Police officers ambushed and killed in brooklyn. Wenjian liu and Raphael Ramos were sitting inside a patrol car yesterday afternoon when they were shot. Tonight, were learning much more about the gunman and his disturbing past g evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im karen hepp. That gunman had long criminal record and apparent hatred for police and the government. Our Team Coverage begins with foxs kelly wright in new york. Reporter police say Ismaaiyl Brinsley has been arrested 19 times in georgia and ohio for crimes including assault and robbery at the time of yesterdays shooting he was angry at the police for the deaths Michael Brown and eric garner. Police described the moments before the shooting when Ismaaiyl Brinsley speaks to two men on the street before making his move. He asked them to follow him on instagram and then he says watch what im going to do. He then walks northbound on tomkins asked the two officers in the car, circled back around, across the street and comes up behind the officer. He shot officers wenjian liu and Raphael Ramos in the head while they were sitting in their patrol car killing them both. Then he went to a subway station where he shot and killed himse himself. As vigil is held in honor of the two officers, ramos family is pleading for an end to the violence. I hope and pray that we can reflect on this tragic loss of life that has occurred so that we can move forward and find an amicable path, peaceful company existence. Meanwhile some Community Leaders are calling on new york city bill diblasio to take action. And give Police Officers more support. We need to work with the community and the Police Department. We dont need you to just go to one side. The Police Department needs you as well. Reporter shooting is drawing attention across the entire country. President obama condemn the attack and expressed his condolences n new york, kelly wright, fox news. Thank you, kelly. Unless brooklyn this evening, there are so many candles and flowers and tears. Vigil for those officers. People turned out from all over the city of new york and calling for change. Dave kinchen right now is live there just an outpouring of emotion. Dave, what is it like to be up there . Reporter the sound of faith in the middle of tragedy. Everybody is just still in shock. Were still in shock. Reporter hundreds gather at the corner of tomkins and myrtle in brooklyns bedside neighborhood to pray. Let the love and the light of the lord. And light candles where nypd officers Raphael Ramos and wenjian liu were ambush sitting in a troll car shot dead by police say Ismaaiyl Brinsley. They were very hard working, very good people and dedicated to what they were doing. They were two innocent souls, you know, who didnt expect for this to happen. Its a tragedy to us here in brooklyn. To everyone array cross the country. Reporter officers and civilians came together sharing in the pain. Those officers were considered to us to be family. Its a very very tough time. You can feel the tension in the air. Reporter tension already driven by the Police Involved death of eric garner. A motive for the Brooklyn Police killings according to social meet media posts traced back to the shooter and that make it hard for many mourners at the vigil to be hopeful it. It looks like its never going to end. Its becoming a vicious circle. Reporter Community Leaders hope the power of prayer and communication can ease that tension and bring a return to peace. I think we got to keep talking and showing a united front as it relates to community and Police Officers. Reporter i spoke with City Council Members this evening. They of course are very very concerned. Many of those Council Members at the vigil they say they will continue to talk with both their colleagues in Law Enforcement and all the precincts in the community and they will also talk with Community Leaders to try and keep conversations going and come up with solutions. Joyce . Thank you, dave. Torments night Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsay is calling on his officers to be careful and ale alert. He says, hes concerned about the current environment for police. Commissioner ramsay also encouraged those leading local protests against Police Brutality to call for calm. Hopefully this tragedy now makes everybody take a step back and think about what theyre doing. Think about what theyre saying. This is the time for thoughtful discussion, and i dont want to lose that opportunity for that discussion to take place. It does i think cloud a very important issue and that is Police Community relations that we do need to take a hard look at and make some corrections, and this is really kind of overshadowed it and its a shame. All you have to do is earlier this month, president obama tapped commissioner ramsay to help lead a task force on 21st ken tree policing. The group is focusing on Building Trust of Law Enforcement officers in neighborhoods around the count country. Meanwhile tonight another protest against Police Brutality is moving through the city. Hundreds of demonstrators with the group blackout philly are still out there right now. The march began at 15th and arch in center city. The protesters calling attention to what they say is Police Brutality an lack of justice in the Michael Brown and eric garner cases. Tonights pro protest has been peaceful. And also in florida, another Police Officer is dead from a shooting this one happened early this morning in tarp poon springs right along the gulf coast in central florida. 