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years later, one daughter is talking publicly for the first time. 7 on your side's jennifer donelan spoke with her. jennifer: when you smile, you will never know the depth of her heartbreak. >> i still cry a lot. jennifer: or the courage it took to do this interview. >> it's hard to talk about it, but i want to talk about it. jennifer: to know just how far this 20-year-old has come, means returning to the early morning hours of november 2013. she was 17 years old, a senior at chantilly high. leon: latebreaking developments n atf agent and middle school teacher are dead tonight. >> i just heard a really loud noise. jennifer: she thought it was her mother getting ready for work. >> i called her phone and i heard the phone ringing from the other room. then i heard another noise. gunshots, her father, paul, a respected atf agent, had just shot and killed her mother, then turned the gun on himself. >> i got out of bed and took my phone with me. and i went in the room. jennifer: there she found the parents that she adored dead. >> and i will cut my sister -- i woke up my sister. i don't know if

i'm jennifer donelan, we'll see you next week with the wall of justice. alison: u that.hat is 5:00" -- thank you. that is it for "abc7 news at 5:00". we are following three big stories at 6:00, including breaking news in the district. five shot in only two hours. the new information from our police sources. plus, look at this. narrowly escaping. the collapsing side of the building. what is blamed for bringing down the wall in the district. only on 7:00, mail dumped in the sewer. "abc7 news at 6:00" starts with breaking news. announcer: from abc7 news this is a breaking news alert. maureen: breaking news right now at 6:00. eruption of violence in the district. five shootings in two hours. two people are dead. one has slowed service at georgia avenue leon: of the five shootings since noon, four east of anacostia. two turned deadly. the first of the man on texas after near plummer elementary school. the school has been blocked down. no students there were hurt. maureen: separate shooting on 49th street, abc7 confirms a woman was killed. tom roussey just arrived and he has t

jennifer donelan joins us live in aspen hill where the manhunt came to an end.ou are in the parking lot, same parking lot that this guy was hanging out for better part of the day after he committed the crimes. jennifer: it is hard to wrap your head around this. that i so, here is what we knew but t is.ldn't report that is the dunkin' donuts. you couldn't go anything and couldn't show up in the area b walking around. this is the shopping mall. everybody is around here. he ends up here at boston market. i'll take you here and show you the table. he sat here in this table. allegedly after killing a woman. allegedly after killing someone at the montgomeryal mall. he sat down here and ate. shocking to those who saw it. here is one of the witnesses. >> the giant is across the street on the other shopping center. you walk over here. he had lunch. then he walks to the car. he allegedly killed somebody over it is shocking. it's so much information today. but this has a this is the conferee.. the d.c. snipers john boyd and lee malvo ate at the same boston market after the

fighting back investigator jennifer donelan has a father's heartbreak. aaron. >> it's unlike any drug or epidemic i have seen in my career. jennifer: it changed him. >> my view was wrong. jennifer: after it struck the smiling love of his life. >> got in my house. my own daughter got addicted. i couldn't help her. jennifer: her daughter brooke had grown into a beautiful athletic teenager. >> when she was finished with high school that summer she started to take pills. jennifer: opioid. the cheaper deadly version is heroin. >> she come to me asking me to please help her make it go away. please help her. from a halfway house and dropped her off. a place i wouldn't drop my dog off to. jennifer: brooke continued to relapse. >> i caught her sneaking out. in the front lawn in the fetal position. begging me to shoot her. she couldn't stop using. jennifer: she went back to her dealer's house. >> she did it again. this time she overdoses again they threw her out of the house. jennifer: she got in her car and managed to drive to a church where she used to play bask

stopping a trend is an issue that lawmakers agree on. "7 on your side" fighting back investigator jennifer donelan is here now. the clock is ticking on this. jennifer: that is right. the clock has run out for so many families across the country and right here at home. having lost loved ones to the deadly drug. so many of them young people who have their whole lives ahead of them. it was an emotional morning on the hill today. so many people were at the capitol with pictures of their son and daughters in their hand. the proposal expands the use of the effect of the opioid drug. they are debating it in conference committee. families want it passed and on the president's desk by memorial day. we met parents from the area, their children hooked on heroin. some are still live. but 19-year-old kathryn only lasted a year on the drug before dying of an overdose. reporting live i'm jennifer donelan, abc7 alison: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- testing the waters. "7 on your side" with the tough questions about the district decision to add local rock fish to the do not eat list. >> plus -- >> joy that t

jennifer donelan has her story. this is a story of forgiveness. jennifer: if it weren't for forgiveness we wouldn't do the story. let's talk about the murder-side first. the crime. violence policy center in d.c. put together a study last year. researchers found on average there are 11 murder-suicides a week in the united states. the majority of them, 72% involve an intimate partner so that's why nina parisi's decision to share this publicly is a huge decision. she is talking about the moment in the home that she lost a parent she adored. what she wants people to know about her family and especially about her father. she is doing this because s her learning to live after something like this. it can be a lonely journey. >> i wish there was a hand book to tell me what i should be doing or how everything should -- how i should be feeling but it's not. it's hard to talk about it. i want to talk about it. to help other people. jennifer: you see the smile? it's heart-warming. to see this girl smile is inspiring. you will learn how she is doing in her own

