Families. nothing that anyone wouldve seen coming. Alecia but tragedy struck early this morning. Just before 7 o clock police say Scott Bertics walked up to his ex girlfriends holton court home. At the front door, bertics fatally shot 19 year old clare orton, then himself. this is really shockingand sad. Alecia Authorities Say there were no previous issues of domestic violence, or warning flags, and bertics did not have a criminal history. this one is especially painful because the victim and suspect both come from supportive families. Alecia on this quiet cul de sac, neighbors say they did not hear the gunshots ring out. i left this morning around 8 o clock and saw a bunch of police tape and cars alecia both families have been extremely cooperative with police. Neighbors say the 21 year old shooter studied engineering at stanford university. This is one of his videos posted on youtube. my heart goes out to all of them. Its sad. Alecia not a lot of details being revealed tonight. The c
Blown. The investigators here now taking photographs of this. That is inbound suitland parkway. This is forestville road. Now, what you cant see is just behind where that investigator is, there is another vehicle. It looks to be about gray in color and its kind of tilted along its side completely burned out. I guess i could say gray in color to the ice but that could be because all the paint has burned off. Really hard to say. We havent been able to get a completely clear picture of it. I do have one that im going to tweet out at fox5 melanie. From what connect tell two cars but this one spun around in the wrong direction here on suitland parkway. U. S. Park police now have the scene completely cordoned off as they continue their investigation. Tried to get some information from park police but we were not able to because they told us that they simply were too busy at this point but yes, three confirmed fatalities, one person was taken to the hospital and you can see as we just kind of
Scene going on right now. Two officers have shot. We do not know their condition at the time. Lso, one suspect the Police Helicopter has been flying over as well. We are going to stay on the scene. We will certainly bring you updates. Leon our thoughts to the department. Hopefully it is not serious. More information as soon as we get it. Police officers running toward a burning car last night, pulling in and out. Alison tonight, the victim has watched that video. As he awaits surgery, he asked his wife to deliver a message. They literally saved his life. Reporter we introduce you to the officers who pulled a man from a car. The man they saved is michael smith. Anything. Reporter he is diabetic in the family things he may have passed out before crashing into a pole. He shattered his leg and his pelvis. Friday, he will have another surgery. Body camera release video, his family did not realize how close he was to losing his life. He saw the video yesterday for the first time. He wanted m
A much it will be different weather day today compared to yesterday, waking up to a live doppler showing a few showers that are spotty across the area. Showers working their way into the district, picking up some of these late spotty rain showers. Temperatures this morning starting out quite cool, overall it will be a cooler than average day today, temperatures in the lower 60 plus. For your driving, for your home from work, there will be a few isolated showers, especially for the morning drive. Take it easy out there as we go hours, a fewvening showers possible north and west of town, temperatures in the 50 plus and i may be some patchy fog developing. That may be something you want to be mindful of early tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon going to be completely different than the weather today as high temperatures soar into the upper 80 plus. There may be a few isolated thunderstorms around. I will time those out for you and talk about the tumbling temperatures we will get into the
They posted this video an hour ago basically saying their family has received Death Threats and the situation has really gone too far over what they call fake utube pranks and this backlash put their family in reel danger. They received a lock of backlash for recent video and made national headlines. These parents basically exploited their kid and abused them for the sake of pranks. Take a look at original video in question. It left a lot of viewers out ranged and parent are under fire they played a sxwrok on kody which ends up leaving him crying hysterically in this video. Their son previously spilled ink all over the carpet and so they staixed another spill on bedroom carpet using disa disappearing ink placing blame on him in profanity lace and screaming tirade. Many parents were this comments section was riddled with answeringy feedback accusing parents of of abusing kids for sake of these pranks. Some viewers contacted fox 5 news room for us to dig deeper into this saying they beli