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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY April 19, 2017

Shouted god is a great in arabic as he was arrested but the police chief doesnt think it was a terrorist attack. No the suspect is charged with four counts of murder including a kill from last week and two counts after tempted murder. More now from Fresno Police chief. A total of 16 rounds were fired according to our gunshot detection system and all of those occur in approximately a minute to minute and half. As a result we know we had three people shot and killed and one person shot at in less than a two minute time frame in the city of fresno. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is in fresno with more on what happend. Were getting results of multiple gunshots. Reporter the shooting started near Downtown Fresno just before 11 00 a. M. When police say the suspect shot and killed a man sitting on the passenger side of pg e truck. Witnesses say the suspect reloaded a large handgun and shot two more people including at least one near catholic charities, all of the victims, white men. Seconds later he was tackled by a Fresno Police officer and heard shouting the arabic phrase god is great. We dont believe on our information that this is terrorist related crime. Based on the information weve been provided and our investigation has shown is this is solely based on race. Police say muhammad was wanted in the murder last thursday of a 25yearold Security Guard williams and muhammad posted comments about white people on ace Facebook Page and there were threats to president donald trump. All of the shootings that occurred today were random. All three victims were approached by him. They were unprovoked attacks. Were showing a sti of fulton s st where t t shohog e ended where the suspect was apprehended. You can see down the street there was flashing lights where one of the victims was shot. Police here are crediting their shot Spotter Technology with their Quick Reaction to this crime. They were able to get here in a matter of minutes. In fresno Laura Anthony abc 7 news. Were learning more about the criminal history of the gunman muhammed used several aliases before changing his name his criminal record dates back to 1998, prior to this last week his most serious run was in 2004 where he was arrested on parole violation and officers found drugs and three loaded guns and tried to plea not guilty by insanity because changed his plea and sentenced to nine years in jail. Police released no training for protective equipment can prepare one for events outside of ones control and will have additional sources to help employees in the central valley. Moving on. Three drifters claimed to be remorseful of the canadian tourist and the marine county man each asking for victims from their families. The three killer as peered in court facing the victims families and friends. 19yearold lila alagood the youngest of the three. 24yearold maury is lamply and 25yearold sean l who will be in protective custody angle turned states witness testifying against the two. The three were convicted of murdering backpacker in Golden Gate Park two years ago. Two days later, steve carter in march in county and his dog were shot to death in a hiking trail. In court the emotional impact statements from the victims family, first steves wife. You became coldbloodied murderers so now prepare to pay for it. Prosecutor read a letter from audreys letter who lives in montreal. They should serve their entire sentence and really hope none of them are released from prison. The killers had their own statements. I feel so much guilt and shame for the wrongdoing, the hornl decisions i horrible decisions i made. I am so sorry. Im sorry. The reaction outside court. It left me with nothing. It pretty much left me with nothing. There is no gratification really from whatever punishment they would get. Sean angle got 15 years to life. Lila algood received 50 years and the shooter got 100 years to life. Abc 7 news. Buena park police are looking for a man who attacked a 11yearold girl on the way to school he blew a kiss at her and showed a photo of a nude woman yesterday morning the girl ran and hid behind a parked scar and called her mom who alerted police. The suspect is bald on top, dirty blond hairs on the sides driving early 2000 white suv possibly a toyota with a bike rack on top. An interesting combination is coming to alameda a hip hop concert on world war ii aircraft caria on memorial day weekend. Heres why. On memorial day weekend hip hop artist whiz khalifa will headline two day hip hop show. This is the first time weve had Grammy Nominated artists perform on our ship here iniala immediatea. The wu tang klan and whiz will be different from most. The event is about music not controversy. I think you have to look past the rough exteriors. Dent judge a dont judge a book by cover. A portion of every ticket sale is donated. Today marks the 75th anniversary of americas effort to strike back against japan after pearl harbor the daring doolittle raid was launched from the deck of this ships namesake in 1942. I asked few attendees what they thought of the upcoming event. Any exposure to the ship to get the younger folks out for the music, they will then come out to see the ship and i think thats fantastic. This is what we call the land of the free. So this is our country and so people are capable of doing whatever they like and want and were tolerant of that. Security will be provided by theala immediatea police department. Al immedia Music Festival will be largest ever hosted on the world war ii aircraft area. The dmv is doing a poor job on the handicap placard in a