Next on Eyewitness News a body found behind an Apartment Building in raleigh. What weve learned about the victim. And his family. Plus. Donald trump returns to North Carolina. And changes his tone. What he says he regrets from his past. And. New fallout from ryan lochtes night out in rio. What police are now saying about his Armed Robbery claims. Eyewitness news starts right now. Breaking news right off the top at ten a Death Investigation underway right now in raleigh. Good evening im tisha powell. And im joel brown. In for steve daniels. This all unfolding right now in the 16hundred block of cross street its off new bern avenue in raleighs Battery Heights neighborhood. A mans body was found shot to death behind an Apartment Building. Andrea blanford at the scene right now gathering information. She joins us live Southeast Raleigh and you can see police still have this road blocked off. This is fisher street running into cross street. This crowd has been gathered out here since police
If you can call 90 degrees i think it is just hard to tell. I had to take my son to soccer and gosh, it was just brutal out there. We do have some showers this morning. Most of mecklenburg county, virginia seeing a few showers. That stretches down into vance and warren counties. Not quite over to Roanoke Rapids but it is lily there in about 45 minutes. A tiny little band getting ready to move into orange county. Well be watching that over the next couple of hours as we see here on fox 50. 76 in cary and 75 in wake forest. Town by town, 75 in rocky mount. It is warm, muggy when you step out the door. That will be the case all weekend. Next week, especially by tuesday morning, you will notice a real difference. 70s, very sticky. Well see a high of 90 this afternoon. A good chance of scattered thunderstorms. That will help to hold our temperatures down a little closer to normal through the weekend but some of the storms could produce some heavy rain. Brian is here with a look at the road
Going through them. In many ways, it was less about the actual sound and more about people in the crowd yelling to one another that someone with a gun was in the mall. Now, witnesses say it was chaos as thousands of people ran for their lives and tried to get out of the building at the same time. Others hid in the back of stores and storage rooms and bathrooms until police let them know it was safe to come out. Were in the Crabtree Valley there was lots of bangs and shootings somewhere downstairs. Did you see anybody . No, didnt see anybody but everybody is running. Has somebody been shot . I dont know. Reporter because Raleigh Police still do not know the origin of that sound that a lot of shoppers identified as a gunshot, they have asked the fbi lab to analyze video with the sound in the background to see if they can figure it out. We have a team of people continuing to pore over these calls and we will have more in wral. Com. Back to you. Thank you. Contradicting reports from the sw
Taking calls from concerned residents since november. People have also contacted the town Police Department. Chief todd foreman Bedford Police department the paper is basically just reporting news. Bedford police chief todd foreman isnt concerned about the content and says no crime is being committed. Religious scholars familiar with the publication says its designed to combat islamophobia. Its published by a group affiliated with the muslims of america organization. Gordon steffey Randolph College associate professor of religious studies they have been unequivocal in their denunciation of any extremism or killing. Who were unwilling to go on camera told angered to receive the paper, regardless of its content. While hinsen doesnt agree with everything he read, he hopes others will take time to read the publication before condemning it. Hinsen there are divisions between muslims and christians that will that doesnt mean that we cant live in the same world office and the town Police Depa
High School Seniors who came up with the idea for thursdays program. Lidya tadesse, 12th grade we can really make a difference and the best way to do that is educating and having an open dialogue. About two dozen people attended. Hans wants thursdays discussion to serve as a start to more meaningful talks. Nancy hans, executive director, Prevention Council i look at that as heres an opportunity there are new faces in there. So we want to continue to build on all of this. If youre interested in hosting an event, you can get in touch with the roanoke alliance. We have a link to their website on ours, wdbj 7 dotcom. Christian heilman, wdbj7. New tonight, 67 people have been indicted on 188 drug charges in our area. This morning the Alleghany Highlands Drug Task force made the arrests with help from several local agencies and state police. Those arrested face charges related to marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Lynchburg police need your help solving several breaking and entering incidents ar