A black jacket. A train had just pulled floo the station and passengers were heading down the street when passengers and witnesses say he pulled a sharp op and stabbed the teen in the neck. There didnt seem to be an altercation or a fight or even a robbery. We have our detectives right now going through the video. As Everybody Knows we have a lot of video in the metro stations. The lookout that we have right now is for a male that looks like also in their teens, maybe early 20s, with twists in their hair, wearing a black, puffy jacket, black jeans and black shoes. Reporter assistant chief says the assault happened very fast and then the suspect ran from the station. You know, its very troubling. Folks who travel on the metro all the time want to feel safe. The good news, if there is any good news from this, is that in all likelihood were going to be able to close this case because of the Security Systems that metro has here. The badne young person in our city to violence. Reporter as w
And tracking morning frame and tell us what its getting out of here. Weather and traffic on the fiv fives at 7 05. Good Tuesday Morning everybody im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. Welcome to fox 5 news morning. Breaking in district a suspect in custody in connection with deadly stabbing at Deanwood Metro station. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick joins us with details. Mel. Good morning, steve, alliso allison. D. C. Police would tell us only that the person arrested is 18 years old and they would not confirm whether it was indeed the young man seen in surveillance pictures that they had provided to the media yesterday and put out there as a pen of interest in the case. So that we cannot tell you whether theres a connection and whether theyre one in the same. And again an 18yearold in custody for yet another stabbing and murder of a teenager there at the dean wood metro station and violence certainly has city leaders and Community Activists coming out now, sources close to the investigation did
Two people lucky to be alive after this tree, take a look, came crashing in to their car. Is this the college park area. Prince georges county fire saying they had to cut two people out of that car on 49th avenue and hollywood road. The tree also damaged a nearby home. The latest from tom kierein. You were telling us today would be a weather alert day and we see the impact. We had peak gusts around 60 miles an hour last night. They have greatly diminished as the cold air is surging in this morning. Were getting some scattered show showers and some brief snow flurries as we look at radar. White and gray, it these are scattered snow showers. There is one coming out of Shenandoah Valley coming across center Fauquier County. A couple other fast moving flurries and snow showers coming out of Clarke County and into southern Loudoun County. Here is one right away mclean and coming out of great falls, that is moving right to the beltway where it meets 66. So fast moving brief snow flurries and
Both cases as we get them. Right now at 11 00 a lot of questions about this viral video. Police in Fairfax County say it was the appropriate use of force when an officer had to tase a suspect. Thanks for joining us. Im jan jeffcoat. Im bruce johnson. Tonight the family of the man in that video said hes disabled, but police stand by their officer and say the suspect was resisting arrest. Lets go to ellison barber who tells us both sides have video to support their claims. Reporter Fairfax Police say their officer used an appropriate amount of force. The family of the man in that video Elton Cansler disagrees and now they have an attorney. It does not seem clear from the video that the suspect did anything to warrant the tasering. Reporter dr. Robert wiseberg does not represent canslers family, but he specializes in criminal procedure at stanford law. After hiwatcelng conl phe video of a Fairfax County Police Officer using a stun gun to subdue 35yearold Elton Cansler, wiseberg has many q
Two people were struck by a car on lockwood drive. We just noticed paramedics taking patients into an ambulance there. Were told they suffered some minor injuries. The screak stayed on the the vehicle stayed on the scene after the accident. We dont know if weather played a father a factor but well keep you posted. This tree toppled into a home on woodmore drive in Silver Spring. And there are similar scenes all over the area. Horace holmes is live in bethesda where a tree went down across a busy road. Were here on bradley boulevard and you can see with those heavy winds and the strong rain, what it did to this tree right here. It just snapped late this afternoon. It came down, all of bradley boulevard, closing it down for a short period of time. The county crew came up and they were able to move most of it to the side and they just reopened bradley boulevard. Now were going to talk more about the;yn problems that we he here, just a couple miles from here, another big problem on river r