As they woke the individuals,id the passenger immediatelyte moved to exit the vehicle and simultaneously, and this isand important, these things all thi occurred at the same time,ed a simultaneously the driver ofve the vehicle armed himself wither a handgun and then pointed it both at the passenger and at the female officer. Offic reporter the chief saysorte the officer on the drivers thei side then fires two shots two so which appear to have gone hav through the windshield. Police release photographs oneae social media of a handgun on a floorboard of the driversve side of the car and a long gun g which was taken from the cars ta and laid out on the street. The e the chief says officerss off immediately took the passenger e into custody and began cpr ontog Terrence Thomas. The chief also says the say vehicle the officers walked up on was one they had beend b looking for. G this vehicle does match a description for a vehicle thatha we believe to be involved inolvn some robberies and shootings shn in this vicinity. His vici that is one of theatone investigative leads that weigate are currently actively workinger on for you. For you. Reporter the shooting shoot took place just a few blocksce j from thomas home and here on buy biers street he was well known. Kn everybody know him. Everybo he was funny. Dy he w you know,as f he stayed aroundyu here laughing and everybodyaugh know him. He was a serious dude but heud was also a funny dude, too. Too reporter Darnell Bellport says he was all about lookingoog out for his family. Fam he was about his money. Thats it. Reporter about his money . How do you mean. Yo he like getting money andng d he like getting money. Yeah, everybody he like toever eat, see his family. He was aeaboutt, his family. Amil he a family man. He a family we got to stick together outethr here so we out here together. He make sure everybody outrydy t here straight. Re s reporter but according toorte Online Court RecordsTerrence Thomas has recentlyect been in trouble with the law. He pled guilty to a drugrug charge and had a upcoming uomin court date on a gun charge. Cha im very proud of our o officers this morning under tremendously stressfuldously s conditions they responded well their response. Reporter now, in the t last few minutes we did learnida that Terrence Thomas had beend in even more troublely weubly learned that he had been a convicted on an assault chargeac in the district of columbia. Cbi in fact, he went on trialon t there and was found guilty. Uilt the judge in that case cas sentenced him to 180 days andysd all of those days were suspended. Live in Capitol Heights, paultsu wagner, fox5 local news. N i want you to take a looke ak at this video here behind meind and then i have a question for you. Would you just sit there . Well, thats what you miyoghtu t ask yourself after you see s this next story. To lets first set it up for youor am d. C. Police are look for four suspects who robbed a a northeast Convenience Store onc monday. Onve that store sells a lot of a lot lottery tickets. Watch what happens. H what h it was just before 8 oclock monday when several masked individuals entered the store,th onee h solding a handgun. Andg now keep your eye on the man sitting on the bench justing on checking his lottery t tickets. Meanwhile one of the suspects actually squeezes through aly s small windowqu where he demandsa cash. Then he say like open thepe safe drawer. Reporter as that washat going on many of the customerste in the store were taken to the back but not that to man we we talked about earlier. Elier nope. He is still checking his tickets. Watch when a gun is pointed atea his head. S head. The gunman appears to repeatedly motion to the man mot to move with the others. But he doesnt budge. Ud what do you think about thek abt guy that was just sitting there . The . Man, thats like you know, im surprised, man. Ed,an he just us reporter it appears he is there to stay. Tay. The last clip provided byy police show the suspects walking out passing by the man still checking his tickets. Wow. W do you believe that . E at . Apparently he comes there allco the time. They know who he is and he was w just checking his tickets. Yeah. They said oh, my y goodness, ioo cant believe he just satt there. He endedbe ulip they y ended up getting a lot of money 20,000 because its a0,00 lottery place then give they pln reward money. Waoney. So they knew what they wereha doing. Y and they got through that tiny little window. That guy sat there calmly cml looking at his lottery tickets. Lets take a look at some other surveillance video. Ce