Survivor in 2001. He punched the man so hard it left him brain dead at a hospital where he died days later. It all started with a fight in traffic. The victims friends spoke with news channel 8 what happened. It is hard to believe that something so senseless could happen. Reporter years later, another case of road rage drive on and mind your own business. Reporter the shooter in this case, Robert Padgett was on the scene administering cpr when paramedics arrived. He was trying to save the mans life. He was questioned and then anywhere from the victims wife from 2001 . Did she have anything to say . Reporter in addition to the shooter, we asked him what he thought about this situation. He tells us that it is difficult and he did not wa talk about it today. As for the wife of the victim from 2001, she tells us this is poetic justice. He spent years on the run. Now, a suspect in a deadly hit and run on i275 is in custody. The family of the victim finally has the been waiting for. Kandis mcallen joins us live in tampa. She is in front of the Hillsborough County courthouse. How long before this guy is back in the us . Reporter good evening. It could be anywhere from a few months to a year before he is back in front of a judge. As for the victims family, they got word this morning about his arrest through email and it brought on a flood of emotions. Everything from joy weight angel has been waiting to say those words. There have been countless sleepless nights and endless grief all trying to not lose the faith. Icy rtti about people who are on the land for much longer. I was prepared for the long haul. Reporter his fathers prayers were offered monday when a Suspicious Group for ponce officers. They took him in for questioning and at that time, they found a fake mexican passport. Reporter after running his fingerprints, ponce was back in handcuffs. The news left angel and his wife in tears. Three years of emotions coming out. Reporter ounces accused of driving the wrong way when he hit and killed angels said william four years ago. Three years ago, while out on bracelet and disappeared. To add insult to injury. I had to relearn how to use my arm and walk. I had to re assimilate into the workforce. Reporter three years of agony and it is the word capture that is giving them a moment of joy. He is a major league screw up. Reporter it is not just Christopher Ponce angel want to see prosecuted. He is convinced that ponce had assistance while he was on the run and he wants investigators to find whoever was helping him. Weight angel has been relentless in his quest to keep the word out about this case. Reporter we have covered it when he has had protests. He started a website and made re that his sons story made it on national news. He put up a sign in his yard to was good news. Reporter today, we learned more about what led up to the officer involved shooting. The police chief is telling us that officer the call accidentally fired the live round maryknoll to during a Citizens Academy last night. Officials explained the revolver was specifically used for these sort of training exercises and they did not know that it carried live ammunition. It is human nature to. What purpose did this serve . I dont know gods plan. Sometis i get angry at god but that does not do me any good. It wont bring her back. Fdl he is investigating this incident. Officer cole is on administrative leave and the chief tells us he has other officers with him at this point to make sure he is a while pursued through Sarasota County started with a 26 bar at the tab. Deputies we trying arrested jacob davis after he did not pay his tab. He drove off and led them on a chase. This is the video from the sheriffs helicopter. Davis was going too fast but the chopper did not lose sight of him. Deputies later used stop sticks to slow him down. Real olympics. Clearwater swimmer could have another chance at a metal tonight in rio. Medal tonight in rio. She helped team usqualify for tonights finals but we are not sure whether she will make the lineup. That wont be released until 10 pm tonight. She just missed be medal stand in the 200 m individual. Dorado. We caught up behind her after the race. I cannot believe i got fourth place at the olympics. That is incredible. I was so excited. I congratulated her before i looked at the scoreboard to see what had happened to me. To see fourth, i am so excited. I did not think i would swim for four more years and now i am thinking it is a possibility. You can find out whether she makes the cut olympic coverage. We will have finals and a number of swimming events tonight plus womens beach volleyba, mens gymnastics. All about starts at 8 pm hear on news channel 8 it was back to school time today. We will show you which bay area students got to enjoy their first day back in a brandnew building. This veteran wants the va to reconsider his request for list in front of him. We investigate what the holdup is. Mostly sunny skies throughout the day. It is a change from the past couple of days. We are seeing thunderstorms along the sea breeze and some activity in the golf. I am dan lucas live outside of Independence Hall in philadelphia. We are ready for the bucs z22qbz zy6z a lot of students went back to school today. That includes county. Thousands went to the Robinson High School campus south tampa before the sun came up here, they are not ready to say goodbye to summer and others are excited to see friends. Largo High School Students started the new year at a brand new campus today. Students arrived early this morning to see the entryway lit up in the schools colors. They tell us this campus looks more like a college than a high school. The schools previous building millions of dollars are waiting to be claimed in tampa bay and if any of it belongs to you we want to help you got it. We are having a special phone bank to find out if you are owed unclaimed cash. You can phone tomorrow. The telephone number on your screen is the one to call. He gave his country 20 years. Now he is asking for 30 minutes in front of a be a board of appeals. There are more than 12,000 other veterans ahead of them. What is behind this agonizing he wants another shot at disability benefits but he is number 12,396 in line. Veterans appealing be a decisions which denied him disability benefits face a massive backlog here in the tampa bay area. The logjam is adding years to an already lengthy process. One veteran told senior investigator that he thinks the va is putting him off and just waiting for him to die. I hear a lot about from veterans. When you take a look at the line in front of this gentlemen, it makes you wonder. This is a story about a veteran who claims he was exposed to agent orange. The va denied him disability benefits. Now, he is in a race against the clock. Ground fresh lease rate with agent orange at luban air force base in thailand during the vietnam war. You can smell it. It was a terrible smell. Reporter now, he is standing in line at the va in st. Petersburg. He is number 12,936. He is waiting for agent orange disability benefits. Tom suffers from heart