24yearold zachary tri coachy was arraigned for allegedly beating his girlfriend twosyearold jameel to death. Told the toddler to put his hands up that he should assume a boxing stand and get ready to find as a young man. He was charged with murder and ordered held on 1 million bail but the family members of a 24yearold beaten to death thats not what they view as justice. My grandson was two years old. Innocent. Didnt do nothing. Now he cant live his life but he get to live the rest of his life in prison. It should be a dental pennel team you kill somebody, you should be killed. Reporter 91 of the family or attorneys for zachary tri coachy commented but men of the family members made their family clears about a twoyearold gone too soon. I just love him and ill see you one day. Thats all. Thank you. Im not sure if theres anything that could possibly explain this but to make things worst prosecutor explained that the little boy was allegedly beaten over his mother buying the wrong groceri
Every center city, ahead of trumps arrival. Good afternoon, im jim donovan. Brooke is off this noon. Trump is making his case for expanded military and is explaining how to pay for it. Trump says one of his first acts ifee elected president would be to eliminate the see questions err on defense spending. According to his campaign, the plan would free up money for ships, planes, submarines, and a new sea based Missile Defense system also within 30 days of taking office, trump says, hell ask us generals to smith plan to defeat isis. As i laid out in my speech, on defeating radical islamic terrorism against communism during the cold war. Trump is still speaking at this hour, you see a live shot there. Alexandria hoff is there, shell have live report on Eyewitness News starts the at 5 00. Our coverage continues with Natasha Brown outside the union league where antitrump protesters are having their say, good afternoon, natasha. Well, good afternoon to you, jim. We are here along broad stree
yodeling . Yes, typical thing when you go up in the atmosphere, it gets cold, as nellie will say, it is getting hot in here. Today, well at least flirt with 90 today, probably hit it at one point this week, but it is a nice little evan flow, overall the pattern not bad. Some good weather coming up here. This is nice long stretch of pretty pleasant wet their we frankly havent had a chance to enjoy too much this summer. So, this is going to be something i think for us here to look forward to. Meantime, of course, still tracking the tropics, cristobal has since become a hurricane, the lays end on the track, indirect impacts that we will see from it, because again, some great beach weather coming up. But that storm might mess with it, again, more details for you, all coming up in the next few. See now bit. In the news this morning, close call for sleeping three year old boy in darby borough. Police say a stray bullet fired at a sign pierced wall just few inches above his crib. Eyewitness N
Department with more. Well, police are looking for the shooters responsible for that stray bullet, that nearly hit a toddler sleeping in his crib. Police have been searching surveillance videos hoping to talk with eyewitnesses, in hopes of catch the shooters. A crib is supposed to be a safe place but sunday night the dangers of the outside world cape close to hitting a three year old boy sleeping. The shooting happened around 11 00 at night near the intersection of sixth and walnut st. Police describe the gunman as two men in their late teens and early 20s. There were number of 9millimeter shell casings at the scene. But, police say the stray bullet hit a block away, going through a wall at the boat house apartments. People fire weapons and dont understand where that round will go after they fire it. I dont want to see any kid, anybody really get hurt. Janice davis is related to the boy shes also the president of the darby borough council. She was frightened to learn the bullet was onl
Support our police officers. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Rally comes at a tense time here in philadelphia and across the country. Relationships between police and a lot of communities have been strained. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in mayfair tonight. Shawnette. Reporter well people came from several communities to join in on this rally in support of police. It started as an idea on facebook. Drew a crowd big enough to nearly shut down an intersection. Hold assign in support of all Philadelphia Police officers. They just get a bad rap. There are some bad people and some good people just like everywhere. I wanted to show my support. Reporter dearest to her heart who passed away but retired after 30 years on the force. He would be so proud. He would be really proud. Reporter this rally at frankford and cottman avenue in mayfair was put on to honor Philadelphia Police officers. At a time when pensions are running high not just here but all across the country. Jim farr