This happened as the Police Officers arrived back from work this morning. Matt delucia has been on stevenson avenue gathering information. What have you been able to learn . Reporter the man shot by the Police Officer is in the hospital. Prosecutors office are out here. They have been for several hours. They are taking pictures right now. Im told that they are just mapping the scene before they head out. The shooting happened just down here on stevenson avenue. L lets show you what it looked like when detectives were talking with residents. Im awaiting details. I talked with the fop president. This was a Police Officer just getting home from his shift. He had gotten out of his personal vehicle, a truck, when a man he claims walked up and tried to steal the truck. When the officer tried to stop him, the man put the vehicle in reverse and tried to back over the cop. That is when the officer fired his gun several times. Again, that information is from the local president of the fraternal
Other than the tractortrailer that was responsible for this incident. It continued and there was louder bangs and booms and screeching tires. I knew exactly that there was a crash. Reporter officer robert wood was at the Dunkin Donuts during the crash and ran over to help the victims. He says some were trapped, crying out for rescue. At least one car crushed like a soda can. Ive been here 16 years and this is the worst ive ever seen being right there at the time that its happening. Now you can see traffic back open just within the last few minutes on route 222. Meanwhile, that driver facing vehicular homicide, aggravated Assault Charges as well as a long list of traffic violations. Police say he was cooperative but is now in custody to face those charges. We did place some phone calls to his Trucking Company based out of berks county. They have not returned our calls. Live in berks county, randy gyllenhall, nbc 10 news. Doug shimell is in reading where the suspect is being held. Doug,
But down the street at the fire, there is also someone dead inside this home. Police sources tell us it appears the two scenes are related. Chopper four flying over that house, spotting police going in and out of the home. Also looking around the perimeter of the property. News4s Jackie Bensen joins us live with the latest. What have you got . Reporter wendy, we want to show what it looks like here. You can see up against the pine tree there, right where piney Meeting House road meets river road, you can see that black sedan and the Montgomery County homicide detectives and uniformed officers up there on the scene. That is where one of the deceased people has been found. The other scene, as you said, is about two miles north of here. Now we can tell you that at the house, which is just north of here, there appear to have been some type of fire. You can see in the video, i understand, from chopper 4, some scorch marks around the garage, and there is there are also detectives and uniform
From tysons over toward mclean approaching arlington, we have some showers now. This extends back again almost to about winchester and berryville. Andrea and mike, back to you. Thank you, howard. Heres whats in the news right now. The secret service has suffered another embarrassment. Cbs news confirms the security contractor who was convicted three times on charges of assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with president obama earlier this month in atlanta. Doctors at a dallas hospital are treating a man infected with the ebola virus. The unidentified man is the first confirm case with the disease diagnosed here in the United States. The cdc says the man is not a threat to others. Prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong are threatening to expand their protests against chinas government. Protesters are angry over chinese interference in hong kongs first direct election set for 2017. Police want to know if two deaths of two people just minutes apart are related. One person was k
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