>> Announcer: LOCAL 4 NEWS
BEGINS RIGHT NOW WITH A
BREAKING NEWS ALERT.
>>> RECKLESS DRIVING CAUSING
NOT GUILTY.
>> AND JUST MOMENTS AGO A
JURY FINDING CHARLES WARREN
NOT GUILTY IN THE DEATH OF
MICHIGAN STATE TROOPER CHAD
WOLF.
THE 70-YEAR-OLD HAD BEEN
CHARGED IN TROOPER WOLF'S
2015 DEATH ON I-75.
HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY ON
ALL COUNTS.
LOCAL 4'S ROD MELONI IN THE
COURTROOM TODAY.
ROD, HOW DID THE TROOPER'S
FAMILY REACT WHEN THAT
COURTROOM.
>> Reporter: THIS WAS
EMOTIONAL ON ALL FRONTS,
EVROD.
CHARLES WARREN'S FAMILY I
NOTICED ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS
WAS PHYSICALLY SHAKING AS
SHEAS THIS VERDICT WAS
BEING READ.
THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY HUGGED
CHARLES WARREN AND THEY BOTH
BROKE INTO TEARS.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, ON THE
PROSECUTION SIDE, THERE WAS
FRUSTRATION AND I THINK SOME
ANGER THERE, TOO, THAT THEY
DID NOT GET THE VERDICT THAT
THEY WERE AFTER.
HIGHLY EMOTIONAL SCENE AS
THREE COUNTS OF FIRST IT WAS
RECKLESS DRIVING DEATH
RESULTING LEAVING THE SCENE
OF AN ACCIDENT.
DEATH RESULTING IN A LESSER
TRAFFIC VIOLATION ALL NOT
GUILTY FOUND BY THE JURY.
NINE MEN, THREE WOMEN, AND
IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL SCENE.
AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE
THINGS THAT EVERYBODY WAS
MINDFUL IN MANY WAYS THERE
REALLY WAS NO WINNER IN.
THIS IN FACT, WE'RE GOING TO
HEAR FROM NEIL ROCKHAM THE
DEFENSE ATTORNEY WHO SPOKE
AFTER THIS VERDICT HE
TALKED ABOUT THIS WHOLE
SITUATION WITH TROOPER CHAD
WOLF HAVING DIED AND THE
SADNESS THAT EVERYBODY FEELS
IN THE WAKE OF THIS ACCIDENT .
>> AGAIN THIS IS A PLACE
WHERE THERE WERE NO WINNERS
THERE WERE NO WINNERS WHEN
THE ACCIDENT TOOK PLACE,
THE PROSECUTION STARTED.
THERE ARE STILL NO WINNERS
TODAY.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT ANY
ABOUT A VERDICT IN THIS
CASE.
IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE
RIGHT VERDICT.
>> Reporter: SO HANK AS
THIS WAS THE CULMINATION OF
A FIVE DAY LONG TRIAL.
THE FULCRUM THE CENTREPOINTE
OF THIS TRIAL IN MANY DAYS
WAS WHAT WE HEARD FROM
CHARLES WARREN IN THE BACK
OF THE POLICE CAR.
HE BEEN PLACED THERE AFTER
THE ACCIDENT IN CASE PEOPLE
WEREN'T AWARE.
CHARLES WARREN WAS DRIVING
UP ONTO T I-75 ON RAMP
FROM DIXIE HIGHWAY IN
CLARKSTON IN THE MORNING
BACK IN AUGUST OF 2015.
BESIDE HIS TRAILER WAS
OFFICER WOLF WHO APPARENTLY
HIT THE SIDE OF THE TRAILER
SKATED ACROSS THE TOP OF
THIS FLATBED TRAILER AND HIS
RIDING LEATHERS CAUGHT A
BOLT IN THAT TRAILER.
APPARENTLY, CHARLES WARREN
DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THIS.
SO HE ENDED YOU UP DRIVING
UP I-75 WITH TROOPER WOLF
DRAGGING ON THE GROUND NEXT
TO THAT TRAILER WHEN HE
DISCOVERED THE WHEEL WAS
SPARKING IS WHEN HE PULLED
INTO THE REST STOP AND
ENDED.
AND THAT'S WHEN HE WAS PUT
IN THE BACK OF THE POLICE
CAR AND CHARLES WARREN IN
UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT WAS
THAT HE WAS INVOLVED WITH
FELT TERRIBLE.
