w-4 which would take her all the way home. police told them that the intended target of the shooting gra grabbed her and used her as a human shield. she is the one who died. >> she was just a busy young lady. people say she was a good gierl. that's how people always describe her, as a good girl. >> reporter: she graduated from syracuse university and got a advanced degree at ball street. journalism was her passion as was her community. she managed to meld them both into her work. >> she could have worked at any news media organization she wanted to. she had the credentials, the expertise, the knowledge. but she sacrificed and she stayed in ward 8. >> reporter: milton wrote for capital community news. they put out publications such as "the hill rag" and "east of the river." sharniece was a regular contributor to the publications. the editor characterized her as the quintessential intrend reporter. her family was proud of her achievements and proud of how she lived. amid their grief, they're trying to come to terms of how she died. >> through no fault of her own.

you draw the recommend be om pence of the bullet. >> and i pray for the person who did this. i pray for them. >> reporter: so far there have been no arrests in connection with the shooting. derrick ward, news4. coming up is the aix, we'll hear from the editor at sharniece milton's newspaper. her boss describes her as a fearless reporter. now to a major highway in our area transformed into a crime scene today. right now police still looking for whoever opened fire right in the middle of the mourn commute. one person is dead, another injured after that shooting along the anacostia freeway or 295. news4's megan fitzgerald has been talking to drivers today, live now at the scene. megan? >> reporter: jim, frankly a lot of drivers we spoke with say there's shock that somebody would be so brazen enough to open fire during a rush hour commute with people all around. now, police do say that they received a lot of 911 calls but so far no arrests.

the morning commute on 295 can be stressful. >> it's slow. there are a lot of cars. >> reporter: but around 8:45 thursday morning, scary was a more accurate description for many drivers. >> it's frightening, really. >> reporter: d.c. police say someone drove up to the driver's side of this suv in broad daylight and opened fire, killing the driver and injuring his passenger. chief cathy lanier says the suv could have been targeted. >> what we believe is that there was another car that was following this suv out in virginia before they even entered the district. >> reporter: for hours police shut down northbound traffic on 295 while they collected evidence. and drivers looked on in disbelief at the aftermath of a shooting that likely could have injured many others. >> i try to keep my head cool as much as possible, here and everywhere. you never know what people are going to do. >> reporter: now, this investigation continues to try

and find who the suspector or suspects are and how this all started. investigators do say that the victim with non-life threatening injuries is talking to police for them to gather more information. we will continue to follow this story coming up at 6. back to you. >> megan fitzgerald. thank you. we had another steamy day. boy did it get hot out there. but we have some relief heading our way. >> oh, we do. doug, what can we expect through this evening? >> one the warmest days we've seen this year, high today of 92 degrees. take a look at the rest of the numbers. it was hot everywhere. the good news not quite as humid as it was just a few days ago. that 92 that we saw today would have felt more than 95 96 degrees. right now the high temperature in fredericksburg 91 88 toward winchester. storm team4 radar showing some showers and thunderstorms but notice we told you yesterday they would be south of d.c. that's exactly where we are. north of d.c. not much going on at all. we saw one shower in montgomery county, that's about it. fredericksburg, orange county, madison county, then we look toward falkier county

warrenton, tracking this storm over the last hour as it's been building very slowly to the south. this is very heavy rain that we're seeing with this storm. look at the one around manassas, down toward nokesville this one has had a little bit of lightning and thunder. once again, they're not moving a whole lot so they will continue to dump very heavy rain on those areas. tonight's headlines, continuing on the hot side we'll see some weekend storms, some of them could be strong, maybe even severe. i'll break down which day has a before day for storms. plus, turning much cooler. 92 today. maybe only 62 by early next week. tonight news4 confirms d.c. officials knew about dangerous levels of lead at the city's largest homeless shelter, and they did nothing about it. that's one of the findings of an internal review done after news4's mark segraves first broke this story about lead in the shelter. mark joins us now live from southeast with new details. mark? >> reporter: yeah, jim. hundreds of families and children still live inside the district's largest homeless shelter just a few blocks from

