they also need to find corrina mehiel's car. they hope the yellow diamond shaped bumper sticker on the back will jog somes >> it's terrifying but there's a lot of crime in this neighborhood. and i think there's a lot of crime that's not being reported and i don't know why. >> reporter: mehiel was planning to drive to north carolina on monday. she was going to return to d.c. and continue helping chin with the exhibit. she didn't show up in north carolina. coworkers came to this apartment where she was found. a killer remains at large. now, mel chin has said he does not recognize that man, that person of interest in that surveillance picture. police definitely want that to get out to the public. they also want to look for that car, that prius with that diamond shaped yellow bumper sticker on the rear bumper. they hope that will be the clue or the clues that break this case wide open. we are awaiting more information from metropolitan police in terms of surveillance video or more information on that surveillance picture. live in no

. >>> also breaking,ed a man for mehi mehiel's murder. she was found bound and stabbed to death inside a row house last week. police originally arrested 28-year-old el hadji alpha madiou toure for having o outstanding warrants somewhere else. this arrest comes three days after police found mehiel's car. >>> in montgomery county, a cop shot and killed someone and now there is an investigation into why it all happened. justin finch is live in gaithersburg at county police headquarters. what is the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: so far detectives have seen the officer's body camera video. as for the officer himself, he has been interviewed and has at least one more ahead. these are all standards investigators will use to help figure out why the shooting happened. montgomery village and center court condominiums at the center of an officer involved >> a car and police here and he went for the gun. and then i saw the fight on the floor and i heard the gunshots and i ran into the hallway because i knew something was going to come in

the body of corrina mehiel was found inside her home. delia goncalves is live outside of that home with the search for her killer do we know why this happened? >> that is a big puzzle police are trying to put together. they're still inside this home. nearly more than 24 hours after this occurred. after they found the body of corrina mehiel inside this basement apartment. trying to figure out what happened. they do believe the killer could be driving her car which was spotted on a traffic cam at some point in the city. we know that corrina mehiel lived here for about a month. didn't know a lot of people. she indeed left a lasting impact. corrina mehiel was on a mission, raising abareness of childhood lead poisoning. that's what brought her to dc. to open the exhibit illustrating the cost of lead poisoning at george washington's corcoran school of design. she was last seen here at the corcoran sunday. this final installation of the exhibit opened to the public wednesday through sunday. on tuesday afternoon someone detectives discovered meh

mehiel's family. in northeast, pat collins. news 4. >> temperatures today much colder across our region, but if you're ready for it, you have the coat on, maybe the gloves, yeah, not all that bad. plenty of sunshine today. really the wind that gets you when you step out the door. temperatures out there right now much colder than we saw yesterday. yesterday, a high temperature of 63 degrees. right now, we're down into the 40s all across the area. that's going to be the case as we move on through the rest of the evening hours too. the current windchill at 43 degrees. 25 in state college. looking at one cold tonight, but heat, i do mean the heat, returns. we'll talk about the warmer temperatures towards the weekend. >> thanks, doug. >>> another security scare at the white house. we'll tell you what stopped the suspect this time. >>> also, first at 4:00, we have been telling you for years about irs scams during tax time. this year, a change you really need to hear. we're working for you. >>> and who why a retail chain with an histo

corrina mehiel was getting ready to take a trip to north carolina. she was loading things in her car. she went from her apartment to her car, back and forth, back and forth, when apparently she was targeted by a man who wanted access to her atm. according to court documents, corrina mehiel was tied up and tortured in what could have been an attempt to get her atm p.i.n. number. the medical examiner says there were wounds to her neck that suggest some sort of torture. corrina mehiel, found murdered last week in a basement apartment of a town house on 14th street northeast. the 34-year-old artist, tied up and stabbed to death. the suspect, 28-year-old elhaj toure. police have a picture of him using miss mehiel's atm at various locations from arlington to elk ridge. there's also surveillance video that shows him lurking about her block on the morning of the murder. and driving away in her 2004 toyota prius. now, this happened in the 600 block of 14th street northeast. not far from the fashionable 8th street corridor. the arrest has brought a sense of re

