Gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former classmates, teachers and alumni pour into the very same building to honor her memory. As the flags fly at half staff. Everybody wanted to be like her. Reporter monique barracks was murrays teammate on the lady birds basketball team. She would keep our hearts and heads into every game win organize losing, and she just knew the right words to say and how to build us up to as team. Reporter hundreds fill the auditorium in a private vigil led by School President brother Richard Kessler who himself struggled to find the words of comfort for the west catholic family. One of the characteristics of the school is that we are a family when this type of situation happens in any family, family gathers togeth
At some point in time he begins to choke her, dragging her to the rear of the property at 3800 block of jasper. Reporter police say he choked the woman until she was unconscious and then raped her. The victim finally came to, she was naked with injuries to her head and face. Thats why we want to get this individual off the street and hoping that somebody can identify this person to help us lead to an arrest because again such a brutal attack. Reporter police are investigating whether this attack is connected to the murder of 35yearold ricky morgan on saturday. Morgan was found stabbed to death in an alleyway near jasper and cumberland. The suspect in both cases ride ago blue and Black Mountain bi bike. Very distinctive book bag hes wearing as well as line across his sneakers as well as on the hat. Reporter angelo had a business where the woman was raped for 15 years. Hes alarmed by whats happened. Thats pretty sad. Wow. It leaves me speechless i have daughter of my own and its really t
Right now the city of philadelphia lit up to honor the victims and survivors of sundays orlando massacre. You can see from skyfox rainbow lights shining from the ben franklin bridge tonight, and in center city both the Sirius Center and comcast building are lit up in rainbow colors. Philadelphia Community Coming together tonight to youngest victim who host her life when that gunman end fire. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Cun eightyearold akyra murray had draft from there west catholic prep and was in orlando celebrating with friends. Chris oconnell has been talking with those who knew akyra. Hes live in west philadelphia. Chris . Reporter thats right, lucy. The west catholic family gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former
Waiting to hear from the next possible president of the united states. Look agent cleveland for a packed house. Mike spens expected to speak within the hour. First, balloons released a night for a woman brutally attacked and murders in a local neighborhood. Police think the killer may have attacked other women. Good evening im ian page. And im lucy know land. And tonight live at police headquarters, dave. Tonight a community is living in fear. My heart is sad. Her kids have to grow up without her. They fought back tears and they brought balloons and pos posters and candles for condolences. It was time to grieve and remember the 35yearold who many knew as layla found bruta brutally stabbed to death over the weekend as jasper and east cumberland. She was so kind. She was nice to everybody, everybody, and everybody spoke kindly of her. Its a brutal crime. This does not have to happen to her regardless of the situation. More than a dozen people stopped bit murder scene including good frien
Truckloads. Doctors are recounting the chaotic night as they received patient after patient from the florida nightclub shooting. Meanwhile we are learning new details about the investigation into the massacre. Kenneth craig has the latest developments from orlando. Reporter investigators were still on the scene of sundays shooting massacre this morning. Behind the scenes, they are also looking at unconfirmed reports from clubgoers that orlando shooter omar mateen visited the gay nightclub before he decided to open fire there. A Law Enforcement official tells cbs news that investigators have confiscated tapes from surveillance cameras located around the club. Law enforcement sources also say there is evidence he may have also researched Walt Disneyworld as the target before ultimately choosing the pulse nightclub. Mateens mateen estranged rife returned to their home in fort pierce to pick up belongings and needed a lock smith to help her get inside. There are questions about the fbis tw