T in a movienr theater last nightn lafayette, louisiana. He killed two young women and wounded nine others for no apparent reason. The gunman had anr history of mental illness. Omar villafranca begins our coverage from lafayette. Tense moments outside the grand 16 theater. Inside, people scrambled to escape the rampage. A crowd of people were trying to get out. Reporter Lucas Knepper was sitting in the secondtolast row of the ambassador screening room, six to eight inches away from thenit shooter. Did he sayni anything . Nothing at all. He just stood up and was shooting, blank stare. Not at anyone in particular just the crowd. Reporter as trainwreck played on the screen police say 59yearold john houser Fire Department twice hitting two people directly in front of him and randomly at least tenni more times. You could see theni reflecting from the movie and the flash coming from the chamber. It was awful. Reporter two teachers are credited for saving lives, onexd shot in the leg pulled a
Passengers alex murk of potomac and calvin lee of rockville. A 17yearold front seat passenger survived. 18yearold sam ellis of North Potomac was behind the wheel, but he has not been charged. Routinely these investigations where there is a death invo days. Reporter this is a community that has lawyered up and shut down according to multiple sources. Police are convinced teenagers and parents with information about the party preceding the crash have not yet come forward to investigators. They need more people from the community who may have seen something but even if they didnt see something might know something. Reporter social media including snapchat, instagram and twitter may provide critical clues. Using Snapchat Sam Ellis shared video from inside the party and alex murk shared video from inside ellis car just minutes before all four lives would be changed forever. In North Potomac andrea mccarren, wusa9. Sam ellis lawyer says his client is devastated by the loss of his friends and
For yet another deadly mass shooting as new details emerge about the man who opened fire inside a crowded lafayette, louisiana Movie Theater killing two women before turning that gun on himself. This was slow and methodical. It was barbaric. Reporter 59yearold john houser sat near the top of the movie room, then waited till the movie got underway and then opened fire. Lucas was never 6 feet away from the shooter. You could see the flash coming from the chamber. It was awful. Reporter 21yearold mayci breaux and 33yearold Jillian Johnson were killed and nine others injured. One of the surviving wounded victims played dead to stay alive. Reporter witnesses say houser exited through a side door and reloaded his gun just as police were arriving. He ran back inside, fired several more shots, then took his own life. In 2008 housers family had him involuntarily committed in of Mental Health issues. That should have stopped him from buying a weapon. Reporter police have confirmed housers automa
It is going to feel like summer today. Definitely starting to get warmer back out there. The humidity is back with us and remaining with us for the next several days and another heatwave on our hands as well. Lets get it started with the michael son weather cam and the day planner. The temperatures quickly on the rise today, already 82 degrees at 10 00, 88 degrees at 1 00, 92 at 4 00 and thats dropping down from a High Temperature of 93 degrees, which will reach between 3 00 and 4 00 in the afternoon. The threat for thunderstorms is minimal until we get into the evening today with a slow moving cold front making its approach, it could trigger an isolated storm by about 6 00 or 7 00 in the afternoon and evening and then the chance for thunderstorms will start to increase as we head into the evening, kind of counter intuitive. We usually see the storms more so in the Late Afternoon but today we will see them later at night. Right now 68 degrees in fredericks, still 71 in hagerstown, 75 i
Ordered to buyback hundreds of thousands of pickup trucks and suvs. And the companys being fined a record 105 million. We have more now from kris van cleave. Reporter this Jeep Grand Cherokee caught fire on a california freeway in 2013 after a plastic gas tank ruptured following a collision. It was crashes like this that prompted a recall just two months later. But nhtsa says Fiat Chrysler was slow to notify consumers over 17 months just 3 of more than a million grand cherokee and liberty suvs were f transportation secretary anthony foxx. It is not a Good Business decision to try to skate the process or to the do the right thing on the front end. Its a better practice to do the right thing make the recalls work make them effective and move on. Reporter todd andersons son skyler died when his 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee caught fire. Anderson did not receive a recall notice until nearly a year later. There was no way had i known that there was this risk he would be driving that vehicle. Rep