SAID THAT IN FACT, I
REMEMBER ONE OF THE THINGS
HE SAID IN THE BACK OF THE
POLICE CAR WAS THAT OH, MY
GOD, IF I KILLED HIM YOU CAN
KILL ME.
THIS.
SO THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE
THINGS THAT THE FAMILY, THE
CHARLES WARREN FAMILY HE'S
70 YEARS OLD THEY WERE
EXPECTING WITH A GUILTY
VERDICT HE PROBABLY COULD
HAVE SPENT THE REST OF HIS
LIFE IN PRISON.
INSTEAD HE WALKS AWAY.
NOW HE AND HIS FAMILY HAD
NOTHING TO SAY.
WE ALSO WANTED TO SPEAK TO
THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE TO
ABOUT THIS.
SO FAR THEY'VE HAD NO
COMMENT AND NO STATEMENT.
WE'LL CERTAINLY LOOK FOR
AFTERNOON.
COUNTS.
CHARLES WARREN IN THE
TROOPER CHAD WOLF DRAGGING
DEATH.
REPORTING LIVE IN PONTIAC,
ROD MELONI, LOCAL 4.
>> ROD, THANK YOU.
>>> ALSO BREAKING AT NOON A
WOMAN IS HOSPITALIZED AFTER
SHOTS ARE FIRED IN AN
ATTEMPTED CAR-JACKING ON THE
WESTSIDE.
THAT WOMAN WAS PICKING UP A
FAMILY MEMBER THIS MORNING
NEAR A NURSING HOME WITH A
MAN APPROACHED HER ON GRAND
RIVER AND DUNDEE.
THAT'S WHERE LOCAL 4'S STEVE
STEVE I UNDERSTAND THIS
WOMAN WAS ABLE TO DRIVE TO A
POLICE PRECINCT AFTER THOSE
SHOTS WERE FIRED?
HANK.
SHE REACTED VERY QUICKLY AND
THAT'S A GOOD THING.
IT HAPPENED RIGHT ACROSS THE
STREET HERE ACTUALLY RIGHT
LUP SHE WAS PARKED IN FRONT
OF THAT CHURCH ANNEX BECAUSE
SHE ACTED QUICKLY SHE GOT
LUCKY.
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A VERY,
VERY BAD STORY.
AT ABOUT 9:30 MORNING A
WOMAN WAS PARKED IN FRONT OF
THE NEW LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH
ANNEX WAITING TO PICK UP A
RELATIVE AS SHE SAT A MAN
APPROACHED HER CAR WITH A
CLEAR INDICATION THAT THIS
WAS A CAR-JACKING.
>> SHE SAW THAT HE HAD A GUN
IN HIS HAND.
HE TAPPED ON THE WINDOW WITH
THE GUN.
SHE THEN PLACED THE VEHICLE
IN GEAR AND ATTEMPTED TO
PULL OFF AT WHICH TIME HE
FIRED FOUR TO FIVE SHOTS
INTO THE VEHICLE.
>> Reporter: THE WOMAN DROVE
TO THE NEARBY TENTH PRECINCT
FOR HELP.
HOSPITAL.
IT'S UNCLEAR IF SHE WAS HIT
BY A BULLET OR FLYING GLASS
BUT SHE IS EXPECTED TO BE
OKAY.
>> YOU SEE A COUPLE BULLET
IMPACTS INTO THE DASH OF
THAT VEHICLE.
CALL.
>> Reporter: POLICE DO HAVE
A DESCRIPTION OF HER
ATTACKER.
A BLACK MAN IN HIS 20s,
ABOUT 5'7", 140 POUNDS.
>> HE HAS A MEDIUM
COMPLEXION, A GOATEE, HE'S
CAP.
HE HAS A BLACK HOODIE ON,
AND BLACK BLUE JEANS.
HE WAS ARMED WITH A BLUE
STEEL AUTOMATIC.
NOW HERITAGE MANNER THAT'S
THE SENIOR NURSING CENTER
RIGHT BEHIND ME.
NOBODY THERE WAS INVOLVED.
ALTHOUGH SHE MAY HAVE BEEN
THERE.
BUILDINGS.
AGAIN SHE IS TAKEN TO THE
HOSPITAL WAS UNCLEAR FROM
THE COMMANDER WHETHER OR NOT
IT WAS A BULLET WOUND SAID
SHE WILL DEFINITELY BE OKAY.
