New details in Oregon shooting; Deadly shooting at alleged squatter's home

The six starts with the entire region under a severe thunderstorm. Watch a live look outside from our Fox 5 Sky Cam in Arlington after a sunshine and 80s this afternoon, a line of showers and storms moving in with some damaging winds possible through the evening. Caitlin Roth is here with the first check of the forecast here at six. Hi, Caitlin. Hi, Kenneth. Another very warm day. Right, but it started, I mean, like it started blah. Yeah, but they gave us sun. We now are issuing three forecasts per day. It changes that fast around here. Exactly. Because we did go from blah to all of a sudden it was so warm because the sun came out and now storms are forming along the cold front, which will really change things for the weekend. Okay. A lot to keep track of, I know. We'll start with what's on radar right now, and that is a band of showers and storms just off to our north and west. This is non-severe at the moment, and luckily we haven't seen anything become strong enough to warrant a severe thunderstorm warning. We hope it stays that way. But as we look from the northern part of 270 from Gaithersburg to Clarksburg off bisecting I-70 into Carroll County, you've got some heavy rain. Southern Frederick County, same thing. Loudon and into Fauquier County, you've got heavy rain and a few strikes of lightning. Not a lot of lightning and wind gusts are generally in the 30 to 40 mile an hour range. So subsevere. But if you're underneath one of these, it's pouring. And obviously it's very different from the sunny afternoon that we had. On the southern flank of the front, not nearly as much action, just a couple of rogue cells crossing I-64 east of Charlottesville. There is some consensus that this will come together and form a line along and east of 95 over the next hour or so. We'll see if that happens. Severe thunderstorm watch goes until 8 for the metro, 10 for the areas off to the east. Live look out at National Harbor. You can see those towering cumulus clouds off in the distance. Those storms are just north and west of downtown D.C., but they'll likely at least see a shower as this moves by. Warm temperatures continue, but as we look ahead past those showers and storms, you see that chance of a thunderstorm in D.C. right at 7 p.m. Those temps will plummet. We're in the low 50s by daybreak, and we'll start off with some clouds and showers. It turns into a sunny but blustery afternoon, and a much cooler weekend awaits. I'll have more on those changes coming up. All right, Caitlin, thank you. Fox 5 News alert now. New details about the takedown of a school shooter in Oregon. Tonight, a teacher is being credited with helping stop the attack that killed three children and an adult. Fox 5's Sydney Persing, live in the newsroom with the latest here. Sydney. Kenneth, in just the past hour, we have learned that three boys who were students at the school and a 25-year-old teacher were among those who died in this rampage. This all happened in an elementary school in Bend, Oregon. Tonight, the suspect has been identified as 16-year-old Griffin John. He attended that elementary school but was not enrolled at the time of the shooting. The shooter specifically targeted a special education classroom. A teacher we now know threw her cell phone at the suspect and tackled him. She was not injured. A dad of two students at that school saw the teacher struggling and then shot and killed that suspect. The teacher who was willing to stand and fight for her children, incredible. And I think we all recognize that that is true heroism. And we don't see that a lot in society, and we recognize it when we need to. And our community appreciates it. Teachers and students at Silver Rail Elementary School reliving the horrific moments. From her classroom window, fifth grade teacher Kathy Smith saw the shooter walking into the school. She then called the front office to warn them and hid her students in a corner, praying he would not come into her classroom. They were so afraid. The looks on their faces was really hard to see. Just trying to calm them down. Some kids were praying. Some kids were consoling other kids. And so what they were doing so quietly because they know you don't make any noise. A law enforcement source says the shooter used a pump action shotgun bought by his mother. Now, under Oregon law, a minor may possess a shotgun if provided by a parent or by someone else with the parents consent. Kenneth. All right, Sydney, thank you. Tonight, a deadly shooting in an upscale Northwest D.C. neighborhood. Residents say they warned the city for months about an alleged squatter who took over a million-dollar home. Now one man is dead, and the Palisades community is terrified and outraged. Fox News Bob Barnard has the bizarre story from Northwest. The house where the man apparently shot and killed himself is right behind me, behind those trees there. It's a property that the people who live in this neighborhood say has become alarming. They say the woman who lives there has been trespassing and was live streaming last night at the time of the fatal shooting. The neighbors who showed us this video say they're too afraid to go on camera to talk about last night or what's