sentencing just got underway for john wagner. >> reporter: john wagner is expected to be sentenced at any moment for the brutal killing of a promising johns hopkins' researcher. >> reporter: johns hopkins research per stephen pitcairn was stabbed oned street. it took the jury only three hours to find wagner guilty. he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. pitcairn's family has said little. prosecutors relied heavily on the testimony of wagner's girlfriend, lavelva merritt who painted a chilling picture of what happened. it was july 25th, 2010 as the couple set out to rob someone. wagner stabbed pitcairn and the girlfriend punched him. the state's attorney's office has called this case a major victory getting such a dangerous criminal off the streets of battle. weijia jiang reporting. >> wagner has previous convictions for assault, theft and violating probation though he was frequently allowed to romaine free until now. >>> the trial is underway in the trial of a man in a murder-for-hire. walter bish top was hired by -- bishop was hired by karla porter. >>> a man has been senten

today it was her son's murderer who got to listen as she spoke of john wagner who was more evil than human. asked for the maximum sentence for murder. the judge obliged saying he would show wagner the same mercy he showed to his victim sentencing him to life in prison plus 20 years. >> hopefully it brings them a little bit of peace. they have to move on with their life without their son or brother. >> reporter: wagner said he could sympathize with the family. he maintained he wasn't there the night karen was killed. >>> changing lanes. revenue from slots here in maryland probably not as high as some once thought. analysts told lawmakers in annapolis yesterday they are revising state revenue. the estimates have dropped about $56 million for the current fiscal year to $161 million at two operating casinos. analysts say the delay in opening the mall location has reduced the anticipated revenues for 2012 by about $179 million. >>> not a bad day out there. a little breezy. certainly on the crisp side. a little chill in the air. we are taking a look at the cloud cover above. mix of clouds a

. >> john wagner was told he would be shown the same mercy he show. he sentenced him to life plus 20 years. >> it was july of 2010 when the john hopkins researcher was on his way home when he was stabbed and killed. he was on the phone when the attack occurred. today his mother was in court when john wagner, the man convicted of killing her son, was sentenced. it was a senseless murder, and the world lost a huge contributor. >> it is hard to move on. they have to move on with their lives. >> until the end, john wagner claimed he was innocent. >> he denied he was a part of it, didn't he? >> i believe so. you heard that from his remarks. that is his right to do that. he does not need to testify. that is the right that we have the judicial system. >> the judge told water he would show him the same mercy he showed steven. he sentenced him to life plus 20 years. >> the same goes into every case regardless of the person's record. in this particular case he did have a violent record. we treat every murder case equally. regardless of what their record is. >>

it happened quicklyydue to the enormous amount of evidence against wagner stemming from the canner researcher at johns - hopkins was simply walking home from penn station, when he was taageted for a robbery. wagner and his girlfriend la- demandeddmoney, sttbbbd him pnd llft him toodie, all while his mother listened on the othee end of pitcairn's phone. merritt ttstified for the prosscution, and gave exppicit details about the urder. court observers ere hooing 3or this outcome..- 3 if the evidence shows him put away because the last thing want is him on the street doing this to someone el. criminal offender and is facing as much as llfe plus 0 years. his sentencing is scheduled for 9::0 this porning in judge charles ccurthouse, joel d. smith , the- fox 45 morning news. the search is on this morning.. for the person who made.. then distributed involved in sex acts.we aren't going to show the video.. becauss even viewing it ... is against the law. law.it happened near douglas hiih school.that's where two teenagers .. involved in sex acts were caught onntape .. inttrnet....and now it's going viral.schooll

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smith is liveeat he courthouse in downtown baltimore, where john wagner was found guilty ii aagust. good orning joel d. good morning patricc....it took a juuy lesss &pthan 3 hours o convict wagne of this senseless crime. and lattr this morning he will find out how muchhof his life it willlcost him... for taking . anothers. wagner was convicted of murder augustt 17th... and it did not take long for the jury, after thee hearr the dettils about pitcairn's death july 25th, 2010. pptcairn, a cancer researcher at joons hopkins was simply walking home from penn station, when he was targeted for a rrbbery.wagner merritt stopped im, demanded him to die, all while his mother listened on the other enn of pitcairn's phonee merritt testified for the prosecution, and gave explicit ddtails aboutttte murder. &pcourt observers were hoping 3 if the evidence shows him guilty then i want toosee him put away because the last thing i want is him on the street doing this to someone ee. else. wagner is a repeat crrminal offender and is facing as much as life plls 40 years. his sentencing is scheduled for 9

