The suspect stood up about 20 minutes into the showing of trainwreck and then began firing into the crowd before turning the gun on himself. Now, within seconds a teacher inside the Movie Theater was able to pull the fire alarm. Governor jindal says that move and the quick thinking of Police Officers saved lives. The first officers heard the gunshots and they still rang through that theater. They do an amazing job of protecting us every single day. Im grateful for their heroism. Three people died including the gunman, nine others were injured. Some of the victims are in Critical Condition right now. Now the writer and star of trainwreck, the movie condemns the shooting. Amy schumer sent out a tweet saying my heart is broken, all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in louisiana. It is 5 01. Im aaron gilchrist. Im erika gonzalez. Welcome to news4 today. It should be a beautiful friday. Just happy that the weekend is here. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein has the weather headl
Looks good. Lets keep it this way. Not so hot on 15 shut down at lucketts road still because of the fire. Your alternate, new Valley Church road is the best way around that. Looking at 270 a little slow southbound as youre headed to 80. Had some debris in the roadway. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. Beltway, no problems. Aaron . Thank you. 6 01. Now to the developing story out of louisiana. Police are checking out suspicious packages found inside that louisiana Movie Theater. Police say that they found a backpack and a few other items inside the gunmans car. Now overnight the bomb squad blew up the trunk of the car. Were still working to figure out what was inside. We know that the gunman stood up about 20 minutes into last nights screening of the movie trainwreck and began firing into that crowd in lafayette louisiana before he turned the gun on himself. Two other people died, nine people hurt in addition. Some of those victims are in Critical Condition right no
We start the morning at the live desk. Were getting new information about a man who shot nine people in a Movie Theater and then shot himself. Police say he was staying at a hotel near the Movie Theater and when police got in there they found wigs glasses and another license plate for his car. Police say he was planning an escape. They say he opened fire about 20 minutes into the movie train wreck, and then he left and tried to leave with the crowd. When he saw the police he went back in and shot himself. Police dont know why he picked this city and these people. We talked to some of the family members last night who dont have very much contact with him or havent seen him. So he just seemed like he was kind of drifting along. Now, houser killed two young women two survivors got out of the hospital this morning but the others are still recovering and one of them is in critical condition. Thanks, chris. The white house says president obama was briefed about the shooting aboard air force
Its going to be good weather for that as well. You dont have to dodge any thunderstorms for the next few days. Temperatures are going to slide up to 84 degrees by noon. Your high today 90 which is the warmst day weve seen the past three dais. However the humidity still pretty low and talk about when we see that humidity go up a little bit later but heres larry miller, good morning. Metro riders still a good start her at 6 01. No issues on the trains on the buses certainly good news this. We have an issue right now in the district. This is maine avenue westbound at independence avenue. Where we have an oversized tractortrailer at this point that has to be backed up because its too big to go underneath the overpass there. At independence avenue. So commuters in that area will need to be alert right now. The situation pending there. Were not seeing much in the way of delays but could be problematic as we get to the height of rush hour. Sky 9 a live look right now on 95 on the maryland sid
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