Please come forward. Reporter standing strong beside her, jays son, holding a picture of his dad. They not only killed him, they killed me. They killed him. They killed us. And it is very hard. Reporter these bullet holes at the home on castle way, a reminder of that terrible day back in july. A witness that night claims a black male knocked on the door and pointed a gun at him. The suspect demanded that he called mr. Pierre to the door. Reporter when he did, the maot took off. We know that jay was targeted. But what we dont know is why. Reporter the only clues police will release are these photos. Take a good look. This woman is a person of interest and may know who pulled the trigger. The answers that police and his family are desperately searching for. I beg you. Please, somebody, who is watching right now, i know you are watching right now. Somebody for you to do for you, do it for me. Please come forward. Reporter a very sad situation for this family. An 8,000 Crime Stoppers rewar
Letting my dog out earlier, paramedics were parked in front of my house right here. And, i wanted them to know i didnt make a call. They told me to go back inside and lie down. They wouldnt tell me anything. Reporter as a deputy and a sergeant went inside the home, they found a man having what appeared to be a mental break down. They tried to came him down according to the sheriff to no avail. Both members of the Hernando County Sheriffs Office have gone through crisis intervention training but in this case, the team had to use lethal force and shoot the man who later died. You know, they had this training and obviously, in this case, it wasnt success. As hard as you try, you cant be successful every time when you are dealing with humans in crisis. Reporter and as a routine in situations like this, both the deputy and the sergeant are on paid administrative leave. Fdle has traveled to hernando investigating tonight and the Hernando County Sheriffs Office. Investigators are still on sce
New at 11 00, the stage is now set for november in democracy 2016. Well have the latest polling numbers coming up. The other big story of the day. Tropical depression number nine still not a named storm, but youre predicted path. Good evening everyone im wendy ryan. Im jamison uhler. For more on that lets head over to chief meteorologist Denis Phillips who is tracking this for you tonight. Dennis . Reporter hi guys, td9 has not been named, but it will be tomorrow. It is very clear that it is now getting its act together. This is kind of what we expected. It got into the open waters of the gulf of mexico, away from land tapping that upper 80s to near 90degree water. That is pure energy. So this is Getting Better probably first thing tomorrow morning that this is a Tropical Storm. This is the new path of the National Hurricane center. It is pretty much the exact same track that we would have at 5 00. Nothing has changed in terms of the track. Slow down, but it may just very well be that
Tropical depression number 9. Last week it was invest 99l. An area of high pressure. Most of the models agree there will be some northeasterly turn here. You can see the line right there. This line right here gives you a rough idea as to when the timing would be for this. Thats with 60 mile per hour winds which is better for us in terms of strength because the Southern Side would be where the ster potential coastal flooding and moisture being brought in. Thats the concern. Couple of other things. Tropical depression 8 could become a Tropical Storm for the carolinas. Gaston is a hurricane but not e effecting us at all. Lot of wind sheer and dry air that blanks space to the northwest of the sewn ter of the System Center of the Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying out of the air force base in tampa still out there. 41 mile per hour wind gusts so far. Could strengthen into a Tropical Storm sometime tomorrow. Well continue to watch that closely, guys. Theres steve and well have an update in 15
State officials want to know what led to 248 million gallons of sewage discharged into tampa bay this year alone. How did it get this bad, and whats done to permanently fix it and bhaets done right now . Officials from pinellas county, clearwater and largo spoke about their own issues, but the main spotlight is on st. Petersburg which had three large discharge events since last august. They wanted to know why the Wastewater Treatment closed and why a to 14 whistleblower report predicting massive overflows with to closure was ignored. They said they didnt have knowledge of the reports. Hes seeking independent counsel to get to the bottom of it. Upgrades are in progress but could take two toe three years. Hes doing what he can in the meantime to prevent history from repeating itself. We will do everything we can to minimize the opportunity. To bring that capacity up. We cant get that work done overnight. So we have already started the work to on that construction. Having said that, were