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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5PM April 13, 2015

Robbery of that jewelry store. Investigators say the victim a woman was abducted from a park parking garage she left work. They say she was tased, tied up and beaten and eventually dumped in a cemetery in darby. Suspects allegedly wanted the dode a save at the jewelry store. Investigators say this was just a violent and senseless attack. For those predators that are still out on the street, as evidenceed by the arrest of mr. Gay in South Carolina hours after atf obtained are a arrest warrant, by members of the Us Marshalls Fugitive Task force our reach is deep, our reach is long and we will find you and we will arrest you. Make no mistake of that. Reporter report and youre looking at some surveillance pictures investigators today also said that they found this van. They say was used in the crime although they would not say where they found it. They also told us when mr. Gay was arrested that someone was with him. They would not elaborate on who back here live again investigators say they are looking for at least two men possibly more. Theyve been questioning people but have not identified the suspects by name and again they are pleading with the public for information. Lucy . All right thank you shawnette a terrifying night for a Delaware County family held hostage ended when the children broke free raced to school and got help. Police say 27yearold alan free man broke into the familys chester home last night. The childrens mom is his exgirlfriend. Police say he broke a window to get in. Somehow all but one of the children escaped. Made it to school and told teachers that man was holding their mom and fiveyearold brother hostage. Police race to do that home on 22nd street. Shortly thereafter, we were notified by a neighbor that he could hear the woman being beaten inside the house and that one of the children were yelling get off my mother. Get off my mother. With the swat team there Police Arrested the moon now faces a long list of charges. Happening now an accident at a construction sight at the king of prussia mall. Two men are injured one of them critically after a piece of equipment hits a high voltage power line. Three men in all rushed to local hospitals. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose is live outside the king of prussia mall and sabina the men were working on part of that new mall expansion project. Reporter dawn, you can see it behind me. It is a massive sight. Now at the time this happened it was the height of the construction work day and there were hundreds of people on the scene. Just sad. Unfortunate. Not too many people make it off things like that. Stewart and ferguson out to get a pair of shoes at king of mall monday. Appalled to learn two workers hurt feet from where theyre standing during construction of the malls new wing. Upper Marion Police say around 7 20 in the morning would workers inside a construction vehicle cut into a live 13,000volt cable. 36yearold man was shocked and left unconscious. His 27yearold colleague had minor injuries. Third man was also taken to the hospital but wasnt hurt. The electrical system was still energized at that point and produceing arcs and smoke. Coworkers and First Responders pulling the badly injured man from the still live wire. They were able to regain a pulse and rush him to paoli hospital where hes in Critical Condition condition. You have to take precautions. Eye hopefully theres a procedure put in place. General contractor imc construction says theyre investigating calling it an accident ceo tells us in part everyone at the mall and involved in the project are primarily focused on the injured individual and are hoping for a fast recovery. The workers belong to omni Electrical Systems based in collegeville. A man theyre oversell told us they had no comment. And township officials tell me that imc passed recent inspection and has all of the required permits. Osha is now the lead Agency Looking into this. Coming up at 6 00 well tell how a local officer risked his life to drag this worker to safety. Lucy. All right, thank you very much, is a bean inform. We have breaking news right now in the fox 29 newsroom. Sky fox over the scene of a massive fire. Look at those flames and that black plume of smoke in middlesex county. We understand this is south amboy and a Grocery Store is beneath all those flames. You can see the water from the firefighters pouring on to the top of it right now trying to drown those flames so they can get to whats actually burning right there. We dont know what the situation is whether there were people inside. Whether they were inside at the time this happened. Whether theyre trapped inside right now. All we know its a Grocery Store store. Its south Amboy Middlesex county, new jersey. And that fire is blazing. Sky fox over the scene as new information continues to come in. Of course, we will bring it to you. Lets go right now to developing story. Manhunt in north carolina. Police are looking for a 21yearold student who they say fired a fatal shot on Community College campus. Investigators say kenneth stan sill the third killed dwayne Community College print shop director much hes a former student and used to work for the victim. The shooting happened inside a building on campus at about 8 00 this morning. The campus had students and staff taking cover. Some locking themselves inside a cafeteria. Investigators believe stan sill is still in north carolina. Jodi ari yas sentenced to life in prison for the 2008 murder of boyfriend judge handing down that zen tess earlier today. End ago nearly sevenyearold case. Arias speaking to the judge claiming she was the victim of Domestic Abuse and acted in selfdefense. Four