rfk stadium. this report reveals that nearly every room in this facility tested positive in recent tests for some traces of lead. and, while the vast majority of them were not dangerous levels this report also reveals that district officials knowingly allowed families to live in several rooms that did have dangerous lead levels. >> it clearly is unacceptable that there were any hazards determine in 2014 that were not immediately addressed. >> reporter: testing committeed in april of last year found seven rooms with dangerous lead levels. despite those findings families with children were allowed to live in those rooms until now. >> when those seven room were identified and the eighth, we moved families from those rooms, physically we did not use that space. and what i'm saying now is that, whatever the lead hazard is in that room has been addresses. those rooms are now back in service. >> reporter: the district's department of environment began

testing the d.c. general facility after two young children tested positive for elevated levels of lead. initial finds uncovered lead paint chips in a cafeteria and common area shared by families. that area was sealed off. mayor bowser then ordered a complete inspection of the building. the district's department of health offered free lead testing to all residents of the shelter. lead poisoning typically originates in old chipping paint and can cause physical and mental problems and has been linked to low i.q.s. the report ordered by the bowser add main straigs also found lead throughout the facility hundreds of rooms tested positive for potential lead hazards. >> the 200 that you refer to that are evidence of lead-based paint in those areas, but the amounts of lead-based paint and the condition of those areas do not pose a health risk. >> reporter: right now as we speak, families inside the shelter are being notified about

the results of this report right here. what we can tell you is that so far none of the children who have been tested in the past week for lead have tested positive for elevated lead levels. now, coming up at 6:00, those seven or eight rooms that did test positive for high levels back in 2014, they have been occupied by several families over the course of that year. at 6 i'll tell you what's being done to track those families down and what's being done to make sure something like this never happens again. wendy, back to you. >> mark segraves, thank you. a woman charged in a high-profile hotel murder could be spending decades in prison. jamyra gallman pled guilty to second degree murder in the death of david messerschmitt. she admits stabbing him in the donovan hotel in the district in february. gallman's friend dominique johnson also pled guilty to robbery conspiracy. investigate rz say gallman planned to rob messerschmitt when she replied to a craigslist classified ad seeking other men.

>> for all the families involved but of course particularly the victim's family. >> it's a tragedy. it's the kind of crime that made no sense. and it should have never happened and my client feels tremendous sympathy for the victim and the victim's family. >> gallman is facing up to 25 years in prison, johnson facing 5. both are to be sentenced in august. metro making a big move today that will temporarily block controversial ads. chris lawrence in the newsroom working this story for us. >> jim, there won't be any more issue oriented ads in the metro system through the end of the year. now, this follows a court fight over a pro-israel ad that some view as anti-muslim. but a judge ruled on the side of free speech and forced metro to display those ads xs now the metro board is suspending all issue oriented ads while they review their policy. metro says the policy includeds but is not limited to political religious and advocacy ads.

we may learn more about na deadly amtrak derailment next week. congressional staffers tell the news4 i-team a house committee will call amtrak president joseph boardman to the hill. they want him to testify about what happened to train 188 after it left washington. eight people died after it derailed north of philly earlier this month. yesterday amtrak announced it's installing cameras inside train cabs to record the engineers. and there's a new investigation into some pam flepts that were delivered to people's homes in montgomery count can wri. the police want to find out whoever left anti-semitic leaflets on driveways in chevy chase this week. a community manager told "the washington post" anyone who may have seen people distributing the flyers to contact fleece. the uva student involved in a bloody arrest returned to court with some demands today. we'll tell you about the big decision that could change his fate and explain why he's coming to washington. doctors who are supposed to help patients manage their pain are now being put behind bars.

we're going to tell you about the pill mill bust at clinics all over our region. and live anthrax sent to labs. find out how this could happen and what's being done about it now. we're live from the pentagon next on news4 at 5.

a man who was on a reality show is facing 20 years in prison for making threats according to police against metro buses an trains. jeras stone coleman officially is charged with calling in threats to trains and buses across our area in the last several months, whichsome of which prompted delays and evacuations. he used a fake british accent, disguised his cell phone number when he made the threats. coleman became well known after the mtv show "catfish" featured

him on an episode who claimed to be a music producer using the name kidd cole? the man may reach a settlement with the government the gyrocopter flier. he's waving his right to a speedy trial. hughes pled not guilty earlier this month, said he landed that gyrocopter as part of a political protest and wants it back. the capitol police are still holding it. now to new question bz the shipment of live anthrax to labs in states across the u.s. including maryland and krirnlg virginia. defense officials tonight tell nbc news that the investigation is focused on the eradiation process that was intended to kill the live anthrax spores. nbc's pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski is joining us from the pentagon. jim, are defense officials still convinced there is no threat to the public? >> at this time, absolutely, jim. even though this lab, unnamed civilian lab, in maryland

discovered that what they thought was inactive anthrax was actually live anthrax when they started working it just last week. but they point out that during that time the anthrax itself never left the system, was always under the control and the rules and regulations in terms of how to handle it. so the public was never at threat. so far, even though there's evidence that there is live anthrax out there that was thought to be inactive there is no sign that anybody has contracted anthrax infection, not even suspected of that. nevertheless some 26 service members and civilians are undergoing some medical treatment. they are getting large doses of antibiotics just in case, even though they don't have any indication that they have contracted the anthrax infection.

