Well come back, talk more about that. A 6yearold virginia boy is fighting for his life after sledding right past a car. Reporter im surae chinn in mclean. A sledding accident lands a 6 yearold boy in the hospital in critical condition. Theyre all a bunch of great kids. Reporter around 5 30 last night a group of children including the 6yearold boy were sledding down this driveway in the 7100 block of matthew mills road in mclean just off old dominion drive. The little boy slid down the driveway into the street head first just as a 2015 lexus was passing through. Oh, my goodness, the fragility of life you never know when its going to be your turn or your familys turn. Reporter the 65yearold driver heard a loud noise and got out to help the boy. They had him on a stretcher and paramedics around him. They put him in the back of the ambulance. Reporter he was flown to Inova Fairfax hospital in life threatening condition. Neighbor Rick Everheart used to baby hit the little boy. Nice, likes t
Equipment from the scene of an overnight house fire in the North Bethesda section of montgomery county. Nikki burdine joins us live from the home on brewer house road which is not too far from tuckerman if youre familiar with that neighborhood. Nikki . Reporter thats correct. We are still here and firefighters are still here as well. They are trying to dig through the rubble and what was left of this house fear. I want you to take a look at this video of how it looked when firefighters first got here at 1 30 this morning. The town home was fullly engulfed in flames. Flames were just shooting out of the windows. Firefighters tell me an elderly man lived here alone and a smoke alarm actually woke him up. He went downstairs, saw the fire that was in his living room and tried to put it out himself. He was unsuccessful in doing that so he went next door to ask for his neighbors help. His neighbors called 911 but while he tried to fight the fire himself, that elderly man did suffer second an
Custody the entire time. This Elizabeth Betty jean queen. She was found this afternoon after being missing for nearly a month. We use found and missing loosely because queen was only thought to have been missing. While her family and police searched for her over the last month, it remember its out she was actually in Police Custody the entire time. Some people may have known her as betty jean and others as betty. Reporter but for the last month Montgomery County police knew her as jane smith. This seems to be where the problem began. Police say queen, a diagnosed schizophrenic, was arrested for trespassing in Silver Spring december 30th taken to jail and charged with Disorderly Conduct and assault. When she refused to identify herself, Police Booked her as jane smith. She was transferred to a clarkbsurg jail before ending up at Springfield Hospital. All the while police were looking for queen, not jane smith. See the problem . Heres police today before queen was finally found. The dete
Good evening. Andrea. Reporter good evening, jan. Betty jean queen wasnt missing. And it was a Montgomery County correctional officer who was first to figure that out. I was like i know her. Shes been housed in my facility. Reporter Corporal Davidson was surprised to see the familiar face of Betty Jean Queen during yesterdays public plea for help from queens sister. We want you back home. Please get in touch with us. Reporter the gaithersburg woman disappeared a month ago without a trace. She wasnt combative, but she wasnt responsive. Reporter turns out queen had been booked in the jail as jane smith because she had no identification, no fingerprints on file and she refused to give her name. A diagnosed schizophrenic shed been arrested for trespassing, Disorderly Conduct and assaulting a police officer. Do you see a lot of faces . Reporter Corporal Davidson immediately told the therapist in the jail who had connections at the state Mental Health facilities. She told me i definitely che
Reporter d. O. T. Crews in maryland and virginia have been pretreating roads all day. Between the two they have 1,000 pieces of equipment out and about on the road. Im told theyll keep a few hundred out well after the storm has past to monitor typical trouble spots. Still d. O. T. Officials stress they cannot be everywhere. They do expect patches of black ice here and there. If you have to be out on the roadways, you still want to be careful. Live in Frederick County im mola lenghi for wusa9. Moving on now weve got reaction tonight to some explosive and disturbing fight videos and apparently some related racist social media posts that have shaken up a Big High School on marylands eastern shore. Scott broom has joined with a team of colleagues [ technical difficulties ] i think as weve isolated these incidents around the fighting that there werent racial overtones at least that initiated it. Reporter meanwhile the media received blistering criticism. You are doing nothing but making thi