police say assaye overpowered two private security guards, wrestled away a gun, a shot fired and assaye escaped in a hospital gown. >> he was shackled. >> i heard a large crash and a lady screaming. >> reporter: he allegedly carjacked two different people in fairfax county, one just blocks from the hospital, the other in annandale. he burst out of a woman's trunk and into her back seat while she was driving. >> she was standing here you need to call police, 911! >> reporter: for nine hours hundreds of heavily armed fairfax county police, the state police, the fbi, the u.s. marshals hunted him, converging on every possible sighting. >> a little scary. you look out your window and see all these police cars with policemen and their big guns, a little frightening especially for my wife. >> reporter: how he ended up on a bus in d.c. still a mystery. police say that assaye ended up in the hospital after tying one end of a bed sheet around his neck and the other around a railing on a second floor landing at the jail and then he simply jumped. that was last friday. authorities do not believe th

the judge, when he first asked him if assaye understood assaye barked "no." all of a sudden the public defender started whispering very urgently to him. the judge said is there a problem, the lawyer said no continued to whisper to assaye who from that point forward kept his head down kept his eyes on the table, and would whisper "yes, sir" whenever he was asked if he unld what was happening. he has waived his detention hear tangd judge said that he had no condition of release for the safety of the community. now, assaye was dressed in a very thin white plastic jump suit. it was open to his naval. his chest was bare. he had no shoes, no socks. he was handcuffed. he was shackled. and she was rounded at eded surrounded at all times by four uniformed u.s. marshals with more in the audience along with reporters and employees from the u.s. attorney's office. judge said he will have his preliminary hearing on friday. in alexandria i'm tisha thompson. back to you, wendy. >>> as the search for assaye moved from the hospital to the carjacking scene earlier today, polic

assaye in this case. so i must thank our community members for the support, from social media, also the media yourself here today helping us get the message out to take a violent felon off the streets of our region. so thank you. on march 20th, mr. wossen assaye was arrested by the fbi for a series of bank robberies in fairfax county and our region. mr. assaye was detained in the alexandria city jail. on march 27th, mr. assaye attempted suicide in his cell. he was then eventually transport to inova fairfax hospital for treatment of his self-inflicted injuries. while at the hospital the united states marshal service that coordinated the transportation had a private security contracted firm maintain custody of mr. assaye. at 3:00 this morning mr. assaye got into a struggle with one of the security guards and a round was discharge from the security guard's weapon. it's unknown at this time who fire the round, but fortunately no one was reported to be injured. mr. assaye then fled with the weapon into a nearb

his facebook page shows a relaxed and smiling wossen assaye. he indicates he's self-employed and attended george mason university, a fact the school disputes. assaye's criminal record paints a bleak becht. >> since october, 2013 the fbi -- picture. >> since october, 2013, the fbi and violent crimes task force has conducted investigation into 12 bank robberies that occurred in northern virginia. >> reporter: a crime spree that appeared to end march 20th when an armed -- with an armed robbery at this apple credit union in alexandria. when he was arrested, he had $1,600 in his coat pocket. assaye's criminal record is littered with felonies, breaking and entering, statutory burglary, purse snatching and a collection of lesser crimes, too, disorderly conduct, speeding, reckless driving. after multiple burglary and robbery convictions assaye was incarcerated from 2000 to 2013. assaye's method of operation in his alleged bank robbery has been strikingly similar. he enters the bank usually with a cell phone to his ear, hands a demand note to a victim t