corinna mehiel, last corinna mehiel, found murdered last night in this home near 14th and eighth streets northeast. today, by phone, i talked to her stepmother about what happened here. >> she talked to her dad on sunday night. she was full of life. full of plans. >> so what do you think happened here? >> i think some heinous, hate-filled, evil person killed her. i don't know why. why would you kill her? >> 34-year-old corinna mehiel, find tied up and stabbed to death in the basement apartment. police say they found no evidence of a forced entry into the house. missing from the scene, ms. mehiel's 2004 blue toyota prius car with kentucky tag 722 rmy. there's a yellow diamond-shaped sticker on the bumpe corinna mehiel was in town to help out nationally renowned artist mel chen with a project at the corcoran. her family says chen keeps an apartment here on 14th street for people who come to help him on projects. now, when corinna mehiel didn't show up for work on monday, they got worried and started looking and found her. they found her body there in that basement apartment. coming up at 6

corrina mehiel's body found tuesday. tonight her car is still missing. d.c. bureau chief sam ford joins us live with the la sam? sam: we are in northwest washington not far from george washington university where we spoke with a mel chin, the visiting professor who brought mehiel here to help with the corcoran art gallery. i appears he was one of the last people to see herself alive. >> we had dinner sunday night. sam: mel chin working with the corcoran gallery said corrina mehiel came from north carolina where they worked together on another project. she came to helm him and was on the way back sunday when he last saw her. >> she was supposed to leave the next morning. sam: she never made it out of d.c. found tied up and stabbed to death in an apartment she was staying. her car missing, presumed to be taken from the killer. the police put out this interest as a person of interest seen insaid this 7-eleven where route 1 crosses belts avenue. in capitol hill, the neighbor believes he saw her prius leaving the street as part of the city surveillance program and

once inside they discovered the body of 34-year-old corrina mehiel. been bound and stabbed multiple times. neighbors say they believe a young couple had rented the basement apartment and they say they'd never seen or heard now, corrina was last seen at the corcoran museum on sunday and had been reported missing. she is from north carolina but she was living here in d.c. on a temporary assignment working on a special project at the corcoran school of art and design t live in northeast, i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. >> thank you very much, melanie. >>> well, the fallout continues over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl at rockville high school. the debate over maryland being a sanctuary state heats up. the two suspects in the case are both illegal immigrants. this week the maryland house of delegates passed a bill that would bar state and local law enforcement officials from helping federal immigration officials seek illegal immigrants. it was originally introduced by a delegate fromly montgomery county but the bill is facing major oppositio

. >> corinna mehiel. she had a knack for making ugly things pretty. in philadelphia, she turned broken and abandoned bikes into objects art. in cincinnati, she turned broken parking meters corinna mehiel, here to work on an art praunlict at the corcoran. she was last seen alive there sunday night. corinna mehiel, found dead last night at this home near 14th and 8th street northeast. she had been tied up and stabbed to death. missing from the scene, her 2004 blue toyota prius. it has kentucky tag 722 rmy. today, by phone, i talked to corinna mehiel's stepmaurth. >> they could have her car. why couldn't they just take her car? don't kill her. >> corinna mehiel worked for the nationally renowned artist mel chen. she was here assisting him on a project at the corcoran. her parents say chen keeps an apartment at this house for people who come to help. police pressing all day long to the victim's car. they feel if they find the car, they can find the killer. doreen, back to you. >> pat collins reporting. thank you, pat. >> we showed you the video, dozens of

new details tonight about the man suspected of murdering carina mehiel north carolina woman was in the district recently working at the corriveau and school of art and design, she was found bound and stabbed to death inside an apartment on 14th street a week ago today. matt ackland has been following this story and joins us live with the late breaking details, matt? >> hi, learning a learned that there was arrest in this case, and then we came to court this afternoon, where we learned so much more about this including the person that actually reported the suspect to police, apparently was in a car, they had some conversation, the suspect pulled up a fox5 app off the phone, watched fox5 story on this murder investigation, that witness in the car then got out of the car and called police so the suspect, his name is he will hat -- el hadji, also known as eli brown, nationally arrested on outstanding warrant from tennessee, and then after investigators spoke to him about all of this, they charged him with first degree murder, court document reveal police tracked core inch a's atm, smart tr

