The shooting occurred in the residence, and it appears to be a domestic in nature. We do have two injured parties
We are definitely waking up very chilly again. Many of us in the single digits. The wind is a little more calm. There are no advisories to get us started. It is 19 in the city. What a difference between that temperature and all of the suburbs in the outlying areas. It is six in martinsburg. Gaithersburg, seven. Our weather headline for today, it is going to be a chilly start. You want to bundle up today. Changes begin this afternoon. Our temperatures are going to begin to rebound. We will make it above freezing today. It could be talking 50 degrees as we head towards the weekend. Bee unsettled conditions can expected late into the weekend and early next week. More details on that from the belfort furniture Weather Center in a few minutes. Lets get a check on traffic. Amanda meadows is at wtop. We have lots of activity on the roadways. We have a tractortrailer on fire on 66. You can see the right lane is blocked. That is as you come in through centreville. That is near route 28. He prep
Reporting live outside the columbia mall, scott broom, wusa9. You can only hope they get those answers soon, thank you. A very difficult and deadly decision, an offduty officer shot and killed his son to save his wife who then died herself. Reporter im bruce leshan in gaithersburg. Police are back at the scene of this horrible shooting and stabbing. They found one round from Sergeant James stirkens gun in a neighbors garage. He had shot his son to death in a futile effort to keep his son from killing his mom. A good family man, loving wife, loving kids. Reporter neighbors are struggling to understand what could have happened in a second floor bedroom inside the carefully kept home on lake katrine terrace. Police say sergeant stirkens, a cop for 27 years, was inside the house off duty when he heard noises and found his 25 yearold son christopher stabbing his mother denise. In an effort to stop this attack the officer discharged a handgun and shot his son. Reporter christopher stirkens w
Thank you for joining us. Im andrea roane. An offduty Montgomery County Police Officer shoots and kills his own son after a violent domestic dispute that also claimed the life of his 53 yearold wife. The attack happened inside the family home in the 7400 block of lake katrine terrace in gaithersburg. Delia goncalves has the latest on the investigation. Reporter police are telling us unfortunately the officers wife died shortly after arriving to the hospital last night. They with head that information from us simply because it involved one of their own and they were trying to make sure that every Family Member knew about the death. Its a tragic situation. Reporter the Montgomery County Police Family feeling the pain of this one. Any domestic situation that we encounter, where theres a loss of life is hard on our officers, especially in this case where it involves a Montgomery County Police Officer. Reporter exactly what went wrong inside this gaithersburg home we may never know because
Saturday when this incident happened has been reassigned to another firehouse, and this is as the Investigation Continues, and we want to share video of you now showing the investigation showing internal affairs looking into the incident in which 77yearold medrick mills who spent years working for the parks and recreation department, came to the fire station begging for help. We are told that a rookie said that he had to check with his lieutenant and that was apparently kaline davis who had the rookie respond saying that they could not help. But today, we are told that there are no protocols that would have prevented the ems personnel are from responding, and she is shocked and disturbed an disappointed. What should have happened is that e reflex. It should have been something that you dont think about. You respond immediately. You take care of the emergency and you do what you are trained to do, and that is the expectation. Thats a nobrainer, and thats what should have happened. And h