Killing one driver 61yearold charles viveret of clinton. We wish to express our condolences to the family who lost the individual killed by the reckless behavior. Reporter henson ran but was caught. He was already on probation for an armed carjacking in prince georges. Every Critical Incident this set of circumstances will be reviewed by our executive review panel. They there will be recommendations made. Reporter this is the second time that a Police Pursuit in Prince Georges County has ended in someones death. Just a few weeks ago it was a Police Officer who died come. On news 4 at 6 00, the Department Responds to that. One person is dead after another crash. This one shut down part of the b. W. Parkway for nine hours. Police say this was not an accident. It happened early this morning near route 202 on the northbound side in cheverly. A lincoln intentionally forced a ford mustang off the road. It rolled over and caught fire. The driver in that mustang was trapped and was killed. Were told the people in the lincoln then bailed out before officers got there. They still had not been caught. Tonight, new reaction to more than 60 charges filed against a former fbi agent. Because of his actions, dozens of cases against drug dealers have now been thrown out. News4s Mark Segraves joins us with the fallout. Reporter these charging documents filed today here in u. S. District court tell a story of an fbi agent gone bad. Former special agent Matthew Lowry stole heroin from drug dealers at crime scenes and right out of the fbis own evidence control center. According to prosecutors, lure Matthew Lowry began stealing heroin back in 2013 from evidence seized during highprofile drug busts in the d. C. Area. Between 2013 and 2014 he tampered with nearly 2,000 grams of heroin. Lowrys Attorney Says his client didnt do it for money. He was afflicted with a very serious and painful medical condition. He was prescribed pain medication. He became addicted to it. So he made a very criminally poor judgment to medicate himself and to deal with his medical condition by taking small amounts of heroin that had been seized during the course of some fbi drug investigations. Reporter the heroinrin lowry stole was from evidence in five major drug investigations dating back to 2011. After the fbi learned of the tainted evidence prosecutors were forced to dismiss charges against 26 defendants some of whom had already pled guilty and were serving time. And the fallout didnt end with closed cases. Two Ongoing Investigations were dropped as well. Agent lowry understands that he did wrong and that theres a punishment component that goes wit, so i think hes realistic about the nature of punishment. Reporter now, his Attorney Says that lowry will walk sba into this federal courthouse next time and plead guilty to all those charges. This may never have come to light had lowry not overdosed behind the wheel of his car last year and been picked up by police. At 6 00 how he was able to get his hands on all of that heroin without anyone noticing. Kids in frederick, maryland got one more snow day today, a decent coating on the grass and the bushes. The pretreated roads were primarily just wet and no one we talked to seemed to be too happy about the spring snow. So when is it finally going to feel like spring around here . Thats the big question. Doug is in the weather sent we are the answer. This summer. Yeah. At the rate were going. Letshow yous show you the snowfall totals. Through portions of maryland we saw a little more. D. C. Metro area we saw about half an inch. Only a trace at the airport. Heres the snow. Going away pretty quick. Still seeing some rain this afternoon, eve an little in the way of drizzle that continues. Dont be surprised so see that drizzle this evening. It will be cool. If you are heading out, its going to stay on the chilly side. 37 degrees at 7 00 dropping to 36 for 9 00 and 11 00. Forecast coming up for the rest of the weekend and spring temperatures. The chilly start to spring didnt stop people from getting out and getting down to the Cherry Blossoms. Derrick ward is live at the tidal basin tonight. Not really any Cherry Blossoms there right now, derrick. Am i right . Reporter perfectly right. You win the 64,000 question of this newscast. It doesnt look like spring and doesnt feel like spring down here but dont worry. In just a matter of days these trees will be full of blossoms and its just matter of time. We rarely if ever see the Cherry Blossoms this early in the year. But the cold wet, snowy weather weve seen today makes the beauty of the blossoms seem that much more distant. I think theyre going to have a hard time growing some Cherry Blossoms in this weather. Reporter there were those who held out a ray of hope that they could catch some sign of the blooming beauty thats come to symbolize springtime in d. C. At the tidal basin. We were expecting the cherries but the weather here it should be spring but currently its still winter. Reporter now, there were some signs of the season to be found around the tidal basin and they were just that signs. Literally. And elsewhere around town little bits of spring could be found holding their own amid the white stuff that fell in the Early Morning hours. But here at blossom central sightseeing went on without even much of a hint of the buds or eve the warmth associated with springtime springtime. Its just unfortunate because were only here for a day. Reporter even without the pink garland that will soon surround the tidal basin and beckon thousands, tourists found a certain beauty here. Really clean and tidy. Reporter on this first