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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 April 8, 2016

Ill be back later in the broadcast. All right, kathy. Thank you moving live to south philadelphia. Make sure you are ready for the morning with the fox 29 weather and traffic authorities from the newest forecast for any problems out there on the roads sue serio and bob kelly got you covered starting at 4 00 a. M. A Community Comes together lighting candles where a young Delaware County man was gunned down. As Police Search for the killer the victims friends and family want people to know that he did not deserve to die like this. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in upper darby tonight and, dave arc pretty emotional seen there. Reporter dawn, lots of emotion and lots of Police Presence at the vigil tonight for 20yearold Christopher Thomas who was gunned down in a hail of bullets yesterday afternoon. We love you, chris. We love you bro. They came to the second ward playground thursday night to light candles for 20yearold Christopher Thomas gunned down as he sat on front porch on atlantic avenue with some friends wednesday afternoon. There was lost love out here. Thats all i can same hell be very missed. So many people came out because chris he wasnt den get into a lot of stuff. He was a nice person. Everybody loved chris. Reporter thursday night, there was a heavy Police Presence in the neighborhood. Thomas was killed when a gunman opened fire from a car as it approached the home where he was sitting. Friends and family members gathered at the park to remember chris many many still stunned by the murder and questioning what was behind it. Chris aint bother nobody. Didnt do nothing to nobody. Good person. Good kid. Senseless violence. Reporter investigators say there were a dozen shots fired an number of witnesses to the murder. So far police have gotten little or no help with their investigation. Upper darby police chief Michael Chitwood says the neighborhood needs to pull together and the witnesses need to step up good innocent bystanders got hit. Little children a lot of people out here. Community out here. Just to see his mom face today from her child getting killed, its just hurt peace. Police say the suspected shooter and several others jumped in a car and fled the scene. Police were searching for Surveillance Video that could help in the investigation. Its hurtful. It hurts. Bullets get shot not for that person and theyre out here dying. Reporter there continues to be heavy Police Patrols in the neighborhood. Again, if you have any information that can help police solve this murder you should contact upper darby police. Iain. All right, dave, thank you. Woman accused of of abduct agnew born baby from the king of prussia mall is out of jail tonight. Prosecutors in Montgomery County confirm 32yearold sherri amoore posted bail she was being held on half Million Dollars after Authorities Say she snatched a seven week old boy from his mother in the Mall Food Court last week. Police issued amber alert and later found a moore and her apartment. Shes now facing kidnapping charges. Authorities in camden county, new jersey, want to you take a good look at this surveillance photos. Cherry Hill Police Say theyre trying to track down a man after he offered a ride to two young girls. Lets get out straight to Shawnette Wilson live outside of Cherry Hill Police headquarters with the details. Shawnette . Reporter dawn, as you can imagine, police are extremely concerned. They say this man saw the two girls inside a store and then followed them. Pay close attention to the pictures were about to show you. You may recognize the man. Thats petrifying honestly. Reporter esther davis is terrified to hear a man tried to lure two, 11yearold girls into his car in her cherry hill neighborhood. To know theres guy going around trying to abduct kids is scary. Reporter cherry Hill Police Say it happened yesterday afternoon around 5 15. These are surveillance pictures of the suspect inside the wawa at 843 Cooper Landing road. Police say he was in the store the same time as the girls and followed them in this car also captured on surveillance as the girls walked near South Lincoln avenue and garfield avenue. He pulled up alongside of them on the curb, rolled down the window, and asked the females if they happened to need a ride home. They yelled no, they ran away. They went home and reported to adult. They did everything that they should have. Reporter lisa sheffler has two daughters including 10yearold sophia. We think its horrible. I mean its scary when somebody runs around. You know what i mean . You dont know. Reporter she says chirp shouldnt be allowed to walk the neighborhood alone. Theyre little. You know what i mean . Somebody should be with them because people arent safe today. Reporter as Police Patrol the area searching for the suspect parents say theyll be on the look out, too. Hopefully they get him. I got three kids, too. I know how it is. Run away and its a shame. These predators are out here. They need to catch them. Reporter and back here live, surveillance cameras did not capture the license plate on this car but Police Believe it may be a four door blue sedan possible al buick. Iain, back to you. Shawnette, thank you. A West Chester University student is under arrest accused of sexually assaulting another student inside a Campus Parking garage. Austin edy a Police Custody tonight. According to a Police Affidavit a female student says she was attacked the new Street Garage on april 1st. Investigators say a witness ran over there to help when the man jumped out of a parking garage window. Police say Surveillance Video helped them identify edy. Developing to night the search