disease, Prostate Cancer and painful neuropathy in his feet. This letter from the va doctor concedes these conditions are associated with agent or perimeter with agent orange. Photos obtained by 8 on your side shows air force barracks were opened with only screens for walls and close to the perimeter. The va rejecting toms claim for agent orange disability bene ts. According to veterans advocate and law professor, cases like toms seem easy. The va made them complex. It should not take this much paperwork for one veteran to be able to get in agent orange last year, the va worked feverishly to reduce a 1 million case backlog of Service Disability claims. According to professors, the va has made so many poor decisions on disability claims like tom jenkins, it has created a huge backlog on the appeals and. Do we want to take care of our veterans a society . Are we going to hold them to this standard where not even the va and police can understand ho reporter the va could streamline its system by using common sense instead of complex criteria. They are dragging their feet at the va in st. Pete. They hope i die. Reporter a meeting with senator nelson that he claims he has been denied would help move things along. Our nationwide estimates say this backlog is nearing a half million cases. A document forwarded to me this currently working on claims from 2012 and 2013. Those claims were filed four years ago. Is there any way to speed things up . Use common sense. The sky was based in thailand. They use agent orange on his base. He has a list of agent orange related illnesses. Give him the benefits. It is so complex. They dont even know what their own rules are. If you have a problem call our helpline. The telephone number is on your screen. We have a few raindrops on the lens here at frenchys. 80 degrees with a strong southwesterly wind. There are some showers in the gulf of mexico. At st. Pete speech, a little more sunshine. How the skies have looked most of the day. You can see developing clouds with much more sunshine than we have seen the past several days. That is the view now with almost an inch of rain falling in the Lakewood Ranch. The air temperatures come down but the rain is helping to drop those temperatures around the area today. Down in rio in brazil, the temperure is 61 degrees at 7 am for tomorrow. 81 degrees noon and 80 degrees at 4 pm. The temperatures are in celsius because that is the way they measured in rio. A meteor shower is occurring thursday night into friday morning. This is the perseid meteor shower. It will be a good one if you can get away from city lights. Up to 200 meteors per hour. This passing through the tail of the comet swift tuttle which allows us to see these. This is tomorrow night in check that out if you can away from city lights. The radar is lighting up with they are not doing a great job of reaching the coast. Thunderstorms have developed near the sea breeze. This is around land o lakes. It looks like a very active thunderstorm in a string across the northern parts of Hillsborough County down into carrollwood. Right around that Sun City Center area, this goes all the way into manatee county. That is the activity that has built up in the land o lakes area. Further south, that is the activity we see around the Lakewood Ranch area. Thunderstorms go all the way into Sarasota County. If you offshore here but nothing that strong. Portions of polk county, a little outflow racing across this area. More showers may develop. On the eastern part of hillsboro. 77 degrees with the 7 am forecast. Sunshine for tomorrow with mid 80s for the highs. New port richey, 80 degrees. Temperatures have been a little cooler as a result of the thunderstorms that have already the southern end, we have a southwesterly flow. The influence is weakening as we get back into more of an easterly flow pattern. We havent talked a lot about the tropics but it has been quite indialantic. A forecast continues to keep it that way with dry air helping to suppress shower activity. Watch for understorms continuing to develop over the next few hours. The same routine for tomorrow morning. About the rain chances are lower than normal. They would likely be mostly in the afternoon and evening hours. That will mean a lot of sunshine and hot temperatures. We are 24 hours from the bucs preseason opener. Dan lucas is live in philadelphia. We first thought . The latest in florida, people are working hard, just to get by. But in washington republican senator marco rubio has the worst voting record in the u. S. Senate. Marco rubio stopped showing up for work. Let us down. Im Patrick Murphy and enoughs enough. Im proud to work with president obama. And grow this economy so it works for all of us. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message good evening from Independence Hall in the city of brotherly love. This is where our forefathers invented the cheese steak. Just south of here, the bucs will hope to knock out the other philadelphia product, the eagles. The first preseason game. It will be fun to watch. Last year, the bucs lost offensive tackle demar dotson to injury in the first game. Quality reps starters like james winston, last year, winston played the first half. I would be surprised if we see the same thing tomorrow night. As cutter told me, the biggest thing he wants to see player get into the game, especially games fighting for spots on the roster. The first preseason game, i know fans are excited. The players are excited to see an opponent. There is the reality of preseason game number one. What do you really accomplish . A few things. You got to play a lot of guys. You get to see whoever is coaches yelling at him. You get to see guys react to a real game situations. There are no quick whistles. This is all football. It puts us in some chaotic situations where we have to be able to adjust. There is even though you have to try hard to duplicate that kind of stuff in practice, it is difficult. One guy we may see play more than we thought, ovarian jenkins. His spot on the bucs chart was made clear by head coach dirk cutter. He is behind cameron. If there is bad blood between the player and the coach, it is no longer about talking and working out differences. He is being held to the same standard as players trying to make this roster. At least he is saying the right things. If i am not number one on the depth chart right now, i am or whatever have to be. I would be the best i can be. I am seizing the opportunities and i am really enjoying and loving the game. It has been great energy all the way round. Tonight, 7 pm on great 38. Real quick, keith and stacy race and blake smell to the mound tonight and lawrence samuels, the coach out after two wins this season. Independence hall check out the declaration of independence or a cheese steak. I havent made a my nd yet. To both. [ laughter ] that was dan lucas live in philadelphia. You need to say with us because nbc nightly news is coming next followed by news channel 8 a 7. You can join josh benson over on great 38 at 8 pm. 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