Phipps exwife and two daughters hired an attorney. Today she called for a criminal and a civil investigation. Not only the outdoor picnic at the park here but also in the way that police handled the search, which went on for a few weeks. According to the family here, last month the whitmore House Assisted Living Center took phipps and a group of other elderly residents to a picnic at watkins regional park. The 80yearold disappeared while walking to an outdoor bathroom. Police found his body yesterday. According to families, phipps made a living as an executive chef. He played the tambourine at church, loves betting on horses. But dementia forced him to move closer to his family in maryland. We trusted whitmore house assisted living with our father. We hoped that they would keep him safe and provide his care. And its obvious that didnt happen. The family had no knowledge that mr. Phipps was going to be leaving what they had assumed was a very controlled environment where his whereabouts
Impact the rain drops will have on your commute. For now, trouble on 270. Big backups on 270. Chopper 4 over the scene. Looks worse than we were expecting. You can see disabled semitrucks there blocking two central plainplain lanes. Very slow as youre headed southboundme me southbound. Another problem, baltimore road at wellington, a crash, that crash is in the intersection there. Beltway at st. Barnabas moving along fine. Battery lane, tow truck on the way there. More on the crash at 270 slowing things down in a couple of minutes. Breaking news, officials release details of a report into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. Sources familiar with that report saying the investigation finds the plane was shot down by a russian made missile fired from rubble held eastern ukraine. Nearly 300 people died on board that day. The Dutch Safety Board is expected to continue investigating. Meanwhile, that report were waiting for the official release of it and well bring you more as we get it
Friday night, but the good news is things are looking drier for the weekend. Devon lucie is here to tell us more. Devon in the belfort furniture us homecenter, most of from the evening rush before the storms came. ,ive super doppler seven radar the last of the showers hanging on towards northern neck. Earlier it was toward st. Marys county, calvert county. They are out of there now. That is it for the rain. We are just watching scattered showers the rest of tonight. We are already seeing breaks in the clouds around the region. A cold front coming through right now, picking up the wind a little bit, dropping temperatures as well. The entire Holiday Weekend forecast right here. Beurday, the hike up to will 67, down about 15 degrees from today. The big event on the national mall, the march for justice, 60s and sunny skies. The rest of the forecast in a few minutes. Leon the secret Service Agent credited with saving president Ronald Reagan has died. Jerry parr was 85 years old. He was with
Accident on georgetown pike between old dominion drive and spring hill road. Sky 9 is making its way to the scene where i understand it is there right now trying to find exactly where this crash site is. I know its hard to see but you can actually see the flashing lights. Those are Police Vehicles and also some delays in this area. Commuters along georgetown pike will need to be behindful and add additional time for your morning commute. Well have an update for you in ten minutes. Over to you. We are continuing to follow breaking news from overnight. A shooting on the campus of Tennessee State university. Nashville police are saying this may have all started over a dice game. Lets bring in mike hydeck for more on this. Reporter four people were shot, one was killed. The others were passersby. They have nonlife threatening injuries. Investigators have secured the campus and police in nashville want to be clear about what they believe the motive was. They stress this is not a gunman runn
Pedestrian are at the hospital after the officers cruiser hit the man in the crosswalk. It happened along connecticut avenue at l street. Stephen tschida is there live with an update. Still an active crash scene investigation going on at the intersection. You can see behind me. I spoke with lieutenant ron wilkins nine minutes ago and he gave me the latest information. The pedestrian struck described as an elderly man who is in serious condition. The officer taken to medstar with nonlife threatening injuries. A witness cell phone caught confusion, fear, shock in moments a Police Vehicle struck a man in the crosswalk. He was going 90. Excel rating. Witness say the Police Cruiser was moving extremely fast the investigators still are not confirming the officer was responding to a call or whether the siren and the lights were on. It looked like the police were trying to avoid hitting him. That is why they ran up on side. Where he did get struck. Stephen inside nearby shots workers heard the