vido d. C. Police need your help identifying three suspects involved in a robbery on the 500 in block of moore street. Rs police say the suspects brutally attacked a victim and demanded money. Ed money so far police have identifiedded one man wanted in the robbery. E this is 41yearold markell miller. If you recognize this man oran any of the suspects police want to hear from you. Om you. This time of the year last ye thing you want is some grinch sn feeling that they can takeg th things that dont belong to you. Need to get a job and work w for things like i do. He that was for a child that a parent saved and saved andav saved for that couldnt affordlr to get something else. Els work hard for your money. Ey work hard for everything you buy. Dont expect someone to just see run up and take it. Wow. Unfortunately for many santas s reindeer are not the only oness making house calls. Al package thieves have beenage taking advantage of allth the deliveries helping themselves te to those packages. Package the video you just saw they e were from several cases in ces different parts of town but today victims in montgomerymogo county, well, they are gettinget some of their stolen goodstolegs back. Fox5s Lauren Demarco joinsemarj us live now with more on awful this. Hi, lauren. L reporter hey there, matt, hey sarah. Sah with everybody shopping online these days its getting bigger and bigger and its open season on front porches. Montgomery county police say they have rryecov cered more tht 40 stolen items from fr porches in two separate cases. Ra today they invited some of theot victims to come down here to the Fifth District policefth station in germantown and retrieve some of those items. Te they tell us that 18yearold 1r Marcel Bennett was arrested on tuesday after severalev residents in germantown calledal police describing his car andg a saying that he was following ang delivery truck and then stealing boxes left outside oute front doors of homes in the eaea. 17yearold girl in the car was also charged with theft. He police have been putting theti t stolen items on display along with stolen goods connected tooc another case. Another back on december 13th, 213, 17yearolds were arrested aes near clarksburg high school. Oo they were a stolen car and had been snagging packages from homes. A third juvenile who wase w driving is also expected to betb charged in that case. Cas police have been working toorkit return the items which flanchhic pricing and size. There waspr a large chair chair expensive ugg boots. Expe we spoke with man who pickedh mc up a pair of boots at the at station here today and a womanon who retrieved a wallet thatallet she had purchased fohe husband for christmas. Christma. They were quite relieved toelie get their stuff back. Ack told me that it had been hadb delivered and i checked on i chd monday and i thought it was a mistake until i got a call a c from a police department. Epartmn i was glad i was able to get t iting. I was surprised and very happy because ias sur believe oe Police Officers have done an awesome job because itsom really quick, yeah, it was as it happened like two days agos o and they got it already. Alrdy theres a couple thingspl t that you can do. You can have the packagecaka delivered to your work. Li you can have the packageverecane delivered to a p neighbor. Neigo you can have it delivered when you are home. Ome. But certainly when packages pka are left on door steps at thisth time of year as you can see by the amount of thefts thatft tha weve had, this thing is occurring. Reporter police say that you can also some retailers yo shipped to the store and pick it up there. That may work. To the at m theres also amazon locker andkr that program and theyre really urging the public tolic t take advantage of some of of mef those tips. Go with that. Gothat and if you see something suspicious, call them because b it is thanks to witnesses whoitw called that they are able toey l apprehend some of thesed f suspects and this is ongoingngoi youou said. We just learned that about anuta hour ago, two additional additio juveniles were taken into takeni custody in the area. Custody in theyre looking into it andnd believe that they may have may been taking boxes from front f porches as well. Rcheas w and a lot of people are not ass lucky as those today who got w g those stolen items back because some of these suspectsus Police Believe were taking theit items to stores and returning rr them as gifts getting giftgiftsn cards in return. S ret they found gift cards on these suspects, so those people mayeom never see their items back. Bac