news4's jackie bensen has a look at the larges. jackie?> reporter: jim, this shooting was shocking. you'll remember, it made national headlines. now, immediately after the shooting incident that killed firefighter john and another, darryl lumpkin said that he did not know that the people coming through his door were emergency responders sent by a concerned family member who could not contact him. he fired in self-defense, he says. a grand jury indicted lumpkin not on murder charges but for owning guns when he wasn't legally allowed to due to earlier criminal convictions. >> there was no good result. as far as i'm concerned, there was -- this is the kind of case that unless you can bring back the firefighter who lost his life and heal the one who it was difficult when it occurred. it is difficult today. >> reporter: we will hear from the prince george's county police chief. live in temple hills, jackie bensen, news4. >>> details of a drug bust involving several suspects. >> arlington county police with a drug bust in clarendon. david? >> re

jackie bensen, news4. >> most of us are unaware of the full extent.hank you, jackie. >>> it was a case of friendly county police officer who shot and killed a colleague will not be indicted. that's the word today from the county's state's attorney. michael ford opened fire in an ambush attack. his brothers recorded the shootings on their cell phones. undercover officer was killed when a fellow officer mistook him for a suspect during that shootout. all three brothers have already been indicted in the officer's death. >>> life without parole is the sentence for a gang member who stabbed a father 85 times in silver springs back in 2014. meagan fitzgerald has reaction from the sentencing from the victim's family. >> very athletic and very nice. >> reporter: his brother oscar, he says, was a lot of things but what he was most proud of was being a father of two and a >> it's hard to explain to you until you experience it. >> reporter: after his life ended in 2014, montgomery county police say that oscar was inside of his silver spring home when he walked i

jackie bensen is in seven corners with more. >> reporter: route 50 reopened a few minutes ago. it's been causing a big problem here. first, we'll show you video taken just a short time ago. you should be able to see the backpack that police were using, a bomb robot to examine and x-ray. about five minutes ago, they opened uproot 50 and a spokesman for the department came told us that whatever they had seen led them to back off a little bit, open the road which they had closed for security precautions. the shopping center behind us remains evacuated at this time. but it looks like they are rapping things up, a man came in to the td bank and route 50 and announced a robbery and on his way out left a backpack which, as you can imagine, caused great concern by fairfax county police. there was a massive closure of streets in this area and an evacuation of the shopping center while they determined that that backpack would not pose any explosive threats to the people in the area. jackie bensen, news4, back to you. >> thank you, jackie. >>> some neighbors thought they were hearing fire

in northwest, jackie bensen, news4. >>> 7:28 your time now.inuing our coverage out of the tragedy from dallas. we're going to have the latest on the five officers killed as well as the two other deaths that may have sparked it all. >>> and we are also keeping a close eye on what's going on outside for you as we enter the fifth day of this heat wave when things could start cooling off when we check back in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. my cousin's wedding is c♪ming soon. i like the bride more than the groom. ♪ turquoise dresses... so excited. did all her exes get invited? no ones got moves like uncle joe. ♪ when it's go book on choicehotels.com for instant rewards like gift cards, plus savings of up to 20%. >>> now at 7:30 new information continues to come in out of dallas, texas, where the city along with the country continues to sit in shock after 12 officers were shot, 5 of them killed. >> the tragedy there sparked by the shooting deaths of two black men killed by police officers and we're le

jackie bensen shows displays police are watching out for. >> reporter: a squad of fire marshals might not be the thing you want to see at your fireworks stand at the beginning of the july fourth weekend, but alison mclean didn't break a sweat. >> her permit she received. >> reporter: mclean stands alongside a brick building in the 3400 block of 14th street northwest, passed with only a mine irinfraction. >> the tag on this is dated 2014. >> reporter: a fire extinguisher, fully charged but past its expiration date. her mother, who passed away palm sunday began selling fireworks at this very spot 55 years ago. a bit of history, third generation, daughter precious, helps run the stand. >> my children help out, two more and a grandson. i'm ready to pass the they have to move the cars. have a 25-foot distance. >> reporter: many of the rules have to do with keeping ignition sources away from the merchandise. everything sold has to be legal to use in d.c. in general, fireworks that explode, like cherry bombs and roman candles, are forebiden. >> all the right product. no illegal fireworks. al

