officials say 27-year-old marlo mendez is no stranger to the deportation process. we have learned through court documents he has been removed from the country five times dating back to 2007. our northern virginia reporter david culver is live outside federal court. this particular case is raising an awful lot of questions. >> reporter: a lot of questions. i was going through the facebook page and a lot of you at home are asking the question how. how does somebody have so many run ins with the law get deported five times back to el salvador and then get back in? it's a question we have been asking all day. let's take you back to the start of this case. chopper 4 above, below federal agents. loudoun county sheriff's deputies and state police officers trying to track down this man. he had been arrested for allegedly being drunk in public. he faces local assault and battery charges. federal officials say he was in the country undocumented. as immigration officers take him to louden court documents say he complained about handcuffs being too fight. one officer pulled ov

that is when he got hit and marlo mendez apparently took off. he was gone for more than three hours. they had several different agencies trying to help out. you had loudoun county deputies trying to help. they were able to locate him some four miles away. this is a story that has us digging a lot deeper tonight working for you because i know on the nbc washington facebook pageen several of you are asking the question how did something like this happen especially when you hear this fact that he has been deported five times before. this would have been his sixth deportation since 2007. how does that happen? court documents say in part it may have been because he was able to use aliases. >> david culver, thank you. >>> we are learning new details about a deadly shooting in suitland. police have identified the victim as 18-year-old tyrek walker. walker died at the scene. police haven't released a motive for the murder yet and no arrests so far. >>> deadly shooting in new york city is getting national attention. friends of the new york city police of

. >> marlo mendez an alias that federal officials say has helped him slip back into the u.s. time and time again. monday he was back in federal custody picked up for allegedly being drunk in public. immigration officers taking him from louden to fairfax say he complained his handcuffs were too tight. they pulled over and loosened them but he took off. he hid for more than three hours. they tracked him down. he is apparently quite familiar with i.c.e. officers. >> i have never had a person who has been deported five times and come back. >> reporter: immigration attorney says marlo mendez's case is rare. vast majority of his undocumented >> they are not criminals majority of them. they have abided by the laws. they pay their taxes. >> reporter: we shouldn't trivialize illegal immigration because most are not violent felons who have been previously deported. >> the center for immigration studies believes in barriers like controversial border wall and stricter enforcement. >> you throw the book at those who come back after having previously been deported. you can get a lot less o

marlo mendez faced the federal judge yesterday. he's accused of hitting the immigration officer to escape custody after he was picked up monday on charges of being drunk in public. >>> charles county parents will question a school leader charged with abuse. >> he is accused of abusing boys at middle school. it's not the only place he had access to children. in 2015, he worked for a government contractor that provided care for two elementary schools in waldorf. he worke coach in 2016. investigators believe there are at least ten victims and could be more. this meeting for parents is set for friday at the middle school. >>> traveling with a toddler. a new airline controversy. why a mother was forced to give up the seat she paid for her child. >>> plus, a loud wake-up call. it's not your alarm. a warning for people in virginia that are trying to sleep in. >>> heavy rain issued a flash flood watch until 7:00 p.m. this evening. number one rule, turn around, don't d r this is the moment. the moment you could put yourself in the driver's

but as you referencedded we learned that rivas-mendez had been previously deported from the united states five times between 2007-2016. 27-year-old marlo danilo rivas-mendez, a native of el salvador was recently arrested in loudoun county on charges of being drunk in public. according to a criminal complaint, loudoun county contacted i.c.e. that placed immigration detainer on rivas-mendez monday, two days ago. on monday afternoon while being transported from loudoun county to the ice facility in -- the i.c.e. facility in fairfax, authorities say rivas-mendez told officers his handcuffs were too tight. officers stopped the vehicle on the dulles greenway in the ashburn area and opened the door. after loosening the first handcuff, rivas-mendez allegedly struck an officer and escaped on foot. the pursuit lasted for more than an hour but he was taken back into custody. this morning another immigration detainer was placed on rivas-mendez. but before he goes through immigration or deportation proceedings for the sixth time, he will have to face charges for taking off from officers on monday. live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. aliso

michelle: we now learned that marlo danilo rivas-mendez was deported five times between 2007 and last year. recently rivas-mendez was arrested for public intoxication. in transport he complained the handcuffs were too tight. when the driver stopped so the officers could loosen them, rivas-mendez ran off. before he is deported a sixth time, rivas-mendez will face charges related to the escape. jonathan: u.s. congressman now stirred up a huge controversy in his visit to poland. the backlash is over a selfie video that he posted on youtube. some called it bizarre and disgusting. >> actual cans used to kill 1.1 million innocent civilians. jonathan: that is republican louisiana representative clay higgins recording a five-minute video in a tour of auschwitz. the nazi concentration camp, one of the largest. at one point higgins recording while inside the gas chamber. higgins says the video is evidence why the u.s. needs to stay vigilant about national security. several holocaust memorial groups called it disrespectedful. michelle: there is work at the interest of 23ard and out eads street.