Right now gruesome discover row has local police on the search for killer a womans body dumped in Fairmount Park and police say she had been shot and stabbed. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Investigators may have figure out who she is. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at Police Headquarters tonight. Dave . Reporter lucy police have not yet officially released the name of the woman but they believe shes from chester a team of deck Social Security trying to locate her family right now. To notify them. The identification was made after Police Released details about three very distinctive tattoos on her body. Tonight they tell me this brutal murder may have been an act of retaliation. Its sad. Reporter people come to Fairmount Park to relax. They ride horses here. Maybe take a cruise on their bike or go to concert at the ma inform n. They don expect to find crime scene tape and dead bodies here. Like the ones discovered near this picnic area tuesday morni morning. This not th
Be the worst. All in a matter of minutes. She says if it werent for another person shielding her from the gunfire, she might not be here. We laid there for hours and hours hoping that someone came and got us and hoping that the police would come through at that point in time and just like save us all. 20yearold patience carter a fox 29 intern describing the horror of being trapped in a orlando nightclub bathroom as gunman goes on wild shooting rampage. Patience and dozens of others shot. Some killed including her friend akyra murray who had just graduated west catholic prep last monday. I looked across and i could see my best friend on the floor and akyra just looking lifeless and at that point i was just like i really dont think im going to get out of here. Patience says at one point the shooters gun jammed. He was like, testimonyn like it jammed. So with my face under the stall looking i could see him put down his machine gun and try to you could hear him trying to click in, fix his
Possible attack before he killed 49 people and injured 53 others orlando pulls nightclub lgbt bar early sun morning. His wife did not alert authorities before the shootin shootings. Weve also learned mateen was a regular at pulse and reportedly had profiles on gay dating apps. Meanwhile, 27 survivors are still in the hospital. Six are in intensive care as weve shown you two of those survivors spoke today for the First Time Since the massacre. One of them patience carter is an intern here at fox 29. She says what started as the best night of their lives turned out to be the worst night of their lives in just a master minutes. I never thought in a million years that this could happen. I never thought in a million years that my eyes could witness something so tragic. From the orlando hospital where shes being treated, patience carter recites emotional poem she wrote late last night about surviving the sheer horror of the orlando nightclub massacre and the guilt of feeling lucky to be aliv
Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce has been following the developments and has more from the newsroom now. Jennifer. Reporter lucy, french president Francois Holland came out to express his sorrow about this attack which was a day of celebration. 77 people confirmed dead including children at least 20 people and wounded. It was around 10 30 p. M. Local time when Authorities Say someone drove a white box truckloaded with guns and grenades full speed into a crowd of people. The group was gathered in town for a Fireworks Show for bastille day which celebrates the french revolution. Video shows people running scattering in every direction trying to get out of harms way not knowing what was going on. As Police Worked to secure the area, people were ordered to shelter in place. One of those people a man from philadelphia a colleague of mine from college. He checked in on facebook letting friends and family know that hes safe. He didnt want to be identified in this story but did share details with me thr
Morning. This not the kind of place where murders and stuff like that or dumping bodies. I believe she was in a fight for her life and unfortunately she lost. Reporter homicide detectives and crime scene investigators arrived in the park just after 8 00 a. M. They found the body of a woman who had clearly been in a struggle and may have been tortured. They found an unidentified black female handcuffed with her hands to the front, she had been stabbed multiple times she was shot one time in the back of the head. People are sick. Reporter a couple on their way to work spotted her body just off the 5300 block of georgia hill drive behind the mann center they have called 911. We believe that this murder happened somewhere else and she was dumped at this locate. Reporter police say the victim had several defensive wounds on her hands and arms. Her body may have been in the park for some 10 to 15 hours. They described several tattoos on her body. She has the word loyal loyan across her chest