Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20160608 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm 20160608

Parents struggle with how to convince their children to slow down. They are new drivers. They dont realize the responsibility that it takes to drive a car. Its not fair. Not fair. Reporter Police Say Jacob had a provisional license. He got it in march. He should not have been driving nonfamily passengers until august. They say that there was no sign of alcohol, no bottles, no cans. No odor. They will conduct toxicology tests to be sure. Live in damascus, bruce leshan, wusa 9. All right. This was supposed to be a day of elation and joy. High School Graduation took place in morning but it was hours after that deadly crash. The schools principal, families honored the th students lost. Stephanie ramirez held the attended the ceremony. Many of the students knew the victims and were reacting to the news. Reporter yeah, a bittersweet day. The victims were juniors but they new plenty of seniors graduating. The principal had a relationship with the three but together everyone pushed through graduation. Online, the students are supporting one another using the clarksburg strong. Reporter graduation, a milestone in a Young Persons life. Clarkburgs principal says it was important to celebrate the accomplishment today but his face carried the weight of what happened hours before. I was the principal of Rocky Hill Middle School when they were in middle school. I have known them since they were 11 years old. Reporter the school body echoed the closeness wednesday taking a moment of silence honor jacob dennis, Patrick Shifflett and gary greene. It took place at mount st. Marys university. Afterwards, Andrew Rollins said honestly it hasnt hit me yet. I dont see them every day anyway but the times that i see them, i will look around and not find them. They were such happy people when i would see them around. To know that sometimes you wont see them. Reporter that made the hugs and gathering more important. This is the second time the high school is dealing with death. In September Clarksburg lost 16 yearold who was struck and killed during a photo shoot near train tracks. We celebrate yet we cant forget that we have lost. We come together at times like this and make sure that we take care of each other. They are all really good kids and they all had bright futures. This milestone he tells me is for them. Anybody. You need to cherish what you hold dear to you. Reporter andrew said patrick could have easily gone to a d1 school. He was that talented in football. The three acted in sports and clubs. The principal said they exemplify what clarkburg is about. Stephanie ramirez, channels. Thank you. Grief county slurs were on hand. They will be available at the School Tomorrow grief counselors were on hand. They will be available at the School Tomorrow. Northern Virginia Bureau chief peggy fox joins us live from culpeper. This was a violent domestic shooting . Reporter it sounds absolutely terrifying. The sheriff tells us that the walkers were separated. The wife had moved out. She came back to talk to her husband, didnt think there would be a problem grabbed a shotgun. Walker then threatens her. She runs for her life to a neighbors house. Reporting shots fired in the house. Reporter a violent scene played out here on this usually quiet Culpeper County street. We heard a gunshot. Ten minutes later the cops pulled up. I heard them screaming. This is Culpeper County sheriffs. Come out with your hand up. Reporter Willis Walker was in a rage. His estranged wife came for a visit. Sheriffs deputies say he pulled out a shotgun. She ran to a neighbors house for refuge. She was banging on the door asking for help. Reporter walker killed a 74 yearold man who lived in the home, a woman hid inside a closet and called 911, while walker pursued his wife. Deputies got there in less than a minute. Caller is the neighbor in the bathroom, locked in the ththroom. To get to the neighbor in the bathroom. Reporter on the radio dispatch, they see walker come outside. Two minutes later holding a shotgun and walking toward them. He tells them he killed two people and asked them to shoot him. Subject is yelling at us to kill him. He advised he killed two people. Reporter six deputies keep an eye on the subject holding fire, you can hear concern. I no longer have visual on him. He is walking to my cruiser. Reporter the threat is too much. Deputies have given him four minutes before they stop him. Fired. One round in him. He is not moving. Chest wound just below the sternum. Reporter now, after Willis Walker shot that neighbor who tried to protect his wife, he then found his wife in the bathroom and severely beat her. In fact, he beat her so severely he thought he her but he did not. She was taken to a hospital where she is recovering. Reporting live in culpeper, peggy fox, wusa 9. Gunfire rang out in a quiet neighborhood this afternoon. One man is dead. Another is in police custody. A woman was critically wounded. Wusa 9s Andrea Mccarran joins us live with this developing story from Beverly Drive and tobin road. Piece this together, andrea. Reporter adam, police say the gunman knew the victims. Worse, this outburst of violence was witnessed by children inside the home. Police say none was physically harmed. Dramatic video captured by our sky 9 helicopter shows a s. W. A. T. Team moving in and arresting a man. After midafternoon gunshots in the 3400 block of Beverly Drive in annandale. I see cops everywhere then the bang. I didnt know it if it i didnt know if it was a shot or car back firing. I got scared. Reporter the gunfire prompted police to issue a shelter in place order. That lasted over an hour before the neighborhood was deemed safe again. A shock when my day off today. I probably left about 12 00 and come home to this. The first time in 33 years Something Like this happened. Police say one man was discovered dead in the yard