Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 News At Ten 20121219 : comparemel

Carry firearms . Virginia governor bob mcdon gnu weighs in for us and a National Retailer yanks rifles. Police are investigating a High School Student after reports he made threatening comments. Im shawn yancy. Im will thomas in for brian. The people of newtown are continuing the agonizing task of laying to rest the victims. Were learning more about what happened in the moments following the attack. Jennifer davis is in newtown with the latest. Reporter it does not feel like christmas is days away in newtown where the community buried two more 6yearolds today and a man that lived near the school shared his memories helping students. Christmas stockings carefully hung bearing the name of each child. These women decking out a tree, a simple reminder of the season marred by funerals. James mattioli and jessica rekos. He didnt know why they were there but took them into his home hearing about the attack firsthand. This boy said we cant go back. We cant go back to the school. We cant go back. We dont have a teacher. Reporter rosen said some time later that day his joy of hosting these four girls and two boys turned to pain when a mother came looking for her child. She said is my son here . She said i heard six kids were here. I said no, hes not. But maybe hes at the fire house. I looked at the casualty list and her son was on it. Reporter and people continue flocking to newtown where they shuffle through a growing memorial. Candles and angel figure reaps greeting them. There are layers upon layers stacked high. Some sopping wet. Students who returned to school say they didnt get much work done but talked about the terrible events of last friday. In newtown, connecticut, jennifer davis, fox news. At least one major National Retailer suspending the sale of rifles in the stores in the wake of the school shooting. A gun shop in virginia says sales have increased since the tragedy friday. John hanrahan has the latest. Reporter Dicks Sporting Goods has temporarily suspended the sale of sporting rifles from its stores. The private equity group that owns the maker of bush master rifles is getting out of that business. Since the School Shootings on friday morning in connecticut, many people are buying guns. How much are sales up . Ballpark . 150 . Reporter sales here of all categories of firearms are up from handguns to assault type weapons. Why . Because they expect people are afraid of renewal of the assault weapons band and theyre afraid they wont be able to get them and use them. Reporter the big city mayors have sent a letter to the president calling for a band on assault weapons and high capacity magazines and strengthening the current law on background checks. Hes rethinking his previous pro nra position on gun control. When my daughters asked me friday night dad, youre in the senate. Why cant we put reasonable restrictions on assault weapons or these rapid fire ammunition clips . I didnt have a good enough answer for them. Reporter Virginia Governor ordered a School Safety audit. He was asked about allowing School Employees to be armed. I know theres been a knee jerk reaction against that. I think there should at least be a discussion of that. If people were armed, not just a Police Officer but other School Officials at were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly there would have been an opportunity to stop aggressors coming into the school. Thats a reasonable discussion. Reporter since the shooting on friday, the National Rifle association has been silent. Late tuesday afternoon the four million member Group Released a statement. The members are shocked, saddened and heartbroken about the murders in connecticut. The Gun Rights Group will offer meaningful contributions to make sure this never happens again. The nra scheduled a News Conference on friday. John hanrahan, fox 5 news. New at ten tonight we are learning new details about a potentially dangerous incident involving students close to home. Police in maryland are investigating a serious threat allegedly made by a student. Reporter School Officials and the city of Laurel Police are investigating what were threatening comments made last week and brought to the attention of School Officials monday. Likely they believe as a result of what happened in connecticut. This case involves a male student who attends Laurel High School but not been in school for about a week. The situation coming to light monday about alleged threats made off campus last week. We had some students that were threatened and observed or had observations they were concerned about and brought it to e attention of a teacher. The teacher concurred with that observation and notified school security. School security notified police and an investigation began, which resulted in a young person being committed to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Reporter Laurel Police Department Spokesman says investigators did find evidence in the students locker. We had credible information, charts and diagrams and lists that concerned us. Obviously the parents were consulted. Information was brought to us that we believe that the student had access to weapons. So it was a very credible threat. Reporter he would not elaborate about those charts and diagrams and lists. We believe he was going to do harm to others and this was by shooting and killing and things of that nature. Its a pretty serious set of circumstances. Reporter Prince Georges County School Officials are cooperating with Laurel Police. Taking the situation seriously and will be sending a letter