the cdc, the centers for disease control down in atlanta is gathering up all of those samples from some 19 different u.s. military and civilian locations to atlanta to figure out if indeed there is more live anthrax and if it does indeed continue to pose any kind of threat, jim. >> nbc's jim miklaszewski live from the pentagon. mick, thank soz much. changes to white house security are now taking shape. today contractors took measurements around the grounds for that new fence. it's going to have metal spike onz the top to discourage people from climbing over it. this comes after recent fence jumpers including a man who made it inside the white house. works are going to start installing those spikes in july. our city is home to one of the fastest growing bike communities. now some d.c. officials are looking into whether we should change local laws regarding bikes. a working group of transportation and community leaders is looking at whether

any of the district's laws should change to make things safer for cyclists and pedestrians. we're told 15,000 people bike every day in d.c. transportation experts tell us a major issue is learning to share the road. >> cyclists have to respect cars and motorists and vice versa. motorists should respect the rights of cyclists and especially pedestrians, too. >> the working group is also looking at laws in other major cities for possible safety america measures to adopt in d.c. they have two meetings scheduled next month. >> we're still waiting to learn if a the council has not yet voted but sources are close to the council telling our bureau chief out there, tracee wilkins that a property tax increase will not be decided today. county xuch rashard baker wants to raise the property tax to pay for more school funding. the council is expected to

discuss a tax increase but the outcome won't be known for several weeks. supporters of maryland's former governor are raising political money on his behalf now. a new super pac is up tonight to help martin o'malley's expected presidential campaign. o'malley plans a news conference saturday in baltimore to reveal his plans for the democratic presidential race. he would join hillary clinton and senator bernie sand eshz in that democratic field. well, it's the million bucks they almost forgot about. a couple in washington state say they picked up a lottery ticket months ago forgot about it in their car before realizing they had a winner. someone broke into their car and took a pair of sunglasses but left the lotto ticket. the couple says they plan to travel to europe and fix up their house with those winnings. there are just ten spellers left for tonight's big final round of the national spelling bee. and none of them are from our area. shia made it to the finals until his work knocked him out.

and an akita of manassas spelled all her words correctly but didn't make the top ten for the finals because of her score on a written test given before the televised portion of the bee. live cover achblg the finals begins tonight at 8:00. well, we first told you about that quarry blast that didn't go as planned. well, we've now learned there's going to be some changes in store for that virginia quarry after rocks shot into holmes and businesses. washington wizards star john wall kicked off a flight but we'll explain why the basketball pro may have done nothing wrong. and you say there's a written test before the actual spelling bee? >> uh-huh. >> that's not right. out there right now, showers and a couple of storms i'm tracking plus a major change in your weather over the nexxt couple of days. i've got the forecast for you in

toward the north from the wood bridge location. weaver going to tain to see a few of these showers and storms develop in the afternoon. a couple of more toward kettering and a few more along route 50 going from d.c. toward bowie and croften. host most of us should stay dry but if you see rain it could be heavy at times. tonight 11:00, an isolated shower remaining mostly to the south. tomorrow notice we start off with a little more cloud cover but the showers move in fairly quickly here. this is by noon and already seeing a chance for a shower or thunderstorm by noon tomorrow. so tomorrow is probably the day

you want to take the umbrellas because i do think it will be a little bit more of a widespread variety shower and thunderstorm. nothing too strong, but just like today any storms will have locally heavy downpours during the afternoon. by tomorrow evening if you're heading out, friday night, looking okay i think for that, just some cloud cover but all in all we should be dry tomorrow evening. tomorrow's highs, 87 in d.c., 87 in leesburg. 90 in fredericksburg. we've been in this pattern for most of the month, an area of high pressure has been to our south and east. that's allowed temperatures to soar. we've been on the hot side, way above average, the jet stream to the north. but that pattern is changing. that area of high pressure is sliding to the south. a new one sliding in from the north that's from canada, of course, when we're talking about a northeasterly wind bringing us much cooler air to start off the month of june. how much ool cooler? we were 902 today. we'll be around 87 tomorrow. 90 on saturday. good chance of storms on sunday and then look at that, a high of only 69 on monday and only in the low to mid-60s on tuesday and possibly into wednesday.

