Right now. Ri it was the middle of the school day when they got the news of who killed charlotte when theyen found out it was a fellow student. The question of why is still unknown both among police and ad among students here. To a close friend of charlottes who says that the shooter, sean crizer saturday behind charlottd in a class. Another friend says the two definitely did know each other. But those students didnt know what could have led to this. Everyone ive spoken to aboutout charlotte says she was a sweat and kind girl. Ir she traveled to other copt as ar a volunteer and also volunteered at a local hospital. A close friend tells us sheus still cannot believe thiss happened. She was a great person. She seemed to have her life together. She worked at a hospital. She wanted to be a nurse. She definitely knew what she was dog and she was nice to everyone. Its sickeng someone could do Something Likee that to her, especially beingaly the person she is. We also got this familyamil statement. It reads in part, the family of Charlotte Michelle star em whats is very greatful to thehe community for the out pouring of support. We are overwhelmed by the many prayer, thoughts that have been sent our way as we mourn the loss of an amazing and caringing woman. The date hasnt set a date for any memorial or service. Ervi students at howard high also continuing to work to plan their own vigil to remember charlotte. We have developing news fromn montgomery county. Police havemery charged a womano they say used the credit card od a missing man from bethesda. 36 year old john done who he went missing from his familys home on december 12. He has not been seen since. In but his credit card was used a week after he went missing atat this beauty hyattsville. Right now police have charged the woman who used the card with credit card fraud. The case still unopen, its unclear what connection, if anyf the woman may have to done whoon hes appearance. Theres new information in theoa investigation of a monday and woman found shot to death two miles appar. The male victim is a drug dealer. Fox5s paul wagner is live at Police Headquarters with the latest. Reporter hey, shawn, we found t this information in a search warrant that was filed pw in Circuit Court earlier today. That was when it was release tor the public. It says that that neck was a known drug deal are and he mainly dealt with marijuana. Alongside the house, police saiu that they found a backpack withk plant material as well as a scale. It spent shell casings as well as bullets. On thursday, december 22 2, a search warrant affidavit says a Family Member went to the homehe on barney stone court after the victim failed to show up for a 7 00 meeting. Inside the house police say in the johan as was dead on thethe floor, obviously murdered surrounded by spent shell casings. Police took several items fromse the house, including a save april a smartphone. Rtph the very next day, two miles away, the body of 22 year old cadet saw mena was found slumped against a tree behind a home on court wood coke in burke. She also had been shot to death. They knew each other. The motive was unknown, but they were following solid leads. At a vigil for johan as, friends said they were baffled by hisbaf death. Its really sad that Something Like that wouldav young two individuals, 2 years old. They have a whole life ahead of them. I dont think i ever meta more positive person in my life. F im sure if you talked to anyone out there they would alld have similar things to say. Y. Its one of those things that it so blatant. This is a really good person. Fairfax county police had c nothing further to say on this case today other than to confirm the information in the affidavid that we found in the courthouset today. They also said theyre following solid leads and theyre working with the commonwealths attorney. At this point there is no motiveoti in these two murders. In fairfax, paul wagner, fox5 local news. Loca coming up next, controversytv surrounds the first day of the new congress. Few leaders made an about faceut after the president elect called out his own party this morning. The rare occasion that willthat happen tomorrow on capital hill. Hey, first time ive seen you this year and youre looking wonderful. Not so much for the weather. Ther the weather is challenging. The heavy rain is over, but theb fog lingers. We ended up picking up just ann under an inch of rain in many areas and it looks like tomorroo is goingks to be a dry day. Friday morning could be interesting. Were going to talk about a that and much more with your seventh day forecast just ahead. So come on back. Z27mkz z16fz y27mky y16fy my daughter wants to stay organic. My husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. Whole family nts to stay free from artificial preservatives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. Welcome back, the 15th the