>> a stroke of luck that brought this suspect down. good evening, the man in this video here finally in custody after spending months hiding from tampa police. >> we learn about his violent past and the surprising way he was finally captured. >> reporter: authorities have been looking for kirk kelly for six months. early sunday morning he was spotted and arrested outside of cleveland ohio. he tried to lie about who he was but check out his tattoos. he could not hide them but he

in a gruesome way. police found this tampa fugitive by chance. an officer pulled over the car he was in. kelly lied about who he was and tried to use his younger brothers identity. then he tried to bite the skin off his fingers so nobody could get his finger prints. biting off those prints got him another charge for tampering with evidence. police in ohio figured out who he was and that he sold guns a number of which may have been linked to 15 murders in the tampa area. >> it's shocking and it explains why he would chew off his finger prints. >> police do not know what he

he was up to no good. he will be extradited to his borough county. tonight a family finally faces the teenager that they said molested their 11 year old son. the boy admitted to sexually assaulting the boy and he did the same thing to two other boys years ago. >> reporter: his mother hopes he strays locked up for good. if he's convicted he faces 60 years in prison. he survived a war only to get shot in the chest in his own home. now a hillsborough county veteran is being forced to

>> reporter: this veteran said he will never be a victim in his own home again. one of the first things that he did was get a security system but tonight he said his goal is justice. >> i have done two combat tours in iraq. you do not expect to get shot in our own house. >> reporter: he spent eight days in the hospital. he has three broken ribs and a bullet lodged in his chest. >> it went through my rib and hit my lung. >> reporter: these masked men barged into his home. >> i woke up, there was two guys at the foot of my bed with rivals demanding that i give them everything that i had of value. >> reporter: they asked for his

not know where it was they shot him. >> they grabbed my x box and my tab let. >> reporter: grant chased him. then he realized how bad he was hurt. >> i could sow air bubbles coming from my wounds. >> reporter: he sat down on his stairs and started to cough up blood. grateful to be alive but facing $175,000 in medical bills, he hopes that someone comes forward to stop e suspects before they do this to someone else. >> i hope they get caught and i will have my day in court. >> reporter: crime stoppers is offering a $300,000 reward.

wounded warrior project but that will not cover everything. he has a go fund me page, i posted that on my facebook page and it's on our website, www.abcactionnews.com. thank you, a pinellas park doctor is facing life in prison for running an illegal pill mill. between town nine and 2014 they saw between 80 and 100 patients patients were charged between 150 to $300 cash a visit and three of their patients died giving out.

to wait 24 hours before they get an abortion. planned parenthood opposes the law but they said their clinics would clie with the waiting period. 26 other states have a waiting period. now for abc action weather. >> temperatures cooling off into the low to mid 50s. low 60s across areas of high lands county, arrange sebr ishes ng. as the temperatures cool, there is a possibility of frost but by later tomorrow we begin to see some changes coming into play and big changes by sunday.

in a couple of minutes. >> a central florida man ran down a boy and did not stop. the eight year old was riding his bike and r when he got hit. the driver left and then circled back around before he left for good. >> he kept driving. i think that it was creepy. he looked weird when he did it. >> thank youfully hill only suffered a couple of scrapes but he does not know if he will ever feel comfortable enough to get back on the beus cal again. as a result of our investigations another local fire department is taking

>> reporter: the mayor and fire chief are putting safety restrictions on color runs and events where color powders are used. the powders can be flammable and toxic to your health. we sent samples of the powders to labs for testing and they had carcinogens and flam flammable chemicals in the powders. now firefighters are putting restrictions on the powder. it has to contain 15% baking soda to help extinguish a fire. the states fire marshal's

you can see all of our investigations on our website, www.abcactionnews.com, just look under the color run section. the newest florida lottery jackpot winners are giving the money away. they bought the $43 million ticket at the seminole seminole wa win dixie. they are giving the money to their kids and grand kids. tomorrow is our last chance to get a piece of military history.

