tom roussey is live in bethesda with the case. tom? we tell about this is just stunned about the allegations, and it all started at the bethesda station. man to get on a train like this one. that began in ordeal that ended in not just a robbery but sexual abuse. >> that's not something i would even imagine what happened. at thed line riders bethesda station say they normally consider it safe, but monday afternoon, a man was forced onto a train at gunpoint. at the next nation, friendship heights, the suspect robbed him of a cell phone. forcingen accused of him off metro property where he was forced to participate in a sexual encounter. >> my family rides the train all the time. when i hear something like this happening, it's alarming. simons-year-old dominic is the suspect and he was not done breaking the law. soon after he robbed somebody at the van ness station. that is when he was caught. this woman on a moving red line train last month. and as increased crime variety of technical problems that metro keeps facing. it makes you lose c

tom roussey has the story. tom: fairfax county police say these middle schoolers were reported missing at 7 a.m. in fairfax, wednesday, but police say they have evidence at 5 a.m. even before they were missing they were already in jessup, maryland. now they feel they may be in baltimore. >> you know i love you so much. i cannot live without you. tom: his parents hope that somehow he will hear the message. >> we want you back. tom: police say that sadly, teenagers running away is not rare, but 14 teenagers in middle school to do this is rare. >> we don't know why. tom: the 14-year-old and 13-year-old are both students at a middle school in fairfax. early wednesday morning, somehow, possibly by taxi, they made it around the beltway and to jessup. they believe that from there they went to baltimore, where danielle has connections. danielle has had trouble in the past, but rudy has never done anything like this. >> come back home, please. come back! tom: the police say this is a wake-up call. the torzanos are good p

tom roussey spoke with them tonight. tom, what are they telling you? it was a normal come a beautiful day, and suddenly everything changed, it was chaos. we will show you the gate where this happened earlier today. basically, a man tried to go to a gate that leads to a restricted area. he had a gun and when the secret service say he would not drop it, they shot him. d.c. firefighters cleaned up the scene where the man was shot. >> it was pure chaos. tom: witnesses say they were a lot of people around when this happened shortly after 3:00. >> we heard a gunshot, one really loud one. tom: abc has identified the man as from pennsylvania. the secret service said he was thenpublic area, approached a restricted checkpoint. he had a gun and refused to drop it. >> we heard a gunshot. >> i turned and there was a gunshot. then he was on the floor. i told my family, the guy got shot. >> the officers were running with guns, machine guns, saying get back. tom: this picture shows him on the ground, a secret service agent on top of him. they also found a car believed

tom roussey, abc 7 news. more day until memorial day getaway and a lot of folks are getting out early, especially tomorrow morning. lots of sunshine, middle 70's in the morning. 1:00, lower 80's, by 6:00 we have showers and thunderstorms, highs in the upper 80's, with the heat index closer to 90 degrees. daytime highs well above average for this time of year. culpeper should reach 90, 91 leesburg, 89 winchester. the rest of the weekend, and the tropics flaring up. more on that in a few minutes, alison: steve, thank you. 30 millioneats for americans as we head into this memorial day weekend. at least a dozen tornadoes have been reported in the last 24 hours, one of them in kansas with wind-up to 180 miles per hour. jonathan elias has the situation. jonathan: a terrifying situation. in missouri, passengers at kansas city airport had to be a vacuous because of the threat of the storms, but a bulk of the damages in kansas. some say they were among the most intense tornadoes they have ever seen or chased, one was

tom roussey, abc 7 news. alison: ok, tom, thank you. d.c. police chief cathy lanier will discuss the crime scene tomorrow morning, live on "good morning washington" at 9 a.m.. the violence spread outside of the district, to prince george's where there is a ho homicide investigation in temple hills. he was shot to death on temple hill road. victim has not been identified to. the police said there is a reward for anyone who offers information that could lead to an arrest. from princeng news george's county -- five people hurt in a crash along old alexander ferry road. over theper 7 flew scene. of the victims have life-threatening injuries. no word on what led to the crash. we'll bring you the updates as soon as we get that. a arlington neighborhood is on edge with the urgent search for sex assault suspect. a woman woke up with a stranger touching her, this after a senior was followed and harassed. roz plater has the investigation happening right now. roz: leon , arlington police are looking for information and both of these frightening inciden

