i'm david culver in fairfax county. coming up, we'll tell you who experts say are behind the crimes. >>> temperatures in january, february, and march were well below average. we already know that. but here's the good news. april is starting off above average. we'll talk about the warmer weather moving in and talk about that one cool day as well in my forecast in a few minutes.. >>> a man was caught on video during a robbery outside a building in northwest d.c. last week. the guy appears to snatch a woman's cell phone and then run away. this happened at 11:30 at night last wednesday. building surveillance got a good view of the guy's face. if you know him, you're asked to call police. >>> tonight the felony charges against a former virginia delegate have been dismissed, but his run for the state senate is still in jeopardy. a judge threw out the forgery charges against joe morsi today saying a plea bargain signed after a sex scandal absolves himful related crimes. he was found guilty of having sex with a 17-year-old girl

. >> reporter: i'm david culver in ashburn ashburn. why it seems high school students are paying the price. >>> i would hate to see another family go through what i've been through. >> her son was given 35 minutes to live. seven months later he is still fighting. his ins prairgsal recovery and the new legal action that family is taking. ♪ there is no royal blood in this country. nothing is reserved for anyone. it's all just out there... ...waiting... ...for someone to reach out... ...and take it. and the ones who do... ...these are the kings and queens of america. ♪ >>> waves of rain sweeping through our area. storm team4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer is updating your forecast. in just a few minutes he'll tell you when the rain will end and what's coming in next. >>> the reserve sheriff's deputy in the shooting death of an unarmed man is out of jail after turning himself in this morning. robert bates was booked an photographed then released after posting bond. yesterday he was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a ma

david culver in fairfax.up, we'll take you inside the budget battle that could ultimately impact your kids. >> reporter: a county executive reach noose montgomery county to find a candidate to support. >>> right now at 5:30 a local high school community is grieving. a senior varsity softball player dies suddenly after falling ill. what the school's principal is saying now about her passing and we're getting in new tributes on social media, wendy. >>> tonight for the first time we're also hearing from a firefighter who was injured while battling this massive fire in capital heights on monday that had a lot of wind blowing. two fire trucks were destroyed in the flames when the wind shifted. mark segraves is live at the firehouse with that story. mark? >> reporter: wendy, the first responders here aren't running as many calls as they normally would be because, as you said one of their fire engines was destroyed in that blaze earlier this week. and now today the captain who was in charge of that truck tells us th

northern virginia reporter david culver live in fairfax county to explain how the felony lane gang works. david? >> reporter: jim, it starts with the thieves scouting out parking lots just like this one, watching moms go into day cares or gyms. then they smash their car windows snagging their purse and cashing in big. >> the purpose traitors immediately try to take advantage of the check or checks that might be in that purse or wallet. >> reporter: an fbi agent for 25 years, lewis griefer now works with the winward group they're tracking the felony lane gang, crime that's started a decade ago in south florida are quickly spreading north right into our region. >> they're surveilling day care centers shopping centers. they're surveilling those places where people would pull in and park their car for a few minutes or a few hour zs. >> reporter: once they get your checks and i.d. they head to the far lane of a bank drive-through, the so-called felony lane, and hopes the teller doesn't realize they're a fraud. >> they go to extremes to camouflage how they work. i've heard of wigs and masks. >

northern virginia bureau reporter david culver has the story. >> reporter: when you're not supposed to drive in the hov lanes it's generally pretty clear. several large overhead highway signs, then rows of gates with red lights blocking the lanes. but somehow state police say one driver missed all of that. the result a deadly wreck involving three cars. police identified the wrong-way driver as robert temp of springfield springfield. they say his suv hit another's car head on. temp and bettenburg both died. his wife is devastated didn't want to be on camera but says her husband was headed home from work. he was a lawyer, but that was his second career after retiring in from a senior position with the department of the interior he went back to law school. a colleague called him a great mind who will be deeply missed. what remains a mystery tonight is just how that other driver was able to get onto the hov lanes if the gates were down. in fact state police say they need your help figuring that out. if you did see that honda cr-v going on the restricted lanes they want to hear from you. i

