Next seven days in a few minutes. Leon you got it. Now to a story you saw first on 7. Police say a woman was raped on a red line metro train at 10 00 on tuesday morning. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis was the first to report the story and he is live in the Glenmont Metro station and has a look at the timeline of events here in this case. Fill us in. Kevin well, this alleged rape happened on tuesday april 12. That is nearly six weeks ago. Metro Transit Police made a quick arrest. No one notified the public. Then this morning i received a tip from a source who felt it was important that riders knew that this happened. Here is what prosecutors say occurred. 39yearold john hicks of northeast washington approached a woman who was sleeping on a red line train. He then brandished a knife, dragged her to the back of the train car and forced her to take off her pants. Police say hicks raped the woman while the to station. A lot of people have asked why didnt anyone interview and stop th
Good morning. We have problems on the metro as far as possible delays here because of speed restrictions we have been talking about this week outside of mcpherson square. Those last until this friday. Well keep you updated. The outer loop of the American Legion bridge coming down in the outer loop as you hit virginia, we have one lane blocked. We have seen a half mile backup here as a disabled vehicle hopes to get that one out of the way soon. 270 at shady grove road, no problems. Its nice and green on the beltway. Well see you back in ten minutes. This morning female firefighters with the fairfax fire and rescue department say they are fed up. Their frustrations have to do with what others say about the culture within their department. Erika gone zalez is live with me on this announcement. Reporter in a little more than an hour, a group of women firefighters will speak out at this firehouse in dispel that harassment exists inside this workplace. Meanwhile, the board of supervisors wil
But not being specific about it, what may have been taken just yet. Happening in rockville today, driver accused of being drunk, hitting and killing Police Officer last year is due in court. His name louise retlusco. Expected to plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter later this morning, facing six month to five years behind bars in prison. He will be sentenced at a later date. In virginia, an outside consultant being brought in this week to look at the Fairfax Fire Department. Just days after official was put on leave, for leud images and language on his private facebook page. Just weeks after firefighter nicole committed suicide. After being the target of vicious on line posts, on the website, fairfax underground, prompting an informal discussion about bullying with members of the fire and ems team later this morning. Melanie joins us now live from annandale with more. Me should mention that investigators have not drawn any clear lines between that on line bullying and nicoles suicide
On the scene but what can yout u tell us . Reporter yeah, not a lot, guys. All the Fairfax County policeyol will confirm at this point iss n a person shot but we can tellel you certainly looks like aooks very serious crime scenerime sce investigation here. Were at the very top of theinh hill here off of richmond highway. The city side apartments at huntington and you can see c this is the parking lot here, hr the entire parking lot is l taped off and you can see theee Police Activity towards thetowae back there. Looks like you know, some mobile crime processing going on and thend en theres a large wooded area woo back lined this parking lot and a path that takes you to tke the Huntington Metro station. So, we dont even know the k exact time that this happened. Ih we can tell that you fairfax faf county police put out notification about an hour orut so ago, a little more than ann a hour ago and when we got here h it was certainly a lot of l folks had already been on the t scene and were
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