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WTTG Fox 5 News At Ten December 10, 2012

In southeast tonight. A young woman is dead and a toddler has been sent to the hospital. About Police Believe the woman was the child Police Believe the woman was the childs mother. Fox 5s karen gray houston is on scene at 19th and minnesota avenue with the very latest. Reporter it must have been terrifying for the woman who was killed and for all the people who were on the bus and this is the bus right over here, the b2 at the corner right now of minnesota avenue and 19th street. This terrible shooting happened a block away from here and a short time ago a spoke to a young woman who said she was on the bus when the shooting happened. She said that when the shots rang out, all of the passengers yelled out duck, duck and they told the driver go, go, go. Now the toddler who was on the bus believed to be younger than 3 years old is being treated for unspecified injuries at a local hospital. Gunshots rang out around 5 45 in the evening when metrobus no. B2 had stopped on minnesota avenue at 18th street. The woman and child got on. Once they got on the bus a male subject followed close behind her and opened fire into the bus. The young woman who is an adult. We dont have an exact age on her right now. She was shot multiple times. The child has some injuries, dont know whether theres a graze wound or the extent of the injury to the child. Reporter its unclear the relationship between the unidentified dead woman and the suspect, but it seems he knew her. The woman appeared to be targeted and she was hit multiple time. Reporter this is a busy bus route. People who live in the neighborhood say the bus was full and after the shooting frightened passengers scattered. When you come out of your house and hear where people are running away from and a mother standing at that bus stop over there with a stroller with her baby getting onto the b2 and saying shed been shot. Reporter its a community thats no stranger to violence, but when it touches a child, it takes on a different tone altogether. They need to pray. They need to ask god for forgiveness, turn theirself in and bring some closure for that little child thats laying up in the hospital. It is a horrible situation. My bus operator who was shaken up and im sure, you know, he will never be the same. He will never be the same again. Reporter just to recap, a brazen shooting here on a d. C. Metrobus in southeast d. C. A woman, an unidentified woman, thought to be in her early 20s is dead and a toddler believed to be her daughter is being treated for unspecified injuries at a local hospital. Police are asking anyone with information on this crime to please give their detectives a call. The number to call is 7279099. There is a reward and you can remain anonymous. Live in southeast karen gray houston, fox 5 news. Thank you very much. Obviously an ongoing investigation. Well continue to follow this story. Thank you. Now on to the other big story of the day, the battle of the beltways, the redskins hosting the ravens at home. In the end the skins came out on top, but we didnt get out of this one unscathed, rg3 suffering an injury. Please tell us its going to be okay. You watched that play and you kind of hold your breath and youre like wow, is he going to get off the mat . Rg3 is a resilient fellow and mri results came back negative, so no major ligament damage in the right. Whether he will miss time remains to be seen. The pain eased a little bit tonight in light of the outcome. A huge game by griffin and the skins at home today against the ravens, but well pick it up under five minutes to go in regulations. Redskins in a hole, ray rice rumbles in from 7 yards out. Baltimore takes an eightpoint lead, not looking good, 2820 and here comes the griffin injury in the final two minutes. Skins driving on a 2nd and 19, the big fellow makes contact and the leg bends the wrong way, griffin hobbles off the field, misses one play, comes back in and hooks up with Pierre Garcon with one good leg from 22 out and down to the ravens 16yard line but falling on the turf in pain leaves the game for good the very next play. In comes the other rookie, the backup, kirk cousins, and great response. 3rd and 5 from the 11, 29 seconds in the game, he. S and hits pierre gore he pumps and hits Pierre Garcon with the touchdown. The skins in two and they need to convert the twopoint conversion and the keeper, the quarterback draw, cousins does his best rg3 impersonation lunging in for the tied ballgame 2828. He comes off the bench cold and sends his team into overtime where in o. T. After the defense held they force a punt and another rookie making an impact, Richard Crawford in for Brandon Banks and he casts it out 64 yards down to the baltimore 24yard line setting up mr. Perfect, kai forbath. Forbath has yet to miss a field goal this year from 34 yards out. He keeps his perfection intact, drills it right down the middle. Redskins win 3128 in overtime, their fourth straight victory to improve 7 6 on the year. Following the game Mike Shanahan talked about the decision to take griffin out of the game and hand the reins to cousins. Talked to the doctor and it felt like it was in the best interest for him not to come back in, but he wanted to. We had to keep him from going back. In he was fighting to get out there. So thats a great sign. So hopefully mri will be negative. I know what an acl feels like. So if i felt that, id probably be pretty nervous, but we won the game. Everybody is praying for me. You know, i feel pretty good right now about the whole situation. So im not too nervous, but