Crime scene after a man goes on the attack and tonight were learning new details about that mans past just months ago that suspect was arrested for trying to jump the fence at the white house. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. Authorities in Chester County say the quick thinking actions of sheriffs deputy prevented many from being injured by the knife wielding man. David spunt has the latest on the investigation tonight. David . Reporter ukee and jessica, some good news first to report. Were told that sheriffs deputy is improving expected to make full recovery. Ive learned new details about the suspect in the last hour or so. The main thing though that detectives want to find out is why he came to this courthouse and why he attacked this specific deputy. A normal day inside the Chester County courthouse turned violent in matter of minutes. After police say 35yearold curtis smith pulled out a knife and stabbed a chef riffs deputy. This guy runs through the runs through
Man. David spunt has the latest on the investigation tonight. David . Reporter ukee and jessica, some good news first to report. Were told that sheriffs deputy is improving expected to make full recovery. Ive learned new details about the suspect in the last hour or so. The main thing though that detectives want to find out is why he came to this courthouse and why he attacked this specific deputy. A normal day inside the Chester County courthouse turned violent in matter of minutes. After police say 35yearold curtis smith pulled out a knife and stabbed a chef riffs deputy. This guy runs through the runs through the door, im going to get you, im going to get y you. Went receipt past security and i hear pop pop. That popping sound was the return fire by other sheriffs deputy who shot smith. Smith later died at a local hospital. Smith made National Headlines in march when he jumped the white house fence. Something is wrong with him, hes mental but for gods sake who would let him out. Acc
84 degrees. Nice, sunny, pleasant. High of 80 at the shore which is spectacular beach weather. In the poconos you might see a few clouds today but beautiful sunshine and a high of 74 degrees. So, a nice, nice, day all the way around no matter where you are. We do have some heat that will come back in the forecast this cannot last forever, it is august after all and that will happen over the weekend. I will be back and we will talk about that too but for now, pleasant and lovely and ill send it over to the pleasant and lovely meisha. Thanks, kyla, good morning. Still very early outside. What you are looking at behind me we have a very serious crash overnight in burlington county, new jersey. This is a live shot, from mobile three, investigation process is underway. The as you can see if i can bring your attention over here it looks like we have a vehicle with debris every where. It looks like the vehicle is split in half. For a while it looked like it was upside down. You can see the ca
From the photographer who was killed is still disturbing. The victims 24 cereal Allison Parker and 27yearold adam ward third victim the subject of the interview is in surgery. We get the latest now from cbs news correspondent kenneth cra craig. Reporter reporter Allison Parker and her photographer adam ward were in the middle of a live shot at bridge water plaza this morning when a gunman opened fire killing them both. The shooting happened while parker was interviewing a woman on life television. The anchor was rattled when the station cut back quickly to the studio. Shortly afterward the stations general manager addressed viewers. They are working very diligent toll track down both the motive and the person responsible for this terrible crime against two fine journalists. I cannot tell you how much they were loved. The camera kept rolling and caught a glimpse of the shooter. Schools in the area are on lock down as Police Search for the shooter. Kenneth craig cbs news. Once again that
Parker and war, both social networking sites quickly suspended the account. Station offices say flannigan was fired from wdbj7, two years ago. He had a reputation of someone that was difficult to work w he was sort of looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. Reporter after several hours of running from the authorities, flannigan turn the gun on himself on the side of the virginia highway. Officials say that he was pronounced dead at the hospital by 1 30. The governor of virginia spoke out about the the shooting. It just breaks your heart. When you think of the family, so many friend and coworkers who were impact by what happened today report report man identifying himself as Bryce Williams, faxed a 23 page manifesto to abc news explaining his action, we will have more coming up at 6 00. We are live, Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right, syma, thank you. Allison parkers boyfriend is a news anchor at wdbj and graduate of Conestoga High School in tr