THERE WAS ACTUALLY A SECOND
MAN INVOLVED WHO WAS IN WHAT
TURNED OUT TO BE THE GETAWAY
CAR AND THAT WAS A BLUE FORD
FOCUS DESCRIBED AS A 1989 OR
1990 MODEL.
SO IF YOU HAVE
ANY INFORMATION AT ALL ABOUT
THAT VEHICLE OR ABOUT THESE
TWO INDIVIDUALS THE POLICE
HOPE SOMEONE WILL CALL CRIME
STOPPERS AT 1-800-SPEAK-UP.
I'M STEVE GARAGIOLA, LOCAL
4.
>> ALL RIGHT STEVE, THANK
YOU.
>>> NEW AT NOON, A NEW
CHAPTER IN THE ONGOING LEGAL
BATTLE INVOLVING TWO BIG
METRO DETROIT.
GEOFFREY FIEGER HAS FILED
WHAT IS NOW A FOURTH CIVIL
SUIT ACCUSING ATTORNEY MIKE
MORSE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THE LATEST CASE INVOLVES A
FORMER MORSE EMPLOYEE WHO
CLAIMS THAT HE GROPED HER
DURING A STAFF HOLIDAY PARTY
IN DETROIT IN 2015.
FIEGER HAS FILED THREE OTHER
CIVIL SUITS ALLEGING MORSE
WOMEN.
MORSE HAS NOT YET RESPONDED
TO THIS LATEST FILING.
AS OF NOW CRIMINAL CHARGES
HAVE NOT BEEN FILED.
>>> AUTOPSIES SCHEDULED
TODAY THEY MAY HOLD A KEY
IN SOLVING A MYSTERY IN
NOVI.
A 31-YEAR-OLD MAN AND HIS
THREE-YEAR-OLD SON WERE
PLAYING POOLSIDE AT THE
GLENS NORTHVILLE APARTMENT
COMPLEX LAST NIGHT.
BEFORE THEY WERE PULLED FROM
DEAD.
POLICE SAY IT DOESN'T APPEAR
THAT THE PAIR WAS PLANNING
TO SWIM LAST NIGHT BUT THE
THREE-YEAR-OLD WAS PLAYING
NEAR THE POOL.
ONGOING.
POLICE SAY THE AUTOPSIES IN
THIS CASE ARE KEY AT THIS
POINT.
>>> ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
UNDERWAY WHERE TWO PEOPLE
SOUTHWEST DETROIT.
NOW THIS HAPPENED THIS
MORNING ON THE 700 BLOCK OF
BEARD STREET THAT'S NEAR
WEST FOURTH STREET.
A MAN IN HIS 60s A WOMAN
POSSIBLY IN HER 30s WERE
FOUND DEAD IN AN APARTMENT
BUILDING.
NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE.
BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY
INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT MAY
HAVE HAPPENED CONTACT
POLICE.
TURNING TO THE WEATHER TODAY,
LET'S GET YOU OVER TO PAUL
GROSS.
PAUL, THE SUN IS SHINING.
LOOKS NICE OUT THERE SHOO WE
HAVE A REALLY PLEASANT DAY
IN PROGRESS, HANK.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
NOW .
METRO AIRPORT IS AT 69 BUT
LOOK AT GROSSE ILE YOU'RE AT
NOW.
CITY AIRPORT IS AT 70
FERNDALE YOU'RE AT 71.
SIMILAR NUMBERS ALTHOUGH
STILL A LITTLE COOL AT 65
MANCHESTER AT 66.
BASICALLY, SIMILAR NUMBERS
LOOKS LIKE MOSTLY MID-60s.
WE SHY AWAY FROM SOME OF
THOSE 70s.
MACOMB TOWNSHIP YOU HAVE 72°
RIGHT NOW.
FINALLY SANDUSKY ARE YOU IN
THE 60s.
CLOUD COVERWISE WE HAVE A
MIXTURE OF CLOUDS AND SUN
ACROSS THE AREA.
THESE THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE
LITTLE COTTON BALLS HERE
CLOUDS.
SO THROUGH THE AFTERNOON
THOSE WILL BE MOST PREVALENT
ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF
THE AREA.
A LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE WAY
OF SUNSHINE THROUGH THE
THERE'S ONLY THE SLIGHT
CHANCE FOR A SHOWER TO THE
NORTH BUT THIS BIG BATCH
WILL STAY TO THE NORTH.
I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THIS
WHEN I COME BACK WE'LL TALK
ABOUT THE PATTERN THAT'S
CAUSING THAT.
FOR THIS AFTERNOON, JUST
BREEZY, MILD, LOW TO MID-70s
FOR A HIGH.
