Reporter 5700 jefferson he torched a car belonging to delores hill. I said on fire you got to be kidding. Reporter in the 6,000 block of Columbia Police say he torched four cars leaving people in the area on edge. Its terrible im going to put my car in the garage. Reporter you are not taking any chances. Not taking chances at all. Reporter the police say they torched seven cars and a dumpster within a 5 and a half period overnight. Going through the neighborhood to see the fire response and not quite sure what his motivation is at this point but a lot of damage out there. Reporter many here worry about what else he will do. More than willing to keep my eyes open and encourage everyone that i see to do the same. I know it will be hard to sleep tonight to watch the neighborhood. I guess that is why people come over here and do stuff because it be so quiet over here. Reporter now agents from the alcohol tobacco and firearms assisting in the investigation and hoping someone will recognize
Ashley you are chasing a story about a dead bear. I feel bad and we should all bow our heads for moment of morning. I will remember you will you remember me it is with heavy hearts that the beloved petals of the bear, well known for walking upright like a person is dead. This will shed light on the fact that the authorities lied regionally telling us there is no way they could confirm that petals was one of the 549 bears killed in the hunt. Is that im in a they killed, while. And then released pictures of the lifeless 333pound bear. Even more disturbing, and innocent man who we are not identifying was persecuted on social media for rumor stating that he was petals killer. I spoke with Tony Antonelli who works with nj 105. He spoke with a man and said it all started because he was on a Facebook Page in honor of petals that has not been taking down. He was making a lot of comments asking questions, basically saying how do you know that this was in fact petals that was killed. He believed
6 23 its awful home invasions are getting more and more but Police Wanted to assure the public this wasnt random. Metro Police Michael rodriguez officer 24 48 neighborsin the area should feel comforted in that fact that we dont have somebody randomly going out and targeting residents in the middle of the night one neighbor who lives inside the gated community said that house seemed to cause some trouble in there before this. Bevothi thi neighbor 33 31 neighbor say a lot of people in and out of that house she said crime has gone up in the area in the past few years. Someone even broke into her home. But still shes never seen anything like this. There are at least two suspects out there tonight. Police wouldnt give a description likely because they know who they are. But were working to find out more about the relationships. Its unclear if they took off in a car or on foot but if you saw anything suspicious after 4 40 thsi morning while out and about youre urged to Call Metro Police or c
First bill logan with the most accurate forecast. Looking really good. We are expecting temperatures to warm back up to near normal and that is great news because yesterday while it was cool on the outside we had plenty of sunshine. Yours truly got a little bit warm. The sunshine, more than i bargained for. Things are checking out clear right now on titan doppler radar. This will give us a little bit of a milky look to the sky and maybe high cirrus clouds. 49 tampa right now, not as cool certainly were seeing an abundance of 40 degree readings. 46 clearwater, 45 hudson. Auburndale and arcadia 41. We will watch it warmup today into the mid to upper 60s and low 70s but later on this afternoon. Will have a look at the forecast and breaking it down at showing you where it will get warmer into the work week coming up. Hillsborough county, we are waiting to learn more about the man killed after his boat capsized in a plant city pond. He and another man were on a small boat near turkey creek
On the moped was riding northbound on university. If you follow me you can see she was coming northbound like this through the intersection and the jeep came from the public store across according to troopers slamming her and pushing her into the crosswalk. You can see the moped in front of the crosswalk were in the crosswalk, rather pick up we then to the right, you will see the jeep that hit her with the front end damage and flat tire. Investigators say choppy hautes was driving the suv, he is visiting from deerfield florida. The woman hit and killed on the moped was a 30yearold orlando resident. Her name is not been released because troopers are try to notify her family. When we get the information, we will bring it to and we are working to find out exactly how the crash happened. You can see people from the hotel here also with troopers investigating this. When we get details, we will bring them to you here on channel 9 or wftv. Com. Live in Orange County, tim news. Only channel 9