apartment. they went inside and found that video. that's when they were able to make the arrest and file the charges. according to the george mason university website, jam james feldcamp was a former special agent with the fbi and a u.s. navy commander. from 2008 to 2016 he was an adjunct professor on campus, teaching a specialty course in theory and practice of terrorism. that's how say he met a student he was involved with. >> she was not one of his students at the time of the incident. >> reporter: the incident police investigated started in september. ashley savage with the arlington police department says the adult student told police she found a camera inside feldcamp's arlington apartment. she then saw a video of a sexual encounter she had with the professor but says she didn't give permission for the incident to be recorded. fe femp

it wasn't a big deal. that's when the woman called police. >> we were able to execute a search warrant, locate a film and charge him appropriately. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the university says they're aware of the charges and says he no longer works with gmu and they're cooperating with the police investigation. >> he has the background. he knows that should be wrong. so obviously there's some issues there. >> reporter: even though students won't be seei seeing feldcamp around campus anymore, they're still shocks that one of their professors was arrested. >> yeah. that shouldn't happen at all. i don't understand why someone would do that. it's just kind of creepy. >> reporter: we've made several attempts today to reach out to james feldcamp but he has not returned our calls. we head over now to storm team 4 now with a dreary day, another one, folks, all around our washington region. >> but the rain is starting to

>> milder air moving in. in fact, temperatures are going to be climbing. we'll probably get our warmest temperatures of the day right before midnight tonight. we still have a little bit of lingering mist falling from low overcast. there is our prince george's county camera. live there at national harbor showing the capital all lit up. we've got that low gray sky. it's going to stay with us here into the evening hours. but the rain has kpexited the metro area, now crossing the bay. off to our west, they're getting a few sprinkles in the central shenandoah valley. might get a few areas of some drizzle and a few sprinkles over the next couple of hours as this main area of rain pulls away. culpepper, 53. that milder air is going to begin to move on in and will be

some patchy fog. by tomorrow a little sun breaks out. a look at big changes on the way toward inauguration day and the weekend in just a few minutes. the search for whoever shot and killed that woman in a wheelchair in d.c. now the interim police chief is calling it senseless and asking the public to help find that shooter. this evening we are also hearing from the victim's family. pat collins is in downtown d.c. >> reporter: they're offering a $25,000 reward in the vivian marrow murder case. but if you know something about this, you should make that call for free. it was a broad daylight murder that stunned our city. 68-year-old vivian marrow, mother of three, grandmother of 11, an innoce

gunned down in her wheelchair as she was on her way to the corner store. today, an impassioned plea from police chief pete newsome. he wants help from the public to get this killer off the street. >> vivian was making her regular trip to a local market in her community in her wheelchair. a grown man who apparently had some kind of beef or dispute with someone else felt it was okay to fire multiple shots in this neighborhood. guess what? that reckless behavior has resulted in the death of a beloved community member. >> reporter: new today, police say they believe it may not have been a turf war gunfight, but the act of a lone gunman out to avenge some sort of beef. there was a man shot and

in the incident, but police say it's unclear what role he may have in all of this. in the meantime, the marrow family continues to mourn the loss of its matriarch. they set up a go fund me page to help offset funeral expenses. miss marrow's son has called for the killer to turn himself in. >> sitting around with the guilt knowing that you did something like that, eventually you're going to realize that you did a whole lot to a whole lot of people and somebody is going to say something. you might as well turn yourself in. >> reporter: at 6:00, we're going to talk about the crime camera at the murder seen and some strange bullet holes there. we want to take you now live to capitol hill where the senate confirmation hearing for betsy devos is about to get underway. devos is trump's pick

education secretary. she is a champion of charter schools and school voucher programs. teacher's unions say devos wants to mismantle public education. before the hearing, there were long lines of people waiting to get inside to hear the proceedings. devos is expected to say that parents should be empowered to choose the best learning environment for their own children. new details tonight in that police involved shooting out of herndon. we brought you this story as breaking news at this time yesterday. investigators have now identified the suspect as a 32-year-old man. david culver joins us from the neighborhood with the latest. >> reporter: i'm just confirming with police right now some new details that we can now report to you. they tell us this all started as a fight between the suspect, mohammed azim and his girlfriend.

