news4's prince georges county bureau chief tracy wilkins explains who is shelling out all the money. >> a good job. the key to a good life. >> reporter: the folks behind tv and radio ads like this one in favor of question 7 are part of a ballot issue committee called for maryland jobs and schools incorporated. so far they've spent $8.1 million trying to get votes for expansion in november. this is a lot of money. >> it is and it is going for a good cause. >> reporter: he sxrels operates national harbor. the likely location of a las vegas style casino in prince george's. they'll also contributed the least to the committee. according to records filed with the maryland board of elections, mgm, the likely operator of the casino, has contributed $8.3 million. cbac gaming llc is behind a proposed baltimore casino. they've given $1.2 million. and peterson, $400,000. >> between radio and television. it is not cheap. so it might seem like a big number but we're out there competing with the time on the air with the presidential elections and the likes of that. >> reporter: tv ads alone in the

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prince george's county student. good evening. i'm brian bolter. >> and i'm shawn yancy. someone gunned down marckel ross. so far there are no suspects or motives. fox 5's audrey barnes is back from the school with the latest. >> about a half dozen prince george's county police detectives and officials gathered in the auditorium to answer questions about the case. they also announced a $25,000 reward for information that helps them catch the killer. >> we have the police department working around the case. >> detectives don't have a lot to go on. they don't know if marckel ross was targeted and they're throwing of available resource at the case to find out. >> it's going to be that smallest tip that's going to close that case. it's going to be i saw a vehicle, i saw a person, a small description. i know that he was arguing with this guy. whatever the information is, we need that information to be brought forward because we're going to investigate all of it. >> a parent with the fashion club that ross loved so much says he was bullied l.a. year, but she thought it was -- last year, but she thought it was over. many wonder tonight if perhaps it wasn't. >>

prince george's county police a public meeting to try to answer number of s related to the .ysteriousder was brutallyy ordered inside her own bedroom. just a few weeks into the year.hool believe someone, a male suspect, kick in the front door made his waynd upstairs where she was simply lying in bed listening to music. four days after the shooting, admitted this was a wide-open case. today still low strong leads or arrest. is was this aern -- or attack or did her teenager know her attacker? >> thanks so much. the clock is ticking for maryland residents to let regulators know what they power company's the june storm. last day to submit comments. hold hearings on friday. and the june storm left hundreds of people without power for days. looking at a new weapon to help fight lime's disease. will consider a plan begin an insecticide spraying program in high-risk areas. say spraying is ticks thatgainst carry the disease. lawmakers return today from a recess.k be washington only for about two weeks. the most urgent item on hold until after the election, of on a budgetng to prevent a try rec

s trial in novembbr. dorm has filed a 10-million-dollar lawsuit. prince george's countyice return the murder scene where a 17-year-old girl was gunned down... in search of new clues. clues.amber stanley as shot dozens of police recruits looked through the grass, that looked out of place. detectives also searched the rouue they believe he killer took after leaving the house. 3&"the ddy of the murder we &psearched trash cans, storm drains, we're searching more of those we're searching wooded area over here. we have infoomation that suggest that the suspect in this case left on foot down chartssy in this d" direction."police haven't background that wwuld lead to a motive.they are now offering a 25-thousand doolar reward to anyone with information. the cause of a deadly fire in east ballimore remains under investigation this morningg morning.it sparked around 6:30 laat night in a home on east north avenue... near collington avenue.the body of an lderly woman was found inside the house.another man broke his leg trying to save the woman from the fire. 3 -3 take time off his ca

s been an arrest in the beating an attempted robbery of man in prince george's county. strong beatustin the man with a baseball bat last stop.ay at a bus he is facing a number of attemptedncluding murder. the victim is in stable condition. police have made arrests in connection with a stabbing. stabbed in the face. she was taken to a local hospital for treatment. detectives have arrested two people and they are also witnesses of the attack. a mother is dead and police .elieve she knew her killer the suspect is on the loose. >> the screams of shot heard neighborhood today. >> i do not know why. >> police responded to a call of domestic assault. they found marcello rocio y dead in the stairway of this apartment building. died due to a trauma in her upper body. was a wonderful, .onderful woman >> both children were in the was attacked. she say the common-law husband, martire puente-fulcar, is the suspect. detectives have obtained an for first degree murder. >> i do not know his whereabouts. not do it.id >> the couple has lived in this neighborhood for years. a lot of the p