jackie bensen just arrived. what are you learning? >> reporter: there's been a big development.e have closed route 50 in this area, arlington boulevard, in both directions. obviously with the time of day that it is right now, this is having a severe impact on traffic in this area. traffic that was already bad as police closed down the intersection as part of their investigation into this bank robbery. what we are told, you can see the td bank over there, about 3:30 this afternoon, a man came in there and announced a robbery. he left the bank and this is when things got more difficult for the investigators e. he left behind a backpack. now, fairfax county police do not know what is in that backpack and right now they are in the process of trying to make sure the backpack is safe, trying to make sure there are no explosives in it. they have what looked to me to be what we call the bomb robot over there and the streets closed down and the shopping center, wilson shopping center, parts of it, if not all of it, have been evacuated. i talked to a man a short time ago who was in the la

. >> jackie bensen has just arrived on the scene of a serious multi-car accident on northeast.t do you know about it at this point? >> people are taking a look at these vehicles and are just wondering how could you have gotten up to speed on a city street for this to happen? blue toyota appears to be an suv is overturned. nissan maxima behind it, we're told, total of five people were in those two vehicles, all young adults. we're told one young woman was ejected from one of the vehicles and we're told one of the people injured has what are considered to be life-threatening injuries. we're here at 18th and c streets northeast at elliott hind junior high school. school was not in session because thankfully it would have been lettin now. d.c. speed camera obviously put there because of the school. because this is, again, four lanes, two and passing lane on each side, neighbors have been concerned about the speeds people can get up on this street. right now, detectives from the d.c. police department's major crash unit are responding to the scene, trying to determine exactly how th

. >> reporter: jackie bensen, news 4. >>> it's political convention season and it would be un-americanf entrepreneurs didn't try to make a few bucks off all this hoopla. one businessman from d.c. made the trek to cleveland and found it the perfect launching pad for his new books. news 4's chris lawrence caught up with him on the street. >> we got trump bobbleheads. get your trump shirts and trump bobbleheads. >> we got shirts, bobbleheads, and now thanks to a local entrepreneur we have the books. go trump, go hillary. all thanks to rob kulik. you drove these books all the way up from d.c. last night? >> yes. six hours. a little bit of rain. >> what's the idea behind them? they look like kids' books, but they're obviously aimed at adults. >> yeah. my partners and i, we just thought it would be we have a series of college rivalry books, and we thought what's a bigger rivalry right now than trump and hillary. >> so they're written in a sense of fun, humor, poking fun at the election? >> yeah. totally. you know, we're not trying to steal -- or steer the election one way or another. you kno

jackie bensen is live with more on security concerns in that neighborhood. jackie?> reporter: people in this neighborhood are deeply concerned about an almost 30% in street robberies over this time last year. one of the most recent claimed a life. engineers from d.c. water surveyed the street lights near the intersection of w street northwest looking for broken lights. it's where 27-year-old seth rich was shot and killed during what police believe was an attempted robbery early sunday morning. the geography of this neighborhood has been heavily affected by the massive first street tunnel project, designed to address bloomingdale's flooding problem. and robert brannen thinks the robbers may be taking advantage of those changes. >> even how the police do their own surveillance and routine >> reporter: in a press release yesterday, george hawkins of d.c. water revealed a number of security enhancements the agency is doing, including the lighting survey and removing some curtains directed to dampen construction sounds. he reminded residents there was a 24-hour hotline.