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stay with jennifer: i'm jennifer donelan. this is the "7 on your side" wall of justice. we have a case that involved a 12-year-old boy being shot. but first we have news of an arrest. last week arlington county police arrested calderon. he slashed a man's space in an argument over a soccer game. new to the wall tonight is 20-year-old pearson. the prince william county police say he was one 12-year-old boy in a driveby shooting. in prince george's county police looking for murder suspect christopher crawford. in arlington police are looking for jesse kim for assault and battery. thaw want to get donald young off the street for robbery. tonight the spotlight on kim. on the wall for the second time for the same crime. they tell us when we put him on the wall last summer he called in from korea and said he would come back and turn himself in. that never happened. he is on the wall again. he needs to face charges in 2015 attack on the new owner of his father's former dry cleaning business. we are seeking public assistance to locate hi >> he is 5'7", 145 pounds, black hair and

i'm jennifer donelan. see you next week with the wall of justice.han: coming up at 5:00 -- it's not necessarily about us. that was success. is that so what was it about? hear from the wounded warriors who summited everest. that's ahead. michelle: first, when you got to go, you have to go. where do you go if you are on the grounds of a national memorial? we are cutting through the michelle: this memorial day an government red tape leaving unsightly indignity in place. joce sterman from the partners will take us to the memorial honoring the american marines. >> it's an image known around the world. capturing the struggles of world war ii. there is another battle over iowa jima. this time it involves a completely different way. >> that is high-class material. we use trees in the ground. >> you would expect better at the war memorial honoring marines. thanks to a bill flushed out by congress you will find port-a-potties in formation like soldiers of waste sanitation. >> to have them have to use facility you would see at construction site is pretty disgu

i'm jennifer donelan in the wall of justice.napped and killed. can you help find her killer? the stafford county sheriff department turning to the wall of justice for search for henry menjivar who wanted in gang-related murder of 21-year-old woman a decade ago. d.c. police need your help, too locating crystal ross for burglary. prince william county detectives looking for alexander flores aguilar for murder. they are searching for jamael in a robbery case. your help to find baroq for failing to show up for court. tonight the spotlight is on alexander flores-aguilar. on march 18, he with two other suspects arranged to meet a man to buy drugs in manassas. the encounter turn deadly when the trio tried to rob the man according to police. man tried to run away aguilar and his group opened fire and shot and killed him. he is the only suspect the police have not been able to find. >> he is considered armed and dangerous and believed to reside or be in area of manassas. jennifer: he is six feet tall, weighs 150 pounds, 21 years old, has

she is now 20 years old and she sits down with jennifer donelan and shares her story of pain, love, encourage. 2.5 years ago her father, a respected atf agent shot and killed his wife, the mother was a popular gym teacher at frank a middle school. home on her sister were the gunfire around it, she speaks publicly for the first time since that fateful morning, talks about her family, for giving her father, and how she is able to move forward. >> i wish there was a handbook telling me what i should be doing. how everything -- how i should be feeling. there is not. jummy: finding forgiveness, tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, a story you do not want to miss. , another look at the fire in texas. of san antonio. huge fireballs spewing on the building for the last hour, the thick, black smoke. we do not know how it started. it is prompting a huge response. fighting the fire from all angles, stay with us for updates. happening now, a state of emergency as an historic wildfire rages at fort mcmurray in alberta, canada, a massive fire that forced the town of 80,000 people to evacuate, burning over 18,00

as you keep track of your steps, fighting back against crime investigator jennifer donelan finds that it could be used against you in the court of law. >> 10,000 steps today. jennifer: walk, run, count. with the flick of a wrist, you can track every step. wearable devices are helping millions get healthy. >> we have been walking a ton. jennifer: but how the steps may be shared in court -- >> this is like a blackbox recorder. jennifer: may stop you in your tracks. >> we are voluntarily allowing it to track our every movement. pennsylvania,ral a woman claimed that a stranger broke in and sexually assaulted her. >> not something that you would associate with what happened in this neck of the woods. jennifer: local police took issues with parts of the story. they said that the facts were not adding up. the detective took her fitbit into evidence. >> if you are telling the truth, you have nothing to worry about. had athis case, they search warrant. je >> she said she had gone to bed, and she had an extra thousand steps before she called the police. she was: proving that walking around, sta

fighting back reporter jennifer donelan looks at a case in which police solved a crime thanks to one of the wristbands. if the data is collected it can be subpoenaed under law. so does what you say match what the wristband say you are doing? that's who we found at 11:00 tonight, "who's tracking you?" the u.s. supreme court refused to lay in on the latest challenge to the affordable care act. the justices sent the dispute over the so-called contraceptive mandate to the lower court in hopes the challenge brought by religiously affiliated non-profits that object to paying for the employees' birth control. up next at 6:00 working to make their own luck. we go inside the new m.g.m. casino blackjack school. while people are doing the work with no guarantee of a job. leon: there is no guarantee we will do much of this. sunny skies. first taste of sunshine we have had and it may be short-lived. doug hill breaks down the stronger is blasting her tumors... without risking her bones. it's training her good cells... to fight the bad guys. stronger is