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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 October 2, 2014

Neighbors are saying this was a family feud with a bizarre twist. Now police are trying to figure out just how it turned deadly. Family members shaken as they learn what happened inside this home on east cambria street in north philadelphia. Police say a 60 year old man is dead. His 26 year old step daughter suffering from a hammer to the head. The twist, police dont know how her step dad died. Blood running downside of her head. Neighborhood robert was fixing his bike just before 4 00 oclock this afternoon when he says the young woman came running out of her home screaming. He hit her in the head with the hammer. Police found the man dead on the floor of his home with no visible injuries. Authorities say an autopsy will be conducted to figure out what killed him. Until then, homicide isnt being ruled out. Every other weekend they were fighting. Reporter neighbors say the family lived on the block for decades. Poland says the step daughter had recently moved out but was home to check on her dad. People had a know the family say the man was ill and on dialysis. The whole block is shocked. Heat of the moment. Father and daughter. You never know whats going on behind closed doors. Reporter you never do kno know. Now that step daughter taken to temple hospital with a fractured skull. She is expected to be okay. Iain . All right, sabina, thank you. Six year old boy has died after a tragic accident in philadelphias Nicetown Tioga neighbor. Police say the boy was hit by a brown buick will he sabre on the 3600 block of north 15th street shortly after 4 00 p. M. A man who lives on the street was sitting on his porch when he heard the accident happen. He came running out to the street to help. I lost a son two years ago. I know the pain of the parents and the ugh lee i dont have thing ive seen in my life. The boy ran out in the middle of the street between two parked cars and the driver did not see him in time to stop. The driver did stay on the scene. Police say no drugs or alcohol were involved and no charges have been filed against the driver. To developing story. A deadly fire in new jersey. Investigators say someone intentionally set the fire that killed a Cooper University hospital ceo and his wife. Now that fire broke out at their home early sunday morning, and now vest gathers are trying to figure out exactly how the couple died. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce is live outside cooper hospital in camden. Jennifer, just an extraordinary twist here. Reporter it really is. Everyone we talk to just calling this absolutely tragic, and lucy, while you said police say that this fire was intentionally set, we still do not know how this couple died, ton night their four sons anxious for answers. Cooper health ceo John Sheridan and his wife joyce touched lives to make difference according to their four grown sons who released a joint statement three days after both of their parents died unexpectedly and a fire at the couples home was ruled arson. Mark, matt, tim and dan say the death of our parents has left a hole in our hearts and family that can never be filled they went on to say we cannot fathom much less explain the circumstances of their passing. The couples children are eager for answers according to the familys attorney. It was around 6 15am sunday when emergency crews received a 911 call about a fire at the sheridans Montgomery Township home. The Somerset County District Attorneys Office says John Sheridan was dead at the scene. His 69 year old wife died at a hospital. While the Somerset County Prosecutors Office says the fire was intentionally set, the cause of their death Social Security not known. Police are awaiting lab results and saying that are little. Sheridan joined cooper as Senior Executive vicepresident in 2005 and was named ceo and president in 2008. He was actively involved in camdens redevelopment and served as a member of the board of trustees for a local chapter of the ronald mc house. The Organization Says john was a wonderful leader and friend and stood behind the groups mission of helping seriously ill children. Tonight, Cooper Health says its shocked by the tragic developments in this case. The couples children hope people remember them as two people who loved each other, their family and their friends generously and unconditionally. And police say right now autop autopsies are incomplete pending lab results. Police would not discuss the case any further. Iain . All right, jennifer, thank you. The e best la is in the United States and were learning more about the patient at the center of it all. We now know the man told hospital officials he was from liberia. Weve also learned that the man had contact with five children from four different schools in daals will. The patient has been identified as Thomas Eric Duncan and hes now quarantined and getting treatment at a dallas hospital. He traveled to the United States from liberia to brussels flying united with a stop at Dulles Airport before ending up in dallas. Hospital officials acknowledge that duncan told them he had just arrived from liberia when he first went for treatment last friday but he was sent home with antibiotics after that travel history was not shared with doctors. Regretfully that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team, and as a result, the full import of that information wasnt factored into the clinical decision mak making. Federal Health Officials are tracking anyone who has had close contact with duncan. They say ebola is not contagious until symptoms are present. Sky fox over big