Girlfriend and her other son following the mummers parade late that sunday. Freni says austin was on the phone talking about being in the army while wearing an army jacket when a stranger made a negative remark to austin about the army. I dont understand how in your own country you put down men and women that fight for you. To fight for your freedom. Reporter but austins attacker was not alone. She says there were eight or nine more watching some even joined in assaulting the rest of the group before taking off. Just a bunch of boys, i mean, from id say 18 20s. Reporter freni called police and an ambulance rushed austin to the hospital. The attack left him with multiple injuries including a broken jaw but just a few hours ago, laurie discovered a glimpse of hope when the Philadelphia Crime Commission announced a 7,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attackers. Were outraged by it and we want to see this case brought to justice. Reporter John Appledorn
Dean. And im ukee washington. Tonight we are hearing from the victims mother and what she says led to her sons attack. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is at the scene of the crime third and oregon in south philadelphia. David. Reporter ukee and jessica, it will be a a brutal few weeks for this family as you can imagine and tonight his mother private austin frenis mother told us she was shocked when she found out that there would be a reward. Its been a nightmare. I still wake up with nightmares at night. Reporter laurie freni tells Eyewitness News she was with her son austin his girlfriend and her other son following the mummers parade late that sunday. Freni says austin was on the phone talking about being in the army while wearing an army jacket when a stranger made a negative remark to austin about the army. I dont understand how in your own country you put down men and women that fight for you. To fight for your freedom. Reporter but austins attacker was not alone. She says th
Behavioral problems. Her exact role with the kids is not clear at this point but the kid as accused johnson of showing inappropriate pictures of her in her lingerie. And students also reported the incident to Staff Members and immediately terminated johnson after a thorough investigation, and was accused of flashing her buttocks and showing a video of her in a sex act. That video also on a cell phone and according to an affidavit made it for her boyfriend. They are investigating to see if there are more victims out there. Also was employed at five different schools or places where she could have contact with children. So well be following up with those places as well. And also notifying children and Youth Services of that situation to make sure no one else is in contact with her and behaved in this manner showing video and still pictures and physically displaying her physical body to students. Reporter all right back out live, we can tell that you johnston has been released from jail o
Further and start name dropping. My mom is a librarian, if that changes anything. It appears to not change anything. However ill probably be leaving in half an hour. Okay. Ill just wait here for half an hour. We could both sit here if you scoot over a little. Thank you. A lot of this video is almost a study in human behavior, particularly in this case i was talking about this seat. See what i mean . Psychologically, this is a fascinating video. The whole thing is upsetting. Head to rtm. Com or use a mobile app. Thats our show for today. Youre all caught up. Go to rightthisminute. Com or see us on the next right this with that. No. Tortuous way game of thrones fans had to find out the exact date of the premier of season 7 lets rally by watching ice melt. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather, brought to you by swiffer. Weather, brought to you by swiffer. If youve got a life, you gotta swiffer mthat stuff only lasts a few hours. Or, take mucinex. One pill fights
Were getting our first look at mama june since her dramatic weight loss surgery documented on her reality show from hot to not. Well find out how much weight shes lost and how shes doing it later in the skinny. It is friday, march 10th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We do say good morning on this friday, everyone. Were going to start with the bad news. The millions of people who had put away the snow boots and trotted out the shorts and the tshirts in for a new bonechilling blast of winter. Thats right. Radar shows the storm moving from the great lakes to the northeast where winter alerts are out in nine states. In missouri, the governor has declared a state of emergency after a round of hail, heavy wind and even some tornadoes causing damage across that state. Some forecasters say the jet stream producing all this heavy wind is one of the strongest in the best illustration is from mt. Washington observatory in New Hampshire where wind gusts hit more than 100 miles a