have nor work to do. good evening, i m chris o connell. i m dawn timmeney. officers say they have a lot of information they need to get through. let s get straight out to fox 29 s bruce gordon wilmington tonight. bruce? reporter: town hall meeting earlier this week wilmington s police chief told concerned parents he hoped to be able to announce arrests in this beating death by week s end today he was forced to tell the public be patient. with mayor dennis williams by his side, police chief bobby cummings told assembled reporters there is more detective work to do on this case. interviews to conduct. phone records to check. forensics to be analyzed and so because there s still a lot of work left to do by our detectives and the attorney general office, in terms receive viewing evidence and relevant facts, we are not in a position at this time to file charges. reporter: amy frances joyner 16-year-old sophomore at howard high school of technology in wilmington was appa
with a box cutter. here is what happened next. this is video, taken by a bystander who saw it all in full. he said several good samaritans saw what was happening to this woman. they stepped in, they pushed the suspect into a snow bank, despite, they say, he was armed with a box cutter, and the good samaritan held him there in the snow bank until police were able to arrive. now, we spoke with ron roberts, who was a bystander, who captured all of this on video, as he was just headed into work, at the shoprite here. here s what he told bus that chaotic scene. they were yelling, what do you have, do you have a knife? do you have a gun? and he wasn t really answering them, then he eventually kicked out a knife from his pocket. isn t it a great job? isn t a great job not killing him after punching a woman in the face, so it is good job keeping their cool about that. and ron says the police were able to get here pretty fast, now, police say, they do have the suspect, of cour