Was not up the white house at the time when the shooting and a then again just moments the secret service week route information confirming wap un folded. All are safe. Tisha lewis fox 5 local news. Fairfax county now where a classroom assistant with fairfax parking lot on richmond highway. Police say they received a callr for a shooting this morning in the backpacker king lot of the h apartments. Thats where officer found 24 year old sampson. Paul wagner joins us livewa fromgn fairfax with this story. S paul. Reporter laura and sarahor weve beente working the story l day long. . A. Even now at 5 00 we dont know what happened to this man. Police are not tellingpp us any information about what mightha have happened in this parking lot here at this complex early this morning. We learned just a few minutes ago that sampson worked as aampn classroom assistant at fort hunt Elementary School. We also know that he had a Graphic Design business and the sidegn and he was 24 year old. The shooting taking place in a parking lot in the way back parking lot behind this apartment complex. A Family Member just outside Fairfax County have not told not them anything about what may have happened to sampson. The classroom assistant with Fairfax County schools who ran aside business as a Graphic Designer. Police say they found the 24 the year old in this backpacker king lot behind the multi buildinguin city side apartment complex in the alexandria section of fairfax just off richmond high basement for hours officers process multiple scenes in itsce parking lot. Going through items that appeared to have spilled out ofi a briefcase. They appeared evidence or could be that there are other vehicles involved so at this a point, trying to just say thatat theres just one particular vehicle after the other cars here parked that could be part of the crime scene thats the ta reason why we have several of sv the areas here blocked off. Police today away at least two cars an motorcycle. Mot but exactly what happened is still unclear. Was this a attempted carjacking or somec other crime. If investigators know they areti notga saying. Its also unclear that sampsonhat lived in the complex or was just visitting. Reporter now at this point weve been unable to talk to any neighbors who might have heardea something very early this thi morning. This is private property. We were asked not to go on to the property. And because of that t we werene able to get into thely and knock on any doors to see if anyone may have heard on had or seeneen anything. E not giving g polic us any occasion if they noah maa have happened here, if this was some inned kind of incident that took place as mr. Sampson came into the parking lot or some or other reason for this. As soon as we know something well pair it along many live in fairfax. Paul wagner. Safetrack plan thats not the only change being made toben metro. Transit agency fired 20 managers in what they call and effort toa help improve accountable. Ac general manager Paul Wiedefeld is restructuring metro by reducing the number of direct reports to just nine managers. Seven senior managers are among the 20 employees that have been letting. Some departments willies be row a p lined under the new structure. Taking a look at weather and boy what a beautiful day. Do we deserve this or what . Just glorious. I know. Gwen were going to have to keeh this in our mind over the weekends. Its not going to look like that. Im telling you. Just have that picture per ptu suspect memory. Its fabulous out there today with the sunshine, light winds. Its warm. In the 70s. Its been a great day. Well, you know what its a good t start to the weekend, things are going to starting to downhill of the a the early hours. I hate to be the bearer of thisr news we are talking rain. Lets take a look at our map. A couple keepings a close eye on. C one to the midsection of the mie country another one down in the gulf states both of these are going to combine and set us up for a real soccer once we get oc into our early part of the t Morning Hours tomorrow and were not going to get much of a break for the rest of the weekends. Nd. Im really soree to say that. R nobody wants to hear about morer rain. Temperature rise we are on the un side s temperatures in the 70s justs about everywhere. 74 degrees in the nations capital. 