Situation. Leon homicide steps away from old town. Neighbors with concerns. And 7 on your side gets results. Relief for the family of a child with autism, next. Now, abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Leon up first, only on 7, a gruesome crime shaked metro riders on the fourth of july. Moments later, he turned to another man and robbed him. Now that victim is speaking exclusively with abc 7. Roz plater has what he is saying a new details about the suspect now in custody. Roz . Roz this is our first detailed account of what happened on the train in those terrifying moments. An account from somebody who was there and still shaken by what happened. I turned around and looked, and they were fighting each other. One was attacking the other pretty badly. Roz this man said he had just boarded the red line train saturday afternoon, minutes before the fatal stabbing. He said that he and other passengers watched in horror as a man with a knife attacked another young man. The guy was stabbing him
Leon bullet holes in cars, the evidence of a shootout and a playground. The gunfire happened before noon yesterday and columbia heights. Kids were forced to duck and cover. Thankfully, nobody was hit. Tonight, the parents are making loud calls for safety. They wrapped up a meeting moments ago, and tom roussey has the investigation as it is happening. Tom . Tom in the meeting, the police said when this yesterday morning, when shooter was roughly here with the other shooter firing back at him. He was inside the gerard street park. Along with him, 60 to 80 children. So thankful, these parents are nobody was hit. In the community center, they had a meeting with the police as well as the ward one councilmember. There were a lot of parents very concerned about what happened yesterday. We found video today of a honda civic with bullet holes in it from what happened. A number of folks say there are kids there every day, a parents coopt where they watch each others kids, kids from the community
Stricter fight against synthetic drugs, next. Now abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Jonathan first, a storm watch weather alert, several counties under a Flash Flood Watch for rain that is moving in overnight. Rain and possible thunderstorms this weekend. Which day is better for outdoor plans . Steve rudin has the timeline on the showers. Steve we will get all of this out of the way by late tomorrow afternoon, improving conditions. Between now and then, we could be looking at flash flooding. The stormscan, most of the metro to the west, west virginia, all of this moves are way overnight. We have the potential of areas of heavy rain. The latest on the Flash Flood Watch has expanded to include the district, alexandria fairfax, Prince William and prince georges county, in addition to shenandoah county. That is overnight into the day tomorrow. We could pick up anywhere from one to two inches, depending how quickly they move. 83 degrees right now at Dulles International airport and we will
Visit ncicap. Org] now, abc 7 news at 11 00. Leon a tragedy in tennessee. A gunman opens fire at two military sites and four marines are dead. The shooter, Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez, is also dead. Chris papst spoke with a relative of the government who lives in our region. We will start with tom roussey who has the latest on the investigation. Tom cole that shooter abdulazeez, was from hixson, tennessee. Authorities want to know why he did this. Brutally and brazenly attack numbers of our armed services. Tom everything started this morning in chattanooga. He lifted up a gun and, there was one shot, then it was just and less shots. Tom you can see the bullet holes all over the recruiting center. An Army Recruiter who was inside estimates 3050 shots were fired. Within a half hour, Authorities Say abdulazeez had driven to a navy and Marine Center more than seven miles away and opened fire again. In all four marines were killed. At least three others were wounded, including a police offi
The entire block roped off, a bunch of investigators on the scene. This is video from earlier. Three people shot, all taken to the hospital. Folks who live here said that one of them appeared to be in critical condition, but no confirmation from the police of that. I spoke to remain off camera said he was walking home from work when he heard gunshots rang out. He said everybody around him, including himself, began running. They said they heard as many as 30 shots fired. One of the people which shot rain inside a nearby Apartment Building for cover. Folks who live here say there was another shooting a couple blocks from here last night at about the same time, starting a couple blocks from here, ending up at the apartment here on edgewood street. Right now the police say it is still early on the investigation and they do not have answers why. Right now we do not have a lookout as to who they are looking for, but a number of Police Investigators on the scene, trying to figure out what hap