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WTTG Fox 5 News 5 February 18, 2016

Suspicious we would appreciate if they would give us a call. Ul reporter and again bothd at people did die. Did d the man who was taken to theen t hospital in critical conditionoi was pronounced dead in dd addition to the man that wasan w found inside this home who washw also dead. Also now right now police havew poli posted all this information about the suspect description dr on their twitter page and theytt tell me that again they arein te out here talking to residents rd about exactly what happened. Hae tisha lewis, fox5 local news. Brutally attacked andacked kicked to the ground. The a former marine assaulted aault outside a mcdonalds and the the entire incident was caught onaut camera. We do want to warn you thearn ye video may be difficult tomay if watch. Christopher marquez won theon bronze star for his valor. Val the former marine marquez mar believes the recent attack was racially motivated. Fox5s matt ackland joins usoi live from the mcdonalds mcdon where this took place laste friday night. Th matt. Sarah, sar, laura, this video makes you sick. Y this is where christopher c marquez hit the ground after he was hit from behind coming right out the door and the once he was on the ground here, he was kicked twice. Now, there are several cameraser inside. Police released some of thatf tt video. Six cameras inside but that t one above the door, that gothatg just about the best video and a then another one youll see over here this furniture furtu store, take a look at thatk t little ball camera there. Here that picked up also the violence. Here is the blow that takesblow down the former marine, aari bronze medal recipient hit from behind as he was walking out of the mcdonalds. Christopher marquez showed us u his injuries yesterday. Yterd i believe that was fromha when i fell. It got better and i gotot another mark above here. Reporter keep watchingte the video and you can see see marquez is on the ground and gro someone appears to approachppro him and remove something from his pocket. Marquez says his wallet had 400 cash inside. I it was taken. Then the it all gets moret all r disturbing. Watch this. Hes kicked once and then a t again as he tries to get marquez says it all startd when a group of young people p approached him and asked himed h about this. T thi and they were asking me if i believe that black lives mattered. Mattered they asked me that a few times and i was ignoring them atignore first because i felt they were r intimidating me. Timidating they were being hostile. Htile from how they approached meroace and were talking to me and a then they started calling me a racist. Reporter we asked mayor bowser about this. Bout this. Does this anger you. You. Any crime angers me against anybody. Reporter police are hoping you may be able toor recognize three persons ofe th interest. This story has made National Headlines and we asked the mayor if shes concerned about the impact this may have on visitors. Visi people know about our city,y, the wonderful neighborhoodsei and the wonderful people here h and that a your not scared theyd a few violent people. Reporter there have beenter more than just a few violent vio people and more than just a mort few attacks. Tt in fact fox5 has beenn reporting for the last severalt months about many of thesean the groups of young people attacking people. Peo a lot of them have been b happening on metro. Now, in the past, several of these incidents have been solved because police have bec released video, released, releed pictures and then members ofemro the public have been able toe identify these people and helpnd solve the cases and tonight t authorities are hoping thatin ta someone out there might recognize the people in this pel video and give them a call. All. In fact, if you would like toli see them again, we have posted p them on our web site, fox5d. C. Com. Foc. Laura, sarah. Matt, have you even talkeduvn to chris tonight to see how heew is doing, what his thoughtsisho are about this video even . E reporter yeah, after i after saw the video i gave chris a a call after talking to himng t yesterday, i called him today. T just so happens he was in the wi Doctors Office at the time. He said he needed to get some gs more tests. Mo he was still feeling a littlelil attack. He said the video when he saweo it was really hard to see. S in fact, some of it he didntt even realize had happenedadap because once he was hit on thetn back of the head, he said he lost some of his memory at memot that point. So, understandably it was truly hard for him to see it all take place through thoseougt video cameras. Cam all right, and we sure hoped he makes a full recovery. Recov matt ackland reporting liveti for us. Thank you. Thank you. Police in the district needen your help locating this man, anthony chambers. Hes wanted in connection withdn a shooting at a southeast barbershop. Barber the father and his 14 monthth old child were shot by three by masked men last friday along frg the 1000 block of eighthf ei street. Police have arrested terrence achison and bear rebloomfield. Lm theyre asking for the publics help locating loc chambers who they say shouldhoul be considered armed andd dangerous. The father and son are expected to be okay. E deadly stab at a nightclub in nn the district. Police arrested antoine bird yesterday. This afternoon he appeared in a hearing in d. C h. Superiorsupe court and a judge ordered himim held without bond. Ut b bird is accused of stabbing robinson palm of riverdaledale inside the club last month. M witnesses tell police the twos men had been arguing beforerguib that deadly stabbing. Sta another man was stabbed in then hand during the incident butent was not seriously hurt. Prince georges county police have arrested two men and charged them with the murder of one time informantnf owes sam at a elatari. Eat the leesburg man was foundas f shot to death in his truck on to a street near andrews airandrew force base. The motive for the murder m was robbery. Fox5s paul wagner joins usr j now with the story. Now with theo paul. Reporter hey, laura and