Unwarranted, unprovoked attack on our Police Officers at a police station. Absolutely unprecedented and unacceptable. A Prince Georges County officer is gun down in an ambush at police headquarters, 28yearold jacai hison, just days away from birthday and a four year veteran of the department. The shooting happened on palmer road. Has who the officer was come and Cheryl Conner with exclusive video just into the newsroom of an arrest in the case. We begin with Maryland Bureau chief brad bell, who has just learned of a possibly tragic twist. Brad they say the District Three Police station and opening fire on officers at that police station. There was a chaotic scene. We have learned from sources they are investigating the possibility that this young , waser, jacai colson actually hit by friendly fire, gunfire from another officer who is trying to deal with the attack. Evening, iunity this have to tell you that one of your defenders, jacai colson, a fouryear veteran and 29yearold man lost
But her condition has been upgraded from serious to fair. Danny says he is ready to get back to work. His doctor says he has healing to do first. Reporting live, stephen tschida, [ music ] leon thank you, stephen. So much Public Servants like him. Fastmoving developments in the last hour in the investigation of a murder of an 83yearold man this morning in Fairfax County. It happened along river road in lorton in what is described as quiet riverside community. Jeff goldberg is there live. Fill us in. What has happened since we heard from you at 4 00 . Jeff in if past hour the investigators from Fairfax County police scoured the parking lot area looking for items some taken away for evidence testing including cigarette butts and empty beer cans and bottles from the trash cak. The murder took place a few hundred feet that w question of who did it remains unanswered. All along river drive, different neighbors sharing feelings of confusion. No idea. And shock after a murder on their quiet s
This morning his brothers bh and sisters in blue are blue grieving the tragic loss as aloa motive in the unprovokednproke attack remains unclear. Ule were live with the veryh theer latest. But before we get to that at live look outside on this ts monday, it is march 14th, 1 2016. Gary mcgrady and erin como theyre going to have a check c of weather and traffic in just i a few minutes. W thank you for waking up withpit us, thank you for joining us. U im wisdom martin alongside aloi holly morris and maureen umeh. U we begin with a story a sto thats gained National National attention. Were talking about theki ambushstyle attack in princeac georges county that leftthateft officer jacai colson dead. Ea fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Police Headquarters inen palmer park with the veryark wi latest on this senseless actsess to say the least. L mel. Reporter thats right, guys, yes, so you can see heree that barlowe road is still is s shut down here in palmer park. Ar so were several blocks awa
Chlorine, left that area per safety protocol and following that there was a loud bang. Reporter pamela baker is the spokesperson for the zoo. She says the contractor was doing his routine job in the facility moments before the explosion happened. First responders evaluated the employee but says hes doing fine. Meanwhile, tourists continue to enjoy the zoo with what some are calling a minor interruption. I just assumed that staff would alert us if its time to go if theres danger. Reporter now, the american trail is closed. It will remain closed until tomorrow morning. Coming up at 5 00, well tell you what fire Officials Say was most concerning to them about this explosion. Chris . All right. Thanks, meagan. Now to some inside information about the shut down of metro. Metros general manager was prepared to consider the possibility of walking away if officials did not support his adam got a oneonone interview with Paul Wiedefeld and this shows how strongly he felt about it, right . Report
Disrupting service. What you need to know for the morning commute. And an isis fighter with ties to Northern Virginia was arrested in iraq. News at 10 starts right now. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im shawn yancy. And im tony perkins. We begin the nont night with a new story on the attack. Detectives believe jacai colson was killed by friendly fire during the shootout. Marina marraco begins our Team Coverage tonight. Marina . Reporter if this case could take an even more heartbreaking twist, it did today when we learned that in fact detective jacai colson was killed by friendly fire by one of his fellow officers. The chief saying today he is not ready to publicly name that officer, but at the culmination of the investigatation and once they get all the forensic details back, they will make the details public. Here still an active crime scene. Here at the station youll see the right side of the door, a glass door now boarded up from that gun fire shattered in the gun battle. And just