Teen suspect in Virginia campus shooting found hiding in closet
Teen suspect in Virginia campus shooting found hiding in closet. 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 2026-08-17 00:06 UTC · 5 segments · 15 min · complete transcript below
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening, Wexler County. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour.
Coming up this hour: The World Desk brings you the largest Ukrainian strike on Russian soil this year — at least seven confirmed dead in Moscow.
Criminal Intent follows with Ghana's case for slavery reparations and why the country says it was the crime scene.
Happy Animals has a senior dog sanctuary in Minnesota that's already at capacity.
That's eighteen dogs.
The what.
Capacity. Eighteen spaces. Not exactly a network number.
And Sports remembers Tommy John, the pitcher who gave his name to the surgery that saved thousands of careers. All of that coming up this hour on KRAK 11 News.
But first, The World Desk — seven dead in the largest Ukrainian attack on Russian territory since the start of twenty twenty-six. That's next.
I've been running to work.
Since when.
July.
Why have you been running.
My wife left me for a runner, so I'm running after her.
You're fat. Maybe just pick up a new wife. One you can catch.
I will get her back.
That's sweet. I'm sorry to hear about your wife. How long ago did she leave?
About nine years ago.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Before we begin, I want to note that I have been using the term corridor throughout tonight's broadcast in its proper geographic context, referring to strategic zones that connect regional jurisdictions.
A corridor is a hallway.
It is also a recognized term in international relations and strategic geography, which I believe adds valuable context for our viewers.
We begin tonight with breaking developments from a college campus shooting in Virginia.
A seventeen-year-old suspect is in custody after opening fire outside a residence hall at Marymount University in Arlington. Five people were injured, none of them students at the university.
Police found the suspect hiding in a maintenance closet approximately two hundred yards from the shooting scene. The suspect was not enrolled at Marymount and authorities have not released a motive.
Arlington is in the northern Virginia corridor, which is a critical zone for university security infrastructure connecting multiple campuses in the region.
Arlington is a city across the Potomac River from Washington.
All five victims were treated at Virginia Hospital Center and have been released. University officials say classes will resume tomorrow with additional campus security personnel.
We turn now to Hawaii, where the death toll from Hurricane Lala has risen to three. Search teams recovered two additional bodies this afternoon on the Big Island's eastern coast.
Rescue operations continue in the hardest-hit areas where at least eleven homes were swept completely off their foundations. The National Guard has deployed two hundred personnel to assist with search and recovery efforts.
More than four thousand residents remain evacuated. The storm made landfall as a category three hurricane with sustained winds of one hundred fifteen miles per hour.
The Pacific corridor typically channels storms north of the islands this time of year, which made Lala's trajectory unusual for forecasters tracking the system.
There is no Pacific corridor. Lala formed in unusually warm waters west of the islands and turned east.
Governor Linda Chen has requested a federal disaster declaration. FEMA teams are expected to arrive by Thursday.
In Greece, both fires on the island of Salamina are now fully contained after burning for eighteen hours. Two people are confirmed dead and more than six hundred residents were evacuated.
Greek authorities deployed more than two hundred firefighters and six aircraft to prevent the two blazes from merging. The fires started simultaneously on opposite ends of the island yesterday afternoon.
Investigators have not determined a cause. Salamina is located in the Saronic Gulf, approximately ten miles west of Athens.
The Saronic Gulf feeds into the Aegean corridor to the east, which typically brings high winds during fire season that can accelerate the spread of flames.
The Saronic Gulf opens to the Aegean Sea. Winds yesterday came from the northwest.
Residents are being allowed to return to their homes tonight. The Greek government has promised emergency housing assistance for those whose properties were damaged.
And in Indonesia, search teams have now recovered fifty-three bodies from Monday's earthquake. More than two thousand people remain displaced.
International rescue teams from Singapore, Australia, and Japan are now working alongside Indonesian authorities. The six-point-two magnitude quake struck West Java province early Monday morning.
Hundreds of homes and public buildings were severely damaged. Rescue operations are expected to continue through the weekend.
Deb.
Chip.
I stand by corridor as a term of geographic significance.
You have used it to describe an ocean, a sea, and a river.
All of which connect strategic zones, which is the definition I have been applying consistently throughout this broadcast.
Still ahead, a Wexler County man tried to pass through airport security with seventeen live snakes hidden in his luggage. That story and more when KRAK 11 News continues.
