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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 September 23, 2016

Charlotte right now. Demonstrators are hitting the street for Third Straight night as you can see its been somewhat peaceful but again things could go off at any minute. We continue to follow this for you. And theres mounting pressure right now from those protesters for police to release video of the shooting that killed a man. His family says was just sitting in his truck. The family of the man killed tuesday Keith Lamont Scott saw that video and what theyre saying tonight in just a moment. Also tonight the aftermath from another deadly shooting at last nights protest. Authorities say protester shot and killed a man but some protesters say a rubber bullet fired by police hit that man. These are live pictures of a third night of protests. Now remember last night and the night before, there was rioting. There was looting. There was violence. There was tear gas canisters lobbed into the crowd from police and there were bottles and other art facts lobbed back at the police from protesters. Tonight, though, mostly peacef peaceful. Big march and some raised voices among the demonstrators. Thats gall though. Mostly an organized march through the streets. Tonight another difference. We have curfew that begins at midnight good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. The protest protests turned viod deadly last night. The protester shot in the has died. Tuesday Afternoon Police officer who was black and shot and killed scott. Police say scott refused to drop gun but his family claims the 43yearold was hodding a book t night scotts family viewed the dashboard and body cam video of the shooting and an attorney for the family says he cant tell whether scott had anything in his hands. Police have not yet released it. Got to stand up for what we believe in. If we dont stand up, our kids will have oh stand here like our grandfathers and our ancestors stood here. We got to do it peacefully in the right way. North carolinas governor issued a state of emergency this morning. The National Guard is on the ground monitoring the protests. Well have a live report from charlotte in just a few minutes. Tulsa, oklahoma prosecutors charged a Police Officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man during a traffic stop. Investigators say officer betty shelby opened fire on Terrence Crutcher on friday. Authorities wrote in an affidavit shelby quote reactioned unreasonably during that stop. She now faces first degree manslaughter charges. Video of the incident shows crutcher walking away from officers with his arms in the air. Hitandrun in bucks county this afternoon leaves a 31yearold man dead. Police say the driver hit the buckingham township resident on the 5700 block of route 2 sorry two around 4 00 oclock. Authorities found the 52yearold driver nearby in new hope borough. Police took her to Doylestown Hospital for further investigation. Theres no word yet if shell face any charges. On your radar tonight, warm start to fall but just wait. Things will get even warmer lets check in with meteorologist kathy orr. Just when you thought it couldnt get any warmer, right, the first day of fall did not disappoint. Temperatures soaring through the 80s. Right now pretty mile out there as well. At the airport not much of a wind, we have a clear sky an temperature of 69 degrees. Not bad for this time of day. The high today 87. Winds out of the east at about 5 miles an hour. Right now in philadelphia, 69. 71 degrees in wilmington. And as you look to the northeast in new england as whole temperatures mild from boston through new york williamsport cool at 61. Buffalo, new york, hanging in there at 73 degrees. Thats very unusual for this time of year in upstate new york. We have a front thats moving our way. And it will bring in a taste of fall. Clear skies for now. But we will be seeing some clouds and some cooler air moving in transition day will be on saturday. So we have one more pretty hot day before we get to the cool weather. Waking up tomorrow morning to temperatures in the 60s through philadelphia, wilmington, trenton and points to the south and east. Maybe even 70 for wildwood tomorrow morning and 50s for the most part to the north and west. Well talk about that big cool down coming h he is special if youre heading to the eagles game on sunday pack that eagles hoodie youre going to need it. Ill see you laterred in brought cast. Thank you very much, kathy. With distress between some Police Departments and the communities they serve grabbing the headlines this week in Camden Police are working to build bridges. Officers are using Smart Phone Technology to connect with citizens and get the information may need from the community to help solve crimes. Fox 29s bruce gordon is live in camden tonight with the story. Bruce . Reporter the recent murder in camden of eightyearold gabbie carter caught in the crossfire of gang warfare illustrates the problem i think despite a huge reward police here received very few tips from the community. In fact, the only arrest so far two have been for obstructing the investigation. And so reporter camden sophisticated sisters marched through the citys parkside neighborhood on mission. Drum up support for a new Program Designed to convince neighbors to step up and report crime when they see it to overcome what block captain to o you wanda jones called the snitches get stitches mindset. You have to live in this neighborhood. So you want to be careful. , you know washington youre saying, who youre saying it to, you know, if you have to live here of course youll be fearful of retaliation. Lieutenant james wants to connect camden neighbors with each other and with police through next door. Every eye, every ear, every voice means something. Reporter Smart Phone App that allows cops to send out targeted crime alerts to specific neighborhoods and allows residents to tip off cops