ill definitely be praying during the mri. Prayer answered, i guess. Its likely griffins game status for next weeks visit to cleveland will be up in the air throughout the week, but today showed confidence in their ability to have kirk cousins step in in spontanuity and he certainly got the job done today. Yes, he did. That was a relief. They find new and interesting ways to keep people engaged in the game and do it again. Thats their longest winning streak since 2008. Really interesting. What a suspenseful game on the edge of your seat. They dont have any room to slip. They have to keep doing these games because all the other teams in the wildcard and division keep winning, too. Giants won today as well, so no room to slip. Thanks, scott. It was an intense battle of the beltways both on and off the field. Most skins fans welcomed our neighbors to the north with open arms, that is, until game time. Fox 5s Lauren Demarco takes us inside the tailgating. Reporter a redskins fan tending grill with some ravens hardware. Today is all about friendly competition and, of course, some bragging rights. Were just one Big Happy Family right now until the game starts. Go ravens of course, theres plenty of trash talk. The only cooking today is birds. Thats whats cooking today. Reporter but there is a sense of neighborly acceptance plus theyre afc, a different division. I dont think theres like a lot of neglect negativity in this game negativity in this game. Reporter the battle of the belay occurs once every four years. Last year it was in baltimore, so for some ravens fans this visit to fedex field is a first. If we were in philadelphia, for instance, this would be a contentious relationship. Right here were all having fun. Reporter of course, after kickoff. Its going like donkey kong. Rg who . I love you so much go ravens tonights game was not just a battle of the beltways. It was the battle of the county execs. Howard county executive ken uhlman a huge ravens fan offered a wager to Prince Georges County executive Rushern Baker who is a skins fans. If baltimore wins, baker has to win a ravens jersey for one day. We all know how this one turned out. After the skins beat the ravens uhlman tweeted out this picture saying hes a man of his word and will be in Prince Georges County soon to settle the bet. We want to take you to texas where an nfl player could spend 20 years in prison after the death of a teammate. Defensive lineman josh brent is charged with intoxication manslaughter. He was driving drunk when he hit a curb police say and flipped his car which caught fire. Practice squad linebacker jerry brown died in the accident. Brents attorney said the accident is a tragedy for everybody who knew brown. From our standpoint on behalf of josh is jerry brown, his family, his loved ones, his friends, this is a tremendous loss to him. This was like losing a little brother. Brent was expected to post bail today. He was also arrested in 2009 for drunk driving. The National Menorah lighting today marked the beginning of the jewish festival of lights. The head of the u. S. Office of management and budget helped light the menorah this afternoon on the ellipse. Tonight is the second night of hanukkah. And its a pretty soggy night out there. Fox 5s gwen tolbart is in the fox 5 weather center. Weve been dealing with the clouds and showers off and on all day today. So lets take a look at radar. Well show you whats happening. We still have a little light rainfall down to the south near calvert and st. Marys county, just out of fredericksburg there, a bit of a sprinkle to the north near frederick, but other than that not a lot happening, but it doesnt mean were 100 out of the clear. Lets go to our weather map. We have a fog advisory currently in effect until 9 a. M. This morning. If we can punch up max 1, well show that for everybody. Dense fog definitely causing really poor driving conditions. So do be careful if you live in any of these areas. Current temperatures now, 46 degrees at gaithersburg, 48 at d. C. , 50 at annapolis, 46 at baltimore, 48 at dulles, 52 at fredericksburg and 45 degrees at winchester. It will be a fairly mild night tonight, 48 degrees for your general overnight low average overall, but fog and light rain and drizzle still will be here and there although not very widespread. Weve got a big oneday temperature rise ahead. Its just going to be another day where we get a spring tease in december. Ill have those details in your full forecast later on. Back to you. Coming up a murder remains unsolved one year after a Prince Georges County man was gunned down. Tonight a Community Gathers to remember and asks for answers from police. And sunday was no day of rest for president obama and House Speaker john boehner who met today to discuss the fiscal cliff. Could good news be on the horizon . 