sarah. Sa court charging documents in the case say a conspiracy was hatched among several people to assault and rob Police Believe the one time federal informant was abductedbe there and driven to a street dro just off the beltway where heele was robbed of a rolex watch and shot. On this stretch of road here roa to an abandoned house police hoc found the body of osama elatari last saturdayas afternoon. Te he was in the passenger seat s of his pickup truck he hade h been shot. Investigators believe his body had been there since robbery rob two days earlier. Yslier the charging documents say a rolex watch was missing. Msi was other items taken as well. Yes, other items were alsoms taken but the details of themf are part of the investigation. Na reporter you cant sayepor whether it was money orhe anything else. R no i cant. O i reporter but there was the more than just the rolex. Absolutely. Reporter Police Arrested eric gary race of temple hillshi and charged them both with first degree murder. Osama elatari would have been in federal prison had he notsont agreed to cooperate with the feds and work to get ato get confarreation a former marine mr now on death row. Elatari was a smooth talkerotta with a Big Personality andsonala could talk to just aboutt a anyone and so when the feds needed an informant they an inf turned to elatari who had scammed banks out of tens of millions of dollars. Dollars he was that sort of guy. He was just a really likabley l guy and ill be honest i dontin like representing informants,g o people that rat on people and testify against people. If i justy generally i dont like it but i liked him a lot. Him al reporter in august ofn augut 2010 the feds wanted to see if elatari could get jorgeld g j torres a marine to confess onono tape to the murder of amanda jean stout. An sto listen now as elatari on theatn left gets a confession from f torres on the right. E right how did you make it look d like aid suicide . Ci i told you. Y no, you didnt tell me. Tell m put her in the closet witht t a bag over her head. Rea reporter the two talked t for hours with elataris th e getting torres to admit to thedt vicious crime. S crime. You dont feel bad . Nope. At all . Nope. Why would i feel bad . No. Thats the scary part dude. Reporter thats not all. Elatari was able to get able t torres to admit to the 2005 t 2 killing of two little girls inir his hometown of zion illinois,ll a crime in which a suspect had t already confessed. Cfess and thats not all. A dna evidence pointed to torres the marine. Ar and with those confessions bernie grim was able to get elataris sentence greatlye reduced. As a result of his cooperation the judge gavege gae him we walked into court he gave him time served. Reporter which was nothing close to his original sentence of 12 years ande o12 y elatari was a free man once again. Again. Now Prince Georges Countypr police say the investigationin is ongoing but detecti tves dos not believe that elatarislar murder has anything to do withh his former work as an informant with the feds. With paul wagner, fox5 local news. Tonight more than a county are calling on publicc School Officials to cancelan classes for one day next nt month. Month. The reason, safety concerns over the upcoming virginia primary. Concerned parents areonce telling fox5 they have safety sf concerns over individualsver i being allowed to enter thete t School Buildings to vote. Vo. Fox5s Tom Fitzgerald is live at the potomac elementarylt school with details on this story. St fitz. Y. Reporter good evening. You know, this all started with just one teacher here ater the Loudoun County school couy c district but it is now grownow n into a viral movement. Vir heres whats happening. Happe the virginia primary is scheduled for march first. Archit now, the School District hereisc already announced that theyuncea were going to delay schools by two hours but for many parentsyp and some teachers now, that is i not good enough. Eug take a look at this. T this is a petition that is upp right now live on change. Org. Cr so far 1600 people and the demand that Loudoun County t Public Schools cancel classescec on march first. The petition reads opening schools to the public raises red flags and makes ourags schools vulnerable. Vuln schools are locked duringckeri school days to prevent school sl risk. Sk. This twohour delay was announced on february 9th but some parents and teachers saytst they have real concerns aboutons people, people they do n do noto know entering the school the buildings to vote on primary pma day while School Children aren present. We spoke to that fourth gradede teach here started the petition. Weve become very strict s with security protocols since the sandy hook tragedy. Ook y. All doors are locked. Nonstaff are not permitted inmid the building without a purpose r and were going to be more lenient with those protocols pro on march first. How are they going to keep to the voters out of the general population where the studentsdet are . When we c we have to show our i. D. s in. D order to get into the front door. Reporter these are allorte real questions of lots ofots parents here in Loudoun Countyuc tonight. To now, for their part, we spoke to the Loudoun County school cn district. They say this. Contrary to what is written on that petition, they say no security procedures are being eased but this may not be the t final word on all this. The School Boards education e board, well, theyll beyll b meeting on february 23rd. Ary 23 we are live tonight in i ashburn. Tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. Coming up the pope andheop american politics. Ol pope francis has a strong atr message for donald trump. Rump and tonight the gop the g president ial frontrunner is responding. Responding. And more on the childld pornography arrestrrest investigation in Prince Georges County. The meeting that is happenings h tonight to take a closer lookr k at how the heinous crimeseinouse could have slipped byby officials. Of employees Data Companies to track to employees pregnancies. The reason they banter they monitor your doctor visit and vt if this practice is legal. Sue. It will be a a