so a much cooler pattern. sunday, by the way, some of those storms could be on the strong to severe side. that's something else we'll continue to watch for you. >> thank you, doug. thick murky floodwaters poor through homes in texas. >> and they are not out of the woods just yit. we'll show you more of the extreme conditions there and explain why things could get worse before they get better. plus a man who was beaten by police later mocked by those same officers on camera gets justice. >> reporter: virginia's campus sex assault task force has issued its final recommendation totz governor as to how to keep colleges and universities safe here in virginia. i'm david culver on george mason university's campus. coming up we'll show you what those recommendations are and

after eight months, hundreds of hours of committee meetings tonight virginia campus sexual

violence task force has issued its final recommendations to the reporter. >> david culver is live at the george mason yufrpt to look at how the proposed safety changes are being received. >> reporter: wendy and jim, this is a process that began back in august. tonight the task force has submitted 21 recommendations to the governor. they're hoping these recommendations will ultimately prevent sex assaults on virginia's college campuses. look around george mason university's fairfax campus. final exams over graduation over. virginia leaders are already planning ahead to when most classes are back in session. >> every student needs to know that their school and their state are committed to keeping them safe and encouraging their success. >> reporter: out of richmond the final recommendations from the campus sexual violence task

force. mark herring chaired the committee. >> 21 recommendations. >> reporter: we showed students some of the proposals that stood out to us a push to make it easier for victims to report a sexual assault. give them more options. >> thank god it's never happened to me but if it were to happen to me, i don't know where i would go first. so i think increasing awareness about that and increasing options is definitely step one. >> reporter: the task force wants timely warning notices issued. >> i know some parents got them, too. i think they're efficient there. >> reporter: they want to create special sexual response teams trained to handle those specific investigations. >> it should be someone that's really like trained and know whaz they're doing. >> i feel like they really are on top tv and they really care and they're actual gloily going to do something about it. >> reporter: some of those recommendations will likely have to go through the general assembly before they take effect. coming up at 6 clblg, we look at the hannah graham case, how her

abduction and death may have influenced some of those recommendations. we'll share those with you when we see you again at 6:00. back to you. now to the latest on that severe weather battering parts of our country. check out this wild surveillance video from a gym in the dayton, ohio, area. tornadoes struck in that area, along with branches flying everywhere, the wind also blew an industrial-sized a/c building's rooftop and onto a car in the parking lot below. we are also seeing some of the most dramatic moments from this week's historic flooding down in texas. this is in wimberley, texas, from this past saturday. you can see a wall of water filling up the living room of a family's vacation home. the rush of water ripped the door right off the frame and creating a whirlpool of furniture. firefighters in the area managed to get that family to safety. meantime the death toll in texas and oklahoma is growing. it's now at 23 and search crews in central texas are still

trying to accountor for nine people. hundreds of potential flood zones are being asked to voluntarily evacuate. oklahoma officials say some residents are essentially cut off because bridges and main roads are flooded out and much of texas and oklahoma are expecting more severe weather with flood watches throughout the weekend. that loudoun county quarry responsible for a rain of rocks in the sterling area last week may be in for a big change. owners of the quarry unveiled new plans today to redevelop the site. this komz just days after something went horribly wrong during blasting at the quarry, sending huge boulders through nearby homes and businesses. the new plan calls for turning the quarry into a lake and adding retail businesses, hotels and offices. i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. the federal government has charged a former capitol hill staffer with wire fraud. they say he used his status to bilk women out of $500,000.