day of spring very cold. Now, the peak blooming period is expected to be sometime between the 11th and the 14th. The first blooms should appear in the first month of april. Coming up on news 4 at 6 00 well talk about another rite of spring that happens regardless of the temperature. At the tidal basin, back to you. A judge has delayed sentencing for a man convicted of sexually assaulting men he met playing beer pong. Joey poindexter was supposed to be sentenced in Montgomery County court today. Police say he had been victimizing young adult men for a decade. Meeting them at bars and luring them to his maryland home. The latest in the middle east where its been a violent day. An isis affiliate is claiming responsibility for suicide bombings that killed at least 137 people. Wounded more than blasts occurred in the yemen capital. A Government Official tells nbc news in both cases the suicide bombers set off their explosives inside mosques and then again outside when the people were running for safety. This is the deadliest attack in yemen, which is war torn for decades. Tonight one community in our area is investigating its first murder in almost a year and a half. Fredericksburg. Police arrested chance sumpter for firstdegree murder. Police si that thanks to a tip they found him hiding in a closet of his apartment just after a man who lived in that same complex was found stabbed in the chest. That man, joseph wormley, died at the hospital. Police say the two knew each other. This is fredericksburgs first murder since november of 2013. An American University professor sentenced to jail. We just learned david pitts will spend a year and a day in prison for breaking into stores and setting fires. Youll recall this occurred back in september at the Fox Hall Square shopping center. Hes accused of lighting a chair on fire then starting another aze in a wooded area. College students ask tough questions today to police in charlottesville, then walk out in protest. Our david culvert is on campus at uva tonight. Well get to him in two minutes. And they met a woman at a mall while they were looking for work but instead walked into a nightmare. Breaking news in the district one person shot and one person beating on a metro bus. Jackie bensen just got to the scene. Reporter this was a wild and unfortunate ride on the 92 bus this afternoon. It was head odd the reef center in the 2400 block of good hope road southeast. There was an altercation inside that bus. It ended up with a man pulling out a gun, shooting at another man and injuring a woman. She was just ride topg bus. She was hit in the leg and will be okay. Im joined by dan stessel from metro because he has an interesting story for us. We initially thought the two men, one woman went to the hospital with a gunshot wound we thought the two men with injuries were victims. Your investigators found something different. The Video Evidence aboard the bus, equipped with five cameras, they determined that the two individuals, those two males who were transported were actually the two who were involved in the fight. So now theyre at the hospital but they are also in police custody. Reporter and the road is closed bus not going anywhere for a while. It will be processed for crime scene. Theyre reviewing the video off the bus and talking with those suspects and the female at the hospital. Fortunately, shes going to be okay. Reporter dan stessel from metro. A robust presence here by both investigators and police from metro, Transit Police and also d. C. Police. You can see because of the video on that bus they were quickly able to determine that these two men who were injured were actually the two who had been involved in this fight. One man pulled out a gun, shot the other and wounded a female passenger just on her way into the district to the reef center on the 92 bus. Live in southeast washington Jackie Bensen news4. Good to know there are five karas on board. Nearly all of marylands campsite ts along the pappa lags trail are back open. Most were closed when a falling tree killed a hiker. The victim jason parrish, is a musician from the philadelphia area. All week crews have been fixing limbs and trimming back other potential hazards. House Speaker John Boehner plans to visit israel. This trip was planned before this weeks election when Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu won his fourth term. Boehner angered Administration Officials when he invited netanyahu to deliver a speech to Congress Earlier this month. Netanyahu used that speech to criticize the Obama Administrations negotiations with iran on a possible nuclear deal. The House Committee investigating the deadly attacks in benghazi has asked Hillary Clinton to turn over her private email server. The Committee Chairman wants a third party to decide which emails on clintons email server are made public. He says clinton is responsible for causing this issue by using a private email server. So far clinton says the server will remain private, but shes pledged that her state departmentrelated email will be made public. The illinois congressman who resigned this week over questions about his spending habits is under federal investigation. A source tells the a. P. That the Justice Department is looking into whether republican aaron shock committed crimes while in office. Questions began to swirl after it was discovered shock used there are 40,000 from his congressional account to make over his office in the style of downton abbey. There were also questions about his business deals and lavish spending on overseas travel. Cracking down on fracking. Tonight the white