73 fredericksburg same for mananas says. And 72 degrees at winchester. Now the winds are fairly lightal and theyll remain that way. Pushing in from the southeast five to 10 miles an hour for tonight. Little cool tonight at 56 5 degrees mostly cloudy skies. I do anticipate showers gradual creeping into the overnight ove hours. Primarily i am looking at thosea showers really starting to pusho in mostly for areas to the south. Are so we are calling it a soggy saturday. More details later in the 7day forecast. Back to you. All right a. Well see you in a bit. B thanks. Comings up the debate over transgender bathrooms continuesb hey alexandria thats rightxa thend debate over which restrooo transgender students in fair tax count can use continues. But this time in court. Ill explain why coming up. And the added sugar label is coming to a package food near you. Well explain what this is andla what thein change is. New tonight affair fax county woman has a warning for parents after she got a startling phone call. The man on the line said he had abducted her daughter and demanded a ransom. Dema it was a scam the same thingi happened to other parents recently. Fox 5 lindsay waits and live w with the detail lauren, sarah, this has happened at least four times here in Fairfax Countye since las it month. Scammers praying on parents greatest fear. We just talked to a woman in this neighborhood who had it happen to her. She says her cell phone rainingl and the first thing she heard was a girl crying someone whoho sounded just like her teenage daughter. Listen. A mans voice came on then on it was the mans voice saying maam, i got your daughter. Im not in it to hurt yourt daughter im in it for the money i work for somebody else. Els i need to get money. How much money can you get me right away ill youll get your daughter back as soon as i get the money. Almost make me cry right now absolute shear panic fear for my daughters life and all i wanted was to get my daughter back. Er these are the locations where Police Say People have been impacted by this same scam. She was told to stay on her cell phone as she got into the car and drove to the atm she called 911 and let the dispatcher know what was happening. She went toat atm and mound shem snead needed help to call t police. She emptied her bank account but hadnt wired any money by thehe time police arrived. Of in with her Daughters School confirmed that she was safe. She was just fine and and in class. Susan collapsed on the ground at the grocery store. Tore she hadu j gone through suchgon stress and was so relieved that her daughter was okay. She contacted us because she wanted to let other parents know this was happening and make surm nobody else goes through thehe situation that she did. Live in Fairfax County lindsay what is fox 5 local news. I cannot imagine. Ima in thats been going around. Its a lot of parents in my m community have been getting those calls too. Clearly somebody is on a roll a with this. Heated debate and bathroom access for transgender peoplense continues. This time Fairfax CountyPublic Schools are battling a lawsuit. Alexandria limon joins us lives with the latest in this ongoing fight, alexandria. Reporter that lawsuit waswsa rich fully filed by liberty counsel in december. Didnt get far in could you remember but this ek wednesday they filed a request for an appeal with Virginia State supreme court, a courtourt known for being on the had conservative side. Into. Reporter the lawsuit wasr filed by the liberty counsel onu behalf of anonymous Fairfax Public School system. Religious and morale beliefs and informed him that such actions are wrong ue the u students right to privacy and violated if forced to share bathroom or locker rooms with transgender students. Said look this is causing me great distress, great anxiety, great conflict with my religioug and morale values. And its also making him think tk school is not a safe place. Reporter lawsuit also saysia changing the Fairfax Public School non discrimination policy to include the term gender identity exceeds the scope of the state law. Aw. I mean it is kind of dishartening you thought you had all this faith in humanity it hm flies out window. Reporter he is a transgender male student he says he and other trans students are the once who have to worry. We get bullied, sexually all rayed depressing to see allll this. We want to be like everybody else. Theres no reason to despise us. Reporter his mother says safety students and parents aren concerned with the focus should be elsewhere. Into in a if you try to research how many transgender individualv have harassed others in bathrooms it is virtually none zero. If you want to take that logical approach, if were going do use the same logic then we cannot allow teachers, school coaches, school band directors, breasts, pastors, parents, siblings, day care workers, we cant a lieu anyone to use the our children. Reporter Fairfax CountyPublic Schools have 21 days to respond to this. Ond and then the court will decide if they will hear that appeal. H you may be wondering what aboutw that letter the department oft f education said to schools across the nation are requiring them to provide a appropriate ts well the libertytransgenderns counsel says that letter has no force of law. Reporting live in fairfaxrfax alexandria limon fox 5 local news. I wanted to share this i had the honor of serving as emcee em for a Incredible Group cleche subsequent directions incorporated, ibs wanted to let you know about them. It is a Nonprofit Organization it helps low income primarily first generation to College Students navigate the path to and through college. They provide everything from fro college counseling, tutoring,in, test prep, e training and ongoing supportuppo starting in 10th grade and continuing all the way through college. Those who actually enroll ini college theyve beaten so many odds by then the National Statistics only 11 of them graduate. They drop out. Theres so many things that affect a students ability to live. 