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team arrived seconds later but assaye was gone. this wasn't the only neighborhood terrorized by that search today. coming up at 6:30 david culvert speaks with student who is got more excitement than they bargained for on their spring break. doreen? >> thanks wendy. >>> we've heard from people all day saying they saw the story unfolding live on news4. imagine watching from inside the hospital or in the neighborhood nearby. jackie bensen is outside inova fairfax hospital and continues our live team coverage. jackie? >> reporter: make no mistake, this was a terrifying incident a desperate felon, a gunshot fired inside one of the area's premier hospitals. now, while what we can tell you is that the employees inside there kept doing their job during that lockdown that lasted for four hours. ambulances headed to the emergency room were diverted to other hospitals. some surgeries were delayed. now, this afternoon i spoke on background to a number of d.c. area law enforcement officials who said they were shocked to hear that an inmate like

the man hunt for wossen assaye started at 3:00 a.m. at inova hospital, the suspect under observation after a suicide attempt several days ago at the alexandria city jail. he managed to get loose from two security officers, a man and a woman, grabbing the female's gun followed by the male officer fewering a -- firing a shot. no one was hit as assaye kept moving. >> walked down the hallway from our understanding with the female contract guard sort of as a shield. jeff: he covered a lot of ground after escaping the hospital. a carjacking that ended off backlick road another carjacking and his eventua

assaye. at 3:00 this morning, mr. assaye got into a struggle with one of the security guards and a round was discharged from the security guard's weapon. it's unknown at this time who fired the round but fortunately, no one was reported to be injured. mr. assaye then fled with the weapon into a nearby residential neighborhood where he then broke into the trunk of a resident's vehicle. the resident came out of their house and was proceeding to commute to work. while commuting to work in the area of the hospital mr. assaye started to kick out the back seat from inside the trunk. the vehicle then crashed and mr. assaye then committed a carjacking of the vehicle and fled with the vehicle. the driver of the vehicle was slightly injured and treated. mr. assaye then fled in an unknown direction. at the same time that we were looking for the vehicle, we were methodically going through every single building at the campus of inova fairfax hospital. we then around 10:30 this morning found mr. assaye's car in the annandale area a

also assaye was on probation in arlington county. and then nearly two weeks ago, he was arrested for an armed bank robbery at the apple federal credit union in fairfax county. he is also a suspect in 11 other bank robberies in northern virginia including the one you're seeing right here on surveillance video. in fact, in this robbery, the suspect got away on a bicycle. leon: a private security firm was transporting assaye at the time of his escape. alison: and now it's leading to some questions about just what went wrong here. suzanne kennedy continues our team coverage live from inova fairfax hospital where this all started. suzanne? suzanne: well, leon and alison the prisoner had been here since friday since attempting suicide at the alexandria jail for the first 24 hours he was under the watchful eye of the alexandria's sheriff's department. deputies watched him for 24 hours. after that he was the responsibility of a california based company called allied protective services. as he had two private guards detailed to him since satu

court documents show assaye has a long rap sheet. he was charged and convicted of multiple robberies and burglaries that happened in alexandria in 1998 and 1999. he was in prison from 2000 to 2013. he was out on parole but not without objection. nbc news reports a parole board document from 2012 said he posed a serious risk to the community. jump ahead to last week when assaye was arrested by the fbi in arlington. agents believe he robbed as many as 12 banks all in northern virginia. robberies date back to october of 2013. he was in jail for that charge until his trip to inova fairfax hospital last friday. pat, jim? >> while fairfax county police were busy with that manhunt another wild situation erupted on the roads in fairfax county. a high-speed chase that weaved in and out of traffic on the beltway, i-95 and along the fairfax county parkway, where the driver lakisha tracy, was finally stopped and pulled out of her truck. coming up in just a few minutes, news4's adam tuss will have more on the chase and why it started in the first

the search for wossen assaye. we are constantly updating this breaking story about the prisoner who escaped from a fairfax hospital early this morning. assaye is a federal inmate believed to have a gun. we have his picture all over our platforms for you to share. from buzzfeed more about what facebook is doing. a new facebook app wants to test your dna. scientists hope facebook users will send a tube of their spit to a laboratory. they will screen the dna to discover new links between certain genetic variance, health and disease. how about this one? this was found at yahoo!. a mother's apology getting a lot of attention today. she found out that her daughters had been rude at the movies. a woman had approached those girls telling them that their behavior had ruined the movie and that it could be a long time before she saw another one because her husband was just laid off. the mom of the rude girls found out and took to facebook to apologize and now everybody seems to be reading it. we're back in 60 seconds. >>> we