for vandals and some cost real pairs. Someone smashed through nearly two dozen windshields at this local body shop and as you might imagine, there are some very upset car owners tonight. Fox 29s jenner joyce shows us what happened. Tamika, this is day at may company. Reporter dave demarco co owner of may company auto body shop in bustleton avenue in northeast philadelphia broke the news to customers today their cars wont be ready for pick up this morning. Last night, we had little mischief here and someone has broken your windshield. Reporter overnight windshields on 21 vehicles were shattered by vandals who stormed back lot of the body shop. Leaving their mark and 10,000 in damages. It walk along each car and stuck their foot through every windshield. Demarco and neighbor Business Owner arthur gall says the persistent and maddening mischief makers have been hitting their properties hard throughout the last year. Once a month we get something happens to one of the vehicles. Whether it gets broken into, scratched, tires are popped. Its ongoing thing around here. Brothers dave and angelo have extensive Surveillance System on the may company lot, but for some reason last nights vandals evaded the motion sensor and the cameras never clicked on. Got a footprint there. Reporter owners are working with police to increase patrols in the area. Well fine out who did this. Reporter businesses on the block say they are tired of footing the bill for the bad guys. This is how i feed my family. How i make money. Its terrible that kids now days come in and just take away from everybody. Reporter in northeast philadelphia, jenn for joyce, fox 29 news. Philadelphia police hope this Surveillance Video can help track down three teenagers accused of robbing a Dunkin Donuts at gun point back in march inside the store along north 52nd street and parkside. Police say one of the teens pulled a gun while the other two acted as look out. The group ran off after a worker handed over some cash fortunately no one was hurt. Red carpet getting rolled out for the villanova wildcats tomorrow afternoon right in the heart of center city for the parade of champions. City honoring the Mens Basketball Team for magical run in the ncaa tournament. Even if youre to the going to the parade it could impact your afternoon. Chris oconnell is live in center city tonight with what you need to know. Hey, chris. Reporter hey, dawn. Yeah, the barricades have been set up, the parking signs out. Tons of trash cans, yeah, Market Street is ready for a parade. Tens of thousands expected in center city tomorrow to welcome the National Champions villanova wildcats. Workers at city hall tonight building the stage for tomorrows championship parade. New stand owner sing cant help but laugh when he heard up to 50,000 potential customers are expected in town tomorrow for villanovas party celebrating the National Champions. I think its good business. Really really really good. Reporter city is rolling out the red carpet for villanova blue. The 1 00 oclock parade will begin at 20th and market and make the short five block strut to dilworth park for 2 00 oclock recallly. Deputy city manager david wilson says the city handled much bigger events before. The challenge tomorrow to get parade goers out of center city before rush hour. Were going to want to make certain that we we have the event but yet still were able to open our major thoroughfares and everything and get people back to where they need to go in a save manner. Reporter street barriers have been put up, park league instructions will be in place. Most of the 22,000 price tag for the parade security ems crews and street sanitation will be covered by villanova. What are you going to be doing for the parade. Im staying in the building. No, thanks. Its going to be a happy ti time. Reporter nice lunch hour. Nice lunch hour. Nice to celebrate a good thing. I think the last time an event popped up was when the phillies won. Even that was crazy. So i mean for everybody to enjoy and remember so, you know. You only live once. Reporter you sure do. Now, if you are coming down to the parade, you are going to be in this area, beware. Septa bus routes will be detoured around city hall between 10am tomorrow and 6 00 oclock tomorrow night. Of course, fox 29 will be here starting at 1 00 oclock broadcasting the parade live on fox 29. Iain. Chris, thank you. You decide 2016. Focus has shifted to pennsylvania. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders speaking today from center city. The vermont senator giving remarks at a convention for unions and their leaders. Arrival Hillary Clinton spoke at the same convention yesterday. Sanders promised the crowd that he would fight to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. It can happen if we are prepared to stand up together, not let the Donald Trumps of the world divide us up. Latest polling from franklin and marshall shows clinton way double digit lead over sanders in pennsylvania and Hillary Clinton is leading in the delegate count. The keystone states primary is april 26th. Local boy with autism needs your help finding his best friend. Its his beloved dog. Buns got out earlier this week and hasnt been seen since. Fox 29s karen hepp has the familys heartbreaking plea. Reporter this is the area where theyre search fog the dog right now in pennsauken. Somehow the dog slipped out of the door of this home on Tuesday Morning and ran off like a shot. To a young teenager 15 years old this dog is his hero. To his mom the dog samira kell worker. 