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Teenager arrested in Virginia State University shooting that injured five

Teenager arrested in Virginia State University shooting that injured five. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Happy Animals, Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.

Aired 2026-08-16 18:15 UTC · 5 segments · 13 min · complete transcript below

Rundown

KRAK 11 NEWS1 min
THE WORLD DESK5 min
CRIMINAL INTENT2 min
HAPPY ANIMALS2 min
SPORTS3 min

KRAK 11 NEWS

Chip Marlowe

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

Deb Sarkissian

And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour.

Chip Marlowe

Tonight: Moscow reports at least seven dead in what it calls the largest Ukrainian cross-border attack of twenty twenty-six. Russia also launched deadly overnight strikes against Kyiv. We'll have that story and the latest from the region on The World Desk in just a few minutes.

Chip Marlowe

Belgium names a new coach for Scotland's national team. Criminal Intent examines what that means for a program that hasn't qualified for a major tournament in eight years.

Deb Sarkissian

Happy Animals features a penguin.

Chip Marlowe

And tropical storm Lala continues to punish Hawaii's Big Island with hurricane-force winds even after being downgraded. Sports has the latest on conditions and what it means for residents still under evacuation orders.

Chip Marlowe

Still ahead on The World Desk: new details on civilian casualties in the Ukrainian capital, and what Moscow is saying about the cross-border strike it claims killed seven. That's next.

Deb Sarkissian

That's the alarm.

Chip Marlowe

I'm aware.

Deb Sarkissian

We should go.

Chip Marlowe

Cronkite didn't go.

Gordo

It's a real alarm.

Chip Marlowe

They're all real, Gordo. That's what makes them alarms.

Deb Sarkissian

I can smell it.

Chip Marlowe

So can I, and I'm still here. I will report the news. You sallies head on out of here.

THE WORLD DESK

Chip Marlowe

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

Deb Sarkissian

I'm Deb Sarkissian. Chip, did you move the globe.

Chip Marlowe

I rotated it to show the Pacific. The Pacific is where most of tonight's coverage originates, and I thought the visual cohesion would communicate preparedness.

Deb Sarkissian

The globe is decorative. It's been facing the Atlantic since two thousand eleven.

Chip Marlowe

Then it was wrong for thirteen years.

Deb Sarkissian
CAMPUS SHOOTING ARREST

We begin tonight with an arrest following a shooting at Virginia State University that left five people injured over the weekend.

Chip Marlowe
CAMPUS SHOOTING ARREST

A nineteen-year-old suspect was taken into custody Sunday at the university, found hiding in a closet on campus after five students were shot during an on-campus gathering Saturday night. The suspect was not a student at Virginia State.

Deb Sarkissian
CAMPUS SHOOTING ARREST

All five victims were treated at area hospitals and released. Virginia State Police say charges are pending. The university is located in Petersburg, about twenty-three miles south of Richmond.

Chip Marlowe
CAMPUS SHOOTING ARREST

Petersburg is practically a suburb of Richmond at this point. Richmond being the capital of Virginia and one of the original colonial settlements, very close to where the first representative government in the Americas convened.

Deb Sarkissian
CAMPUS SHOOTING ARREST

The first representative assembly met in Jamestown. Jamestown is fifty miles from Richmond.

Chip Marlowe

Same region.

Deb Sarkissian

Different city.

Chip Marlowe
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE

Rescue operations continue in western Java tonight following Friday's earthquake. Indonesian authorities now confirm at least fifty-three dead, with that number expected to rise as teams reach villages cut off by landslides and damaged roads.

Deb Sarkissian
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE

Hundreds of homes across the Cianjur region have been destroyed or severely damaged. International aid teams arrived Sunday and are working alongside Indonesian search and rescue crews in what officials describe as extremely difficult terrain.

Chip Marlowe
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE

The earthquake struck Friday afternoon local time. Many of the buildings that collapsed were older structures not built to withstand seismic activity, which is constant in that part of the world because the entire Indonesian chain sits directly on the Ring of Fire.

Deb Sarkissian
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE

The Ring of Fire is a forty-thousand-kilometre arc that runs along the entire Pacific basin. Indonesia is on the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is not Indonesia.

Chip Marlowe

I was establishing geological context.

