Fragments. But they stress last night that the officers death is the fault of the suspect. He engaged several Prince Georges County Police Officers in a gun fight for which they responded heroically. Brad back live now. What you are looking at is one of the crime scene investigator vans in the middle of the shooting scene. As we pull out a little bit to the left, you will see the front of a building, walkway, fence, and a front of a building. That is the district three headquarters. Its where the initial shots were fired. Officer colson was hit just about another hundred yards or so down the hill. Now we gave you an awful lot of detail in that story about the alleged suspects. How they were videotaping it and how it was a planned suicide by cop and the suspicion, the belief among the Police Investigators this was a case of friendly fire in the middle of the shootout. Of those details. More information to be coming from the press conference with chief hank stawinski. As we said, that is
Headquarters yesterday intent on committing a socalled suicide by police. He brought his two brothers with him. Their job apparently to videotape the whole encounter. So as ford opens fire on the hattrick iii Police Station the brother district iii Police Station his brothers are taking video of the shootout on their cell phones. Mr. Ford was shots by police. He dropped. That is recorded on video. But just at the wrong moment officer colson offduty was arriving at district iii to bring a meal to his girlfriend. He sees a shootout underway. He gets out of his car and draws his weapon. And he is then shot. Sadly what we learned is the Police Believe it was a case of friendly fire. That another Police Officer saw him, perceived a threat an police will come hewitter. We expect to hear from police chief Hank Stawinski to confirm the terrible detail. Three under arrest. Michael ford hospitalized from the gunshot wound. He is expected to survive. All three of the suspects were told by sources
Georges county last night. The tag number matched the vehicle lookout. We had a description of the suspect from the homicide last night that was in that vehicle. The plain clothes officer spotted that individual at the Dunkin Donuts in the North Gate Shopping Center in aspen hill. They had this individual under surveillance. And when the individual walked back to his car, the plain clothes officers were able to take him into custody without incident. The suspects name is Eulalio Tordil. He is in custody now with the Montgomery County police department. With me is chief Hank Stawinski from the prince georges department. We have been working in close communication with prince georges since last night regarding the homicide that occurred in prince georges. They had passed along information last night. Passed along further information that we had gotten this morning regarding their homicide. That is one of the reasons that our officers were aware of the lookout and were aware of the vehicl
All options to get the safety and the reliability back where it should be. Coming up at 5 00, what riders think about this being a possibility. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan you can understand folks jitters especially after shutting the lines down for a full day. What do you think metro should do to make repairs to the system . There are clearly still work that needs to be done. Join the conversation. We have it going on, on our facebook page. Michelle the elevator at the Washington Monument is back up and running. You will recall it malfunctioned yesterday afternoon leaving 19 people stranded halfway up the 555foot monument. They had to walk down a few hundred steps. But everyone was just fine. They just got extra cardio. The National Park service says it is still working to figure out why the elevator stopped working. We will take you inside the monument today at 6 00. Jonathan a man out riding his bike on a popular bike path in alexandria was j him. Police say
The department for three years and the Department Leaders say she loved the job. Following mittendorffs death, chief bowers says serious questions apt bullying and intimidation must now be asked. If in fact there is anybody responsible for any piece of this, i will hold them accountable. Jeff the chief says if that is the case he plans to establish a comprehensive plan to deal with longterm or the existing culture problems within the department. The funeral for Nicole Mittendorff set for thursday afternoon. Live in tysons corner, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you very much. Meanwhile, d. C. Police are hunting for the person who attacked a Wilson High School senior this morning. The student says he was getting out of his car near the corner of brandywine and grant streets in northwest. When he was stabbed. He ran to the school for help and he will survive we are told. Police believe this attack may have been an attempted robbery. That attack comes as d. C schools instituted a c