trooper wesley brown was shot dead just after 12:30 this morning just outside the front door of the applebee s on donnelle drive in forrestville. investigators say at least seven shots were fired. he was shot in the upper body. he was wearing a vest and the bullet missed his vest and hit his basically hit his heart. reporter: wesley brown was a four-year veteran ever the maryland state police force, born and raised in seat pleasant, recently engaged to be married. witnesses say after being shot, brown stumbled back into the restaurant and died in the arms of its other security guard, a retired maryland state police trooper good the senseless killing of trooper brown hurts all of us deeply and our objective is to go ahead and try and find this person that killed our trooper. reporter: investigators say they re looking for this man in the light blue shirt seen here in images from surveillance video taken inside the restaurant. he s a crowning man who was kicked out of t
roby chavez is live on the scene to start us off tonight. reporter: scary moments tonight as the shooting unfolded right in the middle of the street. you can see technicians are just wrapping up as they were gathering a lot of information tonight trying to figure out just how many shots were fired. the shooting happened right near the 9:30 crop and feet a club and feet away from the howard university dorm. officers from the 9:30 club were first to the scene. detectives say three people were shot near this white suv. one person was found inside. a second on the ground and a third ran to a nearby mcdonald s on georgia avenue. at this point it does not appear that this was a robbery. council member jim graham says he s being told two vehicles were driving near this intersection of 8th and v northwest and they were shooting at each other. tonight police are looking for a green colored car seen fleeing the area about 7:3 tonight. we don t know why they were here. we don t kno
center and they go to america for all of them. reporter: scores of the parents have been calling the high school in bethesda, the vast majority, cheering them to disinvite thomas as graduation speakers. graduation is not the occasion for controversy that is suppose to be a sign of the conversation. reporter: they will still invite her next year. i m not that worried about the small classrooms, the discussions. the rabbi who shot that tape said that he was at the white house for the jewish celebration last month with their two sons. you re saying it to two young men with the skull caps on who is when you talk to somebody and say that word, poland germany. and you know, that in my perception, immediately, it is. go back out there and see it. reporter: thomas instructed the staff at the northwest department complex to turn away reporters. and she declined to pick up the phone. reporter: she said that the words did not reflect her belief that peace in the mideast
a lot of rain and some storms moved across the washington area this evening. we could be in for some more rain tonight. good evening, i m pat lawson. i m jim vance. for a while there, it was kind of rough today. jackie bensen has been in the weather in rockville. we begin with bob upstairs. we have had a wild time of it with tornado warnings. a number of severe thunderstorm warnings. no widespread damage, but some hail. we have another batch of thunderstorms coming into the western suburbs. can see a bit of lightning for you folks in fairfax, county, but nothing severe. look at what was happening earlier. these are great pictures. this is kevin mourn, berryville, they did have large hail in winchester, and look at this shelf clouf. sort of an outflow from a severe thunderstorm in frederick county, maryland. that is where the tornado warnings were. our temperatures into the 70s. the other big story is hurricane bill. whichs going to have a big effect along our coast for th