stephen tschida stepped out of the d.c. superior court where moments ago king faced a judge. steve: even though he -- stephen: even though he did not spend to kill shlonsky, opening fire on busy street required him to remain in custody. a gun battle raged across 7th street northwest on saturday at 5:00 p.m. 23-year-old shlonsky got out of a cab and walking up seventh street when a bullet tore through his chest and ripped apart his lungs and heart. investigators collected evidence off of a street blanketed in shell casings and spent bullets. his grandfather spoke about the loss of matthew shlonsky. >> it's a tragedy. >> during questioning king told investigators he had been shot days prior and was involved in a beef with a rival crew. he told how vims in a bargendy car and he exchanged gunfire. when he admit head fired in the direction of shlonsky the investigators determined they had enough evidence to charge him with second-degree murder. stephen: when he described his actions and defend what he said king yelled out to people on the street to get out of the way before he open

stephen tschida, abc 7 news. maureen: an emotional day in roanoke as the tv station pays tribute to a reporter and photographer killed during a live broadcast yesterday morning. >> holding here's -- hands here on the desk. we are ending this moment with our continued thanks for all of us -- for all of you at home. we will with time in the blessings of her many friends out there for all of you, we will heal from this. maureen: that should be was preceded by a moment from silence it 6:45 this morning. that is the moment a former colleague killed reporter allison parker and her photographer adam ward. it was just part of the outpouring of support from the community. live withid joins us a tv stations leader spoke out this afternoon. reporter: so much emotion today. even now people are arriving here at the front of the television station where the have this memorial. a continues to grow. we learned new information about vester flanigan. outside the station there have been hugs and embraces. the memorial grows by the

stephen tschida has the latest on this. he turned himself this morning, right? stephen: earlier this morning. king is expected to appear any minute. two court documents we are learning more about what the prosecutors believe went down on seventh street, saturday about 5:00 at night. we also have learned what witnesses say happened. they say matt just got out of a cab, walked up 7th street with friends. the friends say they heard barrage of gunfire and they realized that he had collapsed. he was fatally shot. the autopsy report says that the bullet tore through his chest. the bullet went through his heart and claimed his life. king said he was shot a few days before in the neck, minor injury. but he is involved in a beef with a rival crew. they are gangs that are referred to as "crews" in this neighborhood. there was a beef they were aiming to schedule. investigators were steered through king through an informant and took him in for questioning and they say he told them he did pull out a gun on saturday when there was this exchange of gunfire between the apparent

we pick up the team coverage live in southeast with stephen tschida. stephen: right here the bullets flew friday night targeting the metrobus. we talked with the mayor about the surge of violence. specifically, the homicide rate. she doesn't believe it is deterring visitors, tourists to the city. indeed, we spoke with several tourists who said actually on the streets of the nation's capitol, -- streets of the nation's capital, they feel safe. transit police line a route in southeast after someone riddled a bus with bullets. meanwhile, a bus stops for a passenger with a bullet wound in his leg. >> things would get better now we are going back to the old days. >> across d.c. residents react to a surge in killing. the homicide rate now at 103. far above where it was last year at this time. >> i don't want to be in the crossfire. stephen: police are out in force across every quadrant in the city to curtail the homicide a top priority for the mayor. >> we'll make sure the police have the resources they need, that we are putting the resources in the neighborh

stephen tschida has the story. stephen: a man injured in an assault this weekend died today. bringing the homicide number up to 103. now check this out. you can see in the city, the police out in force across the district. in every quadrant trying to bring the homicide rate down. seventh and "o" where the resurgence of the crew and the other crews and the gangs in this community, it has a lot of people on edge tonight. the rain of bullets has families devastate and residents frightened. >> it doesn't make me feel safe. stephen: last week they charged marcus king with second-degree murder and he allegedly joined a gun battle that left the bystander, 23-year-old slonsky dead. investigators say it stemmed from warring crews or gangs. >> it's very scary. stephen: the shootout went down in the area of a city in the midst of a rapid and a substantial investment. some are stunned by the crew warfare on their doorstep. >> the reason is it surprising, you see the development and you can see everybody walking around. it seems safe and carefree. hearing about the gun battles and the gan

