Sitting on the porch me and my neighbors. Reporter 79yearold hula may tillman was simply sitting on her front porch on north 25th street tuesday night just after 10 30 when she heard an argument up the block and then gunfire. The guy said we dont want no trouble. We dont want no trouble. All of a sudden, the guy throwed up his hands. Oh, my god, i said, i think he get ready to start shooting and he did. Reporter this miss physical man ran for her life but fell in the doorstep and was struck twice by stray bullets once in the ankle a second time in the left leg. Oh, my god ive been shot. I called my son. I said ive been shot. Ive been shot. Reporter police say it was just after 10 30 when the shots rang out. Two bullets struck this car, one went through the windshield and shattered the rear view mirror. The other went through the roof. The shooter was only 50 feet away. Based on ballistic evidence we know at least two shots were fired from a semiautomatic weapon we found two spent she w
Backed up. Reporter jenkins says the karr was running with brake lights on inside. The bodies of twin 26yearold brothers marquise and Maurice Harper. The brothers seen here in a photo given to us by neighbors. Police say they were shot to death hours before they were found. I got the call 8 00 oclock this morning. Okay. And shot straight down here. Andre, says the harper twins are his nephews. They were good men who helped others. Friends say the brothers grew up on the block and stayed close gathering together neighborhood kids for basketball games as a way to stay out of trouble. I told them stay out the streets. Especially at that time of morning any way. They my nephews. They live the street life. Whatever the case because they was good people. Take their shirt off their back and give it to anybody. They didnt deserve to dike not like that. Reporter police have no motive and no arrests. Now Court Records indicate both twins have a history of arrests including at least one Court App
Excuse me. Where a tense standoff is in its 18th hour between police and man they say shot and killed a delaware state trooper. Trooper stephen j. Ballard was gunned down as he approached a car outside of a convenience store. Melanie alnwick joins us with the latest. Reporter the gunman was able to make it 15 miles away from the shooting scene and hes been hiding out in a house in a residential neighborhood. Overnight homes shook with the sounds of several blasts and neighbors say they could hear police on bull horns. This hour still no resolution. Yesterday evening, a sea of officers, look at this, stood outside the hospital where that 32yearold trooper Steve Ballard passed away. Then a solemn escort for a 9mile trip taking ballards body to the medical examiners office. People all along the route saluted and put their hands on their hearts as the parade of sorts passed by. It was about noon wednesday when Corporal Ballard approached a parked one of two people inside, a man, got out an
Joins us now with a look at the beater. When is the sun going to return . A. Just in time for our mothers on mothers day. Not very many people got to see any sunshine today. We had plepttive gray skies and clouds and even a sprinkle here and there and some rain a little bit heavier earlier in the day. Lets take a look at satellite radar and see exactly whats lapping. Take a look at the low pressure system spinning its way off the northeast. Over delaware seeing a fair amount of rainfall as well. Youll see a sprinkle or two here and there. Dont be sprays surprised. But it is finally starting to move its way out. Temperatures, another portion of my story because it has been extremely chilly. Well, highs today 61 at Reagan National airport, 60 at dulles and 58 at some 13 to t 15degrees blow the seasonal averages because we hewed be so much warmer than that. Right now our current temperature is only 59degrees in the Nations Capital and in our antibody hood here is what were looking at. Fif