their final farewells to some of the shooting victims. thanks for joining us at 10. i'm will thomas. >> i'm maureen umeh. we begin with a developing story out of arlington. police are investigating a fatal armed robbery at a jewelry store. it happened before midnight last night. at capitol jewelers locate on the 3400 block of columbia pike. this morning, the police say the 52-year-old herndon man dead was in the store. they were responding to the calls from the man's family that he never returned home from work the night before and police are not releasing the cause of death. they releasing the picture of the suspect. those are surveillance photos and they describe the suspect as a black man in his 50s, around 5'7". if you know who this man is or have any information, call arlington police. a prince georges county police officer is recovering after she was shot at a hyattsville night club this morning. it happened outside of the galaxy night club and sports bar on university boulevard. the officer was off duty and working security for the club. she kicked three people out and then police say the car drove slowly past the club entrance. one person reached through the passenger side window and shot the officer in the leg. other officers returned fire and there was a chase and police arrested three people. >> this is the fifth time in more than 18 months that a prince georges county police officer has either been shot at or shot and this is unprecedented. >> officer rachel jacob is expected to recover. one person identified as 32- year-old kelly giles is charged with attempted first-degree murder with assault and wreckless endangerment. a columbia woman is charged with drenching and driving after hitting a police cruiser with an officer inside last night. yolanda merchanson was behind the wheel when the car jumped the median on davis avenue in columbia and then hit the cruiser. it happened before 1:30 this morning. the officer ernest newhouse was taken to the hospital but we don't know the nature of his injuries. they say the victim is 33- year-old jimmy pendleton. around 1:00 a.m. yesterday, they discovered him dead on the 2300 block of park place. they say he had suffered from apparent gunshot wounds. so far, police have no suspects or motive. he was beaten with a baseball bat trying to protect students and staff. the community held an appreciation dinner to honor the 19-year-old security guard who faces more surgery to recover from that attack. audrey barns has more on this story. >> reporter: jaylen farmer was working at the day care center to raise money for college. his dream was to be a star safety for virginia union university's football team and study sports communications. that dream is on hold as he recovers from a vicious attack when he threw himself in harm's way to save everyone else at the day care center. >> i am so glad no highways were lost. >> reporter: the director of the it's a family affair day care center will never forget the site of a crazed man with a baseball bat. smashing her office window and cornering her. she prepared to take her last breath. thanks to the 19-year-old security guard, she survived. >> with blood streaming from one eye and blinded by glass in another eye, he never retreated and kept putting him in harm's way to serve as a bait or decoy so the attacker would be focused and isolateed to the front of the building of the day care center until help came. >> reporter: while minor and others called 911 for help, jaylen continued to take on the crazed man and now identified as 26-year-old young. he grabbed the car keys and fled. jaylen lost the sight in his right eye during the vicious attack. a gash above his left eye needed 20 stitches to close. >> did you ever have a second thought of getting involved? >> no, that is my job. i did what any responsible person would do. >> reporter: his mother said that seeing her son suffer is rough. >> he's like i am not a hero. to many people you are because you don't know what could have been. >> reporter: the day care center held an peak dinner at the community center in wall over. they're trying to raise money to help the man -- mom, who has six other kids, pay for his upcoming eye surgery and other needs. there is a 60% chance he will get some of his vision back. >> everyone kept coming over and allowing -- offering help and support for the family and helped me pull through it and that is blessed with that. >> reporter: he can't work now and faces an extensive recovery, jaylen and those who know and love him say his future is bright. >> reporter: the suspect faces numerous charges including three officers who tried to arrest him at that attack at the day care center. if the next surgery goes well, he would like to apply for college admission. he's not giving up his dream of playing college football. if you would like to help reporting all -- we're putting all of that information on our website, www.myfoxdc.com. >> audrey barnes tonight. and today, more funerals for victims of the colorado movie shooting. friends and family said goodbye to four victims. 24-year-old jessica was remembered in her hometown of san antonio. the sports journalist was a blogger admired for her a.m. bigs. the family established a fund for aspiring journalists. >> jessica was just at the beginning of her journey and -- such opportunities. what is clear, though, is that she was on the right path to shattering the stereotypes and a very clear way and pursuing her dreams. she was helping pave the path, for future women, for future female sports -- sports journalists. >> there were services for matt mcquinn in springfield, ohio. he died trying to protect his girlfriend from the gun fire. she was shot in the knee. the body of a navy veteran has gone home who died in the shooting. his body arrived back in reno, nevada. a public viewing is scheduled for thursday and the funeral is friday. he leaves behind a wife and two young children. yesterday, the air force veteran rebecca wingo was remembered during services in denver and leaves behind two daughters. a movie theatre in western maryland will make a donation to help the victims of the shooting. the lightersburg cinemas in hagerstown is donating a dollar on every ticket sold this weekend and it will match total ticket sales dollar for dollar as well. the theater is giving the money to a charity based in colorado called community first foundation. the prosecutors expected to announce on monday what charges spect -- suspected gunman james holmes will face. there will be no cameras allowed in the courtroom that day and he is not expected to make statements. 