love racing against each other. he said neither one likes to lose. and he says he believes they bring out the best in each other. search continues for a man who abducted cal ripken s mother at gunpoint. vi rip ripken was kidnapped a week ago monday. she was bound and driven around in her own car. she was found safely the next day. cal ripken jr. will address the incident publicly for the first time tomorrow. football star arrested. a former raven, said to be honored by the team next month, lands himself in jail. jamal lewis is now in trouble for failing to pay child support. 32-year-old jamal lewis says this is all a misunderstanding. but he now faces a misdemeanor charge of child abandonment. former raven jamal lewis, released from jail. this is his mug shot from clayton county, georgia, where authorities had cited on a website that he had not seen his son in more than a year. allegations that lewis had not paid child support comes just months after he filed for ba
screen for the first race today. allison schmidt trains here taking the gold in the 200 meter freestyle. everyone went crazy for her, as you can imagine. then when phelps started to swim, there was a momentary lapse in the live feed. so everybody waited with baited breath. then that tied him with 18 as the most decorated. i am so proud of meadowbrook and our teams and our coaches and michael and allison. it s just beyond wonderful. we are just so proud. well, you saw you saw the action here. i mean, everybody just loves them. and i m just ecstatic. reporter: and as is everyone here at meadowbrook. again, we re told team usa is winning. this is a 4-by-200 relay. i just spoke with people here at meadowbrook. of course, they have been following this. they re so excited. we re told that michael is considered what is considered the anchor in this relay. he has never served that position before. but because he is so close to becoming the world record- holding medal winner, th
and that s what really got their attention and made them take this seriously. in light of what happened a week ago in aurora, colorado, it s important to know, the community to know, that we take all threats seriously. and if you re going to make a threat, we will take action. reporter: during a field interview with their officers, the individual was wearing a t- shirt that said guns don t kill people, i do. so the multiple threats, the nature of the threats, and that action, together led us to a place where we could get an emergency petition. reporter: they say he referred to himself as the joker. charges are pending at this hour. they say they just took him into custody for a mental health evaluation because they believed he was a danger to himself and others in the community. he worked for pitne bows in prince george s county. that s a mail office supply company. a representative there tells wjz that he hadn t been on the property in four months and they say he was
police released this photograph of the man suspected of abducting vi ripken, the 74- year-old mother of baseball great cal jr. police say ripken was taken from her home tuesday, bound inside her car, and driven around harford and baltimore county for almost 24 hours, before the man dropped her off almost four blocks from her house. described him as a white male. we believe him to be tall. age rage between we re thinking now between the mid- 30s and early 40s. wears glasses, we believe. the last picture that we have of him that you ll see in the photograph. he was wearing a white shirt. a long white shirt. blue jeans. had a hat on, which looked like it was black and orange in color. reporter: ms. ripken thankfully was found unharmed, although a bit shaken. her family is not commenting on this development or any new developments, they say, until the case is closed. report live from aberdeen police headquarters, mike hellgren, week eyewitness news. mike, thank you. stay
her in the essex area that led to police finding ms. ripken. but a neighbor had told us that she was bound inside her home, that the abductor had tried to put duct tape over her eyes and he drove her around in her car. let s take a listen. reporter: 74-year-old violet ripken, the matriarch of the ripken family, was abducted at gunpoint inside the garage of her long-time home in aberdeen. she s the widow of former o s manager cal senior. a friend and neighbor who spoke to her after the ordeal said she was bound and forced inside her lincoln town car. she said she went into the garage. he was waiting there. he had a mask and gloves on. she couldn t recognize who he was. so he tied her up and put a mask on her. said he was going to do something else first. and told her to get in the car. he wanted her in the car. in her car? yes. wanted her car and money and her to go with them. and that s what happened. every foot of the area, we believe that he drove throughout centr