Someone tried to steal those shoes, and there was a fight, there was gunfire, and 17yearold James Anthony smith ended up dead. Today i talked to his mom. She said she last saw her son alive yesterday afternoon. He said, ill be back, ma, i love you. Reporter thats the last you saw him there . Thats the last time i saw him. Reporter here at your job 4 00 yesterday afternoon . 4 00 yesterday afternoon. Reporter now hes gone. Hes gone. Reporter it has to be tearing you apart. It tares tears me apart him being shot, his life taken for tennis shoes. Reporter mike lives around her lives here. He was around last night. He heard the gunshots. It more than ten. Reporter he said there is a lot of lead in the air in this neighborhood. He says cars get shot. People get shot. Why, just last week, he says, he picked up all these shell casings right in front of his house. You could be sitting watching television. The next thing you know, its 100 gunshots, you know. You dont know whether to duck, get u
Teachers did not follow grading policies. There was also poor recordkeeping and irregularities with grade changing. School ceo dr. Kevin maxwell responded to the audit in a meeting held tuesday. He says intense training Going Forward should be able to solve these problems. We believe by providing more targeted training we can improve staffs adherence to policies and procedures. Upgrading technology through the auto makes of archaic processes will minimize potential areas for fraud. Yesterdays meeting also pointed out that there was suspicion with prince gorges county schools stemming from more than a year and a half ago. Its 4 31. New video showing the arrest of a ward 8 advisory commissioner. News 4 has interviewed Paul Trantham about Community Concerns in the past. Now it appears he is the concern. Prince gorges county police had pulled him out of a locked bathroom at the Police Station yesterday. Come on, mr. Punk. Dont make me come inside there. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. Pol
50 degrees in leesburg. Bus stop forecast looking good. Kids will want a jacket because it is a little bit chilly in some spots. Through the afternoon cooler than yesterday. Well be around 50 degrees. More clouds. Nice and dry. The wet weather is down to the south. If youre doing your Holiday Travel anywhere from louisiana to tennessee to the carolinas, thats going to be wet. Where im heading, melissa, all the way down to florida, thats nice and dry. Bring back sand and shells and all of that. In waterford a brand new problem, 9 at Hamilton Station. All lanes blocked. Sounds like we have a vehicle on its roof here. In bound 66 at fairfax drive, also have a crash. That one is on the right shoulder. Northbound 270 at middlebrook road and germantown, do have a crash blocking the right lane. When youre looking at prince gorges county, no problems into town and out of town. The beltway is looking quite good. Were on the problem in waterford coming up. Tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Breaki
The woods. Reporter a 17yearold girl in these woods crying for help from a perfect stranger. She said can you help me . Reporter michael was outside of his home across the street. He thought it was a joke at first and then he saw the child inside of this brush and yelled for his mother to call 911. She had a stab wound on her sh it was unimaginable. Reporter according to the sheriffs office, all of this was done at the hands of these two adults. Chris pieters and melissa peters. Their home is 1 mile away from the words woods. I cannot imagine an environment where you would start a child. I cant imagine an environment where you would eat a child and arm or use them for a punching bag. But that is what we saw. They refused to let the teacher to the bathroom teenager use the bathroom. If she had not escaped she certainly would have died. She would not have been alive much longer has she not fled. This girl before. That was clifton french reporting. With some issues and we will hopefully g
Behind at least three others. He could strike again. Joining us live in clear water where cameras captured him in the act. Reporter this appears to be his first target yesterday around 3 20 in the morning. He walked in with a tight hooded shirt around his around 2 00 this morning. This time he wore a red hooded sweatshirt doing a good job of concealing his face and same deal, not showing a gun but implying he had one and demanding money. This shows the suspect in a blue hoody going through the same motions he took off in a 2003 or 04 nissan. Theyre confirming that the robbery is connected to the same suspects and we have four robberies connected to the same guy. Thank you. We have some new information this morning about the deadly bus crash in tennessee. Just two hours ago, with i learned more about the five Young Children killed they were in fourth grade, one was in fifth grade and the other was a kindergartener. Six students care. 24yearold Johnathon Walker is now in jail. The scene