12 people died and 58 were wounded in the shooting. the billboard in idaho raised eyebrows by comparing homes to president obama. -- holmes of president obama. they showed a picture of him saying he killed 12 in the movie with assault rifle, everyone freaks out and then showed the president with a picture saying kills thousands with his peace policy and wince the noble peace prize. he wants to -- they want to draw attention to the military dieing overseas and everyone has a right to their own opinion. police think it could have been another shooting massacre like aurora but they believe they managed to stop it with the arrest of 28-year-old neil prescott. police say he threatened mass murder at the capitol heights branch of pitny bowes. when a sign visor called to fire him, he was accused of saying i'm a joker, i'm going load my guns and blow everyone up. the police managed to get a warrant. when they searched his apartment, they found an arsenal of weapons and a.m. nighing. he underwent a psychiatric evaluation and is admitted at anne arundel medical center. no charges have been foiled at this point. with more on what is next for the suspect, let's bring in former prince georges county state's attorney glen ivy. good to see you. >> good to be back. no charges yet is the psyche evaluation the reason we haven't heard of any charges at this point? >> well, you know, frequently the charges are brought before psyche evaluations are ordered. so, you know, it's a little bit different than the usual scenario. i think what is going to happen, though s probably on monday or tuesday, they're going to have to make a decision about whether they can bring charges or not. i think if it stays in state court, threats is the likely charge unless one of the guns is illegal. and i am sure, you know, they will try to look and see if they can push it to federal court for federal charges. but if they can't do either of those, it's going to be on the civil commitment track, which means he could get out pretty soon. >> based on what we know, where do you think it's most clear neil prescott may have broken the law? the alleged threats to his boss? the threats in combination with is with having the means to carry them out? >> he made threats that were very serious. and specific. the weapons clearly demonstrate he had the ability to carry them out. i think you can bring threats charges. but if he doesn't have a significant prior record, the judge would be left with trying to make a decision about dale and there is a good chance that bail would be set for him to pay and get out on. >> as far as what we could see, no real criminal record here but a speeding charge. what were the likely charges be in this case? >> well, you know threats are a possibility n. maryland, for a first-time offender, it can go up to 15 years but the sentenceing guidelines will be around probation for a first- time offender. i don't know that he would be held based on the seriousness of that and on the other hand, there is a danger to the community and pretrial detention orders, but for a charge like this that would be unusual. you get pretrial attention in homicide cases, rape cases and those sorts of things. >> given what happened in colorado and the joker reference made by the gunman in that case, it looks like the police gave the alleged threats made by prescott more attention here. >> and i am glad they did give them attention. i think the prince georges county police in absence of the colorado situation would have take know a hard look at this, and you know, thank goodness they did and they should be commend for what they did here. >> glen ivy, good insight. thank you for helping us look ahead in this case. >> thank you. that was glen ivy earlier. and time for our first look at the weather tonight. >> and we were looking at the severe storms and that is looks like the all clear now? >> we're under a severe thunderstorm watch for all of the afternoon and evening and that ended at 10:00 and we had a couple of our areas that were under severe thunderstorms warnings and those have ended los angeles and those storms moving to the east at 15 to 20 miles per hour and a lot of cloud-to-ground lightning and some pockets of heavy rainfall and that is not without incident and light give you an indication of what happened and some of our neighborhoods. we had hail hitting into calvert county and one and three quarter inch hail in anne arundel county. in prince georges county, the wins picked up to 60 miles an hour and that is an active night. en to, things are calmer and we'll have the details of what you can expect the rest of the weekend later on and back to you. >> and thanks. still to come on the news at 10, metro is facing a new way to pay for parking. >> and one senator is calling for a federal odd it on metro. what do the riders think. and a string of purse snatchings on the d.c.-prince georges county line. we speak with the victim tonight who tried tracking the thieves on her own. that story and much more as we continue here on fox 5. ere on . metro is testing a pay-by- phone system for parking in the lots. starting monday, the customers at rockville and fort taunton can use rock mobile. in addition to regular parking fees, the system charges a 32- cent convenience fee for every transaction and that is the same system used at 1700-meter parking spots in d.c. should there be a federal safety odd it on metro? the senator is calling for it. after a month of trouble that included a stranded train, a derailment and computer glitch that shut down the control room monitoring screens twice. sherri ly is monitoring metro. >> reporter: a series of safety mishaps, including a computer failure that shut down the metro system, raised alarms not seen since the 2009 redline train crash. a federal safety odd it following the deadly accident revealed significant safety gaps. given metro's recent problems, maryland senator barbara mikulski demanded a new odd it saying in a press release, we need to focus, fix, and continue our reform efforts on metro. no argument from passengers there. >> there needs to be an underthe -- odd it of their safety to -- audit of their safety to make sure they're on track to a void situations like that in in the future. -- future. absolutely. >> days -- >> days later, the computer derailed and glitches. there were calls for a safety audit and metro faces more scrutiny. >> reporter: think we have made a lot of progress and from the day i took it. >> reporter: metro knows the computer glitch was caused by a partial failure in a