tom roussey checks and with this. this sounds like a mild use, -- mild word, inconvenience. safemetro updated its track plan and there are some big changes for some riders, especially on the blue, orange, and silver line. from eastern market to minnesota, this would be completely shut down. we knew that was happening in the summer, but now what is happening in just four weeks. new carrollton metro is busy during the evening rush hour. most of these orange line riders have just weeks to prepare for a major headache. today, metro announced changes plans, track maintenance one of the biggest involving the orange, blue, and silver line track starting at eastern market . they will be shut down days, starting june 18. that was not supposed to happen originally until august. anybody from maryland to downtown will be affected. >> i commute all around town. i really rely on metro to get me where i need to go on time. i'm really concerned. tom: metro will you shuttle buses as an alternative. >> i've heard people say it's not work well at all. tom: this woman said she would do the best

tom roussey has a look at the investigation happening right now. tom, what have you learned? tom: leon, this is a very busy library.ay killed in students leave a lot of things the mascot and they also spend time at the library. the police a yesterday, one man in the late afternoon tried to completely violate another man's privacy. mckeldinnals week, library is packed with students. that one man was not here to get ready for finals. marylandrsity of police say this happened late monday afternoon on the third floor. the male victim was using the bathroom when he suddenly noticed somebody holding a camera above him. he confronts the man holding it, but then let him go. the suspect has not been found since. >> i don't unders an online record search shows five incidents this school year. in the fall, two women in separate dorms accused men of recording them in the shower in a week. there have been similar the reports involving fan e-mail and male victims and bathrooms. after the incidents, the students have received alerts from the police. >> they cannot watch everyone, so it migh

tom roussey has the details. tom: take for example shady grove metro. for 10 days in august, they will have single tracking between here and twinbrook a couple stops down. that is just one of many stations that will be affected, and a whole lot of people will be feeling the pain. >> this is a massive undertaking, no doubt. tom: wants to do three years of track work in one year, and to do that requires changes affecting riders on every line. the pain will begin next month with 15 straight days of single tracking between franconia springfield and van dorn. things will get worse in july when small sections near national airport will be completely shut down a week at a time, with buses taking people around the closed parts. >> we understand the convenience, but understand more the safety. tom: although every line will be affected, the roughest patch of the plan will be on the red line in october when it be shut down for more than three weeks. >> it is a mess. comes one work plan day after federal center southwest had to be shut down twice in one day because

believe it or not, where we find tom roussey live. it looks like things are starting to move now, tom. well, it's moving, but very slowly. there is a backup as far as the eye can see. we are in d.c., but the maryland line is not far that way. this has improved a little bit, but not much. cars far left of the three lanes of 295. the water is fairly deep, what you would want to drive through, we saw a car do that and it stalled out. anybody has to go through here, it is a slow process. these lanes have been shut down for just about an hour or so, and they have been directing traffic to stay to the left because it is the only one shallow enough where the cars can get why, but they do have to slow down and it is causing traffic nightmares even at this hour in northeast. tom roussey, abc 7 news. leon: what a mess. wow. at the height of the storm, lots of you sent pictures of the hail that you saw in your neighborhoods. these are some of the many that we saw posted on facebook. they were also e-mailed at wjla.com. we will be sharing these ph

live in arlington, tom roussey, abc 7 news. alison: 7 on your side with a consumer alert, and a new fallout from men old cyber attack. targeted by hackers four years ago in turns out it was much worse than they thought. criminals got more than 117 million passwords. originally, the 2012 pack was only believed to have compromised 6.5 million. linkedin is working to track the accounts and reset the password's. leon: news chopper 7 over the scene of violence in frederick tonight. ride raising awareness about the imports of drivers to share the road with cyclists. alison: a happy update to a story we brought you last night. remember maggie? she is home safe. the little boston terrier was snatched from her car in broad daylight in northwest yesterday. we spoke with her family night, and it were so worried they were putting up posters offering a reward. now a high school student says that she found maggie inside a carrier bag on the sidewalk in petworth without her collar or tag. when she saw the news, she tracked down the family and