and a woman inside the home was found critically wounded. Here on the scene, detectives are right now combing the area around the home searching for evidence and a potential motive. Reporting live from annandale, Andrea Mccarran, wusa 9. The 3400 block of Beverly Drive near the intersection of tobin is closed at this hour. A 22yearold d. C. Man was convicted of raping a during a home invasion. Antwan pit took the stand in his own defense and denied raping the woman suggesting it was someone else. Jurors didnt buy it. He will be sentenced in august on todays eight convictions. Turning to campaign 2016, Bernie Sanders is pondering his next move. The senator headed back to vermont after being defeated by Hillary Clinton in four of six primaries tuesday. California was the largest prize. In an emotional speech, clinton thanked her mother and turned her sights on donald trump. Sanders vows to keep going. When he says lets make America Great again, that is code for lets take america backwards. We take our fight for social, economic, racial and Environmental Justice to philadelphia, pennsylvania. Sanders will meet with president obama tomorrow at the donald trump meanwhile delivered a more restrained primary victory speech last night complete with a teleprompter. On metro today, the third day under safe tracking, while the ride home is reaching the peak, the ride to work featured big delays, particularly i66 and the 14th street bridge. But traffic relief could be on the way courtesy of the federal government. The office of personal management is encouraging agencies to consider flexible and compressed work schedules. The goal would be to get cars off the road and people off metro during the height of the rush hour. We are just Getting Started on wusa 9 news at 5 00. Top, tell us something good . We are looking at winds gusting over 30 miles per hour. The good news, they will subside later tonight. Wind gust 35 at 29 at frederick. 26 in hagerstown. One man is dead. A killer is on the streets after a shooting in broad daylight at alexandria. Debra alfarone has the story. Reporter police will say they are looking ran behind these buildings after shooting a man to death, pierre clark. He has no fixed address. Police cars and. Reporter some people say bullets and bloodshed are a regular part of life. I opened and saw the body laying on the ground. Reporter this mom doesnt want to be on camera. She knew the man shot to death. When i knew him, i was doing bad things. Reporter she says she has been sober and off drugs for more than a decade. Her window looks out on the block across the street where trouble hits. I see someone running from that area, a young gentleman. Reporter that was after 12 30, a busy time on this block. They dont know if it was targeted or random. I was by the window and i heard five, six shots and i ducked, went behind be next. Bullets have no name. Out of the people i used to hang with, they are dead now. I know for a fact that the drug activity and drug abuse. Police have not released a description of the man they are looking for. In alexandria, debra alfarone, wusa 9. If you have any information, call police a call, 703746 4444. Breaking news out of northwest washington. An incident involving five victims, four of whom were shot and also involved a metropolitan Police Officer on a bike and apparently hit by a car. This is happening at the scene on north capital. Alerts are going out to text message looking out for a black male, 56, black mask. A bike officer hit by a car. Garrett haake is nearly at the scene. We will get an update when he arrives. A jeep crashed into their Apartment Building. It happened this afternoon at 17223 king james way in gaithersburg. The vehicle went deep into somebodys living room. No one was hurt. As you can see there is plenty of damage to the Apartment Building itself. Its not clear what caused the driver to lose control. A firefighter is recovering from minor injuries after this fire at a home in landover hills. You can see video. The flames are shooting off the roof. The fire chief says putting out the flames was a little tricky because it was an older home with challenging construction. Free tickets to attend muhammad alis funeral on than planned in louisville. Thousands started lining up last night to get the chance to witness history. One woman able to score tickets shared her memories of ali growing up. He would say im pretty, im pretty. I will be the worlds next heavyweight champion. The Kfc Yum Center is expected to be filled to capacity. It will be on the screens outside the arena and on our digital channel 9. 2. In addition to the funeral, there will be a 19mile procession through louisville. Our colleague Bruce Johnson will be there for the event the next few days. He is from louisville. You can download our wusa 9 app for special reports as bruce returns home for this contribute. The winds of change are upon us here quite literally after the heat up. Wondered if it would cool back be careful what you wish for. Tonight 40 sers in the suburbs. You will get 40 in the suburbs. I went 76 to 75 to 74 by 11 30. I think 74 will be okay. We will let you know how we did. You can download the free app and keep track of us how we are doing on the threedegree. Temperature is 72. Look at the dew point. 38. Relative humidity 29 . That is low for us for june. Winds are howling. 23 gusting to 35. They will subside and become under control tonight. So, open the windows a bit but not too far. We are looking at upper 40s, upper 50s. Bus stop 48 to 68. Cool to start. Then thursday the best in show. Almost perfect. I suppose some folks may not like the breezes it will be breezy, not windy but breezy. Friday is still nice. Weekend looks hotter as opposed to warmer with some afternoon showers and storms. Not as wet as yesterday. 10 00 tonight 59 in gaithersburg. Generally clear. By early in the morning, barely hanging on to the 50s. 50 in frederick. 49 in damascus. 