Cycling alone. And all of these victims were fighting him and terrorized and he would rob them and rape them. And the da gave details on all nine cases this one from december of last year case number eight. He grab a young lady at 7 00 on a sunday morning and pulls her into a park playground area and brutally rapes and attacks her. Lee had done jail time on a gun charge when it was february of last year he was arrested again and authorities decided to do a dna tax. And two more attacks occurred before the dna matches came back in february. The da says it can sometimes take a year to get the report from the Pennsylvania State police lab. They were able to pull a sample in february of 2016 and the results came back in january of 2017 and we were able to match dna results to this individual. Lee was arrested in early january at the eddie stone supermarket when one alleged victims recognized him and called police. Reporter jim, tonight police say that if you recognize dejohn lee as your at
The students at the high school walked out in protest today. They claimed racist incidents have been going on on for several months including freshman students greeting each other in the hallways with nazi salutes. A look now at an emotional confrontation. You cannot be on me. Reporter the High School Students attempting to block a car with students who they say were involved in a hate filled Instagram Page. I was sitting next to my coach who is africanamerican and we had nooses around our neck and that was the joke. The kids need to go to another school. They need to be expelled. Reporter School Administrators are not sure what disciplinary is being taken. Today a meeting was held. Amber jones was at the meeting and she says the three boys who created the Instagram Page were not. You need to own up to what you did and realize that what you did and your actions were ra racest and you need to realize thats wrong. Reporter while the meeting was held students had a rally while the student
Of weeks. City investigators are telling us they are about running average to other years. This mornings fatal crash happened at 7 40 this morning at the intersection of park avenue and mccavoy street. A flatbed truck was make traveling west. At the same time the driver of a Pontiac Firebird was traveling east. He entered the intersection, did not see the truck, drove into it and became wedged underneath the trailer. The driver was killed, the tenyearold in the back seat, his daughter, was hurt but shaken emotionally. She was taken to an area hospital as a precaution. Any time you get a situation like this, you hope for the best, unfortunately someone lost their life today. And well have to go ahead and look at all the information before we put out a determination or a cause for this collision. Reporter no visible skid marks at the scene of the crash that seemed to indicate that the driver of the firebird did not brake and ran right into the truck. The driver of the truck is cooperatin
Potential is there that flooding still could occur through the 2 oclock in the morning hour of saturday. Mainly this is for streets as well as smaller creeks and streams across the area taking on this excess water and the rain will linger into the overnight hours tonight. Well have the ponding on the roadways really over the next few hours before that rain lessens in intensity. Poor drainage flooding as well and a chilly breeze as those winds continue out of the eastnortheast at 12 to 25 miles an hour. Well talk about a better weekend ahead. One day will outshine the other. Well talk about that in the full accuweather forecast sharrie in a little bit. Thats what we want to hear about. Track the weather throughout the weekend on 6abc. Com. Keep an eye on the road with storm tracker6 and check the hourly forecasts and be sure to follow our Accuweather Team on social media for the latest updates. A man is under arrest this afternoon accused of a sniper style shooting in Northern Liberties
Online in the does d not go as plan. No, it didnt. That meeting was cancelled leaving many parents here at albany high very disapontd the. They hoped to hear an apology and were disappointed. We looked forward to this meeting to the adult examples that our children need to see. Thats parents came to Albany High School today to binge the healing process. Theyre kids, the target of recent racist social media posts. At this point, there snow resolution, thats why we came today. But the meeting never happened. A chance to talk with parents whos kids are responsible for starting a raits racist Instagram Account which targeted minority students. The page was removed after being up for nearly two months. For the parents to say you know what were willing to meet with you and talk it out, were willing to try and figure this thing out and then not to show up, its just parents got an email from the principal last night the meeting was cancelled, no explanation given the but many showed up today a