Wrong. He was the victim of a hoax, something that we know now called swatting. News 4s Meagan Fitzgerald spok to the columnist about his terrifying incident. Te repor Leonard Spitz an awardwinning journalist for the miami herald based in prince georges county. Pulitzer prize, commentary 2004. This is the citation. Reporter b hes also a fulltime grandpa. You know i know how to put my seat up. Porter on sunday morning just before 5 00, he temporarily became a murder suspect. Never beenst arred, and technically wasnt arrested then and never had handcuffs on before. Reporter pitts was sleeping wh his phone rang. Was bowie police calling after a 911 callerhe contacted about a crime happening inside pitts home. The caller on the line stated that he had murdered his wife and that he was going toho the police when they arrived on the scene. The caller gave the address in the 500 block of nebraska lane. The caller gave pitts address so poli called asking him to com they brought me out to right
At target. I know. You know they were buying all the fathers day cards and that good stuff. Happy fathers day. Thank you very much, molette. Thank you for being here on this fathers day. Happy fathers day to the dads out there. Im adam tuss. Im molette green in for Meagan Fitzgerald this morning. I lauryn, brought him his mic and his ifb box as a gift for fathers day. How nice is that . A you so sweet. You know what lauryn got for me . A bad joke, bm sure. Ng it on. I do have a couple of jokes. I did tell a joke to aaron yesterday. You werent here, adam, you issed it. That will be a teaser for later on in the show. Exactly right. Other tease for today, we have some sunshine out there as that sun is coming up at 5 42. So not too long ago. About 20 minutes ago. But now we arelooking at some rain headed our way. Its a little on the humid side out there. That humidity is going to increa through the day. Lets take a look outside right now. So looks can be deceiving. We have got some sunshin
Bl blue mont. If you are a dad and he had headed there. Sitke outside. An eye to the sky after at 00 p. M. Ths when we will seeom s scattered showers a thunderstorms. Now, i dont think he everyboev will see them. Thats why you want to keep an wneye to the sky or doad that nbc washington app. We have rain on that radar. I will show you in a second a little bit of atherly wind. Thats going to bump up that humidity as we continue through the day today. Temperatures are in the mid70s. So it is going to be warm. If you are hitting the links, look at this. Temperatures ining to be the midtoupper 80s by the time we head into the aernoon hours. So again its going to be hot out there on the golf course. Now, we do have a few light isolated showers along the coi ridor as advertised. Then more scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Lets talk ming coming up in 15 minutes. All right. Thank you very much. Meantime, we are following breaking news out of the t districts morning. One perso