Face with the robber, but he was ready. Tonight that suspect is dead. Good evening im lucy noland. Owe im yann page. Fox twins Chris Oconnell is live in upper darby tonight with the dramatic details. Chris . Reporter iain lucy, Upper Darby Police say 67yearold man should be lucky he was packing heat today. He was on his afternoon regular walk in Cobbs Creek Park when he was targeted by a would be robber who picked the wrong guy to rob. Im glad i was at work. Reporter janet came home from work to the Delaware County medical examiner across the street removing the body of a young man who was shot and killed during a botched robbery. You hear somebody running behind him, he turns around and see as guy with a gun in his hand pointed at him and said give me all you got. Reporter Upper Darby Police say the 65yearold man was walking down a path in a wooded area of Cobbs Creek Park when he and the suspect started to struggle. What that straws inspect didnt know his target was armed with a 38 c
Watching their steps. But the snow is coming down at a pretty steady clip right now. The roadways are mainly wet. But it is going to be a sloppy weekend across our area. In fact lets talk about whats happening on the satellite and radar look at all of that moisture streaming in from the south. You can see the green, that is the rain and the white that is the snow. Take a look. Chadds ford, west chester moving toward media drexel hill philadelphia, mullica hill and bensalem all looking at some of that wintry precipitation. So its moving in right now. Mainly rain in extreme south jersey sections of southern delaware but we have several hours to get through and temperatures will be critical. As we go hour by hour, by 1 00 a. M. Were looking at snowfall around philadelphia points north and west. Temperatures right around freezing. That magic number and as we go toward 5 00 a. M. You can see that yellow and green thats pretty moderate to heavy rainfalling moving into the philadelphia area a
That is also, where the accident occurred. Meanwhile police are continuing their investigation, they say they know hot suspects is, in this case, thanks to those two witnesses who brought that car forward. And, they are still collecting evidence the right now so they can put forward a good arrest warrant that will hold up in court, and until they have that, in arrestness this case. We are following it through the the rest of this evening but you we are live from Kensington Matt rivers for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We are still waiting for at rest of the driver involved in this deadly hit and run in southwest philadelphia. Four yearold abdul wilson was killed on monday and those in the neighborhood are upset that the suspect female driver who fled has in the yet been charged. Police indicate a lawyer claiming to represent her has been in day with the authorities. Well, now to Delaware County where a mother and her boyfriend are facing charges tonight the in the death of her twoyear old son.
Positive match to the car seen in this Surveillance Video and now they have a good idea of who was behind the wheel. A couple from central pennsylvania, turned that car into authorities after seeing it on tv news reports. Matt rivers joins us live from kensington where a vigil is scheduled tonight for that little boy killed in mondays hit and run, matt. Reporter jessica, this was a major break through for police overnight as you mentioned those two witnesses being able to identify the suspect in this case. Police say they do know who they are looking for. They have not released his identity to the news media because they have in the yet been arrested. They are trying to gather more evidence in order to put forward a good arrest warrant and take him into custody but once again that has not happened just yet. Meanwhile today on masher street at the victims home a family struggles to have move forward. Eyewitness news was first to show you the car police say is one that hit and killed two
But, our warm up is going to be rapid. It will be just unbelievable. Spectacular weather at 9 00 a. M. When it is 65 degrees. By noon, when it is 75, fabulous weather and we will be completely speechless by 3 00 p. M. At 80 degrees, just wonderful looking day, so all of the weather systems go for gorgeous weather temperatures will be as high as theyve been since last september. But, next week, we do start out casino of soggy. Still there is weekend looks spectacular, nicole, im detail today tomorrow, and the rest of the week coming up. Looking forward to that carol, thank you. New this morning, there is a fire in northeast philadelphia. And it is at Apartment Building it, sent two people to the hospital. This all happened at green terrace amounts on the 2200 block of tray month avenue just before midnight. The victims were taken to area torresdale. Work to go get an update on their condition. Firefighter also checked out at the scene for minor injury. Right now, there is no word on tha