Right now, a fallen hero. So senseless. Doesnt make sense. The man was doing his job protecting us. A community in mourning for a delaware state trooper killed in the line of duty. Ton night, the man who fired the deadly shots remains barricaded. Im petrified im petrified. Just like i said theres no respect for Police Officer any more. A tense neighborhood on lock down still. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Its been a long day stretching into a long night in delaware hours after a delaware state trooper was gunned down at a wawa. We just learned that trooper is 32yearold Stephen Ballard eight year veteran of the force. Thanks for joining us tonight im iain page. Im lucy noland. Man who police say killed Corporal Ballard took off and hold up in a home about 15 minutes away. Thats where he has been barricaded ever since. Now heres what we know at this point. This started right around lunch time 12 10 in the afternoon. Happened at the wawa on the 1600 block of pulaski highway in bear. State Police Tracked the man to the 500 block of Saint Michaels drive in middletowns brick mill farm development. The man who they say shot Corporal Ballard. Various Police Agencies are involved. They say this man was firing off rounds throughout the day, and into this night. This tragedy has played out at several different scenes today. Our reporters have been covering it all. Dave kinchen was at the hospital when we got word of the troopers bag but we begin tonight with our Dave Schratwieser as close as he can get to the scene where that suspect is hold up. Dave, what can you tell us . Reporter iain, the area here still blocked off by poli police. State police confirming that 8 22 tonight they used explosive device to breach the front door of the suspects home. They have not entered the home at this point at least we havent been told that. As of the last update ten minutes ago. But we are told they continue to negotiate with him, trying to get him to surrender. It is very scary. Reporter tension filled the night hair in middletown as one of the suspects in the Fatal Shooting of a delaware state trooper barricaded himself inside a home here. Beth atkins daughter was inside their home a few doors away. She called me hysterical crying saying that she had heard gunshots and that people were knocking on our very back door. Reporter lights were brought in and state Police Helicopter hovered overhead in the brick mill farms developme development. Swat teams and negotiators spent hours trying to get the suspect to surrender. He fired multiple shots at police. Everybody is, you know, surrounding the house down the street from us and shes on, i guess, right on our street. I would say im totally shocked. I mean weve seen him a few times in the neighborhood in passing our neighborhood is quiet. Its families, its just everybody stays to themselves. Nice people. Loudest you probably hear in the neighborhood is kids riding up don unthe streets riding bike. Reporter the search for the suspect shifted here after a state trooper was shot to death in wawa park log. One was arrested on sight after the shooting. The on the fled on foot and turned up here. Hold these people accountable fort actions they. To it will keep going on. Keep getting worse. The not going get any better. Reporter residents were kept a half mile away at a local Shopping Center as schools were locked down for several hours and residents were told to stay inside. Just after 4 00, students were bussed out as the siege went on into night. We just had to like make sure we were quiet, because if there was somebody in the school, we didnt want to like put ourselves in danger. I hope they just rush the unit and unfortunately take him out dead. Not alive. Reporter state police still not sure how much ammunition or how many weapons the suspect has inside that home. They continue to negotiate with him at this hour. Again, neighbors here at the Shopping Center about half mile from the scene police again on the scene swat teams negotiators trying to get that suspect to surrender. Well have much more coming up at 10 30 including a family that lives a couple of doors down. Their two sons and their nanny are still inside the house locked inside locked down by police. Lucy . A lot of families separated right now, Dave Schratwieser live in middletown. Thank you much, dave. Tonight Corporal Ballards family, friends and his brothers and sisters in blue are grappling link with what happened in that parking lot. Emotion welled as trooper after trooper, officer after officer, gathered at christiana hospital then he is cored ballards body to the medical examiner in wilmington. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live at that wawa in bear where that gunfire broke out. Dave, what did people tell you after they watched the procession for the fallen officer . Reporter well, they told us they simply had to be there and watch. This is a small state and a way everyone knows everyone here at the scene at the wawa it is closed. It will be closed until saturday but theres a small memorial for Corporal Ballard. What do you call it, murder some punk murdered him. Reporter mourners watched the body of a fallen delaware state trooper escorted from christiana hospital in newark, delaware, by brothers and sisters in blue. Every day citizens with their hats off and their hands ove u. I was down the road and heart broken. Coming to show support. Reporter for laurie brown a member of a Law Enforcement family, its personal. We lost an officer so it just brings it it hits real close to home. It just hurts for their family and the other officers. I know how hard it is. We ask that you keep the troopers family and the members of the Delaware State Police family in your thoughts and prayers. Reporter for those watching the procession, anger brewed inside. There shouldnt even be a trial for the person that did this. Sad when someone who there to protect us gets taken out by some punk and murdered, you know, what else do you call it . Reporter the memorial may be small here at this scene of the Fatal Shooting but no doubt by tomorrow it will grow and you will hear at 10 30 from the woman who put this memorial together here and why this is so personal for her. Thats at 10 30. Back to you. Dave, thank you. Again theres a barricade standoff right now in middleto middletown, delaware. Police told us they already have one suspect in custody. This is after police say a confrontation between Corporal Steven ballard and two suspects at that wawa in bear, delaware investigators say at least one suspect opened fire on ballard. People who were there described the horrific scene. He pushed the officer to get a little distance, maybe pushed him and then started running. Started running he started shooting. Started shooting probably like g from the officer. Bystanders were performing cpr. He was not moving. I was standing like shaking. Im petrified. Im petrified. Just like i said theres no respect for Police Officer any more. Ballards police radio and what appears to be a stun gun on the ground were not too far from where the trooper was shot. As this story continues to unfold, head to fox29. Com 24 7 for the breaking details. Emotional video the big story in court today for the trial of david creato. Hes the Camden County father accused of killing his threeyearold son brendan in 2015. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You cant tell me this. Im sorry, sir. My best friend. I love him so much. This morning jurors saw this video it shows the moment investigators told creato that police found his sons body. Prosecutors argue he killed brendan and dumped his body. Creato says hes innocent and that his son wandered away from home on his own. Skyfox over a fire in north philadelphia. Fire Officials Say flames broke out in this abandoned building at fifth and jefferson. You can see a lot of smoke coming from the roof. No injuries though were reported and we dont yet know how the fire started. Forget countdown day. We dont have any left to count. Live look at the ben franklin parkway by this time tomorrow night the nfl draft will have officially kicked off and the entire city is ready take a look at what the peco crown lights are displaying this evening it is all about the draft. Philadelphia opening its arms to hundreds of thousands of football fans for this enormous event. Our chris oconnell, man, chris, youre one lucky guy. Live along the ben franklin parkway and by this time tomorrow night things are going oh look a whole lot different. Reporter yeah, just think, lucy, this time tomorrow night eagles would have already picked their first round pick. The nfl draft now just hours away, and as you can see behind me, the parkway is electric. Are you ready for the nfl draft tonight its lights, camera almost action. The final dress rehearsal for tomorrows nfl draft. Whats it look for family members the night before the draft . Nerve wrack rah,. It will be sleepless night for the Watson Family their brother and nephew Desean Watson quarterback from clemson is expected to be a top 15 draft pick. We started from elementary all the way through high school, college and he brought us with him. Weve been on this ride the whole trip. Reporter tomorrow hell be in the nfl. Well still be on other ride. Reporter as the city welcomes the world in bright light the nfh draft experience is take shape. Fans starting to flock to the parkway for a sneak peek and beware, theyre not all eagles fans. Something is wrong here. You have a dallas cowboy helmet. I know. I know. Show you look this. Thats the wrong one. Its real exciting. I watch it in chicago the past two years and to be here its awesome. Reporter even though youre a giants fan . Yeah. I have to deal with it. Everybody saying stuff all day. Reporter welcome to phill philly. Crews were busy closing off the parkway perimeter and nfl volunteers had one last walk through. To help the 200,000 visitors expected starting tomorrow at noon. This area is very familiar to us. We do fourth of july events there. We do made in america there. So its very simple. Were there to help facilitate people coming and going. Reporter but is the nfl draft big enough for two bigtime rifles to bury the hatchet . We have cowboys, we have eagles. Is this nfl draft one place where we can maybe have commonality here . Hell, no. Place doesnt exist. No way. No way. Cannot exist. It will be a long weekend. Reporter one last thing. If you are coming down to the draft, do not bring one of these. No backpacks, no selfie sticks, no smoking and no noise makers but one thing do you want to bring with you, an empty water bottle. Theyre going to have hydrating stations, guys, if youre coming down theyre warning people it is going to be hot, but its going to be lot of fun, too. Hope to see you guys down here. With hydration stations. How can we not go. All right. Chris, thanks. Patti labelle