>> reporter: cut down two days before his 24th birthday steven had his mother on the phone when john wagner took his wallet and then took his life. gwen told the court it is a senseless tragedy taken by somebody who is more evil than human. she went on to say we lost a huge part of our life senselessly. steven's sister also fought back tears when she said our family has been shattered. the family i used to have isn't there anymore. prosecutors pointed out wagner had a long criminal history and was on probation for two prior crimes when he stabbed pit karen in the heart. >> they have to move on with their life. it is a tragedy. it is obviously tough to move on with your life after something like this. it is a long healing process like it is with any murder victim's family. >> wagner's attorney appealed to the court for understanding based on the convicted killer's upbringing claiming his father who was an alcoholic physically abused him as a child once knocking him out with a baseball bat. but any argument may have rung hollow when he stood up to address the judge and claimed he wasn't even

john wagner was given the maximum sentence saying he would show him the same marcie that he should. he was stabbed to death while walking to his home in july of last year. the researcher was on the phone with his mother at the time. she testified to hearing her son's murder. frederick police have arrested a man who they are calling a peeping tom. he entered the college illegally. he was found hiding in a shower stall inside the woman pose a bad thing. he was ever arrested on charges of trespassing and burglary. he is currently free on a $25,000 bond. but police tell 11 is the man who was found dead inside a car was shot to death. the body of 21-year-old was found along salt drive on wednesday night. somebody noticed the car was parked illegally and called police. if you have any information on the border, you are asked to call crime stoppers at 1-866-7- lockup. >> brian jackson was found murdered inside in south baltimore home last week. he was laid to rest today. he is awaiting extradition to bear lead appeared >> if you wanted to travel to one of the most expensive cities in the c

a judge gave john wagner the maximum sentence. stephen pitcairn step to death while he was on the phone with his mother. during the trial, his mother testified about hearing his son's murder. >> it is hard to move on the with this. hopefully it will bring them a little bit of peace. i have to move on with their life. >> the family dispute -- declined to comment after the sentencing. >> the alleged trigger man and the higher -- murder for hire of a gas station owner goes on trial. barry simms is at the scene. >> prosecutors call the murder of a gas station owner cold- blooded and premeditated. the triggerman was pressured into committing the killing by the victim was the wife. walter bishop is on trial accused of shooting court several times in the head. they found the victim at the gas station. he was barely breathing. officers began investigating a possible robbery after the wife described the assailant as a black man with a black hoodie. the investigation took a strange turn leading to accusations of a murder for hire ski team.

quiccly ue to the enormous amount of evidence against wagner stemming from the murder of pitcairn's, july 255h, 2010. pitcairn, a cancer researcher at johnsins was simply walking home from penn statton, when he was targeted for a robbery. wagner and his girlfriend la- velva meeritt stopped him, demanded money, tabbed him aad left him to dde, all while his mooher listened on the ooher end of pitcairn's phone. merritt testified for the prosecution, and gave explicit details about the murddr. courr obssrvers were hoping for this outcome. 3 p3 if the evidence shows him guilty then i want to see him &pput aaay because the last street doing this to sommoneeel. else. wagner is a repeat criminal offender and is facing as much as life plus 40 years. his sentencing is scheduued for 9:30 this morning in judge charles pettrs courtroom. llve at the courthouse, joel d. smith , fox 45 morning news. the seerch is on this morning.. ffr the person who made.. then distributed material ssowing two teens involved in sex actt.we aren't going to show the video.. because even vvewing it ... is against the law. law.it happened near douglas teenagers .. involved n

