Not one the interim director stands by. The worker has been fired. He says she made a bad call. Clearly she didnt follow our policies, but good old commonsense would tell you if a cat is wearing a caul callinoll. Weve had boardline death threats. Reporter hes going to work with staff to make sure it hasnt happened again. He made a Facebook Page for all who want to see the good work, to come in. Wegman is demanding change. You have the opportunity to change this. You have the opportunity to make clearly, thousands of people happy. Make the right choice. Reporter the shelter will work to do just that. He says nothing is going to bring the cat back. He has offered the family a replacement animal. That is something wegman says she and her family are just not ready to accept right now. The shelter is urging all that are out there that are moved by the story to get involved and help out your local shelters to insure nothing like this happens there. Reporting live in berks county, nbc 10 news
The Police Headquarters charged with murder. Police say she was caring for both boys. Al show she was the mother of only one. Police are on the way to notify the father. We ask you to touch the city. Touch us in a mighty way. Reporter members of the community drawn to a home. They mourn for wo young brothers. Found dead in a bathtub. One whom wasnt even old enough to crawl. The mother called police around 8 30 a. M. To say that two boys a babe but only a few months old a five yearold were dead. The detectives crime scene investigators spent hours at the house leaving with bags of evidence. Its painful. This is one. Reporter former city counsel woman was among the children, parents and Community Leaders trying to make sense of what happened. For a stop the Violence Group this became a lesson. Theres more to life than what they see here. Reporter as it got dark, neighbors brought out candles and toys. They should go in the house and that be it. Reporter the woman at the house with two ch
Have happened. We got a lot more of the details and some of them are even worse than what the neighbors had thought. This man says he used to see her little boys coming and going from their apartment. E he cant believe shes charged with killing them. c nbc 10 was gnatly leaving her son in the bathtub and holder her boyfriends son under water physical he stopped moving. Right after, she calmly called 911. She described an incident had occur red and that her children were deceased. We all have the questions why would someone do what she had done. To us, we dont have the answers either. Reporter police dont know what led her to kill the boys, but hours earlier, she called 911. An officer responded at 3 46 a. M. The immigrants boyfriend was recently locked up on an immigration issue. She was worried about her own future, but police say in the middle of the night the responding officer saw nothing to suggest a double murder was about to take place five hours later. Our officer at the time
To turn his life around. Hes just one example of the toll the Opioid Epidemic has taken on hoe klocal families. They made it their mission of get him help. We were there for the start of his new journey. At a young age my mom married my stepfather. Reporter six days since he nearly died frd an over dose. Revived moments before approaching our camera. I have ruined three families. Reporter he explains hees every been there for his three children. I saw the news. I just expected someone to be murdered. Reporter he didnt know he was part of a story. One of 14 who over dosed that day. He didnt know the passion in his voice would have an impact. Did you use again that night. I used for the rest of the week. When they saw his story. It was go. How do we find him . Let give him an opportunity. Reporter they tracked him down to his aunts house. He walked an hour to shower. He agreed to get well. Whats your promise to yourself . Why now . Im going to be open to suggestions. And really fight. To
Three people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Jouk you can there from sky force 10 just how lengthy that back up is. Also tonight a racial slur sparks violence at a school. Students tell us this followed a week of hateful messages. Nbc 10s drew smith is live at Washington High School township tonight. Reporter it was a conversation inside the auditorium here that just wrapped up. As you can see on the outside of the school, theyve got these banners advertising how great of a district they are in terms of academics. This is the moment anger over racist Text Messages boiled over in the halls of Washington High School. Several students punished because of what youre seeing in this video posted to twitter. Administrators say some kids were taking matters into their own hands after identifying one of their classmates texting racial slurs. They went a different route today, taking part in a peaceful sit in protest with nearly 100 others not attending any classes.