police say four men were caught on surveillance video following 19-year-old tyrone brown before rodney pridget was shot. pridget was shot outside side of ford strombs -- nordstrom's. jermell brandon spotted rodney pridget and called frank williams and william ward. then 19-year-old tyrone brown shot pridget multiple times. pridget was clearly targeted, but they haven't figured out why yet. >> we do not know why pridget was targeted, only that he was targeted. they went to the mall looking for him. >> all four men have been

charged with first-degree murder in the use of a handgun during a felony. they are being held at the baltimore county detention center without bail. kelly swoope, abc2 news. jamie? here's the latest on the accused paving scammer tommy clack. today clack had a criminal case in anne arundel county. they do expect a resolution soon but they're not telling us exactly what that may be. we'll keep you updated on any developments. a city police officer paid to protect and serve but not to beat up a suspect. one officers is in hot water after he hit a suspect and it was caught on tape. >> reporter: the case did go to court and officer donyell briggs was placed on leave. now he's waiting to see if he will keep his job. this happened almost two years ago. officer donyell briggs stopped a car driven by ricky tom

massments when briggs ordered thomas out of the car, thomas took off. another officer spots thomas and he surrenders on tape. then the tape shows officer brigs coming up to -- briggs coming up to thomas and punning him. >> we are committed to holding ourselves accountable. >> reporter: officer briggs has been suspended pending an investigation. the city police union is representing him. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. did you see your shadow today? another six hours of good weather. that means your commute home mr. be nice and smooth. wyatt everhart with another february day that's a shadow of its wintry self- >> 100 times out of 115 and he

says more winter. a pessimist. just a few clouds. interestingly, we are cooling down, cooling off into the weekend. still, all of our numbers will be above average. we're 47 at bwi. 46 in easton. remember, the average high temperature for the day at this time, early february, just 42. so windy, breezy yes. we'll go to 50. most of the day in the 40s. so a cooler trend but why the groundhog may be wrong at least about that first week of winter coming up in just a second. think about this, what would you think of huffing and puffing off the coast of ocean city. when you go to ocean city in a few years, you'll feel like done

quiote. salazar said he didn't find problems with issuing wind power leases. so if you're all for a gust of wind, salazar wants to hear from you. governor martin o'malley is going to introduce a bill designed to protect the transportation trust fund. the money has gone into the trust fund but money has been transferred hoyt for other needs. critics have said recent transfers have been costly. lawmakers in both the house of delegates and the state senate have introduesed legislation to lock the fund with a constitutional amendment. teachers in harford county are celebrating a ten thattive agreement which who give them a bonus. many got their christmas check and abc2 news jeff hager has more on the holdup and what broke the impasse. >> reporter: cash strapped

schools are doing more with less. the teachers also say they need to pay their bills. >> we work very hard. we do a lot. we give up a lot of our time and energy for the students and it will be nice to be fairly compensated. >> reporter: the teacher's union balked when they decided to give educators, $25,000 bonuses. after three years without raises, union leaders didn't want to undermine labor negotiations for some easy money. >> you want to make sure whatever you agree to canning exactly what you expect it to be. you don't want there to be strings attached. >> as i said, i don't demean the union or board. they should ask for what they feel is right. that's a their job. >> reporter: the average teacher in harford county makes $55,000. at the time the bonus was offered, the teacher's union

stalled the negotiation seeking two steps and a cost of living increase. the county claimed it couldn't afford the raise but offered the bonus when this discovered is your plus mony. teachers we spoke with seem ton re-- seem to be relieved they're getting something, anything. >> i'm excited to hear we are getting it. it's necessary for my family right now with just the economy and the price of living and so it's been hard not to get the salary raise but this is a relief to hear. it's huge, huge. >> reporter: in harford county, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> teachers like christi got no raises last year but they paid more for their healthcare and pensions. once the bonuses are approved, they should see them in their checks within six weeks. the state comptroller was on

the road. he was in baltimore at the alley burton academy to talk about major renovations. the school board asked for approval to proceed on renovation plans. he wanted to get a firsthand look at what the school did need. >> all around the state there are systems that have priority schools that they're recommending for funding and only a certain small, relatively small percentage receive approval and part of my job is to get out and kick the tires and see what ranks higher than others. >> he also traveled to harford county for the grand opening of the ab ber dean proving ground. exelon is getting ready to set up shop in baltimore. the chicago-based power company pledged to build a new headquarters in charm city.

exelon said this has selected property in the harbor point area. and they're looking for a site close to downtown with up to 370,000 square feet available by 2014. some had wished the company had selected the heart of the city. the transportation security administration said they found a kromm act cattle prod in the carry-on luggage of a passenger. he was flying from baltimore washington international. 61-year-old richard perrucci surrendered the prod. tonight abc2 news investigator investigates. >> i was hoping it was a bad dream but it wasn't. >> no, it was not.

it was reality as he lost his assume mate who died days after surgery. it's a wakeup call for all as we expose bad medicine. 56. normal is 42, so still tough top complaint so you are our two-degree weather win are. when we come back, we'll talk about this cooler trend for the weekend. it's straight ahead.

here's the elementary school, having a great day.