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A year ago tonight a brentwood familys dream for their son came to a violent end. 21yearold kevin victor was gunned down during a robbery attempt and the case is still unsolved. They had some angry words for police at a vigil tonight. Fox 5s Audrey Barnes has the latest from the newsroom. Kevin victors mother was so filled with rage tonight she had to be walked away from a vigil in her sons honor. The Family Says Police have not done enough to catch her sons killer and theyre asking for a renewed effort to find those responsible. It is well it is well with my soul. Dozens of people who knew and loved kevin victor returned to the footpath where he was shot and killed a year ago tonight during a robbery attempt. The star athlete wanted to be a marine but never got the chance. He was so good at everything. I dont know why somebody would want to do that to him and every day i think of him. Reporter kevins mother patricia is heartbroken and had to leave the vigil to be comforted. Gary victor says they havent heard from detectives working their sons case in 9 1 2 months. Weve always had hopes that we would receive justice from the police department, from the Justice System and we have heard nothing. Kevin wanted to be a soldier and he wanted to do so many things and kevins life ended right here. His legacy will live forever. High School Senior Darrius Victor hopes to finish the dreams his brother never got to on the football field and in the classroom. Hes a College Bound b student and one of the leading rushers in the state with 1,787 yards this year and 28 touchdowns, a season he dedicated to kevin. Hes my motivation. I do it for him. Every touchdown is for him. Every yard is for him. Every grade is for him in the classroom, too. So everything is for him. Reporter in return darrius and his family say theyll keep fighting for justice for kevin. Please in the name of jesus christ im pleading for that, please. I really want some closure. Reporter the family says theyve been told the suspects are two teens who may have followed kevin when he left the Brentwood Rec Center the night he was killed. If you know anything, to call county homicide investigators. Theres a 25,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. A Baltimore County Police Officer was shot trying to break up a crowd early this morning. The officer was in the overly area at 3 15 a. M. When he found a large group of people blocking the street. According to police, the officer asked them to move so he could get through and that is when someone pulled a gun and fired hitting the officer twice. I didnt hear the shooting, but i did hear the helicopters going round and round and i thought oh oh, there must be a terrible accident because thats the first thing i think of. The officer is expected to recover from his injuries. His name has not been released. Frederick Police Caught a man they say attacked a woman in her home. Perry lee jr. Is accused of Sexual Assault during a Home Invasion in the 400 block of west south street. Police arrested him nearby, say he had a gun on him. The germantown man is charged with burglary, assault, weapon and sex offense charges. Coming up after being held captive for days by the taliban an american doctor is finally out of harms way. States Like Washington and colorado are having to amend their dui laws now that marijuana is legal there. So how much pot is too much behind the wheel . Well tell you on the news edge at 11 00. [ male announcer ]  there are plenty of reasons to be jolly at the chevy yearend event because chevys giving more. More efficiency with sonic and cruze. More function in equinox and traverse. More dependability with the legendary silverado. And more style in the allnew malibu. Chevys giving more at the yearend event because tis the season. Chevys giving more. This Holiday Season, get a 2013 cruze ls for around 169 per month or get 500 Holiday Bonus cash. Tonight four people are dead in lebanon as the fighting in syria spilled over the border. The gunfight between supporters and opponents of syrian president bashar assad broke out in the Northern City of tripoli. The day saw nine syrian judges and prosecutors defect to the opposition hitting the government regime as it struggles to maintain power amid growing international threats. The crisis in syria has been raging for nearly two years now killing an estimated 40,000 people. Ople. An Early Morning rescue of an american doctor kidnapped in afghanistan by the taliban, tonight we are learning more about that doctor and the operation that may have saved his life. Foxs peter doocy has details. Reporter taliban insurgents held american dr. Delipp joseph captive in the mountains of afghanistan about 50 miles from the pakistan border more than three days. Dr. Joseph was kidnapped in broad daylight wednesday about 3 30 in the afternoon afghan time following a visit to a rural clinic where he worked for a nonprofit called morning star development. Two others also taken captive were released two hours before dr. Josephs rescue which general john allen commander of American Forces in afghanistan says he ordered when intelligence showed dr. Joseph was in imminent danger of injury or death. General allen also said Todays Mission exemplifies our unwavering commitment to defeating the taliban. Im proud of the american and Afghan Forces that planned, rehearsed and successfully conducted this operation. Thanks to them dr. Joseph will soon be rejoining his family and loved ones. Dr. Joseph should be back home in Colorado Springs in the next few days. He was taken to Bagram Airfield after his rescue and is undergoing evaluation today. Dr. Joseph apparently made frequent trips to afghanistan and the doctor described his goals there in a video posted last year. In doing Community Development were really hoping that we kin still hope into a country that can instill hope into a country that has been dealing in conflict the last 30 years. Reporter at least six insurgents were reportedly killed during the operation that saved dr. Josephs life. The operation reportedly netted two arrests of taliban leaders. Peter doocy, fox news. Venezuelan president hugo cav saez back in cuba for a third cancer chavez is back in cuba for a third cancer surgery. Chavez has not said what kind of cancer he has. His treatment has been taking place in cuba because thats whe

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