live in tysons corner, jackie bensen. news4. >>> right now, thousands of customers are without power after a transformer fire in northwest d.c. shomari stone has been on the scene for several hours and he has the latest now. shomari? >> reporter: well, first i have new information. if you're affected by this power outage out here, you can go to the community center located at 2500 georgia avenue if you need to cool off. you can see behind me there is a lot going on. it is a downright mess. you see d.c. police right now. what they're having to do is direct traffic because the traffic signal is out. right behind their police cruiser there are pepco crews that are going on underground. >> all the lights are off. the air-conditioning is off. >> reporter: michael bailey is bummed out in his condo on a hot, humid, friday night. >> it just makes you want to go back out, so that's what i'm doing right now. >> reporter: hundreds of people without power after pepco says an underground fault caused some power lines to trip. a fire s

live in rockville, jackie bensen, news4. wendy, back to you. >>> last night's outage started at 10nu night and lasted until 1:09 this morning. and it didn't just affect 911 calls. it also affected the dispatch center's non-emergency line. investigators think an air-conditioning failure in the i.t. room caused the system to shut down to prevent overheating. county officials say they did their best to notify people through the alert montgomery warning system, but if you're not signed up for that system, the only way you can find out is through social media. the county did activate its 311 call center to help answer those emergency calls, and that has since been deactivated because the problem has been fixed. >>> in dallas tonight, thousands came out for a prayer vigil to honor the five officers killed by a sniper on friday. tomorrow president obama will travel to dallas. he'll be joined by former president george w. bush at an interface prayer vigil. also tomorrow there will be a public visitation for sergeant michael smith. t

significant we're told some companies in the area have revamped their work from home and flex time jackie bensen>>> the aging arlington bridge just got some help. a $90 million fast lane grant was approved to make some improvements. there is currently a ten-ton weight limit. buss are not allowed to cross memorial bridge. planning for phase one of the project will begin immediately. the full project is expected to cost $250 million. >>> virginia will be getting $165 million to make some improfits on the i-95 corridor. that will be used to deliver the so-called atlantic gatway project. it will extend the express lanes north to the potomac river, south to fredericksburg. bus service will be expanded up and down the entire corridor. and new rail track will be put down to increase capacity for freight and commuter trains. some construction could b >>> metro transit police continue their investigation after an officer shot and killed a man near the dean wood metro station last night. police responded to a large crowd setting off fireworks. investigators say a man with a gun fired shots at an officer w

jackie bensen in northwest d.c. now with the latest on this. jackie?porter: jim, this neighborhood of 19th century homes, many who work in politics live here which is one of the reasons why seth rich decided to live here. hillary clinton commented on the murder of the 27-year-old who worked for the democratic national committee. he was shot twice in the back and near his house here in bloomingdale. clinton says it's part of the epidemic in gun violence in america. >> just this past sunday, a young man, seth rich, who worked for the democratic national committee to expand voting rights, was shot and killed in his neighborhood in washington. surely we can agree that weapons of war have no place on the streets of america. >> reporter: detectives returned here to the scene this afternoon. they are looking for additional information at a press conference earlier today. we learned that they have very little information about this crime and very much need the public's help. now, a friend said news4 what appears to be rich's last facebook post, in it he reacte

jackie bensen has more on what the grand jury decided. >> reporter: it means that if convicted, darryl lumpkin could face jail time not for killing a firefighter but for owning guns when he was not legally permitted to do because of previous convictions. pain, as you know, is very fresh still from the incident in which two firefighters were shot as they approached lumpkin's temple hills home. he says the shooting was in self-defense, he was unaware that those coming to his door were first >> they simply did not believe that the incident did not constitute murder. >> we have extenuating circumstances for the loved one on the scene saying their brother was inside and needed medical assistance and that's what we do. we were there to render that aid and, unfortunately, a tragic outcome. >> reporter: we received a statement from the prince george's county fire chief which says in part, "i support the state's attorney and the process by which it is determined if an individual has broken a law or not. while there are no charges stemming from the death of firefighter ulmschneider, there are ch