the man hunt for wossen assaye started at 3:00 a.m. at inova hospital, the suspect under observation after a suicide attempt several days ago at the alexandria city jail. he managed to get loose from two security officers, a man and a woman, grabbing the female's gun followed by the male officer fewering a -- firing a shot. no one was hit as assaye kept moving. >> walked down the hallway from our understanding with the female contract guard sort of as a shield. jeff: he covered a lot of ground after escaping the hospital. a carjacking that ended off backlick road another carjacking and his eventual arrest in southeast washington. in the first carjacking, authorities say that assaye got into the trunk later managing to kick in the back seat as the owner was driving herself to workshe was scared and stunned the car coming to a rest near a gas station. >> this lady comes running in hysterical, hyperventilating and she said help me help me someone is in my car and i was like what happened? jeff: police say he abandoned the vehicle that was

we have been telling you that with wossen assaye.usual to have a private security company? he said he can't comment on that protocall. he said that he did not know. so, what we do know is that this man over powered one of those security guards. there was a struggle for the gun. he got that gun. there was a shot that was fired. we don't know who fired that shot. no one was hurt. no one was hit. wossen assaye was barefoot at the time. he went to the scene scene. he carjacked a woman, took her silver camry. xzph153. a 2002 silver camry. we're told that woman is okay, but then wossen assaye took that vehicle and fled. we don't know where he went. police have not made contact with him. but if you see that man, take a live look at that picture of wossen assaye. he is 170-pounds, he was last seen wearing his hospital gown and barefoot. he is considered armed and dangerous because at last check, he did have that security guard's gun on him. if you see this man, you are asked to call police immediately. keep your eye out for the vehicle as we

at 3:00 a.m., assaye overpowers a female private security guard while a second guard is out of the room. he gets her gun. the second guard fires once in the hallway but misses. >> after the initial shot was fired, he walked down the hallway with the female guard sort of as a shield. >> reporter: wearing just his hospital gown assaye flees to an adjacent apartment complex and is able to get into the trunk of a car, where he hides for nearly four hours. until the car owner, a woman, starts driving to work. a couple of miles down the road he starts banging on the backseat, she's startled runs right into this lawn and carls into a car. the escapee carjacks the vehicle. with so many officers on high alert, when a truck refuses to stop for nearby police officers respond aggressively but this turns out not to be the armed suspect they're looking for. finally, 8 1/2 hours later,spotted in d.c. ten miles away and is arrested when he steps off. now that he's back in federal custody, it is expected he will face a slew of additional serious charges. david? >> david kerley tonight, david, thank you.

yeah zack gave his name as wossen assaye. the prisoner was here at inova fairfax hospital under private security guard. we don't know why he was here at the hospital. whether he was being treated for something. he was able to overpower the guard and get away with the guard's gun and is on the loose at this hour. police continuing to search for him. live here along wood burn road. it's one of the hospital entrances here just off braddock road. you can see the large police presence. s.w.a.t. team is here. they're going through this hospital looking everywhere they can for this individual. also the parking garages, this is a massive campus. there's a lot of work to do to try to figure out where this guy went to. again, armed and dangerous and wearing simply a hospital gown armed with a gun. this broke in the 3:00 hour this morning. fairfax county police say they have been looking for him ever. the roads in the area have been shut down. a lot of employees work here. they're trying to figure out what they should be doing. we've be

woosen assaye is accused of rock a dozen banks in virginia. he was being treated in a hospital after a suicide attempt when early today he overpowered a guard and took off with her gun. he was caught nine hours later as he stepped off a bus in the capitol. in switzerland, the deadline came and went today at the negotiations to stop iran from building a nuclear bomb. but all sides agreed to keep on talking, at least temporarily. margaret brennan is covering the negotiations. margaret, what's the latest. >> reporter: secretary kerry made the 11th hour decision to stay because there had been at least enough progress to merit another day of talks. the two sides are still arguing about how much nuclear fuel iran would be allowed to produce in the future and how to verify that it's solely for peaceful purposes. now, that's not the only sticking point. there's still an argument over sanctions, how and when to lift them because they've cut iran off from the global markets and iran wants them lifted immediately because they've crippled their economy. >