tom roussey, abc 7 news. breaking now, shots fired in northwest d.c., several gunshots ringing out in the petworth neighborhood in northwest. nobody was injured and nobody is in custody at this hour. this is just blocks away from a deadly shooting earlier this afternoon. a man died after being shot on illinois avenue at 4:00. victim, whose name has not been released, was shot multiple times. several cars were also hit by gunfire. alison: to the weather, we are in an unsettled weather pattern with storms rolling through tonight and the threat of rain and the rumb not over yet area steve rudin hasn't updated forecast. have moderate rain entering fairfax and montgomery counties from the west, about two enter the western edge of the capital beltway. if you are watching from remington, moderate rain at this time. no thunder or lightning associated with this and the storms will not be severe as we move through the overnight. district, upper northwest d.c., bethesda, silver spring, light rain at this time. heavier r

tom roussey is live with the memory shared by the community still in shock. tom? tom: alison, a large group from one family came out at the united methodist church, standing on the steps and the platform in front of the church to remember their loved one in a very poignant way. what heother died doing most love -- helping others. he died a hero. tom: to honor malcolm winffel, family members wore superhero shirts. >> what we are ready know -- what a superhero malcom was. tom: the police say that shooting suspect eulalio tordil was trying to carjack a woman and malcolm winffel was shot and killed as he ran to help >> he was running towards her to help. tom: tordil is accused of shooting six people over two days. three victims died. at a bond review, we learned that he planned the spree for at least a month, and he did not leave the aspen hill parking lot of his last victim because he had lost his glasses. tonight, the vigil was put on by the victims right foundation, raising money for the victims family members. the othertwo our died are tordil 's estranged wife, gl

tom roussey has the commuter chaos. tom: normally federal center be open another hour, but they have a barricade up. on the other side of this, metro employees are working on it to get it reopen hopefully for the morning. >> this is crazy! >> stand back just a little bit. riders heading east hit l'enfant plaza, the train did not go any further. >> three blocks this way, it blocks that way. tom: catching a shuttle bus was not easy. >> it's a mess. >> it is ridiculous. >tom: chaos resulted from not oe but two problems at federal center southwest. before the morning rush-hour, a huge electrical problem involving and arcing insulator. in the evening rush-hour, a small amount of debris was burned on the track. workers are replacing every single insulator on both sides of the >> we plan on having it open by the morning. tom: the insulators are on the electrified third rail. they say the 1 should have fewer issues, but it will take more to placate the riders. >> we want to get home. i understand the have to work on it, but some

leon: that was tom rousing reporting -- tom roussey reporting. the police are now seahi a gamestop in silver spring. richard reeve spoke with the child's father. richard: inside of this silver spring gamestop store - >> they were on top of me. richard: armed robbery caught on surveillance. >> they know exactly what they wanted to do and took over the store. richard: a father, mother, and seven-year-old son. >> they pointed the gun at us and told us to get on the floor. richard: 10 feet away, the boy walked back with a flurry of punches. a he recognized he was in dangerous situation with a stranger, and he was trying to defend himself. richard: both parents on the ground at gunpoint. >> he broke free from them and came over to us. richard: the robbers push the clerks on the floor at gunpoint. >> i heard death threats. >> they do deal with cash, so there is quite a lot of opportunity. richard: the two armed robbers, masked, fled. afterward, the seven-year-old spoke to his that. >> it was a fretting situation, but he told us, the good news, if there

tom roussey reports. cnn reports the fbi and justice department prosecutors are investigating virginia's governor. it involves whether a certain donation to his 2013 campaign broke the law. mcauliffe is a close friend of bill and hillary clinton. the fbi is looking into his time globale clinton's initiative, set up by the former president. they are also looking at $120,000 in to his campaign made by a chinese businessman. in a statement, mcauliffe's attorney said, "we cannot confirm the cnn report. neither the governor nor his former campaign have knowledge of the matter, but as reported contributions were completely lawful. cooperate withll the government if he is contacted about it." settling said, "it is in concerning to hear that -- unsettling and concerning to hear that governor mcauliffe has received campaign contributions from chinese nationals. governor mcauliffe should return the money immediately." tom roussey, abc 7 news. a baltimore police officer cleared in connection with the death of freddi

tom roussey has been out and about with all of the excitement tonight. all right, we cannot take it anymore. tom: it is nailbiting time. the folks here at the green turtle in chinatown are watching nervously in overtime. we have already had a miracle comeback area oh, man, they'll most scored. the comeback is not complete. here is video that we took just after the capitals scored the third goal to tie the game. rocking. as we went into overtime, fans were nervous. >> my friends gave up. my friend sent me a text and said we are down 3-0. i said, don't give up. >> a lot of people left the game and are watching with us. we stayed on and here we are. up. these fans did not give they still have not. they are very nervous. a any moment this could be very happy place or sad place. if the capitals win, game seven will be here in chinatown two nights from now. highlights, the when or lose, coming up. reporting live from chinatown, tom roussey, abc 7 news. untilou cannot stay there saturday. revelations-- new about prince. had just before his death. alison: it's li

