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Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price, guaranteed for two full years plus, get a 300 bonus with a twoyear agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v developing right now, a bar manager describes what happened moments before uva students bloody arrest. The new information thats casting doubt on officers claims. And we hear from the family of a 94yearold woman killed in her own home. Police just made a surprising arrest in that case. And controversy has been brewing over starbucks plan to talk about race relations. Now the Company Makes a major decision. Developing off the top at 6 00. For the first time were hearing from the charlottesville bar at the center of a bloody confrontation between a uva student and police. This new account is different from what weve been told. The trinity irish pub puts a completely different light on martese johnsons arrest. Alcohol beverage and control agents say he was agitated and belligerent. He took him down and charged johnson with public intoxication but the bar released a statement that johnson was polite and cordial. A bouncer turned him away because when he asked about the i. D. Johnson gave a wrong answer. Part of the Statement Reads in summer badkes pin mr. Johnsonappear to be intoxicated. Despite the conversation that was cord ad mr. Badke reiterated that he was not permitted to enter the bar. Now Virginia State police are investigating. We have the bars full statement on our website nbcwashington. Com. Also happening now a 60yearold woman is sitting in jail tonight accused of stabbing her mother to death in maryland. Margaret wells was 94 years old, and police found her body on saturday in her own home as Darcy Spencer discovered, the family is rightfully stunned. I really cant even put it into words. Its just unbelievable. She lived 94 years, and to have her life come to an enlike this is devastating. His greataunt would have celebrated her 95th birthday in may, about you she was killed in her own home allegedly at the hands of her very own daughter. God has a plan for all of us. I dont question him and am not angry, but you live 94 years, youre not supposed to go with someone plunging a knife in you. Margaret wells retired from the marine corps annex, married for 50 years before her husband passed away. She lived in this house near hyattsville for decades. She was fantastic, fun to be around would help anybodying do anything for anybody, loved to talk. Years ago she took in two nephews and a niece after their mother was killed. One of the nephews was la rays father. The family is stunned that her daughter michelle davis, has been charged with talking her to death during an argument. Relatives say davis has struggled with mental illness. I cant imagine what kind of argument it was that would lead her to stab her mother and leave her there. It makes no sense to me. Reporter relatives are trying to make sense and hold on to their memories for a woman who once said she would keep on living as long as god let her. Darcy spencer, news4. Police made a quick arrest tyrone moore was found at this apartment complex. Emts rushed him to the hospital but he died from the stab wounds. Within a few hours, Police Arrested harold marshall. Hes now been charged with murder. The robberies have been one after another after another in one neighborhood in northwest d. C. And weve learned they may all be related. Investigators say there were five robberies between tuesday and wednesday all around mt. Vernon square most taking place in daylight and four rob ice involved a nice. They came up to someone walking outside and demanded money. Police are still looking for the suspects. In maryland a Police Officers was working an accident on the side of a highway when someone plowed into him. It happened on route 29 and old column gillia road near the howard and Montgomery County line. The officer was sitting in his cruiser with emergency lights on. Police say a drunk driver ran into him and destroyed the police car. The officer and the driver had to be rushed to the hospital. Both are expected to be okay. There are six new ways to get caught speeding in the district. D. C. Police have put up six new speed cameras, including this one in northeast. The cameras are going up in areas where they say speeding is a problem, so for the first 30 days youll get a warning citation if they catch you. That grace period starts tomorrow. Were going to take a live look on at very pleasant day. Doug kammerer says you can expect temperatures to fall as the workweek gets started. Yeah unfortunately as we head into the first full week of spring winter is going to try to hang on a little longer. Were not talking any snow at least not in the next couple days. Lets show you the numbers. Highs today 56 in d. C. After a high of 661. 