Eyewitness news. 20 doves released in memory of kouren thomas. Friends and strangers coming together to remember his short life. Why his family did not attend the vigil. Plus. Three people including two teenagers charged in the murder of a durham cab driver. Police describe the crime spree that lead to the killing. And. Building success. How one organization is helping local kids through technology. Eyewitness news starts right now. The dangerous heat is back. Just in time for the weekend. Good evening everyone. Im tisha powell. And im joel brown. In for steve daniels. The extreme humidity could push the heat index past 100 degrees. Meteorologist liz horton is in the First Alert Storm Center with details. Liz . Temperatures are now in the low to mid 90s, and heat index readings are area. The hot, hazy, humid pattern will continue into the weekend. Each day the heat index will be around 100105. I wouldnt say its going to get any worse, but it will continue. Northampton county now has a heat advisory for saturday from 11 a. M. Until 7 00 p. M. For heat index values near 105 110. We will see very isolated showers the next few days thanks to High Pressure in control. Our next shot of widespread rain will be the middle part of next week finally arrives from the tennessee valley. New tonight a vigil for a young by a homeowner in North Raleigh last weekend. Friends and strangers coming together tonight to remember and hold a moment of silence for 20yearold kourenthomas. Dejuan hoggard is live at raleighs Millbrook Exchange park. Dejuan we understand Thomas Family did not attend this event. Kouren thomas was loved. And had you been here to witness the be in agreement too. Tears, laughs, hugs, and words of encouragement filled the air this evening at Millbrook Exchange park. In honor of 20yrold kouren thomas. He was killed sunday. Raleigh police say chad copley fired the shot that killed thomas. In 911 calls, copley says there are quote me and him would always go back and forth saying i love you, i love you more. You hang up the phone, i love you. To the point where i would always want to be the last person to say i love you. So right when you would say it back to him, he would hang up the phone on you. Friends, loved ones, and even a few strangers came here to remember thomas bright smile and infectious spirit. Quincy brown did not know thomas, but came to express his support to the family. 19 48 18 no matter what is going on, the best way for us to get through this is to have compassion, and love. And thats the best way for us to heal. Andrea tiltons son and thomas were supposed to be celebrating tonight. Instead, theyre in mourning. 19 46 36 he was hard working, and he was just a joy. A joy to be around. And this loss is tremendous. Today is my sons 21st birthday and they had plans. And anyone who knew kouren is twenty doves were released. One dove for each year of thomas life. End with nats we also learned the family was not at the vigil, under the advisement of their attorney. A fundraiser for kouren will be held on august 18th at the mcdonalds where he worked on falls of neuse. Live in raleig abc11 Eyewitness News. Now to the husband. And father of three. Working endless hours driving a cab in durham. Only to be gunned down on the job, thursday afternoon in a Hotel Parking lot. Now, Police Say Two teenagers are behind the murder of ameer suliman. Cabbie in the midst of a crime spree. A pool worker at the Cardinal Lake subdivision was the first victim according to police. He was robbed of a cell phone, cash, and headphones by two teens according to police who say the first victim was just 17 himself. Al criss says when he heard the teens murdered someone after robbing his son he had to deal with competing emotions. After stealing his sons phone police say 17year old zyon mcneil and a 15year old juvenile used it to call for a cab. The cab showed up driven by 46 year old ameersuliman. Thirty minutes later a call came in from a clerk at the la quinta inn 12 miles away in Research Triangle park. Devie smith is a where suliman worked. She says she knew him for 20 years and that he was a great guy with a great smile, a wife and three small kids. She sent him on his last fare yesterday only to find out he was shot to death. Now mcneil is facing two counts of Armed Robbery and murder charges. Police say his 15 year old accomplice is being held at the Durham County youth home. The father of the pool worker who was also robbed says mcneils mother called him to apologize and say she had been trying to get help for her son. Raleigh police are investigating a shooting that sent a man to the hospital. Its a story weve been following since it broke at five oclock. Officers were called to the Raleigh Rescue Mission store and Donation Center on capital boulevard. The man was rushed to the hospital. Detectives say there is no threat to the community but they havent released information about a possible suspect. The executive director of the rescue mission says none of their employees or customers were affected. A Johnston County family safe tonight after fire ripped through their home. Chopper 11 hd was over the scene on ryans lane in clayton just after six tonight. Got out ok. The family dog was found hiding in first floor bathroom. The red cross is helping the family tonight. The fire started in the attic. But there no word on what sparked it. New tonight an arrest in a recent string of robberies. In wake county. Investigators say 2 men are responsible for at least 7 robberies across cary and raleigh dating back to june. Dalton christmas and leonardo martinez. Were arrested in cary. Both men are being held in the wake county jail. Christmas and martinez most recently robbed the parknshop gas station on chatham street in cary over the weekend. Police say one of them went into the store and threatened staff with a gun. Before getting away with some cash. An update to a story that was breaking at this hour, last night. A father in Johnston County accused of shooting his daughters boyfriend. 