Video shows his repeated warnings to 23 year old Keith Childress for more than two minutes. hands up, hands up Vanessa Murphy this was december 31st. drop the gun Vanessa Murphy metro police were called to help us marshals. Who told officers childress was on the run out of arizona for attempted murder. if you advance us, you will be shot Vanessa Murphy but when he walks toward Officers Police shoot and kill him. Turns out what bohanon refers to as a gun was a cell phone childress was holding. Weve also learned childress was not an attempted muder suspect. And one of the officers at the scene failed to turn on his body camera. All problems which undersheriff Kevin Mcmahill says are being investigated. undersheriff Kevin Mcmahill any time an unarmed individual is shot in todays environment, its a big deal, but its not a bigger deal to anybody than this police department. Vanessa Murphy on monday metro Police Released this audio to false information from us marshals that childress was an
Talking about the weather Sherry Swensk skies are cloudy and the ceiling is low this morning. You cant see the strip from our stratosphere camera right now. Temps are mild with the overnight clouds. Right now we have a lot of 40s again. The humidity is high now after weve had a few round of light showers that started early yesterday morning. This first system is now exiting east. And making way for a larger and stronger system hitting heavy rain is slamming the central and northern coast and there are plenty of winter storm warnings and flood watches for california today and tomorrow. We will look for rain later in day near noon and expecting the snow to pile up in our local mountains as well. Demetria, how are the roads this morning . Demetria obilor building fire on las vegas boulevard and agate avenue, which is south of pebble in the south valley. Police activity on the north delays on southbound i15. < < back to you Kirsten Joyce all three democratic president ial candidates are Pl
Coming up at 1130, Federal Reserve chair janet yellen will hold a press conference about the new policy. Well bring that to you live, as soon as it starts. Speaking of the federal government a bill is in the process of being approved to fund the government through september. Congressional leaders reached an agreement yesterday on a massive 1 point1 trillion dollar bill. The government was set to run out of money at midnight. But leaders are prepared to pass another shortterm funding measure lasting a few days. As they move to approve the broader bill pause for animation the debate is over, but some of the candidates are still in town. Trying to get more facetime with their supporters. Right now, ben carson is holding a meet and greet, and luncheon at maggianos little italy. The event goes until 130. Action News Reporter Marissa Kynaston is there listening in. Shell join us with his remarks, coming up at 1130. Is speaking to the Economic Club of las vegas today. The senator will discuss
Moore is live from metro headquarters describing in detail how they attacked their victims. These Home Invasions happened over a fiveweek span back in july and august. And police say they targeted mostly Senior Citizens and at least one of those Home Invasions involved Sexual Assault. Imagine that youre at home, with your family, watching tv, making dinner, and all of a sudden the door to your house gets broken in. That was the chilling reality for several southwest valley homeowners this summer. Police say 42yearold wilbert knight, 28yearold brandon black, and 23yearold Quincy Williams were indicted for multiple Home Invasion charges. Around late july, early august, in the early evening hours, police say they broke into homes, sometimes masked. They used zipties to restrain their victims, seriously beat them with handguns and revolvers. These arent easy cases to solve, because the crimes of times, phsyical evidence is not left behind. But in this case, detectives were able to gather c
Early hours of wednesday before tapering off. We then have another storm moving through wednesday afternoon into thursday morning. Highs stay mid50s wednesday before dropping down around 50 degrees for the rest of the week and the weekend. Lows drop from around 40 to the mid30s as soon as the weekend. Slight shower chances remain for thursday through sunday. A celebrity is now weighing in on an officer involved a celebrity is now weighing in on an officer involved shooting that happened here in the valley on new years eve. Rapper the game posted about several officer involved shootings on both instagram and twitter today including the one here. Saying officers who shot Keith Childress 19 times for holding a cellphone they thought was a gun, are free. Childress family tells fox5 they appreciate the rappers support. Just yesterday metro Police Released body camera video from the shooting of Keith Childress. Police say they thought he was holding a gun, but it was his cell phone. And when