Knew him as rapper swipy are trying to cope with this loss. Derrick ward has our story. Reporter a rappers promising career, people and labels were starting to take notice, but its all spoken of in the past tense now. It was late last night. I got a text message that he had been shot. Reporter police say it happened around 1 00 a. M. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene. Tony redz says the young man who took the stage as swipy brought more than rhymes and rap to his performances. He wanted to give to the people his creation. He wanted to give the people his artistry and what he was about. Reporter and he says give was always the operative word. He performed and he shook every kids hand and took every picture. Thats what the kids remember. Reporter d. J. Redz says swipys first questions were about when and where, not about how much the gig paid. He took his stardom and he used it in a positive way are. But im still doing it. Reporter seen here performing in the birthday bash, red
Residents have so much work ahead of them. This is an area that is not closeout. You look at the damage and the debris in the front yard, you have a riding mower almost completely flipped over stuck in the mud. This is the day residents and Business Owners will have one final chance to get work done before the entire area is shut off for a while. Knowing that time is running out, there was a flurry of activity this weekend. Dozens of vehicles came through to clean out close to 100 properties, we understand. After today, main street will be closed for at least three weeks right here in the heart of the city to allow county crews and other utility workers to complete the Critical Infrastructure repairs. Mike wright yard was washed away my front yard was washed away. Just on saturday, i brought it in to fill in the hole. John the idea is to have pedestrian they will keep the area open until 7 00 tonight. After that, it is offlimits. A supply truck will be in the area handing out cleaning
And there may have been four to five begunmen. As police try to track down the suspects, we talked to swipeys mother today. Shes mourning for her son along with so many all around the dmv who knew and loved him for his music. He graduated cum lade graduated from high school at 16. He took all his money to make songs and do his stuff. From Christmas Money to allowance to everything. Hes a good boy. He didnt want to hurt nobody. You dont love me no more hi to kick in the door he was really on the verge of being the next hot outside of d. C. Labels calling. Its like its sad. All he did was go to school and do his mu it really hit home for me. It was hard to dot story this morning. Youre talking about a guy that kim up the ranks through wpgc, then went on to prom patrol. How cool is that going to proms to do parties and then birthday barbie really saw this guy would be a star. Im doing a big show for the kids on september 3 where he was one of the head liners and hes no longer with us and
He wanted to be the best. He worked for something he deserved. You got people that want to take it from him. Naive. Being in that lifestyle is naive, being a rapper. There is an outpouring of emotion on social media from shock to anger with some directed at his girlfriend. Police do not believe she was involved and any threats directed at her need to stop. New information on another weekend murder. Investigators say the gunman who killed a seven11 clerk in clinton, maryland shot the victim twice in his back and ran away without getting any money. The same man is suspected of holding up a hotel worker a short time later. There is a reward tonight for anybody who helps find the killer. Arlington Police Searching for a man who attacked a woman. It happened around 2 30 sunday morning. The man grabbed the woman from behind and forced her to grassy area by the gw parkway. He covered her mouth and tried to put his hands under her shorts. The woman was able to break free. Her attacker ran off
Karen and im Karen Anderson in today for antoinette. What a difference a week makes. Doug it almost feels like good morning. Danielle yes, it does feel like spring as temperatures are starting to warm up. Thats why the precipitation were seeing is mostly in the form of rain at this point although it is still cold in the upper atmosphere. Some of our stations are reporting some snow at this point. Want to show you whats going on. You notice on the cape, preliminary u, points south, temperatures in the low 40s. Its just a bunch of light rain there. As you look back to the west, say, Worcester County into the worcester hills and into orange, where your borderline temperatures are reporting actually snow but because the road surfaces are so warm, its not really sticking. It may accumulate on the ground. That would really be about it. Heres what happens over the next couple of hours. Notice in the future cast we really clear this out by about 9 00 or so. Then were actually going to see a lo