Phipps exwife and two daughters hired an attorney. Today she called for a criminal and a civil investigation. Not only the outdoor picnic at the park here but also in the way that police handled the search, which went on for a few weeks. According to the family here, last month the whitmore House Assisted Living Center took phipps and a group of other elderly residents to a picnic at watkins regional park. The 80yearold disappeared while walking to an outdoor bathroom. Police found his body yesterday. According to families, phipps made a living as an executive chef. He played the tambourine at church, loves betting on horses. But dementia forced him to move closer to his family in maryland. We trusted whitmore house assisted living with our father. We hoped that they would keep him safe and provide his care. And its obvious that didnt happen. The family had no knowledge that mr. Phipps was going to be leaving what they had assumed was a very controlled environment where his whereabouts were well taken care of, and where Something Like this couldnt happen. Kevin and mr. Phipps family clearly upset and also frustrated. While their attorney is all but saying a lawsuit of some form will be filed. Well have much more at 5 00. But for now were live in upper marlboro, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison okay, kevin. Well see you soon. Police are searching for vandals who targeted a statute that honored a Supreme Court justice. The bust was found covered in red paint sunday morning in front of city hall. The justice wrote the 1857 dred scott decision. They will relocate the statue. Jonathan repair work continues on water main break. It broke near Belmont Elementary School this morning. The school had to cancel classes because of this. They also said the break left 51 customers without service. There is no word when repairs will be made. How about this . Last year there were more drug overdoses in virginia than highway deaths. 728 people died from heroin or similar drug use in the commonwealth just last year. On the roads, 700 people lost their lives. Now there has been an increase in drugrelated deaths despite effort to combat heroin use in virginia. Coming up for at at abc7 news at 5 00 a recovering addict opens up about heroins grip. Alison a massive search for a suspect in a violent Sexual Assault in the district. And a warning for anyone who uses a ridesharing service. This comes after a woman was attacked over the weekend after getting into what she thought was her uber car. Jeanette reyes is in northwest with the latest on the search for the driver. Jeanette this search is on this afternoon for the person who attacked this woman. A simple mistake resulted in her being Sexual Assaulted by a knifewielding man. Take a look behind me. We have seen the d. C. Police driving up and down the street here looking for this attacker. It happened along the 3500 block of macombe street northwest off of wisconsin avenue saturday between 3 30 and 4 00 in the morning. Police say a woman got in a silver sedan she mistook for an uber. After getting inside, the driver pulled out a knife and Sexual Assaulted her. The woman was able to get away. The attacker took off with her belongings. Other than the description of the vehicle, all we know is the man is described as middle eastern, in his early 30s with back, curly hair. Im surprised, but not shocked. I make sure that the plate matches the one on my app. Uber tells you the type of car and the license number. You are supposed to watch out for that so you dont get into the wrong car. Jeanette this isnt the first time this has happened. Buteber but uber and police say make sure you get in the car that you requested. There is a vehicle description and license plate in the app. That helps you get matched up with the right person and it also lets you know the uber driver has been verified by the company. Jeanette reyes, abc7 news. Jonathan by all accounts this is a hunting trip that went horribly wrong. A guide shot and killed in queen anne county by a teenager. Marvin coppages death was ruled an accident. Brad bell is in queen anne. This is hitting that quantity very hard. This is a guy who was well liked. Brad that is right. Mr. Coppage was wellknown to everybody. There were four people who paid for a guided hunt with mr. Coppage. It was a man and three teenagers. A setting like this. They should have been hunters all lined up in a row with mr. Coppage somewhere to the side looking for birds. Each hunter would have had an opportunity to shoot in a range. Something went wrong. We can show you video of the scene where it happened. You will see really this is just a big open farm field. What happens is the businesses, like the folks were using put birds out in those fields to go hunting. As we said, they should have been following some sort of a safety practice like we described, in a zone, safe fire. But somehow or another when mr. Coppage found a bird and was trying to make it fly for the hunters, two of the hunters opened fire. Somehow or another mr. Coppage was shot and killed. The investigation is still underway to determine which of the two who fired actually hit mr. Coppage, if not both of them. Terrible, terrible thing. We talked to a guide who was not there, did not know mr. Coppage but does this same sort of thing. Here is what he has to say about it. Just like any gun, its