Charles severance was found that hen all 10 counts was facing in a case that has spanned over a decade including a capital murder charge of ronald kirby and nancy dunning. The sentencing phase will begin at noon. He is facing life in prison. We know that severance will not face the Death Penalty in this case. Dunning was killed and 2003. Lodato was another one of his victims. Defense argued that authorities jump to conclusions because of his mental illness. Jeff goldberg is upstairs in the courtroom right now for the sentencing phase. We will have more information as soon as that develops. Back to you. Jummy our Team Coverage continues with Brianne Carter live in the neighborhood where these murders took place. That is del ray. She has reaction to the guilty verdict. What are people saying . Im talking to people who have lived in the community for the past decade saying they were waiting to hear exactly what the word would be in this case. Many of them finding out as we told them this
Alexandria section of Fairfax County where police are searching for a hit and run driver who mowed down an elderly man last night it happened in this area of franconia road near brooklyn avenue. Not far from edison high school. It happened just before 11 00 p. M. We are about two lights down from the big intersection of franconia and south van dorn. The 69yearold was crossing and stopped in the unprotected median to wait for passing traffic. Thats when he was hit. The driver left the scene. The injured man died. I think this intersection really theres a lot of things to be improved on as far as, you know, the police over here directing traffic to just people aggressive drivers. Now, Fairfax County police dont have much to go on. All they know is that the striking vehicle may have been a white van, possibly white. Not even exactly sure on the color, or some sort of box truck. If you know anything, give Fairfax County crime solvers a call. Residents have told me in this area, its grown,
Strong wins possible late tonight. That could knock down trees and power lines. It will be a high impact weather day for the heavy rain and increasing wind threat and its chilly too. Temperatures only in the mid50s right now. There it is on storm team 4 radar. This is coming northwest bound. Heavy rain is coming our way. Floosh flood watches are up. 2 to 4 inches of rain are possible between now and the time you get up saturday morning. Impacts in ten minutes. Speaking of which, impacts on news4 traffic. Were having it. Take a look here. At this point we have a couple of problems here. Right now indian head highway northbound at kirby hill road, we have some lanes blocked in each direction because of a problem with some construction popping up here. Taking a look at the top of the beltway, we have a problem. We have brandnew crash we heard about here. We have this problem, inner loop at georgetown road. Heading north, 15 and i70, we have the left lane block because of roadwork. Again,
Apparently a car and a deer collided. I dont think that this situation is going to be much a big deal for that much longer. It should wrap up soon. Ill give you the all clear as soon as we get it. On i270 from frederick to the capital beltway going through West Montgomery avenue, no major issue. Youll see a little bit of volume but nothing to slow you down as you approach the capital beltway in bethesda. The next traffic update in roughly ten minutes. Well send it over to you. New this Morning Police are investigating d. C. s latest murder. A man was shot last night in northeast in the 4200 block of east capitol street. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. This is the 111th murder in the district this year. Also new this morning, one person was killed in a motorcycle accident in forestville. The motorcycle control lieded with a tractortrailer collided with a tractor trailer. The cyclist keith heinz of Silver Spring was killed. The driver of the tractor trailer was not inju
Just spoke with police right now. The ramp from g. W. Parkway, theyre shut down. They do not know how long this might last, so were pushing this out on the washington app as well. Taking a look at 270 as we fly down south, as youre heading out, it opens up. Youre oklahoma northbound as well. You dont have to worry about that too much. 270 is going to take you 36 minute this morning. A big look at the beltway. Lots of green around here. Thats because of a lot of radar showing rain here this morning and still have these two existing crashes. Back with travel times in ten minutes. See you then. Thank you, melissa. Heres the latest on this weather alert day. Maryland and virginia declared states of emergency because of expected rain. Check any weekend events you have because many are rescheduled or canceled. Crews spent the last 24 hours to protect businesses in old town alexandria. The threat of flooding is real this morning. The rain system could drop as much as 6 irns of rain over the n