hope they had a great day. we had a flies day outside. wyatt will be back with his full forecast in about six minutes. we want to get to an investigation that's been months in the making. it impacts all of us. trust is paramount when it comes to the relationship with your doctor. right now abc2 news investigator joce sterman sheds light on the doctor's secret oar it was heartache and anger that went on for years for this family. they lost a mother and wife and had to wait half a decade for justice. she had a lit in her eyes that shined through, even in these old family pictures. >> she loved to dance. >> reporter: in the where the of 2005 janet hannan knew she would have a shining moment. her youngest son was getting

married and help is wanted to look her best. he is wanted plastic surgery. >> i didn't take her seriously. you don't need to do something like that. >> reporter: but on february 23rd, janet went forward with a tummy tuck, liposuction anding attar procedures. the board certified surgeon handled the procedure, a surgery that lasted nearly 10 hours. >> he said she's not coming home, we're going to keep her. i didn't know that wasn't proper procedure. >> reporter: medical records show janet was kept overnight at ramirez' clinic, which was located in this timonium building. she was taken to her home in parkville the next day. >> i slept on the floor right next to her. she would get up and she was cognizant. >> reporter: mike hannan spent

two nights next to the couch where his wife lay sleeping. on the morning of february 26th, he woke to find his soul mate was gone. >> was hoping maybe it was a bad dream, but it wasn't. >> reporter: this family's nightmare was just beginning. an autopsy listed the cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia. as the hannans pursued their case, they learned shocking information about janet's surgeon. >> later fond out the doctor didn't have any wmátráal privileges. >> reporter:ñr state recordsi]qá privileges afterñr givingñrxdñic =%ree yearscñrñig the type of clinic ramirez was running wasn't supposed to keep

patients overnight or do procedures longer than six hours and he had lost a patient five months before janet died. >> i hope no one has to go through this again like we do. i mean, it's devastated. it's devastating. >> reporter: devastation further compounded by legal battles. court files showed the hannans sued ramirez and settled with him. then the doctor filed bankruptcy listing $66,000 in assets with $400,000 debt to the hannans. >> even though time passes and you heal a little bit and things start to become a distant memory, then five years later you get the thing from the physician. >> reporter: this was a letter saying the board had revoked dr.

ramirez' license saying he failed to meet the standard of care and janet and the man who died before her. the board's final decision came six years, four months and 17 days after janet's death. >> it's broken. it' -- it's a broken system. >> reporter: a broken system that allowed this to happen. what memories do you hold on to? >> just the bond between us, the caring, warm embrace, kiss good night. holding her hand, dancing the jitter bug. it might sound funny, but we danced very well.

people would say look at that couple. they really fit. >> reporter: janet hannan was a medical fraud investigator. even she didn't know all the questions to ask her doctor. we had plenty of doctors. we wanted to hear ramirez side of the story. ramirez said his revocation is underway and he is confident he will be reinstated. he said the only reason the board took his license is because he did lengthy stays and not because two of his patients died. we will expose delays that allow doctors to continue seeinglpxdlp  the>"&ard was notexdxd findxd andñrxdñit([wv we'll explainq hi doctórvd to move to other stats after losing their licenses.

abc2 news, joce sterman. temperatures cooling down some today but still way above average. as we check maryland's most powerful radar all gone, all out to sea, so a clear scenario as we go through the rest of the evening. we've got 47 at bwi. winds northwest at 22 so things cooling down. it makes you wonder a little bit. this was oh, so right. he did see the dreaded shadow this morning saying six more weeks of winter. you know, there was some sun in punxsutawney today. it was almost a foregone conclusion that he would see that shadow. six more weeks of winter, maybe the six new weeks of winter. we haven't had much one yet. annapolis today, blue skies and a few passing clouds. long shadows over the building in baltimore today. i did not see any. i heard our leopard at the zoo

say an early spring. i'll take the leopard. he's way bigger than our groundhog. so i'll take the leopard's prediction. temperatures across thet( state mid-40s. 32 in theñi mountains. not a lotçóq of variety. trying ,ob funnel. milesqçóñiñiiñi an hour. so anything outside that clan blow around, trash can lids, you name it, some recycling, just make sure it's secure. it will be breezy. 60 almost still for a high today. compare that to 70. that was a 10, 12-degree cooldown. i'll say we will get just above 50 in the heart of the city and around the harbor but most spot also not be that warm. most spot also struggle to get out of the 40s, a cool disaip and, in fact cooler still saturday into sunday.

this looks like things will remain dry after those early morning showers roll out. dry early tomorrow and dry saturday. when do things change? we got a big high pressure bubble centered over tennessee, the knoxville area. mass it continues to slide east tomorrow, we'll let winds go away. it will bring in not just sunshine but a bright dry scenario. cool tomorrow has this settles in, upper 40s. we'll watch the next storm carefully coming out of the country's mid-section. this could be showers, maybe some wintry type showers in western maryland, but tonight none of that. dry,/õj=eát(ák 32. certainly cooler. 50 tomorrow, mostly sunny,ñr but p &c tomorrowe1 night down toñi 34 wó no carrierringconnect 10

>> remember, you can still go to the zoo, even in the winter. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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