59yearold joseph aberant. Is charged with attempted murder. He was arrested after a brief police chase last night. Investigators say aberant shot alex ortiz. multiple times inside a mobile me of clayton. Ortiz was rushed to the hospital. With life threatening injuries. New details about a tanker crash in wake county that created a gooey mess during the morning commute. Chopper 11 hd was over the ramp from i40 and us one this morning. Police say the tanker truck driver did not slow down when taking the curve. Causing it to skid and overturn. When it flipped tar from the tanker spilled from a hole in the been cleaned up. The tanker driver dean nelson is charged with reckless driving. Wake countys only case of measles case ends up in court. A judge deciding today to uphold a mandatory quarantine for the teen who contracted measles during a european trip. The family had asked the court to have the quarantine lifted. Wake county Health Officials confirmed the teen had the virus earlier this month. Hed gone to nine locations across wake county before he was diagnosed. So far, no other measles cases h frightening moments in raleigh after the entire left side of a pedestrian bridge behind the greyhound station on capital boulevard came crashing down into the creek below rescue crews putting their own lives on line checking the area to see if anyone was trapped underneath all that crumbled concrete. No injuries were reported. Officials are now in the process of trying to find the Property Owner to get the area cleaned up. Raleigh city inspectors are fallen fort bragg soldier following through on his mission. A Child Development center named after Staff Sergeant edwardo loredo. Opened on post. Loredos wife and children unveiled the dedication plaque at the the center. Loredo was killed by an ied in afghanistan more than six years ago but this family has always promised to keep his memory alive. The newly named loredo Child Development center will be for kids ages six weeks to kindergarten age. On a mission to defeat isis. The last round of soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps af deploying to iraq right now. The soldiers gathering on base for final hugs and kisses, tonight. The last minutes before their their deployment to kuwait. Some of them thinking of the mission. Others having to a leave behind new born children thinking of the missed moments ahead of the 9month deployment. The men and women on deployment will deployment will lead a coalition of over 60 ally nations in Operation Inherent resolve. Still to come tonight a controversial murder conviction overturned. The tv series at the center of the decision. And the mexicomix up. A flight to albuquerque tagged as an international flight. The airline inneed of a geography lesson. Plus. Abc11 program. Thats helping close the Digital Divide in local schools. How its helping kids from low income families get access to computers. But first. A live look outside of the raleigh featured on the Netflix Documentary making a murderer could be out of prison in the next 90 days. A federal court has overturned the controversial murder conviction of brendan dassey. The now 26year old was 16 at the time of teresa halbachs rape and murder. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison, along with his uncle steven avery. Avery and dassey received National Attention after their cases were featured in the last year. Avery remains behind bars. New tonight. A horrific and deadly crash in ohio. Authorities say a mother driving members of a Girls High SchoolWater Polo Team collided with a tractor trailer. Authorities say a 19yearold passenger died at the scene. The van driver and four other teens were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. The Sheriffs Office says the van failed to yield at an intersection and police chase across houston came to a crashing halt. The truck was traveling only on rims for much of the pursuit, and at one point slams into a familys car. The family was not seriously hurt. Police say the suspect was wanted for burglary. When Police Caught him in the act, he sped off. The chase lasted an hour. After a brief standoff, he was taken into custody. A mexico mixup. For delta airlines. A 73yearold man from new mexico was trying to make changes to his flight from albuquerque to pennsylvania and was referred to the airlines office in mexico. J two different agents wrote that they couldnt quote any figures on the internet for international travel. He eventually learned the change fee would be 400dollars so he didnt end up changing his flight. Delta says they will follow up with their Reservations Team and appreciate sullivans patience. Its pokemon no for government employees. The pentagon saying workers with government issued phones and devices cannot play the game on them. A memo to employees said could be used by spies to pinpoint the locations of sensitive facilities where secrets are stored. Pentagon staff can still play the game on their personal phones but the pentagon asks them to use sound judgment when they do so at and away from work. Now to the big board and the mustsee video of the night. We start in louisiana with a dramatic high water rescue. Jordan temple jumping into those rising flood waters to save an elderly man car. Jordan. Putting the man on his shoulder. carrying him safety. Jordan even struggling himself during the rescue. At one point. The water was over his head. Fortunatley. Both jordan and the man he saved are both ok. A road rage incident ending with shots fired in california. This is dashcam video from the Santa Clarita sheriff. They say the used her window washers. Which apparently splashed the honda. The honda driver was none too happy. After whipping through traffic. He fired at least two rounds at the suv. Which was carrying a family of four. No injuries were reported. And one guy in louisiana decided to take a swim olympic style in the floodwater near his home. Jo guidry