High school says a drug, a was found. Principal claims there was no threat to the safety of students. Wesh 2 has accrued headed to the school. Information. Meredith angela from Osceola County Konrad Schafer, the teen charged in two murders, has confessed to the crimes. Schafer was 15 years old when he was arrested, following the executionstyle murder of a 22yearold man, and a driveby killing of another teen. Jim wesh 2 s greg fox was in court for his plea. And greg, this clears a lot of crimes off the books without a trial. Greg it sure does. When he talked about the number of cases one after another, dragging on for years. Instead, family members got to see and hear schafer admit to his brutal crimes. Jon morgan i find that your decision to enter these pleas has been freely and voluntarily greg Konrad Schafer said in open court, he did it, he was behind a string of shootings and robberies, including two that ended the lives of 22yearold Eric Roopnarine at his home, and 17yearold david
In the summer of 2013, it was mayhem as police and deputies were investigating shootings into cars, into homes, and these two murders. Today, here at the courthouse, Konrad Schafer admitted to all of those crimes. Are you entering these pleas of guilty because you are in fact guilty of the crimes you have been accused of . Yes your honor reporter Konrad Schafer finally spoke the words that Pooran Roopnarine waited two and a half years to hear, the teenager admitting that he is responsible for the brutal executionstyle murder of 22yearold eric roopnarine. The state says, schafer and three others conspired to rob and fatally shoot and stab eric inside his poinciana home. Age 18 now, schafer was just 15 when he was arrested. He pleaded guilty to killing roopnarine and, a week earlier, 17yearold David Guerrero of kissimmee. He ll have to serve a minimum mandatory 25 years, and up to it s just hard for me to say anything right now. Reporter roopnarine s father was too upset to talk, but pro
Lets get your Early Morning started with a look at your forecast. Tim miller is in the First Alert Storm Center with your wake up weather. A cold front will move through the area during the day, ahead of the front look for cloudy skies with scattered showers during the day. Rain n ance 50 . Highs will max out right about where they are this morning in the lower 50s. Tonight, a few scattered showers, colder, low in the middle to upper 30s. Thursday, partly to mostly cloudy, a few scattered showers, highs near 50 clearing and warmer by friday gop frontrunner donald trump is once again bringing his campaign to the hes holding a rally tonight at harmon tree farm in gilbert. Its free and open to the public. But you do have to register online beforehand. It begins tonight at 7. With doors opening at 5. With just days before the Iowa Caucuses, trump and his closest challenger, ted cruz back. Reporter pkgas follows ted cruzs final pitch framed as dire warning, sounding the alarm among conserva
Wasnt so crazy. And a lot of it is just hot air. A lot of its just politics. I understand that. That story also today, defending the delays. Days before the launch of the new Health Care Law, controversy and confusion. Anytime you have a massive change like this, there are going to be issues. There are a lot of difficulties with the law. We have an opportunity for the First Time Ever in the history of this country to say to all americans, you have Affordable Health care coming your way. And 216 years in the making. President George Washington gets his own library. The secrets you will not find there. Also today, kindness through coffee. How one familys quest to keep their daughters memory alive has sparked a worldwide movement. It is todays big idea. First, right to our developing story on capitol hill. At this hour, weve learned that republicans will likely be voting to pass a bill that delays obama care for a year and then send that bill back to the senate. Again, all of this just tw
World to know that absolutely, positively, unequivocally, he is not contemplating a run for the top job in 2020. Never mind those weekend reports that several bigname republicans are eyeing president ial campaigns next goaround. Whether trump runs or not. And theres more fallout from the 2016 race. At a meeting in the philippines, secretary of state Rex Tillerson told his russian counterpart that moscows meddling in the u. S. Election badly damaged u. S. russia relations. We are following all of these developments this monday morning. Lets begin with our Global Affairs correspondent, elise labott at the state department and then well go to joe johns. Elise, what can you tell us . Poppy, this is the first time secretary tillerson and foreign minister lavrov have met since Congress Passed those sanctions against russia for meddling in the u. S. Election and President Trump signed them. So, obviously, that is the real elephant in the room. And there was a lot of discussion. Foreign minist