Criminal Intent is next.
What is that smell.
It's called Executive.
It's called what.
Executive. It's what they wear in boardrooms.
It smells like a hookers hotel.
Exactly.
Chip, you smell like a divorced dad at a Marriott.
Or a Married Dad on a business trip to Vegas.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Gordo, are we favoring camera one tonight? I'd like to confirm that before we proceed.
We're on air, Chip.
A Florida man is facing federal charges tonight after attempting to board an international flight with a passport that lists his occupation as spy.
Customs agents at Miami International detained thirty-four-year-old Marcus Reynolds after noticing irregularities in his travel document. The passport listed his birthdate as February thirtieth.
There is no February thirtieth.
Prosecutors allege Reynolds created the document himself using lamination equipment purchased at an office supply store. He told agents the lamination was peeling because he'd been through, quote, multiple classified checkpoints.
Reynolds is charged with presenting a false document to a federal officer and attempting to board an aircraft with fraudulent identification. If convicted, he faces up to five years.
Here in Wexler County, prosecutors say a woman collected nearly sixty thousand dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits using photographs that did not exist.
Twenty-nine-year-old Ashley Grant is accused of filing eighteen separate claims using AI-generated images. Investigators say the faces had identical lighting errors and three applications listed the same residential address.
Grant was arrested Thursday at that address. She is being held on fifty-eight thousand dollars bond.
A sentencing in Fairmont. Circuit Court Judge Patricia Welles handed down thirty months to a man convicted of breaking into the same hardware store four separate times.
Prosecutors said Thomas Avery used a crowbar on the rear entrance at Kemper Hardware on each occasion, stealing a combined total of one hundred twelve dollars in merchandise. The door has been replaced twice.
Owner Dennis Kemper told the court the repairs cost more than three thousand dollars.
And federal charges out of Atlanta. Authorities say a Georgia man attempted to bring twenty-two live snakes aboard a commercial flight concealed in athletic socks inside his checked luggage.
TSA agents discovered the reptiles during a routine bag scan. Prosecutors allege the suspect intended to sell the snakes in California, where several of the species are prohibited.
The man faces wildlife trafficking charges and was released on bond. The snakes are in the custody of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, a story we think you're going to want to see.
A Wisconsin sanctuary has taken in its largest rescue this year. The animal involved weighs more than both of us combined and has already made friends.
That's Happy Animals, and it's next.
Should I open With a joke? Or inspirational Story?
For what?
The big Speech I am giving at the Rotary Club.
People like good jokes.
Okay. So. Inspirational Story it is.
Chip...
I will tell the story of when I risked my life to save a fellow citizen in need, How I never even knew who this person was before I helped, but if it were not for me, Linda would not be living the live she is today, because of my actions she is alive.
Stop.
what do you mean?
I know Linda, You gave her twenty dollars to cover her lunch, that is hardly saving her life..
HAPPY ANIMALS
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
I'd like to try something at the end of this segment. A close. Three words. Warm, but definitive.
You tried one last week.
That was sports. This is different. This segment earns it.
What are the three words.
I'll know when I feel it.
A Wexler County woman has turned her garage into a sanctuary for injured wildlife, and the numbers speak for themselves.
Patricia Chen has treated and released forty-one birds in the last nine months, mostly songbirds and raptors struck by vehicles or caught in residential netting.
Chen says most birds are flight-ready within two weeks. The longest stay was a red-tailed hawk with a fractured wing that took seven weeks to heal and was released Tuesday morning.
A California aquarium has successfully bred Pacific seahorses for the first time in nearly three decades.
Sixty-two fry were born last month. Staff say breeding seahorses in captivity requires exact water temperature, salinity levels, and tank environment. Previous attempts in nineteen ninety-six and two thousand four both failed within the first week.
And a Vermont bear cub separated from its mother during a storm has been reunited after wildlife officers tracked her radio collar for nine days across two mountain ranges.
The cub was found approximately three miles from where officers last recorded the mother's signal, and she approached within minutes of the cub being placed in a carrier at the base of the ridge.
Officers say they stayed on site until both animals moved back into the tree line together.
That is — the work. When you see that.
It's the work.
Keep watching.
Was that it.
That was it.
Still ahead on KRAK eleven news: a Wexler County high school is taking the field tonight against a team that has beaten them four years running, and the coach says this year is different.
We'll have that story after the break.
You need to go home.
I'm fine.
You are coughing all over the place.