computer board. that board has been replaced but the problem is that metro doesn't know what caused the board to fail. >> i'm going to -- . >> and metro continues to hear complaints as the problems pile up. >> as a person who takes metro every day, it gets me to and from downtown d.c., so, you know, that is good but i also see long-term they have real challenges to address. >> reporter: passengers recently revolted over a proposal to increase the maximum wait time allowed between trains to 30 minutes offpeak. metro's board tabled that until september and will reconsider. sherri ly, fox 5 news. there is more work on the rail lines this weekend. the rail line is shut down between griefsnor and friendship heights. the same is true to the blue line between franconia, springfield, and van buren street. the orange line is single tracking between wells fall's church and stadium armory and cheverly and between fort taunton and prince georges plaza. that is part of a six-year plan to replace and repair several aspects of the system. just ahead tonight, halloween came early for a florida jewelry shop. when two men who appeared to be cops turned into crooks. plus, tragedy on the mountains of peru after two american climbers were found dead. we'll have the latest next. . community leaders and others came together to walk through southeast today to end violence in the district. it's called the peacemakers' march. the group started at the corner of mlk and malcolm x avenues. before that, they held a citywide community forum to talk about how to keep people working and out of trouble. the hundreds of marchers were joined by non-profits, churches and mentoring organizations. >> keeping black people from killing each other opposed to standing up for each other. the black man taking responsibility for their families and jobs. not jail. jobs. the best things. you know, the jobs. -- [ indiscernible ] >> as part of the effort, participants and community members are encouraged to take someone to worship this weekend. that guy looks like good guys in an attempted robbery of a florida jewelry store. >> they were posing as police officers. fox's josh casillo showed us how it played out. >> reporter: clearly, the four guys who tried robbing marcellus' jewelry had a plan. dress up like cops to get inside and make off like band its. >> everything was police. like -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: the plan seemed to be working. they had police lights in their sat you were vehicle, shirts and hats with police written on them and badges. soon, they would show their true colors. >> they came in grabbing and walked inside. >> reporter: the owner was able to grab his .9-millimeter and start shooting. gun shots were fired back and forth. fortunately he was not hit but appears one of the suspects may have taken a round. the imposters got away empty- handed but they left marcello and nearby business owners shaken up. >> now, if cops come in here trying to, you know, come in and say he's a cop, i'm going to be scared. you never know. >> it brings it to another level when you have someone who is potentially impersonating a police officer. >> reporter: exactly how can you tell a real officer from someone posing as one? it starts with the uniform s. it similar to the ones you're used to seeing in your neighborhood? >> can you always ask to see their credentials. we are all required to carry our credentials at all times, our photo i.d. >> can you ask call 911 and ask calmly if a real officer is there to speak with you. cases like friday's robbie attempts are incredibly frustrating. >> we have spent a lot of years building the trust of the community, building a working relationship with them and the last thing we want is some, somebody coming in pretending to be us and now we're kind of going backwards. coming up on the news at 10, we have gotten an alert from people in the d.c. area. watch out for burglars at the gas station. tonight, police are on the hunt for a pair of serial purse snatchers. >> it's the first full day of the summer olympic. a look at how the u.s. faired so far and not everyone across the pond is happy the games are in town. the news at 10 continues after this. . the news continues with gas station robbers on the run tonight. it's not the register money but customers' purses. >> they say the thieves are responsible for a handful of purse snatchings in the past two weeks. take a look. this is one of those robberies caught on tape at landover gas station, i should say. watch as one of the suspects gets out of the suv, walks over to the pump and then to snatch the victim's purse through the passenger window and gets away within seconds in that suv. today, we talked to a victim of a separate purse snatching in d.c. who did not want to be identified. >> another guy inside of the car waived the gun to let me know that he had a gun. and just grabbed my stuff. >> coming up on the news edge at 11, the victim tried to track down the culprits on her own and why she thinks police seemed disinterested in her case. montgomery county police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the potomac river today. they found the body about 10:00. he's an adult man described as caucasian and wearing blue athletic workout pant when is he was pulled out of the water. anyone with information or has anyone missing that fits that basic description is asked to call montgomery county major crimes at the number there on your screen. 9 people were arrested after a boat sank off of the coast of ocean city this morning. the coast guard said they got the call about 10:30, the 38- foot boat was taking on water about 46 miles out. half an hour later, the boat was underwater. several people on the boat needed rescuing and medical treatment. searchers have found the bodies of two american climbers on the mountain in peru. the 32-year-old ben horn was from annandale, virginia. he and his friend, 29-year-old jill weiss died on the way down from the top of the mountain several days ago. the rescue coordinator said they fell off of the ridge and expects to remove the bodies from the mountain some time tomorrow. the police have a man in custody after a deadly shooting spree in pennsylvania. they say this man, kevin klease killed seven people and kidnapped a little girl in quincy town, should northeast of hagerstown. investigators think he went to confront his estrangeed wife about custody agreements. she died and so did her boyfriend and his mother. klease and his daughter were found 250 miles away in ohio. fortunately, she was not hurt. a 13-year-old