definitely not in time for the. Olidays. Thats latest here in germantown, Lauren Demarcoarco fox5 local news. Wow. New tonight, uber wasber s threatening to pull out ahead with a plan to fingerprint awful its driverst w but today a victory for theor Ride Share Companies like uber e and lyft as it appears theyea are staying put. Fox5s Tom Fitzgeralds to joins us live fromm downtown. Tom, a lot of uber customersusme were really worried about this i one. Reporter oh, boy, boy, b were they. Sarah and matt, this was no idle threat. Le thr both uber and lyft say that say they were seriously going too pull out of doing any businessis in maryland had this gone ts go through. But now, after hearing in baltimore today from the maryland Public Servicelaubli commission, the commissionsimm side with both uber and lyft and now they will not be hitting the brakes onak customers in the state of maryland. Ma heres what was at issue. Iue the maryland Public Servicevice commission was consideringonde these new regulations. Atns what that would have meant was w that all of the drivers inll both lyft and uber wer oe going to be fingerprinted as part ofno a new background check. Were against this regulation. Ro they threatened to pull out ofte the state altogether if thehe Public Service commission wentvi ahead withce c this. T this afternoon, in baltimore, well, the commission turned tail. They issued a 24 pedage report. In it commission conceded thatda yes, uber and lyft background bn checks already were extensivexte and are using unique emerging eg methods to spot any criminalpoar history against their drivers. They also noted thatd fingerprinting alone and background checks isncks is entirely accurate and a comprehensive as the way uber wu and lyft are already doing it. N. So passengers who have beenave n following this, they said sai theyre pretty concerned about t any excessive governmenteren regulation that could bela thate standing in the way of these emerging popular new companiesos like ride sharing and the sort. Probably never keep up with i the technology and we have to hv decide whether or not wede w wanted to, how mucho, h muc legislation do we want there and we have to balancewe security with privacy. Youcu wanrit to keep stringent safety stuff so io suppose its going to be a goine happy medium because for us taxis are very expensive. Yeah, probably a new law to work with the system now. Reporter now, therewith area some things they are going to have to do. Ha for example, there are going to be annpluae,l rescreenings of all of the drivers. Al also, if any of these drivel rse have an arrest or any otheran oh kind of interaction with Law Enforcement theyve only gotnl three days to let theiret Companies Know about this. His. The Taxi Companies in maryland l have been very strong aboutout this. Th they wanted that t fingerprinting in place to say what they called a level a level d. Aying field. Both uber and lyft have 10 days to respond to thishi decision, but at this pointhipo lyft out tonight with a statement saying they are pleased with what theyvesed heard so far. Wihearso f were live downtown tonight, tot Tom Fitzgerald fox5 local news. Tom, thanks. I dont know what i would do without u i dont know either. Wit we depend on them so much. End for sure. An walking inn m an Apartment Building hallway is violentlyld robbed. The attack caught on camera. Camera ahead hear what the victim did just before the crooks ranoks off. Was trump snubbed . And spreading holidayol cheer. His one. Oing to love t how one group surprises a virginia waiter way tip he tip e wont soon forget. Wosoon hey there, sue. S. Oh, i love those stories. Sri hi, matt. Hi, m nice to see you here at 5 oclock. Hello sarah. You whats going on outside right now. N big wind gusts behind a behind a frontal boundary that just crossed a couple hours ago. L bou before the winds picked up itdp was so nice this afternoon. We got up to 60 degrees butees b now winds are gusting, i guess g you cant see them there, tohere 38 miles an hour. 3ou how long are those winds going g to hang around and what canhat you expect for friday . A loty . T of you are hitting the road. A first look at your weathe come oa n back to fox5 local news at 5 00. 0. Awww. Dreaming of a White Christmasits but i dont think youre goingti to get one. [laughter]laug sorry. No no,. Got to tell you that much. Woke up this morning it was t cold i put a sweater onhi and a jacket but by midday it wasnti so bad. So b we got up to 60 degrees. Degr. Average is 45. Avere is so talk about big swings thiswi week. Teens at night and then rise r to 60, 57 degrees. 