The situation rather than waiting on backup. He went right in. And, he did his heroic duty and service. Reporter a Hesston Police officer went into the building after cederic ford. He confronted him and shot and killed him. Deputies had given him an order to stay away from his girlfriend hours before the rampage. He didnt display anything outrageous. Just that he was a little upset. Reporter police say ford armed with a rifle and a handgun shot two people. Apparently, random victims. Stole a car, and came to excel industries. We heard pop, pop, pop. I start running. Reporter the shooting was over in moments and ford was dead. This man was not going to stop shooting. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Reporter as the Small Community mourns those lost, we are learning more about the people taken in this mass shootings. Of those was a man named josh higby. Today president obama called the mayor of hesston to offer condolences and gratitude to
Two people suffered smoke inhalation. We are making calls to find out how serious their injuries are. And lets get a check on the weather. A nice cool down for the weekend. Yeah, in fact, returning to winter, even though its still february. Back to temperatures and we would expect sort of our coldest part of the year in january. 39 in zephyrhills right now. Cool in clearwater, 52. But 49 in fish hawk. And 46 in plant city. And milder in sarasota at 54. But we are warmer or excuse me, cooler in most places than this time yesterday. Lakeland, nine degrees colder than 6 00 yesterday morning. Clearwater about four degrees cooler. Brandon, seven degrees cool. And cooler. And i expect another batch from the north so highs today only 62. Thats well below the average of 74. And colder night tonight with a low of 42. At 6 08 in weather and traffic on the 8s, i walk you hourby hour through friday and then tell you about the weekend because really thats all a cool one too. Yes. Well, right now, w
President ial candidates are going head to head in houston. Senator ted cruz is hoping to bring frontrunner Donald Trumps winning streak to a halt. The texas senator just scored a key endorsement from his own states governor. And a study out this morning shows most of us are taking risks behind the wheel. Aaa found about 87 of drivers are doing Dangerous Things on the road, being drunk, speeding, texting, they all made the list. The data comes from a report revealing nearly 33,000 americans died in crashes back in 2014. Its 60 00 1. For news in about a minute. Lets get a check on the weather with leigh. Well, the big storm system that brought strong storms yesterday has moved up the east coast and bringing not only the threat for strong storms in new england but windy and snowy conditions across the midwest. Locally, not seeing any rain, patchy clouds, just dropping temperatures. In inverness. And 54 in lakeland and auburndale. And even tampa now, youve dropped to 5 degrees. What is ha
Painted la blancs name on parises only trailer shaking la blanc for sheriff 2016. We dont know any other altercation that occurred between the two. Reporter the deputy got a syringe and crack pipe from parises neighbor and planted it into parises bag. He goes and checks himself into a rehab center. When he goes, the staff notices these items outside the back, they notify the sheriffs office. Reporter thats what sparked the investigation into the deputy and led the neighbor to tell investigators what happened. We will hold ourselves accountable for our actions. We are going to be transparent with our citizens because we have to play by the rules. We know criminals dont. Everybody knows that but Law Enforcement officers have to play by the rules. Reporter again, the sheriff tells us that this is a case where a deputy had a grudge with a drug suspect and tonight is this deputy facing any charges . Reporter that now former deputy is possibly facing obstruction of justice and tampering with
The couples dog killed in a morning fire. They were sleeping with the fire started. They just didnt wake up. Her and jana and the dog were in there. Reporter flames erupted after one a. M. On old poke city road. I dont know. If you might have said maybe the electricity and if they were sleeping, maybe they didnt, you know, if the smoke got to them before that and they just didnt wake up. I dont know. Reporter elton robinson, baskins grandfather lives behind the couple and he woke up to people screaming at his dog. There was one fellow there that was trying to get everybody out. My grandson and girlfriend. My grandson was a smart boy and he can put things together and i cant figure out why he it will be hard. A reality that neither family can come to grips with. They are good people. I cant believe they are dead. Now you are looking at a live look of a dog thats been sitting under this truck. This dog has been coming back and forth digging inside of the mobile home for the past hour. We