corrina mehiel was working with an artist from the gw school. police are searching for the derrick ward is live at the scene in northeast d.c. >> reporter: this is still a crime scene. police have yet to release this house. you see the yellow tape here. that's troubling the folks who live in this neighborhood, especially now they know why this is here. we're also learning more about the life of the victim. we talked to some of the people who knew her best, including another artist who was probably the last person to see her alive before she was murdered. >> i'm devastated now as when i heard it. >> reporter: artist mel chin had dinner with corrina mehiel at his northwest d.c. apartment. she had planned to drive to north carolina on monday to work on another exhibit before returning to d.c. to work with chin on his exhibit. her stepmother spoke to news4 earlier. she is at a loss for understanding this. >> it's the most heinous thing. we don't even know what happened. we don't know yet what ha her apartment. >> she said, don't worry, i'm not just

police believe toure attacked 34 year old corrina mehiel as she packed up to return home to north carolina. toure then allegedly stole her car and used her bank card seven times in five days, withdrawing hundreds each time. the resident who turned over the surveillence video-- says the crime struck close to home in more ways than one. court records say toure confessed to an acquaintance, even asking if surveillance put out by police really looked like him. that acquaintance led police to him monday. only on 7 : once called a killer- a maryland teen is now speaking out about the arrest that changed his life. police charged angelo jackson with stabbing two men to death inside the wheaton mall. now- after two months in jail - he's free. prosecutors dropped the whole case- citing "insufficent evidence." jackson told abc-7- he's never even been to that mall. jackson claims he was recording rap music in germantown at the time of the killings. the murder case remains unsolved. a big day for samsung. in just a few hours-- the tech l out it's newest smartphone. the company has a lot to prove- after

michelle: corrina mehiel's body was found tuesday but her car is still missing. that is not all people are searching for. george washington university visiting professor mel chin was wondering why mehiel was still in town. he says she was in town to help him and was supposed to leave on monday morning. she was staying in a friend's apartment. >> generous gift of friends who were livering there. heifer need to be be established was established, too. michelle: chin described her as brillianted and she embodied a life of kindness and generosity. horace: a police officer facing drunk driving charges tonight for the second time. earlier this morning officer first class christopher brown clipped a tractor trailer and crashed a cruiser on the guardrail. he left the scene but returned and was later arrested. officer brown was arrested in 2012 while crashing a cruiser under the influence. this this case he p guilty and discipline and not fired. michelle: still ahead hanging on for dear life. what saved the worker after the scaffolding he was on collapsed. michelle: custom

professor mel chin said mehiel was about to return to north carolina when he saw her. he was the last person to sea her sunday evening. >> we had dinner together on sunday night. she was ready to go back to the studio to get things together again and work on the project. i'm devastated now, when i heard it. it's inexpressible how much of a loss it is to myself and everyone who sam: we will have more on this story on "abc7 news at 5:00". including video from one of the neighbors on the 14th street who believes he saw the victim's car leaving perhaps after the murder. reporting live in northeast washington -- northwest washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. alison: thank you. we turn now to the war on terror now and the investigation in the deadly attack in london. as molly hunter reports, today police identified the man who drove into that crowd on westminster bridge. molly: tonight, london is playing tribute to the victims. honoring those killed including 48-year-old police officer keith palmer, stabbed by the attacker. >> doing what he loves, protecting our city, protec

corrina mehiel. she was living in d.c. temporarily setting up an exhibit at the corcoran art gallery. the best clue police have is mehiel's car 2004 toyota prius with kentucky tags is missing. if you have seen it, call police. developing now the loudoun county sheriff office is women in sterling. one of the victim told investigators a man grobeed her as she walked -- groped her as she walked her dog 8:00 last night. a second woman said the same thing happened to her later. a picture seen around the world. the big announcement from the firefighter in the center of it. driver made a second but an unwanted garage door at his home. how his car ended up in the most of timeno pets. can't work that way, no. sweetie mom, stop screaming at me! lean on your brakes mom! there are bumps along the road of life... and for each one there's triple-a. stop! michelle: take a look at this video from skytrak7. the driver of the car accelerated while driving in his garage. slammed through the back wall. he wasn't se

