Johnson was arrested at a cvs in downtown d. C. Midnight december for. At the time he had been driving Tricia Mccauleys toyota scion. Court records show her body was found on the floorboard between the front and rear seats with items concealing her body. Her body was bruised and her legs were tied together with a seat belt. Johnson tells police he had sex with mccauley and she threatened to kill herself. She claims she had done so. But prosecutors definitive saying that Tricia Mccauley was sexual assaulted, strangled and murdered. Tricia was the most peaceloving, happy, joyous, giving and generous person imaginable. Because of some senseless, insane act and completely random, we will never see her eyes again. We will never hear her voice again. We will never see her smile again. Jeff johnson does have a history of Mental Illness and a long criminal record, mostly of nonviolent crimes. He was in jail in d. C. In the past two weeks for a theft charge. He was let out last week. He was sup
And a good wednesday morning to you all. We begin with breaking news from houston this morning about the health of former president george h. W. Bush. We learned mr. Bush is in the hospital right now where hes being treated for an undisclosed illness. A spokeswoman said the 92yearold is doing well and responding to the treatment that hes getting right now in that hospital. She says that hes expected to be out in a few days. The former president was last seen in public earlier this month at a texans game. He spent some time on the field there with his son jeb. Now, he was already not planning to attend the Trump Inauguration on friday due to health issues. So well stay on top of this story throughout the morning for you. We wish him well. We turn to the nations next president donald trump. Preinaugural festivities kicked off with a black tie dinner in washington as trump addressed hundreds of dims and donors and check out this tweet from Vice President elect mike pence sneaking in a bac
Toss to weather above average temperatures continue showers still likely friday; timing may be later dry saturday, rain developing sunday heavy rain monday today fog and clouds early. Becoming partly cloudy. Breezy and mild. Highs 5358 winds nw 515 g 25 mph tonight partly cloudy. Cool. Lows 3640 winds nw 5 mph thursday partly cloudy. Remaining mild. Highs 5458 winds nw to se 5 mph eileen toss to suz suz toss to julie were following breaking news in montgomery county. A car chase and right now the suspect is still on the loose. Police say they were pursuing a driver for a Traffic Violation when the they hit a guardrail on i270 south of maryland109. The driver than ran from the scene of the crash. Overnight Police Closed both directions of i270 as they searched for the suspect. They have since been reopened. The suspect was not found. More protests as we countdown to the president ial inauguration now just two days away. Antitrump demonstrators marched to the Trump International hotel. B
Are also following some School Delays right now. Queen anne, kent, 90 day delay because of heavy fog. Autria lets get you over to Veronica Johnson for a check on the forecast. Or so,a just after 7 00 just on the other side of so, we, by 7 00, 7 30 or are going to start see the wind pick up more and its going to help with the fog. Where it is Still Holding low is right here in frederick, maryland. The wind is at three miles per hour, a light wind with ground moisture from all the rain that wehad, thats one reason why are seeing pockets of fog out there this morning. Some of the densest areas are east of interstate 95. Bus stop forecast, at least were looking at mild temperatures across the area. Not a bad day at all. 41 to 47 degrees with a few morning clouds, turning it over to sunshine later today. Meaning that you will need to you are headed out the door this morning. We are forecasting a High Temperature today of 55 degrees and i do think that the could be a few locations up to 66,
And coughing. From the live desk, im q mccray. Back to you. Michelle thank you. Stay with abc7 news for updates even when you are away from the tv. Head to wjla. Com text to subscribe to our breaking news alert. You will get notices sent to your phone from our newsroom. Momentses ago, president obama offered up the last News Conference and one of the things he did is offer prayers to bush family. Alison he talked about subjects that were important to him, race relations, russia and his successor. Chief Political Correspondent scott thuman is there on capitol hill with more on the press conference. Hi, scott. Scott good evening. It was interesting listening to president obama as he was well aware that this was his last chance to get in his final thoughts before handing over the reins to donald trump. He did the errors for big subject matter he has tried to tackle in the past eight years where he felt he has made accomplishments like the Lgbt Community and where he thought he still neede