Situation. Leon homicide steps away from old town. Neighbors with concerns. And 7 on your side gets results. Relief for the family of a child with autism, next. Now, abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Leon up first, only on 7, a gruesome crime shaked metro riders on the fourth of july. Moments later, he turned to another man and robbed him. Now that victim is speaking exclusively with abc 7. Roz plater has what he is saying a new details about the suspect now in custody. Roz . Roz this is our first detailed account of what happened on the train in those terrifying moments. An account from somebody who was there and still shaken by what happened. I turned around and looked, and they were fighting each other. One was attacking the other pretty badly. Roz this man said he had just boarded the red line train saturday afternoon, minutes before the fatal stabbing. He said that he and other passengers watched in horror as a man with a knife attacked another young man. The guy was stabbing him
And ems, even though this is a medical facility. Even though there was one specific is threat thatfully turned out not to be real there was more than one specific threat prepared for and what we might say, this is an example of the emerging science of safety. Attention. Attention. All personnel are directed to shelter in place. Reporter the siren and the recorded message was clear, something was up. An employee at this facility heard what sounded like a gunshot. An employee did what was expected, reported it First Responders did what they are trained do here. A systemic search floor by floor of the 20story tower that is building one. Theirs was just the first phase of the sweep. Then dogs trained in the detection of explosive devices will enter those floors and look for explosive devices. Reporter this, even though the initial report, the call to 911 was for a gunshot. And there was no indication that there was an explosive device. We are here. We will do a complete job. Reporter a job
That community meeting. Are they any closer to finding out who did this . If they are. They are not giving any details. The purpose of this meeting was two fold, one, if you saw something, come forward. And two, to calm the fears. A frustrated community fills. They were here find out more about the death of shakan elliott and voice concerns about the neighborhood where he was killed. I dont think you are making it a priority reporter emotions were high but this is what the Alexandria Police department wanted to hear. To hear from the community. What are we doing to prevent the incidents . Reporter what happened thursday was an unacceptable tragic different David Heckler said they had issues in the neighborhood near the Braddock Road Metro station, culminating in that shooting. Each was connected to a group of about 12 people. Individuals that know each other, individuals targeting each other the reporter but each time, victims and witnesses refused to talk. Now, they say that violence
Students, staff and alumni, packed into a town hall meeting at American University today. Coming together for a common goal, to fight racism. The Student Government organized the meeting after racist displays were found on the campus. Kristin wright talked to students. Did they feel like this meeting was productive . Reporter yeah, students told us they felt like the twohour town hall was productive. The Student Government association said it will not be the last. I believe this was a Tipping Point that officially caused everyone to say, enough is enough. The outcry at American University. Reporte i never imagined i would become the president or the target of a hate crime. Reporter Taylor Dumpson called this town hall meeting, students want stronger defined campus protocols on hate crimes and other biasrelated incidents. They want au police to track the number of hate crimes and they want to know what happens during and after an investigation. Im really glad that we had this open forum
Temperatures so low,er in there was liquid, ice quickly formed. The icy roads caused by a water main break, but tonight the slick conditions could come from a wintry mix. So we want to start our coverage with storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. Wintry mix definitely right. You know erika, temperatures, 24 right now. That is it. Weve got plenty of clouds, so we may have to bump off, shave a few degrees off the daytime high. Still below freezing as we continue into the afternoon. Due to the cloud cover. But boy, is it chilly this morning with a lot of places reporting temperatures in the single digits. In fact dulles airport, broke a record from 1989. They made it to 9 degrees today. The old record in 89 . 10 degrees. You can see the radar right now, nothing going on. It may look like a little bit of snow in the shenandoah valley. Itso evaporating before it hits the ground. A little bit of lakeeffect snow, thats not what were going to see overnight tonight. Were going to sleet an