Murder investigation. The victim, a 78yearold maintenance man. Lets get right to nbc10s monique braxton. Shes live in center city with the latest. Fill us in, monique. Reporter hi, rosemary. Investigators tell us that joseph daly was beaten as well as strangled. Tonight theyre looking for his van. They think the van is with the killers. Homicide detectives want you to take a good look at these pictures. This is joseph dalys missing 2003 ford150 fan with tag number pd5338z. Notice the two rear doors are painted white. They believe the van is with the people who killed daly. The suspects broke a rear window and entered the property, killed the longtime home owner, and stole his vehicle. Police were called to his home at 6349 theodore street yesterday for a wellbeing check. The 78yearold man was deceased and lying on the living room floor. Police say daly, a neighborhood handy man, had been in this neighborhood for at least years. Now police are also checking into another violent encounte
Stars o. Our favorite star bill henley is standing by. Chris, we got sunshine on the way, thats my favorite star. Right now im watching for a few areas of fog, light fog in the lancaster area. The rest is clear. Most areas will stay clear today. Temperatures running cooler. 49 now in doyles town, wilmington is 55. 51 in mill mail. Rocks borough roxborough 54 degrees. These numbers climb nook the 70s again this afternoon. Mostly sunny skies the cloud from yesterday morning, theyre gone. Sunshine 62 degrees at 9 00. By noontime today, 69 degrees and climbing. Jessco boyington has your first alert forecast. We will do a big check on the bridges right now. Starting off in south jersey, approaching the pal myra bridge. They are right back in here. Can you see no problems. Headed towards the bridge there. The rest of the bridges in philadelphia, no problems on the betsy ross t. Ben franklin is okay. If you are if delaware, watch out, eheaded on the delaware memorial bridge, the left lane is
Short time ago. Police say just before 9 00 this morning a caller said a teen with a gun was on his way here to mlk. The school was placed in lockdown. Police also say this stems from an investigation earlier this week regarding a stolen gun used in an Armed Robbery. The lockdown was put in place because a student was identified as being a member of the Martin Luther king student community. Reporter did he bring a gun to school, sir . No, he did not bring a gun to school. He never entered the school grounds. Reporter again, police tell us there was never a threat to anyone at the school or the school itself but nonetheless we have seen parents arriving to pick up their students, their children, were working on that for you at 11 30. Live in germantown, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Meanwhile, police have a teenage suspect but still no weapon following yesterdays gun scare at the Community College of philadelphia. This was the breaking news that we first brought you yesterday on nbc 10
Town, philadelphia drops to 59 degrees. A cool pleasant start t. Humidity is a little elevated this morning. We will be developing dazz day goes on. 59 degrees at 8 00. By 11s, 67. There are the 70s this afternoon. A few scattered clouds. Mostly sunny skies, yes, even warmer weather is ahead. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast, back in ten minutes. Right now, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are seeing delays on the schuylkill expressway. You can see that westbound delay right in here. Theyre approaching a disabled vehicle. And the accident scene is taking out some lanes, you see this 33 minute drivetime from the vine street expressway to the blue route. Crawling pretty much in the schuylkill and early for. That hopefully we will recover from that before we get into the heart of our rush hour. If are you traveling over the matt privilege this morning, watch out for disabled vehicle times t. Righthand lane is blocked. When i come back, we do a check in with mass tra
Of sad to think somebody would do that in this kind of area. Reporter but who is responsible is what police are working on tonight. After miguel was interviewed on sunday, another child came forward. Investigators sent us these pictures of candy bars with sewing needles inside. Six pieces total they say theyve found and police say the kids who reported the tainted candy do not know each other but the candy they collected on halloween came from the same neighborhood of the borough that runs along south union and west south street. Terrible thing. Reporter the neighborhood is filled with children and residents say police were visible on saturday night, making the whole case even more shocking. We checked the candy. We want to be careful with what they eat. Probably we want to throw some away. Reporter when in doubt thats exactly what police say you should do. At this point they have not been able to tell us if they have tracked the origins of the candy, if they think it was tampered in s