This is fox5 local newses at 10. Right now at 10, breaking news, a Virginia State trooper hashas died following a mass shooting at a busy bus terminal. Tonight were learning moreearn about the chaotic homes when ths gunman opened fire. Ire we first took cover behindehn this concrete thing. We didnt want to get up fromfrm where i was identifying. W fox5 local news starts right now. And we thank you for joining usyo tonight, im tony perkins. I and im shawn yancy. Todays shooting happened while troopers were on a Training Exercise at a bus station in richmond. Ichm the trooper shot the gunman and two civilians before two others shot and killed him. Fox5s Marina Maracco and teisha lewis are both standing by. We begin with marina who is in richmond. Ri marina, i know there are many questions that remain about the unidentified gunman. Un reporter id tony, police saya theyre not going to identify the suspect until they firsthey notify the suspects family. Now, we asked if he was from virginia. They say that his address doesnt match one here in therei state. They dont know if he tensionally he may have ties tov the area. Rea. Now, regardless, a sad turn of events here tonight. Just hours ago we learned ofof trooper did your meyers passing. Back in 2014 is when he joinedne Virginia State police. He leaves behind a wife and two small children. We also learned two other women were shoter inside the bus terminal. Theyre expected to survive. with an incredibly heavy heart tonight that i annoyanceny to you the loss of Virginia StatePolice Trooper chad deer meyer. Trooper chad door meyer was c in the midst of aha Training Exercise along with about a dozen other Virginia State pnia troopers inside the Greyhound Bus terminal in richmond thishi afternoon. The training encompasses looking for suspicious activity. And in todays exercise, if you see some suspicion activity goci over and engage and have conversations. The 37 year old trooper was a former marine and Police Office back home in jackson, michigan. Investigators say he was wearini fatigue uniform, but not hisis vest when he approached thehe still unidentified suspect. The period of time they weree together was so brief that i cant imagine that he gone much further than hey, how are you, anybody with you, just small talk. Thats when police say the suspect drew a handgun and fired ultimate Matthew Mcconaughey mat times ultimately killing troopeo dune meyer. Dune two other tropers returned fired jug the suspect who ran into the restroom before being transported to the hospitald where he later died. Why he had a gun in his waistband we dont know. The handgun was recovered hereeo on the scene. Apparently the suspect aid corresponding to the police did have criminal history, but theyy did not specify of what type. He did not have any outstanding warrants out for tonight you can see the scene here remains fairly active. They will stay here overnight processing the scene, reviewing surveillance tapes in the hopes that the shooting was caught on video. Life tonight from richmond, fox5 local news. Thank you very much. Ou v todays shooting in richmond is the lathest tragedy in whats been a deadly year so far for Law Enforcement across thethe country and the dmc area is noo exception. Ion. Fox5s teisha lewis continues our Team Coverage with more on that side of the story. Reporter across the dmv four officers have died in the linenh of duty so far h year and the horrific richmond shooting brings that number to five. Now, many of these shootings arn happening as the community isis still healing and mourning recent officer debts. Just last month, the worldthe watched as Ashley Guindon wasas laid to death. Eath guindon was fatally shot her first day on the job. She was responding to a domestic disturbance. Two other officers with her werh also struck, but they survived. Two weeks earlier, deputies in Hartford County were killed. Senior mark laws done andnd patrick dalery were shot toto death at a panera bread. Aner both served in the military and were parties. They responded to a call regarding a crowded restaurant. Jacai colson was killed on march 13. He was killed after a man firedn at the Police Station in landover. Carlson drove up to the station in plain clothes. He was caught in the cross firec between the suspect and police. N fire from an officers gun struck colson. And now this in richmond. And so far this year 29 officer have died in the line of duty. That information comes from the officer down memorial page which honors our fallen Law Enforcement here owes. Wes. This time last year nationwide there were 31 fallen officers. Fe teisha lewis, fox5 local also in the district charges were filed did he against thegan tennessee man accused of firing gun shots inside the us capital visitor center. Larry dawson was charged with resisting and assaulting a lawlw enforcement officer with at of dangerous weapon. Capital police shot him after he allegedly pulled the weapon at the Security Check point. Dawsons weapon was actually a pellet gun made to resemble a bar rat a handgun. If charged he could face up to 55 years in prison. Metro police need your helpnd locates this man. They say daniel brown is wanted in connection with a stabbing at a Prince Georges County metrouy station. Brown is a newspaper vendor. Police say he got into a fight with a man this morning right outside the seat station in capital hits. The man was taken to the t hospital and is in stable condition. Police are asking anyone withano information to give them a call. We want to head outside right now. It is a warm night and even ev warmer temperatures im told ard expected tomorrow. Ex butpe