tom roussey attended the heated gathering. several neighborhoods are opposed to this, especially the one behind me. 100 buses would be capped in this parking lot. because of regulation, they would have to test their horns every morning at 6 a.m. >> tom: the plan called for this crowd to sit quietly for 45 minutes. then they could ask questions. [commotion] tom: needless to say, they were having none of it. >> we want the specifics. tom: a jampacked standing room only crowd met inside college gardens elementary. before the meeting, some had already protested with signs and t-shirts. the basic issue -- by january the county once the school system to remove 430 buses from a depot near shady grove metro. the school system is considering putting 100 school buses in a parking lot at its headquarters across from montgomery college. are 120 feet from the curve edge. tom: the plan has infuriated >> i'm worried about my son's health. buses would be started early in the morning, and at 6:00 a.m. they would test their horns. >> i cannot i

i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. michelle: tom, i'm wondering the section of the road there, executive drive. is that an area where you need security clearance to access? tom: it is but from what i'm told the shooting may not have happened exactly there. although very close to there. you see the gate in distance if you look in distance a block away you see the gate. you can't drive a car closer than that. it's in that basic area, somewhere there where it happened earlier this afternoon. so it did happen where it starts being secure for cars. however, it's around an area where people can go if they want to view the white house in some spots. but basically it's not an area you can drive a car in from where i'm told where the shooting happened. back to you. michelle: thank you so much. chief political correspondent scott thuman is in the newsroom. scott, where is the president right now? scott: yeah, michelle, look, the president left the grounds at 1:00 this afternoon. beautiful day out. he went golfing. he was at andre

senior political correspondent scott thuman standing by in the newsroom but we will start with tom rousseyho is ou where this is happening. he is live now with the new details that are coming in. tom, fill us in. tom: all the streets are still shut down at least for a block from the direction where this happened. let me step out of the way. from where we are, we are at 18th and e. this happened not far from 17th and e. zoom in on the scene where the police are investigating. the secret service is the lead agency on this now. where you look at, at the moment, that is near where this shooting happened. a little after 3:00 this afternoon. with a lot of tourists around. however, there is another scene where an investigation is going on as well. take a live picture from 17th and constitution. actually this is on constitution. just a little bit east of 17th. that is where the car believed to be of the suspect is parked. that is being investigated as well. they believe the male suspect parked there and then from there, went up near the white house. near security gate near 17th and e. he was armed

tom roussey just arrived and he has the latest. tom? tom: this is going on behind me. a lot of detectives on the scene at 49th street and b street southeast. this has been confirmed as a homicide. according to a neighbor i talked to. the woman killed was carrying grocery bags, had just gotten back from the grocery store. the body is on the scene and there are grocery bags at the feet of the body. home of the corner of 49th and b street south east. this has been a violent day in the city. two resulting in homicide. i asked if there is a connection here but none they are talking about publicly yet. it has been a bad day for violence in d.c. we come back live to the scene. you can see a lot of detectives out here. they will be here for a while. this is close to an elementary school. that is an elementary school up the hill from where the murder happened. i don't believe there were kids in the area at the time it happened from what i am hearing. but this happened close to elementary school. it's one of two homicides today in the city. one of five shootings overall. maureen

jonathan: tom roussey just spoke to the victims family. tom: very upset, trying to figure out who would have done this. this started at 9 a.m. dent went down the steps to go into a laundry room, but when she went through the door, she found her friend dead. the family identified her as 29-year-old ashley solano. she grew up in the area and they want to know who would have done this to her. the police spent 11 hours this memorial day investigating and evidence, eventually bringing k-9 units like this one and a state police bloodhound. the neighborhood, but the focus of the investigation was the laundry room. >> they would just hang out and do whatever they want in here. tom: residents say it is a notorious place. >> there are always kids down there doing drugs. tom: condominium residents said off-camera that the victim had a three-year-old son. she found the body of the laundry room at 9 a.m. with blood everywhere. residents say the victim was beaten to death area this neighbor said that she is scared to use the laundry room because of the p