northern virginia bureau reporter david culver talked with some teachers who want a raise and some ofe threatening to leave. >> reporter: this is how many fairfax county teachers are spending their after-school time. >> we want raises. we need raises. >> reporter: rallying together in hopes of winning over the board of supervisors. >> i have worked for nine years in fairfax county public schools. i have a master's in education and human development from george washington university and i make $58,000 a year. >> reporter: and it's gotten emotional. >> good evening. my name is precious crabtree and i'm a proud educator who has served thousands of fairfax county children over the last 15 years. but i can't afford to live in the county that i love and i teach in on my salary. >> reporter: the school board presented this video to the supervisors trying to highlight what's been happening over the past five years without significant raises in pay. >> we live month to month. i take side jobs. i work the s.a.t. i proctor. i tutor. i take cleaning jobs on the side so that i can make ends meet.

there's no reason. >> reporter: in ashburn, david culver, news4. >> announcer: next, what local storeers are saying about a new tax on electronic cigarettes. >>> she survived a horrible accident when she was 10. years later surgery left her with new scars. coming up, see how a pair of hollywood doctors turned a local woman's life around. >> announcer: plus, a local family's fight for a 9-year-old boy, alive after surviveing a shot to the head. the emotional >>> she nearly died in a fire at 10 years old. she's had almost a dozen surgeries since. >> now i can actually smile front on and not feel weird. >> a local woman's story featured on national tv. how that's helping her and her family to heal. >>> e-cigarettes and vaping are becoming big business. montgomery county wants to tax it. >>> he left his post, and the president was killed. new at 6:30, the d.c. police officer assigned to protect president lincoln 150 years ago tonight. where he was when the fatal shot was fired. >>> there soon could be a new tax on people who use e-cig ritts in montgomery county. we could be talking 30%. >

northern virginia reporter david culver explains what's going on. >> reporter: right now teachers are inside this fairfax county board auditorium. they're going in front of the board of supervisors telling them they need more money. they want raises. they say if they don't get it they'll have to move elsewhere. >> if i get hired in arlington i will get paid 19000 more to do the same job that i'm doing here. >> reporter: ahead at 5:00, we'll take you inside the budget fight that could ultimately impact your kids. >>> history will be made on stage at the kennedy center this week. the lead dancer in a major production of the classic ballet "swan lake." >> you are so used to seeing a certain type of person dancing in these roles that it's hard to allow yourself to envision yourself in certain roles. so it's not something i ever really thought i would do. >> she will share the stage with washington ballet theater's brooklyn mack. it will be the first time african-americans have danced the leading roles in a major classic. it's a hot ticket. they'll perform to sold-out audiences thursday an

northern virginia reporter david culver explains. >> reporter: she woke up not sure what the noise wasout in her living room. stop about right here. that's when the back door shattered. then she looked at this wall. one bullet. and look back here. two and three. realizing, someone shot into her house. >> they ran, they took out the wall. they said it was a rifle shot. >> reporter: still ahead, you'll hear who police say fired those shots. >>> a former nfl star learns his fate. now the people who had to decide whether aaron hernandez is guilty talk about how they came to such a big decision. >>> things could be changi >>> we are now hearing from the jurors who found aaron hernandez guilty. this means hernandez could die in jail pending an appeal. >> reporter: he was once one of the nfl's stars. aaron shernds now a convicted murderer. the jury's decision came on the seventh day of deliberations after a nine-week trial in the testimony of more than 130 witnesses. jurors finding hernandez killed his friend odin lloyd in june 2013 and left his body in a vacant lot, not far from his home. as

