You draw the recommend be om pence of the bullet. And i pray for the person who did this. I pray for them. Reporter so far there have been no arrests in connection with the shooting. Derrick ward, news4. Coming up is the aix, well hear from the editor at sharniece miltons newspaper. Her boss describes her as a fearless reporter. Now to a major highway in our area transformed into a crime scene today. Right now police still looking for whoever opened fire right in the middle of the mourn commute. One person is dead, another injured after that shooting along the anacostia freeway or 295. News4s Megan Fitzgerald has been talking to drivers today, live now at the scene. Megan . Reporter jim, frankly a lot of drivers we spoke with say theres shock that somebody would be so brazen enough to open fire during a rush hour commute with people all around. Now, police do say that they received a lot of 911 calls but so far no arrests. The morning commute on 295 can be stressful. Its slow. There ar
News. Sharniece really loved doing community stories. She loved talking to people. Reporter her family says she was returning from work on a story using Public Transportation as she typically did. She was shot as she transferred buses just minutes from home. Police believe the intended target of the gunshot that killed her may have pulled her into the line of fire, used her as a human shield. At 9 28 she texted me and said, im on my way home. So i was waiting for her to text exactly, let me know if she needed me to pick her up where she was. And we never got that text last night. Typically we think of losses of journalists as being out in the middle east or in africa or in dangerous places. But here you lost a very, very active and Important Community journalist in ward 7. Reporter now, as a freelancer here at the hill rag she didnt spend a lot of time at the offices. But in the limited time she was here she made a positive impression on just about everybody. She was always very nice.
Me, too. Today, i hope stephanie gets here. Until then, i want to tell you we have the rude pundit coming up this hour. As we do every monday and weve got some great stuff for you. But in the meantime, we do have Jacki Schechner giving us all of the news from the current news center. Take it away, jacki. Happy monday. Not a ton of stuff going on, especially in washington. Everyone is on vacation. President obama is now in Marthas Vineyard though hell be getting daily briefings from senior aides and he will spend some time, of course, preparing for whats likely to be a busy falling, dealing with among other things Immigration Reform and the federal budget. While our president is now playing golf and relaxing a bit. Enjoying downtime, the norwegian Prime Minister has been taking on a second job. Well, sort of. Let me explain. He went undercover as a taxi driver in oslo during june because he wanted to hear what real people had to say. His exchanges with cab riders were caught on hidden c
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