an action but sometimes its from lack of experience or knowledge or whatever. That is going to be a tough one. Brad well, now this accident has been ruled an accident, but it is still under investigation by the department of natural resources. Police want to get to the bottom of it and find out what happened. Well be back at 5 020 at 5 00 with the family of mr. Coppage. Their thoughts are mostly with the teenager who might be responsible for this death. In queen anne county, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison a sad situation, brad. Thank you. Turning to the weather now. The morning fog has broken. Its turning out to be a really nice afternoon. But another crisp start. Could we see some rain tomorrow, though . Meteorologist brian van de graaff has more on all of this. What a weekend. Brian crazy weather. The last couple of days we have had ups and downs. We have had showers, cooler weather, and sunnier weather. After a beautiful monday we are looking at a nice stretch of the everything. Tomorrow, showers could be back in the mix. Take a look outside, Bethesda Country Club from bethesda, maryland. 73. Beautiful out there for hitting the links. Great day. East light easterly wind at three. Other numbers, 77 in leesburg and fredericksburg. 75 in manassas. Its a little cooler down at the Naval Air Station because its close to the water. Tonight the temperatures in the 60s downtown. 50s in the suburbs. When we come back to the belfort furniture Weather Center i will tell you about showers and rumble of thunder and colder air toward the end of the week. Jonathan brian, thanks. Well see you then. Washington post journalist has been convicted on espionage charges in iran. No details are given on what the charges stem from or what charges are issues. Suzanne kennedy is in the satellite post. The Washington Post has been pushing for the journalists release. Suzanne he has been the bureau chief since july of 2012. The 39yearold is accused of collecting controversial information and handing it to hostile governments. Jason rezaian was arrested in 2019. Washington post says they have convicted an innocent journalist of a serious crime. This is not a surprise. This is not in the way they are handled the case to give us any hope that the outcome will be fair, just or reasonable. With that said, there are still questions. Suzanne we are told that the charges will be appealed. He has 20 days to file that appeal. In the satellite, center, suzanne kennedy, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you for that. Coming up for us at abc7 news at 4 00 considered a suspension. You are not doing like youre supposed to. Jonathan a stun gun used against a city councilman in texas. What he is saying happened leading up to the incident. Thats coming up next. It was considered a suspension. Ill see you tomorrow. Alison the tributes to the troops has a young student in trouble. The symbol on tshirt that led to the suspension. Jonathan a Football Player in his prime that landed him in the hospital. What happened and the most likely places vo todays the day. More and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about longacting levemir®. 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Youre not doing like you are supposed to. Jonathan it showed 26yearold city councilman Jonathan Miller asking the officers why three of his friends were questioned in his front yard. Tensions escalate and miller ends up on his knees with his back to police when they used the stun gun on him. We want to make sure we do a thorough and a complete investigation to make sure everything is looked at. It went from me asking questions to being put on the ground. Im curious to have a conversation with the officers. Jonathan the police insist this is a clear case of resisting arrest. The officers say you can hear them give commands and he is ignoring them. The officers involved are on active duty while this is under investigation. Alison middle School Student in oregon is fighting his suggestion suspension over a tshirt. Eighth grader alan holmes wore this shirt to support his brother who is a veteran. It says, standing for those who stood for us. It pictures a rifle and a helmet. His principal saw it and gave him a choice. Switch shirts or face inschool suspension. I was upset. I was heart broken. My brother means everything to me. Just being able to help and give back to the people who fought for us and died, it makes me feel good. Alison the School Dress Code bans students from wearing any clothes promoting alcohol, drug, tobacco or violence. The School District has declined to comment citing confidentiality saying an image of a gun is not appropriate in a school setting. Jonathan so it bans violence, drugs but it also bans free speech for freedom. Alison i know. Being in oregon, too, they are probably sensitive at the moment. You can understand where he is coming from, too, with his brother. Jonathan i understand where the student is coming from. The principal maybe needs a refresher course. Time to look at the traffic situation. Robert altman has an eye on the roads for us. You also have an update for us on the police officerinvolved accident that took place downtown. That is a mess right now. Robert an absolute mess. Its shut down between road island and k. It happened near the l street northwest intersection along connecticut