Old. The case went cold but never forgotten. In the last couple of years police named a man by the name of Lloyd Lee Welch as a person of interest. He was in and out of this area back then, working as a carny. His mug shot from the time eerily similar to a sketch made from a witness account. He was spoken to back then but was not considered a strong suspect. Things changed as the decades went on and police zeroed in on him. As we said just a couple of years ago. Searching again and again. A mountain top property in virginia that belonged to his family. We are told that evidence was found there to convince police that welch not only abducted the girls but killed them on that mountain. That led to todays indictment. I am honored to report that my Commonwealth Attorney obtained indietments charming indictments charging Lloyd Lee Welch with firstdegree felony murder for his involvement in the death of sheila and Katharine Lyon. Brad the prosecutor and the sheriff in Bedford County came to
In custody in connection with a deadly shooting inside a metro garage. Reporter well, Barbara Montgomery county detectives have been working on this case all night and now they have reached enough evidence that they can call two persons of interest suspects. It was about 7 00 p. M. Yesterday when police were called to this garage in wheaton with a report of a shooting. Inside they found an adult male had been shot multiple time and a short time later two persons of interest were taken into custody. Now at the height of the investigation here parts of Georgia Avenue were closed. The garage was closed because of evidence collection and the early parts of the investigation. Since then, they have now said that those two persons of interest are suspects. What we dont know at this hour is still a motive or the identity of the victim or the identity of the suspects and, of course this is the second crimerelated fatality on metro this month. Back on fourth of july there was a man killed. This
Heavy crowding on the systems busiest line. Chopper four is en route to the red line to give images of this for now, we can tell you, if metro says if you need to reach the begin brook or white flynn stations you have to use an outbound train from d. C. Toward Montgomery County. The inbound trains will be passing the stations to reduce delays. This appears to be connected to a track problem outside grover in metro has been working on since this morning. Two men are facing charges for shooting a man inside a metro garage. Douglas chase and Brent Sanderson are accused of killing a man by the name of eric melgar inside the Wheaton Metro station garage. It happened yesterday evening before the sun set. No word yet on a possible motive in that shooting. Another development in the birthday cake beating. The mother and uncle are held without bail. The uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the moms boyfriend could beat him unconscious. Jack garcia was only 9 years old and died from that be
Is ongoing and more people could be charged. The Montgomery County police and all of our partners will work to hold every individual responsible who was involved with the abduction and murder of the lyons sisters as well as the ongoing conspiracy to conceal these crimes. Reporter prosecutors said they are also investigating the possibility that lloyd welch may have been involved in other child abductions across the country. So they are retracing all of his steps, starting 40 years ago. Track welchs activities from the time that this abduction occurred through to when he was incarcerated. Its we are our investigators, thats part of what they have been doing all over the country. Reporter Court Records released today show investigators recovered bone fragments and remnants of a burned plastic bag on a hill side property in a remote section of Central Virginia where the welch family once had property. As john and mary lyon, the parents of the two girls sat nearby and list and to prosecuto
Website, and were emailing some of my contacts, calling them right now. We understand we are on time, but as you said Megan Mcgrath is going to be there in a little while at grosvenor. As far as traffic goes, 95 at newington, we are slow here due to lateclearing road work. 95 here, again, taking a look at 95, no problems there. Until you get a little bit north of dale city. Georgia avenue at randolph road, one left lane is getting by. Prince georges county overall looking good. Tom, dare i say, it was a little cool this morning when i stepped outside. I slept with the windows open. It was rather cool this morning. In fact, down near 60 degrees in some of the suburbs. Storm team 4 radar scanning the sky, no rain around. But its down to near 60 in montgomery and Fairfax County and parts of northern virginia. Upper 50s, shenandoah valley. In the low to mid 50s out of the mountains. Upper 60s, near 70 by the chesapeake bay. And walking to work and walking to the metro this morning waiting