holding -- depot is holding a sale. >> coming up, a gun range attached to a bar? the controversial facility is now open in florida. the technology that owners promise will stop the dangerous mix before it happens. >> another beautiful day, chilly but sunny and the sunshine is sticking around,

a controversial gun range is now open in volusha county. it's attached to a restaurant and bar. the owner is using something called i detect. a customer has to scan their drivers license when they order

the shooting range they have to scan their i.d. again. >> there will be no shooting and drinking and i can control that. >> he said that if gun owners bring their guns to the range, they cannot bring them into the bar. some people are worried that pressure to get high school grades up is causing schools to give students apass that they have not earned. >> reporter: grad point is a credit recovery program that is supposed to help students that are falling behind to graduate. but some say that it's giving students grades that they did not earn. the district said that there

results but they did not appear on trips. >> the schools found out this is a way to help students pass the class lut it's not valid. >> reporter: this teacher said she witnessed abuse of grad point in her school. >> students completed a years worth of work in two days. >> it was one lesson in five minutes. >> reporter: is that possible? >> we allow students to work at their even pace. >> reporter: the teacher said that multiple people were allowed to use the same user name and password you spent

>> it's the first year that we used the system. >> reporter: days before graduation we show how a teacher modified a students score to 80, that's the lowest grade a student could have and pass. >> that's something that would raise a red flag. >> reporter: this document shows that a teacher modified a students score from 70 to 80 minutes after the test was completed. other document shows that this score was modified from 23 to 80.

flum of students that passed increased four fold and that allowed the school's graduation rate to increase to 87% last year. >> schools want their rates to look good to get funding but it's a scam. >> reporter: wolf said unique user names and passwords are given to students and now they will look into modified grades. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> good evening, made it to a weekend and that looks like a pretty good idea, maybe taking the sailboat out although while the winds are nice this afternoon, they may be a bit choppy if you go offshore.

there and the weekend looks great weather wise, but it's a chilly start to your saturday morning. when the winds go calm before sun rise there is a chance of some patchy frost across our northern counties, like citrus and h eshes rshes nando and pol -- hernando and polk. so you may want to consider covering up your plants across the northern counties. frost could be an issue at about 4:00 a.m. when the winds start to come down. right now sunny skies, we are in the mid 50s.

not make it out of the 50s across the northern counties. it's going to be clear skies tomorrow and sunday. what ever you have going on this weekend, it will be a beautiful weekend, it will be chilly at least tomorrow morning but we quickly start to see warming and that warm weather will go up to 80- degrees by tuesday and wednesday. there is no cloud cover. we are hard pressed to find any cloudiness across the area. there is a chance of showers later wednesday night into thursday but that same front, each model run we do is getting weaker. so there is nothing more than a

chances are bumped down to 20% for wednesday into thursday. so saturday morning, chilly to start the day and then we warm up into the 60s. it's chilly for this time of year but by sunday we are back in the low 70s and maybe into 80 degrees by wednesday. gulf temperatures 63 degrees. 6:57 your sunrise. so we bump up to 73 degrees sunday. we are flirting with 80 by tuesday and wednesday, but then the front comes through wednesday and it's cooler by the end of next week. hello folks, it's not the

hoped for but it holds done a defense man for a few years. the deal is good for kolbert and the lightning. >> the team is opening up a four game road trip in new jersey. >> all right it's full spring ahead for the rays. the first full squad work out is in the blooks. >> reporter: the first work out of the spring can be a bit grueling. what are you doing. you look great. was that an exhausting work out?

is more important, that's kevin cast. i made myself comfortable over there. >> reporter: joking aside, the rays got down to business, it started with kevin cash's message to his ball club. >> the cleanest conversation we had was we are trying to win starting today. being a winning team starts right now. >> the rays held their first practice of the spring. it did not dlu outfielder souza. the manager said they are not setting a timetable on his return but they said he's improving.

will get their first impressions on their teams drafts. we are going to hear from jason light tonight at 11.

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tonight, right here, the bombshell endorsement. the presidential race turning personal. the new attacks leveled tonight. rubio going after trump. and chris christie tonight, now trump. breaking news, the motive in the deadly rampage. the video now discovered, and the notice the gunman got 90 minutes before the shootings. the new head line about the zika outbreak, and pregnant women in the u.s. the miscarriages as well.