Shelves collecting dust and Police Departments months of me questioning officials about why they never sent the kids for dna testing and months of thirty news now lobbying lawmakers to take action with our hashtag test the kids campaign. Weve just learned the attorney general has finalized a contract to get the more than two thousand kits tested. Finally they could hold the keys to solving crimes like rape and Sexual Assault and now they will no longer sit on the shelves and local Police Departments without any sort of examination. Some of the kits we discovered that have not been tested for dna date back to nineteen eighty eight. Thats almost thirty years a victim has been waiting for answers waiting for a dna profile on the suspect who changed her out there again. Attorney general mark herring told thirteen news now exclusively he has contracted bodie sell mark forensics in Northern Virginia to test the more than two thousand Sexual Assault evidence kits and the first kids to be test
Our communities safer to help victims of Sexual Violence know that their perpetrator is brought to justice attorney general mark herring tells thirty news now bodie sell more forensics in Northern Virginia will be testing the more than two thousand Sexual Assault evidence kits and the first kits to be tested are coming from right here in Hampton Roads from the Virginia Beach police department. Those kids should begin to arrive at the lab in the next couple weeks with results on the way in about six to eight weeks its really important this be done thoughtfully and carefully because this could be used as evidence in criminal cases the testing is funded through the one point four Million Dollar grant to the a gs office ignored in september just a couple months after our initial investigation. I think the stories about the untested kits and Public Awareness helped really bring this issue to the forefront program started to provide the resources the use of those resources now sending a mess
Forty mph and now just moderate rain with occasional if he occasionally a few heavier downpours filtering and and thats going to continue here for quite awhile you can see it does get lighter the farther up the princely ago and thats going to tend to be the same sort of a setup as we go through later tonight and tomorrow but we still had almost an inch in hampden last several hours less lists the six hours a five hundred to newport news one of thirty inches in wakefield than one point four here in norfolk one in Virginia Beach and everything slide south and east were starting to see these numbers in North Carolina feeling a little bit as well. Were going to continue to watch this rain again the heaviest rain during the overnight and then i think will get a little bit of a break in some spots the first lets a half or third of the day tomorrow but the analysts attempt or sixties and then ill start to drop through the fifties the rain will fill back in comes in by afternoon talk about tha
Sight Family Member say around seven thirty this morning Dante Williams shot his mom in the head. We only can just hope and pray that you know shes okay and that all this gets resolved in the best way possible. A neighbor who was a nurse tells us the victim ran to her house after she was shot she took care of her until medics arrived. Williams mother was taken to the hospital according to Family Members she is already back home doing well reese well hope that she makes a full recovery. Police say after the shooting williams took his moms red toyota camry and drove away williams is still on the run police say he is armed and dangerous that has a lot of neighbors here concerned very terrified that the im hoping to catch him soon as i dont think anybody else should get hurt and again police are still looking for williams at this hour and a motive in this case is really unclear at this point again Williams Brother older idea why Something Like this would happen he says at this point were j
And we fall to forty six through the afternoon into the low forties a steamy shower still likely this will exit early tomorrow morning and then more sunshine and windy and colder tomorrow to talk about that and look at your weekend in a few minutes right now is second on naval station norfolk years at akc reg naval base trapping definitely kicking off the rush hour with the heaviest traffic across the area as we head to our camera take a look at this and youll be headed toward naval station norfolk in right now twenty five sixty four west and when you have an accident past the runway tunnel blocking two travel lanes causing this mess here on by sixty four almost back to sixty four so again aka tina watches but to take him to boulevard to get to work on time this morning on a second camera we head over to the peninsula sixty four eastbound hit the road Center Parkway the left lane is blocked. Not seeing nearly as major but the layout there but something to watch out where you plan to co