house is laying some ground rules when it comes to what you know Chemical Companies are putting into the ground. The Obama Administration is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose which chemicals theyre using to pull those resources from the ground. This form of drilling is a controversial issue in apartments of maryland West Virginia as well as pennsylvania and new york. Environmentalists have complained that Drilling Companies have polluted peoples drinking water. And the royals are continuing their u. S. Tour. Theyre stopping in louisville kentucky today. Prince charles and duchess camilla arrived early this afternoon and plan to visit a cultural festival at the africanamerican Heritage Center there. This is their last stop before they leave the united states. This isnt the first time a member of the royal family has been to louisville. Queen elizabeth was at the Kentucky Derby in 2007. Efforts to fix what feels like a pothole plague in the district are about to kick into high gear. Heres news4s Melissa Mollet with details. Reporter a promise from d. C. s government as they try to smooth out your commute. The department of transportation plans to hold its pothole palooza next week. It also plans to accelerate its Response Time to reports of potholes planning to get to them 48 hours after the report comes in instead of the normal 72 hours. News4 iteams investigation into how long d. C. Takes to fill those potholes and report them on the Investigation Section on the nbc washington app. This is not right. This is wrong. Dozens of men and women gathered at penn state to protest a fraternity accused of posting photos of naked women on facebook. Some of those women were passed out. Police say the inviteonly page had more than 100 members. Accused fraternity Kappa Delta Rho has already been suspended by its national organization. Now demonstrators want the school to take action against those involved. Right now students at the university of virginia are demanding more answers from police. They abruptly ended a meeting today over the arrest of a student, martese johnson. Our Northern VirginiaBureau Reporter david culvert is in charlottesville with what police hoped to accomplish. Reporter that phrase repeated more than a dozen times. Representatives of black student groups angered by what they call a lack of transparency and cell phone cameras were led into this studentled discussion. On stage were the chiefs of police for several local agencies and the secretary of of Public Safety who oversees the alcoholic Beverage Control commission. The contentious hour of questioning grew more and more tense. It ended with students marching out. Following them out, martese johnson, the arrested early wednesday morning. Abc agents took him into custody. It led to a bloody scene that went viral and ultimately sparked protests. This campus, this place has been through a lot in the past couple months. Reporter ahead of the meeting we heard from Schatz Schill and Albemarle County police chiefs. Their agencies were not behind marteses arrest but theyre hoping to mend a weakened relationship with uva students. But ask as we move forward what could have been done differently. Even my own officers asked, why are you going . We werent involved in that. Well yes, were all painted with the same broad brush. All of us. Reporter the student who is gathered were also angry with their own Student Council who they say left them out of the planning for this dialogue. Martese didnt say anything at the event, he just left hugging several of his supporters. At 6 00, you eel hear from secretary brian moran. He oversees the abc. What he has to say about todays event. Questions answered more than a deck i. D. Lateade later. The closure for one almost 14 years after the 9 11 attacks. And what happened and why . A tragic end in the search far missing man and the way he was found could reignite racial tensions. The important step thats about to take place for people who work at the Washington Navy yard. This last day of winter brought us a little snow earlier. Now the low clouds, the fog still there. Spring is just like an hour and 20 minutes away. Not really sure wendy. Weve been talking about this for weeks, buddy. How far is spring . 6 45. An hour 20 minutes, 40 seconds away. Like pi squared. I could watch that all day. But we wont. Well show you what happened earlier today. Spring officially begins in an hour. Look what winter brought. This is reston this morning. Watch this. The snow is falling and watch the landscape there. Snow covered but then the clouds start to leave, the rain starts to come down and we start to lose the snow. This is exactly what we told you happened during the day yesterday. Yeah kind of a nasty evening out there right now. Take a look. Current temperature sitting at 38 degrees. Winds out of the north at 15 miles per hour. So our windchill down in the upper 20s to around 30. Its a very chilly evening if youre heading out on this friday night, you may need to take the umbrella with you but definitely the jackets. 35 huntingtown, 38 in fredericksburg. 41 down towards sorry are you okay . Its coming. Lets go. Take a look at the radar. Not much going on now. We are all good. Everything is aokay. And it will continue to be. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate that. I cant i cant hold it. I cant hold it handly while im doing the weather. There goes the rain. This there goes the snow as it moves through the region. Still snowing up around the new york area. For us we saw about a trace down towards the airport, upwards of 6 inches back towards W