7 deees. Well adjust the temperature a little bit but youre right rht sarah not going to be a White Christmas. I think everyone is on the move today have you noticedot that. Ed right. Cant park anywhere. Ant par i thoughtan everyone was goingai tomorrow but they went today. Ody get to parking spot, everyone will be out of town. Il. Youre really getting me in the spirit there matt. M lolove it. I cant believe theseca temperatures. This is even warmer than wen e expected. Pected. For many hours this afternoon it was nice ands af quiet before the front got here but boye b b have we changed things uphing u since the front crossed. Cross as expected we knew winds were going to gust up and over 25. Upe well, theyre even higher thanht that and now that 60 hasas dropped to 47 degrees. 7 s. Its already down to 39 inn winchester and were going s these temperatures continue torn drop. Check out that wind gust to gus 38 miles an hour at reagan at rn national. Nati its a little bit better. Its a brief blast of winds,in ,two, three hours or so. On this warm day when we hit 60 thanks to these winds weo tse have a wind chill temperature to tell you about. To telyou it feels like 39 in the district, 33 in gaithersburg. Aib matt i hope you kept the heavy a jacket with you for laterorater tonight. Tonigh got it. Good man because while thee t winds will stay breezy this bez evening, they will get betteretr into the overnight hours butut prepare if youre heading outngo tonight, maybe youre headinge i to party or earngly dinner, gathering with friends and family, gusts of went to 30f we0 with wind chills tonight inills the 20s so your planner for this evening, 45 degrees at 7 oclock. Oc 43 at 9 00 with a few clouds cud and by 11 oclock, were down to 40 degrees getting coldd overnight. Last night not quite asht nottea chilly. Ch tonight well see those upperer 20s and low 30s back in and ad again wind chill in the 20se for. All right, a little preview ofvo tomorrow. How about we do that . Tomorrow is seasonably chilly. Hl average is 45 degrees. Is 4 well be very close to that, tt, maybe a little bit above it i with sun to start, clouds to cud finish and were going tooing track a little bit of rainle bfa getting closer to us here forref only part of our Christmas Eve e and the first dave hanukkah. Anuk more on that coming up in just a little bit with your fulluull forecast. Matt and sarah. Sarah all right sarah sue, see , you in just a bit. Thank. Sue are you ready for someeas goods good news. Always. Story of the day for sure. Virginia waiter is feeling the holiday spurred after receiving a very generous tipert totaling about a thousand doars. S. A group tip bombs a serve s internorthern virginia. Virni this happened just about everybe year at this time. This time. Wow, interesting. Erng but only fox5 was there forhe this years surprise. Surpris alexandria limon tells us why uw and how the tip bombers pulledud it off. [laughter] i dont wow. Wo wow. Wow. When marvin meklin showedeklh up he didnt expect this. Wow. These people are very very generous. Ne i lost count at six, 600, so. , reporter in fact the fact pile of cash totaled 1,040. 1, i had no idea. I was back in the kitchen anden he said i just got tipped atot this point bombed. Th reporter the tip bomberste have pulled this off for 13or years now but theyre tey completely anonymous and wantan to keep it that way. P it tt way. In fact they leave before the server realizes what happened. N. Its not about us. It this is more about the idea of o just giving to other people making people happy. Reporter the idea is to inspire others to tip bomb, tipb too. To the group says anyone can do it inform fact, a 500 percenter tip on a five dollars sandwich is 25 bucks but they even havehv a tip bomb calculator on tiptoot bombs. Com to help you figureou g it out. You may be wondering why they w everyone is struggling withgw something. I mean even even the tip tip bombers are struggling withing w things in their own lives andiv we just think its to helpp others out. O reporter and how they pick the server beputorte they dont. Each year a lucky stranger sange working at the rightht restaurant at the right time t gets tip bombed. I mean, im very excitedyit for him and happy for him because thats a. M. Hats. M ectacular thing to havee happened right beforeore christmas, generous thing. Oh, man theyre in the in holiday spirit i tell you thatt much. I dont know what to say. Ay im speechless man. An im just thankful. Hankful. Thank you. Good people. Reporter in reston, alexandria limon. Lon i love that.