non mussily. If you happen to get information, you can send it to me directly. Without it going everywhere. Just directly between the Police Department and the citizens. Reporter and so on this night police fan out passing out leaflets urging residents to sign up for next door. Along with the traditional non muss telephone tip line. They seem to have made some progress. Would this make you more likely to reach out to the police if you knew not everybody on the block would know about it . Yeah. Umhmm. That way i aint going to worry about me being shot somewhere. Reporter for to you wanda jones the message of this unusual parade is simple much cops need the community and the Community Needs cops. We cant lose another baby. Reporter Camden Police tell me they began this evening with 166 camden residents signed up for next door. The goal is to continue to get out in the neighborhood make some noise and get everyone on board. Lucy. There you go. All right, thank you bruce. Happening right now the search for a killer in delaware county. Police are looking for the person who brutally murdered a 32yearold woman right in front of her friends home. Authorities have recovered the murder weapon and right now they have a person they do want to talk with. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in yeadon. Chris . Reporter lucy, i just got done speaking with a Yeadon Police detective, and he tells me this may be a long night. Theyve been searching for this man since 3 00 oclock this morning. They are still on this case. They are working nonstop. Murder suspect still on the loose tonight after a bloody stabbing that happened just yards away from the Police Station tonight it was this man who led police on a day long manhunt. Yeadon Police Spending the night swarming the borough searching for a man in connection with the murder of his estranged girlfriend. Mark steps described as a person of interest in the stabbing death of 32yearold natasha gibson. We have recovered what we believe the murder weapon is. We recovered the victims property, and at this point here we are aggressively looking for this individual to question him. Reporter gibsons throat was slashed. Her body found outside a friends home on bailey road about 3ng. Police say, the suspect was also cut in the struggle so bad in fact investigators followed a trail of blood from the murder seen nearly a mile through three jurisdictions. It ended near 58th and cobbs creek parkway. We also believe that he should have an injury to his right hand or right arm as a result of this attack. Reporter along the route fox 29 was there when police found what they believe is the murder weapon, a steak knife found in a sewer. The victims purse you also found on the roof of a nearby building. Shes a nice person that you really want to know, and i just really cant understand why why would somebody want to do to her . Friend of the victim tells us gibson was the life of the party, always smiling. Others tell us the couple had rocky relationship. Gibson telling friends, he recently threatened her. She said that she got the relationship with him and it didnt turn out good. Reporter now police are now in touch with local hospitals to see if epps may have stopped by to get medical attention. He does have a long criminal history. He just got out of prison last year. Of course, if you know his whereabouts, please call Yeadon Police. Lucy . Developing to night Big Questions in the aftermath of a fire. Phone video shows car going up in flames in north philly. The driver still inside. Hes in the hospital tonight. And the burned out shell is now all that remain of the car but Big Questions remain as well. Investigators are trying to figure out what happened here. Fox 29s brad sattin has the story. Oh, my god, how could he have survived that. Reporter thats what neighbors are trying to figure out tonight. Drama cell phone video showing a massive car fire and series of explosions around 5 00 this morning near the corner of cleveland and dauphin streets. Something i never heard before. I mean it was loud. Shook the whole house. Reporter followed by several more. Four, five. I mean it just kept blowing up and blowing up and blowing up. A bang. Explosions. About four, five explosions. Reporter four windows across the street where broken and glass from the car was shattered down the sidewalk. The man was able to get to neighbors for help. When we came outside the car was on fire and just started exploding and exploding and then the gentleman came running up he said i got burnt, i got burnt and we call the ambulance. He had his hand up so i dont know he got burned or what. Reporter investigators spent 12 hours here peacing together what happened. For now police are telling us theyre investigating this as fire not as bombing. Car was finally hauled away late this afternoon as the victim recovers at Temple University hospital. He lives just block away and investigators were able to get inside his home late this afternoon. A dramatic scene playing out as neighbors were just waking up, many frustrated with the violence. Its not good for kids. Seeing so much violence. Reporter earlier tonight i had chance to speak to the victims brother who tells me that the victim indeed was in the car when the explosion happened but he has since been releasereleased from the hospitl recovering at home tonight. In north philadelphia, brad sattin, fox 29 news. Assault on philadelphia street. Police are looking for this man over what they say he did to woman as she was trying oh get on a septa bus. What officers say he did when she turned around. A mother overdosed in the toy aisle of a store. Her little girl crying desperately trying to get her mom to wake up watch bystanders did you may find even worse. Plus you have a Beautiful Life and youre upset because of a cake. Judge pulled no punches talking to the woman arrested for drop kicking a cake at a Grocery Store. Punishment she just hasnted down. Parents discovered their