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WTTG Fox 5 News 5 April 18, 2017

Now. What the beep. I didnt do that. What the was that. What the beep is that . Now, after people viewed that clip they became very, very upset. They reached out to the news media. They wrote a number of things on the Youtube Channel about it. Some of the things i can read to you say you are so disgusting, hey, guess what, i reported you, have a nice day. I feel bad for your kids. You guys are straight up mean. You guys are disgusting. I hope you get sent to prison and you are the most disgusting parents ive ever seen. This goes on, and on and on when you look at it. What they did after reading those comments they made another video. Twentyone minutes and 40 seconds long to try and explain to their viewers that everything is okay. Lets play you a clip of that right now. You guys remember t inc. Prank. Yeah. The prank was done on alex and code dirchlt it was supposed to be on cody but i said something. You guys gotchas good. Was anybody traumatized. No. Well, i dont even know what that word means, but no. Yes, i was mom, i was. Are you guys okay. Yeah. Are you upset. No. It was just a prank. Just a prank. Now, the family has taken so much heat they release a statement on twitter yesterday. It reads in full, we have had a family meeting and reviewed many comments and concerns. We discussed different alternatives for our future videos and ways we can improve. We deeply apologize for your feelings of concern. We do not condone child abuse in any way, haip or form. As many of our friends and family will tell you we are a loving, close it in family videos and having fun together. Thank you for your love and support, sincerely team do5 a. We tried to find the maertins today. We went to a couple of addresses demass cuss. We were unable to find them. We reached out to them by twitter. Their Facebook Page has been taken down. We reached out to family and Child Protective Services here in Montgomery County as well as in maryland. Child and protective services here in Montgomery County say they were unaware of the videos but then said they wouldnt be able to confirm or deny whether or not they had conducted an investigation. In the video the family says they have been investigated and have been cleared. One other note. We heard from Catherine Morris with the Maryland Department of human resources. She sayses that they can also not comment on whether or not investigation has been done but what she did say is that if someone makes a complaint they are obligated to investigate. Live in rockville, paul wagner, fox5 local news. Meantime were in Prince Police need help identifying a woman who was killed. She knocked on a door in forest villian the owner of the house found her unconscious on the front lawn. She died a short time later. Matt ackland is along springdale avenue in forestville with more on this story tonight. Matt. Reporter it happened here right along this block on sunday morning. Authorities just know that the woman was stabbed in the mid section and tonight they really need your help. Theyre hoping that you can identify her from the composite sketch. They really want to notify her family. Lets take you to the video that her family provided us not too long ago. They believe she was 20 to 23 years old, five eleven, 125 pounds. Light complex, brown eyes and they are hair was pulled back at the time. Notice her clothing now. She had jeans pulled over sweatpants and very distinctive socks. No tattoos and fink per prints, but there are none on file. We believe that our decedent came to this house, knocked on the door. Were assuming to get some sort of help. By the time the homeowner was able to get to the front door our decedent had become unconscious and was out front of her house. All right. So once again, 3300 block of springdale here in forestville. They say it happened easter morning. They really dont know any more than the woman came to the door and knocked on the door. They athat she was stabbed somewhere in p the mid section and then she died on the way to the hospital if you recognize that composite, if you have any information about this investigation for police, they would like to hear from you. By the way, if you want to take a look at that again, that picture, well place it on our website, fox5dc. Com. For now, live in forestville, matt ackland, f we have an update now on the deadly stabbing of an elderly man in the district on sunday. Police ahave rested two year old malcolm amere in the death of 79 otherold for wood. He later died at the hospital. Amere is charged with Second Degree murder while armed. Theyre sending us a age that they dont care. I think thats ridiculous, i think d. C. Police definitely should be stricter on bikers and atvs. We will not pursue atvs. We will not. Its not safe. I could have literally hurt him or hurt myself or hurt someone behind me because of their negligence and i was furious. If we get involv frequently thats going to cause more danger to the community. I dont think they should pursue them but they should take pictures of something to get them later. There should of needs to be some sort of action taken. They need to have some serious consequences. If you get doing this more than once. All right. You can see the dilemma there. Its a l challenge. Local Police Departments face, especially this time of year especially when the weather warmings up. People driving alter and i vehicles on city streets and sidewalks. Its illegal, but its tough to stosm its illegal in some areas because of strict no stop policies. More than a dozen riders spotted right before they crossed the key ridge in arlington. Now we have a new video near the tidal basin. This video was taken by a local man with his family. He says he