suspects two brothers showed up at this townhouse where he was living. at some point it escalated. gunfire. the brothers were both shot by the suspect. i also spoke today with a friend of the suspect, portraying a very different picture, describing him as azim, the dream, a loving person. not wanting to show her face, letting her emotions pour out. >> i hung out with him every day for the last eight months. >> reporter: this friend describing him as an amazing, loving person. >> he really really cared. he cared so much about his brothers. he didn't mean to do that. >> reporter: chopper 4 giving you the unique and raw perspective monday. it shows police using a flash bang. you then see a man step out. that's azim, according to investigators. he goes back in. moments later he steps through the doorw a

knife. police opened fire, ultimately killing the 32-year-old. a neighbor shares a wall with azim's house. police knocked on her door. >> they told me get out, get out as soon as i can. >> reporter: as swat responded, a fourth person messaged police, telling them that he was trapped inside the house. meanwhile a fire began to burn. today you can see the aftermath of the flames from the neighbor's deck. officers first responded to the home after two brothers called 911, reporting they'd be shot inside. azim's friend telling me, those victims were the suspect's own siblings. >> what i think happened was accidental shot to one. other one wanted to stop it, then he got shot. even the last message he sent to me on snapchat was i love your

energy, i love when you're happy. i just want you to be happy. >> reporter: police also confirming to me tonight that the officer who fired that deadly shot is a 16-year veteran of the fairfax county police department. a prince george's county police officer accused of taking inappropriate photos of women has pleaded guilty. he admitted to taking upskirt photos of women. two of his victims had their picture taken when they were pulled over. the investigation was launched when an off duty officer witnessed him doing this upskirt photographer. metro is set to receive nearly $2 million to help the transit agency improve track safety and the workers who maintain them. virginia senators mark

and tim kaine announced the award of 1.9 million from the federal transit administration today. that money will help outfit track workers with bands to alert them of incoming trains. a woman is recovering this afternoon after her car plunged into the anacostia river near the 11th street bridge. rescue crews say the woman was already out of her car by the time they arrived. dive teams were called in to go down and check on the car just to make sure flofs othere was n else inside. >> sometimes even if people say there's nobody else there, we like to make sure on our own that that is indeed the case. >> crews have removed the vehicle from the water. not sure what caused the woman to drive the car into the river. a controversial

halls of the capital has officially been removed. >> the architect of the capital yanked it after complaints. it depicts a police officer as a pig pointing a gun at a black panther. it came from a high school student in ferguson, missouri, part of a nationwide art competition. the congressman representing that district says he'll fight to get it back up on the wall. saying the architect of the capital acted to address the free speech rights of my constituent. when we come back, more on the breaking news from the white house this evening. president obama's decision to commute chelsea manning's prison sentence. this wasn't the only controversial announcement. russian president vladimir putin accusing the obama administration of trying to undermine

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intelligence officer chelsea manning. manning has been locked up since 2010 and now will be free come may. >> more than 100,000 people petitioned this white house for the pardon of chelsea manning. president obama, say senior officials here, wants to be known as the president of second chances, which is why, they say, especially in the final days of his white house tenure here, he has commuted more than 1300 individuals, most of them sentenced to long terms for drug violations. that's the motivation. the specifics are, the sentences commuted of chelsea manning formerly known as bradley manning who was sentenced to 35 years, now could be freed in may after seven years. manning was busted in

700,000 files and videos and leaking them to wikileaks. julian assange said arguing for the commutation of the sentence, if manning is let out of prison, i will allow myself to be extradited to the u.s. no word on whether that will actually happen. but a lot of people watching this with more interest than just what happens to chelsea manning. manning admitted gi ted guilt wa plea deal, expressed remorse. disclosed she was transgender, anxious, depressed, suicidal. sentence not commuted because he's not sentenced yet but pardoned is general james cartwright. he was a top pentagon general, pleaded guilty three months go

was facing two years in jail for lying to investigators about leaking to reporters about the u.s. and israeli cyber attack on the iran nuclear arm s program. you remember the so-called stux virus. reporters said and general cartwright said in the investigation and his trial that he leaked to confirm to reporters that there had been that cyber attack so they would not publish it. the reporters he talked to asked for him to be pardoned. so summing up, obama says he wants to be known as the second chance president. chelsea manning could be out of jail in may. general cartwright will never go to jail. russian president vladimir putin is accusing the outgoing obama administration of spreading fake allegations. today putin described that