avenue. This video here was shot a while ago. The metropolitan police s. U. V. And a bicyclist both in the hospital. No word on their injuries. We have big problems on the beltway right now. In maryland, to go northbound on 95 in college park. A sixcar accident. At least six vehicles involved. That ramp is closed right now. You have to go to New Hampshire avenue and ride the ramp back over. Not back toward 450 just yet but it will be. Beltway is slow to silver springs. Expect delays on New Hampshire avenue. Beltway at route 4, watch for delays because of a wreck involving a big rig to the righthand lane. The stopandgo continues there. Also moving in toward the district, southbound d. C. 295 slow, just below route 50. Keep in mind, the sun is slow on the horizon. In the next half hour or so it will be brutal if you are moving westbound. So keep that in mind. That is the latest from the abc7 traffic center. Back to you. Jonathan thank you. Robert john . Brian can i call you that . Jonathan its an upgrade from what others people call me. Brian i wondered this weekend about the weather in d. C. Jonathan it was spectacular. Brian i dont need to apologize for anything. Jonathan never. Brian toward the end of the week we have cool numbers. Look at this, this morning. In culpeper, they got down to 39. That was a cool start. I think tonight is not going to see that. There is milder air moving in and clouds. Leesburg woke up to 43. So did frederick. Downtown was 50. Crisp start to the morning. Outside right now its beautiful. Temperatures warming up nicely. Winchester 77. Its pretty toasty out there. All things consider the average high is 70 degrees. So were riding well above average. But there are changes on the pike. If you widen out the view, you can see the showers to the carolinas. Clear here. Notice north and west, you see the clouds moving in. Around this area, we have a lot of sunshine. That is making for a pretty pleasant afternoon. Heading through tonight and tomorrow, more clouds are moving in and as well some cooler air that could bring showers. Sunshine this afternoon and evening. The front starts to work through tomorrow. A few showers pass throughout the day. Much cooler air will be filling in here as we head through wednesday. Another blast of cooler air could be moving in by the upcoming weekend. We have several chances for cooler weather moving through. Future cast showing showers for tomorrow. After that, we will see the improving conditions. Forecast tonight, 50s on average. Near 60 downtown. The sevenday outlook calls for a breezy wednesday. Still near 70 degrees. The secondary push of cool air thursday and friday with a few sprinkles. Notice the weekend, on sunday we may not get out of the upper 50s. Alison that time of year. Were getting there. All right, thanks, brian. Fresh off a winning season opener, Alex Ovechkin is taking time to help others. The Washington Capitals captain spent time on the ice. Not with the teammates but rather with developmentally disabled children and adults from the washington area. His relationship with the special Hockey Association started last year with one of the skating sessions. This is the second one he has held with the group and he says this will be a longterm relationship. Jonathan well, picture of a Detroit Police officer comforting a child warming hearts. Wait until you see this. The image showed an officer lying next to an injured 10yearold boy after a cash car crash he had with his family. Joe tucker said he was offduty when he came up on the crash. The 22year veteran said he followed his instincts and a father and a man. The neighbors were tending to the other children. The young man was still alone. He was crying and nervous, so i laid down next to him. He said, are you okay . Do you want to watch a motorcycle video . I said yes. Jonathan e. M. S. Took the family to the hospital. They are all recovering. The childs mother was so moved by the officer, what he did, that she found him later on facebook to personally thank him. Alison wow jonathan the problem with this, there are so many great officers out there doing so many good things. Only because we get pictures and videos do we get to tell the stories. I wish we could tell more. Alison im glad we shared that one. It will be a lifelong relationship. Jonathan yeah. Alison how about this story . He is in the prime of his career. But he is now stuck in intensive care of all places. The infection that has a giant Football Player facing a potential amputation, and the four hot spots where you could catch that infection coming up. Jonathan when disaster strikes, they are some of the first to head right into the problem. Virginia Task Force One returning after helping during the historic floods in South Carolina. Well meet them when abc7 discover the world animals, seen those before but sometimes they do it on their own mmm foot wow food for giants oooo no wonder no one has eaten this sandwich kids discover the world with their mouths detergent is harmful if swallowed, so keep laundry pacs up and away from children brought to you by tide jonathan in the past we have talked about mrsa infections. A lot of folks wonder what is this. Now a scary piece of mrsa infection close to home. New york giants Football Player fighting to keep his foot after being hit with the infection. Alison gio benitez explains how he got it and what th