Roanoke county police are still piecing together what happened after confirming that a man was shot by an officer. At 7 15 last night, they received a call that a man wearing a bandanna and hoodie was waving a gun off of route 419. We spoke with a witness who made the call to police. He says he was driving when he saw the man. Thomas gill, witness i saw his gun in the right hand. So he was waving it at cars and he turned around and he was waving it at me so i turned around and took a left and i called 911. Amy whittaker, Roanoke County spokesperson officers then arrived on scene and they confronted the suspect which is just up the road from walgreens parking officer involved shooting that took place. The suspect was transported to the hospital. We do not know the persons condition right now. That witness tells us he heard at least five shots but its not clear who fired all of them. Danville police are investigating a robbery that happened last night in the 100 block of wesley drive. A
Wdbj7s Christian Heilman is live on scene at electric road in Roanoke County. Christian, what have you learned . This is still a very active scene out here as officers are still piecing together what happened here earlier. Roanoke county Police Confirmed that a male was shot by police. Police say all this information is preliminary. At 7 15, they recieved a call that a black man wearing a bandanna and hoodie was waving a gun off route 419. We spoke with a witness who says he made that call. He was driving when he saw the man. Thomas gill, witness i saw his gun in the right hand. So he was waving it at cars and he turned around and he was waving it at me so i turned around and took a left and i called 911. Amy whittaker, Roanoke County spokesperson officers then arrived on scene and they confronted the suspect which is just up the road from walgreens parking officer involved shooting that took place. The suspect was transported to the hospital. We do not know the persons condition right
From his house, a wooden outline marks the spot where harris was found. Ricky harris took us there. Harris police told us to mark the area, so we did. Off camera harris grandson said his grandfather died in a spot that he loved the farm where he had spent so much of his life. He grew up in evergreen, the son of a sharecropper. When his father died, he took up the farming himself as a way to support the remaining family. Juanita milstead sister he stayed there and worked the farm so my mother would have a place to live until the siblings were all grown. Evergreen is where he spent the rest of his life. When he wasnt on the farm, he was serving at a nearby church thats damaged but Still Standing following the tornado. Milstead he was a good christian man. That was the main thing. He loved his lord. And he loved evergreen, a community that mourns him with a makeshift cross in the spot where his home once stood. Milstead this was home and no other place would be home on this earth. Harris
Now back you, michael and carol. Michael the New Hampshire primary in the books, donald trump looking to the a winner in the upstate. Carol there was a rally in the nulton, and patrick was there. Patrick in his 19th visit, he arrived in pendleton today at the arena, and this was used for handling livestock and such, and when he arrived, he said, what kind of building is this, anyway . It is cold in here. While then he went to addressing the crowd. Trump had the South Carolina poll numbers on his mind. Mr. Trump by the way, the original polls that came out here, went through the roof. We are high. Patrick right now, he has a lead according to real clear and here, he talks money numbers, tens of millions of dollars in fund raising he says he has turned down. Mr. Trump no, i dont want it. I want to do something else. I want to be greedy, but i want to be greedy for the united states. I want to bring money in. I really do. We have a hundred and 79,000 criminal, illegal immigrants. Cannot h
Questions you have about voting in your county. Again, its available anytime at abc11. Com politics. Tisha new insight into the raleigh home. The stepfather of a victim bound intake is speaking out about the neighborhood on edge. Andrea that teen is recovering at home after spending some time at wakemed, even though Raleigh Police have not arrested anyone in that Home Invasion that ended with her tied up to a tied up and scared in a closet. Stepfather of a 17yearold girl attacked during a Home Invasion is try to understand how and why to men would break into his home on a sunday afternoon. Its a little bit strange. Andrea it was just after 3 00 Text Messages from her daughter saying, im tied up in the closet, help, great, robbers. They took her clothes. They stuffed her in a closet. Andrea stepdad says she was upstairs when the men came in. They forced her to unhook the tv. When that didnt work, they ended up sexually assaulting her. Quest she says shes fine. She dont look fine to me.