And our respects. College avenue was lit up in blue nicoles favorite color. Her middle School Principal talked about the kind hearted, softspoken 13 year old. One ella had class with, but wishes she knew better. Ella moeltner whether you were close to nicole or barely knew her, you just feel like youre a part of this and you need to be here. Nicoles mother addressed the crowd briefly, saying her family is still broken. Blacksburgs police chief helped her finish her message of thanks to the crowd. Adana mcwhinney, Virginia Tech student i feel like its a duty and a responsibility to be here. For everyone. Growing from remembering nicole, to remembering their strength. Ella moeltner if youre knocked up and show the people who youre still going to be great and youre going to rise above them. Leave it to a seventh grader to understand what being a community is all about. The event was organized by a group of Virginia Tech as for those blue lights, were told own. Christian heilman, wdbj7. Ne
Freezing rain all rain late monday night could see anywhere from three to as much is six inches of snow across a good portion of the area a little less across the south ready for the snow. This time, theyre running into a different type of fight with the winter weather. Heilman explains about this storm and how vdot is planning to handle it. Well nadia, the snow is bad enough but its those low temperatures that make tackling this storm even more difficult. We were checking in on some of the preps with vdot this afternoon. They tell us when temperatures are in the low 20s, salt doesnt work as effectively. And the pre treatment doesnt work as well, either. Vdot had a small window today to pre treat some of those interstates and major roads. Even so, theyre urging folks to stay home and travel later in the week because mondays commute is expected to be pretty difficult. Once the snow be salting the roads. Theyll be pre wetting the salt with liquid calcium chloride to jumpstart the melting
Charges and is being held without bond in the Henry County Jail as well. Police have a suspect in custody in connection with several shootings in kalamazoo, michigan. At least 6 people were killed during last nights shooting spree. We just learned in the past hour a teenager who was shot is alive but gravely injured. Police say jason dalton targeted his victims in an apartment complex, a car dealership, and outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant. A motive has not been determined. Undersheriff paul matyas Kalamazoo County Sheriffs Office we have multiple people dead. In summary, what it looks like is we have somebody driving finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks. Police say dalton is in his 50s and was driving around in a blue or silver chevrolet. No other details about him have been released. Yesterday, dozens demonstrated across the country to support former new york officer peter liang. The officer was manslaughter and official misconduct. In 2014, he shot and killed a m
Today because it really means a lot to me. I could see where they are coming from leslies closet is always looking for donations and does a clothing drive regualrly. The church group plans to start serving meals monthly. More information can be found on our website wdbj7. Com Noell Saunders wdbj7. A missing richmond mom and daughter have been found safe. Police say cere seeair lewis and sesha hill were found in pennsylvania. They had been missing since thursday night. Its not clear yet why the two were there. New at six the woman at the center of a debunked article about a gang rape at uva will have to answer questions as part of a civil lawsuit. The woman, known only as jackie has been ordered to submit a deposition on april 5th. Uva administrator nicole eramo is suing Rolling Stone and the articles author for defamation. She claims she was cast as chief villain in the piece, which raped by seven men. A judge set the trial date for october 11 th, and its expected to last two weeks. Di
Wdbj7s Christian Heilman is live on scene at electric road in Roanoke County. Christian, what have you learned . This is still a very active scene out here as officers are still piecing together what happened here earlier. Roanoke county Police Confirmed that a male was shot by police. Police say all this information is preliminary. At 7 15, they recieved a call that a black man wearing a bandanna and hoodie was waving a gun off route 419. We spoke with a witness who says he made that call. He was driving when he saw the man. Thomas gill, witness i saw his gun in the right hand. So he was waving it at cars and he turned around and he was waving it at me so i turned around and took a left and i called 911. Amy whittaker, Roanoke County spokesperson officers then arrived on scene and they confronted the suspect which is just up the road from walgreens parking officer involved shooting that took place. The suspect was transported to the hospital. We do not know the persons condition right