little boy has potentially deadly heart condition. They were given three options. One of them was to let him dye. The lifesaving solution they found right here in philadelph philadelphia. Burglar left crowbar at ho home. Instead he used a truck to smash no a local business watch he got away with. Www. Evertz. Com[a5df] skyfox was over the scene earlier tonight. That crash happened in the eastbound lanes between township line road and route 29. Theres no word right now on the conditions of the people that were hit. Authorities are looking for this man about to walk into the scene. They say he assault add woman when she was about to get on a septa bus. Police say the man walked up to the 46yearold woman from behind as she stepped on to the bus at broad and south. When she turned around the man ran away. Police are calling what happened there an indecent assault but not have provided any other details other than to say the man did not injure the woman. All right. Now back to that breaking news in charlotte, north carolina. Again, protesters crowding the streets in the queen city tonight demanding answers and action in the wake of that Deadly Police shooting and tonight they want the video of that shooting released to the public. Foxs joel waldman joins us live from charlotte. Joel, of course, walking in the streets right now. What are you seeing, joel . Reporter . Lucy and iain good evening to you. Just now we are trying to catch up to these protester whos are moving at a pretty quick clip but they made a stop a short time ago, and were chanting show us the video. Show us the video. They are just gone from location to location. Earlier on we were seeing sets of different marches, if you will, people walking down separate streets and kind of doing their own thing. Now, it appears theres little bit more cohesiveness that the people have gathered together, a lot of young people obviously in the crowd. A lot of talk about peace tonight, how they want peace. Obviously just upset about the fact that this person was killed, that the video has not been released yet, and right now its unclear if it will be released, but the family of keith scott had a chance to look at it today. We were in front of Police Headquarters right after they came out from viewing it. A lot of journalists ran over obviously to try to get some comment. Their comment was no comment. Later in the day the attorney came out and said that they would like to review it again. Separately iain and lucy, last night there was a man who was shot subsequently dying today. We got that sad news today justin car, 26 years old, and there is a double narrative playing out with that story as well. Demonstrators saying and believing that he was shot by a rubber bullet fired by police while police are saying it was protester on protester crime. So that is sort of a latest drama unfolding here. If you look straight ahead you will see a sea of protesters out in the for ground there, and where theyre headed neck were not sure. But as you can tell, they are several hundred deep, and they are just continuing to walk through the streets of charlot charlotte. Iain and lucy. Theyve got the curfew the mayor imposed little bit ago. It will be at midnight. Are people understanding this is happening . Have you heard anything about people saying we got to be out of here in about an hour and 45 . Reporter its going to be interesting to see that, of course, will be the witching hour. You know, so far i have to say it has been incredibly peaceful this evening. A lot of young people coming up to us and stressing that message, um, however, they were chanting, you know these are our streets, and for them to just quietly walk away at midnight is, um, concept thats difficult to comprehend in speaking to a lot of these people but obviously we will know in just under two hours time how it all unfolds. But lets hope it is a peaceful situation in the way that it ends guys. Indeed, thank you so much. Joel waldman live in charlotte tonight. Stay safe, joel. Come on, man. Come on, let him go, man. This video has more than four mel i dont know views on facebook. A man life streamed the situation he saw on Street Corner in delaware. Police were talking to group of kids and writing down information. You can hear the man raiding strong objections. Our Shawnette Wilson got back from wilmington now and joins us with what happened. Shawnette. Iain and lucy it shows the power of social media for one. This mans post brought city leaders and the Police Department both together to resolve an issue he feared could have turned violent. Come on, man. Come on. Talk to them and let them go man. This video posted by a wilmington man has gotten more than 4 million views on facebo facebook. Look at bleep, man. Dame your flowers recorded it monday when he stepped in after seeing Police Question a group of young kids on bikes. He can her in the video coming to their defense as question questioned them. Yall didnt doing in. As a matter of fact, dont say nothing. You dont got to say nothing until your mom comes. Flowers posted on facebook the wilmington Police Department was seeking felony charges against him and said authorities came to his house but he was at work. In his Facebook Post he stated that he would peacefully turn himself in this evening but rallied his followers to show up to make sure nothing went wrong. We dont want no ferguson. We want to set example for the nation. Reporter this is the crowd that turn out in support of flowers who eventually emerged from the Police Department to cheers with city leaders and the police chief announcing the news they hoped for. He will not be Going Forward with changes on damien flowers as it relates to this incident. As you know, there are a lot of incidents that are going around our nation that impacts our Community Relations with the police. We dont need to add fuel to that fire. Reporter flowers says he posted the plea

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