I am fine, Just read the news and mind your own business.
Calm down... I was only trying to help.
I'm Sorry
No Problem.
Sixty seconds.
Gordo, get me a mask.
I'm not contagious.
I am doing the NEWS as if it were 2020, Masks on
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
Gordo, is the desk angle lower than it was for Happy Animals? I am reading down into the prompter and that changes the entire sight line for a sports close.
The desk has not moved.
The prompter feels lower. That is a measurable thing, Deb. Sight lines are geometry.
Baseball tonight. Cleveland and Detroit postponed due to field conditions. Toronto at Baltimore called in the sixth inning. Boston at Tampa delayed through the fourth before resuming play.
Three postponements in one night. That is a scheduling crisis for October and the league has six weeks to solve it before the playoff picture even begins to clarify.
It's August.
Which is when you plan for October.
The sport also lost Tommy John this week. The left-handed pitcher who gave his name to elbow surgery that saved his career and hundreds of others died at eighty-three.
John was thirty-one when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in nineteen seventy-four. That injury had ended careers. Dr. Frank Jobe reconstructed the ligament using a tendon from John's forearm and he pitched fourteen more seasons.
More than a third of active major league pitchers have had the procedure.
High school football. Fairmont Central opens at home Friday night against North Ridge. Central is zero and four against North Ridge over the last four years and lost by twenty-six points last season.
New coaching staff. New defensive scheme. Central has rebuilt the secondary from the ground up and North Ridge has not seen that formation yet. This is a different team than the one that lost by twenty-six.
It's the same roster.
Running a different scheme.
College basketball recruiting. Wexler County's own Jordan Mills has committed to play at Louisville. Mills averaged eighteen points and seven rebounds as a junior at Fairmont West.
Louisville got a steal. Mills has court vision most college seniors do not have. He sees passing lanes three possessions ahead and his rebounding instinct is already at a Division One level.
He's seventeen.
He plays like he's twenty-two. That is the definition of a prospect, Deb.
Tennis. The US Open begins Monday in New York. Three American women are seeded in the top sixteen including defending champion Coco Gauff.
Gauff's serve speed is up four miles per hour from last year and her first serve percentage has climbed eleven points. She has won on every surface this season and her ground game is untouchable when the court is fast.
You don't watch tennis.
I watch enough tennis to know when someone has elevated their game across multiple surfaces in a single calendar year.
You read that sentence off the wire thirty seconds ago.
Reading comprehension is preparation, Deb. That is what separates casual viewers from people who understand momentum in professional sport.
NASCAR. The Cup Series runs at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Pole position goes to Tyler Reddick after qualifying Friday at one hundred eighty-two point four miles per hour.
That is the third fastest pole speed at Michigan in the last decade and he did it in cooler air than the leaders in twenty sixteen had. Track temperature affects downforce and Reddick's setup is built for speed over stability.
You don't watch NASCAR either.
I know what downforce is.
Coming up next on KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour, we'll have the latest on flooding in Indiana where multiple people are confirmed dead and several Indianapolis suburbs remain underwater.
Some parts of the state received more than eleven inches of rainfall over three days. We will have the updated death toll and the forecast for the next forty-eight hours when we return.
That's next.
Stay ready.
I take seventeen vitamins now.
Why.
Optimal performance.
For what.
Broadcast. Stamina. Clarity.
You're reading a teleprompter.
At a very high level.
Your piss is neon. I know because the urinal in the mens room is a fucking mess.
That's how you know it's working.
Reporting behind this episode
- Russia says at least seven killed in largest Ukrainian attack of 2026
- 'Ghana was the crime scene' - the country leading the demand for slavery reparations
- Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dies at 83
- Russia says at least seven killed in largest Ukrainian attack of 2026
- Thousands displaced by deadly Indonesia earthquake as rescue efforts continue
- Two dead and hundreds evacuated after twin fires break out on Greek island
- Trump says US to scale back military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran war
- Teen suspect in Virginia campus shooting found hiding in closet
- One dead, homes swept away after Hurricane Lala lashes Hawaii
- 'Ghana was the crime scene' - the country leading the demand for slavery reparations
- McIlroy admits concerns as Scheffler regains winning feeling at St Jude
- Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dies at 83
- Multiple people dead as flooding continues in Indiana
- What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes
- Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii
- US missionary released following kidnap in Niger, Christian group says
- Three men will be executed on the same day as death penalties rise in US