Details. Police say the standoff ended at 9 17 the suspect run out of the house in the five hundred block of Saint Michael as drive in middletown at that time engaged police and shot by officers. He was pronounced dead 12 minutes later. The suspect was wanted for the Fatal Shooting of copper actual Stephen Ballard outside this wawa in bear, delaware. This morning the corporals flagdraped casket was move from the medical Examiners Office to a funeral home. The house belonged to the suspects family it was heavily damaged during the siege. Shortly before 8 30 p. M. Police report they used an explosive charge to blow open the front door. Overnight gunfire came from inside the house. Police responded by using additional explosive to breach a number of windows. Some nearby homes were evacuated. Residents said they could hear the police action. Every hour the bomb went off. 1 50 a. M. There was a bomb. We heard explosions, they blew off the doors and the sides of the house, the whole road was
A barrage of bullets at close range. The actions of stephen yesterday exemplified the dedication he brought to the citizens of delaware. On a daily basis. Reporter powerful ip images captured a caravan escorting his body to the funeral home. My heart is with corp. Canral ballards family today and with all the officers on his shift and the Delaware State Police who served beside him. Reporter still residents are returning home horrified by the violence that hits too close to home. On a nice quiet neighborhood, i would never expect anything like this to happen. Reporter again, back out here live, a lot of residents trying to make sense of this new normal in their neighborhood thats filled with cop cars and yellow tape. Now, the motive for yesterdays shooting remains unclear, and Corporal Ballard leaves behind a young daughter and a wife. Reporting live here in middletown, christie ileto, channel 6 action news. Monica . Thank you, christie. Our coverage of this story continues for you on
It will be a butte. I it is not just the draft, the phillies have a day game today. Thats right. And the penn relays are today. Yes, we are packed with lots of stuff to tell you about. So lets first get to the number which is a much higher number than were had all week. How about eight out of ten today. Because no rain is gone, clouds are around, and we do have some fog around, lancaster, millville, new jersey, mount pocono, experiencing some fog this morning. Nothing here in old city. In fact, the roads are dry, looks good, and it is mild. 61 degrees, with calm winds, and sunrise at 6 06 this morning. Other temperatures, kutztown, 59. West chester, 59 degrees. Starting off in pennsville, with 59. Fiftyeight in williamstown, new jersey, and in toms river, it is 58 degrees. So, for the penn relays, this weekend, starting with today, we should get up to 80 degrees by tomorrow, 82, with a chance of a shower early in the morning, but warm by the afternoon, and a pop up thunderstorm is poss
Gme during the day today. It is 1 00 game. So by 7 00 see a lot of people headed into the penn relays, it will be about 58 degrees 64 at penn. Noon when the nfl draft experience opens, about 73 degrees by then, 74 at 1 00 e starts, top off in the upper 70s, maybe even around 80 degrees today, so, what an improvement, bob kelly, good thing none of this stuff happening. What a difference a day can make. I cant even imagine you will all of this stuff going on with the rain. Good morning, 5 01, opening underway at the burlington bristol bridge, getting out of the gate. Sit for cup of minute. North on 295, Early Morning overturned tractortrailer and fuel spill. So all traffic headed north on 295, youre forced to come in toward philadelphia, on the 42 freeway, from there, you can pick up route 130, or the turnpike, are you ready for some draft . Here we go parkway shutdown for the draft today. Vine expressway off ramps to the parkway closed through the weekends, and of course, the parkway, t
As karen mentioned, im thomas drayton, with bob kelly and sue serio. Good morning everybody. Friday. So much yesterday. We still have a big day to day , a lot going on this weekend. Great weekend. Guess what, weather, it will be nice. When we get our rain we get it in the middle of the night. It doesnt interfere without door plans. It is like camelot. I remember that song so well. Anyway nine out of 10. It is just an umbrella for a short little while with buddy, bigger thing is big old piece of Blueberry Pie he is bringing for his lunch because it is national Blueberry Pie day, yeah, so phillies won again last night, just need a polo shirt today because we are heading back in the 80s. We have some showers on ultimate Doppler Radar, new jersey and delaware is only places we have cleared out in philadelphia, at lee rain stopped. Cloud lingering. 65 degrees. Sunrise may not be bright to start but just like yesterday the sun will come out. Sixty in lancaster. Mount pocono 54. Heading to th