PLENTY OF SUNSHINE JUST A
SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A SHOWER
TO THE FAR NORTH.
BE BACK WITH YOUR WEEKEND
FORECAST IN JUST A BIT,
HANK.
>> PAUL ARE, THANK YOU.
>>> TWO MEN SUSPECTED IN A
STRING OF SMOKE SHOP
ROBBERIES IN MACOMB COUNTY
NOW.
UNDER COVER OFFICERS IN
CLINTON TOWNSHIP SPOTTED TWO
MEN OVERNIGHT BREAKING INTO
A SHOP ON GROESBECK JUST
SOUTH OF 16 MILE.
DURING THE CHASE THE
OFFICER'S CAR.
THEY WERE ARRESTED AFTER
THEIR CAR BURST INTO FLAMES.
PAIR MAY BE RESPONSIBLE,
INVESTIGATORS SAY, FOR
SEVERAL OTHER SMOKE SHOP
BREAK-INS IN METRO DETROIT.
>>> STILL AHEAD HERE AT NOON
A COUPLE AND THEIR DOG
RESCUED OFF A DANGEROUS
CLIFF.
WE'LL SHOW YOU THE NEW VIDEO
THAT CAPTURES THE DRAMATIC
MOMENT.
>>> BUT FIRST, A SUICIDE
ATTACK IN THE AFGHAN CAPITAL
HUNDREDS MORE.
WHAT U.S. OFFICIALS ARE
SAYING ABOUT THE BIG BLAST.
>>> AND HERE AT NOON, WE
CONTINUE TO FOLLOW BREAKING
NEWS FROM PONTIAC.
THAT IS WHERE A NOT GUILTY
VERDICT HAS BEEN REACHED ON
WARREN.
THE MAN ON TRIAL IN THE
DEATH OF MICHIGAN STATE
TROOPER CHAD WOLF.
THE 70-YEAR-OLD HAD BEEN
CHARGED IN TROOPER WOLF'S
2015 DEATH THAT TOOK PLACE
ON I-75.
WE'LL
>>> A HUGE EXPLOSION ROCKED
AFGHAN CAPITAL KILLING 80
PEOPLE INJURING AS MUCH AS
AT 350.
THAT SUICIDE BOMB WAS HIDDEN
IN A SEWAGE TRUCK.
>> THE BOMB EXPLODED AT A
STRATEGIC JUNCTION IN KABUL
THE HEART OF INTERNATIONAL
EFFORTS TO SUPPORT THE
AFGHAN GOVERNMENT.
FIRST RESPONDERS WERE QUICK
TO ARRIVE.
THIS IS AFTER ALL SUPPOSED
TO BE THE MOST SECURE PART
OF KABUL.
THE MASSIVE BOMB IN A
VEHICLE DETONATED BY THE
GATE OF THE GERMAN EMBASSY
THE AMERICAN EMBASSY SHAKEN
BUT UNDAMAGED IS JUST A FEW
BLOCKS AWAY SO IS AN
ENTRANCE TO A FORTIFIED
MILITARY BASE THAT SERVES AS
THE HEADQUARTERS FOR
AMERICAN AND NATO TTOROOPS.
THE BASE WASN'T BREACHED.
THE BLAST WENT OFF AROUND
8:30 A.M. JUST AS EMBASSY
AND BASE EMPLOYEES MOSTLY
AFGHANS WERE HEADING TO
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS
STRUGGLING TO COME UP WITH A
NEW POLICY FOR AFGHANISTAN
THE COUNTRY IS MORE UNSTABLE
THAN IT'S BEEN IN YEARS AND
IT.
AFTER RECENTLY DROPPING THE
SO-CALLED MOTHER OF ALL
BOMBS, ON WHAT THE U.S.
MILITARY CALLED AN ISIS
TUNNEL NETWORK, U.S.
OFFICIALS SAY THE
ADMINISTRATION IS
CONSIDERING SENDING UP TO
5,000 MORE AMERICAN TROOPS
TO THE COUNTRY.
THAT WOULD BRING THE NUMBER
OF AMERICAN TROOPS TO WELL
OVER 10,000 FIGHTING A WAR
ONCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ALL
BUT ONE OF.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
>> THERE ARE MULTIPLE
MILITANT GROUPS THAT OPERATE
IN AFGHANISTAN INCLUDING
CADE, THE TALIBAN, AND ISIS.
THE -- CADE, TALIBAN, AND
ISIS.
