Mr. Trump took time out from transition meetings to day to give an hourlong deposition under oath. The president elect is suing restauranteur jose andres who canceled plans to open a spanish themed restaurant at the trump hotel in d. C. He objected to candidate trumps charact characterization of some mexican immigrants as rapists. President obama called the video of four africanamericans beating and tormenting, a disabled white man despicable and terrible. Parts of the attack in chicago were shown live on facebook to. Day the four suspects were charged with hate crimes. Dean reynolds has the latest. We do caution you, the video is quite disturbing. Get the phone. Described as mentally challenged had been missing for two days when heap turned up tuesday on face abooknd in trouble. Forced to drink from a toilet. He is also seen being kicked, choked, cut, and cursed. All streamed live on face book. Whole patch out. The victims alleged tormenters, two women and two men were actually textin
Being arrested, shouted the arabic term for god is great, allahu akbar. We looked at his facebook. We know he has some posts that says that he does not like white people. And also posts that he has expressed some antigovernment sentiments. Reporter police said they had been searching for muhammad in connection with last thursdays murder of a security guard. That is 25yearold Carl Williams outside a motel 6, also here in fresno. Now were back live near downtown fresno. You can see an active crime scene. We have police evidence, technicians out there gathering evidence and though police wont specify a motive, they are saying thipt there is no clear link to terrorism, but there may be indications that this was a hate crime, that as muhammad recently posted, racist antiwhite material on his social media sites including on facebook. We are expecting an update here in fresno within the hour. Live in fresno, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Laura, thanks so much. We reached out to pg e about this r
Another troubling factor as Police Caught up to muhammad. When he saw a black male running southbound on fulton, immediately immediately upon that individual seeing the officer he lt literally dove on to the ground and was taken into custody. And as he was taken into custody he yelled out allahu akbar. Chief dire says its too early to tell whether this was an act of terrorism. But the fisher has been alerted. Muhammad was also wanted for the murder of a Security Guard at a fresno motel just last thursday. Investigators say muhammad, who is believed to be homeless, has a criminal history which includes weapons violations and terrorist threats. We reached out to the Santa Clara County Catholic Charities office. The ceo tells me his office has a Security Guard and plans to do por employee training how to handle an active shooter situation. Marianne favro nbc bay area news. Marianne thung. We are awaiting update now from the police chief in fresno next 15 or 20 minutes a lot of bay area. D
Shouted god is a great in arabic as he was arrested but the police chief doesnt think it was a terrorist attack. No the suspect is charged with four counts of murder including a kill from last week and two counts after tempted murder. More now from Fresno Police chief. A total of 16 rounds were fired according to our gunshot detection system and all of those occur in approximately a minute to minute and half. As a result we know we had three people shot and killed and one person shot at in less than a two minute time frame in the city of fresno. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is in fresno with more on what happend. Were getting results of multiple gunshots. Reporter the shooting started near Downtown Fresno just before 11 00 a. M. When police say the suspect shot and killed a man sitting on the passenger side of pg e truck. Witnesses say the suspect reloaded a large handgun and shot two more people including at least one near catholic charities, all of the victims, white men. Second
E said his passenger had been shot. Investigators are saying mohammed is wanted in the shooting death of a security guard. The fbi has been called in to assist with the investigation and when we know more we will bring you the latest information. Stay with us. As we learn more, you can follow us on facebook and twitter and we will post any new information as we get it a man who shot and killed a 74yearold man apparently at random and posted video on facebook has been found dead. Steve stephens was seen by our mcdonalds worker and he was shot in a pursuit. The motive for all of this is still unclear. Reporter it was a random crime that terrorize the nation. Steve stephens allegedly shot and killed 74yearold Robert Godwin senior and posted a video of the killing on facebook. It sparked a huge manhunt that began in several states. Today police found Steve Stephens in pennsylvania dead of an apparent selfinflicted gunshot wound. We would have preferred it not ended this way because there a