trouble on the tracks. Rush hour rail Service Ground to halt on septas wilmington newark line this evening. A train hit a man in delaware county. Now, it happened just before 6 00 this evening nearly darby station. We have no word on his condition. About 500 people were on the train at the time. No passengers are injured. A north philadelphia man facing a slew of charges tonight in connection to a hitandrun accident that injured a little girl. Police say 25 year old jamar banks turned himself in to authorities today. He is now charged with aggravate the assault by vehicle, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person along with other related charges. Police say banks hit seven year old allure mclane who was crossing 42nd street near girard avenue on sunday and then left the scene. Mclane was taken to shop chop with a fractured skull arc fractured ankle, cuts and bruises. She remains in the hospital in guarded condition tonight. Police say a witness took video of the car which helped in the investigation. On to your Weather Authority and chief meteorologist Scott Williams tracking breaks in the clouds. Hey, scott. A few break in the clouds for some. But it looks like those clouds will be thickening as we move into the overnight. As we watch more of the cloud cover kind of pinwheel down from that area of low pressure that brought showers to north sections of new england earlier today. Look at the temperatures right now. Mid exacts in philadelphia. Low 60s in pottstown as well as millville so a little cooler once you get outside of the city. So for tonight, the call mostly cloudy. There could be a little bit of drizzle but temperatures in the low 50s for the burbs. Upper 50s in the too. Coming up well talk about our next system which is right now impacting parts of the midwest. A cold front with a lot of heavy rainfall. Well talk about when it arrives and how it impacts the upcoming weekend as well as the timing of a cool push of autumn air. Iain and lucy, back to you. Thank you, scott. In south philadelphia tonight many began saying their final goodbyes to a beloved mummer. Joseph gosh bryson, sr. Passed away over the weekend. He founded the bryson new years bench brigade in 1977 made costumes all year round for the mummers. He was veteran and join the army during the korean war. A new orleans style funeral procession with a brass band will begin at 10am tomorrow at the Edward Omalley club. On more street in south philly. He was 81 years old. A shake up in the secret Service Director Julia Pearson resigns a mid security lapses at white house. The resignation comes one day after her appearance before the House Oversight and government reform committee. The committee grilled pearson on two recent security breaches, one with president obama at the cdc in an elevator with an Armed Security guard. Another involving a man who jumped a fence and made it inside the white house. Over the last several days, weve seen recent and a come lating reports raising questions about the performance of the agency and the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required. Pearson spent 30 years with the secret service. The Obama Administration has named Joseph Clancy as acting director of the secret service. Clancy is a former executive with comcast here in philadelphia and a villanova graduate. It is a new era that is donned in philadelphia as of today, possessing an ounce or less of marijuana in philly is no longer a criminal offense. Mayor nutter signed the bill into law this afternoon that makes history. Philly is now the largest u. S. City where you can carry that amount of pot and not end up serving time in jail. I did not take these actions today lightly. It comes at a time when many other jurisdictions across america municipalities and states are reexamining and changing their approach to enforcement of marijuana laws. The mayor also said the city is beginning an out Reach Campaign to educate people about the impact of marijuana use and where to get help to overcome the habit. It looks like the revel casino in Atlantic City wont change a whole lot. The Canadian Company that won a Bankruptcy Court auction for the revel plans to reopen it as a casino hotel. Hearing to approve the 110 million sale to brook field u. S. Holdings is scheduled for october 7th. Brook field u. S. Owns other casinos including the hard rock in las vegas and the atlantis Paradise Island in bahamas. Revel closed last month after being opened for only two years. Kidnapped, missing for more than a decade. This little girl is finally found alive. Im going to ask her if i can give her a hug. The incredible effort to bring sabrina home to the father who never gave up. And while youre sleeping, hes sneaking in and stealing. Its happened six times in one night in one Montgomery County community. Im Chris Oconnell. Ill tell you how some victims are going to extremes to protect themselves. Piles and piles of trash but this is no dump its a local apartment complex and residents are fed up. Why they say these mounds of garbage just keep growing. And turning the race for homecoming king into a priceless lesson of acceptance. One local teens mission to reach out to his fellow students while trying to win the crown. Pennsylvania state police are mourning the loss of one of their own. 26 year old trooper david kedra died yesterday after investigators say he was accidentally shot during a Training Exercise at a gun range. Its the second time in three weeks that Pennsylvania State police have suffered a tragic loss. Tonight fox 29s Dave Schratwieser reports fellow officers are remembering their fallen colleague. He was extremely proud to be a Pennsylvania State