Deb Sarkissian

You were establishing Indonesia as four continents.

Chip Marlowe
GREEK ISLAND FIRES

In Greece, firefighters are still working to contain twin blazes on the island of Salamina that have now claimed two lives. Evacuation orders remain in effect for hundreds of residents as crews work to prevent the two fires from merging into a single front.

Deb Sarkissian
GREEK ISLAND FIRES

Nearly two hundred firefighters are on the ground. Greek media report both fires started within an hour of each other Sunday morning. Cause is still under investigation.

Chip Marlowe
GREEK ISLAND FIRES

Salamina is just off the coast near Athens, very close to the mainland. You can see smoke from the port at Piraeus, which is Athens' primary commercial harbour and has been since antiquity.

Deb Sarkissian
GREEK ISLAND FIRES

Salamina is in the Saronic Gulf, less than two kilometres from the mainland at its closest point. The island is historically significant as the site of a major naval battle in four eighty B.C.

Chip Marlowe

That's the battle I was referencing when I said antiquity.

Deb Sarkissian

You said the harbour has been there since antiquity. The harbour was built in the fifth century. The battle was fought in the strait.

Chip Marlowe

Same general timeframe.

Deb Sarkissian
UK PHONE ALERT CONCERNS

And finally tonight from The World Desk, an emergency alert sent to millions of phones across the United Kingdom Friday night is now raising concerns from domestic abuse advocates who say the unannounced test may have put vulnerable people at risk.

Chip Marlowe
UK PHONE ALERT CONCERNS

The alert was part of a nationwide test of the UK's emergency broadcast system. Campaigners say people in abusive situations often keep hidden phones for safety, and the loud alarm may have exposed those devices to their abusers.

Deb Sarkissian
UK PHONE ALERT CONCERNS

The UK government has not commented on whether advance warnings were issued to domestic abuse organisations. Similar alert systems in other countries typically include opt-out provisions.

Chip Marlowe

The UK is dealing with this because they adopted the American emergency alert model, which we pioneered in the nineties. So in a sense, this is technology we developed being used overseas.

Deb Sarkissian

The emergency alert system was developed in nineteen fifty-one. The UK's system is based on a European Union standard adopted in twenty sixteen. It is not the American model.

Chip Marlowe

But we had it first.

Deb Sarkissian

We did have it first.

Chip Marlowe

Still ahead tonight, CRIMINAL INTENT. A Wexler County man is facing felony charges after posting photos of what prosecutors say is stolen property to his own social media account. Seventeen separate photos.

Deb Sarkissian

With the caption 'new mower day.'

Chip Marlowe

That story in a few minutes. We'll be right back.

Chip Marlowe

That's my spot.

Deb Sarkissian

It's not assigned.

Chip Marlowe

I've parked there for nine years.

Deb Sarkissian

Nine years doesn't make it yours.

Chip Marlowe

Well... It's Mine

Gordo

Just Park next to to your spot it is always available.

Chip Marlowe

Not the Point.

Deb Sarkissian

Of what.

Chip Marlowe

that spot has shade and sometimes I take naps in my car mid day, It is the best sleep I have ever had, It is the only place I ever dream. I dream of becoming the Number One anchor in the World, Thats My Spot.

CRIMINAL INTENT

Chip Marlowe

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

Deb Sarkissian

And I'm Deb Sarkissian. A Michigan woman is facing federal charges tonight after border agents say seventy-two pounds of cannabis was discovered inside decorative gourds.

Chip Marlowe

The gourds rattled.

Deb Sarkissian
GOURD SMUGGLING ATTEMPT

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the thirty-four-year-old attempted to cross from Windsor, Ontario into Detroit Sunday afternoon with fourteen gourds in her vehicle.

Chip Marlowe
GOURD SMUGGLING ATTEMPT

Officers became suspicious when asked about the contents of the decorative fall arrangement and heard what one agent described as, quote, significant rattling inconsistent with dried plant material.

Deb Sarkissian
GOURD SMUGGLING ATTEMPT

Prosecutors allege each gourd had been hollowed out, filled with vacuum-sealed packages, and resealed with craft adhesive.

Chip Marlowe
GOURD SMUGGLING ATTEMPT

The suspect told agents the gourds were for a seasonal display. She has been charged with intent to distribute a controlled substance and is being held pending a detention hearing.