62 in charlottesville. A could 50 in hagerstown. So below average once again. Tomorrow much cooler temperatures during the day tomorrow i think highs only in the 40s, but much warmer as we head to the middle of the week. Thanks doug. Today is the last day starbucks baristas will write the words race together on coffee cups. The movement started last week as a way to get people to talk about race relations, it worked but online critics called it a marketing ploy. The ceo says hes not ending the practice because of the controversy, but still plans more activities in the coming weeks. I felt like you know my life was, you know about to end. A man who says he was asailed by a Prince Georges County Police Officer relives the terrifying ordeal. And an area college prepares to shut its doors for good but find out what some students are doing to try to save that i schools. Virginia finds themselves with a little deja vu supporters of Sweetbrier College are taking their fight for the nations capital, trying to raise money to keep their school open. Todays students and alumnae held signs and marched down the national mall. Its a small liberal arts school for women. The schools president says it needs 250 million to stay afloat. Its a very onetoone professor to student relationship there. So anyone who believes in that weve had people that just simply believe in our cause and what we do at sweet brier, so they have donated as well. As of now the college will close by the end of august but an Alumnae Group has raised 3 million. This week they plan to demand that the college make its finances public. They sell the nuts under the giant and aurora news brand. If you bought one of these, its probably best to judd throw it out the to see a complete list of products go to nbcwashington. Com and search recall. I have not felt safe since the incidents. Next at 6 00. For the first time a man allegedly assaulted by a Police Officers talks about the confrontation, and well reveal Prince Georges County Police Officers is off the job tonight. Hes been indicted on assault and misconduct charges. The officer is accused of holding a gun to a mans head and threatening him. For the first time were hearing from that man. This was derrick ward as more on what even the police chief calls unacceptable and disturbing. I felt like you know my life was, you know about to end. Reporter William Cunningham had a glock placed to his forehead and to his mouth. It was a uniform Prince Georges County Police Officers on the other end of the gun, hes since been indicted on Assault Charges after confronting cunningham over where the car he was riding in was parked as he tried to go into his home. The Police Officers unholstered his Service Weapon makes reference to his service in iraq threatens to kill our client on his very doorstep. Cunninghams wife said he dialed 911 thinking there neareded to to be ahigher ranking officer on the scene. I knew that the county does not train their officers to act in that manner. Cell phone video of the event which attorneys say was shot by cunninghams cousin will figure heavily in the procedures as they go forward. The actual cell phone video at the center of this is states evidence so theyre not releasing it publicly but we did get a chance to look at it and it is disturbing. Officer sanityia wag allusion to the fact he had been in iraq he just came back and wasnt afraid to anyone and no officer santiago they should late last week the police chief spoke of the resulting indictments. Its disturbing unacceptable and it wont be tolerated. Attorneys say the county has made strides in reforming the Police Department which is to be applauded, but incidents and charges like these tend to erode those gains. I have not felt safe since the incident. Derrick ward news4. Certainly understandable. Ive got to tell you, being out today, you saw people running, saw people with kites outside. I mean it looked like fullblown spring so tell me is this going to last . Its not going to last. We hit 61 yesterday, 56 today, tomorrow we drop close to ten degrees. It was a pretty good day. You mentioned kites. How about sailboats . Not bad. This is down around the hains point. Were around the mild side 56 degrees, its fairly cool with the wind winds out of the north at about 13 miles per hour. We are a bit below average for the day. 53 in huntingtown, a couple 49 and we are going to get cooler as we move on through the night tonight and right on through the day, but a great time to wash the car, yes, dry until thursday. Get off all the that salt all that residual snow we saul last week. Radar clear, we wont see any rain until thursday but i want to show you the pattern. Notice some cloud cover moving over but to the north and west heres some snow up to minneapolis. Moisture making its way, we could see snow in the mountains, well back towards the west into tomorrow night, but were going to get the cold side of things. Not going to be the snow or the rain for us just the colder temperatures. High of 48 tomorrow 50 down towards fredericksburg annapolis coming in at 46. So temperatures close to ten degrees below average for your day on monday. Starting off the morning, though just chilly. Not bass as far as the weather is concerned. Most of you in the suburbs will be initial 4 to 6 in the afternoon cool a high of 48. It does looks like things stay cool with a high of 50 degrees, then were doing a couple jump steps. Up to 70 on thursday so thats some good news but it will come with a frontal boundary maybe even a rumble of thunder or two. Not anticipating a lot of rain and then yes, Chris Lawrence you see that . 