Tonight, a local Police Officer indicted accused of putting a gun against a mans head and threatening to kill him. Attorney for the victim say a video shows confrontation involving officer jencheski santiago. Mike conneen watched that video today and joins us live from bowie with what he saw and how police are reacting. Mike maureen, the 30 second cell phone video was recorded from a nearby car by the cousin of the man who dropped him off at his home here in bowie. Video shows the uniformed officer holding the weapon at the mans back and shoving him forward. The officer drops down to the mans mouth and all that 10 seconds go by with the gun at the mans head. And during this time prosecutors say that the officer threatened the mans life. He needed to adjust his attitude and made some very, very unfortunate comments about the fact that he was a Police Officer and made some comments about, you know, yes, exactly. That he shoots people. Mike the Prince Georges County Police Officer jenches
Reporting live Stephen Tschida abc 7 news. Alison ok. Thank you for that. Now, also, the Associated Press just released this video right here of the moment that gyrocopter landed on the west capitol lawn. A tourist captured the video as the pilot flew over a group of kids and then came to rest right there on the lawn. So were also hearing from witnesses near the u. S. Capitol at the time of this incident. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford continues our Team Coverage from near the capitol. Sam . Sam well, alison, what is amazing is how normal things are. After 2 1 2 hours ago, everybody was going crazy around here with the thing flying in but now on the tourist buses, people are posing for pictures in front of the capitol. But it was about 1 30 this afternoon when everybodys eyes swung towards the sky. This is not good people no, its not sam workers, tourists anybody outside of the west front of the capitol section of the mall had their attention captured first by the sound of a helicopter an
Ground. Immediately the cop came over and said get back. Leon that landing at about 1 30 on the west lawn put the u. S. Capital and the white house on lockdown. The pilot that you see being taken into custody in the video was doug hughes, april to worker from florida. His mission, to deliver letters about Campaign Finance reform to all 500plus members of congress. The bomb squad examine the plane but did not find anything dangerous. We dont know what everybodys talking about with beer in restricted how can you fly a helicopter and land on the lawn of the Capital Building . Leon the nofly zone is highlighted onin red, including the space around the white house, the capital and aviation experts are baffled that he made it that far. The faa will have to answer and border and customs patrol will have to answer how he got so close to the white house without being detected, and then how they will handle the ramifications as far as the criminal proceedings or the faa for proceedings. Leon the
You see one individual spun around. Northbound lanes. And another completely burned out. Begin, again, a fatal crash. So northbound bw parkway shut down at 50. Traffic being pushed on to eastbound 50. Youll have to take 50 or route 1 to get around this and avoid even the southbound delays that were also seeing. 270 here this is old hundred road you can see the road is just wet there. 95 in and out of town no major issues. Bw parkway, outside the beltway, not having any problems. But you can see a little bit of a slowdown just as you head inside the beltway there southbound into town taking a look at Prince Georges County, over all things here looking quite good. No major problems there as youre looking at the bottom of the beltway. 66 through manassas, a tad slow. 95 north through dale city typically slow as well. It is 6 02. Right now were supposed to be thinking spring. But Mother Nature isnt quite ready to let us forget about winter. Take a look at this live picture. You can see the
Along 270. Most impactful time is between now and about noontime today. Storm team 4 radar, all rain south along i95 toward fredericksburg and along 295 down into part of Prince Georges County. But there is the changeover right there. Here is the top part of the capital beltway. Raindrops and snowflakes mixing now into far northwest washington. Also across much of Fairfax County now. Still rain in fairfax, but snowflakes mixing in as you get out toward reston town center. Snow quickly changing over across the blue ridge, as well. So highest impact here Northern Maryland today. How much snow . Generally an inch or less in and around town. But 1 to 3 as close in as really gaithersburg and germantown out toward leesburg and 3 to 5 inch across Northern Maryland into the panhandle of West Virginia. Breaking news first 4 traffic. Breaking news again, bw parkway northbound here completely shut down at route 50. All northbound traffic being pushed on to eastbound route 50 a, some southbound la