home with students after classes wednesday. Maybe parents arent paying attention. I dont know. The signs have to be there. I would say so. Reporter we spoke to parents in laurel tonight. If you see or hear Something Like that, you need to report it. Everything needs to be taken seriously today. Police agree it was a good example of young parttime seeing something and saying something. The student in question is said to be hospitalized getting a Mental Health check up. Montgomery county police are searching for a gunman who shot a man in the face today. It happened inside the North Gate Park on connecticut avenue in the aspen hill section of the county. The victim was a 21yearold man and taken to a local hospital in critical condition. Is unclear what prompted the shooting. Police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. Hes now jailed in fairfax county. Here he is. Johnny pimentel is suspected of slashing more than ten women. Investigators say he would stab women in their rear ends as they were shopping in Stores Across Northern Virginia. The charges include malicious wounding. We are following a news alert from washington. An independent Panel Investigating the attack on the u. S. Cons land in libya says the state department is to blame. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in the september 11th attack. There were system attic failures at the state department no one ignored or violated their duties and the board did not recommend discipline. However the panel did recommendation changes to improve embassy security. Tonight the u. S. Is less than two weeks from the fiscal cliff and both sides are talking, theres still no deal. Leaders in washington are trying to come up with a back up plan to avoid a financial fallout on new years. Tom fitzgerald has the latest. Reporter with just 13 days left until the fiscal cliff hits, democrats and republicans are trying to outmaneuver each other. At the same time well continue to talk with the president. Reporter House Speaker john boehner wants taxes to rise only on people making more than 1 million and said the president has to cut more spending. The white house offered yesterday was essentially a 1. 3 trillion in new revenues for only 850 billion in net spending reductions. Reporter boehner says his back up plan would stop taxes that could hit the middle class. The white house so far is not biting. The president has come half way. He hopes the republicans will do the same. Reporter White House Press secretary jay carney says the president has gone from 1. 6 to 1. 3 trillion in the new revenues he wants and republicans proposals wont fly. So the proposal essentially is to give another big tax cut to the wealthiest americans at a time we cannot afford it. Reporter whats not clear is if Speaker John Boehner to get republicans to go along with the 1 billion trillion. How confident are you hes speaking for the republicans . Thomas man says hes faced revolts from his own party before and being careful not to move too fast. Its not as all clear to me that this proposal would attract republicans sufficient to carry in the full house. Reporter the bottom line on both sides remains unchanged, though. Reach a deal in the next 13 days or taxes on everyone go up new years day. His aids say Speaker Boehner is committed to a comprehensive by partisan approach. The problem is the white house and House Republicans are still hundreds of billions of dollars away from each others proposal. In the news room, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. Tonight a fox 5 investigation. A local toddler dies during a visit with his father. Police are still investigating what happened and now the case sparked questions about two other deaths in the past decade. Well tell you why coming up. I enjoy kids and i want other kids to experience what ive experienced as a kid. A local teenager makes a heartwarming decision. How shes helping families out this holiday season. Coming up, the hunt is on in Northern Virginia for this man. What hes accused of doing to a teenage girl in her home. Tonight at 11.  a toddler ends up dead while visiting his father. Now that case has prompted questions about two more deaths in the past decade. Tonight the childs mother is speaking exclusively to fox 5 about her sons tragic death and who sh believes is responsible. Sherry lee has our investigation. Reporter this is prince mcleod rams, just 15 months old. In october his mother dropped him off at his fathers house. I remember kissing him on the forehead and telling him id see him later and i never saw him alive again. Reporter within hours he was dead. Pulled off life support at A Nova Fairfax hospital. All i know is i was told when they found him he had been down too long and he was brain dead. Reporter the cause of death is under investigation by city police. Mcleod says she believes her exfiance had something to do with it. What i do know is that people around this man die and it keeps happening. Reporter as part of the investigation into the toddlers death its prompted police to look closely at the deaths of two people close to the father. His mother who Prince William county police ruled committed suicide in 2008 and his exgiver friend, 22yearold shawn mason. She was found murder in her condo. The two also had a son who is now 13. At the time, police told fox 5 they didnt have the evidence they needed or a suspect. Well, it is frustrating not having the weapon. Not being able to come to a closure and most of all, i know its painful for the family. Reporter in march during a heated custody battle over prince Court Documents provided by mcleod