56 downtown. The look at this, 53 in fredricksburg and laplata at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, that is chilly. By 9 00 low to mid60s. 1 00 upper 70s to mid70s. Maybe only 72 in hagerstown and cumberland but 76 manassas. 76 sterling and 76 culpeper. Then by tomorrow evening, upper 70s. Maybe 76, 77 in bowie. 79 to fredricksburg. Tomorrow cool. Temps wont by midnight temperatures in the low 60s across the board. So, is tonight, clear to partly cloudy. Almost chilly for june. 48 to 58. Winds subside, westnorthwest at 10. Tomorrow morning gorgeous. A cool start, yes. 48 to 74 by lunchtime. By afternoon, spectacular day. Letter mostly sunny, breezy. Breezy tomorrow but not windy. All right. Day planner looks like this. Even downtown we are talking 50s to start. 58 at 7 00. Back to 70 at 11 00. Back to 75 with full sun by 1 00 p. M. Now, the next three days, pleasant on friday. I got a drop here. A slight chance of a sprinkle. Dont change plans. Hot on saturday, 90. Afternoon storms possible. Remember the nats game on saturday is a noon affair. The next seven days, more storms on sunday. 87. Not a wash mostly sunny. Thank you. Caught on tape, a dramatic struggle between a mother and would be kidnapper trying to snatch her teenage daughter. Dont mess with the mommas. One of the most popular stories on our wusa 9 app. Video show a man identified as Craig Bunnell low walking through a dollar store before he grabs the girl. The mother was not having hit. The two of them struggled to try to get their hands on the teen. Look at that. At one point the mother lays on top of her daughter to save her. In my 10 years, i have never seen an instance like this in brad daylight in a public area where a subject, the suspect would grab a young girl like this. She may have saved her daughters life today. I dont exactly know a mow motive. Not a good one. An offduty officer came to the store after arrested him. Straight ahead, we are talking about raising awareness about a preventible problem that kills dozens each year. The emotional and final walk for the last living 9 11 search dog. Yeah ahh. You probably say it a million times a day. Ahh. Ahh ahh. Ahh but at cigna, we want to help everyone say it once a year. Say ahh. Ahh. Cigna medical plans cover one hundred percent of your innetwork annual checkup. So america, lets go. Know. Ahh and take control of your health. Cigna. Together, all the way. Touching video of the last remaining search dog from ground zero on 9 11 receiving her final salute in cypress, texas. Dozens of her fellow firefighters standing at attention as brittney, the golden retriever made a last visit to the veterinarian that cared for her the last 16 years. She was in kidney failure. Her land letterer made the decision to put her down. She is a part of our family. I have known her her entire life, so, she has always been there. She is one of you . She is. She is one of us, so its hard. Brittney searched for survivors after hurricanes katrina and rita. She was studied her life for the impact of 9 11 pollutants. An autopsy, one last medical selfless gift to give. We pivot now to consumer news and today is National Child vehicular heatstroke prevention and awareness day. A long title but this advertise the long and short of it. Every nine days a child days after becoming literally overcome by heat inside a car or truck. It happened earlier today, too. An 8monthold baby died. That means already this year, 11 children have died in hot cars. Today grieving parents sent a letter to Transportation Leaders calling for action including new technology to prevent this from happening again. The group, kids in cars, has passed out more than 750 information cards around the world. The reminder to all parents and care givers, look in the back before you lock your car. We got a recall involving nature made Gummy Vitamins and tablets. Those products may be and other bacteria that can cause food poisoning. We have a list on our wusa 9 news app. Take a look. Straight ahead, a sheriff deputy shot investigating a breaking and entering call in virginia. A male nurse on trial for sexually assaulting pay tints patients learns his fate. We continue breaking news from d. C. Whereas many as three people were shot and an officer injured. This happened a short time ago near the intersection of north capitol street and new york avenue. Garrett haake joins us from the scene. What do you know . Reporter the latest information is that four people have been shot at this scene. At least four victims at the scene. You can see its a massive scene. A lot of white shirts including chief cathy lanier. They are investigating a quadruple shooting with an officer injured. He was a Mountain Bike officer hit by a car, not on the scene and frankly we are not sure if that is directly related to what police are investigating here, these four people shot. They have given look out information, looking for a black male about 56, to dark complex wearing complexion wearing all black and at the time of the shooting wearing a black mask. I can tell you there are canine units all over the scene. We have seen the helicopter in the air. An active search for the suspect. No word on the condition of the four victims but when we have that information, we will bring it back to you. Garrett haake, wusa 9. Thanks for the update. Some kind of day. A former High School Biology teacher facing up to 25 years behind bars charged with the sexual abuse of a minor. Police say the Bethesda Chevy Chase High School teacher took pictures of girls on his cell phone. Delia goncalves is live outside the school to tell us more about the investigation. Good evening. Reporter good evening. Students at bcc high say rumors about mr. Scriber have been swirling since last october when the first victim me used his cell phone to up security her in class. No one really liked him. Reporter she is talking about the former biology teacher. Poli

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