congress is now in session and s members are hitting the ground running. The republican controlled house swore in Speaker Paul Ryan. N. Then in a surprise move, gopsurp members reversed course on theso decision to strip the office of Congressional Office of ethicsf on its independent. We get the latest from foxs joel waldman. Reporter speaker of the thank you very much. House Speaker Paul Ryan getting sworn in today along with new members of the 115th congress. Just moments before, housee republicans announcing they were withdrawing a proposal to stripo the office of congressional ethics of its independent. Epen but opposition from speaker ryan and House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy as well as tweets from president elect donald trumprump proving to be too much for republicans who wanted the change. The white house quick to criticize. I suspect this is not going to be the first time that we seesee Congressional Republicans in this congress seeking to help people in positions of power. Its the first time in a decade both chambers of congress and the in coming president are all republican. And the shift in power has gop lawmakers chomping at the about it on move quickly on issues to repealing and replacing obamacare. Democrats, however, are to fight the republicans conservative agenda. Well fight him tooth and malele when he approves to base or instinct that diminish america. Its sure to be another busy day on cap l toll hill tomorrow as president obama will make a rare appearance. Vicepresident elect mike pence also also heading to the hillhe with a message for the in coming administration. Time to get to work and its time to keep our words of the american people. President elect trump who plans to hold a press conference next wednesday stayed busy on twitter discussing everything fromfrom keeping jobs in america toto keeping prisoners at quiz mow. D. C. Delegate eleanor force wants to expand voting powers. Norton had been granted a vote in the committee back when democrats controlled the house. See that held urging speaker ryan to restore the vote. Vo weared this as a down payment on full residents who pay the highest federal taxes do understand this figure, the highest federal taxes per capita in the united states. The least of that reasonable people can do right now is to make sure that our delegate hasg a vote in the committee of the whole. Now, there is no indication that the House Speaker willl honor nortons request. Fox5 is your station for politics. We want to know what you h think about this and anything elseanyt related to politics. Tweet us and let us know whats on your mind, use the 5 6 30 and let us know what you think coming up next. An update to a campus controversy of a statute of a convicted murder. Rough weather has pounded parts of the count well show you the latest on the damage done and the wintry weather well be seeing later this week. Week. Push for clemancy for leonardnad pellet yea, that is who the statute is of. They put this up, this statue ut at American University. N he is accused of killing two fbi agent back in h the 9170s. Last week the president of the fbis Agent Association sent a letter to American Universityam and asked there school to take e statue down. Ue American University release a statement over the weekend wee saying it agreed to remove theth statue, but planned to find another organization that wouldt be willing to feature the art. A deadly storm packing heavy winds and rain is pounding the southeast. Its damaged homes, caused floods and left tens off thousands without power. Fox green has the latest. Est. The at least five people dead after severe storms left a path of destruction across the southeast. In alabama, four people dieddied when a tree fell on their trailer home. Home in the florida pan handle the body of a 70 year old man was found following flooding inlood walton county. Wa we were kind of watching and then all of a sudden it was just on top of us just that fast. The whole building shook. We saw the piece of roof hit mothers car. The line of severe thunderstorms spawned several possible tornado and brought heavy rain and strong wins. The threat continued intontin tuesday for parts of georgia, the southern pan handle and parts of alabama. There are a lot of people thatpp will be effected by this and of course theres a lot of compassion there. Si we haveon great respondersspon throughout this community. Muni storms in central missi and southern lieu san yeah causing major homes to homes. At height of the storm tens of thousands lost power. St no injuries or deaths in either state. We didnt expect to see what i saw. I expected, you know, sure i expected something to be torno e up, but i didnt expect this. Is rains in recent weeks have eased Drought Conditions across the southeast, but officials sayfici large parts of alabama and georgia remain an exception at, the most