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county andgeorge's avenue closed near mill road, south of the parkway with a police investigation. s good on the maryland beltway. back to you. >> thank you. two prince george's county officers on administrative into as investigators look left one mane critically wounded. d.c. police are handling the because then happened underside of southern avenue in southeast. it happened around 10:00 last night. two princeton does county officers responding to reports walking around shots. they approached him, he officers.he they fired back. the man was struck several and taken to hospital. . a barricade situation said a catholic university student to the hospital. thece responded to disturbance after midnight. a university spokesperson said the student had barricaded room and atde a some point either jumped or fell off a fourth floor of the building. he was transported to the hospital conscious >> . mitt romney backing down from controversial comments that he made during a private fund- raiser. >> president obama responded last on the david letterman show. tuesday night, president obama weigh in on mitt romney's remarks. in 2008, 47% of people voted for and not me. what

s news edge at 11:00. >> thanks for staying with us, i'm maurine. prosecutors say a veteran prince georges county police officer lied about his gun going off during a confrontation in february. take a lock at this video. 19-year-old ryan says he and a friend had been in a convenience store for snacks. he was wearing a ski mask. the dorm left the store. the flash you see is corporal donald taylor's gun going off as he hits him in the side of the head. he later told officials he had been assaulted by an aggressive teen who was resisting arrest. >> he never said anything to me. i heard a shot and i seen a flash and i felt something. so i thought i was dead, actually. >> ryan dorm was on probation for an assault conviction at the time of the incident. so his arrest sent him back to jail for four months. the assault charges against him in this case were dismissed. he is now suing county for $10 million. >>> the edge of the district in several burglaries since yesterday afternoon. investigators are working to find out if they are connected. the first one happened yesterday afternoon in the 1100 block o

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prince george's county police officers say they opened fire after the man shot at them. news 4's melissa mollet live where it all went down. melissa? >> reporter: good morning, aaron. the road has been blocked since 10:30 last night. investigators still out here on the scene. as you can see here behind me, about three blocks here completely shut down along southern avenue. they are waiting until daylight to get a better one last look at the scene. here's what we know. just after 10:00, d.c. and prince george's police started getting calls about a man walking through an apartment complex here firing a gun into the air. police say, when they arrived, two uniformed officers and marked cars confronted the man with the gun. they asked him several times to put it down. he would not and fired at them in the 800 block of southern avenue. that's where i'm standing this morning. we spoke with two men who heard gunshots. >> i heard about two gunshots, and that's about it. we saw southern avenue totally blocked off. >> it's crazy, and it's scary because i only live right down the street. it'

s tracee wilkins talked to that teen's mom today. she's live on the scene now with the latest on the investigation. tracee? >> reporter: prince george's countyl officials say this

prince george's county the police were bracing for the launch of the iphone 5. >> people have gravitated towards it. it is very popular on the market. >> with more than 3 million iphone 5's sold last week alone and many more and it is a breeding ground filled with apple products. >> i would be lost without my eyes son. -- without my iphone. >> there was a verizon store that was recently burglarized. there is an effort to bring all telephone companies together to block funds that are stolen -- block phones that are stolen. >> mei xiang is coping with the death of her baby at the national zoo. her appetite seems to be improving. her panda cub died on sunday. it is said it had liver abnormalities, but further tests are not yet complete. >> the deaths of four people in herndon, they say that albert petersen killed his wife and children before turning the gun on himself. >> a vote to approve the pepco requested rate hike and that means about another $5.20 per month, and union workers are also voted on a contract. that vote is expected to come down tonight. >> and people say there is hope that regular officials will soon be back on the job. the replacement referees have been d

