A cowardly and despicable act. Thats how the president of American University describes the images that started circulating around that campus today. The racist messages targeted an africanamerican sorority, and they were found in more than one location. News4s Jackie Bensen has more for us with more reaction from the universitys students and leaders. Jackie . Reporter it is planned for tomorrow, but the set here tomorrow is thats not going to be enough. While students were cramming for to a hatefilled incident that may have occurred in more than three locations, according to officials. We found out today that the people who committed the incident last fall were expelled. However, its ten months later, so there are still people on this campus thinking that they go here or that theyre in another hall, and it just builds a level of fear. Reporter other students we spoke to called the incident disheartening. I dont know why they do that, but its unfortunate. Reporter they confirmed the ba
Darcy . Reporter erika, i can tell you im standing on Columbia Park road but the shooting itself happened right here on columbia place in the 2200 block. Prince georges county police still waiting to provide specific information. But what we do know is that it happened in the 2200 block this evening and that a male was shot and killed. That male suffering a gunshot wound to the upper body. We dont have an age yet on the victim but i was able to talk to some young people who were standing over here on the corner a short time was he outside . Inside . I would say probably we had just told him come with us. What was he like . He was nice. Always looking out like a little brother like. I dont see what he even could have did to live, Prince Georges County police again not confirming that the victim in this case is a teenager but that is in fact what we are hearing from neighbors who live right here on this street. At this point we dont know what this was about. Prince georges county police
Who helped trace suspicious online postings to an ip address in vienna, virginia, to this sign shop not far from the dulles toll road. The affidavit says this is steve bakers business. The person inside declined to open the door when we knocked there today, but the fbi affidavit details what happened when their agent knocked on the door a few months ago. The agents asked baker if he knew why they were there. His response, i have child porn on my computer. Adding, ive been waiting for some to come. Then saying im actually downloading a file right now. Do you want to see . No answer at bakers home in kensington today either. Our further review finds these cases are increasingly common. We found a huge spike in child exploitations in maryland in 2014 and 2015, which the fbi says comes from phones and portable devices. Baker videotaped at least one young girl and shared those images, but didnt specify how many children are included in those 50,000 images they say they uncovered. Scott macf
Weekend to start. We are tracking potentially snow as we start spring tomorrow. Say it aint snow. It is . Snowmygosh. We are tracking what is the beginnings of what is going to be a messy day outside, cold day outside, and ugly day outside for many of us. On the first alert doppler. Most of that not reaching the ground. To the west, we have areas where we are seeing snow falling from the Higher Elevations. We are at a dry start right now, but into the afternoon, we will see a cold rain, and event yulely it will mix with snow into the overnight hours, and theres a Winter Weather advisory in e Higher Elevations, and coming up in a few minutes, timing out when it will arrive and talking about when the warmup will finally get here. Its about it. In turkey there was an explosion in the turkish capital in the main shopping district there. Its believed to be a suicide bombing at this point. Its days after two other suicide bombings in the capital city. The group affiliated with the pkk is ass