Caught the driver who hit an killed a 74yearold woman and left her to die in polk county. A Successful Bank executive hit and killed her on duff road in lake land they believe. As Melissa Marino shows us, it took weeks for them to track him down. Reporter this is one of the last videos that loved ones have of 74yearold janice joy. Her neighbor betty mata has been her caretaker for years but more like family. Joy had alzheimers alone. The morning of the crash, she got out of her home and a driver hit and killed her. He left janice on the side of the road to die by herself. Reporter after weeks of searching, Sheriff Grady Judd says they found the suspect, 37 yearold jarvis kendrick. Jarvis is a Senior Vice President for mid florida credit union. Reporter investigators through Great Lengths to hide his involvement. Even faking an accident on i4 to cover up the damage. In lakeland, Melissa Marino, challenge challenge. Well, a mother and daughter were left with critical injuries when an suv
And tried to carjack a trying to get away. Reporter this criminal is a very violent man. Just before 8 00 wednesday night, he attacked a woman who worked at the 88 spa off of tamiami trail in venice. Then, the bold attacker hopped into the back of a pickup driving toward publix. As the pickup truck driver noticed the person was able to hit the brakes and caused the person to fall from the pickup. Reporter in the lot, the man tried employee. When that failed, he attacked that worker and took off running south. In the meantime, the injured masseuse made her way to a nearby shell station. She was taken to sarasota memorial for treatment. This morning while the search continued nearby schools were briefly placed on lock down. The children were never in any danger. We felt like this was the safest way to do it rather than notice firefighter parents earlier in the morning and have the student out and about. Are working with nearby agencies to find this dangerous man. In venice, john rogers,
14 days until we go to the polls and tonight, donald trump is campaigning in the bay area. Paul mueller joins us from the Midflorida Credit Union amphitheater. Trump is set to take the stage at any moment now, right . Reporter thats right. Suspense has been building, the crowd is here, fired up and energized. Tonight, Donald Trumps objective is to energize these folks even more than they already are here in is battleground state of florida. Take a look at who is on the state right now, of course that is the iconic former fsu coach, showing his support for donald trump. Of course, all of this is happening as trump is facing a ticking time clock, some polls showing he has a doubledigit deficit and there are some veteran republican strategists who say a comeback is unlikely. When he does take the stage tonight, he is expected to wikileaks scandal. Are also expected to hear about voter fraud and that the election is rate, also a big possibility he will talk about the locker room talk contr
Im stacy. We are now going to head to lee span for the latest on our beautiful weather. You know its hard to beat the stretch of weather weve seen since basically the weekend. Each day has been progressively warmer than the last. But max defender 8 doing a great job as it scans the skies this morning. Certainly giving you the all clear. Because nothing going on. We did have a thin layer of clouds this morning. That gave us a water color painting of a sky this morning. Now were getting plenty of sunshine out center freedom plaza. Where its 76 degrees. Were starting to warm up with that sunshine too, brooksville, 73. Bartow, 73. 74 in fish hawk. 72 in saint pete and clear water. It may feel warmer than this time yesterday. Plant city, brandon, 2 degrees warmer than yesterday. Crystal river is 4 degrees warmer. 3 degrees warmer in bradenton. This is close to average. Low to mid 80s. Mid 80s for the rest of the a 10 rain chance by the end of the week. Youll also notice milder mornings. Its
To look inside the building. They still have not gone into most of it. The fire is down considerably. Let me show you, you can see what the heat from the fire did. It almost collapsed this part of the roof. And, the other problem is traffic. The smoke was heavy. This is the veterans expressway. They have lanes of traffic closed and i will zoom in down here and as you go down toward Tampa International airport, the traffic is bumper to bumper and very slow going. So in this area traffic will be a problem because of the fire. Paul lamison, thank you very much. Someone shot and killed a store clerk in lake wales seconds after he closed for the night and that gunman is still on the loose at this hour. Melissa marino joins us live at the quality plus gas station and the public really need to be on high alert. Reporter thats right. Just terrifying. They ambushed him right over now, the search is on for these suspects. This is video of mohammed alums last moments. He is walking to his car to