Our colleagues in North Carolina had dug into his background today and say he works for a Small Fire Department in the durham North Carolina area. He has been a minor actor and an extra in some minor Film Productions in North Carolina and thats about all we know about him. He is minor criminal record featuring marijuana an accident that involved a child last year. Otherwise an unremarkable person until now. He has appeared in court and held without bail. We will know more when he appears thursday. Live outside Dc Superior Court scott broom wusa9. Outside of the restaurant frustration is the number 1 feeling amongst people who live in the area and Business Managers near the restaurant. Stephanie ramirez is live on me are off and comment is closed today but Police Officers are going in and out of the businesses around here and there are a lot of managers who are grateful for this. Greg manages a coffee shop in the basement of a nearby bookstore who said a few weeks ago he was concerned o
Of those managers, it says safety trumps service. Nothing comes before safety, it says every decision a metro employee makes should be put safety ahead of operational concerns. Including on time performance, schedule adherence, convenience, and cost efficiency. Safety trumps service. Live at the station, bruce leshan, wusa 9. When you think about it, bruce, safety is everything. All right. The transportation secretary told his inspectors not to take no for an answer if metro tries to keep them off the rails and he says the more he sees of that, the more likely he is to shut down the s. Hes also pushing met to cut from 8 to 6 car trains to reduce the flow of electricity and the risk of fire. But that of course could leave more of us waiting on the platform. Turning to Prince Georges County now where a connected to the shooting death of Police Officer colson. Prosecutors say michael fords brothers drove him to the Prince Georges County county Police Headquarters and recorded him as he op
Somebody that needs your help and lets go to work. Other crews arrived and the boy was taken to the hospital. Police expect him to survive. A man fell to his death. Sky 9 flew over the scene where a victim fell from a tower on log house road. Montgomery county dont expect anything criminal but are investigating it. To a mystery in Fairfax County. Was it murder, suicide or an sudden. Police are trying to figure out how a body ended up in the water in the lakeside apartments. Bruce, what do you know . Reporter i know it is a sad story. We know the victim was a female but we dont know if she was an adult or trial. We dont know if what to her was murder or something else. A horrifying discovery. One of the walkers looked down from the walkway to the ga zeaba and noticed a body floating face down in the water right below her. You are kidding . That right in that big lake . Right there. Reporter the woman or girl in the water was clearly dead by the time police and firefighters arrived just
Facebook or tweet us at wusa 9. First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt joins us now. This was sent by Suzanne Jacobs in bluemont, virginia, further out than leaseburg. See pretty good size tree went down. Suzanne, thank you for taking the picture. Sorry about your tree damage. The beach forecast, great, i mean fantastic, sunshine, saturday sunday and monday, mid 70s. Upper 70s on sunday. Monday looking at temperatures in the low 80s with pretty much full sun. Closer to home, if you have plans, fantastic, tomorrow morning, 7 00, cool temperatures, 62 gaithersburg. 63 in buoy. 62 when we come back we will talk about when the 90s reappear and the next chance of storms. Arlington, a former juvenile probation officer is charged with two attempted abductions, this man, justin poe of wood bridge, virginia, in may a female victim woke up on her home to find a man sexually assaulting her. Dna evidence and a composite sketch linked the case to attempted abduction and another attack at a th
Said yes, no, its an honor but not necessarily a good thing. Reporter a year later, rich liatta and his family returned this Time Lighting a candle for their son killed in the line of duty. Liatta remembering once more the last time he said goodbye. My usual goodbye to him was have a safe night and i really wanted to tell him i loved him and i didnt and i regret that to this day. Reporter killed by a suspected drunk driver while on an alcohol task force, the 24 yearold officer joined the list of 123 officers nationwide killed in the line of duty in 2015 quick. They put their lives every day on the line for us and out here, most of the officers and families who are suffering, it reminds me to be grateful for that work and service they do. Reporter candles for those lost blanketed the National Wall at the national on Officers Memorial Fund candlelight vigil. This year, there seems to be a heavier weight on officers who are seeing increasing acts of violence against police. In the early m