tom roussey, abc 7 news. leon: a shakeup in metro's big plans to repair the rails and make your commute safer, the schedule being moved up. federal authorities say they cannot wait. three sections are in need of repair right now, meaning closures and some places for nearly two weeks. there was another arcing insulator tonight at the friendship heights station. will get the ntsb report on a daily amtrak crash in philadelphia that happened one year ago tonight. the train derailed in ,hiladelphia, killing eight injuring 200. it was traveling nearly twice the speed limit at the time. the engineer told investigators he has no memory of what happened. alison: the police officer who arrested freddie gray is now on trial. baltimore officer edward nero facing charges in the arrest that automate lead to gray's moments in court. jonathan: we have all seen the video, but we now know that edward nero is the person who andgray in leg shackles lifted him into the van, facedown without a seatbelt. nero's lawyer said that no

reporting live in northwest, i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. leon: okay. thank you no. one key person was not there on the scene. president obama was not there at the white house in the shooting. but vice president joe biden was there. maureen: chief political correspondent scott thuman continues the team coverage in the abc7 newsroom. bring us up to date. what is the latest? scott: we know the president was offgrounds, he was golfing. he left the white we was at andrews air force base in maryland. so no issue there. vice president biden was on the white house grounds. we are only told by the white house he was "secured" at that point. the media had been sequestered essentially in the briefing room. the office is attacked to the west wing. they were unable to get a lot of information at that moment and kept inside for safety purposes. eventually the lockdown was lifted and we started to get more of the information. but the president was informed while golfing of the incident. we don't know if they had to secure him or get him off the golf course for security tactics. we

tom roussey, abc 7 news. peopleeveloping now, two are dead after a small plane crashed in orange county, virginia. the faa and ntsb will be investigating. the single-engine aircraft crashed on the one way -- on the runway. the victims had not yet been identified. alison: two suspects in custody after a weekend crime spree put fairfax county on edge. it started saturday with an armed robbery at a jewelry store, which triggered a shootout with the police, a car crash, and a carjacking. officers have been searching for the suspects around the clock, and today william franklin was arrested in waldorf. another man was arrested in new jersey, all as the jewelry still owner relives the horror. >> gun right here on my head. he said do you want to get killed, you want me to shoot you? i will shoot you right now. the police are praying that the police will recover his stolen merchandise so he can reopen his store. we finally cracked 80 degrees for the first time this month. we have even warmer temperatures through the

tom roussey check swing now live. reporter: leon, it was just within the last half hour at the courthouse that the jury made that recommendation. they found steven briel guilty of abduction, strangulation, and first-degree murder. this is a picture of steven briel last year. he was a college student at the university of mary washington. his roommate and fellow student was grace mann. according to the defense, briel was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed mann and his other remains wanted to kill him. he strangled her and tied her up. what was in dispute was his mental state. grace mann's gave a very emotional testimony to try to get a long sentence for briel. at one point, he talked about how in court there was an audiotape played of a phone call steven briel made to his family. thomas mann said, when they were talking about books and movies and laughing, my daughter was in a box in the ground, rotting. his emotional testimony may have influenced the jury. they did recommend a life sentence. attorneys on both sides

and as tom roussey explains-- police are looking for the person who took her life. right now--

tom roussey just arrived and he has the latest. tom? tom: this is going on behind me. lot of detectives on the scene at 49th street and b street southeast. this has been confirmed as a homicide. according to a neighbor i talked to. the woman killed was carrying grocery bags, had just gotten back from the grocery store. the body is on the scene and there are grocery bags at the feet of the body.

tom roussey has the story. middle schoolers were reported missing at 7 a.m. in fairfax, wednesday, but police say they have evidence at 5 a.m. even before they were missing they were already in jessup, maryland. now they feel they may be in baltimore. >> you know i love you so much. i cannot live without you. tom: his parents hope that somehow he will hear the message. >> we want you back. tom:

tom roussey spoke with them tonight. tom, what are they telling you?ful day, and suddenly everything changed, it was chaos. we will show you the gate where this happened earlier today. basically, a man tried to go to a gate that leads to a restricted area. he had a gun and when the secret service say he would not drop it, they shot him. d.c. firefighters cleaned up the scene where the man was shot. >> it was pure chaos. tom: witnesses say they were a lot of people around when this happened shortly after 3:00. >> we heard a gunshot, one really loud one. tom: abc