We have the latest developments live from baton rouge. Reporter good evening. Two suspects who had previously been detained by the police have been let go with no charges filed, and investigators are still trying to understand why a man traveled here on his 29th birthday and opened fire. Blue again. One subject, all black, carrying an ar. Reporter officers suddenly in his sights. Shots fired, officer down, shots fired, officer down shots fired. Reporter walking into the line im hit. We have two down back here. Depuity down reporter as reinforcements arrived [gunshots] reporter a fierce gunfight and the suspect goes down. He died at the scene. Reporter federal Officials Say the shooter was a 29yearold x africa africanamerican at marine. Obama this does not justify violence. Reporter this as they are still reeling from the killing of our one sterling alton sterling. Video of that event along with the shooting of Philando Castile has triggered nationwide protests. In my intro i meant to s
Overnight tonight. Especially tomorrow night where the entire region is posted for a saturday night, sunday morning freeze. Any warmer days ever . More coming up in a few minutes. Maureen stay ahead of the weather every day by signing up for stormwatch7 and alerts. You can have them texted right to your phone. Sign up on wjla. Com. Leon the former Wooten High School quarterback accused of driving drunk causing a horrific deadly crash pleaded guilty. That surprise plea came days before samuel ellis was supposed to go on trial. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is covering the story and checks in live from rockville. What do we know about the deal reached here with the plea . Kevin this was mutually beneficial for all parties involved. The prosecutors get convictions on the two top charges. In turn, samuel ellis gets three additional charges dropped. The vi weeklong and emotional trial. I can tell you a very tight knit group of people knew about the plea deal. No reporters were pres
Resigned, including a track inspector, who failed to report a critical flaw on that track. Metro released a report today on the cause of the derailment. News4s Mark Segraves is at the smithsonian station with details on that. Mark . Reporter yeah this is one of the stations that was shut down during that deraiment. Luckily, nobody was injured, cause there were no passengers on that train, but it led to widespread delays that day and has now further eroded the publics confidence in the transit system. They told us that somebody had just overlooked it. It turns out to be more complicateded than that. Reporter august 6th derailment was caused by a broken fastener that holds the rail in place. A month before the derailment, a track inspector discovered the faulty fastener but mistakenly delete it had from the inspection report, so it was never fixed. I really dont know what to say, like i use it every day and i pay a lot for it, so, it is very hard to hear about. Reporter metro officials d
And they call it marylands own woodstock. It was 30 years ago this week. How you can relive it tomorrow night. News4 at 11 starts now. First tonight, a sea of candles in roanoke, virginia. Hundreds gathering outside wdbj television. Just a few hours ago to pay tribute to Alison Parker and adam ward. It was one of two vigils tonight for the slain journalists. Another was held at the high school where parker graduated. Virginia attorney general mark herring spoke at this vigil outside of the station. There was also a Prayer Service for the third victim, vicky gardner. She is still recovering from that shooting, and she is now listed in good condition. And its been another tough day for the staff of that tv station. They held a moment of silence on air and attempted to carry on as best they can. The news director said its now small things people are finding around the station making the absence of alison and adam that much harder to cope with. My sports director just said to me i lost it
You know what im say sng. Reporter again, we havent gotten positive identity for both victims yet. Not much in the way for the lookout for police. This is being investigated as a double homicide in southeast. We are live in southeast, derrick ward, news 4. Back to you. Thanks. 9 31. Lets turn it over to storm team 4 meteorologist, amelia segal. The National Hurricane center downgraded erika from a tropical tomorrow to a tropical depression. We have been talking about this as we tracked the entire storm system. Its a disorganized system. It continues to remain unorganized. That means low confidence in the track especially 48 hours out. If you have been following this system, you notice the track changed with pretty much every run the National Hurricane center put out. That may continue to be the case as we work through the weekend into early next week. Its Short Term Impact right now mainly heavy rain. Not so much of a window, but a heavy rainfall event impacting hispaniola and eastern