In violence in the district as police try to figure out whats behind the spree of shootings yesterday. A man and woman gunned down just a few blocks away from each other and a few hours apart. Those two murders among five shootings we saw across the city yesterday. Lets go right to pat collins. Hes live in southeast with more on the story. Pat . Jim, Police Believe that secondchance criminals with the history of violence and access to guns are responsible for the spike in violence in our city. What is with all of the broad daylight violence in our city . What is driving it . You know, i wish i could tell you. Its a small number of people that have no regard for other people. It was noon that tayvon companyings was shot ask killed. Cummings has been picked up on a number of gun charges in the lth when he was killed yesterday. Four hours later, five blocks away, tracy cooper shot and killed outside her home on 49th street southeast. She was a good person. Would do anything for anybody an
You saw that video. Very tense moments for students on the ucla campus. 43,000 undergrads getting ready for finals next week. Theyre put in lockdown. They got emergency text alerts telling them to barricade the doors and dont let anybody in. That all happened this morning and two hours later we were told by lapd that the suspect was one of the two dead in the initial shooting, that it was a murdersuicide, and the shooting scene was contained in one small office in the engineering building. That information came along with the news that there was a note and a gun also in that room. What the note says we dont know. We dont know the relationship or the identities of the two men who were killed in this murdersuicide this morning who died, but thats the situation here. Now, we should tell you that they did spend several more hours aftr campus safe just sweeping through the building to make sure all the students had the word that they were okay and also looking for evidence in the adjacent b
From pennsylvania Avenue Northwest to madison all of the way to independence. The u. S. Capitol police is advising people to avoid this area. Again, the man drove up on the National Mall and, believed he was exposed to anthrax and those tests came back negative. A robot was deployed and its inspecting the pickup truck and the area around third street between jefferson and madison is blocked to vehicles and pedestrians. Very popular area here even on a rainy day like today. A lot of folks like to take pictures of the capitol especially from the National Mall. Thats not happening right now because it is completely blocked off and as of now, police also tell us that this man has not made any threats to anyone and that public is not in danger in any way. Theyre just trying to deal with this situation and ascerta but again, that test for anthrax came back negative. Live here on the National Mall. Im shomari stone, news 4. Now we turn to our weather which has turned wet again and the rain is
Down for the sounds of gunshots. 24 year old man was taken to tho hospital where he was pronounceo dead. Police say a black male late teens shoulder length dread likes was seen running from then scene after the shooting. Otin elected officials to the scene that is become king all toooo common. Police spent hours onhr mount view placing evidence markers inert strew around thest clothing on the ground and a hummer parked at the curve. White also came to the scene. Hes running for the ward eight seat on the dc city council. I think dc state of emergency as it relates to crime and our city. Ci its too casual, to Common People need to be outraged, the police the community, mayor city Council Everybody got to geto ge involved. Theres a solution to thistos problem but it takes more people to get involved, man. And its too much fighting going on in the street, man. Violence is becoming into. Reporter those two murder that ihose mention that were cad out on monday one of the victims was tracy c
Involved shooting seemed to surprise residents, just like the ones we met today. The medical examiner is working to examine a body that was found in the bay. Fire Officials Say it was spotted by a ferry captain around 7 30 this morning near alcatraz island. Police are not saying yet if that body is that of a missing high tech worker from San Francisco. Investigators say 26yearold dan ha was last seen halloween night leaving his apartment in the south of market area. His roommate says ha didnt seem like himself and left in a hurry. Family and friends have spent the last few days trying to get the word out about has disappearance with fliers and through social media theyve even created a website called finddanha. Com. Kaiser permanente is seeing a walk out by nurses. Reporter since about 7 00, nurses have been picketing and chanting here outside Kaiser Hospital oakland. The nurses wont give up. Reporter thousands of kaiser nurses are on strike. Today and tomorrow at 21 Northern Californi