shes a big star philly loves her. She thought she was taking a picture with fans. Not so much. Bill cosby is in big legal trouble. So why is he cracking jokes. And kathy it looks like its shaping up to be a fantastic weekend. But not the whole time. Going to be some bumps in the road lucy. Storms are coming along with the sunshine. And this little girl never met her daddy. He was a Police Officer killed before she was born. But she sees him everywhere and thats touching hearts around the world. Look on the right side of the screen. See that smoke . Thats a fire right in the middle of wal mart and its no accident. We are tracking the news still breaking in delaware. The man who police say shot and killed delaware state trooper corporal Stephen Ballard is barricaded inside a home in middletown. Authorities tell us they blew open the front door to that home tonight right around 8 30. But theyve yet to go in. Theyre still trying to negotiate with him. Much more as the news continues to break. News continues to break in delaware. We now know the name of the delaware state trooper gunned down this afternoon outside bear wawa store. Corporal Stephen Ballard died this afternoon. His body is now at the medical Examiners Office in wilmington. Right now, in middletown, the man who police say shot and killed ballard is hold up after firing rounds of shots they say at them. That neighborhood still locked down. More as it breaks. Happening right now, a heartwarming story out of new jersey. It all started with a young girl who went out of her way to reward a Police Officer. Turns out, shes got a very personal connection to Police Officers. Yeah. Now they are going above and beyond to repay her act of kindness. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson has the story from monroe township. I wanted to because he deserves respect and like kindness. Reporter eightyearold mikayla has found a friend in quinn. Stopped by her gnome monroe topsy her. Good job. It started last friday when mikayla and her mom were having dinner at this pizza shop. Officer quinn was there picking up a to go order and struck up a conversation with mikayla. She a sports jacket on. I asked her, you know, whether it was soccer or softball. It was softball. Reporter after talking for few minutes officer quinn walked away still waiting for his food. Thats when mikaylas mom says her daughter did something she didnt expect. Just turned over and whispered in my ear asked me if can we buy him lunch . Reporter the pieces is a shop owner told quinn someone paid for his lunch but wanted to remain anonymous. So he went back to work and did some investigating and eventually found out who it was. Five days later, they met so he can say thank you. He made a surprising discovery. That mikaylas mother and father tommy were perth amboy Police Officers but her father was killed in the line of duty nearly nine years ago. Mikaylas mom was pregnant with her when he was killed. This is my fathers office. This is a picture of him. Mikayla says seeing officer quinn and talking to him moved her to do what she did. It reminds me like a little bit of my father. Of how he was Police Officer. Reporter officer quinn calls mikayla a good spirit. Going there that day i crossed paths with mikayla i think myself and mikayla we both made longterm friends. Reporter as way to say thank you the Police Department started gofundme page to raise money for mikaylas education. If youd like to donate go to fox29. Com. Shawnette well son fox 29 news. I dont know youve been able to check that gofundme page it already has 10,000 which is half of the 20,000. You know what they invited her to have lunch with them today at the Police Department. Aww. Kind of returned the favor. Thats awfully nice. So philadelphia Police Officer is now suspended face charges for the death of 50yearold man. Police say 24yearold adam soto was off duty when his car hit and killed Danny Dimitri in northeast philadephia in january. Dimitris family says soto was drag racing with off duty cops. Soto hit and killed dimitri. They were in separate cars at this point i cant speak to whether or not the investigation specifically determined that drag racing but certainly reckless speeds and of course the striking of so tows vehicle is directly responsible to the death of mr. Dimitri. Both officers surrendered to internal affairs today. Officer soto faces charges of vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter. Police say he was going 89 miles an hour at the time of the cra crash. A woman hit by a Philadelphia Police cruiser last week has died from her injuries. Skyfox was over the 3,000 block of f street in kensington last week when Authorities Say two officers in the middle of an investigation backed up and hit the victim who was behind the car. The officers took the woman to temple hospital. She died yesterday. Police have identified the victim as 40yearold michelle colk. Bill cosby is working on new material and hoping to revive his comedy career. Cosby revealed that while speaking to some select Media Outlets the 79yearold has been mostly quite since his 2015 arrest. Hes pleaded not guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting andrea constand. In his Montgomery County home in 2004. Cosby also told the National NewspaperPublishers Association he suddenly lost his vision two years ago. Take good look here. Thats a fire in a wall march. 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