56 on friday and yeah a little chance of rain or show coming up on saturday. We will be watching that one for sure. Not going to be a big deal. Right now just we thought our cable internet was fast. But, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really halffast. So halffast. Someone did a halffast job posting our vacation pics. When i post my slow jams, im a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet see the difference for yourself. Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two full years plus, get a 300 bonus with a twoyear agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v all many a sudden maryland is the last local Team Standing and theyre on the clock here in a couple hours. Dont get nervous just yet. Theyre not playing for a few more hours, but virginia they did not take care of Business Today against Michigan State. This time of year in College Basketball its all about matchups. How do you stack up against your competition . For uva, theyve been one of the top teams in the country all season long but today not a good matchup for Tony Bennetts group. Michigan state always playing tough in the month of march, one of the greatest ever hall of famer Magic Johnson supporting his spartans. Michigan state every bit of imagine call in the first half. Travis trice gets the layin to go. Michigan state got off to a 154 lead 13 of those coming from trice. Second half malcolm, with the beautiful cut, but trice and the spartans they were just too much. The threepointer, that might have been the dagger. He had 23 in the game. Michigan state knocks off virginia in backtoback tournaments 6054 the final. Heres tony bennett following the loss. Things right now, of course are the final of the season after a heck of a year with these guys what they have done. But it just leaves that feeling that um you wish you could have taken it further. But it doesnt take away when all the dust settles, what was accomplished. We give thanks for that but certainly will learn from what took place. Great season for uva, but lets face it they should not have been the number 2 seed but number one. Villanova should not be going on for the tournament today. And Michigan State should not have been a 7, but higher. Were going to stick with the College Basketball Team Maryland taking on West Virginia start time at 8 40. Carol maloney is in Columbus Ohio with more on this matchup. Reporter time to step up. Thats the game plan for the terrapins, about to collide with the West Virginia mountaineers a team that did not even hesitate to offer up their strategy. One thing weve got to make sure we do keep the ball away from their guard trimble, and that will be a big key for us. Good luck with trying to keep the ball out of his hands. For Everything Else i think that you know anybody can initiate an offense. Thats how we play. Anybody can initiate an offense. I think weve got plenty of guys who can handle the ball. Im sure theyll get after mello all night. And 1 theres 4, sometimes 1 through 5. Reporter they say part of the game plan is taupe the ball out of your hands. I guess they can try doing that but the teammates will do what they have to do as well. Reporter whats the single most important part of the game plan to have success. To handle the pressure. Reporter yeah how do you do that . One, by being poised attacking the defense. Reporter you sound like coach right now. Yeah we went over our game plan this morning. Im pretty well prepared. Hope the terps are prepared West Virginia is known for speeding things up. 40 minutes of pressure something maryland admits it hasnt seen all season. In Columbus Carol maloney, news4 sports. Thanks carol. Elsewhere georgetown knocked out of the round of 32 by utah. The utes they just shot the lights oigts, over 57 from behind the arc. Utah sentence georgetownhome with a loss. For the seniors, this game will be tough to get over. You know our message for them just remember its the worst feeling ive ever felt. You dont want this feeling. They can use that for motivation next year. Its heartbreaking. This team we had a lot of High Expectations with this team coming in a good upper class, good underclass coming in all year. The team stuck together. We fought through tough times, and its sad the season comes to an end. Mike lonergans colonials are with topseeded temple today. Theyre trying to bring him back the freshman with the corner threepointer, and then driving to the bucket, 2 of his 15 points. Gp within five. Temple though up ten later in the half. To a wideopen bond. Jalen bond. Gw falls 9077, temple advances to the n. I. T. Quarter did not finals. Duke will take on utah in the sweet 16. Maryland last local Team Standing. Well see if they can get it done. Its a big back its strong. Plenty of room. That will do it for us nightly news is up next. We hope to see you again at 11 00. Have a great night. On the brink of civil war. Tonight an emergency meeting at the u. N. Amid fears that al qaeda will capitalize on the chaos. Troops targeted a group claiming to be isis posts an online hit list of u. S. Soldrs and encourages any terrorists to kill them. Not so fast. What happened to waistlines when one city banned new fast food restaurants . The answer might surprise you. Royal treatment. Thousands gather to honor a monarch with an infamous reputation. 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