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murder came as a result of a fight between the victim and the suspect. these thoughts from a neighbor. you ve got to think about it. this station is in between two different neighborhoods. you have kenilworth avenue and these people over here and then you have maryland side over there. not everybody get along. reporter: it was 16 days ago 15-year-old davonte washington was shot and killed at the deanwood station as he was on his way to get a haircut for easter. an arrest has been made in that case. this morning scores of police rushed to investigate the murder today, but neighbors say there were no police around when it happened. councilwoman yvette alexander says she was here to meet constituents this morning and she saw no cops. the metro police really should have more increased presence here. they said after the first tragic incident that they would, and i was actually out morning, and i didn t see any additional presence. reporter: now, law enforcement force ....
man. our partners about in charlottesville have learned the local crime stoppers branch will give awards who spotted jesse matthew jr. in texas lead to go his arrest back in 014. it will also reward a person in the charlottesville area who helped police. matthew pled guilty last month to first-degree murder in the cases of both morgan harrington and hannah brown. a former women s basketball coach with ties to maryland has been acquitted on sex abuse charges. bryce mckeen was briefly at the university of maryland, but charges stem from his time at xavier university. a accused him of gro groping her. he was found not guilty. an attorney called the ruling sad. today adam thiel will be named the new fire commissioner. thiel is virginia s deputy secretary of public safety and homeland security now. before that he was the alexandria fire chief for about seven years. it is now time for weather and traffic. and we ll start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. much ....
even that will fill in with raindrops. so grab the umbrella. you won t need it all day. mild and rainy 65 at 7:00 a.m. by 7:00 this evening, clear skies, breezy but cooler, back into the upper 50s. and suburbs likely to be in the upper 30s by tomorrow morning. wait until you see how the weekend is looking. melissa mollett, how is traffic holding up? 95 south after centreport parkway, a disabled vehicle blocking the right lane. you can see just a tine any bit of a slowdown there. south 295 after east capitol, left lane getting by the crash. backups building there on 295. we have police on the scene hoping to get that out of the way before too much volume starts to build. 270 at old hundred, rolling along just fine. and overall prince george s county again roads are totally fine here. might be just a little wet as you can see on at 5:02, we have breaking news. sources telling news 4 an arrest has been made in a deadly stabbing at the deanwood metro station in northeast ....
witness says that evans punched vante in the chin and vante returned the punch. witness says that evans eventually fell to the ground, grasping his neck as he bled. a month ago miss wells says she took her son to richmond, virginia, to get away from the violence in the streets of washington. she brought him back yesterday for a court date. he was taking the metro home when it happened. he was the reason why we tried to move away from the area. because i ve seen, i just seen it. seen it coming. i just seen it. murder suspect javante hall is no stranger to the law, i ll have more coming up on that at 6:00. live at superior court, pat collins, i m adam tuss at the deanwood station where both d.c. police and metro transit police have promised to increase their presence here after the two deadly incidents here in the last couple of weeks. so did it really happen today? were there more transit officers? what are riders saying all about these episodes at this one particula ....
here s the washington app and search senate poll. our team coverage continues with a look at lou candidates are reacting to the poll. chris gordon, he s at the silver spring civic center where early voting begins on thursday. chris? well jim, as we said, in the news4/marist maryland poll, chris van hollen has a six-point lead among likely democratic voters. so today i went to both campaign headquarters to ask them, to respond to these results. at van hollen campaign headquarters in kensington, volunteers are busy getting out lawn signs and mailings, reacting to the van hollen s lead in a poll with a statement, maryland vote remembers clearly responding to chris van hollen s proven record of getting results and vision for the future. but with 18% ofli undecided, it s clear that the democratic senate primary is still up for grabs. people worried about holding on to what they ve got. donna edwards campaign is launching a new tv ad. her statement on the new new ....