Heavy crowding on the systems busiest line. Chopper four is en route to the red line to give images of this for now, we can tell you, if metro says if you need to reach the begin brook or white flynn stations you have to use an outbound train from d. C. Toward Montgomery County. The inbound trains will be passing the stations to reduce delays. This appears to be connected to a track problem outside grover in metro has been working on since this morning. Two men are facing charges for shooting a man inside a metro garage. Douglas chase and Brent Sanderson are accused of killing a man by the name of eric melgar inside the Wheaton Metro station garage. It happened yesterday evening before the sun set. No word yet on a possible motive in that shooting. Another development in the birthday cake beating. The mother and uncle are held without bail. The uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the moms boyfriend could beat him unconscious. Jack garcia was only 9 years old and died from that be
Family to respect their pry vass so i privacy and their grief. Reporter it comes 40 years after the sifting through clues including the excavation of a remote hill side in virginia where the family once own property. Dozens of subpoenas issued. Reams of documents analyzed and over 100 interviews and interrogations have been cop conducted. We have traveled to half a dozen states. Reporter lloyd welch is in prison in delaware on unrelated child Sexual Assault charges. He will be extradited to virginia in the next few days, where he will stand trial. If convicted he could face the death penalty. At 6 00, you will hear from prosecutors on why they are looking at lloyd welch possibly being involved in other child abductions across the country and you will hear from prosecutors as to why this case is being tried in virginia and not here in maryland. Pat, back to you. The man at the center of this case lloyd welch, is already in prison, serving time now for sexually assaulting young girls del
Is ongoing and more people could be charged. The Montgomery County police and all of our partners will work to hold every individual responsible who was involved with the abduction and murder of the lyons sisters as well as the ongoing conspiracy to conceal these crimes. Reporter prosecutors said they are also investigating the possibility that lloyd welch may have been involved in other child abductions across the country. So they are retracing all of his steps, starting 40 years ago. Track welchs activities from the time that this abduction occurred through to when he was incarcerated. Its we are our investigators, thats part of what they have been doing all over the country. Reporter Court Records released today show investigators recovered bone fragments and remnants of a burned plastic bag on a hill side property in a remote section of Central Virginia where the welch family once had property. As john and mary lyon, the parents of the two girls sat nearby and list and to prosecuto
A major News Conference is expected to start in just a few minutes. Bruce leshan is live at the News Conference. What do we know so far today . Reporter both parents are here. They just walked up bracing for answers in the disappearance of their daughters but there is startling silence from the principals. A spokesman for the Prosecutor Says that a judge has sealed sealed this information until it is released in just a few minutes. Whether it is a grand jury indictment or crucial new evidence, were just going to have to wait for the announcement on this stage here shortly. Police and prosecutors from two sides of the potomac all maintaining absolute silence pending the News Conference. A stage set for what they say will be a Major Development in a case that has shaken parents for your decades. What happened to sheila and Katherine Lyon after they innocently left home to look at easter decorations at Wheaton Plaza on an early spring day in 1975. A massive weeks long search by police, th
Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Very Long Time Coming bruce, thank you. So we heard the word closure, but it comes with a push qualifier. A conviction of Lloyd Lee Welch and details that will likely be revealed in a virginia trial will help, but only the discovery of the girls remains will ultimately put an emotional end to this for some people here. So now question get reactions from the community that was changed forever by this case. Our scott broom is at the Oakland Terrace Elementary School where the kids who went there 40 years ago with the lyon girls have all grown up and where many are still living in that same neighborhood. Scott . Reporter yeah, this is the school the lyon sisters attended and there are still a lot of people around here like me about my age, theyre in their 50s and went to this school with the lyon sisters and remember all this vividly and always bruce just reported, we hear again that word repeatedly as we talk to people, closure. It feels like theres s