unverified dossier on donald trump as an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the president-elect. >> reporter: an extraordinary allegation by vladimir putin and extraordinary that the russian president is riding to the defense of president-elect donald trump. vladimir putin didn't name president obama, but it was pretty clear his intention. he said we're seeing a continuing and heated political struggle in washington. even though the election is won and donald trump was the convincing winner. >> translator: some are obvious. the first one is to undermine the legitimacy of the u.s. president-elect. and i want to stress that people who do that, whether intentionally or not, they harm the interests of the united states significantly. >> reporter: he also talked about certain allegations against donald trump, which he said for obviously false. he said

those allegations are worse than prostitutes. he compared the situation in washington today with ukraine in 2014. he said it was like a revolution, an attempt eed coup d'etat. he has spoken on several occasions for donald trump and against president obama. we are now less than four days from the inauguration of trump. since thomas jefferson was sworn in as president, the same band has played at every inauguration with different people obviously. >> hard to believe this friday the united states marine band continues that tradition. it is the 55th time the band has played. >> reporter: the

rich with history. the aband's most famous directo john fiphilip souza. she graduated from west potomac high in alexandria. >> in high school i won the john philip souza award in band. almost a premonition of what's happening now in my life. >> reporter: will be her fourth inauguration. it should be her fifth. >> i came down with the stomach virus the night before, so my first one ended up being george w. bush. to have grown up in the mid

all of this, i feel lucky. >> reporter: diaz is the son of cuban immigrants. he says he's grateful for what they went through to give him this opportunity. >> my grandfather and my grandmother struggling so much to get to this country and really making a huge impact on me. >> reporter: on friday as staff sergeant diaz is playing for the president of the united states, he'll be thinking of what his family and so many immigrant families went through to become u.s. citizens. >> i'll probably be thinking about my grandfather and the struggles that he had coming to this country and establishing himself and working hard and then my parents as well giving me so much. >> reporter: the marines will be playing for the inauguration come from 36 different states and the district of clum b.c.

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our sunset was about ten minutes ago. it is quickly getting dark. here's a live view from our storm team 4 city camera over looking the bridges crossing the potomac there near the mon monuments. you can see a little bit of light fog in the air. what to wear for tomorrow? you need a jacket in the morning and then just a sweater in the afternoon as mild air pushes in. you'll need your sunglasses, a welcome trend for tomorrow. you won't need the umbrella tomorrow. right now around the region we have visibilities dropping a bit because there's a little bit of fog around. down to a half a mile at dulles. frederick is about a mile. right around washington around the bay, visibility is about four to five miles.

quantico is down to about a mile visibility as well. patchy fog is beginning to form in the wake of the rain that came on through and left a quarter of an inch. now it's passing across the eastern shore. we have a couple of sprinkles off to our west and north. those sprinkles may be getting into our western suburbs here in an hour or so and some other lighter sho eer showers crossinn maryland. temperatures now are beginning to get milder. it's up to 50 degrees, the warmest so far today at reagan national. fredericksburg is at 55. this milder air creeping up from the south on a southerly breeze. the metro area and much of the region, our temperatures climbing and holding steady in the mid 50s. our warmest temperatures of the day coming in

self-ho several hours. by dawn tomorrow, it will be right around 50 degrees. some patchy dense fog tomorrow morning. otherwise some welcome sunshine returning. for your lunch hr tomorrow, we'll be into the mid 50s. then getting back home at the bus stops, it will be hovering in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees with some sunshine. look at our trend here on the storm team 4 ten-day outlook. each day, highs in the 50s for the next ten days. our average high this time of year is in the low 40s. we will stay above freezie inin well in the mornings. on inauguration day, friday in the morning, right around 40 degrees. during the afternoon, looks like we'll have some rain coming in. right now the timing looks to be after the

after that we dry out for the weekend. great weather for saturday and sunday and more rain coming out sunday night into monday. dry after that into next week. prince george's county police investigate after a husband is accused of stabbing his wife and father-in-law and then turning a knife on himself. >> reporter: mayor muriel bowser joined the fight again today. i'll have the story coming up. on the brink of a repeal, obamacare, attitudes about it are changing. it has never been more popular. coming up, we're going to take a look at what a new plan might look like under the trump administration.