Deb Sarkissian
GLASGOW TROPHY HEIST

An eleven-thousand-pound ceremonial trophy was stolen from the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow over the weekend.

Chip Marlowe
GLASGOW TROPHY HEIST

The sterling silver trophy, awarded annually since nineteen forty-seven, was taken from a secure display area Saturday night. Investigators are reviewing security footage and interviewing witnesses to establish movement patterns.

Deb Sarkissian
GLASGOW TROPHY HEIST

Police said the theft occurred during a ninety-minute window when the venue was open to the public.

Chip Marlowe
MOWER THEFT ALLEGATIONS

Marcus Fennelly of Wexler County appeared in court this morning on charges of receiving stolen property after prosecutors say he posted seventeen photographs of an allegedly stolen riding mower to social media.

Deb Sarkissian
MOWER THEFT ALLEGATIONS

The caption read, quote, new mower day. The mower had been reported stolen from a Fairmont address four days earlier. Police said the serial number was visible in six of the photos.

Chip Marlowe
MOWER THEFT ALLEGATIONS

Fennelly was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court September fourth.

Deb Sarkissian
MOWER THEFT ALLEGATIONS

The prosecution has declined to comment on whether additional charges are being considered.

Chip Marlowe

And that is the Blotter Brief.

Deb Sarkissian

It was three stories.

Chip Marlowe

Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, an Oregon bald eagle returns to the wild after months of rehabilitation, and we will tell you why this particular release had our newsroom genuinely moved.

Deb Sarkissian

That is next.

Chip Marlowe

I need to be camera left.

Deb Sarkissian

You are camera left.

Chip Marlowe

I need to be more camera left.

Gordo

That's a wall.

Chip Marlowe

Then we move the wall.

Deb Sarkissian

We're not moving a wall.

Chip Marlowe

Peter Jennings moved a wall.

Deb Sarkissian

Peter Jennings did not move a wall. And Peter Jennings was not trying to hide a black eye.

Chip Marlowe

So... camera left?

HAPPY ANIMALS

Chip Marlowe

Welcome back to KRAK 11 News.

Chip Marlowe

Deb, is camera two lower than it was in the last segment.

Deb Sarkissian

Camera two is exactly where it has always been.

Chip Marlowe
PENGUIN PAINTS FOR CONSERVATION

A penguin at the San Diego Zoo has learned to paint, and the paintings are being auctioned to fund seabird conservation.

Deb Sarkissian
PENGUIN PAINTS FOR CONSERVATION

The penguin's name is Raphael. He is an African penguin. Staff noticed he was interested in the brushes during habitat enrichment.

Chip Marlowe
PENGUIN PAINTS FOR CONSERVATION

The first auction raised fourteen hundred dollars. The zoo says Raphael prefers blue.

Chip Marlowe

That is extraordinary work.

Deb Sarkissian
DOG TRAINED TO FIND ARTIFACTS

In Montana, a golden retriever named Ranger has been certified as the state's first archaeological detection dog.

Chip Marlowe
DOG TRAINED TO FIND ARTIFACTS

Ranger was trained to detect bone and ceramic fragments at historic sites without disturbing the surrounding soil.

Deb Sarkissian
DOG TRAINED TO FIND ARTIFACTS

He has already located three previously unknown Blackfeet campsites near Glacier National Park. Ranger is four years old.

Chip Marlowe

And this is his life's work.

Deb Sarkissian
CARRIAGE HORSES FIND NEW WORK

In Kentucky, a horse sanctuary has taken in twelve retired carriage horses from Charleston and is retraining them for therapeutic riding programs.

Chip Marlowe
CARRIAGE HORSES FIND NEW WORK

The oldest is nineteen. The sanctuary says all twelve have adapted well and three are already working with children.

Deb Sarkissian
CARRIAGE HORSES FIND NEW WORK

The program serves children with developmental disabilities. The sanctuary is accepting donations to expand the stables.

Chip Marlowe

That is exactly the kind of thing that should be happening everywhere.

Deb Sarkissian

Still ahead tonight, the Mariners are four games back with nineteen to play, and it is not getting easier. Sports is next.

Deb Sarkissian

What is that smell.

Chip Marlowe

It's called Executive.