severe category. In new york, lauren green, fox news. Meanwhile some of those areas are e going to get another storo this weekend and some of that could be snow. So there were 15 reports of tornado last night. Torn i was very warm down there. The storms really spinning, but well keep an eye on theireir forecast for the weekend. We have a up can of things weof have to much what. I think i heard you you say go ahead. Ill give you the two time periods were going to watch, friday morning because of some light snow commute and then saturdayd th because of the coastal area of low pressure that may effect the deep involvement will it getolve close enough to equal if us, wee dont yet. Remains to be seen. I love a saturday starterarte snow. Most of the models have it missing us. Well keep an eye on all of that, short term, though, we keep an eye on the departing rain that dropped about an inch in many areas or a little bitora under and were left with low clouds, the damp feeling and a little bit of fog. Og. The fog us not terrible, but it is definitely noticeable and ind a few areas we still have someoe going showers, much lighter than what we dealt with the first half of this day. D. C. Is dry, but we have a little bit of moisture around the hagerstown area. Ea. Ill put this in motion forth last hour. Thats pretty much just moving from west to east, although a lot of this is going to stay to our north as i give you a wider picture there is a little batche of moisture here that is goingng to move through later tonight. Well keep an eye on this, but b lot of that is going of our area. Helpful rain, vy difficult to drive in we know that. Good thing the temperatures stayed above average becausebeca that could have been ate or nine inches of snow if it had been cold. Co visibility is not bad in the city. There are spots in which it has dropped to 1 mile of visibility. 2 and a half miles at dulles. A mile and a quarter at winchester. Fog will be around for the next several hours and well see thee trying beginning tomorrowng morning. Tomorrow looks like a beg really nice day, by the way. Way. Todays temperatures in the mid 40s. The temperatures are slow toow drop tonight and they are not going back hpn 46degrees wee really main containing. Were not seeing them droppingm to freezing level tonight. So were not concerned about anr kind of a refreeze. Theyll maintain near 40 degrees. Maybe some upper 40s because of the fog and the clouds. The reel drying again writtens tomorrow morning. Showto you thehe temperature trend becausee tr average high is 43. Tomorrow we should be well above it and i suggest if you like ite like this you soak up tomorrow becausrre as we hit 56degrees r wednesday were really going to tank down to 39 p. Were cold on friday and cold on saturday at 35. It will be quite blusteryuste through much of the time periode as well as the colder air comeso in. In were briefly warmer tomorrow wr outme ahead of the artic cold tt will come on thursday. Hurs so fog to start, 45degrees by the noon hour were breezy and 52 and by 4 00 54 and still breezy. Were watching thursday nightht overnight hours because it could effect our friday morningy mo commute. Nothing to worry tomorrow. Ry it looks like aeneas day. L before it of mountain snow which will make the ski lovers happy. Most of the day thursday, completely dry even through 4, 5 00. And then were going to watch to to see a little bit of light snow develop, a little bitbit enhance south and east. Uth maybe its an inch, maybe its m two much ines in a few hours. Maybe its more because there ie a coastal area of low pressuresr that will try to develop in a weak fashion just off to our south and east. Thats one thing well have to much what. It could impact our friday morning commute. As we get closer well have a better idea on amounts. With the artic air in place wee have to watch the possibility oi another coastalty system thisis even. Right now it looks too far south to effect us. The storm may stay south bututh when theyre that close by we keep an eye on them. Your seven day forecast, sev advertise the season to keep anp eye on things that is for sure. We go from 56 tomorrow too 39degrees on thursday. Hu again, a couple of quiet days ahead. Its friday morning that well have to watch because it doesnt take much to cause problems. Prob im thinking of last januarylast when that little tiny dropped so little snow causedsed bigger problems than the 30incher. R. That was crazy. Youve been warned. You were going to continue toll you about it and keep you aid head of this to let you know what to expect. Friday morning. Iday well be right back. K. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Comcast business. Built for business. Well, it is a special day herea atsp fox5. X5. Onhis date 70 years ago, a dupont television station, known as w3xwt got d. 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