Thomas jackson was stepping down. One officer was shot in the face while another was struck in his shoulder with a bullet exiting his back. By gods grace, we didnt lose two officers last night. Both officers have been released from the hospital. What happened last night was a pure ambush. This was want someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. This was this was the punk. Witnesses say the shots were fired at a hill a distance away from the protesters. Bullets were whizzing right past my head. It was kind of traumatic. Im still kind of s the parents of officer Brennan Rabain arrive at their sons funeral. His little daughter looks on from his mothers arms as his fathers casket is taken into the victory christian church. The sanctuary is packed with family and friends and men and women in uniform. They hear of rabains passion for policing from the rookie cops squad sergeant. Thats what he did. He was living his dream. From his father, they hear how proud rabain was of his uniform earne
Weve done our inspections and done our training for 39 controllers and radio operations control center. And continuing to develop. And well train our people on that. Another new avenue to improve safety. And also something that they are going to be exploring, lowering the speed of metro trains metro rail and the inner core from a maximum of 59 Miles Per Hour to 45 Miles Per Hour. Reporting live Stephen Tschida abc 7 news. This latest batch of safety changes at metro comes as work continues on safety recommendations that follow that deadly 2009 red line crash. As of the end of january, metro completed 21 of the ntsbs 29 recommended changes. Metro says three more are awaiting the ntsbs approval. And the remaining items are long term changes such as replacing the aging 1,000 cars. The june crash killed nine passengers sparking demands to change of how metro is run. Lee university suspended one of the fraternities for alleged hazing. The University Says a member of Phi Kappa Psi used a stu
Jay korff is live at the scene. What can you tell us at this point . Metro Officials Say they got a disconcerting telephone call into their operations center, a man on the tracks in the tunnel here at the potomac avenue metro station. A female metro transit officer pursued. For reasons unclear, a shot was fired. That man is dead. I saw all of this and i am like, oh my god. I am thinking, what in the world . It is chaos. They had all the tape and everything. Metro officers say the tunnel was a scene of a fatal shooting. In the tunnel on the westbound track, between potomac avenue and the armory. A man got onto the tracks went into the tunnel, and was pursued by Transit Police. One officer fired a shot and killed the individual. His body was found 400 feet east of the platform. Her train was the last to pull into the station. This is my worst fear, to be on a train and Something Like this happens. An investigation has been launched. This writer rider remains shaken. I might have to start
Reporter agent mark connolly, second in command of president obamas protective detail, and george ogilvie, senior supervisor at the agencys Washington Field office, have been reassigned pending an investigation by the Homeland Security departments inspector general. They were reportedly allowed to leave sobriety tests. Weve made major changes to the secret service with regard to leadership, but obviously theres still a lot of work to be done. Reporter new secret Service Director joe clancy has been on the job less than a month, an Agency Insider appointed by president obama even though a committee suggested an outsider. The agencys oncestellar reputation has been brought down by a series of highprofile incidents from agents cavorting with prostitutes in colombia to fence jumpers, one of whom got inside the white house itself. And now a new embarrassment for a secret service that to get out of the spotlight. The white house says this evening it still has confidence that director clancy
Shooting. Reporter well thats right. First of all, d. C. Firefighters are on the scene. And they are in the process of bringing the body above ground. You look right over here. Metro police have arrived. You can see that man locking up. And if you move a little to the left they removed those containers right there. That is presumably part of the investigation as they gather evidence. Lets move over to the left. Metro Transit Police were the first to respond because their officer is involved and on the other side of this car, you look right over here that is where the escalators go down underground where this all happened. You can see the area is roped off at the entrance the potomac avenue station is closed right now. Trains are bypassing, and there are delays on the orange, blue and silver line. Lets roll some video. This all started around 8 50 tonight. A train operator noticed a man in the tunnel near the potomac avenue station and reported it to the rail krl center. The Rail Contro