Joins us from the Wake County Justice Center where the criminal case is pending. Reporter this is very emotional today. The mother of the victim in this case, Simone Butler thomas, talked about her grief. It is something any parent could relate to. She talked about take a picture of her son before he left for the Party Saturday night. A few hour later, he was dead and now she is preparing to bury him. 20yearold cure an th called curry by friend and family. His mom said he didnt dress like a thug or hoodlum. He didnt own a gun. He had a High School Diploma and a job. He was leave a party early sunday morning when he was shot by a shotgun on single leaf lane. Now, police have charged chad copley. They say he called 911 to complain about commotion in the street and fired that shotgun thomas. These boys were invited to a party, didnt feel comfortable an they was on their way home. I just want justice for my son. Thats it. For all the parents, all the kids. Reporter the familys attorney, ju
Is not enough time before november to pick some apps for the election. Instead they say state lawmakers must redraw the maps soon after they come back from session next january. The judges did leave open the possibility that they could require a special election under the new maps to be held sooner than november 2018. Republican leaders are expected to appeal the decision to the fourth circuit. This is the fourth defeat for republican legislative mapmaker c county and greensboro. Laura leslie, thank you. Police arrested three people in the murder of a durham cabbie. Among those charged, a 15year old boy. Durham Police Charged 17year old zyon mcneil and a 15year old male with murdering 46year old Ameer Suliman. Outside of the la quinta inn on west park drive. 21yearold Trayvion Lyons is charged with accessory after the fact to murder, wrals arielle clay spoke with a hour with that. A small pedestrian bridge in raleigh collapse this morning, sky 5 flew over the scene along capital boulev
Going through them. In many ways, it was less about the actual sound and more about people in the crowd yelling to one another that someone with a gun was in the mall. Now, witnesses say it was chaos as thousands of people ran for their lives and tried to get out of the building at the same time. Others hid in the back of stores and storage rooms and bathrooms until police let them know it was safe to come out. Were in the Crabtree Valley there was lots of bangs and shootings somewhere downstairs. Did you see anybody . No, didnt see anybody but everybody is running. Has somebody been shot . I dont know. Reporter because Raleigh Police still do not know the origin of that sound that a lot of shoppers identified as a gunshot, they have asked the fbi lab to analyze video with the sound in the background to see if they can figure it out. We have a team of people continuing to pore over these calls and we will have more in wral. Com. Back to you. Thank you. Contradicting reports from the sw
93 on sunday. 40 chance on saturday. 30 chance on sunday. Well talk more about the weekend and then what is coming next week. It looks glorious. All of that coming up. Thank you. The director of a private School Called the Stevens Prep Academy is behind bars on child sex charges. Claude stevens is multiple charges dating back to 2007. Reporter deputies arrested Claude Stevens right here on oak creek road. This is the Stevens Prep Academy. It is described online as an alternative prep school. Also online, stevens is listed as the director and administrator. Now, deputies arrested him for multiple counts of statutory rape and indecent liberties. His bond now set at 5 million. According to court records, 2007 and 2012. Victims said to be teenagers 13 years of age to be exact. Now, i talked to the dad of a former student here. He tells me it was about 10 years ago when his son was here. He said this was a good thing for his son and had no complaints about the school or the director. Now, i
Beairshelle edme. Kristin, we were forgetting it would be a hot one. Temperatures warmed all the way up to the low 90s and it is very hot across the area. Kind of a last hot day in the forecast. Big changes. I tried to get her to promise me. He tried to get me to promise. I couldnt promise it would be that way forever. But we could look forward to cooler temperatures here. You are looking at Raleigh Durham internaal dealing with clouds outside. And very few light sprinkles popping up and namely in the northeastern counties and mek berg county and part of Warren County and halifax and northampton counties right now. Few showers moving in. And they are light and will be around the day today. Dont be surprised if you are caught in a shower or two. It is 72 degrees in raleigh and also had clayton. Durham. We have the cold front moving through the area right now. It will keep them fairly cloudy right here. And it is throughout the day. Expect cloudy skies this morning. They are occurring la