295, of course, a very, very busy highway. There were lots of people around when this happened. Now, what Police Believe occurred here is that this suv was traveling in virginia there is another vehicle following the suv. They then believe that they came into the district on 295 and right around 8 45 thats when someone in the other vehicle opened fire on the suv. There were two men inside one of those men was killed he is still inside the vehicle here on the scene. The other person was transported to the hospital with bullet wounds. Now, there were a lot of people in the area obviously, because of the hour the middle of rush hour. Lots of people we got lots of 911 calls. The problem is they didnt get a lot of detailed information about the other vehicle involved how many other suspect there is may be and they want people who were in the area and saw something, police want you to give them a call and provide them with those details. Obviously this is rush hour traffic. There was a lot o
Join us live at the scene in just a few minutes. Im Tisha Thompson at the live desk. We are just getting details about wizards star john wall being kicked off a flight in las vegas this week. This youre about to see is a picture from walls twitter just a few days ago, showing him in vegas as they were headed back to d. C. On tuesday. Someone from walls group allegedly threatened another passenger. According to tmz sports. Police were called and boarded the plane. The victim told them he didnt want to press charges, but the pilot reportedly asked the officers to remove wall and his fellow travelers from the plane. They were escorted off without any further incident. Im Tisha Thompson at the live desk. Former reality show star is now officially charged for making threats against our metro system. Dreadstone coleman just wrapped up a Court Appearance in d. C. About an hour ago. Police say he made multiple threats against trains and buses in the last silver months, some of which actually p
You draw the recommend be om pence of the bullet. And i pray for the person who did this. I pray for them. Reporter so far there have been no arrests in connection with the shooting. Derrick ward, news4. Coming up is the aix, well hear from the editor at sharniece miltons newspaper. Her boss describes her as a fearless reporter. Now to a major highway in our area transformed into a crime scene today. Right now police still looking for whoever opened fire right in the middle of the mourn commute. One person is dead, another injured after that shooting along the anacostia freeway or 295. News4s Megan Fitzgerald has been talking to drivers today, live now at the scene. Megan . Reporter jim, frankly a lot of drivers we spoke with say theres shock that somebody would be so brazen enough to open fire during a rush hour commute with people all around. Now, police do say that they received a lot of 911 calls but so far no arrests. The morning commute on 295 can be stressful. Its slow. There ar
News. Sharniece really loved doing community stories. She loved talking to people. Reporter her family says she was returning from work on a story using Public Transportation as she typically did. She was shot as she transferred buses just minutes from home. Police believe the intended target of the gunshot that killed her may have pulled her into the line of fire, used her as a human shield. At 9 28 she texted me and said, im on my way home. So i was waiting for her to text exactly, let me know if she needed me to pick her up where she was. And we never got that text last night. Typically we think of losses of journalists as being out in the middle east or in africa or in dangerous places. But here you lost a very, very active and Important Community journalist in ward 7. Reporter now, as a freelancer here at the hill rag she didnt spend a lot of time at the offices. But in the limited time she was here she made a positive impression on just about everybody. She was always very nice.
About. Jay gray is live outside the courthouse where jurors have just found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing. Jay . Reporter jim pat, guilty on all 30 counts, including the 17 which carried with them the possibility of the death penalty. That guilty verdict now triggering the next phase in this trial, which is the penalty phase. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for just over 11 hours over the last couple of days before reaching their decision this afternoon. It was announced and they were released by the judge. They will return for the penalty phase expected to start sometime early next week. What will we see in that phase . More testimony. More evidence as well. And likely more of an exclamation from the defense team here, which has said all along that, while they admit Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a part of the bombing and he should be punished he was not the mast mastermind mastermind. They say it was tamerlan, his older brother, who planned, purchase