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WRC News4 At 5 May 21, 2015

Hear now from police chief cathy lanier. We have not ruled out there are others involved but i cannot comment beyond that. Reporter the suspect, the quadruple murder suspect identified by police as 34yearold daron wint charged with first degree murder in the deaths of four. It was one week ago today that firefighters came to this mansion on Woodland Drive in a tony section ofasngton. There they found the bodies of four victims, the suspect victim connection. Right now it does not appear that this was just a random crime but there is a connection through the business of the suspect and the savopoulos family business. Reporter the connection. Police say suspect wint once worked for american iron works on kenilworth avenue in Prince Georges County maryland, a Company Owned by Savvas Savopoulos. Sources say he worked there from 2003 to 2005 and sources say he had a relative fired from that company some time ago. The money drop. While he was being held kamtive sources say Savvas Savopoulos said he was going to an auction and needed as much cash as they could get their hands on. Sources say thursday morning his assistant brought 40,000 in cash to the family home and left it inside the garage. A couple hours after that came the fire and then the discovery of the four bodies inside. So how did the cops identify daron wint as the suspect . Dna. Dna on a pizza crust. More about the pizza clue coming up at 6. Now back too you. Pat collins. Our Team Coverage picks up in Prince Georges County with bureau chief Tracee Wilkins live with the one connection we know of between the suspect and the victims. Its just feet away from another bizarre incident. Tracee . Reporter its very bizarre because what were trying to figure out is why it appears that daron wint had such an attachment to this place, even years after he was working. We understand that he stopped working here in 2005, but right across the street here in 2010 at that shell gas station he was picked up for carrying a weapon and drinking publicly. Its a sad day. Its really a sad day. Reporter workers here at the american iron works say they were shocked to hear that the suspect believed to have killed the ceo of this company is a former employee. It floored me. And thats all i have to say. Reporter d. C. Police chief cathy lanier says 34 year older wint borked at the company. He was here from 2003 to 2005, sources say. Its not clear what he did here but five years ago in december of 2010 he was picked up across the street at the shell gas station. According to court documents, he was sitting here near a dumpster with a book bag carrying a 24inch machete and a black bb gun. He also had an open beer. Its a tragedy. Reporter police say wint is the same man seen in this Security Camera video in New Carrollton running away from the burning porsche taken from Savvas Savopoulos home in northwest d. C. Wint is on the run. Meanwhile, back here at american iron works how would you expect it to be . Its a tragedy. You know its incomprehensible. Reporter we went into the offices of american iron works and asked if anyone cared to make an official statement on behalf of the statement. They said no comment. We were talking to employees here in the parking lot who wanted to react to whats happened here. This is continuing to unfold. Well have the latest coming up on news4 at 6. Im Tracee Wilkins reporting live. Back to new the studio. Thank you, tracee. We are still working this story. Ahead at 5 tlif were going to have a report from brooklyn. You can also check out the full News Conference with the mayor and the police chief right now in the nbc washington app. Turning to our weather now people trying to skip out of town a day early for that Holiday Weekend upcoming may run into some slippery roads out there. You are looking at a live picture of the bay bridge. You can see steady traffic headed toward the beach. Chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer joins us now. Its chilly out there for midmay, doug and rainy, too. Its really chilly, veronica and i working on the forecast yesterday, we put our numbers into the 50s. We said upper 50s to around 59 in d. C. Its 55 right now in the area. Some locations even cooler than that. The rain has moved out. Storm team 4 ray dash showing you where people following the rain out to the sea, moving toward the eastern shore. Most of the area now try, but were still dealing with dloud cover and the chilly tpz. 50 in gaithersburg 24 in leesburg, a very chilly afternoon. Well see a chilly evening. But tomorrow the sunshine rurp s returns. Well talk more about the memorial day weekend, plus the first heat wave of the year. Weve got that in the forecast as well. See you in a minute. Thank you doug. Inkridible video of rocks and deree raining down on people and property near a quarry in sterling. Something went wrong during a scheduled blast this morning at loudoun quarries. Weve got Surveillance Video as large chunks of rocks land offsite on cars and homes. One person had some minor injuries. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey joins us with the story in a few minutes. An ongoing child custody dispute appears to be at the heart of a double shooting. And the person accused of pulling the trigger is a 51yearold grandmother. Chopper 4 was over the scene shortly after the shots were fired last night in the parking lot of this Mcdonalds Restaurant in waldorf. Thats where chris gordon is right now. Chris . Reporter well, doreen im standing along crane highway in waldorf and less than 24 hours ago gunshots rang out here. Two people were shot here, 25yearold Robert Michael maing was killed, his wife seriously wounded. The Charles County sheriff says the motive was a longstanding child custody dispute. The couple drove this jeep to the mcdonalds in waldorf from virginia to pick up her two small children. The youngsters had been staying with their grandmother, 51yearold Caroline Conway. But instead of handing over the youngsters to the childrens mother conway got into the jeep. Ms. Conway produced a handgun, subsequently shot the male victim, mr. Maing. The female victim tried to flee the vehicle. As a result, ms. Conway the shooter, shot the female victim in the back. Reporter heavily armed sheriffs deputies converged on gilford drive where conway lives but she wasnt home. They had to search for her, figuring she was still armed. Had the s. W. A. T. Team. They had everybody out here dressing in armor and everything. Reporter Caroline Conway was apprehended and tonight is being held in jail without bond. Now, conway faces charges of first degree murder in the shooting of robert maing and attempted murder for shooting his wife. Comeing up well talk to a neighbor who recently saw conway with her young grandchildren and describes the way she was acting. Thats the latest live in waldorf maryland. Thanks, chris. The dying words of an alexandria woman may be used at the trial for the man whos accused of killing her. Thats the decision of a Fairfax County judge over the opposition of charles severances defense team. Severence arrived in a wheelchair because of an ankle injury. Hes charged with three murders nancy dunning, ron kirby and ruth ann lodato. Before her death lodato nodded yes when asked if she saw the person who shoot her. She also said the killer was an older white man. Despite many moves and millions of dollars invested, a big plan to improve the commute between montgomery and prince georges counties kblts get on track. Adam tuss tells us about a meeting today that could seal the fate of the purple line. Reporter tossed aside, brought back to life, stuck in limbo, moving forward. You could use any of those to describe the purple line but the bottom line will the streetcar type system be built in a maryland suburb . Has a decision been made . Are we still in the running to have the purple line here . There is no backup plan to this. We need this. Reporter prince georges and mon r Montgomery County executives maid the trip to annapolis for a closed door session to tell governor larry hogan not to put an end to the project project. As for right now, they say its still alive. Why should you care . This would connect bethesda and New Carrollton without going into d. C. It would provide a better commute and could run close to your house. Its highly polarizing. s 500 square miles in Prince Georges County. I have roads and bridges in the county that people want that think are more important than anything else and theyre right. Reporter now, this isnt just a story about montgomery and prince georges counties. Virginia is also factoring into the mix here. More about that coming up next hour at 6. Back to you. Adam tuss. The man who landed that gire recopter just feet from the Capitol Steps says hes not guilty. Well tell you who he said to reporters when he was asked today if he would do it again. His Domestic Violence case set off a big scandal that rocked the nfl. So why were the charges against ray rice dropped today . We are continuing to work every lead in the manhunt for this murder suspect. Were going to go live to brooklyn to see how detectives are worki narrator puerto ricos Healthcare System is on life support, putting three and a half million Puerto Ricans at risk. Its an outrage. Puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. The headlines tell the story. Woman unfair treatment from washington. Man thousands without medications. Woman its a crisis that could imperil the whole economy. Narartor washington must act now to protect care for three and a half million u. S. Citizens. Before its too late. And take a look. Got the weekend forecast coming up. A lot of people heading towards the rain as it moves to the east on the bay bridge. Ive got the committee foreplete forecast in just a minute. Not guilty. Thats the plea from a florida postal worker who landed that gyrocopter on the u. S. Capitol lawn. Doug hughes wanted to make a political statement. Now he says hes willing to go to prison for his believes. Mark segraves is outside District Court where hughes talked to reporters this afternoon. Reporter thats right, doreen. Hughes statement that he wanted to make was about what he sees as critical flaws in the Nations Campaign finance laws. Inside court, he pled not guilty. Hes facing 9 1 2 years in prison and the federal government wants to keep his gyrocopter gyrocopter. A lot of sweat and blood in that machine. Id love to have it back. I never expected that i would get it back. Were going to have to see how the trial works out. Reporter it was a day best known as tax day, april 15th as tourists, hill staffers and others went about their business on the capitol grounds, above them the 61yearold mailman from ruskin, florida, was completing a flight he had planned for years delivering 535 letters, one for each member of congress. The letters called for congress to reform Campaign Finance laws. They were in boxes strapped to the sides of his gyrocopter, which he l branded with the u. S. Postal service logo. Hughes made it through three different restricted airspaces without any interference from police or military. Once he landed on the capitol grounds, he surrendered to police. Yesterday a grand jury indicted hughes on six counts including flying without a license and violating restricted airspace. Hes now facing more than nine years in