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Figueroa. We had to neutralize the threat. He chose to use deadly force. When someone is going to use deadly force we are going to respond appropriately. And nine other officers were also treated for minor injuries and stress. Despite the fact that figueroa was armed and wearing Body Armor Police say they dont believe this was a planned ambush. Coming up with that, coming up at 5 00, more on that, and more on the moments leading up to the 911 call that brought police to the apartment. Im kathryn burcham, fox 25 news. All day we have worked to uncover information about the dead suspect Kirk Figueroa. Police say he was wearing body armor and had a tactical shotgun and he listed his occupation as bounty hunt, we continue the Live Team Coverage and you spoke to neighbors to get a better idea who this guy is . We did all day today. Guy and a wanna by cop and neighbors tell us there was an apartment inside one of the apartments and it all had to do with heat. Neighbors tell fox 5 Kirk Figueroa has been living here a couple months now. We learned he is a constable for the city of the of boston since july of this year. He was a nice guy. A nice guy who had a license to carry in florida but it expired in february. Figueroa was also in the Army Reserves from f 2011. And an acquaintance tells fox 25 the 33 yearold would travel back and forth from new york to boston. He lived in the boston area so he could, quote, expand his business, where he wanted to open up some sort of security and private investigation company. Wanna by cop, blue a head constable . All i remember is the bail something on the side of the car. Neighbors tell us the car had, quote, bail runner written on living. He was just out there washing his car. I didnt really get any weird feeling from him. Most of the neighbors we spoke to tell us the same story, they would just say hi to him and that was the extnt of it. And neighbors tell us they would always see him keep to himself, never was really family or friends. Coming up at 5 00 we will get into details about what happened in that apartment. For now, we are live in east boston, molly bas news. People are coming to imrips with the violence that rocked their naked last night. Vanessa welch is here with reaction from neighbors who heard the gun battle. Residents say this is a normally quiet area but just before 11 00 last night it suddenly sounded like a war zone. Less ton this. [gunshots] those are just a few of the gunshots heard on gladstone heard last night. Neighbors say they ducked for cover as police and pair med place. Streets around the shooting scene remained locked down until after midnight. Overnight, mayor marty walsh said the violence is shocking for the naked and residents we talked to said they were stun and terrified. It was just police cars one right after the other. I heard it and i was like thats gunshots. As soon as i said that, all the police started coming up the street. It was rapid. It wasnt like one at a time, like, separated by seconds, it was like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I hid inside the cement step gunshot, they will not go through cement. Today neighbors have been walking by the crime scene on gladstone street. Some are stopping by to say thank you the officers who were still there as the investigators continued to process the home for evidence. And officers in the in east boston are receiving well wishes from across the country. There are messages of support on social media and other local departments are also sending food to the district. We have much more on the big show of support for you ahead on fax 25 news at 5 00. For now we are in the news room, a former Transit Police officer hurt in the wartown shootout in to 2013 sent messages of support on twitter, dick donahue said hoping the fight contain continues and wounded officers fully recover. Stay strong, Boston Police hashtag boston. I spoke with donahue late this afternoon, what he had to say about hearing the news ahead all new at 5 00. And within the last hour, Governor Charlie Baker landed at Logan Airport from a trip overseas. He released this statement to us shortly before touching down. It reads, governor baker and shocked and saddened to learn of last nights horrific incident, their thoughts an prayers are with the Police Officers an their families. We are speaking with the governor on beacon hill right you no, we will have that for you ahead during the live coverage. This is major show of support as you would imagine for the Boston Police today especially at the District Office in east boston to, where these two injured officers work. That support comes from the people of boston and well beyond. Fox 25s jim morelli is live in east boston with how total yeah, they sure are. It only makes sense that those who know what you go through on a daily basis are with you, when times are bad and they show solidarity. You are right. It is also people who are not Police Officers who are coming out and showing support. And so it has been today for the Boston Police department. Especially this branch over here in east boston. We have been monitoring twitter all day and it is safe to say there has beenen an absolute outpouring of support from the Boston