Deb Sarkissian

It's called what.

Chip Marlowe

Executive. It's what they wear in boardrooms.

Gordo

It smells like a hookers hotel.

Chip Marlowe

Exactly.

Deb Sarkissian

Chip, you smell like a divorced dad at a Marriott.

Chip Marlowe

Or a Married Dad on a business trip to Vegas.

SPORTS

Chip Marlowe

Good evening, I'm Chip Marlowe.

Deb Sarkissian

I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is the Krak 11 Scoreboard.

Chip Marlowe

Gordo, is camera two lower now than it was when we opened the hour.

Deb Sarkissian

Camera two has not moved since two thousand eleven.

Chip Marlowe
CENTRAL OPENS AGAINST EAST FRIDAY

Fairmont Central hosts Wexler East Friday night in the county football opener. Central has won nine straight in this series. The last time Wexler East beat Central, the current roster had not been born.

Deb Sarkissian

Nineteen ninety-seven.

Chip Marlowe

Which makes it a streak, not a rivalry.

Deb Sarkissian

It makes it a fact.

Chip Marlowe
BROWNS OPEN PRESEASON THURSDAY

The Browns open their preseason Thursday against Green Bay. Cleveland went four and thirteen last season and enters training camp with a new offensive coordinator and the same quarterback who threw nine interceptions in the final four games.

Deb Sarkissian

That is the exact same quarterback.

Chip Marlowe

The hope is that the scheme changes.

Deb Sarkissian

The hope is not a scheme.

Chip Marlowe
HARDWARE WINS REC LEAGUE TITLE

Fairmont Hardware won the rec league championship Saturday night, beating Dale's Tire and Auto four to three in extra innings. It is Hardware's first title in eleven years. The manager is seventy-two years old and said after the game that he would absolutely do this again next year.

Deb Sarkissian

He has said that every year since two thousand fourteen.

Chip Marlowe

And he has been correct every year since two thousand fourteen.

Deb Sarkissian
MARINERS LOSE TO OAKLAND SIX TO THREE

The Mariners lost to Oakland six to three Sunday. Seattle is now four games back in the wild card with nineteen to play. They have lost seven of their last ten and have scored more than three runs exactly once in that stretch.

Chip Marlowe

So they are due.

Deb Sarkissian

That is not how batting averages work.

Chip Marlowe
RONALDO SAYS THIS WILL PROBABLY BE LAST SEASON

Cristiano Ronaldo confirmed this season will probably be his last as a player. He said the same thing two years ago, and last year, and he has now scored forty-three goals in thirty-eight matches this season in Saudi Arabia, so the word probably is doing some work there.

Deb Sarkissian

He is forty-one years old.

Chip Marlowe

And averaging more than a goal per game.

Deb Sarkissian

Against defenses that are also forty-one years old.

Chip Marlowe
POCOGNOLI NAMED SCOTLAND HEAD COACH

Belgium has confirmed Sebastien Pocognoli as Scotland's new national team head coach. Pocognoli played for West Brom and Brighton, spent most of his career as a left back, and is now responsible for getting Scotland to qualify for something.

Deb Sarkissian

Scotland has not qualified for a World Cup since nineteen ninety-eight.

Chip Marlowe

So they are also due.

Deb Sarkissian

That is still not how this works.

Chip Marlowe

Gordo, has camera two dropped at all in the last four minutes.

Deb Sarkissian

Chip.

Chip Marlowe

I am simply establishing whether the angle has changed during sports coverage specifically.

Deb Sarkissian

The angle has not changed during any coverage.

Chip Marlowe

Coming up on the next Krak 11 News at the top of the hour: a Wexler County man has been arrested for the fourth time this year, this time involving a riding mower and seventeen separate photographs he posted himself.

Deb Sarkissian

We'll have that story, the overnight forecast, and whether the tropics are finally done with Hawaii.

Chip Marlowe

That's next.

Deb Sarkissian

What happened to your neck.

Chip Marlowe

Nothing happened to my neck.

Gordo

Something happened to his neck.

Chip Marlowe

Fuck off.

Deb Sarkissian

Wow. Chill.

Chip Marlowe

Sorry. My neck hurts.

Deb Sarkissian

What happened to your neck.

Chip Marlowe

Nothing happened to my neck.

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