been going on at that house for months now. D.C. police say the initial call last night was for a burglary, then became a shooting. Police describing this as a death investigation, believing 49-year-old Mustafa Karimuchi shot and killed himself. The woman who lives here says the shooting happened up on that back deck. She and a man visiting today invited us into the backyard, but didn't want to speak on camera about what happened. The man says the victim was a friend of hers with benefits. Neighbors tell us the woman is a trespasser, doesn't know the homeowner, has been in the house with her eight-year-old daughter since June. They say she was invited into the house by somebody doing construction work as the overseas owner was preparing to sell the property. The local ANC commissioner says police have been called to this address multiple times in the past few months that there was even another shooting here earlier this week. If you don't have a lease and the person is in the house you still have to go to landlord tenant court. You can't just turn off the electricity. You can't send in goons to get them out. You have to follow the law, and that means going to landlord-tenant court and waiting your turn to get a hearing. And apparently, even though the case might have been filed in June, there's no hearing until November, and that is disgusting, and that's a city problem. People in the meantime who live right around here in Palisades are afraid. And they should be afraid. When there's 911 calls at the level that we're having at this House, there needs to be some kind of attention paid for by our city leaders, and they've been completely inept at getting this case resolved. According to online research, the man at the center of last night's death investigation, Mustafa Kermici, had a court date two days ago for felony domestic violence, listed in court documents as an assault on a police officer. We've also reached out to the Ward 3 D.C. Council member about what's going on here. we were told he was busy today and would visit this issue next week. A married couple in Maryland convicted for the deadly shooting of a St. Mary's County man David and Johanna Jones got into an argument with another driver in October last year in Lexington Park after a fight broke out the victim was shot multiple times and died. The husband took a plea deal over the summer. The wife was found guilty of first degree murder by a jury this week they face life in prison no sentencing date has been set. Double murder defendant Alex Murdoch was back in a South Carolina courtroom today for a pretrial hearing. A jury convicted the former attorney in 2023 of killing his wife and son, but the conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court. The hearing today focused on evidence. His attorneys are trying to exclude DNA, ballistics and cell phone evidence. The retrial is set for next April. Murdoch is serving a lengthy sentenced for financial crimes. The final first Friday event in Manassas canceled. The city called it off in the wake of a deadly shooting last month. A 16-year-old girl from Patriot High School was caught in the crossfire of a shootout. Three men were arrested. Organizers plan to shift their focus on fall and winter events. A sudden shakeup at the White House tonight. The new press secretary Katie Zachariah is out, leaving the role after five days on the job. President Trump announced her appointment October 9th her first briefing lasted just 14 minutes with only three questions Trump defended the move saying the media treated her poorly he's been treated uh i would say pretty nastily and i said to Katie just two minutes ago i said Katie you know you don't have to do this if you don't want she said this is a lot tougher i said welcome to the world of questions were also raised about Zachariah's legal background and whether she passed the bar exam President Trump says she never claimed to be an attorney and he plans to keep her on in some capacity through the end of his term new reports tonight the military is hunting for transgender transgender troops using medical records Maryland Matters citing the federal news network reports commanders are receiving notices about troops in violation of the Trump administration's ban on transgender and non-binary personnel. Several hundred active duty and reserve troops have reportedly been outed over the past two months. Fairfax and Arlington counties can move forward with lawsuits against the Department of Education. A federal appeals court panel found a judge was wrong to rule that lawsuits by the school boards could only be heard in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and not Virginia Federal Court. The Education Department threatened federal funding changes over both districts policies concerning transgender students. Maryland and Virginia are among 15 states trying to force the release of more Epstein files. The states want survivors, attorneys general and members of Congress to be able to sue the U.S. Attorney General over records that are withheld, delayed or heavily redacted. The coalition says the Justice Department has not fully complied with a 2025 law requiring the release of files tied to the dead sex trafficker. millions of documents are still being withheld.