life earlier this month. attacked by a group of men on a dark and lonely street in waldorf in the middle of the night. i felt that my head was a punching bag then. john is telling us about the night he was nearly killed. beaten and robbed on this street in ryan woods, a town home community in waldorf around 2:40 in the morning sunday, august 5. while delivering newspapers for the washington post. it was like a football they grabbed me around the middle and forced me down and turned my head and smashed my face into the asphalt and started punching me in the back of the head. the side of the face. the back, the ribs. they started kicking me and stomping on me. the men attacked him three different times. i felt that my head was a punching bag then. i mean, i cannot tell you how many times it was like, bam, bam, bam, like just in the back of my head. several of them. after the final beating robbed of everything, including his wedding ring and stripped naked, the 63-
here in the district. and it was all for a great cause. good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us, i m matt acklin. we begin tonight in the district where a d.c. man remains in a coma after a brutal attack. it happened last night near eastern market. the man wasn t found until this morning on the front porch of a capitol hill home. fox 5 s lauren demarco is live in the newsroom with more on this. a heartbreaking and frightening story. police are working to figure out a motive as an aggravated assault. an attack that left a d.c. husband and father clinging to life. 29-year-old thomas, who goes by tc, was hanging out with friends at the restaurant along pennsylvania avenue friday night after attending the washington nats game. they say he left to walk a few blocks home to his capitol hill home around 12:45 a.m., but this morning his wife, abby, awoke to found he never returned. she contacted police and around the same time, officers were responding to a call for a man lyi
d.c. s mayor. the metropolitan washington air force authority has an awesome job. managing the operations of reagan national airport and dulles airport, along with the dulles toll road and the on going construction of metro rail silver line. but an audit showing some board members were reimbursed $4800 for three meals and another paid more than $9,000 for air fare to perugie at the last minute has been a distraction. anyone in a private organization that conducted themselves like the air force authority would be fired. transportation secretary, ray l ahood fired off an angry letter to the authority. expressing outrage at questionable contracts. ordering the termination of all contracts with former board members and former employees. demanding that the board tighten travel procedures to eliminate wasteful spending and be more transparent with open meetings. the head of citizen s against government waste says some important projects could be in jeopardy. one of the proble
county fair. animal lovers are not amused with the kangaroo. but first, a fire tears through a home with a family caught inside. we have breaking information from tonight, we ve learned a child has died as a result of that blaze. good evening. i m brian bolter. we begin tonight with bob live in chapel oaks, maryland, with the latest. bob. shawn and brian, we just learned from prince georges county fire officials here at the scene that a five-year-old girl that lived in that duplex over there died tonight from her injures at children s hospital. she was severely injured in the fire that destroyed her family s home. i started screaming. screaming, help. help. jeanette gibson lives next door to the duplex here on carrington court. where a fire that was reported around 4:30 this afternoon killed a little girl and critically wounded her teenage uncle and 24-year-old father. he was inside the house and he was call, help, help. fire officials say the young man suffered
she s following him. director of the missing children division of the national center for missing and exploited children. these abductions are often very subtle. we showed him the surveillance video, showing 25- year-old charles amopa leaving the thrift store on june 9 with an eight-year-old girl. lauri says this type of abduction is a parent s worst nightmare. they are subtle. as you see in your video, you have workers present. you have gentleman unloading a truck right there who aren t alarmed by the situation. police say he lured the girl to a vacant property near the playground, but she fought off his advances and managed to get away. the other girl, who is six, was rescued by a county police officer. police say it was not before she was sexually assaulted near the playground swings. enter someone would think of a child being grabbed and pulled and the child kicking and screaming, abductors like this don t want that kind of attention brought to them. lowry s