now, robert foster is 65 years old. prosecutors say he convinced three women to give him $500,000 under false pretenses. he used to live in falls church and worked on the senate committee on commerce science and transportation for more than 40 years. right up until he retired in 2010. now, as lawyer says foster never misused his senate position, but he will be arraigned next week. wendy? >> chris lawrence, thanks. could the freddie gray case move closer to our area? it is a possibility. today the six officers who are charged in gray's death filed a request to move that trial out of baltimore. nbc's david collins has the latest on what could happen in these high-profile proceedings. >> reporter: will the six officers be tried together or separately? >> it's the prosecution that wants a consolidated trial. they want one trial for six people. it's for the convenience of witnesses. it's for the convenience of jurors. it's much less expensive to do it one time. >> reporter: but some legal

experts believe the defense may use a 1968 supreme court decision to keep pretrial statements by the defendants out of the case. >> we recording it. >> reporter: five of the six officers charged in the police in custody death of freddie gray voluntarily provided statements to investigators. what they said has not been made public. under the so-called bruton rule, a confessing defendant's statement cannot be used against a non-confessing defendant. >> you want to use bruton as a lawyer for the accused to prevent evidence coming into trial where you're not able to cross-examine that evidence. >> reporter: one of the rights of an accused person has under the sixth amendment to the u.s. constitution is the right to confront and cross-examine the state's witness against them. if all officers agree not to testify against each other, the case will fall apart. >> no. i mean, if i'm a prosecuting attorney and i have information coming from one of the co-defendants against another, i'm going to separate those two and have two separate trials. that way, i'm going to be able to use statements against the

individual and if the defense wants to call the other officer, he or she can do that. >> david collins reporting. there is much more than just a bad parking job going on here. we'll tell you how a virginia driver end up this way. >> a uva student at the center of a controversial beating caught on camera is coming to capitol hill now. we'll explain what's next for martis johnson. te'i with us on news4 atmartis.

chopper 4 above the scene in loudoun county in afternoon. a pickup truck blasted through a retaining wall on the second level of a parking garage and landed on two picnic benches below. they were not occupied at the time. this is at the town of leesburg parking garage on west market. the driver is an 85-year-old man who incurred some minor injuries. wizards star john wall

apparently had to catch a second flight back to d.c. after getting kicked off a plane in vegas. tmz reports someone traveling with wall got into an argument with another passenger on that flight and allegedly threatened that passenger. this happened before the flight took off. tmz says the alleged victim did not press charges but the pilot asked wall and his friends to leave the flight. it does not)9 appear wall had any direct involvement. no one was injured but a service weapon today while he was casingkn+ i u%ñi a group of@s robbery jt&háhp &hc%suspects. that chase send ended on 25th place in southeast whenypqpoqíqsíiyñz7 suspect's car crashed. police chief cathy lanier says the driver then backed up the vehicle and tried to ram the officers, and that's when the officer%u fired his gun. involved in a series of recent robberies in southeast. htning doesn't strike twice but apparently that's not always true. and we have the proof in video.

>> reporter: they're legitimate doctor clinics, but now the federal government wants to know what they're actually doing is distributing pills illegally. i'm tracee wilkins. nor on that coming up on news4. and we're looking at lightning increasing around our area. right now toward prince will yant county, manassas, a new storm around burke and fairfax county. i'm trackin

they looked like pain clinics in a community, but investigators say it was a cover to push prescription pills and make a lot of cash. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is in oxen hill tonight where one of the so-called pill mills is located. >> reporter: well what's really interesting about all of this is that after the indictments and the arrests and the dea agents running into this building behind me to shut down this clinic, it is still operating. and when we went in there today we saw a room full ofon patients who were waiting to be seen. but according to the u.s. attorney's office, what we were really looking at were people who were possible runners for getting illegal pills in and out of this place. >> it was a shock that it was a bust. >> reporter: those who weren't aware of what was allegedly transpiring on the top floor of

this modest oxen hill office building got an eyeful yesterday. >> when they came, you know they just rushed x(4 ', grabbed boxes and dea was there and, you know, all the agents were there. >> reporter: a federal grand jury returned three indictments, charging 16 people with participating in pain management clinics that were actually fronts for pill mills. specifically running oxycodone. >> people who were wearing suits and ties and managing medical offices. >> reporter: this week dea agents including two clinics in prince george's county. the pg wellness center in oxen hill is one of them. two staff members here at the p.g. wellness center l.l.c. no one would speak to us on camera and not allow us to talk to the doctor who runs the clinic. according to the indictment, this clinic would see at least 400 patients who received 100 pills with the street value of $30 grossing $1.2 million. the two owners of this clinic are now charged and facing the

possibility of years in prison. carlos austin who operates the barbershop on the first floor of this building said he noticed some strange activity here. >> there was a lot of parking spaces taken and in the back of the building. >> reporter: according to the indictment, no doctors were arrested. just the kboet, runners and the people who operated these places. coming up on news4 at 6, we speak with a pharmacist who was named in the indictment and gives us a better understanding of how all of this works. reporting live in oxen hill, tracee wilkins, back to you. the power of mother nature, camera was rolling when a bolt of lightning hit a church in grand isle, maine. this happened last night. it knocked some shingles off the roof, damaged some of the electrical wiring inside the church, and it's not the first time. lightning also hit this church back in 2007 setting it on fire. >> incredible stuff there. all right, doug a scorcher of a day here. >> 92.