Police department for other local Police Departments. A couple example, cambridge police, we are praying for our brothers. All the way out there holliston, thoughts an prayers are with all the Boston Police especially the two officers involved in tonights , of course, last nights shooting. In addition, a steady stream of nutrition has been coming into the Boston Police Departments Division over here. Neighbor, businesses, complete strangers, bringing in that universal way of saying thank you. What did you bring and why . Community. What did you think about what happened last night . Its terrible. And tonight at 6 00, there is going to be a peace march beginning over here at the boston substation here in east boston. And, coming up at 5 30 we will hear more of the tweets from local Police Departments as well as more reaction from local residents. Live in east boston, jim morelli, fox 25 news. All right. Jim, well, this is one of a handful of Boston Police shootings in on january 8th an officer was shot after pulling over a suspected drug dealers in dorchester. Other officers were able to arrest grant heedly without injuring him. The officer spent three days recovers in the hospital. In march of 2015, John Moynihan was shot in the face during a traffic stop in roxbury, other officers in the area shot and killed the suspect angelo west, moynihan survived and this past march he received the Boston Police heros award. And just days ago, two officers shot and killeddenings aing a domestic disturbance call. Jose vega was two months away from retirement and leslie zerebney gave birth three months ago. A suspect was charged with murder yesterday, john felix was arrested after a 12 hour stand off with police. You know, multiple times today we heard from police and city officials about what it took to save the two officers lives. Mayor walsh spokes extensively to the credit of the american red cross, and the Boston Police patrolmans as mission. I certainly, the red cross and Blood Donations, benefited the Boston Police Department Last night, and i commend them for wanting to give back to the red cross, for being there. There are a number of local Blood Donation events scheduled in the area already. For details heed to fox25boston. Com and you can also donate blood at any time at your local red cross. Two peace marches are planned in east boston. The first is at 6 00 tonight, in front of the Boston Police district a. 7 station on paris corner of bennington and wallly street. Our coverage of the officers shot continues on fox25boston. Com. You can log on to watch a stream of this afternoons News Conference with mayor walsh and commissioner evans. Lets see how support is pouring in for the Boston Police. Stay with fox 25 for continuing Live Team Coverage of Boston Police shooting all evening and let you know abut to any developments as they happen. Some Rainy Weather this month helped pull part of the state southeastern massachusetts improved from extreme to severe drought level, more than 2 1 2 inches fell since october 1st, however, 40 of the state is under extreme drought conditions. Many spots are more than 9 of rain below normal. And just this morning, some of us did indeed get rain. Chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz forecasting more this evening. A little bit more. There is a front coming through that wont help the drought any. Its nice to see there was a small decrease in the extreme the area that got the improvement, even after all the rain we had, but its better than going the other way. Thats for sure. Live Storm Tracker radar you see showers back here in the albany site and these are from the boston site or taunton. We will focus on that one right now. You will see hiding behind the 495 here yellow coming down, you can see it there, a cheffier shower coming in through right to the northwest of 495, gotten a little closer so you can see it clearly, right there along 110, lancaster, there is 495n screen. So there are a couple of showers that mean business out there, but this front is moving fairly quickly and by 7 00 this evening, it will already be moving off shore through boston. Your evening driveby will have some showers. Not unexpected, we talked about it last night. These will move eastward and by 9 00 most of the area is clear. Bymide night, all of us are clear. Then we talk about the cool air and brisk winds, moving in behind it. Details on that straight ahead. Kevin, thank you. A troubling new report about the green line. Yeah, coming up new at 4 30 i how often green light passengers are in danger of going off the tracks. Plus donald trump is in the middle of more controversy, up next, the allegations of Inappropriate Conduct he is trying to fight off. And we will continue to follow breaking news in boston, where two veteran Police Officers now recovering after being shot last night. The suspect was killed in a shootout with police, we have a team of reporters on the story, and bring you any new whats for dinner tonight . Wegmans ez meals. Dinners not just delicious, its done. [mmmm] chicken cacciatore. Boneless chicken in our very own seasoned tomato sauce with peppers, mushrooms and basil. Braised to perfection just pop it in the oven and dinners ready. Delicious, fresh, easy. Wegmans ez meals. 