this was severance back in march when he was first arrested in west virginia. he fled the ashburn townhome he shared with a girlfriend once he found out police were looking for him. chief cook says there was no sudden breakthrough that led to the decision to seek murder charges now. rather a steady collection of evidence as alexandria police teamed with the fbi. i assure you, the last five months has been very intensive in terms of following up on the things we needed to do to see his relationship with these cases. and that evidence that we discovered in those five months largely is why we re standing here today. reporter: the investigation does continue. cook says the guns used in the killings still have not been recovered. the relatives of victims nancy dunning and ron kirby sat in the front row of the news conference, listening. afterward, dunning s daughter made this brief statement. our family is grateful to the police and investigators to continue to pursue our mo
find it to be extremely disturbing. let s show the video right now. it shows ray rice punching his then fiancee, now wife, and knocking her unconscious. in response to this video, the ravens terminated rice s contract this afternoon, followed by the nfl suspending him immediately. he was in the midst of that two-game suspension imposed by the nfl. today, rutgers head coach, cal flood, who was an assistant coach at rutgers when rice played this, had this to say about the situation. ray will always be a part of our family. the video i saw this morning was difficult to watch. as a husband and as a father. there s nothing that can justify what i saw on that video. this is a sad day for ray and a sad day for rutgers. reporter: with more reaction on this ray rice situation, we re going to go out to ashburn where dianna russini is standing by. reporter: monday here at redskins park is usually buzzing with the good, bad, and ugly. but today is strange here as we know that the p