that's the high temperature today? >> it felt like it. >> yeah, it did. that's the warmest temperature we've seen all year. we had one other day at 902, but today it's hot outside. it will continue to be on the warm and muggy side. right now we're still tracking storms and more storms continue to develop right now around the d.c. metro area as well. evening planner tonight the sun going down at 8:24 86 degrees right now, temperatures dropping through the 80s, eventually around 79 degrees by 11:00. once again, we are seeing some of those storms down to the south, north of the d.c. metro area not expecting much, but let's take a look. 88 in ft. bell voluntary 86 in college park. here rt storms. right now a little built of a line has developed around bowie toward manassas. clark county across the blue ridge right now. we'll focus in on the strongest storms. here it is around manassas nokesville, brentsville along 28. extremely heavy rain upwards of a half inch to an inch of rain. we just have seen lightning strikes, that means that just happened in towards that area. another one just offer towards the east. this one just south of burke,

right around the newington area along i-95 seeing very heavy rain there. towards lorton north of woodbridge. let's zoom in. this is the newest storm that has just now form, very heaviy rain, just south of the airport making waits toward national harbor. you can see the heavy rain along the gw park quay you'll route 1 and 495. that could pose problems as far as the commute goes this inning. and then one more km is really started to blossom. this one just south and west of bowie. these are very slow movers. we'll continue to see them moving very slow so they'll dump a lot of rain in a very short amount of time. look at the lightning associated with this one. this one right along the beltway, too, as it intersects with 214 just to the west of kettering. we'll continue to watch these storms. nothing severe but something to watch. another chance of storms tomorrow areawide. still hot, more storms likely. temperatures 83 to 89 degrees.

next couple of days we stay on the hot side. if you're heading toward the beaches friday, saturday and sunday right now the weather looking fantastic. nice on friday breezy on saturday with a high of 77 and then up to 80 degrees on sunday. now, sunday is the day that we see a front. we're going to see some storms down toward the beaches and i think a good chance of storms just about everywhere. that could mean some severe weather as well on sunday because that's a strong cold front 87 tomorrow, 90 on saturday, isolated storm yeah but most of the day saturday looks dry. just on the hot side. but there's that front, 88 on sunday ahead of that front and look at monday. high of 69, good chance of clouds and rain. we're talking just shower activity here, maybe just straight drillszzle, only 65 on tuesday with the continuing northeasterly flow. that is something we'll continue to watch. but the next couple of days, continuing to be hot before things change. the month of may has been on the hot side. june starting off way cool. >> all right doug. tough. among the victims in the catastrophic flooding in texas

and oklahoma is a texas teen anger who drown on her way home from the prom. news4's chris lawrence joins us now with the final phone call she made to her family. chris? >> her dad calls it tormenting, comforting, something he's never going to forget. thomas ramirez was talking to his daughter as her car got ose floodwaters. alyssa ramirez was 18 years old, and she had everything going for her. homecoming queen, star athlete, student coin sill president. but her car got swept off the road early sunday morning as she was coming back home from the prom. alyssa's dad talked about their last exchange. >> i said, back the car up. back the car up. she said i can't, dad. the car is tipping. i said, i'm on my way. that's the last i got to speak to her. i never got to talk to her again. it was a horrible conversation, but at the same time i got to treasure it because at least i had that conversation with her. ff's hard to even hear that.