sample of 96 approved applications 70 didnt have enough medical information to qualify and signatures werent checked on the doctors who signed off on the application and 25 may be deceased because would now be over 100 years old. People can park for free in these parking meters and can use the zez nadesignated spots. Giants manager bruce bochy is recovering after minor heart murm murmur. San Francisco Giants show their pride even when the team is away. This is one of the shirts i made to go with the hat and glass glasses. Clearly your a giants fan. Yes i am a giants fan. Many learning bruce bochy had a minor heart procedure in san diego. Two years ago he had two stints inserted to vessel thats lead to his heart. I hope hes okay. He makes great decisions out there. I hope he comes back relaxed and takes care of the heart. The giants say the procedure was a success and bochy will rest comfortable at home tonight and will rejoin the team in colorado on friday. It was just his birthday on easter. Get well bruce we love all the things you have amazon to our team, brought us back to redemption. Now i got to get on my facebook and put a shout out to him. The bench coach will act as manager in kansas city during the two game series. Abc 7 news. Happening now votes are being tallied in a special election in georgia that could be a test case for the rest of the nation. Currently a democrat is winning the race in seat thats held by republican for more than 40 years. Democrats want to win and send a message to the white house. President trump has already called robo call for voters. Current currently if he goes under 50 will be against second top vote getter since june. People are supposed to be move in more than a year ago and more delays. Also ahead barts toll evasion problem how they plan to stop the cheaters. And were here with the forecast. Its a nice evening out there right now but im tracking showers for part of your wednesday and big time warm up. Details ahead in accuweath youre going to be hanging out in here. So if you need anything, text me. Do you play . Use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. You got next . Chase. Helping you master whats now and whats next. Crews are rebuilding apartments, what began as a 47 million project has become much more expensive with water leaks and wood is already rotting. These are just some of the problems, the reason the project is more than a year behind schedule. Our reporter gives us a closer look. Reporter when rain fell under what would eventually be the corda maddera tam Ridge Apartments didnt bat an eye. Worried about the rain. Not at all. Would have been but not today. Thats project manager who came along when this place needed a fixer. 18 months behind schedule. Plagued by water damage. Rot and 3,000 pages of code violations. We literally rebuilt this project from the outside to the interior framing. Begin with windows, 1600 removed and reinstalled. Flashings. Exterior woold. Wood. We could go on. Just bricks alone, 16,000 square feet. Damaged, removed, and then they bought more and now theyre replacing it. I dont know the numbers off the top of my head but it was sizable amount of money to take it down and put back up. More than a house. More than multiple houses. Tonight the town council will report on the project. Its been controversial since the beginning when the association bay area of governments ordered this 2. 7 square mile town to zone for disproportionate 244 Housing Units and mayor is still angry about that. We appealed the housing quota and our appeal was denied. Now they have over zealous planning and shody construction finally due to open in late june thanks to the fixer. Its always harder to do it the second time around. More expensive. More expensive. Would you live in these places now . Absolutely. We built it. Abc 7 news. A bart says it may be losing up to 25 million a year to cheater whos jump the fare gates. Watch closely he squeezes past the gates without paying and we barely caught this next guy jumping the gate as well. Bart says its already addressed the problem in pittsburgh bay point station by putting in new side gates and will have to ask the station agent to be buzzed in and out and looking fare inspectors to roam trains and check for tickets. Today a last day to file fax s of. Tax preparers were busy today. People had all kinds of excuses to delay the process. Waiting on documents, often time you have to wait for all these document foz come in and a lot of people have busy lives, traveling and got a lot going on. Procrastinators can file a six month extension still need to pay taxes by today or set up a payment plan with the irs. Lets check in with the weather, drew. Yeah its changing for the brighter and better. Look at this pocket. Sunset on my twitter page. This is beautiful along the coast right now. This is going to be a common site. One mine yar hiccup with a lot of rain to talk about. Showing you a quiet picture out there. A really nice night. Taking you outside and showing you the picture from top pier 15. San francisco is sparkling under clear skies and heres a look at your forecast features. Rain, next round will arrive late tomorrow night. Much of your wednesday will be perfectly dry. Few showers late Early Morning thursday. Bigger story sunshine and warmer weather will arrive friday and last into the weekend. Out there right now 60 in oakland. Mild air overhead. 57 in San Francisco. 55 in nevada. 