Member on a cargo ship el faro opens up on the tragedy at sea. Mariette white one of 34 on board. Her proud but grieving mother speaks out. Jim . Jim mary just got back from jacksonville, florida, where her and other relatives have been awaiting news. Now is her family plans a memorial, she remembers her daughter who loved life on the open water. She would call me from port. This is a great cruise. I wish you were here. Jim those calls reminder of how much her daughter lived for life on the sea, but he came to a whole two weeks ago when she and 32 others were lost when the el faro went down in the atlantic. I had no warning. I got a call one morning saying that the el faro had gone down, and they did not expect the dna survivors. Jim the question remained was why. I believed if there was any way they could ve prevented it, they would have, but the captain chose to ship out in that tropical storm. Jim are you mad at that captain for making the decision to go out to sea . No. In marine t
Exactly what you loved. Reporter mary also tells us right before her daughter left she says mom, i dont want to do this anymore because im getting too old for this. For now were live in brockton, malini basu, fox 25 news. Malini its awful. You really feel for that family tonight. Fox 25 will stay in contact with that family and follow their story. Well bring you any developments on it as soon as we get word of those. We are following breaking news out of the tennessee where an off Duty Memphis Police officer was shot and killed today. 31yearold officer was shot multiple times around 1 00 this afternoon. Outside of a home in the memphis suburb of cordova. Police department in september of 2014. He leaves behind a finacee who is four months pregnant. The details are now very, very sketchy. Our investigation is ongoing and we do have one suspect in custody but again the details are very, very sketchy. The suspect in custody has not been charged yet. Alridge is fourth memphis officer to be
Watching fox 25 news at 10 00. Speaking out about a global tragedy in the loss of a daughter. Hi everyone im blair miller. Im elizabeth hopkins. Fox 25 has been following the el faro story since the time it first went missing a week ago. New tonight fox 25s malini basu spoke with the mother of a lost sailor. Malini . Reporter elizabeth and blair, were actually where Marriott Wright loves to come here. Tonight we spoke to her mother who tells fox 25 this is a feeling shes going through. She feel like she swallowed a large piece of flat rock it and landed right here on her chest and its not going to move and its covering it. We were so full of hope. We were ultra reporter mary shivery is trying to come to terms with i know the ship sank. Reporter she was only 51yearold years old working on the el faro. You loved the sea, you said you were married to the sea, and the sea took her bride. Reporter tonight in jacksonville, a vigil for all of the crew members on the vessel. Mary tells fox 25
Crooks do not want to mess with this woman. If he had behaved in a slightly different manner. When she stopped an announcer youre watching fox 25 news at 10 00. Speaking out about a global tragedy in the loss hi everyone im blair miller. Im elizabeth hopkins. Fox 25 has been following the el faro story since the week ago. New tonight fox 25s malini basu spoke with the mother of a lost sailor. Malini . Reporter elizabeth and blair, were actually where Marriott Wright loves to come here. Tonight we spoke to her mother who tells fox 25 this is a feeling shes going through. She feel like she swallowed a large piece of flat rock it and landed right here on her chest and its not going to move and its covering it. We were ultra reporter mary shivery is trying to come to terms with the loss of her daughter. I know the ship sank. Reporter she was only 51yearold years old working on the el faro. You loved the sea, you said you were married to the sea, and the sea took her bride. Reporter tonight
The train shes been waiting quite some time were going on about two hours now those people have been stuck on the train but important thing someone was apparently struck and killed we understand it was a male we are hearing that perhaps this person was along the side of the track when they were struck and killed. I did speak with a group of young boys teenagers here and asked them to people play along these tracks and they said no they usually do not. We try to sift out the information here and hope to be up to bring you more on fox 25 news at 10. Also telling you about breaking news over the past hour in boston pretty big scene happening on beacon street right now. Take a look at this First Responders have been working on a Hazardous Materials situation there this happening just outside of Kenmore Square in the Boston University area. Investigators telling us a fedex truck and a box with a bottle of hcl leaking in it and just within the last 15 minutes safely neutralized now. Creating