prison. I accepted the consequences of what i was doing because i believed its critical that we return our democracy to the people. Reporter asked whether he would do it all over again . Ill never do anything like this again, but i would do it exactly the way i did. Reporter now, since april 16th hughes has been back in florida on home confinement. Today the judge loosened that up a little bit, saying he can go back to florida but he can only go within the county that he lives in. So no longer on home confinement, he is still banned from going anywhere near the u. S. Capitol or the white house, and he must still wear a gps monitor. Doreen, back to you. Mark segraves. Thank you mark. Terrified patrons apparently werent the owner ones running from the gaun gunnfire that erupted from texas. The Associated Press says it has reviewed Surveillance Video from the restaurant that showed many members of the biker gangs trying to get away from the gunshots that killed nine people on sunday. Waco police say theyve now collected a majority of the evidence from the scene. Theres no word on whether theyll release the Surveillance Video. A Midwestern Community is mourning a fallen officer who was kille planned to take her Maternity Leave. Carrie acrossco was a sevenyear veteran of the Omaha Police Department and was killed yesterday after a shooting erupted when she and other officers were just serving an arrest warrant. She had a baby girl in february, but she was born prematurely. She went back to work and planned to postpone her Maternity Leave until her daughter was released from the hospital, which was set to happen tomorrow. Isis extremists are celebrating another major victory, this time in syria. The fighters say theyve seized control of the city of pal mira. If true, it would be the first time isis has taken a city directly from president assads syrian army. Its also a major concern for those worried about the citys place as an ancient World Heritage site. Its home to renowned romanera ruins including temples colonnades and a neert. Domestic violence charges dropped against former ravens running back ray rice. A judge signed an order earlier today after prosecutors say that rice completed the terms of his pretrial intervention. Rice had to pay 125 in fines and complete an anger management counseling as part of his terms. Rice faced Assault Charges for the highly publicized elevator incident with his nowwife last year. Get down some tense moments captured inside l. A. X. Airport in california show officers using a stun gun to subdue a guy accused of breaking through a security checkpoint. At one point you see an officer try to put the man in cuffs only to see him break free. Actor vern troyer from austin powers captured the moments as an officer warned the suspect to stop and then he ran upstairs. I travel all the time. Its the first time that ive really witnessed Something Like that. I dont know if he was on something or what it was, but, i mean, he wasnt acting normal. Outside one of the departure gates an officer winds up deploying a taser. The man is facing charges of trespassing and obstructing a police officer. Theyre calling it the fight for 15. For a second day in a row, a large crowd of protesters gathered outside mcdonalds Corporate Headquarters in illinois. The group is demonstrating for a 15 an hour wage and the right to form a union. Earlier they delivered a petition to Company Shareholders who are holding the annual meeting at the corporate offices in the chicago area. A recall alert now of more than 50,000 gas ranges because the ovens can turn themselves on. The recall involves viking range freestanding gas ranges. Viking range has received 75 reports of the ovens turning on by themselves, including three reports of burns. The ranges were sold nationwide. Consumers who own the ranges should contact vikinging range for a free inhome repair. We continue to work this developing search for the suspect in the murders of four people in northwest d. C. Just ahead at 5 30, we talk to the suspects former attorney. Homes damaged and at least one Person Injured after rocks were blasted from a local quarry. News4s julie carey is speaking with residents in the local neighborhood. And temperatures today on the cool side for sure, but were going in the right direction. Much warmer for the weekend. And then it gets downright hot. Take a look. Well talk about those numbers talk about the first heat wave, and talk about the shore if youre heading toward the beaches over the next couple of days. What can you expect for your memorial day holiday . Ive got that forecast in just a minute. Right now verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. Plus 10 gigs of shareable data. Yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. For 80 a month. And 15 more data than ever. For more of what you want. On the network thats 1 in speed, call, data and reliability. So you never have to settle. Now, also get 200 when you join and buy a new smartphone. Stop by or visit us online. And save without settling. Only on verizon. Announcer and now your storm team4 forecast. A couple of days ago everybody was talking about how its too hot and now today its too cool. Well, guess what, guys. Goldy locks says its going to be perfect weather just over the next couple of days, friday, saturday and sunday. We have great weather coming in. Not the way it looks right now. This is the picture weve seen all day, the clouds rain earlier. The rain has moved out. Our National Harbor camera showing the cloud cover and the cloud cover continues. 55 degrees, a very very cool afternoon. Remember, our average high is now up to 77. So were well belo

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