it's been more than 48 hours since the body of corrina mehiel was found in a corridor.ice are released a photo of matt i understand you talked with one of her friends from gw. >> reporter: tony, exactly. we talked to him a couple hours ago. his name is mel chen. he worked with her on a project here at the corcoran school of design and art and he also was a close friend. in fact, he said he had dinner with her on sunday. he described her as a brilliant person, always the first to smile. she embodied a life of kindness and generosity: mel chen, a friend and project director says he had dinner with corrina on sunday night. we asked if she may have expressed any concerns about her life being in danger. >> never. never. no, no. our departure was full of warmth, lover. >> reporter: chen says corrina was a woman of action and would leap to help someone in need. she also wanted to end violence against women. >> she recognized that the liberation of men is part of that process. to the person who did this her, you are too late. you failed. corrina mehiel was already liberated and

once inside, they discovered the body of 34-year-old corrina mehiel. she had been bound and stabbed multiple times. neighbors say they believed a young couple rented the apartment who -- and had never seen or heard anything unusual. corrina was last seen at the corcoran museum in d.c. sunday. >> at this point we know that she was seen alive at some point on sunday evening. >> somebody's seen something that they know probably isn't right, please share that information, contact mpd. >> reporter: now, corrina is from north carolina but she was living in d.c. temporarily working on a short term contract with the corcoran school of art and design. police say there was no sign of forced entry here at the apartment and they also say that they're working to determine if anything was taken from the apartment. still no information on that. there is a $25,000 reward in this case. lie in northeast, i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. >> now this morning d.c. police on the hunt for another killer. a college seventy nine maryland was home on spring break when she

the woman was unconscious and they found mehiel tied up and stabbed to death. no sign of forced entry. they say her car a 2004 prius with kentucky plates is missing. the police chief said they are seeking the public's health. particularly neighbors around 14th street northeast. >> my biggest message to them is if they have information about the car, which we believe at some point was in that block and they may have come or go. that would be valuable to get to the bottom of the case. sam: we see the police right now are dusting for fingerprints in that apartment. a search of social media shows she has been involved in the art projects in a number of places including cincinnati and asheville, north carolina. she was from bu carolina. we'll have more on the story coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00". reporting live from northeast washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. alison: thank you, sam. new from d.c. police today an update in the murder of ayana mcallister. a 19-year-old woman who was visiting home during spring break. police hope they have found a lead. she was sh

according to police, 34-year-old corrina mehiel living temporarily in northeast d.c.yesterday they received a call for unconscious person in the basement apartment and they found the woman. >> tied up an the multiple tab wounds. at this point she was seen alive at some point sunday evening. she had been here since february putting together an exhibit at the corcoran. he was driving a car with kentucky plates and license number 722rmy. with a distinct marking. >> you can see a small yellow triangular shaped sticker beneath the license plate. >> this is sad. >> you never who could be walking past you. you never know. sam: police say there was no forced entry. >> we don't have anything to suggest it's random but we have to e major metropolitan area. sam: in all the cases of homicides in d.c. there is a $25,000 reward. they believe this car can lead to the solution of the homicide. alison: i hope they get answers soon. thank you. a lot of talk in the last few weeks of the number of the missing person cases in the district. we have been telling you how the police change th

mehiel wasere corrina found tied to a chair in stabbed to death.he was an artist from north carolina, living here temporarily. the key to solving her murder may be her car, a toyota prius with kentucky tags, missing right now. if you see it, call the police. and they have released a photo of a person of interest. michelle: the police are reviewing footage from surveillance video to catch who shot a 19 euro woman in northeast. mcallister was watching a video shoot when she was killed. neighbors told the police they were asking for more help to keep their homes say. the police say they will attend a stakeholders meeting and a working to bring justice in this case. alison: a big crowd in the sea to talkabout -- in d.c. about missing children, emotional talk from neighbors and stories from families missing loved ones. the police are working to reassure them. anna-lysa gayle joins us with more. anna-lysa? anna-lysa: city leaders say they are not seeing an increase in the number of missing persons cases, but what they are seeing an increase in his attent

they wanted to question him about the death of 34-year-old corrina mehiel who was found tied to a chair and stabbed to death tuesday morning. if you recognize this man, call d.c. police. horace: a developing story from waldorf, police trying to figure out why a man would shot three members of his family and then kill himself. it happened last night on townhouse. they believe goodwin shot and killed the 4-year-old and the 17-year-old daughters. their mother was hurt. the mother was seriously hurt but is expected to survive. a neighbor heard the shots and ran to the home. >> she was laying on the steps. her husband shot her multiple times. there were kids in horace: lashelle goodwin was a junior in high school in waldorf, honor student and mcof the academic teen. michelle: #missingdcgirls started trending today but it may be trending for misleading reasons. today the d.c. police tried to clarify why it appears that there is an increase in the missing persons cases in the district. sam ford is here to express the fear and the frustration. sam? >> police have been criticized not taking it s