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a judge gave john wagner a nax maximum students -- a maximum sentence. he said he would give him the same mercy that he showed steven pitcarin. >> they have to move on with their lives without their son, without their brother. >> the pitcarin family declined to comment. >> an accident in fells point around 10:30 thursday night. police say one of the victims was julian benson, a student at morgan state university. he was scheduled to graduate this december. police say speed may have been a factor in this crash. the people in the other vehicle that were struck are expected to be ok. >> a howard county grand jury handed out a pair of indictments. police say mcdonald shot mcnare back on november 12 in the 8700 block of harshed lane. >> anthony parker accused of killing fippy wise on september 13. both suspects held at howard county detension center. >> a frederick man facing a long list of charges after police say they found him in a college campus shower stall. justin morgan broke into a college dorm on thursday, made his way into one of the bathrooms on th

a judge gave john wagner the maximum sentencing. he will show wagner the same sentence he showed stephen pitcarin. during trial she testified about hearing her son's murder. >> it is hard to move on with this. hopefully it brings them a little peace. they have to move on with their lives. and without their son, without their brother. >> the pitcarin family declined to comment. >> two people were killed after an accident in fells point. the crash happened 10:30 friday night. police say one of the victims, a student at morgan state university is scheduled to graduate this december. his passenger was also killed. police say speed may have been a factor in this crash. police say the other vehicle that was struck are expected to be ok. >> the time is 6:06. i don't want lowell charging me for that temperature. stay with us. there is much more news ahead. >> how maryland is making breast cancer awareness in the race a special place for healing the spirit. >> first taking a live look outside. it is a crisp, cool, fall morning. lowell has yo

a judge gave john wagner a life sentence saying he would show wagner the same mercy he had shown stephen pitcairn. pitcairn was on the phone with his mother at the time wagner killed him. she testified at the trial about hearing her son's murder. >> it is hard to move on with this. hopefully it brings them a little peace. they have to move on with their lives, without their son, without their brother. >> and pitcairn's family declined to comment after friday's sentencing. >> two people were killed, including a morgan state student after an accident in fells point. the crash happened around 10:30 friday night. police say one of the victims was julian benson, a student at morgan state university. he was scheduled to graduate this december. his passenger was also killed. police believe speed may have been a fktor in the crash. the people in the other car are expected to be ok. >> a grand jury handed up indictments in two separate murder cases. dominique mcdonald southbounding held in the murder of devon mcnair. >> anthony parker has been indicted in the stabbing death of a homeless man. par

he was in the hospital for beating his psychiatrist to death. >> the judge gave john wagner the max numitcairn. he said he would show wagner the same mercy that he showed pitcairn. >> coming up, a community is in shock after an elderly couple is found dead in their home. hear what neighbors think might have happened. >> and a living legend at camden yards. a live preview of today's big event. >> and weather in store today and tomorrow. the insta-weather pl [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> good morning. welcome to "11 news saturday morning" i'm jennifer franciotti.

today john wagner found out how long he will spend in prison for that crime. >>> today i can say thatlidays. >> president obama appears to be holding up his end of a promise to get troops out of iraq. we'll spline why some are actually against the idea. >>> two bodies were found

two months ago, john wagner was convicted of that. this morning's shooting happened just two blocks from where stephen pitcairn was killed. >> i don't know what the cause of this is. so i just hope that whatever is dragging people's life down to bring them to this kind of thing can be somehow helped, i don't know, so people just don't do this kind of thing anymore. >> reporter: police have no leads on the suspects and are asking the public's help. it's become an all-too-familiar appeal. >> we are deeply concerned. this is yet another example of why we get so frustrated when we talk about bad guys with guns. >> alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> now, the two men who were shot received extremely serious wounds. but they are expected to recover. >>> the harford county sheriff's department is investigating a shooting right now. it happened in the 1500 block -- 1900 block of edgewater drive in edgewood. the 20-year-old man was shot and taken to shock trauma. the sheriff's department is hoping anyone with information will in forward. >