prince george's county. at a community meeting tonight police gave an update on the murder that has rocked the normally quiet neighborhood. fox 5's karen gray houston has the developments. >> this brazen killing defies explanation. why would anyone barge into a private home and shoot and kill a 17-year-old girl? police told concerned residents tonight in kettering they are taking this case very seriously, but they also need help from the community to solve the crime. residents packed into the kettering community center. there was standing room only. the people want answers. >> this is the first time we had something like this happen so close to us and i would appreciate it if they're able to find out who did this. >> reporter: hosting the meeting prince george's county police said an entire squad is dedicated to the case. the fbi has assigned a crime analyst. investigators are getting tips daily. don't have a composite sketch of a suspect, but say they are still looking for a motive. >> as of this date right now we do not have an exact suspect description that we can share with you. >> we've spoken to students at amber's high sch

prince george's county police officers shot him. they say he opened fire on them first. this is late last night at the d.c.-maryland border. news 4's melissa mollet is live with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. just behind me, we just spoke with officers. they say they're going to keep this road shut down for the next couple of hours at least because they want to wait until daylight to get a better look at the scene. i'm going to step out of the way for you so we can see what's going on here. just a couple of officers here now. the road still blocked off. a couple of moments ago they gathered several evidence markers scattered along the road. here's what we know. last night police started getting numerous calls for a man shooting in the air as he walked through an apartment complex at the corner of 800 chesapeake street southwest. once they arrived, the gunman was in the road, and he started firing at them on the 800 block of southern avenue. the police officers fired back. >> we're still sorting out what the circumstances were. we received several 911 calls for this man. he was waving his firearm in the air, and he wa

prince george's county teenager. the 18-year-old was walking to central high school in capital heights yesterday morning when he was shot. that's where fox 5's melanie alnwick is live with the latest on this investigation. melanie. >> reporter: good morning, tony. certainly another difficult day here outside of central high school of the we have seen a couple of police cars this morning going into the entrance of central high school. a half mile from here earlier this morning there were police cruisers stationed there. that's the extent of the police activity this morning. prince george's county police really don't have a lot to go on in this case that we know of. 18-year-old high school junior marckel ross was an honor roll student said to be an outgoing energetic kid a member of the modeling club, track and field team, rotc. no one can imagine why someone would want to kill him. ross was walking to school along old central avenue tuesday morning. police got calls shortly before 7 a.m. about someone lying on the ground. then they arrived to find ross dead on a well traveled sidewalk halfway between his home and school. he had a gunshot woun

prince george's county high school student shot dead in the street. markel ross was killed while walking to central high. tonight investigators are trying to figure out why. fox 5's paul wagner tells us other students are now worried about their safety. >> reporter: a little over 24 hours after markel ross was killed students at central high were showing off buttons they made in his honor remembering a friend they had known since freshman year. >> to see him go is -- >> reporter: you were a good friend of his, weren't you? >> it's hard because he did nothing to nobody. he was like -- he wasa very nice kid. he always in the books. >> pay lot of sadness going around -- a lot of sadness going around just people mourning the death of markel. he was a real close friend of everybody. never really made -- wasn't a bad person. he was always happy, joyful, no matter if he was mad, he always made other people laugh. >> reporter: the facts of the case, as few as they are, have left many students frightened. >> this is the second student in a couple weeks it happened and they still haven't solved her murder case. i watched the news. so i don't know. it's just very strange. n

prince georges county where they are mourning the loss of a beloved student. he was murdered on the way to school earlier this week. police still have not made an arrest. as fox 5's beth parker shows us, his school family is coming together. >> now the students at central high school remembered their friend today in a number of ways. one of them was walking here on the track the same place where mark ran in his track and field meets. it took a lot of tissues for students at central high school to work their way through an assembly today. they were honoring marckel ross. instead, he was one of the first. shot and killed on his way to school a little before 7:00 tuesday morning. >> when i consider -- marckel -- when i think about marckel, what comes to mind -- >> english teacher, patricia, says she'll think of him every time she hears a particular poem.. the principal urged students to keep their focus. back outside on the football field, they released balloons in one of marckel's favorite colors. marckel's mother was amazed. >> i'm very, very surprised. very, very surprised. i know that he had a lot of people that loved him. i didn't think it was all this. i could

