Africanamerican man in texas. Also tonight, the husband of a brain dead pregnant woman says she never wanted it to end this way. Hooked up to a machine, the hospital wont disconnect. Now a new development, hes taking the case to court. And the strange and terrible case of a man who shoots and kills someone for texting in a Movie Theater and is claiming selfdefense by getting hit by something witnesses say was nothing more than a bag of popcorn. We begin with keeping them honest, into the death of 28yearold alfred wright. Hes the rural texas father of two who vanished last november. His family found his body two weeks after authorities gave up searching. The family says virtually nothing makes any sense. Not the cause of death, not the official theory of how and why a man with everything lived for, stripped down to his boxers, wandered off and gave himself a lethal dose of drugs that his family says he has no history of using. First a warning, some of the images are graphic. Heres part
The family is alleging a murder and coverup. Now after Deborah Feyerick reporting put a spotlight on the case she joins us now. What are you learning . Reporter we can tell you that the Justice Department, attorney general eric holder, is being contacted about looking into this case. Congressman Sheila Jackson lee from the houston area of texas met with the Wright Family yesterday for several hours. She had seen our threepart investigation here on ac 360 into the death and disappearance of alfred wright. We spoke to her chief of staff today. He says that they are drafting a letter as we speak. That letters going to go to the Justice Department, attorney general eric holder, as well as the u. S. Attorney in beaumont, texas. We have no specifics just yet on the kind of investigation what assistance are going to ask from the Justice Department. But it would include things for example like civil rights violations, hate crimes, public corruption, for example corruption within Law Enforcemen
Axelrod good evening. This is a western edition of the broadcast. It was just about a quarter past 11 00 on a typically busy saturday morning at one of the largest malls in the washington, d. C. Metro area when someone started shooting inside a skate and snow boarding store. Suddenly there was nothing typical about this saturday at this mall in colombia, maryland. As jeff pegues reports, inside three people, including the gunman, were dead. Reporter saphone lilly is one of the survivors of the shooting. She says the shooter was young and firing randomly. She was outside the hospital when she told us that the gunman shot at her, too. The shooter looked straight at me from the secondfloor level and shot the first time, i ducked. The plaster in the wall came all over me. I moved my niece out of the way. My girlfriend was there. And he shot again. Reporter the shooting happened at 11 15 a. M. In a packed colombia mall. Shoppers ran for cover. George miles said he heard the sound of gunfire
Tonights installment of our weeklong series gone to pot, the parents who want to take their child off chemo because they believe marijuana is curing their childs cancer. Well look at the medical evidence. We begin tonight keeping them honest with the breaking news. What started as a local traffic story became a statewide scandal and now has gone national. At the center of it all, the worlds busiest bridge and the man seen by many as the republican partys leading hope to win the white house in 2016. The bridge in question is the george washington. The man is Chris Christie. The governor the new jersey. The scandal involves lane closings from the city of ft. Lee, new jersey, on to the bridge that tied up traffic so badly, ambulance crews were complaining about being able to respond to emergencies and school buses were delayed for hours. Now, the allegations that Christies Office and potentially, potentially the governor himself, ordered those lane closings to snarl traffic as political p
Weeklong series, gone to pot, the parents who want to take their child off chemo because they believe marijuana is curing their childs cancer. Well look at the medical evidence. We begin tonight keeping them honest with breaking news. What started as a local traffic story became a statewide scandal and now has gone national. At center of it all, the worlds busiest bridge and the man seen by many as the republican partys leading hope to win the white house in 2016. The bridge in question is the george washington. The man is Chris Christie, the governor of new jersey. The scandal involves lane closings from the city of fort lee, new jersey, onto the bridge that tied up traffic so badly ambulance crews were complaining about being able to respond to emergencies and school buses were delayed for hours. The allegation is that Christies Office and potentially the governor himself ordered those lane closings to snarl traffic as political payback because fort lees mayor, a democrat, refused to