stephen tschida lazy more. what are you hearing? stephen: a mile away those who knew the 31-year-old tanika grieving and remembering a mother that expressed fear for her children and herself hours before she fell victim to gun violence plaguing the city. as the homicide rate soars toward 100 for the year, they race from the city to shooting and shooting. today they responded to a call feet from an incident yesterday that left a young mother dead. her 12-year-old son injured. and the 17-year-old charged with murder. >> i washington opt egg shell to figure out if they were the target that day. stephen: she reads facebook post and response if her friend. >> no more than 24 hours she is a target that i was speaking about. stephen: the children exploded in gunfire. > children are easily able to get guns more so than a book to read. >> she wanted to be a clothing designer. stephen: she said she saw her 45 minutes before she was shot. for now, she and her neighbor share the same fear as tanika expressed the day before her death. >> you coul

reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. kimberly: thank you, stephen. we have breaking news out of prince george's county where a police is charged with assault. and child abuse. corporate stephen moore was arrested yesterday. he is suspended without pay. police chief mark magaw calls these allegations troubling. details have not been released. leon: prince william county police identified a man an officer shot in an confrontation last night. they were called out to a fight between 25-year-old and his mother in wood bridge. things escalated when the police say he charged the officer with a knife. the officer then shot him. the injuries are not serious. the officer and the mother had minor injuries from the struggle. police have not identified the officer involved. but they say he is now on routineopoly leave. prosecutors tried a former police officer trying to make methamphetamine in a lab. it's related to the explosion at the national institute of standard and technology in gaithersburg. he retired after the blast. he is scheduled to appeal in court on

stephen tschida joins us and say the latest on another investigation. at some point it has to stop. stephen: there is no stop in sight at this point, jonathan. that is why it has so many people upset. i was right over here on saturday where 23-year-old was gunned down in a rain of bullets, random gunfire. since we have seen the spike in homicide in the d.c. area in the city we have also witnessed this beefed up police presence. the mayor saying they are doing all they can to stem the blood flow in the city. but just this morning in northeast d.c. two people shot. this has so many people outraged in the city. they are calling for aggressive action to end the continuing spike in killings. >> crime is an issue nationwide. i think there are specific steps to be taken to reduce that. i wish they would come out with specific steps to make it clear this is the number one short priority for the city, to keep the residents safe. stephen: charlie bengal a local activists in the city to call on mayor muriel bowser to come up with a more detailed plan of action, something concrete to bring the k

stephen tschida is live in the neighborhood. what do people want done about it? stephen: first, the i.d. of suspects in this case is welcome news. according to the chief, someone opened fire on sunday. they opened fire over there. that ma chew was gunned down. two people shot in northeast this morning. matt rosenberg was a friend of kevin sutherland, another american university graduate. >> after we lost kevin a month and a half ago there was a feeling that something was going to happen. but instead the killings accelerated some district residents now on edge that are looking to city leaders for protection. >> we are doing everything we can to prevent violent crime in every part of the city. >> but the city activist believes it's not enough. >> i would like to see a plan from the mayor with actionable steps to dispel the issue of crime. >> i saw it happen. i hit the ground. >> he came so close to the bullets he doubts more police or jail time for suspects will help. >> i don't need to say police work has nothing to do with it. but to me it seems like we're treatin

kimberly: stephen tschida is live in the district with more on the heated division. stephen? stephen: kimberly, an overwhelming show of no confidence from the rank and file over the weekend. i have tell you, 15 minutes ago i got a response, an e-mail from chief cathy lanier. i want to share what she has is say. she is not interested in responding to or commenting on an anonymous online survey conducted by the fraternal order of police. she goes on to tout what she says was all hands on deck move over the weekend and she lowered the violent crime 30%. overall crime by 50%. compared to the same weekend last year. the rank and file, fraternal order of police unhappy with the leadership style. this is what chair of the f.o.p. had to say about the findings of the survey. the turnout was roughly a third of the members. out of the third the vote is 1,122 voted no confidence. 28 voted they had confidence in the chief. stephen: the chief stressing this is an anonymous survey over the weekend. the same weekend when they were ordered all hands on deck. some may have planned vacation and

stephen tschida, abc 7 news. kimberly: fundraiser is getting underway in annapolis for republican as it is a candidate chris christie. it is being hosted by maryland governor mary hogan at a hotel. this is just the latest in a series of hype of file visits to maryland. today turned out a stunningly gorgeous day. jonathan: steve is joining us now. can we keep this going for a while longer? maybe a couple of months? steve: we will keep it going for one more day in and the heat and humidity is back for the upcoming weekend. rehobeth beach, delaware. hardly any cloud cover out there at all. they will main clear to the overnight hours. 81 degrees at reagan national airport. gaithersburg is 75 him at dulles at 80. 70 over and culpeper. there is no rain to speak of. you will not need an umbrella. not until sunday afternoon and that is only about a 30% chance. here is our nationals forecast for those who may be heading out to the ballpark. look for temperatures to fall in the lower 80's. winds out of the northwest. talki