s shomari stone talked to her family who say they're finally at peace. >> there is this like shock. >> reporter: it's the moment christine brown has waited more than a month for. prince george's county police arrested the man who they say killed her daughter shavon phillips. >> i'm just happy they caught him. >> reporter: police say her boyfriend, joseph jones, killed her for around $3800 in cash. shavon was goinged to use the money at a car auction. >> the motive in the case we believe is robbery. >> reporter: this surveillance video shows her hours before the murder helping her 2-year-old daughter out of a minivan and dropping her off at a day care center. they then drove to fredericksburg but they never made it to the auction. police say he killed her. >> her life is worth more than that. i mean, my daughter is a kind person. >> reporter: investigators tell me that they tracked joseph jones' cell phone records to this home depot in capitol heights. police went inside and they say they found him on surveillance video buying husky contractor cleanup bags. he placed her body in one of the trash bags and put it in the a canvas bag. it was discovered floating in this creek in ft. wash

prince george's county police spent several hours today searching the girl's kettering neighborhood. amber stanley was murdered as she slept in her own bed and no one seems to know why. fox 5's paul wagner has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: next to a white hearse parked outside the prince george's ballroom this morning friends who had come to pay respects to amber's family stopped for hugs and a few words before going inside. some of amber's classmates left in tears still stunned by what's happened. >> it's just unbearable. you just wouldn't think you see her in the hallway and the next morning you see her on the news and something terrible like this has happened to her. >> reporter: friends describe the teen as smart, outgoing and ambitious. >> my heart goes out to her father. he has done so much for her in her life to try to make sure that she -- to make sure that she was brought up right and it's heartbreaking. ng. >> iestigars are convinced there's a nexus won the house where amber was killed and a motive -- between the house where amber was killed and a motive for the murder with. that in mind police spent the morning searching the route they think he too

prince george's county police officer striking a teen-ager. investigators say the video contradicts the officer's story first told to his superiors. the teenager spent nearly four months in jail as a result. fox 5'sray houston is in the newsroom with the update. >> that police officer is corporal donald taylor indicted last month for allegedly lying when he claimed his gun discharged during a struggle with 19-year-old ryan dorm who he said was aggressively resisting arrest. we showed that video tonight to a prominent defense attorney for some insight. the action on the surveillance video is dramatic. you see ryan dorm approached from behind. the officer's gun is drawn. ryan is struck in the head. you see a flash as the gun goes off. ted williams is a veteran civil rights attorney who said something is wrong with this picture. >> i hope that if this video was authentic and euploid on this young man that he never -- and he lied on this young man that he never wears the badge of a police officer in the county or anywhere in the united states or elsewhere. >> i'm not resisting. i wasn't doing anything wrong. >> in our story that aired saturday dorm and his lawyer expressed anger and outrage at the tu

s first nfl game. we'll have more news and your forecast in 15 minutes. >>> well. we're talking about health care in prince georges county. there's a lot of debate about the health care law, the reforms that have been passed. and tell me how this law impacts the majority of your clients and the residents that we're talking about in prince georges. >> i'll speak to prince georges and the state of virginia. the health care bill was amazing for us and it going to provide access to insurance for a large number of the people in our state. we were talking about the benefits of it. the state of maryland is far ahead of other states in the country and they're committed to moving forward with health reform. even if the worst thing in my view happens is that it's repealed. the residents of maryland will still be able to purchase health insurance on a health exchange with subsidies. they are moving forward fast and quickly towards that goal. so we will feel it in maryland but not to the degree of most of the other states. there are states in this -- in the country that are not even planning for health reform. and some of our surrou