a husband is accused of stabbing his wife, her father, then himself. >> this seen played out in upper marlboro. tracee wilkins tells us how an off duty officer is credited with saving that woman and her father. >> reporter: it was a most unusual sight in this quiet neighborhood, a mother and father bloodied from stab

homes to get to an off duty police officers house. prince george's county corporal larry lawson says he immediately went into rendering first aid to his neighbors. >> through my training and through the experience on my job, it was just like, you know, step in, do what i need to do. i know what to do, apply the first aid, call for assistance and continue to do my job. >> reporter: it all unfolded this morning in the 9600 block of pom ppei drive. a husband stabbed his wife and father-in-law before turning the knife on himself. >> we went back to the residence and made contact with the potential suspect and placed him in custody without incident. we did observe that he was also suffering from a trauma to the upper body that we believe to be sel self-inflicted. >> reporter: then corporal lawson volunteered to

family dog until they could return home. this neighbor says she's not at all surprised by lawson's acts of kindness today. she said that's how all of the neighbors here see this police officer. >> you're thinking you don't want to bother him, you know, he's off duty when he's in his home. but he's never off duty. he's just a great guy. >> reporter: prince george's county police say all three of the individuals involved should be okay, although the wife and the husband have serious stab wounds. three law enforcement officers ended up in the hospital today when a driver crashed into a county police car on montgomery avenue at 270. according to police, a montgomery county officer stopped to check on a disabled car and its driver. two other officers pulled over to help. that's when a driver hit all three of them. prince george's county police have now

charged four suspects in the death of a local rapper. khalil wiggins was found shot and killed on december 29th. police believe the motive was robbery. the four suspects are charged with first and second detectigr murder. they're being held tonight without bond. police tell us they all admitted their involvement in the killing. as we get closer to donald trump's inauguration, local and national community groups are concerned about changes to america's immigration policies. >> in fact, today in the district mayor muriel bowser joined a group of city mayors who plan to resist any new deportation efforts. >> reporter: the latin american youth center in northwest d.c.'s columbia heights. each day brings meetings and classes on immigration issues. >> this is a here to stay mural banner that our young people

have designed. >> reporter: center director lorie kaplan was explaining a here to stay banner that will hang outside the center on inaugural day. >> it's a statement about our commitment to immigrants in the united states, in the district of colombia. the role they play in our society. >> reporter: the center says too many family lives are being disrupted and people are fearful over threats of deportation. at a panel of the u.s. conference of mayors downtown, mayor muriel bowser agreed. >> people are scared out of their minds. they don't know what's coming. >> reporter: the mayor said they would resist any efforts by the new trump administration to get them to enforce federal immigration laws. new philadelphia mayor jim kenn kenney too. >> it's not about law and order. it's about this idealogical hate of people who are different. if these immigrants werehi

europeans, this would not be a conversation. >> reporter: mayor bowser recently pledged $500,000 in local city taxes to help nonprofit lawyers defend immigrants. and the mayor said they'd sue in federal court if necessary to defend their actions. in the district, tom sherwood, news4. we're getting our first look at the official inaugural gifts for the new president and vice president on inauguration day. lennox has created two engraved crystal bowls. the president's gift features a picture of the white house over looking the jefferson memorial. the vice president's gift shows an image of the capitol over looking the lincoln memorial. we have you covered all day long and we'll be right on your phone this friday. as we like to say on the phone, anything is possible and can happen. make sure you download the nbc washington app

we will be talking about all things d.c. and inauguration. that's all day long from a cafe on capitol hill where they have great food. >> it's the bayou bakery 9th and penn southeast. >> what time are you starting? >> 6:45 in the morning. that's when i get there. a day after donald trump is sworn in, hundreds of thousands of people will converge on the national mall for the women's march on washington. >> coming up, we're going to hear from a lifelong activist, a woman who has been marching for dek decades. today's national kid inventor's day. coming up, we're got the story of one local childho came up w