trooper and he showed it. Reporter sorrow hung over the skippack State Police Barracks wednesday and the flag was at half staff after the death of 26 year old statate trooper david kedra tuesday afternoon during a Firearms Training session. I couldnt believe i got the phone call. Thats phone call you never want to receive. And its difficult. Its very difficult. He was highly motivated and you could tell every single day he walked in. Reporter trooper k. Edra work at the skippack barracks over year after joining the state police in june 2012 he was assigned to troop k. Respected and admired by fellow troopers here. This kid loves his job and with that kind of attitude, youre determined and bound to be a great state trooper. He was shot in the chest during a firearms Training Exercise at the Montgomery County Public Safety training complex around 5 00 tuesday afternoon. Sources confirm he was accidentally shot by a state Police Training instructor during a classroom exercise on a new handgun. He was an excellent trooper, and like i said, it was an honor to work with him, and were all sorry that this incident occurred and hes no longer with us. Shocked. Shock. Someone so young and full of so much promise. Reporter trooper kedra was remembered wednesday at Roman Catholic high school where he garaged in 2006 as an honor roll student and Cross Country athlete. Graduated from temples criminal justice program. I couldn couldnt any of ang that was better for him. He was strong hearted good guy. He was seemed like someone who was made to serve. Dave schratwieser fox 29 news. At least one death that we now know from a new designer drug we warned you about in may of last year. Police in limerick Montgomery County say a young add dull has died from an overdose of a designer drug he got off the internet. They say the drugs doc and mxe come from overseas web sites and those companies marketer them as quote research compounds. Its going to cost more to buy cigarettes in philadelphia. A 2 a pack tax is now in effe effect. The money generate ready go to the schools cash strapped school district. School Officials Say the new tax will pump about 83 million into philadelphias schools every year. Definitely not a debate. Sparks flying during the second pennsylvania gubernatorial debate. Republican governor tom corbett and his democratic challenger tom wolf went head to head over key issues. They met at a philadelphia tv and radio station. The hot button issues, taxes and funding for the citys cash strapped schools. Now at times the pair talked over each other and challenged each others statements and the round table style debate. Its to have an economy where we are actual the at the top of the charts in terms of job creation at the not the bottom. I have to wonder why you want to ignore 250,000 job openings in pennsylvania. I wonder why you ignore the fact weve gone down to 47th in the country. Todays debate let the candidates go out with it the time limits of a traditional debate format. Each candidate says they felt the debate went very well for them. The election is november 4th. Fox 29 is working to get results tonight in north philadelphia. The problem, well, just look. There are mounds of smelly trash overflowing the dumpsters at a housing complex on the 2800 block of lambert street and frustrated residents are looking for answers and some relief. So they called fox 29s bruce gordon for help. Reporter it sure is a site to be hold. Mountains of garbage overflowing the dumpsters at the woodstock mutual homes. This 108 Union Complex is home to lots of single moms with young children. But dont expect to see any kids out playing near this. Rats, possums, raccoons, they carry diseases. Reporter theyre digging through that trash . Yes. Reporter residents tell us trash is supposed to be picked up by a private hauler on an almost daily basis but they claim no one has been by here in more than a week. What is it like when you walk past there . Whats that smell like. Its a horrible smell. Like somebodys dead back there. Reporter this is at all of dumpsters. Every last one of them. Reporter woodstock has been around for more than 30 years. Its a coop meaning residents buy a share of the complex, then pay a monthly fee that is subsidized by the federal department of housing and urban development. Residents tell me the property manager as ignored their complaints about lots of problems at the site. On this day those residents met with a hud representative to air their grievances. We intercepted carolyn an is a on her in to ask about the tra trash. It hasnt been picked up for quite awhile. Im sorry. I just got off the phone with hud and i was told to give you the telephone numbers for our Public Relations people. Reporter you cant talk to us about the trash pick up problem here. Im just the project manager. No, i cant. Reporter all of them have garbage spewing out on to the sidewalk and street area. I called hud. They do indeed inquire property much injuries to maintain standards for cleanliness and safety. Charisse richards a longtime resident isnt buying it. The smell is overwhelming. The trash itself is disgusting. Its unsafe. Its rat, raccoons attracts all types of things. Its really ridiculous. Reporter we cannot get a comment from the property manager but hud assures they are in touch with the office here and also with that private trash hauler. Theyre trying to find out the status of the contract with the complex and to find out whether that hauler or another can be brought in quote immediately to clean up messes like this throughout woodstock well hold them to that promise. Working to get results in

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