alyssa ramirez was laid to rest yesterday. her family says they're going to remember a lot about her but the tinges that are really going to stick out are her big smile and the love that she had for others. >> chris lawrence. thank you, chris. we have some breaking news close to home in the prince george's county council. they have passed a budget that will include a 4% increase in property tax to provide $34 million for the schools. that budget also includes a 1% increase in the telecommunications tax. now, this morning sources close to those talks said the council would delay that vote, but after hours of negotiations and a late start to today's vote the council agreed to that 4% hike, which is a lot less than what the county executive rashard baker had initially requested. keeping track of your calories and how often you move is as easy as the technology made to do it for you. >> we're talking about those fitness trackers. are they accurate? >> consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here with the latest

research you'll see only on news4. >> that's right. the latest testing on fitness trackers is out, and we got our hands on it even before it's published. iowa state university is known for testing fitness monitors in its latest study its kinesiology department tested four wrist bands. it measured three categories shgz sedentary movement like working on your computer, aerobic exercise and recessance like weight machines. tonight at 11:00 and only on news4 we talk to the man who leads the research and find out which fitness trackers performed better than others. in the meantime we asked you on our facebook page to tell us what your favorite fitness trackers are. tonight at 11 we'll reveal the fitness trackers iowa state tracked and of course those results. >> all right we'll look forward to that. erika, thank you. amazon prime customers in washington and baltimore no longer have to wait a day or more for their order to arrive. today amazon began to offer free

same-day delivery to prime members in 14 metro areas, including d.c. and baltimore. that kind of service used to cost 6 bucks per order but to get your order delivered on the same day you have to place the order before noon and spend at least $35. well, he was beaten by police, and it was caught on camera. but that wasn't the only video that helped bring this case to a close. coming up next, how one victim got justice. i'm julie carey in arlington, virginia, where the battle over whether or not this curves should turn into a gun show. there are dueling petitions for

tonight his trial is set but the uva student involved in a bloody arrest in march has a demand of his own. martese johnson wants the charges against him thrown out of court. his attorneys say abc agent dz not have a reasonable suspicion to arrest johnson outside that pub in charlottesville.

he's charged with obstruction of justice and public intoxication. >> i just want to thank everyone that's been supporting me through what has been a strenuous process. and i hope that in the near future this process will end. >> the specter of police misconduct has causedis trial to be pushed back. >> the trial is set for september, but other meetings are planned with state police next week, and the alcohol control board the week after that, which may prompt prosecutors to drop the charges. justice serve nd a police brutality case in suburban detroit. today the victim settled his lawsuit with the city of inkster, michigan, after video showed an officer beating, then later mocking him. nbc breaks down the time line that led to this week's million-dollar settlement. >> i never did expect officers to do that, you know. amazing. >> reporter: weeks later, the second video of police apparently imitating and mocking

dent at the police station before taking him to a hospital. >> i'm sitting there bleeding and begging for a doctor and they're joking, high-fiving each other. i mean, that is unreal. >> reporter: if you give floyd dent the choice he would rather be broke and never have had this happen. >> money is not everything. can't buy happiness. >> reporter: but the beating did happen and dent says he hopes something good will come from it. a new beginning in inkster. >> the city of inkster needs to move on and give service to the great citizens of inkster. >> reporter: assault and drug charges against flood dent have been dropped. new assault charges have been filed against william melendez who punched dent 16 times in the head. inkster has a new police chief, two officers were suspended. now a seven-figure settlement a strong message has been sent. >> nothing like this will ever happen again in inkster.

never. all the things that they've been going through and all the things that i went through. >> now, dent says he's anxious to get back to work, and he believes if that video had never gone public he would be the one in jail. >> announcer: news4 at 6 begins with breaking news. a local reporter killed while being used as a human shield at a bus stop. tonight, we'll hear the plea from her family and the police are revealing new clues in this case. it is in fact an awful story. it's one that has the community shocked. top city officials are quite frustrated. >> sharniece milton was gunned down on her way home from work. vergtz say they're looking for a teenager with dread locks who was last seen riding a dirt bike or a moped along good hope road in southeast. police say milton was in the wrong place at the wrong time

and they believe people in that area have information about this shooting. and they want those people to come forward. >> sharniece is just a wonderful human being that was doing last night what she did every day. she was combined a live of her work with her love for her community community. >> the chief reminded anyone who wanted to come forward that they could do so anonymously. passionate words from the police chief about a young woman. tonight her boss and her parents are painting an even clearer picture of sharniece milton. derrick ward has our report. >> reporter: those who knew sharniece milton professionally say she could have worked just about anywhere she wanted with her master's degree in communication and instinct fo news, she chose to write about her own community. her death leaves a void on that beat. >> we lost one of our own yesterday. >> reporter: andrew lightman is managing editor for capitol city