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did you know 311 years ago today one of our can you wantou founding fathers was born, benjamin franklin. we celebrate kid inventors day. one local child recently created plastic that's better for the environment and discovered a new

involves pumpkins. >> reporter: after halloween has come and gone, all those pumpkins usually fall right into the trash. over a billion pounds of them each year, according to the department of agriculturagricul. when it came time to select a science fair project, he picked the pumpkin problem. >> my project wanted to address this problem and turn those wasted halloween pumpkins into a usable product. >> reporter: that product, a combination of pumpkin seed oil and several chemicals and voila, fuel that could rone day run yor car. >> i just like to help people. science is all about connecting dots. i experience such great joy when i connect those dots. >> reporter: these connections also led him to pumpkin

they're very flexible. >> reporter: yang says the next step is putting these bags in stores. the pumpkin starch makes them durable and they should cost next to nothing. >> they could be used for dog waste bags, food wrap, gift wrap. >> reporter: his products break down in just a few months, while normal plastic takes millions of years. >> we love this guy. well, this other thing created quite a stir online. preorders for a drone, one of a kind. details on that crowd funding campaign that never took off. what happened when nbc 4 responds got involved. decades later she is joining the women's march on washington. coming up, why at ag

mesa didn't think twice about joining in. and the rain is long gone exiting the region, a look at

d.c.'s interim police chief is asking someone to come forward in the deadly shooting of a woman in a wheelchair. vivian morrow was shot in southeast yesterday on her way to a local market.

may have been targeting someone else. today we learned a former george mason university professor is now facing misdemeanor charges. james feld cacamp is accused of taping a sexual act with a student. he no longer works at the school. few can match the profile of a fairfax county woman who is 90 years old. >> reporter: at age 90, this former teacher and ballroom dancer now relies on a cane for balance. but daliah mesa says she didn't think twice when she heard about the women's march. >> well, i knew immediately that

i was going. i think our nation is facing a tremendous challenge to get through this presidency. but he has ideas that are contrary to our freedom, to our rights many many areas. and i wanted to speak up. zblrvelg >> reporter: she remembers in the 60s joining demonstrators to protest u.s. involvement in the vietnam war. >> it was an experience that makes me proud to be an american. >> reporter: mesa is also proud to say she's the daughter of cuban immigrants. she'll be joined by two generations of her family. they'll march as she rolls in a wheelchair the family is hoping to pick up on craigs list. >> its will be joyous. we'll all be there telling mr. trump that he is not going to change our rights and our freedoms in this country. he is not going to run over women's rights. >> reporter:

troubled about efforts to repeal the affordable care act. >> we cannot abandon europe, we cannot abandon nato. >> reporter: she says she doesn't worry a bit about whether she'll be okay in a kro crowd of demonstrators. >> i've never been concerned about safety and security. i've been concerned about issues. >> reporter: to the younger marchers on saturday, simply the presence of a 90 year old woman in their midst will likely speak volumes. what a drab and draeary day out there. >> wasn't drab. it was dismal. i know you want to get in your ten-mile run tonight. >> you know i do. i don't want to ruin my 'do. >> to get your exercises

evening, you're going to be maybe jumping over some puddles. here's your exercise forecast for the evening. a lot of runners out there in the evenings. watch out for them if you're going to be out driving around. temperatures getting milder, low 50s. patchy fog around. wear some light colored clothing to be able to be seen better as well. there's the fog looking down from our storm team 4 tower camera. the visibility out at dulles, down to a half a mile. down to a mile in frederick. quantico's visibility down to about a mile or so. that rain has exited, now moving east and pulling away from the eastern shore. we've had a couple of sprinkles off to our west. those are tracking across western maryland now. temperatures are getting milder, already climbing into the 50s in northwe northwe northwestern

climb into the 50s this evening. by dawn tomorrow, right around 50 degrees with patchy fog overnight into tomorrow morning. during the latter part of the morning, increasing sunshine. by the afternoon tomorrow, soaring to near 60 degrees. what month is this? this can't be january. look at this, highs in the 50s each day for the next ten days. and we don't have freezing temperatures in the mornings either. we'll be hovering in the upper 30s and upper 40s. then on thursday, we'll be get into the mid 50s. then all eyes on inauguration day. maybe a little sun in the morning. then by the afternoon, increasing clouds. and there is a chance of light rain. right now the timing looks like it will be after the swearing in ceremony, maybe coming in around 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon and ending late on friday night. saturday looks great, partly

