he said the ruling was a substantial step towards the star gaining her freedom which he said she hoped she would have by our a0th birthday in december. let s bring you some more news before we go to the weather. a drug driver lost control of his car as i told her towards a vehicle waiting at a toll booth. cctv shows the car colliding and narrowly missing a stationary vehicle last year. nobody was seriously injured but the toll booth operator is continuing to receive treatment for her injuries. we don t seem to have pictures for you. the 28 year old was charged with dangerous driving.
vehicle waiting for him. a lot of calls on social media for jussie smollett to be fired from the hit empire show on fox. fox has not made any comment about his future employment going forward, but there are a lot of people who supported him who are very disappointed this story seems to have been turned upside down. we ve been showing what we have just gotten into our newsroom, that booking photo of jussie smollett that has just come in now. you can see it there. he, of course, as you talked about, in custody now. we expect to be seeing him. we ve heard from his attorneys, right, ron? they ve come out and said he enjoys in their words, the presumption of innocence as we look at that podium where we expect to see some action any second. some of those officials are coming out, ron. and it goes without saying but we should say that all of us who are charged in a fashion like this with any sort of crime do enjoy the presumption of innocence, as does jussie smollett. his attorneys say
ultimately located the vehicle the suspect was known to be driving and witnesses told that he was driving and we found that at a hotel in round rock. we had multiple officers from the police department and our federal partners that took up positions around the hotel awaiting the arrival of our tactical teams and have ballistic vehicles here so we could take this as safely as possible. we are waiting for these vehicles to get here. much time had passed and the vehicle started to drive away. we began following the vehicle waiting to get the tactical vehicles, and on the side of the
were stopped at a traffic light. they were on their way to check out a disturbance at a business when a man with a semiautomatic handgun simply walked up to their cruiser and opened fire, hitting one of the officers in the hand. the officer officer was not hit and chased down that suspect on foot and arrested that suspect without firing a shot. at last check, the wounded officer was in good condition. i want to bring in sergeant john sheehan on the phone from the las vegas metro police department. sergeant thanks so much for taking the time. can you tell me more details about what happened in this incident and who this person is that they brought in. well, i can tell you right now, ashleigh, is our officers were responding to a service call at the 99 cent store on the northwest corner of that intersection where our officers were in their patrol car. as they sat in their vehicle waiting if the light to change,