Moments before the attack Early Saturday Morning at a womans apartment. Nbc 10s George Spencer is following these developments from philadelphia suv. George . Reporter a whole lot of effort on this case ever since it broke over the weekend. Tonight we have learned detectives here at special victims unit are speaking to four men, four persons of interest in connection with the Rittenhouse Square rape case. Now, nbc 10 was on south 8th street near moore street tonight, the block with the four persons of interest live. We have learned that investigators also took several bikes from that house which may be connected to this case. Police are really crediting good oldfashioned detective work for this. They had been at the house yesterday. After another interview with victim today, they had enough evidence to return their with a search warrant. Now earlier in the afternoon, Police Released this new Surveillance Video of spruce street in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood and just the moments
Looking good. So is the blue root. This is route 22 near airport road. Things are smooth out there on 22, 78 also in the clear right now. No issues to report for drivers on route 309. If youre waking up in new jersey, this is the 42 freeway, the northbound side. This is in the midst of the longconstruction project we have out there at creek road by route 42. We are following breaking news out of nigeria where witnesses say extremists have kidnapped 60 more girls and women and 31 boys there. The latest kidnapping comes two months after 200 other girls were kidnapped from their village by boko haram. Most of those girls remain missing. No word yet on whos responsible for todays kidnapping, whether or not its boko haram or not. Well follow this story and bring you new information as soon as we get it. Also new from overnight locally, a teenage boy is shot six times in northeast philadelphia. The 18yearold was on the 400 block of glenwood avenue when he was shot. He walked a block to orkne
And its going to stay on the low side again today. We will see sunshine warm things up. Thats a live view from the lowes hotel. Looking towards new jersey. Camden water front, looking at mostly dry conditions for our area today. That will change tomorrow. No sign of the 50s for most of the area. One exception, Atlantic City at the airport, 59 degrees. 62 in trenton, 67 in northeast philly and 66 in wilmington. A mild start and a nice day ahead. Well see the temperatures climb into the 70s to start with at 9 00, then into the 80s by lunch time today. Well good hour by hour when i come back with the future weather. First, jillian mele has your traffic. Im following construction right now, that overnight longterm construction on 95. Girard avenue, here in the center lanes, but traffic is getting by. Thats the southbound side over there, this is the northbound side. No delays as a result of that construction but we are dealing with that active construction out there. The boulevard is clear
Reporter this is eighth street in south philadelphia. This is where the suspect lives and where police raided last night looking for more evidence. Rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping. Reporter Police Charged Milton Garcia with those offenses and several more. They say hes the man seen here securing his bike to a pole then following this victim forcing her into her own moment. Police say they think it was a crime of opportunity. We believe that this male followed this female for some distance and then positioned himself at a point where he could intercept her. Reporter last night garcia was at work when he went to find him. He was working at a kitchen when investigators stormed in and arrested him. Management sent us a statement saying garcia has been employed for three months and presented all appropriate documents for employment. Garcia gave us no reason to suspect he was involved in any criminal activity. We know garcia is from honduras. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents he
We also just learned that in the past hour Milton Garcia is scheduled to be arranged any time now. Milton garcias roommate told me he doesnt know milton very well. When i asked him if he knew about the crimes his roommate was charged with, he said he and his other roommates didnt know anything. He said they work at different restaurants on different schedules and just see each other in passing. We were able to talk to several of the members in the household. Those members of the household provided us with some information. They were cooperative. Im shocked. Especially right next door to me. Im not too happy about it. Reporter neighbors told me they didnt know much about garcia either. They look like quiet people like they wouldnt bother anybody. Im shocked. Reporter police questioned then released garcias roommates. One of the Major Barriers was the language barrier. From the begin, homeland security, immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were contacted. They quickly responded and