45yearold officer charles cun duck was checking out nuisance call when a suspect shot and killed him. The alleged shooter then tried drive away but crashed into a pole and another car. He was arrested. Officers say that shooter new exactly what he was doing. Like this guy is a cop killer who said that he felt like a caged rat. He felt the officers presence. He knew what that meant. And he knew that he was going back to prison where he should have been. Theres absolutely no excuse. Theres no, you know, mistaken i dont care what you told you guys when he was walking into the jail. All a bunch of nonsense. This guy knew what he was doing. He killed a cop and he needs to be held accountable for that. The officer was a father of five an 17 year Police Department veteran before working in florida he was an officer with the nypd. Happening now a development in the search for missing College StudentShane Montgomery hasnt been seen since thanksgiving but today drive crews made a discovery they hope will lead to clues in his disappearance. Chris oconnell is live in manayunk with the latest oh and this. Report roar joyce, the latest development came this morning as you said those diver crews found a set of keys belonging to Shane Montgomery. They found it about 100 yards from where he was last seen right off of main street. That clue suggesting that shane may be in the Schuylkill River. We are all part of shanes family now. Not a blood line but were all part of this much its captured us all. Reporter hours after a new clue surfaced in the search for Shane Montgomery, the Roxborough Manayunk community gathere gatht saint john the Baptist Church to pray the rosary for his return. We all feel so sad. Reporter celebrating hanukkah nancy brown came to a Catholic Church to pray for shanes family. She says, faith has no bounds when a friend is in need. A friend of mine comes here and i said, you know, i wanted to come. Im jewish. I dont know rosary from anything. I was just like i wanted to come for the family i said my own prayers. His parents confirm that his keys were found along the banks of of the Schuylkill River mind main street where shane was last seen the night before thanksgiving. After more than four weeks, the familys pastor says, shanes parents are staying strong and are Still Holding out hope their son will be found. Knees are weak and arms are limp and hearts are fainting a bit, but to come together collectively and to pray together fortifies and strengthens all of us. After the rosary prayer, the community was invited to hang green ribbons on the christmas tree. Symbolizing the hope shane will be found before the holidays. My heart goes it to them. I pray for him every day. I pray news for his family one way or the other. Reporter as we bring you back out here live, you see flyers still remain here on main street. Lining this of a 65,000 reward still being offered for information leading to shanes whereabouts. We can tell you that volunteer dive teams searched for four hours today. Theyve been asked to come back tomorrow. Dawn, joyce . Thank you chris. On your radar winter is officially here right now. Our meteorologist caitlin roth, caitlin. Hi, karen. Winter officially began earlier this evening. 6 03. The winter solstice starting tomorrow we get a minute more of daylight. That eases you into the winter season. Even though we know it has been cold long before winter officially began including this weekend. Clear skies outside right now. Well have clouds increasing quick fool tomorrow. It was really nice to see the sunshine most of today. Right now 34 degrees outside. Winds are calm so its clear and calm a good set up for temperatures to really fall off overnight tonight. Were already seeing that. Take look at current temperatures. Only 23 in atlantic city. Its 28 in wildwood and 25 in millville. You guys will probably fall further as we head towards day break. 24 pottstown. 26 in allentown. 34 in philadelphia. So it certainly feels like winter. Daytime highs earlier today across the area below normal. Just 40 in philly we stayed in the mid 30ing north and west and for anyone whos at the slopes this weekend High Temperature of just 28 degrees in mount pocono. Overnight tonight the city we call to 29. 23 in the burbs although locally well see colder spots probably waking up to some frosty teens in some areas. Mostly clear tonight but we turn mostly cloudy as we head into tomorrow. Isolated shower or flurries is possible these clouds are moving in as a result of some on shore flow so its chilly its cloudy and this is all ahead of some rain which will move in and make for a very mild but probably very wet holiday. At least the first half of it. Well have your full christmas forecast straight ahead. New jersey governor christie disagrees with president obamas decision to work to try to normalize relations with cuba. Would like the president to admit demand the return of the convicted cop killer before diplomatic relations move forward. He outlined his request in a letter sent to the white house last week but that letter was just released by his office today. Joanne chess march was convicted of killing a new jersey state trooper back in 1973 but escaped from prison schenn fled to cuba where shes been granted asylum. Spokeswoman for the white house northerly secure particularly council will continue to press the cuban government to return u. S. Fugitives. Still ahead tonight a deadly fire leaves dozens of people homeless. Why some residents of this local Apartment Building may have ignored the warnings to get out. Plus, what do you think about this one . Snakes pent grams not