how john wagner will pay, and the shocking things he said in court. eyewitness news at 4:00 starts now. >>> hi, everybody. i'm mary but bal. kai is off today. here's what everybody is talking about. we begin with breaking news. two bodies found in a home in eastern baltimore. mike, what do you know? >> reporter: hello, mary. we know just observe noon, baltimore paramedics were called to berg river road, in the chase area of baltimore county. upon arrival, they found an adult female inside, deceased, obviously from gunshot wounds. they called baltimore county police to respond to the scene. just a short time later, baltimore county police responded and found an additional adult male, also dead of gunshot wounds inside of this house in the 10,100 block of berg river road. they have called a crime lab. you can see they have the crime scene roped off. the homicide detectives have responded to the scene. at this point, they are investigating this as a suspicious death. and they have not released the names of the people that have died inside of this home. t

john heilman who was at the debate last night. msnbc political analyst, alex wagner. former adviser to the george w. bush and mccain campaigns mark mckinnon and former chief of staff to michele bachmann, ron carey. thank you for staying with me. to add to the video library on mitt romney and health care, here is mitt romney on "meet the press" in 2007. >> now, i think it's a good model for every state. maybe not every state, but most. >> so much for the it was only for massachusetts. we're going to see an awful lot of that "meet the press" clip in campaigns ads, aren't we, john? >> sure will. mitt romney has done a good job so far at defusing this issue up until now. there was always a time when you knew it was going to come, when the ideological critique as mitt romney as not being sufficiently conservative for today's republican party was going to come at him from every angle. this has got to be exhibit "a." the individual mandate is something many, many republicans thing in principle is wrong not just for the federal government but any state to adopt. romney is goi

. >> reporter: 38-year-old john wagner will die in prison. a judge gave him a life sentence, but 20 years if the murder of the johns hopkins researcher stabbed to death in july 2010. since the beginning, his family said little in public. they left the court house without commenting. >> i think they are happy with the verdict. it is hard for them, they have to move on. >> reporter: in court, karen's mother begged the judge for a maximum punishment. she called wagner an eve man who does not belong in society. he said i would never want another family to bear the horror. wagner addressed the court, too and the family. he maintains this innocence. wagner said, i don't believe that justice is served, because there is still a killer out there. >> i'm glad that he got what -- what was coming to him. >> reporter: the prosecutor relied on wagner's girlfriend, it is a case that time thstate attorney used to win his job. pointing to wagner's history of falling through the cracks in the justice system. he has a lengthy criminal past. he will never walk fr

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the state's attorney john mccarthy said in a break today, he was astounded at the number of people who already made up their mines, brian. the number was 38. >> paul wagner will be riding constant on air and online and www.myfoxdc.com in the hot topics bar and get updates. >> amount developing story now, montgomery county detectives investigating two deaths at the senior living community in rockville and they believe it's a murder suicide. her husband, 80-year-old alberts ballard went to the visit and detectives found a gun in the woman's room. >>> the news edge on virginia now. a prince william county man charged with felony child abuse and neglect for sleeping whole two toddlers watched their neighbor. benjamin libby is related to the three- and one-year-old boys who were found outside. the children were not hurt and they now with other family members. >>> the mother of a missing missouri babied her daughter was abducted. coming up -- baby who said her daughter was abducted. >>> and the end could be near for wikileaks. >>> and hey, brian, lots of people are -- and watching a line of showers before it's moving at 30 miles per hour and there could be a s

found guilty of murdering a johns hopkins research could receive a maximum sentence for the stabbing death of stephen pitcairn last year in charles vaj -- village. wagner'sgin in the trial of an alleged dunn man in a murder-for-hire case. walter bishop was hired by karl a porter to kill her husband william porter. karl a's sister and nephew were found guilty last year. >>> a howard county dean sin dieted on federal -- indicted on a federal terrorism charge for conspiring with a woman dubbed jihad jane. he face as maximum of 15 years if convicted. >>> there's bad us in for employees of northrup grum man. the defense is cutting 800 jobs. most of the employees in the business electronics systems will be eliminated by the end of january. this is the second round of cuts in maryland this year. the baltimore city city -- police department is looking for a few good women. they are looking for applicants and it starts at,,,,,, [ female announcer ] having grands! biscuits in the morning is easy. just pop 'em in... then go about your business... and in just 15 minutes, your family can enjoy warm fresh from the oven biscuits. grands! warm ideas made easy. ♪ start y