of the victims family members speaking on behalf of him Travis Alexander breaking down in the courtroom in tears. I loved my brother very much and i miss him so much. Travis was not only my brother but we were really close friends. I looked up to him. A jury ended up deadlocked last month on whether to give arias the Death Penalty or life in prison. The Death Penalty was removed as an option after a mistrial. Another republican poised to throw his hat into the ring for the 2016 president ial election. Florida senator marco rubio says hes uniquely qualified to win because hes proof the gop will defend. American dream. Rubio made the statement on the Conference Call with the top donors in florida today. Rubio is a son of cuban immigrants. The 43yearold is first term senator and hes expected to make his Campaign Official this evening at an event in miami. Meanwhile, the only democrat in the race right now Hillary Clinton is hitting the campaign trail with iowa in her sites. Clinton made her intentions clear with a video message yesterday. She is considered the clear front runner among democrats. This is her second run at the oval office after concedeing to president obama in the democratic nomination in 2008. Talk about a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood. This is the kind of weather we have been waiting for. We have the best of everything, sunshine warmth, clear skies but things could soon be changing thanks to those april showers. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is live in old city with what exactly that could mean from i guess aside from may flowers, scott. Yeah well, dawn, we are going to expect the clouds to roll in. But as you mentioned it has been a beautiful spectacular monday across the area. Lets talk about the Current Conditions right now. We have sunshine 74 degrees. So i hope you enjoyed today while it lasts. Ultimate doppler is dry and quiet but off to the west, thats the system, the front that will bring us some scattered showers across the area by tomorrow but look at the temperatures. 69 in wilmington. We have 75 degrees right now in allentown. So if youre stepping outdoors its a mild and comfortable evening. But the cloud cover is going to increase tonight. And when i come indoors im timing those showers ahead for your tuesday. Back to you. All right scott thank you. Police are waiting for this local mom to be released from a maryland hospital so they can arrest her and bring her back to philadelphia. They say she dumped her severely disabled son in Cobbs Creek Park so she could visit her boyfriend. 21yearold man spending four days in the woods in bad weather, rain and cold with only a blanket and a bible. Fox 29s bruce don is live at southwest decks. Bruce, how is the young man doing tonight . Reporter remarkablely well. Nia parlor the woman youre speaking about she actually remains hospitalized as well for unspecified treatment in a maryland hospital at this hour. Police down there say it will likely be at least tomorrow before she is released from the hospital and into Police Custody but once that happens, she will in fact be brought back to philadelphia to face itemed murder aggravated assault and other charges in a case as you might imagine has stunned this community. Philadelphia police were back at nia parlor on baltimore avenue monday morning. They were looking for clues that might explain why the 41yearold single mother would leave her quadriplegic son behind alone in the woods while she traveled to maryland to visit with her boyfriend. The mayor scene here in a facebook photo. Parlors neighbors are still shaking their heads. To my eyesight she was a fine fit mother, you know what i mean . Kept her kids clean. Sat out here and laughed and joked and played. Shocked are you. Very shock. Reporter at a hear about what she did. I dont believe its the same woman that i know. Reporter parlors 21yearold son non verbal and wheelchair bound was found with nothing but a blanket an bible friday night in the woods off the 1100 block of south 59th street. He was malnourish, dehydrated hadnt a cut on his back. Lead detective lieutenant john walker spent monday afternoon at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. How is he doing right now . Doing very well. Hes got family with him. Been with him throughout this ordeal. Seems to be happy. Family did seem to be seems to be a loving kid having trying to hug family members and having fun with them at this point. Reporter mazing hes doing this well after what hes been through. Its just incredible. I mean, words cant explain this kid out there minimum of five days what hes been through. Reporter police in maryland tracked parlor to Silver Spring where she had reported been with her boyfriend since monday. Over this past Weekend Police there said she had given them an explanation for her trip south. I think the adult female stated that she was shopping or at a Shopping Center or a mall. Reporter lieutenant walker says she may have been shopping but no question she was down in maryland specific toll see her boyfriend. By the way police here say that boyfriend did not know of this scheme at the time last week. They say hes been tremendously cooperative and does not face any kind of criminal charge whatsoever. Nia parlor has another son a 16yearold boy. He had already been living with family members before this incident ever occurred. Part of the broader investigation says lieutenant walker will to see whether and if social services did their job properly how this situation could have unfolded the way it did. Dawn . Certainly tragic, thank you bruce. A burned out shell of a schoolbus in delaware. The driver and two Young Children managing to escape unharmed. How that driver first noticed that something was very wrong. And parents how young