dove into the flooded area outside his home and started another hot and humid weekend is on tap. An area of High Pressure, currently centered over the western Atlantic Ocean will promote an uncomfortably hot pattern. Temperatures will warm up to the middle 90s saturday and sunday. The heat index will climb to 100 to 105 across weekend. Make sure to wear cool, loose fitting clothing and drink plenty of water to stay hydrated. Also, limit your time outdoors. If you have to be outside, spend plenty of time in the shade. Although there will be an isolated thunderstorm each afternoon or evening, rain will generally be spotty at best. We should see more sunshine than clouds. A weak cold front will arrive late increased chance for showers and thunderstorms. It should push our temperatures back into the 90s. Its a chance for yard sale aficionados. To shop til you drop. Sherri Bostic is setting up a yard sale that goes 40 miles from her front door in Sampson County into cumberland maxwell road endless yard sale last year after her husband was diagnosed with cancer and she needed money to help pay his medical bills. The sales starts at 7 am tomorrow. Abc11 together spotlighting good people doing good deeds. This time for students on their way back to school. The Salvation Army boys and girls club of a White House Initiative to bring Free Computers and training to students who need them most. Its a chance for yard sale aficionados. To shop til you drop. Sherri Bostic is setting up a yard sale that goes 40 miles from her front door in into cumberland county. Bostic started the maxwell road endless yard sale last year after her husband was diagnosed with cancer and she needed money to help pay his medical bills. The sales starts at 7 am tomorrow. Abc11 together spotlighting good people doing good deeds. This time for students on their way back to school. The Salvation Army boys and girls club of durham has partnered with connect home a White House Initiative to bring Free Computers and toya east from get hub in california is leading the free interactive workshops for students 14 through 18. Today she helped the kids actually build their computers that came and boxes and taught them all the ways they could use them at home and school. The workshop also covered gave tips for effective resumes and interviewing and talked about using the internet for social change. The final five. Scoring medals and breakfast glory. Where youll be able to catch their Smiling Faces just ahead. And holy smokes a very long cigar. To roller. Beat his roller. Beat his own world record. Jose castellear. Crea ting a 90 meter. Cigar in honor of former cuban leader fidel castros90th birthday. The cigar is 2 yards short of a football field the 72yearold made the cigar over a twoweek period helped by dozens of local workers. The results will be passed on to guinness for the record books. Gymnastic team is taking home a lot of gold this year. The women nicknamed the final five not only have a place in us gymnastics history. But the team will also appear on a cereal box. Special k will feature a photo of simone biles with her all around gold on one side. And a photo of her with the rest of the team on the other. Around. Coming up next in sports. More minor miracles in the pool in rio. Plus a shocking result on the soccer field and arod calls it a career in new york but first a razor close call for usa men today. Serbia had a look at a tying three to end the game but couldnt hit. 9491 the final. The knockout rounds are next. The us women had zero trouble with canada, drubbing every day occurence. But the water was once again the usa tonight. Maybe the most remarkable story 35 year Anthony Ervin who blazed his way to the 50m freestyle gold tonight. He won the same event in 2000 then went down a winding road of Substance Abuse only to return to glory. Very josh hamiltonesque. The other winners Katie Ledecky who blew away the field again to win the 800m free in world record time. Shes the first swimmer to sweep the 200, 400 seconds maya dirado took down the iron lady, katinka hozzsu of hungary in a thrilling comeback to snatch the 200m backstroke gold and Michael Phelps swam his final individual event the 100 butterfly. He wound up in a three way dead heat for silver behind thomas smalling of singapore. The powerhouse swimming nation of singapore. Theres all the good news. There was, unfortunately some surprisingly bad news today as well. The dominant us sweden in the quarterfinals. The us had never failed to make the final. But this year it wasnt to be as they fell in a shootout. The swedes were first on the board in the second half. Alex morgan tied it up roughly 15 minutes later. Both the usa and sweden scored in extra time but both goals were disallowed by the referee for no good reason. Then came the penalties. Two misses doomed the usas chances. Alex morgan was saved and kristen press shot high. So its no medal this time making things worse goalie hope solo was instead of congratulating sweden, this offered up this quote im very proud of this team. But i also think we played a bunch of cowards. The best team did not win today. I strongly believe that. Solo said later on twitter that shes bad at losing join us tomorrow morning on abc11 for the latest Eyewitness News. Well see you again tomorrow night for Eyewitness News today on tmz harvey it looks like tyga now is not going to be aested, so rr he celebrated by sneaking up on kylie from behind. He is right back behind her s bas sheent over in her little red bathing suit. He looks like hes about to snorkel up her butt. Or get out of the water. No, kim, its snorkeling up her butt. [laughter] lots of rumors going around that Jennifer Lopezs pregnant the with casper smarts baby. Does this look pregnant to you . Harvey my guess is, not pregnant. Cst be so u disappointed right now. You think he wants her to be pregnant . Yes. Jennifer lopez could put Something Back up and turns back around to look at itwould , i be in a tux