Heavy crowding on the systems busiest line. Chopper four is en route to the red line to give images of this for now, we can tell you, if metro says if you need to reach the begin brook or white flynn stations you have to use an outbound train from d. C. Toward Montgomery County. The inbound trains will be passing the stations to reduce delays. This appears to be connected to a track problem outside grover in metro has been working on since this morning. Two men are facing charges for shooting a man inside a metro garage. Douglas chase and Brent Sanderson are accused of killing a man by the name of eric melgar inside the Wheaton Metro station garage. It happened yesterday evening before the sun set. No word yet on a possible motive in that shooting. Another development in the birthday cake beating. The mother and uncle are held without bail. The uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the moms boyfriend could beat him unconscious. Jack garcia was only 9 years old and died from that be
Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Very Long Time Coming bruce, thank you. So we heard the word closure, but it comes with a push qualifier. A conviction of Lloyd Lee Welch and details that will likely be revealed in a virginia trial will help, but only the discovery of the girls remains will ultimately put an emotional end to this for some people here. So now question get reactions from the community that was changed forever by this case. Our scott broom is at the Oakland Terrace Elementary School where the kids who went there 40 years ago with the lyon girls have all grown up and where many are still living in that same neighborhood. Scott . Reporter yeah, this is the school the lyon sisters attended and there are still a lot of people around here like me about my age, theyre in their 50s and went to this school with the lyon sisters and remember all this vividly and always bruce just reported, we hear again that word repeatedly as we talk to people, closure. It feels like theres s
Wrong early with Montgomery County police in 1975 focused on a man with a microphone instead of the long haired man seen staring at the sisters at the mall. Court documents suggest welch actually went back to the mall after the abduction and talked to police and they let him go. Now in another Court Affidavit released today police say that another of welchs relatives also talked about those bloody duffel bags. She says that they refused welchs request to wash the bloody clothes that were inside those duffel bags. She says that he told her, welch told her, that he had had some hamburger meat that had gone bad and that thats why those duffel bags were bloody and why the clothes inside were bloody. Now police also say in some other search warrant returns unsealed today that they fond some bone fragments up on a found some bone fragments up on that mountain. Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Welch is in a delaware prison now for sexually abusing another child. No word on how welch react
Lloyd welch in the murders of sheila and Katherine Lyon. Bruce leshan has a look at what happens next. Reporter despite thousands of hours of searching police have still been unable to find the bodies of the lyon sisters, but new search warrant affidavits unsealed today reveal the kind of circumstantial case that they are building against twice convicted child sex offender lloyd welch. Police say in an affidavit that a relative told them welch came to her in bedford in the spring of 1975 with a duffel bag filled with bloody clothing. He said the blood was from spoiled ground beef. She refused to wash it. Another cousin allegedly told investigators that he helped welch burn two big heavy duffel bags with red stains and the odor of death. The grand jurors believed welch abducted sheila and Katherine Lyon from Wheaton Plaza and that he killed them in bedford. The girls parents 11ed stoically to news of the indictment listened stoicically to news of the indictment and then left without tal
Selling synthetic drugs. The office of the attorney general is shutting down a store owned by william early and hes not the only one getting some attention. Our ellison barber is at earlys store on florida avenue with more on this crackdown shutdown. Ellison . Reporter the attorney general says theyve taken action against at least three stores. This is the only one theyve officially shut down. In one month that store which you can sort of see because it has a green sign on the outside in, one month they will close their doors for an entire year. An unassuming store on the corner of florida and second northwest is technically an electronics store, but Officials Say this is a place where people came to buy synthetic drugs and they say this is the evidence. In documents released today the attorney general says by august 10th the owner must place a closed sign on the door and stop operating as a business for one year. The business cannot be renamed and no one else can open a shop in the bu