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If you have a story idea call fox 5 tip line. Or you can email tips to fox5tips wttg. Com fox5tips wttg. M. Montgomery police are hostinh being held at the Police Academy in rockville. Designed to build bridgesuild between people with autism and a the police. And this comes after a series of incidents nationwide where people with autism were shot by police. Fox 5 Jennifer Davis has the story live from rockville. We hear theres a large crowd expected to be there tonight hi hi 500 people rsvpd for this events. It is open to the public. You are welcome come to come out. Om take a look and you can see they have ever imagine enable policee and Emergency Vehicle here. Including the police boats, fire trucks, police cars, fire c engines. They have service dogs. Theyll have k9 dogs and lots and lots of officer out here. Hr looking to learn as much as a possible from family lease and caregivers. They want people to get used to each other in an environment like this so they know what to h do if they encounter each other during an emergency. Now, one of the pe this event is a young man from potomac, he has autism and he recently wrote a letter tor t police about what its like to bl him. And he said it is really making people talk into changing minds heres what he told us earlier today. His family says since he is h non speaking and autistic t he t wasnt able to share what he was thinking until he started thisrd new therapy last year. Now he types one letter at a a time and during two and a halfna therapy sessions recently he wrote a letter to Montgomery County police to explain whate o its like to be autistic. He talked about his almost six foot body. Od and i feel like a lot of people when they see that they want to treat him like a sweet toddler. Hes a 16 year old boy. Boy. He has the same thoughts, experiences inside as a 16 year old boy. So, it makes sense that this would come out in such a strong way. The letter is emotional and profound and boiled people overv including his father. For that to come out of my son who up until that time wed never really seen the inside ofs his mind. And his explanations were just filled with humor. Umor. You know i think clearly i havea a six foot drunken toddler body, there was empathy to the police. One of the things he said make a sure you protect yourself. Ct he has the empathy. I mean he just, i cant write wi like that. His parents asked if he wanted to attend the police autism out night or his prom he opted for autism night out. We asked him why he wrote thee letter and wanted to attend thit evented, he typed out his response letter by it letter ant his therapist read it allowed. Oh goodness, where to start. A autism has a wide rang things going on. Some individuals are a lot more controlled. Some are not. N it is imperative to be able to work with both. H bo reporter so, this is thatisa letter, it really has gone viral. Vira his dad says hes seen curche rach of it around theen world aa far away as australia, its the t sort of dialogue they are hopina to have tonight. Therapy that he receives is is converse shall, there are someom people that thing that the therapist is prompting the youny person his family say in his case that is not happening it is allowing him to say things in ts his mind that he hasnt been has able to say before including telling his father i love you. The event tonight. He will be here along with his h family and so many other ot families. From six to nine. Open to the public. Pub all welcome at the Police Academy here in rockville back to you. Fox 5 is in Prince Georges County now where First Responders are wrapping up ems week. The story that will warm your heart. A 17 year old boy and family created with paramedic that saved his life. Tie rook johnson was playing basketball at gwen Park High School when he went into cardiac arrest. Thats when his family a bystander and fairfax paramedic straining into action and started cpr. A Prince Georges County fire unit arrived provided additional life support and transported tht teen to the hospital. Heres what he remembers from that incident. I was tired so i had my hands on my knees and i was looking down. And as the coach was you know, he was coaching. I was like, man, can we pleaseas stop. We were running up and down ford a long time. And that was the last thing i remember. But as much as i wanted to stop, i didnt want to stop. Sto doctors say johnson suffers from acute arrhythmia. Arr coming up the cost of Prescription Drugs continues tos rise causing problems for many r who cant a forward them. T ahead we are talking with an expert who has secrets to help you safe. Washington post on the redskins name is generatingeratn plenty of debate. Ebe. 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