55 in santa rosa. Heres the call. Overnight. Along the coast more cloud cover. Away from the coast mainly clear skies. Temperatures around 50 into the north bay will drop to the low and mid 40s as your starting temperatures on your wednesday. Notice throughout the day light hours theres no rain in the forecast. Few clouds passing from time to time in the afternoon. Really comfortable afternoon with a lot of spots getting into the 70s away from the coast and later in the evening more cloud cover ahead of the next storm system and this one is very weak, its a light system on storm impablct scale. Moves in Late Wednesday night. Light showers. North bay can see quarter inch of rain. Future weather hour by hour. 10 00 wednesday evening here comes this weak front in the north bay with few showers north of santa rosa. By midnight it falls apart. Doesnt have a lot of energy with it so midnight few sprinkles working through San Francisco, oakland, vallejo and approaching the south bay just a drizzle. Getting into the morning it will get out and sunshine will return and thursday will be mainly dry day. That will lead way to thursday, drying out in the afternoon, its a comfortable day and temperatures really take off in friday. Total sunshine and temperatures above normal for the first time in a while even saturday we continue with really dry pattern. All in all its a really warm day and the rain fall outlook for the next two weeks, look at in, Mother Nature doing a 180 so to speak were getting rid of the storms and staying drier than normal pattern through early may. The accuweather forecast will show you after we track sprinkles late tomorrow on to wednesday that gets out of here and thursday is mainly dry and friday were sunny and warm. 80s inland. Weekend looking bright and spectacular. Monday and tuesday few more clouds in the sky but it does look dry and temperatures settling back down where they should be. Thank you very much. Musician announces free concert and were going to show hey, ready for the big meeting . Yeah. Uh, hello . A meeting . Its a big one. Too bad. We are double booked diarrhea and abdominal pain. Why dont you start without me . Oh. Yeah. If youre living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea and abdominal pain, you may have. Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea, or ibsd. 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The cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. If you have hep c, it can be cured. For us its time to get tested. Ask your Healthcare Provider for the simple blood test. Its the only way to know for sure. New video shows the rescue ofpacifica shows him being hauled away during a rope rescue. He was stranded while climbing a near by 400 cliff wall he made 75 feet and got in trouble. Rescuers couldnt reach him from the ground above because the sheer cliff offered no place to drop a rope so they brought in this helicopter despite strong winds and rain the rescue was a success. Mass of people rushed to downtown san jose for free tickets for one of the nations most popular performers, chance the rapper, the grammy award winner announced freeway sh sho city nationalivition. Chance will play at oracle arena next week those tickets are already sold out. Is this is the first to win a grammy without selling his music he gives it away for free online. Birds are in the trees and young ones are falling out of them. Teaming up with the oakland zoo to come to the rescue and aide of those who cant make it. When the birds hit the hard concrete they cant get back to the frees because theyre pruned so tall. The birds are assessed for injuries and treated. Once theyre well enough and deemed ready to fly and fend for themselves they will be released back into the wild. Up next we have an update on the fresno shootings. Also the killer from facebook a worker at mcdonalds told him to stay. The sunll come out tomorrow. For people with Heart Failure, tomorrow is not a given. But entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. Tomorrow, tomorrow. I love ya, tomorrow in the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure. Kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, tomorrow i love ya, tomorrow ask your heart doctor about entresto. And help make tomorrow possible. Youre only a day away. ,. I you. Live where you live this is abc 7 news. And we begin this half hour with new details from this mornings shooting rampage in fresno. 39yearold man randomly shot and killed three people there this morning and shouted god is great in arabic when he was arrested. This is solely based on race. And it has nothing to do with terrorism. The shooting spree started just before 11 00 tuesday morning. Were getting reports of multiple gunshot instances in downtown. 16 shots in multiple locations, 39yearold Cory Ali Muhammad walked up to a pg e truck shooting the passenger multiple times. We got another call in of six shots fired. Then a few seconds later they say he shot and missed someone before turning on fulton street firing and kil another man. Police say he then reloaded at a bus stop shoot twogame a peopl killing one. Police handcuffed and searched his pockets before taking him to a patrol car. Police had been looking for him since last week when he shot and killed a security zbaguard in ml six. For now police calling the shooting a random act. He made a decision to himself he was not going to go to jail for shooting a Security Guard that he was going to kill as many people as he could today and thats what he set out to do. This was solely based on race and he is now charged with four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Abc 7 news los angeles. Meantime nationwide man hunt for killer came to end with help of mcdonalds employees Steve Stephens shot and killed himself during a police chase. The tip came in when mcdonalds employee said stevens just or

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