could they be accompaniedm some th joins us with the answers. Nswe youre absolutely right. Tely its still very mild out thereut and tomorrow some places may hit 80degrees. But it will likely come with a couple of showers and maybe some rumbles of thunder. It migzt surprise you that somet of those could be around as early assay 10 00 tomorrow morning. At the moment, things are dry dr and wanted to just touch on hown nice and warm it was today getting up to 74degrees well above average, which is right around 62 now. Well be well above it tomorrow. As we check radar out and look at your weather headline for tomorrow. Its definitely another warm dae that were expecting, but a e little bit than settled. Not an all day rain by any means, but maybe just enough coming right after the morning commute to create some problems for a few of you if you encounter these because one oror two of these could drop some heavy rain if we get some good thunderstorms around the regione the at the moment not much to see theres a little bit of rain east of baltimore and down to the southern tip s county across the northern neckn and just south of the richmond area. Most of the night will be dry. Were much whatting whats out a to the west. West you see that through ohio andnd also through kentucky. That will collect ahead of the frontal boundary. Well stay mild tonight and the front will begin to approach tomorrow morning. Well he have on clouds around, some clouds developing. You can have an idea that at 7t7 in the morning this is nots n affecting much of the immediate Washington Area but then you look back towards charlottesville and the redsthe indicating there could be somese thunderstorms in there. Ders by the time we get to 9 00. 00. It is scattering. There could be some showers and maybe some down powers. Ower well take this to noon and it looks like clouds are startinge to thin out and we may get a number of hours of sunshineshin tomorrow afternoon which will hump the temperature up close to 78 or 80degrees, but it could also trigger a few more showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Maybe a few with heavy down powers. Showing you 2 00 and you can see a small line develone around 5 00 in case youreour heading out to nats park and worried about rain it lookslook anything that is left will bee pretty spotty. Pott well watch the move down to tho south and east. H an so a little better chance southe and east much by friday nightda 10 00 were back in the cloudsld and maybe a little bit of earlyy morning rain. The weekend is going to be quite interesting. Could there be a snowflake in the forecast . Orec what. Ill tell you more about that in a little about it. Ittl that got our attention. Tte traffic, it will continue toonti cause major headaches for commuters tomorrow and World Leaders gather in the districtei for the Nuclear Security summit. The event got underway at thehe Washington Convention center in northwest. As a result several road closures and parking restrictions are now in affect and metro has closed its Mount Vernon Square station until tomorrow evening. For more information on whaton streets are expected, you canan visit our website, fox5 d. C. Com. Still to come tonight in a bizarre story in northern virginia. Why explosive training materialn was found on a school bus. A dramatic rest how an elderly man drove right into a river how police found him in the nick of time. Whats the deal, we have the story and the apology as fox5 news at 10 continues. Dont hate. She can say it. In just a few hours thousandw of workers nationwide will put their picket signs down andnd return to their jobs. O th they staged a oneday strike. Ned in fact, this was the scene earlier today at Reagan National airport, baggage handlers and apport workers are all demanding higher pay. Some of them make anywhere they say that is not a liveable wage. Wage the backbone of these airports. P they do their best every day to keep save and secure not only themselves but as the passengers to go through these airports every day. Day. The strike is set to end tonighi at midnight. Workers want to stage the they wanted to stage the walkout last week, but the attack inin brussels forced them to postpone until today. An investigation is underway too figure out why explosive training material was left on a Loudon County school bus following a Training Exercise. Xr they conducted the drill last week at prior Woods High School in as burn. Burn one of the k9 units accidentalli left the material on the bus. Bu. This bus was used this week to take students to l school. Authorities say the training material did not pose any danger to the students the fbi is still looking into a cyber attack against the med star health system. They say they were hit with a ransom wear attack. c thats a malicious Computer Program that is starting too become popular among hackers. Ckr Sarah Simmons is here with more on the investigation. Reporter med star is still not saying much about the cyber attack. Patience weve talked with say things seem to be runningunni smoothly now. Although med star wont say iff it was a ransom wear attack. Sources inside say theft hackers were demanding a ransom worthano thousands of dollars in exchange for med star regaining control of its information. The Health Star System also believes the personal the information of their patience was not compromised. But Cyber Security experts say that information will be very variablible for hackers and its hard to know for sure if the information was really safe. A hospital in cali with ransom wear last month and the hospital admitted to paying the money p. This all begs the