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stephen tschida stepped out of the d.c. superior court where moments ago king faced a judge. eve: even though he -- stephen: even though he did not spend to kill shlonsky, opening fire on busy street required him to remain in custody. a gun battle raged across 7th street northwest on saturday at 5:00 p.m. 23-year-old shlonsky got out of a cab and walking up seventh street when a bullet tore through his chest and ripped apart his

reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. kimberly: thank you. he was unarm and shot to death by fairfax county police officer two years ago. tonight we are hearing from the father of johngeer. yesterday the officer torres was indicted on second-degree murder charge. jeff goldberg has reaction from geer's loved ones. what are they saying today? jeff: they are expressing deep emotion, relief and satisfaction and anger. adam torres turned himself into authorities last night and he remains here in the fairfax county jail. the family members saying it shouldn't have take then long. the chief prosecutor is expressing regret. we spoke today with john geer's father who said, "it's ridiculous" that it took this long to get to this point. they indicted him on second-degree murder charges. this happened in a standoff with police at geer's springfield town hill. torres was not named for 17 months following the shooter and the fairfax county commonwealth attorney said the county attorney and the police chief rosslere withheld information from the case moving

stephen tschida is live outside the d.c. police headquarters with a look at that side of the story. what are you hearing? stephen: leon, the fraternal order of police says its members have lost confidence, that they are tired of chief cathy lanier's authoritarian leadership style and crime-fighting tactics. the chief for her part says she won't respond to an anonymous survey and we want to point out that this no confidence vote was done on an all hands on deck weekend when a lot of officers who thought they were off for the weekend or on vacation forced to work. >> the rank and file made it clear. they are fed up. overwhelming show of no confidence for police chief cathy lanier in an online police union vote. roughly a third of the union members participated. >> we are hemorrhaging police officers. we have a toxic work environment. stephen: some officers are displeased with the chief's response to the spiraling homicide rate, dismantling of the vice unit and the crime fighting efforts such as the police tents manned 2/7 in violence prone neighborhoods. the vote stunned some city resi

reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. we are following breaking news out of barber county, west virginia, where we're told phillip barber high school was evacuated after a hostage situation at the school. the suspect was cornered inside the school, taken into custody. no one was hurt. we are working on the story and we have more information when we get it in the newsroom. kimberly: this is a mystery for now. a woman is found dead inside a home. also inside ain infant who is a -- an infant who is alive and well. the anne arundel police trying to determine what happened. news chopper 7 over the scene. police responded to the call of an open door at the home. when they got there, they found the woman dead inside. they found the infant inside the home. the baby was not hurt but taken to the hospital as a precaution. they are investigating the woman's death as suspicious. the sheriff's office says a preliminary report shows alcohol was a factor in a serious crash involving teens. the crash happened 11:00 last night between cal

reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. the man chargedded with stabbing an miles per hour university student to death on board a metro will undergo a full competency evaluation because that is the order of a d.c. judge in the case against jasper spires. police say that spires stabbed kevin sutherland to death on the afternoon of the fourth of july and he was high on the synthetic drugs at the time and due back in court october ninth. kimberly: abc7 is getting more information on the melt row train derailment earlier this month that caused commuter chaos for much of the area. we already knew that metro became aware of the track problem weeks earlier but didn't do anything about it. brianne carter is live at the smithsonian metro stop with what else she has learned from the report. brianne? brianne: you mentioned why this happened and talk about metro learning about it prior to the derailment. now we know what metro is citing as to what led up to all of that. that non-passenger train derailment that happened between this sta

stephen tschida spoke to smith's mother and joins us now.been unleashing a flood of emotions with the arrest. latroya smith was rapedded a viciously murdered. nine months later her mother is hoping for closure. she went to a birthday party in southwest d.c. and slipped away to a nearby abandoned row house for a romantic interlude with a friend. three men burst in on them and they robbed the friend and told him to leave. they dragged 26-year-old smith upstairs where d.n.a. evidence indicates two men raped her and someone shot her repeatedly and set her on fire. >> her assaillant has been brought to justice. >> it brought relief but it reopened wounds from the loss of her daughter. >> she was beat and raped and shot multiple times. then set on fire. the images still appear in my head. >> tonight, hill is behind bars charged with murder. d.n.a. evidence linked him to the rape. the other suspect was shot and killed before he could be arrested. while she is pleased with the arrest, smith does not look forward to