University alum on the platform yesterday. Derek joins us live from that know ma metro station. Garrett what have you learned . Reporter well, debra tonight the man that police are looking for was in their custody just a few days ago. According to court documents, jasper spire was charged in an unresulted assault late last week. But was released after his arraignment on friday to await trial which means the suspect in this case was back on the street for just 24 hours before this murder was committed. D. C. Police say this is the face of a coldblooded killer. Tonight, mpd has a warrant out for jasper spires arrest on the charge of first degree murder while armed. He stabbed 24yearold Kevin Sutherland to death in the know ma gala debt metro station. Then fled. The broad daylight murder shut down the station for hours on one of the busiest days to have year for public transit. The latest killing in an ongoing summer homicide spike. We actually were going to ride here and we werent able t
Safe. Lights out at a local highrise tonight. No power no air conditioning. The red cross working to help up to a thousand people. And the cosby controversy hits home at a smithsonian museum. New tonight, why its not ending a local art display. News4 at 11 starts now. First tonight, a mothers voice still shaking hours after gunshots in a playground full of children. Parents ran for cover this morning scooping up children along the way at the Columbia Heights Community Center on gerard street. Police are still looking for the guy who started shooting. News4s Jackie Bensen is live in northwest with reaction. Jackie . Reporter doreen, nothing describes the terror of this better than the woman youre about to hear from. She was at this playground with her 1yearold and her 3yearold. Were not showing her face. This is somewhere happy place, not somewhere where youre running, shielding children from bullets. Reporter it was just before noon and the newly remodelled playground at the Columbia H
Apartment. With one 4yearold girl saying she average 14yearold girl saying she averaged 200 a day for providing sexual services. Back live, we spoke with the d. C. Earlier and they are concerned that there are other teenage, underage victims in this case. So they are asking parents to speak with the children and give them a call. Both of the individuals are now locked up behind bars. Reporting live from southeast jennifer donelan, abc7 news. Jonathan new tonight a background check that should have stopped accused Charleston Church gunman dylann roof buying a gun in the first place failed. F. B. I. Director said the paperwork from the arrest weeks earlier wasnt completed properly. That one report should have disqualified roof from obtaining a handgun usedded in the massacre of nine people inside predominantly africanamerican church. They ordered a full review of the f. B. I. Background check system. History outside the South Carolina state house. You can hear the cheers as the honor gua
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
Possible. We need this Problem Solved now. Reporter cycling advocates have been complaining for years about the lack of mile markers along the metropolitan branch trail. The met branch trail is one trail of many in the district and so we are going to have to have the same solution implemented on Anacostia Waterfront trail crescent trail has markers but more trails coming. Reporter without those markers along biking and hiking trails, 911 dispatchers have a very hard time sending bliss or paramedics to an exact location. Last week when witnesses called police during this attack on a female cyclist, they were told the trail location was not in the dispatch system. The head of d. C. Homeland security and Emergency Management tells news4 they have come up with a shortterm solution, gps coordinate fosser landmarks along the met branch trail have now been added to the 911 system. It is not a perfect solution. The perfect solution is to get as much information on its trail so people know wher