Im george spencer, nbc 10 news. Chilling new details in the murder of a recent drexel graduate. Investigators say Jasmine Wright was on the phone with her mother when she was attacked as she walked into her apartment last thursday. Her mom heard a struggle and then the phone went dead. Police say james harris raped and killed wright. Nbc 10s jesse gary is live at Philadelphia Police headquarters, where harris is being questioned by detectives right now. Jesse, you found out something in harris past that shocked even the police . Reporter thats right. He has a long criminal history stretching all the way back to the late 70s but in 1982 he went to court charged with murder. Ultimately he was convicted, found guilty of manslaughter for killing his father. Hes a monster, a career kral criminal. He has been locked up 31 times. Reporter police point to dna and fingerprint evidence as proof james harris snuffed out a young life earlier this month. Investigators say the excon was hired to tak
59 in lancaster. 69 right now in philadelphia. 65 in dover. You can waking up to 64 degrees in wildwood new jersey. So you have just a few clouds out there. Some spots seeing more cloud cover than others. Otherwise were looking at a mostly sun sni start today and well see a mostly sunny finish as well. Lunchtime, 83 degrees. And 3 00 mostly sunny and 86. Still low humidity. Really cranking up during the workweek. Well talk more about that. Also looking at our next potential heat wave. Well talk about that too, coming up. Thank you. Today marks one year since a deadly carjacking and crash killed a philadelphia mother and her three children. It also left an emotional car in the tioga neighborhood where the accident happened. Jesse gary has the latest. No doubt a lot of folks remember this tragedy. Reporter its hard to forget. Actually, you never forget Something Like this. Starting at noon today and lasting until 6 00 in the evening, the community is going to come together here to rememb
Details straight ahead. Happening today. A memorial cookout will be held in philadelphia to mark a painful anniversary. One year ago today a carjacked suv crashed into a mother and her three children as they sold fruit on a street corner. All four died. Jesse gary is live in tioga where people will remember them today. Reporter this has been almost like a complete transformation here at the site. There used to be a chain link fence. Now its transformed a nice park, new tree, the flowers around the tree and the sign painted here. Has the imsagesages of the victims. The cookout goes from noon until 6 00 p. M. Memorializing the four that died. Keisha williams and her three children were selling fruit at the corner. The four were hit after Cornelius Crawford and Jonathan Rosa carjacked an suv and lost control and ran over the four. Her family shared memories of the foursome. She was loving. She was funny. My niece and two nephews, they was loving and funny. Reporter two other women were in
Theyre looking closely at the shooter as background to see what could have led him to commit this crime on live tv. He bounced around the country working as a journalist, he was fired. Two years ago the management had to call police after firing him. he actually had to be escorted by the police out of the building because he was not willing to leave. Ryan but nobody would have guessed this, that he would shoot the reporter and the cameraman who were interviewing a local he ambushed the team while filming with his oncamera, he shot all three people, telling the reporter and the cameraman killing soon he posted his video to social media, and he then faxed a suicide note he blamed it on fraught persecution for being gay and black and now 2 people are killed simply for doing their jobs the father of the reporter came to the crime scene and was joined by her boyfriend, also an anchor at the station he said that when he they learned the name of the shooter they were not surprised and describ
Trump ralliers were met by antitrump protesters. Philadelphia police had to shut down the. Usa. Reporter the started as a scheduled pro trump make America Great rally on independence mall. Three months in the making now been trying to do this. Reporter one of many around the country today but in philadelphia, not too long after the planned rally started, it was taken over. By hundreds of antitrump protesters. The clash turning chaotic at one point when protesters set off cans of smoke, the protest scheduled to go until 5 00 this evening was shut down around 3 00 in the afternoon. This march is over o. Reporter despite having to end the rally and protest early, Philadelphia Police say they only had to issue two citations for disorderly conduct. Reporting live on Independence Hall alycia nieves. This is all happening as the Trump Administration vows to quickly move past their failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. We get more now from and cbs news correspondent Wend