15yearold Desean Williams best friend has four legs. When he got buns last year, the dog changed his life. Theyre two peas in a pod. Snuggling, playing, and communicating in their own special way. And now for the first time desean who is autistic is opening opening up to the outside world as well. His dog is like a sibling to him. Maybe little brother to him because he bosses him around. Come here, you dont do that. And all those things that he was never really saying before. Reporter just talking is a miracle. For years, desean was no nonverbal. But this dog helped bring him out of his shell. Doctors told his mother gloria she would never hear those precious words i love you but buns changed that. Now, theyre all worried. Somehow buns slipped out of the door on Tuesday Morning and ran away. Hes still missing and the whole family is devastated. No buns, miss buns. Bring back him home. For a mother to hear their child would never be tell them they love them is heartbreak to go have dog that out all this emotion and love out of him we need him back. We need buns back. My son needs him back. We were hoping that someone has a heart and if this was your child, if this was your grandchild, what would you do . Were just hoping someone really does the right thing. Reporter this mom and grand mom they are sharing on facebook calling everybody they know. Theyre desperate to find this animal. If you happen to find buns we put information on our website the phone number to call just come to fox29. Com. They are offering a 300 reward as well. From pennsauken, im karen hepp, fox 29 news. The gloves come off and so do the pants. Women throwing hay makers in a zoo parking lot. What started this all out brawl. And a crowded bar cheering on a couple of guys on the run from police from doughnuts in the street to high fiving fans the wild ending you never saw comi coming. Parents warning their kids about candy at school but not because of the sugar. What is so dangerous about these candies. And he was a student athlete and had everything going for him. His future was bright. Were you he was living double life. I thought i would get him on the phone and meet with him and change it overnight. laughter . A lot of nay eve thoughts. What he was hiding from his now your winning lottery numbers. Free day at the zoo in houston turns into all out brawl in the parking lot. Three people are wrestling on the other side women fightin fig pulling each others hair. What started this. A parking spot. Witnesses say a woman jumped out of line of cars waiting to park ran ahead and then stood in an open spot trying to hold it. The first car in line wasnt who happy about that. Then all the chaos broke out. No word on any arrests tonight. New video shows the moment the pilot was arrested in detroit for allegedly being drunk before he was set to fly to philadelphia. Viv of 50 your john mcguire of pennsylvania caught the eye of tsa agents as he moved through security and was arrested before his flight could take off. Airport Officials Say he failed two sobriety tests and a breathalyzer. Hes charged with operating under the influence. Parents in one community are warning their kids to stay away from candy at school. This isnt about sugar or concerns about their teeth. Parents in sacremento say theyve been alerted to pills that look like those smart tease candies. Theyre actually meth and that has many worried moms and dads scrambling to talk to their children. It is very, very scary, behind to sit down and go through and show not only the seventh grader but high to show the little ones you just cant take candy from anyone any more. Some parents feel like this an isolated case but still wake up call that adults need to talk to children about drugs starting at a young age. A dad shows up to his sons daycare but the toddler is nowhere to be found. Until the 16 month old pries himself out of a locked closet. What happened right before the door closed when him inside, and how you doing . So nice to meet you. You cant cry. We wont get through this. Okay . Fighting back tears. This mom meets the man her son saved with his own heart. The tear jerking moment she hears his heartbeat. Kathy . After the rape were talking about back to winter with an arctic blast our computer models are confirming very good chance of snow this weekend. So who will see the most . Well well take a look at the numbers coming up. And he was a student athlete, had everything going for him. His future was bright but he was living a double life. What he was hiding from his friends and family that cost him his life. Now, with tomorrows traffic, heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Who is ready for parade . We got one for you tomorrow. We kick the off at 20th and market. Thats where ill be set up. Ill see you live if youre coming down for the parade stop by and say hi. Well have the tv cameras the at 20th and mark and walk a all the way up to Dilworth Plaza in center city right around city hall. Heres septas plan for tomorrow. Extra service on the norristown high speed line. Extra trains on the market frankford and the subway. If youre come from the mainline hello villanova students. Paoli train is the way to go. Every 30 minutes and of course along the parade route well have the buses on detour. Nova nation. Well see you brigh Philadelphia Police try to catch this game he had someone sign a fraudulent lease and pay a deposit to rent home in southwest philadelphia but investigators say it was all bogus. When the victim shows up at the move in several other people showed up at the same property trying to do the same thing. If you know who this guy is, call police. It look like philadelphia will soon have a new fire commissioner. There are reports that mayor jim kenney is expected to name former fire chief from virginia to the spot. The mayor refusing to confirm tonight but says hell have news next week its not clear when

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