news4's jackie bensen has the latest in the murder of seth rich. >> reporter: the latest in the caseis that police do not have as much information as they'd like to have. that's why they were back out here today information of seth rich. he was killed in the bloomingdale neighborhood as he walked home. police suspect it was an attempted robbery. it has greatly frustrated neighbors. police say they have very little information and can't even say what type of gun rich was murdered with. they cannot give a lot of information about how many suspects that they believe to be in the case. again, what they are hoping for at this point is information from the public. there is a very significant reward in this case. detectives are out looking for the type of information that would lead them to an arrest. live in northwest, jack see bensen, news4. >>> a warning about a wildly popular new game being played by kids and area police now linking pokemon go to a robbery scheme and where you are being asked not to play the game. >>> an elementary school aide charged with the abuse of several students.

news4's jackie bensen just got to the scene and will bring us more information as we learn it. >>> noweloping story in northern virginia. investigators tell us he was plotting an on u.s. soil but tonight a former virginia national guardsman is behind bars. the plot, foiled. mohamed jalloh lived in sterling. julie carey is live with new details. julie? >> reporter: mohamed jalloh was arrested. he purchased an assault rifle and only by that time the gun store was working with investigators and the gun had been disabled. he faces charges that could lead to years in prison. the hearing for 26-year-old mohamed jalloh was brief. later, his lawyer refused comment. >> no comment. >> reporter: this detailed a affidavit reveals that a now deceased isis member brokered

jackie bensen want to see what voters in d.c. and northern virginia think about donald trump and even among republicans, there was some disagreement tonight. parties are often a little different here in the d.c. area than they are in other places. jellybeans, photos of notable republican presidents, and a funeral wreath, a group that included current and former republican staffers gathered at the dubliner on capitol hill for what was billed as an irish wake for the republican party. >> there are dozens of ex-gop stop from the administration and the hill and presidential campaigns and the party institutions who are coming tonight because they all agree that this is not a normal election. and this is not a normal candidate running for office, and we as republicans have a responsibility to stand up and say this is not acceptable, this is not our party. >> reporter: across the potomac river in arlington, members of the arlington falls church young republicans and arlington republican party gathered to speech. in the d.c. area, presid

news 4 jackie bensen has more on what they are not welcoming. >> reporter: a squatted of fire marshals to see at your fireworks stand at the beginning of the july 4th weekend, but this man didn't break a sweat. his stand alongside a brick building in the 3400 block of 14th street northwest passed with only a minor infraction. >> the tag on this is dated 2414. >> reporter: a fire extinguisher fully charged but past its inspection date, because they know the regulations by heart. maddy mclean, passed away on sunday, began selling a bit of d.c. history, a third generation daughter precious helps run the stand. >> i go two more and a grandson. so -- you know, i'm ready to pass the baton when they're ready to take it. they have to move the cars, have a 25-foot distance in there. >> reporter: many of the rules for fireworks stands have to do with keeping ignition sources away from the merchandise. everything sold has to be legal to use in d.c. in general, fireworks that explode, like cherry bombs and roman candles are forbidden. >> all the right products. no illegal fireworks. all this is go

in northwest, jackie bensen, news4. >>> 6:28 on this saturday.are learning more about the five officers killed in dallas. we're going have the latest on the tragedy unfolding there as well as the two other things that may have sparked it all. >>> keeping a close eye on the weather for you as we enter the fifth day of this heat wave when things could start keep on track with dunkin' donuts' fruit smoothies, made with low-fat yogurt and real fruit blended into feel-good flavors like new wildberry. american runs on dunkin'. >>> now in this half hour new information continues to come in out of dallas where the city along with the country continues to sit in shock after 12 officers were shot, five of them killed. >> the tragedy there sparked by the shooting death of two black and we're learning more about those incidents and investigations into their deaths get under way. >> the men's deaths have prompting protests across the country including here at home. the message marchers hope to get across