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Donald trump is responding to a flood of accusations about inappropriate contact with today he issued denials, threatened legal action, and attacked the opposition. Karen kayfa reports, trumps poll numbers keep sliding with every new controversy. These vicious claims about me, of Inappropriate Conduct with women, are totally and absolutely false. Fighting allegations of sexual misconduct, fighting with his own party, and fighting a battle to the white house thats thursday, lashing out at the political establishment, the Clinton Campaign and the media. They will seek to destroy everything about you. On wednesday evening, the New York Times publish add report with the accounts of two women who say trump made unwanted advances toward them. Trump threatened to sue the paper for libel. People magazine also published an account from one of their former reporters. This, one week after a tape went public in which trump is heard making sexually aggressive comments about women in New Hampshire, First Lady Michelle Obama slammed the trump comments and his explanation of them as locker room talk. Democrat, republican, independent, no woman deserves to be treated this way, none of us deserve this kind of abuse. The conto refercy appear to be think sinking trumps numbers and narrowing the the path to victory. Trumps campaign eyed flipping rust belt states using a message on trade and job, a new poll of trailing clinton by 11 points. In a bloomberg poll of pennsylvania, clinton leads by 9. And a Marquette University Law School Poll shows a 7 point lead for clinton in wisconsin. This is karen kayfa reporting. 11 more people died in air strikes in the besieged city of aleppo, syria. The most recent spot hit was a hospital. In three days of bombings, a toe atf of 65 people have been killed and more than 350 people died and over 100 of those victims are children. Federal investigators released a report on the new jersey train crash providing more of what may have caused the train to slam into the terminal. After looking at video and audio from the cash site, investigators found the engineer pulled the mark brake less than a second before the collision. They are k log at other factors like track structure and also human fer fore manslaughter before they release the actual and official cause of the the crash. One woman was killed. Plane crashed in east hartford, connecticut, this week is now open. Student pilot died, his instructor survived tuesdays crash. This afternoon, the hartford current says the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor could not regain control. He was reportedly upset over his poor performance at the Flight Training School Investigators have not confirmed the student pilot tried to kill himself. They will only say the crash was, quote, an intentionnal act. Now your local forecast lemanowicz and the tock 25 Storm Tracker weather team. We expect showers to come through the evening drive and they are on target, moving just like we told them to. This is the front cutting through new england right now. The showers along it. The heaviest are sliding to the north, which is also expected, but there are still showers coming through Worcester County right now, and into ctth connecticut. We will stop the sloop and switch over the to the live Storm Tracker radar. What im doing is using all the different raiders and you will the way we can get that out of there is just focus on our one radar here, coming out of taunton, the one ha is closest to the rain bands coming on through, and notice the yellow disappears. That tell us the heavier rain sup there in the clouds, and not making it to the lower levels, ground level. You are seeing light rain showers come through southern worcester your honor,ty into worcester right now. We noticed it before, it was coming through the lancaster area moving toward the mass pike k, or toward 495. Lets now cuss in on these again. A little bit of a yellow showing up here at the lower in that town, right near 110 littleton you are getting some heavier rain to come on through. These are local streets being affected like buyer road and harvard road coming into the downtown area. Be aware of that. That is out there. There are a couple steadier showers as this p cos through. Most of it by and large is light activity. That is how it will be through the evening drive. You will get wet, but not blinding rain coming through, this slides through boston in the 7 00 hour and then the south shore, the last of the showers showers move on by. And at 9 00 it is clear in boston to,. Midnight its clear every where in new england. Tomorrow morning, waking up with shiri in the morning it will be sunny out there. It will be cooler and it will be brisk. Winds will be blowing from the northwest. Gusts over 2025 Miles Per Hour. Perhaps even as high as 30. As these come on through. Through noontime its sunny and into the afternoon its sunny. Lets fast forward to saturday. Do it again . Sure. Look at this. No clouds. Saturday either. Sunshine, it can be a few clouds, futurecast will be mostly if not totally clear right into saturday. Here is your forecast overnight. Looking at wachusett mountain, 68 degrees at 6 00, showers by you already by then. Clearing out