that's how she found paul lopez. they had been dating for a few months, and paul had even joined her weekly softball game. lopez was the last person maribel talked to on the phone. now police wanted to talk to him. >> you know you're not under arrest or anything like that. >> i wouldn't think so. >> ramirez sat across from paul and asked about his relationship with maribel. >> nothing's been exclusive. it's just been dating. >> okay. you date other people too? >> me, yeah. >> you don't know if she dates other people or not? >> i don't ask, don't tell. >> and he asked lopez where he was on the night maribel disappeared. >> did you come into orange at all on thursday? >> no. >> police also had to consider this. maribel had told lucy that things weren't working out with paul lopez. >> she wasn't a match with paul. so she was online talking to people. >> it wasn't clear if paul knew, even as they kept dating, that maribel was back on plenty of fish and had met a new man. he was a photographer who'd worked a lot with the m

hope the information would force authorities in honduras to locate judith lopez and get to the bottom of his son's death. paul wagner, "fox5 local news". >>> all right. we have breaking news out of montgomery country. a woman was shot after gunfire breaks out in townhouse community. tisha lewis is live in gaithersburg with the latest. tisha, what can you tell us. >> well, sauer after, jim, what a rough way to start 2017. what we can say police say the calls came in reporting shots fired 3:30 an hour and a half ago and it's still active scene out here 100 block of lamont lane in fact you're saying a look at a home on this block inside the home are police officers. and now we don't know specifics about exactly what caused this shooting but what we do know is that police say they are seen where a dark colored jacket. i asked police a few questions and most importantly was this suspect known to the victim and police said no. so that means that this could have likely been not isolated incident but some type of random shoot khing is more concerning. now, police tell us the victim is a female. they also tell us she

paul wagner has the story. >>reporter: the questions run through hose aquestions that'sts mind over and over again, what did judith lopez tell d.c. police in that videotaped interview? she was neverver charged with a right. the child's death was not rulede a homicide but yet she fled the country and went back to honduras where she has apparently gone into hiding.hidi she had a telephone here in then states.st obviously we tried to call her at the number. it didn't go through. we called honduras and of course they saiy they didn't know where she is. so that's all we tried directlyl with her. we right with the police here in d.c. of course they tell us that thet wouldn't go to honduras to find her. we have tried with the attorney's office in honduras.da lopez was an acquaintance of his wife's family and he is nowow convinced someone in the countrn is protecting her. but why? he just wants to know what she told police. so he can compare it with what she told him before getting on a plane and leaving the same day martin died. the d.c. police have refused to turn it over. in two freedom information act requests filed by fox5