mehiel has been in d.c. to work with an art professor. >>> a man accused of firing an assault rifle inside a crowded d.c. restaurant pleaded guilty. edgar welch admitted to transporting a gun across state lines. welch took a gun into the pizza restaurant comet ping-pong and fired shots. he said he was investigating an internet report, a fake one, about democrats and child sex trafficking. >>> the public feud between members of the house intelligence committee hit another level today. intense announced he's cancelling a public hearing planned for next week. nunes says it will be a closed session which set off democrats. >> the committee seeks additional information from monday's hearing that can only be addressed in closed session. >> there must have been a very strong push back from the white house about the nature of monday's hearing. it's hard for me to come to any other conclusion about why an agreed upon hearing would be suddenly cancelled. >> nunes says he cancelled the hearing so the fbi could brief me

and i'm sure the mehiel family will be grateful as well. >> reporter: now look at this. $400 from a bp station in college park, $500 from a 711, $500 from an exxon station, $800 from lucky foods in elk ridge. police have evidence that toure use t used the victim's atm card to wrou about $4,000 days after murder. how did he get her p.i.n. number? there was evidence that she was tied up and tortured in that basement. more coming at 6:00, live at superior court, pat collins, news4. >>> hello, everybody, i'm doug kammerer. most of us have seen a really nice afternoon, temperatures close to 70, but we're tracking shower activity to the south and least. now it's just showers for the most part. back to the west, towards warrenton, fauquier county, tracking this shower, these are moving to the southeast, manassas, you'll probably see some of those two. trying to make their way closer to the district as our storm system itself moves out of here. behind this, we get a lot cooler in the next few days. this evening, not bad, temperatures dropping through the 60s down to about 58 degrees. i'll cool

toure pulled out a phone and pulled up fox5 story about the mehiel murder case, said to him, mr. toure said to him does that really look like me after viewing the fox5 story. that witness apparently, this is what he was telling authorities, got out of the again, and called 911 to report mr. toure's location, and his car to police. now, earlier today, chief peter new some spoke about this, he is saying that it was a tip from the public that helped solve this case. let's take a listen. >> let me know how important the community tips were to the metropolitan police department in closing this case. we could not have solved this case without the support of our community and, for that, we will be ever grateful. and i'm sure the mehiel family will be grateful, as well. >> the family was in court today, declined to talk on camera, but they said they believe the police had been working tirelessly on this, also, mr. toure's attorney was in court today. she said that mr. toure did not commit this crime. that's what she told the judge today. she said. many look at the evidence. he was -- if

investigators want to talk to him about the death of corrina mehiel of north carolina. body was found tuesday afternoon inside a home on 14th street. investigators say the person captured on surveillance tape may have been driving mehiel's car. that car went missing but was later found. the person visited places in laurel and beltsville after the murder. police are asking anyone with information about this case to give them a call. >>> developing overnight an emotional vigil last night at largo high school to remember 18-year-old ayahna mcallister. she was home on spring break when she was gunned down o people wore white in the teen's honor. >> no mother, no family member should have to go through burying a child. this is hard. there's work to be done t i was -- my husband and i are both social activists. we always have been and we've done on a smaller scale but god has given us a platform through ayahna. >> reporter: d.c. police are still looking for a suspect in the deadly shooting. >>> time now 7:06. in charles county teachers and students at thomas stone high school

on tuesday corrina mehiel was found bound and stabbed to death inside a basement apartment in northeast. mehiel was working at gw school for art and design. >>> developing right now, an 8-year-old boy and five other people are recovering this morning after a mass shooting. a total of seven people were shot in st. louis and a teenager was killed. police say there could be as many as three suspects, but so far there's still no reason as to why they opened fire. >>> 9:07 on your saturday morning. major delays on one of our country's busiest railways. we're going to tell you about the nightmare travel situation after a train headed here to d.c. went off the tracks. >>> a deadly attack on parliament. what we're learning about the terrorist before he died. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month, for the first year with a two-year agree