jummy: the suspect name is wossen assaye. john gonzalez is live near the hospital.ve minutes ago jummy:, we were getting ready to do a live report. there were police cruisers stationed all over this neighborhood the way they have been since 3:00 this morning. this is the amber leigh rate -- amber leigh neighborhood right next to the in over a hospital. -- inova hospital. police officers jumped into their cruisers and they just took off at high rates of speed making a left onto gallows road. we lost sight of them, but we could hear them coming around to the back of the neighborhood route 50 over here, and we could hear the sirens getting further and further away. we got word that there was a pursuit, police were in pursuit of a vehicle they were not sure exactly what a person was. you saw the live images of that person being handcuffed and taken away. we are not sure if this is connected in any way to the situation at the hospital with the inmate who overpowered two security guards. that manhunt has been going on for more than four hours now. we just got word, moment

again, wossen assaye have a picture up on our website, wusa9.com. keep you updated from any developments here on the scene. for now, back to you in the studio. >> our team coverage of the search for the escaped prisoner at inova fairfax hospital continues with delia goncalves. >> delia, last time we checked in, you said there were tense moments. is that still the case? >> reporter: most definitely. as we approach daybreak, 3 1/2 hours into this search, things have seemed to intensify. we have been seeing a lot more officers. state, county police officers as well as the u.s. marshal. some tactical team officers seem to be on the campus right now gathering themselves before, i believe, continuing their search. we have police on the ground and in the air searching for this gunman. and this search has seemed to only intensify as nikki has mentioned, had e is armed and dangerous and is out there, police looking for him actively. hospital has been on lockdown since 3:00 a.m. shortly after this occurred. we have been talking to a lot of employees who have

forty-two year-old wossen assaye, was taken into custody in washington tc just before noon time. police say assaye carjacked two drivers after over powering an armed guard at a virginia hospital where he was receiving treatment. good news there no one was hurt. >>> for a brief time police briefed they were following that escaped prisoner during this chase in northern virginia it happened just after 8:00 a.m. police had to ram and spin out that silver truck near falls church. the driver was eventually taun into custody. there is no word on why he was running from police. >>> you could begin seeing anti islamic advertisement on septa busies, beginning tomorrow. owe today leaders of all faiths came together to counter the had hate with love. kyw news radio community affairs reporter cherry greg has more. >> reporter: christians, jews and muslims of all races joined elect officials to show the world what philadelphia is all about. >> city founded on the fundamental principal of tolerance for all and acceptance of all. >> reporter: just days before easter and passover they are protest

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fairfax county police tweeting out this image of assaye saying he's wearing a hospital gown no shoes armed with a gun. >> stay available so i can use you to deploy on this guy when he pops up. >> reporter: heavily armed police mobilizing around this area. the hospital no one in no one out, all major entrances and roads blocked and residented warned to stay inside their homes. this suspect has been charged with one of a string of bank robberies they think he is responsible for that have happened in this area. he was being transferred to the hospital which is a couple of miles up this road when he grabbed a security guard's gun and fled with just that gown and no shoes. the manhunt on and people are being told stay in your hopes until they get what is considered an armed and dangerous suspect back in custody. george. >> thanks david. for more we're joined by lieutenant brook wright of the fairfax county police department. thank you for joining us. what more can you tell us about where the suspect might be right now. >> we don't believe that he's gone far. at this time we do have severa

authorities say woosen assaye overpowered a security guard and stole his gun as they were transferringim from jail to the fairfax hospital. >> you guys want to take a floor each. we'll break up into groups and clear the building. >> police tweeting out this image of assaye wearing a hospital gown and armed with a gun they say. >> stay available so i can use you to deploy on this guy when he pops up, okay. >> police around this area. the hospital, no one in, no one out. all major entrances and roads blocked. >> this will take hours and we're going through every single building to assure the hospital and community that it's safe. >> residents were warned to stay inside and the suspect fled. police believe he was driving a camry with front end damage and he may be with a local woman who could be his girlfriend. police searching for her and her father. we spoke with lieutenant brook wright earlier this morning. >> reports that the suspect has a gun and dressed in a hospital gown bare foot. do you know if he's been able to get into a car? there's one report he might have been able to contac