is too young for children to hang out outside alone . The parents of these maryland skids seem to have a very different opinion than their their neighbors and now for the second time authorities have taken their children away. Theyre polarizeing brand of parenting. Charges against a deputy in an oklahoma shooting death. Police just releaseing some very before seen video. The admission in that video. People are struggling to get their bearing tonight after a devastating tornado in illinois. Along with the shock and the sorrow comes a new emotion. How people are become very green at authorities. Breaking news from philadelphias fair hill neighborhood. A woman shot twice. Once in the shoulder and once in the back on the 100 block of wizard street. Shes in stable condition at Temple University hospital now. Investigators are trying to figure out if a stray bullet or two hit her. Theyre looking for a white car possibly a cadillac with several people inside. Also breaking, a huge fire burning right now in south amboy, new jersey. Were told this is a Grocery Store. Its called the c up to supermarket. We are not over that fire right there at the moment. But this is located on bordentown avenue. We just showed you the flames and the thick plumes of smoke. So well continue to follow that and bring you more pictures as we get them. All right. Question right now is how is schoolbus caught fire and thats the question tonight but this morning it had the driver and two children getting off just in time in delaware. State police say the East Millsboro elementary bus caught fire this morning on kerries camp road. The bus driver saw smoke and flames coming out of the engine and pull right over. She ushered an 11yearold girl and nineyearold boy off that bus just in time. You can see the carcass of the bus there. Moments later the whole bus was engulfed in flames. Jurors hearing closing arguments in the trial of a man accused of killing sixyearold i was tan patz back in 1979. Defense says prosecutors have not shown that a 22012 confession by pedro who are then dez was credible. There is no evidence to support that he killed the child in new york city. The boys body was never found. Hernandez whos from maple shade, new jersey, has said on video that he choked etan in a Convenience Store basement. The defense says the admissions are the fictional raising of a mentally ill man with a low iq. Prosecutors however say that hernandezs confession is sound. A federal Appeals Court up holding a judges decision to dismiss a lawsuit challengeing new jerseys band on gay conversion therapy. The third u. S. Circuit court of appeals in philadelphia ruling today that u. S. District judge us district judge was right to reject the claims of a new jersey couple. The two saying their Constitutional Rights were being violated because the law prevents them from seeking treatment for their teenaged son. Governor christie signing a law back in 2013 banning the therapy in the state of new jersey. We are on top of a develop developing story in oklahoma. Prosecutors in tulsa charged a White Reserve sheriffs deputy with manslaughter in the shooting of a black man. The charge comes right on the heels of the release of a video of that shooting. 73yearold tulsa county reserve Deputy Robert bates now faces a Second Degree manslaughter charge. Authorities say bates thought he was holding a stun gun not his handgun when he fire at 44yearold eric harris in the april 2nd incident. Undercover operation by the cher rips office targeted harris for he it says trying to illegally sell a gun. You can train someone as much as you can and you train in every area that you can, but in times of crisis sometimes training is not going to take you through the scenario. Just released video you can hear a man say oh, i shot him. Im sorry. You can also hear harris saying hes having trouble breathing and an identified officer saying in so many words who cares about your breath . Septa breaking ground today on renovations for a very busy Transportation Center in our area. The 69th street Transportation Center getting a 19 million renovation. Crews will be conducting conducting pedestrian rams ands, adding security cameras green roofs and installing Energy Efficient led lighting. Those renovations are expected to be complete this fall. Dozens of students in Delaware County have a new very important life saving skill tonight. It was cpr day at carnal ohara in springfield. Students packed gym to train up on their cpr skills. Brain child of ohare rah student whos parents work in the medical field. She has his first hand the importance of cpr from her parents and wanted to teach everyone. Not everyone is cpr certified and they should be because it could be your kids or your family your friends some day and its such an important skill, so i thought it was feasible to do it in my school and why not . Why not indeed. The American Heart Association says nine 2 of cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital. They say the more people who know cp, the more lives will be saved. Israeli are a rash students spending the next 10 days in philadelphia. Math teacher at Cheltenham High School a range for the visit. Cheltenham students during the israeli teenagers at the consulate of israel in center city. The hope is students will break down stereotypes and learn more about israel through human interactions. Promise to help you shed pounds do some popular diet pills contain ingredients youd never take if you knew about them . The new push to get those pills off store shelves. Plus an action packed class trip to florida but not in the way the students had hoped. Why dozens of them had to be rushed to the hospital. First rapper kanye west jumps into a lake in armenia

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