company, how can companies protect themselves from this type of attack . Traditional Anti Virus Software doesnt work against ransomanso wear. A Cyber Security expert explaine what companies should do. Back up your data. In case of ransom wear, its certainly the case that they will find Network Shared drivess which are oftentimes backed up shares. So those might be encrypted as well. When the ransom wear runs ituns cant find your backups. Also teaching employees notmo to click on unknown links and attachments thats how am ofam these attacks are launched. As for this about it k9 ransom we know the idea of about it k9 is kind of con fusing here you go, its basically an online currency that allows the user to remain anonymous and makes the transaction difficult to track back. Writing under a dude mom. Every transaction involving that address is stored forever in a virtual ledger. L if the address is stored in your identity every transaction canrs be linked to you. Which is why those who want tohw be used anonymous use multiple synonyms. Sy to a dramatic rescue that couldt have ended much differently. An elderly man is lucky to be be alive after he got lost andnd drove his car into a river. Relatives reported sink wang missing last night when he didnt return from a doctors appointment. They called the man he was so disoriented to tell officersffic where he was. They started tracking his cellphone and got a hit some 80 miles away. Police say they matched maps of the area to bridges that wanghat described and finally located his car. We had to unlock the he had been in the water by two, two and a half hours by the the time we got him. He couldnt stand on his. Luckily for me hes a pretty light guy. We walked 100 feet to the dry land. Wang was taken to the hospital where he was treated for hyperthermia. Erth were told his condition has improved. Severe storms slammed partssr of the south today. They brought the threat of possible tornado with em this. Ts the Severe Weather comes one day after multiple people were hurt. This is just a snapshot of somef of the damage there. Re the cleanup is now underway and crews are trying to restoreesto power. Forecast tears say more than 8 Million People in the pathpe right now are in the path of more possible Severe Weather ina several southern states. Up next tonight, donald trumn is on theig defense after his controversial abortionnt statement. Ro also ahead, first it was the federals going after apple, but now apple may take the federals to court. And a remainder to throw best throw back thursday photosh using the hashtag fox5 tbt. This is actsly one of our own, meteorologist mike thomas when o he was a little guy. We invite you to tweet your favorite throw back photos again. Use that hashtag, fox5 tbt andbt you might see your picture right here on fox5 news at 11. Thats a photo of mike fromho seven months ago. Is that coffee . Yea, its nespresso. I want in. Youre ready. Get ready to experience a cup above. Is that coffee . Nespresso. What else . Its time to get out and explore. Look beyond the expected. Hidden among the trees. Theres a special place. Where getting away. Brings us so much closer. With an allinclusive ticket. Busch gardens williamsburg. A whole other world awaits. Youre looking at a lifee picture of thelo us capital. You may notice a little bit of a difference. Earlier today workers began removing the scaffolding thats surrounded the building since 2015. Were told the final face of the capital restoration project is now underway. The scaffolding just blow the dome will stay in place while workers continue to make repairs. Repa actually even on the lower partn of the dome there. Theyre fixing up both thehe outside and inside of the capital expected to be completed by the end of the year. Y california has become;hahe firt state in the country to approve a 15 an hour minimum wage. Age. The state legislature approved the measure this afternoon. Fter governor jerry brown is expectes to sign the measure into law on monday. The minimum wage will slowly rice in california over the nexe few years and hit the 15 mark in 2022. Just last week d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called on the cityity council to raise the minimum wage in the district by 2020. Gop Republican Donald Trump isu defensing his controversialhis comments on abortion. He said there should be some form of punishment for some women who get abortions if the procedure is out laud. He later reversed his positionot on the statement. Trump said his comments werement taken out of context and blamed the flub on what he says was a long convoluted question. But political analysts say the remarks could haunt the candidate. This one is going to be hard toa walk back, though, particularly if hes the partys nominee come the fall. If if you really believe that it should be outlawed is what youre saying is that women and doctors need to go to jail. Apple is considering legal action against the fbi to discover how a sand bernadine oh iphone was hacked. The loss angels times is reporting apple officials are desperate to find out just how investigators were unable toto unlock the device. This comes after apple refused to help the fbi crack the phone of syia far Rudy Giuliani thegil master mind behind the terror attack last december. Ecem its been widely reported, buter not yet confirmed that Israeli Company sell bright helped to unlock that phone. Two gay men claim us park polick pepper sprayed and beat them. Coming up next we have video ofo the chaotic scene. We also have the Police Department is standing behind its officers. 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