david culver is live with a story you'll only see on news4. >> reporter: behind me this is house thatngs to miss sally thomas. it sits on a relatively quiet corner. late last week the silence interrupted by gunshots. police tell us those bullets came from her neighbor's basement. >> the first shot i didn't know it was a shot but it woke me up. >> reporter: so sally thomas walked out of her first floor bedroom to see what was going on. >> so i was walking there way. when i got to just about here i heard this terrible noise. >> that was the noise of a glass shattering. three bullets blasting her back doors. >> they all three came so fast.here they were all three, the three holes were already there. one of them was here. and then two more. one here and one right under there. >> reporter: missing her by a few feet. >> so i called 911. >> police determined the bullets came from this house. she they have asked if she was having trouble with her neighbor. >> i said no. he is a really nice guy. and the police said that's where it is coming from. >> never arrested and charged these three men.

david culver sent a facebook message but did not immediately hear back. >>> the fbi calling him the sharp dressed bandit. sunny parekh was arrested accused of robbing three banks. surveillance pictures show the robber dressed up wearing a pea coat suit carrying a briefcase. during each he passed the teller a note that demanded money and threatened a weapon. police say collaboration between departments led to his arrest. >>> it's 6:20. all eyes are on president obama and his cuban counter part raul castro. they're both in panama for a summit. they won't officially meet one-on-one, but even an informal chat could en so heven solidify ties. john kerry has met with their foreign minister, the highest meeting between the two countries in more than 50 years. we'll have a report on what new changes could be coming. >>> a number of reports say hillary clinton is expected to formally announce that she is running for the democratic nomination for president on sunday. that's according to a report in the new york "post". the guardian newspaper says it will happen on twitter around noon. clinton is ex

northern virginia reporter david culver shares the details on this scheme. >> reporter: it's called the felony lane gang. it's a national network that crime analysts say is spreading quickly including right here in northern virginia. it starts with thieves targeting moms in shopping centers just like this one. smashing wind dozeows to get to their purses or diaper bags cashing the checks in the far drive-through lane of banks. hence the name of the felony lane gang. we'll tell you the specific places they're going. >>> a team effort to mend a community. how so many are coming together this afternoon to heal a campus in crisis after some unwanted national exposure. you're watching news4 at 4. >>> a new poolcy in place at the jufrt yufrtd university of virginia. it includes everyone in the university community. >> 600 people took the time to really reflect and respond on what they needed this policy to be. the processes they want to see to keep us safe. >> the student council president says the process of crafting uva's new interim policy on sexual assault took so many people because the

. >> david culver spoke with jake's mother yesterday. she says he is showing signs of improvement. >>> today d.c. officials will announce they plan to end a policy of routinely shack link juveniles appearing in court. starting monday, individual judges will decide whether a skruf nile juvenile defendant should be shackled. >>> developing this morning, vcu will soon be searching a new head basketball coach. shaka smart has decided to leave for the university of texas. he met with officials from ut yesterday and broke the news to his team late last night. smart led the rams to their fifth ncaa tournament this season. he coached at vcu for six seasons. a statement from the school expected later on today. >>> investigators continue to look into the life of the co-pie will the the who downed a germanwings plane the disturbing information they found when they searched his tablet. p. >>> the family of robert schuller is speaking out, what they have to say about his death. >>> and pretty clear out there now, but we could see some sprinkles today

. >> david culver. >>> a fairfax county deputy has been relieved of duties tonight. the officer has not been charged at this point. this is a developing story. our northern virginia bureau is following it closely. >>> a manhunt continues right now in anne arundel county where a police officer was found shot and remains in critical condition. the officer was on routine parole overnight and stopped at a 7-eleven in annapolis. someone alerted him about a suspicious person and there was a chase and a struggle. the officer wound up shot in the torso and the gunman escaped. coming up late they are hour we'll have a report from annapolis on that search. >>> we are still working several developing stories. tonight the family of a man who was killed in a hit-and-run on the b.w. parkway is upset with the charges that have been filed against the suspect. derrick ward will tell you why. >> reporter: it's finally warm enough to raise the windows, let a little cool breeze inside your home, but is this safe for children to be playing around? i'm erika gonzalez and i'll show you a c