LONDON.
>>> TO CALIFORNIA A WOMAN
HAD TO BE AIRLIFTED TO
SAFETY AFTER TRYING TO SAVE
HER DOG
THE VICTIM'S BOYFRIEND WAS
HELPING THE DOG UP A LEDGE
WHEN IT STARTED SLIDING
HILL.
THE WOMAN QUICKLY RUSHED TO
HELP HER DOG ON SAFETY BUT
SHE LOST HER BALANCE
TUMBLING ABOUT 30 FEET DOWN
THE STEEP ROCKS INJURING
HERSELF OF THE THE COUPLE
CALLED 911 FOR HELP AND THE
WOMAN WAS HOISTED TO SAFET
>>> STILL AHEAD HERE AT NOON
A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY BEING
HAILED A HERO.
WE'LL TELL YOU HOW HIS QUICK
ACTIONS SAVED HIS BROTHER'S
PAUL?
>> WELL, WE HAVE A VERY
PLEASANT DAY IN PROGRESS.
THEN WE HAVE THE WEEKEND
THAT WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT.
THE DETAILS AHEAD.
>>> IMAGINE LIVING IN FEAR
OF BEING DEPORTED EVERY
SINGLE DAY.
>> YOU ARE PRAYING THAT YOU
DON'T GET STOP BY THE COPS.
>> THAT FEAR IS PARALYZING
ONE OF THE MOST VIBRANT
COMMUNITIES IN DETROIT AS
IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES HAVE
SHIFTED THEIR FOCUS.
>> WE'LL TELL YOU HOW THE
FEAR IN SOUTHWEST IS
IMPACTING EVERIES A EXPECT
OF LIFE AND HOW COMMUNITY
LEADERS ARE BANDING TOGETHER
TO MAKE SURE RESIDENTS KNOW
THEIR RIGHTS.RY AND
NIGHT.
WE'RE DRY TO START THE DAY
SATURDAY.
RIGHT NOW BASED ON THE
LATEST MODEL DATA LOOKS LIKE
THIS WARM FRONT WILL HOLD
OFF THAT WILL BE GREAT NEWS
FOR THE SATURDAY FESTIVITIES
DOWNTOWN.
SO THIS AFTERNOON AGAIN
CLOUDS AND SUN AGAIN LOW TO
MID-70s FOR THE HEART OF THE
AREA.
IT WILL BE BREEZY.
THAT'S SOMETHING AGAIN TO
REMEMBER.
TONIGHT BECOMING PARTLY
CLOUDY THEN MOSTLY CLEAR.
51 IN THE CITY, MAYBE SOME
SUBURBS.
SO LET'S NOW TALK ABOUT OUR
SEVEN-DAY FECAST.
WE'RE KEEPING THE 70s
THROUGH THE WEEKEND BUT
RIGHT NOW SUNDAY THE BIG
RACE ITSELF RIGHT NOW A GOOD
CHANCE FOR RAIN HANK.
THAT.
YOU.
>>> A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY IN
FLORIDA SETTING THE BIG
BROTHER BAR PRETTY HIGH.
HE'S BEING CALLED A HERO FOR
DOING THE RIGHT THING.
AFTER HIS BROTHER SUFFERED A
SEIZURE LAST WEEK THE
CHILDREN'S MOTHER WAS IN THE
HOSPITAL GIVING BIRTH TO
THEIR SISTER.
BUT BACK AT HOME HER MIDDLE
FEVER.
THAT IS WHEN HIS BIG BROTHER
FACE TIMED MOM TOLD HIM TO
CALL 911.
PARAMEDICS ARRIVED BUT THEY
ALMOST MISSED THE BOY'S
APARTMENT SO HE ACTUALLY HAD
TO RUN OUTSIDE AND DOWN THE
STREET IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET
THE AMBULANCE TO CIRCLE
BACK.
FINALLY PARAMEDICS ARRIVED
AND RUSHED THE YOUNG BOY TO
THE HOSPITAL.
>> I DON'T LOOK AT MYSELF AS
A HERO.
IT WAS JUST THE RIGHT THING
TO DO BEING MY BROTHER.
HIS BROTHER WAS IN SERIOUS
CONDITION BUT THE GOOD NEWS
HE'S EXPECTED TO BE OKAY.
>>> STILL AHEAD HERE AT NOON,
A HORSE ON THE LOOSE IN THE
MIDDLE OF MANHATTAN.
CAPTURES THE WILD ESCAPE IN