heard a pack followed by several horns by angry drivers. Its still a big issue with people who claim the illegal bikers who place passengers and drivers in danger. Now its a call to authorities to help give them a hand. Heres some of the tips if its safe to call. And you have a handsfre device, call 911. You can record the video and send it to them which will help police prosecute these case he. You heard it many times, you you see something, say something. If you see the illegal activity report it to police. Bunch of very lucky metro riders scored a free 10 smart card today. This was by maryland congressman jamie razz kin. The free cards were handed out this h morning a the Silver Springs metro station as a thank you for users for ride rg metro it is the first day of giveaways by a union that event ares more than 9,000 workers. Coming up here at five, a comes to an end with the suspected reportedly committing suicide. The socalled facebook killers mother speaking out after the twoday pursuit to find her son. And facebook founder mark zucker bugger addressing the video and the backlash efs received after the video was posted online. The fbi reveals the ten most wanted list, the crimes to connection to the crimes committed in our era. A gorgeous day to be out fl the pollen is still a little bit on the high side, but temperatures are really comfortable. Were go to change things up a little bit for your wednesday, though. Ill let you know whether or not you can leave the sunglasses at home and whether you can put an umbrella in the car or in the backpack for the kids as well. A first look at the forecast coming up in just a few minutes well be right back. The search for Steve Stephens hassenned at approximately a little bit after 11 today Pennsylvania State Police Officers received a tip that the vehicle that we were looking for, the white ford fusion was in a mcdonalds parking lot near another i, pa. Those office he officers uponned fled from that area. There was a short pursuit in it with vehicle stopped. Atlantic club as the officers approached that vehicle Steve Stephens took his own life. The man hunt for the socalled facebook killer now over. As you heard there from chief of Cleveland Police he tachypnea his own life. Police were looking for stephens since sunday when he randomly killed a 74 year old man and posted it on facebook. Authorities say a mcdonalds worker called in a tip after spotting Stephens White ford fusion in the drive through. A state trooper pursued the suspect and rammed his car and then moments later stephens shot and killed himself. Earlier today his mother shared her reaction. I dont know what to say. He killed himself in pa i knew he was going to do that. He didnt want to be shot out by the police. Facebook founder mark disugger stayed up on facebook for nearly two hours before it was removed he expressed his condolences to the victims family and says facebook plans to rule out violent videos before they get posted. A maryland woman who was accused of killing his woman has some company. It is added to the fbi top ten list. He was accused of murdering his wife at a Dunkin Donuts back in 2015. The fbi is offering an award for up to 100,000 for relating to his arrest. Fugitive patel is the top ten list. Were told by investigators even though patel is from india there are no indications he was able to leave the country legally. Detectives think he may be staying with relatives in new jersey. William bradford his family at their home in 1976 and to this day his whereabouts remain a mystery. Were told agents receive tips about bishop nearly every day. A heads up for maryland residents, if youre still waiting for your tax refund you may find a letter in the male instead of a check. If you currently have an open warrant in howard county. They have an agreement with the Comptrollers Office to withhold tax refunds until they clear up their outstanding warrants. They have 395 open warrants. Lets take a look outside on this beautiful sunny, seven degree day. Ive got no complaints. Maybe theres some poanl hanging around. Theres also always a complaint from sarah sem once. You wont get any argument from me, not about the sarah comment, b day. Audit awkward. Not at a today is the kind of day, sarah, jim that we dont get enough of here in d. C. Beautiful, comfortable temperatures, gorgeous sky. Up to 71degrees well see if we got any warmer than that when the climate data comes in a little bit later. Leonardtown coming in at 64degrees. Say goodbye to these warm scun any skies because it looks like we have to change things up a little bit for tomorrow. We had a front come through yesterday and it brought a few showers, literally only a tenth of an inch of reign to reagan national, but we also see that theres going to be a little return flow on the back side of that frontal boundary and clouds and maybe a couple of showers are going to begin to push in our direction 6789 tomorrow will be more clouds than showers. Our evening planner those clouds wont be arriving until much later, closer to dawn. Well eep keep it beautiful evening. Get in all your running around and really nothing to stop you from running around tomorrow other than youre probably not going to need the sunglasses tomorrow. By 9 00 were still partly cloudy maybe not quite as cool as last night but well close. Wednesday is going to be a cloudy day, a little bit cooler thanks to the wind direction out of the east and there will be a few showers around, primarily in the afternoon. But i dont think of it as a wet day. It might be a little bit wet in the morning, along the interstate eight correspond dorks but for the kids tomorrow morning at the bus stop im not really thinking well need a lot of rain gear here. Fortyseven to 53 in the morning. The clouds will be here. A Afternoon School there could be a couple of showers. The temperature range 60 to 65. Theres more clouds than anything else. A little bit of rain might help with the pollen count just a bit. The tree pollen still coming in on the high side. We have serious pollen washing rain on day forecast. Ill tell you when to expect that and whats ahead for the rest of the mid week forecast. On the way a terrible accident. An employee of the architect of the capital killed after a large tree falls right on top of him. Georgetown confirming its history saying sorry and making some major changes on many contact pus to the ties to slavery. If you have a story idea please contact us at the five tip line and 2028953000 or email us at fox5tips wttg. Com. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. There was a day of apology and an act of contrition in joarn town university. The cool understood toed by the c church isen donting for itsen slaving of men, women in the 1800s. As well as the sale of those slaves to pay off its debts. At this Prayer Service attended by dozens of slaves once owned by georgetown university, the apology nearly 200 years in the making. We cannot from this truth, bury this truth, we lay this truth bear in sourful apology and formal reckoning. The apologies come from University Official and the society of jesus which founded Georgetown College than back in 1838 sold 272 slaves, men, women and children to pay off debts. We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are sorry. They called this a lit ji of remembrance, contrition and hope. Sandra green thomas a speaking on behalf of the decedents. We, the descendents, return to the home place, to our ancestors home place acknowledging contrition, offering forgiveness, hoping for pen as and more importantly seeking justice for them and ourselves. The university deis rededicating two campus buildings once named for the jesuit priests who ran the college in the 1800s and sold the slaves. Over come with emotion, Rochelle Sanders parader, great, great, great granddaughter of ice accused hawkins, the first bill of slave back in 1938, this is ice action hawkins hall. The overwhelming feeling of his spirit in the air, not just representative of the slaves in america. Georgetown University Says it will create an institute for the study of slavery and give preference in admissions to the descendents of those 272 slaves of the maryland jesuits. Im very happy at whats going on and that the university is taking the steps to find of make amends. Some descendents credit georgetowns student body forgetting the university to begin atoning for its sins, a process that is really just beginning. In northwest, bob barnard, fox5 local news. Before we head to break, we have some breaking news coming out of the district right now firefighters are responding to some smoke at the gallery place metro station and were told they found some debris on the tracks which is sometimes how these smoke incidents begin. They are single tracking between Farragut North and judiciary square. If youre taking the redline or expecting somebody to come because theres going to be some delays out there. Homeland security sending a strong message to lawmakers here in washington. Tom fitzgerald is working on that story tonight. Hey, fits. Reporter jim, sarah, an eyebrow raising speech here the at George Washington university coming up we will tell you why secretary of home land secretary john kill told his critics to shut up. Ronica. How, fits, well this building right here is the bender jcc of Greater Washington, just one of the private religious centers that will receive taxpayer dollars to improve safety measures. Were going to take a deeper look after the break. We have an update from six flags in Upper Marlboro about the jokers jinx ride, remember it stranded 24 passengers last week. Well tell you what the latest is on that. Gut this is fox5 a local news at five. Coming up at five 30 if youre getting home right mow heres what were following today, in the district, a Maintenance Worker is dead after a large tree fell on him. This happened at nine at the corner of independent and first southeast. Capital grounds Officials Say Matthew Mcclellan was working on an irrigation pipe. Independent avenue will remain closed. A dramatic scene in st. Marys, a school bus full of students caught on fire. He was on route to leonardtown high school. You see it here on your screen. Thats when the bus driver pulled over to the shoulder and evacuated the bus near leonardtown middle l school. Everyone made it out okay but no word yet on what sparked the fire. This year old nas ar abody hes a Foreign National from jordan hes akiesed improperly touching a female at Sally Beauty Supply and another woman at kohls. In each he showed the woman a piece of paper inviting them to his who he toll room, currently being held without bond. A blunt message from the secretary of Homeland Security. Secretary john kelly today telling trum of ps of on literally shut up. That moment came at an appearance at George Washington university in southwest. He really came with a list of facts to back up everything he was saying. Reporter jim, sarah, this was no holds bar performance from the Homeland Security secretary today. Keep this in mind, this speech, this came just hours after the Hyattsville City Council declared itself a federal immigration law. The secretary of Homeland Security described his own Department Today as being under the Obama Administration demoralized but now acting with county and a new purpose. Now, remember, the Trump Administration has faced fears blow back from moves such as the wall. Secretary john kelly said here today on the campus of George Washington

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