show the same detective testified rams was a person of interest in masons murder and circumstances that point to him a being a suspect in that murder and mr. Rams could be charged at any time. Rams has never been charged in any of the three deaths. He did not answer calls to a cell phone number given to us and hi attorneys didnt return our calls either. What mcleod cant understand is someone who is a person of interest in a murder could get unsupervised visits with a child. I know my son was a healthy little boy. I was chasing him around the Grocery Store that morning and turned up dead. Reporter Montgomery County judge dismissed mcleods plea to prevent unsupervised visits given the suspicious circumstances of the murder of rams exgirlfriend. According to transports the judge said i dont know anything about the had had investigation. I know one thing. If theres evidence you charge it and prosecute it. If theres not, you dont. Thats how it stands before me. Mcleod believes the judge was wrong. There were so many points of failure in this situation and i think that when it comes down to it, theres going to be lots of finger pointing. Reporter right now the investigation into princes death remains open. There are no new significant developments. We anticipate more information once the medical report is complete. This case is being worked with i wont believe anything other than foul play. I read him his book for the last time and i looked at him and said prips, i promise. I promise ill get justice. I promise. Im not going to stop fighting for you. Reporter Sherry Lee Fox 5 news. We contacted judge algio but cant comment on active cases. Prince county police say were aware of the case and our detectives were contacted in regards to that case, but it has not reopened the case into the mothers suicide unless new information comes in. Take it outside tonight. The temperatures have certainly dropped out there and the winds have picked up. Lets check in to see what we can expect overnight. Were back to the cold stuff. This after a warm day today. We got up to 62 degrees and a blustery day as well. The winds are getting better. Theyre lightning up but as a result were finding our temperatures dropping. Were down to 46 degrees in the district. There are spots in the upper 30s including cull pepper at 37. Winchester down to 39. Well continue to see the temperatures drop and see a lot more cold air up to the north and west beyond that. Look for temperatures to drop to the low 30s and a couple of you could get in the upper 20s tonight. Those wind gusts are better. The peak gusts were at 35 and still a gust of 21. The winds will be better in the morning. Might still be a breeze from time to time tomorrow. We expect to see cloud cover moving through overnight. Weak disturbance to the north, which will not bring precipitation is going to spread a few clouds on here. Here is your forecast for tonight. It will be colder and some clouds around and probably drop to 28 to 32 in the suburbs. Get ready for a cold start in the morning. The district about 38. Winter storm watches have been posted for the mountains. Ill let you know whats going on with that when i join you with the full forecast. Maybe someone will have a White Christmas. Why a former miss usa contestant owes the organization 5 million. Later tonight its been seven years to the day since a virginia mother was found dead in her burning house. Now new clues could help police catch her killer. The unravelling murder mystery still ahead tonight. [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the Aerospace Industry in the u. S. . At t. Rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. Its just one reason over 75 of our mutual funds beat their 10year lipper average. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. Metros legal claims have jumped because of the deadly 2009 crash. According to the washington examiner, metro paid out 173 million in legal claims in the past five years. The Transit Agency annual payments averaged around 30 million in 2008 and 2011. Payments row to there are 48. 5 million. The examiner reports settlement crash that killed nine people will stretch into the current fiscal year. The Justice Department wont be charging the former cias mistress with cyber stalking. The pentagon is still investigating to see if broad well mishandled classify information. A former misusa contestant has been ordered to pay 5 million for defamation. Miss pennsylvania usa made some excepts about the beauty comments that were false, harmful and malicious. The pageant was rigged and the top 5 finalists were picked beforehand and before the show aired on tv. Apparently just not true. It is a murder mystery gone unsolved for a decade. What police want you to know, up next.  this is fox 5 news at ten. We are learning but details about the first mother of 3 back in 2005. Investigators took another look at the evidence. Tonight paul wagner has more on what they found. Reporter on december 18, 2005, Sherry Warner was alone inside her home outside of cull pepper when her dad called to talk about the redskins. It was around 6 30 p. M. And the home team had just beaten the cowboys. First word were pop, can you believe that game . I said no, i cant. We talked a little bit about the game and i heard a knock. There was a knock on the door. Reporter john overheard a man telling sherry his car had broken down and could he use the phone to call for help . It was the last time they would talk. She had been bound, shot and left hanging in a burning basement. She would help anyone and could have been her down falling. She apparently opened th