This is fox5 local news at 10. Right now at 10, a man shot and killed in the district while whi helping three Young Children off of their bus. Tonight, hes being hailed a hero. And heads up if you park in the district your wallet is about ta take a hit. Well tell you about a major maj price hike at parking meters across the city. Coming up well tell you when wh and where that price hike will l begin. Plus, working to unite the Republican Party. We had a very good and encouraging productive conversation. Hours after the speaker of the e house spoke with donald trump t find some Common Ground we asked is it too little too late to secure a win in november . Fox5 local news at 10 starts right now. We begin tonight with the shooting that claimed the life of a d. C. Man right in front of three children. Im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. That man was helping the kids off a bus right near Ki Elementary School in southeast when he was shot. Ot his death comes one day after d. C. s police chie
Classmates. Fox5s Marina Maracco is life tonight in centerville. She joins us now with the latest on this investigation. Marina. Reporter tony and shawn theres finally been an arrest in this case following nearly three months of a criminal investigation into Alexia Springers death which was deemed an accidental Drug Overdose and just last week 18 year old david efforts a senior here at Centerville High School turned himself into police. He is now being charged with manufacturing, possessing, distributing and selling a prohibited controlled substance. 17 year old Alexia Springer was found unresponsive at her sen materialville home. Police initially saying the centerville high student died of a heroin overdose, something that was later retracted by investigators. Her mother, the entire duration of the investigation has denied those statements from police and the teens autopsy revealed that she had consumed a cocktail of drugs which included morphine, ethanol and oxycodone which of course
At fbi headquarters. Reason being fbi director james comey said he did not want to add to any of the killers fame and glory. Did not want to encourage any other people to, quote, follow in his footsteps. The fbi revealed they had interviewed omar mateen three times spanning 2013 and 2014 for possible connections to islamic extremist, ultimately fbi agents determined he was not a threat and closed the case. Earlier today, we did get details from the fbi on to what that case was about. Apparently in may of 2013, the fbi was alerted by employees at a florida courthouse where omar mateen had worked as an employee security guard. The employees heard something, so they said something to the fbi. Apparently, mateen had been brags to employees that his family was connected to Islamic Extremist Group possibly isis odds with each other. Later in may of 2014 mateen game back under the watch when he was possible connected to a suicide bomber in syria. After that interview, fbi once again concluded
You know, he was well liked,ik well received, city liked him. Ih hes a two term mayor. May he just got elected in may too his second term, so he will be well sorely missed and hesedn was smart. A he knew government he knew howeh to run the business of government. Go reporter so, not much iss known about the death itself. Ts we were told by the policeic chief today that detectivesetecs were taken inside the home. They did collect some things, ti collect some evidence but theytt he said that that was justt standard operating procedure. Pe whenever you have a death, haveh especially someone as young asss the mayor, that it needs to be investigated. Ig once again, his body was taken t under Police Escort to baltimore for an autopsy. N aopsy those results should be knownldk in the near future. Ut live in district heights, matt t ackland, fox5 local news. N also new developments nowlop in a deadly shooting blockslo away from an elementary schoolyh in southeast d. C. Sou the incident happened
Good teening out. The mood is som weather it. It is also coming together as a community i can give i was few quick examples opinion our camera positions and the media id say usually forgotten about some people came by and they specifically had sandwiches, apples and water for us. A short time after that i bumped into a woman she told me she was looking for the blood bus theres a bus where you can donate the victims, they were in the hospital, they desperately need blood. So people are going to this bus to donate. This woman had her children and she told me shawn donation but that her kids wanted to buy water to give to the people who were giving blood. An example we got mcdonalds off to the right of the camera. And a couple of other shops on their march key it says orlando strong. A real feeling of coming together. And i think thats not just here also in washington d. C. Dupont circumstance kennellest rest of the nation. Joel, lets talk about the investigation, of course it continues.