exact al typical Christmas Display but there is one right now its up at one state capital lawn. The fight by a satanic temple to get it put welcome back everybody. A deadly fire at an Apartment Building leaves dozens of people homeless in new castle county, delaware. It happened overnight sending them out into the freezing cold. Fox 29s brad satin spoke with residents about the tragedy. Report. Oh, my god just flames everywhere. Reporter cell phone video from haley englishs camera living a couple blocks away she rushed over to see this 22 unit Apartment Building go up in flames just after 2 00 a. M. I just feel so bad. Four days before christmas. Reporter fire started on the third floor of building 221 at the harbor house apartments. One person died. A second person a 72yearold man had to be rescued from a balcony with a ladder and was then taken to christiana hospital in serious condition. Flames about 30foot high i guess. High, high, high. Maybe higher. Reporter nearly 80 firefighters balanced this fire still on the seen by sunrise. Even they were surprised at how fast the fire moved. Its kind of an unusual situation but, you know, in these places structures fires can be advanced pretty quickly rt. This fire went from being so small to then just bursting out of nowhere. The whole entire roof was engulfed almost in seconds. Reporter older building the fire chief says does not have a sprinkler system. Tenants here say the fire alarms tendon to go off fairly regularly and they worry that some may not have taken it seriously. Dont really get excited when you hear them, because you hear them so often. Reporter red cross was there win 90 minutes of the start of the fire helping nearly two dozen people. At this point, we have 10 families that we know of that are displaced. Its a difficult morning for them. Especially since its so close to christmas and theyve lost their homes. Reporter state fire marshal on the scene all morning long. Trying to figure out what caused the building to burn so fast. Were playing catch up the entire time. Reporter in claymont, delaware, brad satin, fox 29 news. Charges have been filed against a couple accused of a Home Invasion robbery in exton, pennsylvania, but the couple still on the loose. This crime happened yesterday at the exton crossing development. Police say 36yearold Leonard Bernard posed as a worker from a Home Health Care company. He push his way into a 76yearold womans home and robbed her of her jewelry before he left. Investigators say he tied her hands together. Bernard and 41yearold Brianna Mitchell are wanted for this crime. They face numerous charges. Delaware state police are investigating an accident, an elderly woman was hit and kill killed. Authorities say the 78yearold woman was crossing the street but she was not inside a marked crosswalk when she was hit by an suv on cocks neck road saturday night around 6 15. She died right there at the scene. Legendary boxer mohammed ali is in the hospital right now reportedly with a mild case of pneumonia. The boxing great is expect to do only spend a short amount of time in the hospital. Threetime world heavyweight ham is that bat links parkinsons disease. Hes being treated by a team of doctors and is in stable condition. No other details are being released at this time. And tom brokaw says his cancer is in remission. The veteran nbc newsman announced today that after months of chemotherapy, hell be starting a drug Maintenance Program and soon. Last february brokaw revealed that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer affecting blood cells in the marrow. Now brokaw calls the past year a challenge but he added he made it through thanks to quote world class hospitals with brilliant physicians. Elton john just upgraded his Civil Partnership with David Furnish to marriage. The legendary singer posted a picture on instagram showing the couple sit tag table with a sheet of paper in front of them with the caption thats the legal bit cup, now on to the ceremony. They have been together since 1993. And became civil partners in 2005. Same sex marriage became legal in england and wales in march of this year. Elton john and David Furnish have two sons. Well a controversial display is quite the talk in the capital of michigan. Meant to be so. Its a snake and a pent gram part of an exhibit by the satan nick temple of detroit. This is the first time the doctors play sim pole liesing that threat has been set on the capital lawn. Organizers got permission to put it there after a church put in a request to have a in a tiff will the scene. Many upset because the display is during christmastime. Satanic exhibit at the capital will stay there until tuesday. A dramatic rescue off duty firefighters did not have the tools they needed to pull three people from a burning car but they did it any way. They described the terrifying scene. Thats coming up next. But first, we love when you send us pictures. These are from tracy from pine hill, new jersey, tweeting us this picture of her two trees. The smaller one she calls her travel tree. This is a cool idea decorated with ideas from cities all around the country. Very nice and thank you. We want to is he your holiday lights. Post your pictures or video on social media anyplace thats easiest for you. If you like pictures put them on instagram. Want to put them on your facebook page, maybe you can tweet them. Use the fox 29 lights we can fi what an explosion, what a scene there are it goes coming down part of texas a and ms kyle field comes tumbling down. 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