morning family, s >> north virginia hospital is on lockdown, in fairfax hospital in virginia, wossen assaye, armed and dangerous wearing hospital gown, no shoes. the continues dent grand around 3:00 this morning, he escaped custody, overpowered an officer and then got away with his gun. shots were fired but at this point, it is not known who fired the shots or if anyone was hit. swat is on the scene. patients were instructed to stay in their rooms. we'll have more on this breaking situation as soon as any news comes into our news room and we'll pass it on. >> police say pennsylvania man decorate ago relative's grave for easter with his wife has been killed, after a head stone fell on him. seventy-four year old steven was struck in the head monday at st. joseph cemetery in lackawanna county becomes 5 miles from scranton. cemetery caretaker says the headstones often sing when the ground thawing making them susceptible to tipping over. >>> check this out. security video from california, watch the upper corner there. an elderly woman running after a man who snatched her purse. now, check out we

and let's go ahead and show the photograph of wossen assaye.ice put the photograph in the last half hour telling people to be on the lookout for him. if you see him in his neighborhood he's only wearing a hospital gown and he's armed with a handgun. apparently he was here at fairfax innoova hospital. he was able to get the away from the guard and escape. you can see heavy police presence here outside the hospital. you can only imagine what it is like inside this hospital here this morning. just imagine the panic the people who are here at the hospital knowing there is an armed gunman possibly on the grounds here. the hospit

what we know is in the overnight hours a man named wossen assaye under a private security guard's watchearing a hospital gown. no shoes, nothing else. but he's managed to get out. they don't know where he is. they've got him on that hospital -- that hospital on lockdown. you see all the emergency vehicles. that's also because they've closed off area roads. we do know they're saying he's armed and dangerous. so a heavy police presence there at the hospital. "gma" of course is watching this as well. they will continue our coverage coming up at 7:00 a.m. but again a live look at this hospital near washington d.c. on lockdown with a man with a gun armed and dangerous on the loose. >> a lot of people heading out. we have been talking a lot about the schuylkill expressway backup locally here. i want to talk about some of the other roads. this is chester county 202 approaching 401, some building northbound volume right there. no major delay on 202. in mercer county a problem on the ramp from 295 southbound to i-195. it's blocking the acceleration lane so one of the lanes blocked here on the ra

fair fax authorities say the suspect, wossen assaye, switched to a new car.scene near the poe middle school. he overtook a security guard while at a falls church hospital. police are looking through the entire area in northern virginia looking for the man who again is said to be armed and dangerous. >>> and the other breaking story we have been following all morning, back to indiana, we are expecting the governor mike pence to speak any moment now as to the back lash to the controversial religious freedom act might have hit a boiling point. john yang is in indianapolis with the latest. >> reporter: jose the governor spokesman says he is going to try to clarify the bill what this bill does. he has been trying to do that practically since he signed it thursday, but the onslaught of criticism continues, a lot of it coming from the business community. earlier on this show the house speaker, speaker of the house who is a republican told you one possible way out may be to clarify that religious beliefs can't be used as defense in lawsuits over denial of service. bu

again, the name is wassen assaye. so far, nobody has been injured. nobody -- no other shots fired.uspect. they think he's armed and dangerous here in northern virginia. natalie, back to you. >> tom costello in falls church, virginia, thank you. >>> the "indianapolis star" is using the front page to join the national outcry over their religious freedom law. the paper is calling for equal protections to be extended to gays and lesbians. critics say the law allows businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples. indiana's governor is striking back with a "wall street journal" op-ed saying the law contains no reference to extoll orientation. >>> authorities say the remains of more than half of the passengers in the german plane crash has been identified by dna. on monday prosecutors announced the co-pilot had suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's license. it's believed he locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed the plane into the french alps killing all 150 people onboard. >>> the california fire captain seriously injured while battling a house fire