sunny. sunday increasing clouds ahead of another rainmaker coming in on sunday night. occasional rain on monday. these could be some downpours on monday. dry after that. highs in the 50s each day toward the end of next week. nbc 4 responds to an alexandria woman who took a chance on a startup company. then she got burned. >> she preordered a drone with the promise it would be delivered in a few months. it never came. >> that's when she contacted our consumer reporter susan hogan for help. >> after we heard from this woman, we started digging around. what we found were thousands of other customers just like her all wondering why this drone company suddenly went silent. well, our poking around paid off. check this out. on this company's website an autonomous flying camera that follows you around and it's watero

birthday present. >> annie became intrigued enough to preorder one for $500 in june 2015. the lily camera launched its campaign and hit social media with a vengeance, asking drone enthusiasts to trust in them and preorder the product still under development. >> i knew from their materials that it was going to take a little while, maybe six months. they were finishing some testing. but i never suspected it was going to take 18 months. >> according the company's social media posts, it raised $4 million for 60,000 units by the end of 2016. but the promise of delivery kept getting pushed back. >> it's coming. now we want your shipping address. now it's coming in december. now it's january. like little carrots. >> customers took to the company's facebook page to voice their frustration. feels like a scam. a lot of excuses. howan

really disappointed. i've had enough. so did annie. >> there's no phone number. there's no address. there's no nothing. so i knew that maybe you would be able to get in touch. i'm delighted that you have. >> nbc 4 responds reached out to lily robotics. we e-mailed, posted on twitter, facebook, messaged the ceo on his linked in account. while we never heard back from the company, less than 12 hours later look what arrived in annie's inbox. the subject of the e-mail says it all. the end of our journey. in an e-mail to its customers lily's founders expressed sadness over ever diminishing funds and efforts to secure financing unsuccessful. they did say, though, refunds will be offered. a follow-up e-mail confirms annie's refund is on its way. are you glad you reached out to us? >>

thank you very much. >> and we still never heard from the company. meantime, the federal trade commission warns before investing your money into a crowd funding site, check to see if the creators launched over products successfully. also check the creator's background to see if they delivered what they promised. give us a call at 844-nbcdc-44. the affordable care act has never been more popular according to a new poll. but with republicans looking to repeal and replace it many are wondering how will everyone have access to insurance without obamacare as president-elect trump is promising. what republicans are sugge

for the first time more people believe it's a good idea. >> there are stillue

what the replacement will look like. one of the concerns surrounds the most popular parts of that law, protecting people with preexisting conditions. >> new numbers out from the nonpartisan congressional budget office really painting the picture of what could happen if obamacare is repealed but not replaced. 18 million people would lose insurance coverage very quickly. that number would grow to 32 million over ten years and insurance premiums could double. the republican leader of the house, paul ryan, is saying wait a minute, those numbers are meaningless because they don't take into account what the plans might be to replace obamacare with something else. one issue on the table is whether there might be a new category of insurance only for high risk individuals, people with preexisting conditions and really expensive conditions. that has been tried in the past. in fact, before obamacare, more than two doz

something like that, a high risk insurance pool. the trouble was it cost so much money to keep that pool going, that many states said it was simply not viable. they couldn't afford it and they were turning down people who had preexisting conditions. so this has led to a lot of ang v anxiety among people. they want to make sure they're covered under any new replacement plan for obamacare. first at 6:00 tonight, breaking news from the white house. in two high profile criminal cases. >> we go to chris lawrence at the live desk with the late breaking details. >> president obama just pardoned one of the nation's highest ranking officers. retired marine corps general

he also commuted the sentence of chelsea manning. that story focused on a clan december tine effort to use a computer virus. the journalists asked the court for leniency and other supporters claim cartwright was trying to talk the times out of publishing that story, not intentionally leaking classified information. the general was supposed to be sentenced at the ends of the month. the other case involves chelsea manning, the american soldier who put wikileaks on the map by leaking thousands of military and diplomatic secrets. manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. so far she's served 7. manning is also a transgender woman incarcerated at a male military prison and tried to commit suicide twice las