beautifulll b looking day but on the chille yi side only getting up to abouto a 40 after a cold night. D n we have another cold night onigt tap and then im forecasting a little bit of spring fever forio a lot of us. Well have a look at your look r forecast when fox5 local news wo atx5 5 00 returns. Rurns gorgeous sunset. Taking a live look outside right now. Im so happy to see the sun. Me, too. It really is starting to makenk you think spring. Spr even though its 39 degrees9e according to our tv screens. Sce wishful thinking, right . Ig but you know what, the sunhe angle is getting higher so it so real does look brighter. S bri it feels better when were not n having a cold day like todayikto and it just looks better onetteo tv, doesnt it. Yes. I know. Sun goes down at 5 48 and a couple other really good signson of spring to get us through a tu brief cold spell here. It is officially 30 days until spring which begins marcharch 20th. Pitchers and catchers reported to viera, florida today for todr the Washington Nationals soo excited about that. T good signs as we take a looka lo at some of the high the h temperatures today which wereest a little bit below average forel this time of year but were going to make up y for it as we get closer to the weekend. Bwi 38 degrees and you can seeeu that as we look aroundan theookd region weve got some reallyeay gorgeous looking skies tonight. To it is 38 but feels lik3030 because we have had a littled ae bit avenue breeze today asenue a High Pressure has been gettingu ready to settle in on top of us out of the north at 13. Definitely takes a little bittle of that temperature and makes m it feel colder. Were at 34 in gaithersburg,aitb 36 dulles, 40 for quantico and 36 for annapolis. Annapol with the wind chill the wind wi should get a lotch better as bt this High Pressure is going to g be settling in on top of us to t bring us not only a quiet qui night but a quiet end to our to week as well. Ell. Eventually see a couple of coupl clouds around by sunrise andse a tomorrow well probably be arobb mix of clouds and sun as we w have a warm front trying to push through tomorrow evening ei but for this evening, justning, kind of chilly and partlyndartl cloudy to clear skies att 7 oclock about 34 degrees 3 with a few clouds. Clo by 9 oclock, 31 and getting cold already. By 11 oclock, 29 and cold as cd well but our big weatherer headline is about the w winter is going to be taking a a break and i think we mighteigh even be safe to venture outside with several layerseraly removed and enjoy what will whal feel like an early spring preview with temperaturesempe closer to where they might be, say nlate march and earlych any april. So, well take that when weha can get it. We also have still a storm torm talk about for next week. Its one storm that gives usto more questions than answers atnt this point but we have atnt b least a couple of things that oh we can talink about with that o the seven day coming up a u a little later. Sarah and laura. Au thanks sue. This is national randoman acts of kindness week. First recognized in 1995 by clinton. So how are you practicingraic kindness today . The randomhe ro acts of Kindness Foundation isin asking individuals to sign a a kindness pledge and spread thee word via social media about their pledge to be kind. O be kn the organization wouldat also like to collect as manysan personal stories as possible pol about how you are being dined others. So yesterday we told you aboutot the physical effects that practicing kindness can haveinda on you and others who are the recipients of your kindness. K today are a few ideas that we w found on random acts of kindness. Org ways that youat y could practice kindness thiskins week. Number one, you can pay it backward buy coffee for thefor person in line behind you. I never think to do that. Hat. Number two, send a positive p text message to five different e people right now. Now a lot of people on thef pe floor right now are pullingul out their phones. Eir ne you better send them to me. Absolutely. Bsolutely. Number three, surprise ar th neighbor with cookies ores treats and number four, let f someone go in front of in you on line which is a really nice n gesture. Gest thats an easy one, too. Asy o and number five, carry umbrellas or bun delves new socks in your car and hand yr an them out to people when youe whu see someone who could benefit. F yeah. Y thats a good idea. Hats a g. Isnt that app great idea. T just make sure the socks sure are clean. Elean yeah, exactly. Exactly. Little things that ha heres my gym socks. S i know. Im kidding. They have 50 simple ways to y be kind on random acts of kindness. Org. Cool. Very easy to do. V coming up, what iser the first word that pops into your head when you hear the nameyou donald trump or Hillary Clinton . Clinton . Researchers actually posedrs that very question to voters ver and there was some interesting results. And the fight between applele and the fbi, the clock is ticking for the tech giant to appeal a federal decisionecisio demanding that it hack a terrorists phone. Phone how their fight might affectht c you. Were breaking that down ahea ahead. Byebye banker. The new Monopoly Game is cashless. Donald trump has made a lotp of enemies during his run forin president but his latest isest someone you may not haveve expected. Pope francis. On a flight home from mexicoexio the holy father questioned trumps Christian Faith inristia regarding his plan to build a wall at the u. S. Mexico borderme if hes elected president. Prest pope francis said a personer who thinks only about building d walls wherever they may be and not building bridges is nots christian. This is not in the gospel. At a press conference in South Carolina trump wasted no time te firing back saying for a a religious leader to question a persons faith is disgracefulisc and later quote if and whennd w the vatican is attacked byke b isis i can promise you that y ta the pope would have only he wished and prayed that donald trump would have been president because this wouldbeca not have happened. Have h well, the vatican responded resd

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