Yet another shooting victim in our city. This time in the 600 belong of division avenue northeast. This time the victims a 27yearold man, shot and wounded outside this carryout around 2 00 this afternoon. Sources tell me that after the man was wounded, some people came by and rifled through his pockets. The man was taken to the hospital. Police arent talking about his condition, but homicide investigators have be called to the scene to work the cas now this comes in the midst of a spike in violence in our city. In the last week weve averaged about a murder a day. Theres been a lot of gunfire, a lot of vile innocence our city in the last week or so. Your concerns about that . Any explanation for it . We are obviously investigating all the cases, at this time we have not found any connection between the cases, and were moving forward on the investigations. Just last night a double homicide on southern avenue. I kind of wished they would find the person that did this to my dad and my brot
The school board and him have reached a settlement. Its been a tough couple months for him. Megan mcgrath is live from the School Headquarters went down. Reporter good morning, barbara. Sources with Montgomery County School System who are familiar with the negotiations tell chris gordon that joshua starr and the board of education have reached an amicable agreement to part ways. Starr and the board chair will be holding a press conference at noon a expected to learn the details of that agreement. They are also expected to take questions from the press. Dr. Starr was hired in 2011 and a source says hes found it difficult to do his job since media reports surfaced about divided support for him on the cool board. Talks of an ongoing for the last several days. A source tells chris gordon that dr. Starr will not work through the end of his contract which is june 30th. The board did appear briefly in a Public Session this it morning. Thats the video that you see here. They then adjourned to
What station did he exit . You know, what time of day . What line . What platform were you on . We have cameras all over. A lot of times well see, oh, he was, you know, a tall man in a dark shirt and dark jeans. Well, maybe he was wearing shoes with neon shoe laces, and thats a defining character. Reporter the most recent victim tried to take a picture of his face. He actually noticed me taking a picture of him, and while the doors were closing, and he just ran. Reporter metro doesnt encourage people to take pictures of possible perpetrators on trains. Now, yes, as we mentioned just a few minutes ago, indecent exposure happens on metro more than you might think. Coming up tonight at 6 00, well tell you just how often and also explain a very quick and subtle way you can report any incident like that to police. Live at penway town station, kristen wright, news 4. Kristen, thanks. After five long weeks of testimony, prosecutors and Defense Attorneys in richmond right now are making their
Neighborhoods. Windchill advisory throughout the area as we see windchills up to 50 miles an hour and goes through midnight. Now, let me show you the impact this wind is going to have windchill temperatures 20s toup d. C. Maryland and gaithersburg by 7 00 and in the single digit marks moving in the area close to the 9 00 hour. More on the impact of the wind what it will feel like late tonight and tomorrow mornings rush coming up. The same system that has us digging out from winds has chicago digging out snow and chicago has the snowiest february 1st ever and more than 500 pieces of equipment trying to dig out the sidewalks and hundreds of Flights Canceled leading to residual delays in washington and elsewhere. Six of the major transit lines are building with weather problems. Ice buildup on subway tracks brought trains to a stand still. In queens five trains were stuck in stations because the electrified rails froze. One had no heat and they sent in a rescue train to help those passeng
Heavy downpour, slow movers and lightning and thunder. There are many more to the west. I will diminish later this evening and tonight. It will be hot and humid with shower and thunder and heavy downpours. We will taper it off after sunset this evening and quiet it down later tonight. We look ahead to rest of the weekend and the Holiday Weekend as well in a few minutes. Alison we will see you then. New information tonight as police are searching for the man who attacked a 12yearold girl. After canvassing her neighborhood for days, it turns out the new information in this case may have come from a chance encounter by the girls mother. Maryland bureau chief brad bell spoke with the mother in the last half hour and has this story you will see only on seven. Brad . Brad alison, can you imagine as a parent that you have to deal with this terrible drama being inflicted on your own child. Suffering through a sexual assault. Then being with the child and spotting the suspect. Well, the mother