colson. our amy aubert takes us inside the funeral. amy: across the street from the church, you can see the lines of the cars proceeding just behind me. down the road, a large flag waving proudly in honor of officer jacai colson. now just inside those doors at the first baptist church of glenarden, crowds of people, community members, friends and family packed the church with the best thing to say about officer colson. they call him hard-working, trust-worthy, loyal and say he had a smile that could light up the room. >> i ask that we all leave here with a jacai style heart. let's stop the separation and bring us altogether. it's not just one style of life matters. all life matters. especially american lives. let's all be one and not be se amy: colson's mother says he was special from day one. she says the family is at peace knowing he was a man of god. in prince george's county, amy aubert, abc7 news. scott: more and more americans are voicing their opinion about whether the president's pick to be the next supreme court justice should get hearings on the hill. michelle: we'll expla

prince george's county officer jacai colson who was killed while responding to a shooting outside headquarters. scott: today's colson's family opening the viewing to his public and his father opening up about his son. maryland bureau chief brad bell is in capital beltsville. brad? brad: amazing that he has come out to talk to us. there is a lull in the funeral home at beltsville but earlier today was a big line. snaking its way through the parking lot. the line bu official viewing starting at 2:00 p.m. many people here to say they wanted to thank the colson family for their support. i paused for a moment because as i'm speaking here there are a group of officers. i read their badges. they are from the city of new york, nypd sending a contingent of five or six officers down here today. all of them want to pay their respects. as we said, jacai colson's father coming out and telling us what he wants the community, how he wants the community to remember his son. >> this is a hero inside here. ever since he was born, never any trouble to us. he was the kind of kid and young man and any

officer jacai colson, the delaware county native, killed in the shoot-out in the maryland police department last week. >> ♪ >> there was a candle will light vigil and moment of cile tones day to honor him in prince georges county. colson was shot the by a fellow police officer who did not recognize colson and viewed him as a threat. a private funeral for colson will be held later on this week, he is in delaware county. >>> a delaware county congregation church was damaged by fire friday night held a palm sunday day services today. parishioners worshiped at darby recreation center this morning. their church and day care inside was damaged by a two alarm fire. the pastor says that he is optimistic that they cannery build. >> it is just a minor setback but we know god is still in control and that he has, our destiny in his hand. >> now the day care hopes to be backup and running, in just about a month. there is still no word on exactly what started the fire. >>> christians around the world celebrated palm sunday day, the start of the holy week today. here at cathedral basilica of

arrangements have been announced for maryland police officer colson who was killed in the line of duty on sunday. colson is a delaware county native. the his viewing and memorial service will be in maryland but his funeral will take place at lawn croft cemetery in marcus hook. colson was killed by a fellow officer during a shoot-out in the case of mistaken identity. >>> philadelphia city officials have an idea what may have caused a partial building collapse in olde city this morning. demolition crew where is working at fifth and race when a column gave way forcing a slab of concrete to the ground. that concrete hit a lamp post and tree that then felon to a school bus. only the bus driver was on board at the time and he is okay. >>> new developments tonight in the i-95 toll plaza crash in newark, delaware that we first told but last night at 11:00. police say 31 year-old matt rue was drunk when he caused this crash. it involved four vehicles. four people were hurt. rue from maclean, virginia faces dui and drug possession charges. >>> strike averted in northampton county. a tentative agree

: today would have been officer jacai colson's 29th birthday. but instead of celebrating his family is planning a funeral for the officer. shot in the confusion outside of prince george's county district iii police station. maryland bureau chief brad bell has been on top of the story since it happened on sunday. the man accused of starting this event is out of the hospital? brad: that is right. on the officer's berth day the suspect blamed for touching off the violence is out of bed and behind bars. michael ford, who allegedly opened fire on the division division station released -- opened fire on the district iii station released from the hospital and held wit facing a long list of the charges including second degree murder for the alleged role in friendly fire death of the officer colson in the ford caught on camera attack. ford's gun traced. originally sold legally in georgia. today would have before officer colson 29th birthday. the memorial for him at the police headquarters continues to grow. >> a neighbor stops by to thank the police for the sacrifice. it means a lot to us. wher

jacai colson was mistaken for a criminal suspect because he was wearing plainclothes. colson, who grew up in delaware county, was accidentally killed by another law man. >>> live at the satellite center tonight, "action news" reporter christie ileto with the latest details, christie. >> reporter: jim, i spoke with colson's grandparents off camera but they were too upset to talk about this new development, understandably so but they are struggling to make sense of how their grandson died. the friendly fire that killed officer colson was intentional >> the shot to that struck and killed detective colson, was deliberately aimed at him by another police officer. >> reporter: prince georges county maryland police chief says a fellow officer viewed plainclothes colson as a threat during a gun battle outside the police station. >> there is no intention, as i have seen the facts, as they have been explained to me to indicate any malice, or anything along those lines. >> reporter: the 28 year-old under cover narcotics officer from chichester delaware county. fellow badges responded to the attac

death of the prince george's county article jacai colson appeared in court today. the accused shooter michael ford is still in the hospital. as expected bond denied for malik and elijah, his two brothers. but shocking developments from the prosecutor and police chief. maryland bureau chief brad bell is in upper marlboro with a closer look at what happened. brad? brad: so the news has to do with the death of officer colson. we were the first to report very early on that police believed this was a case of friendly fire. that is that one officer's bullet killed another in the middle of the shoot-out. well, what was revealed today is that police are now admitting that the officer who fired did intentionally fire at the other officer. but it was because he at that time perceived a threat. police chief hank stawinski describing a chaotic situation. with a man they allege was michael ford, stand until front of the district iii station sunday afternoon at 4:30 firing 20 gunshots at officers, passing cars and ambulance. into the district iii station. in the shoot-out, an officer manage

accountable for what happened here that led to the friendly fire death of the officer jacai colson. second-degree murder charges were filed against the two brothers. earlier in morning, a commissioner, not a lawyer but someone reviewed by the court was no probable cause for the second-degree murder charges. late this afternoon state attorney angela alsobrooks saying she is not giving up. >> we reviewed the fact with the police department and we agree there was probable cause to file second-degree murder charges in this case. brad: second-degree murder charges, and handgun charges because the brothers helped transport michael here with a handgun in the car. state attorney alsobrooks pledging to go to a grand jury to seek indictments and said it's her office which will decide which charges to take to a grand jury and she says the case warrants serious charges. we will back with 5:00 with more on this and more on the video and what we are hearing about what it captured. at police headquarters, brad bell, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. as the ri continues in the death of officer colso

george's county police officer jacai colson was killed by friendly fire yesterday as he was responding to a gunman in landover. and colson drew up in delaware county. "action news" reporter, chad pradelli, is live in the satellite center. chad, there is a lot of grief down in maryland and here in the delaware valley. >> yeah, jim, listen to people talk about colson and you hear what a tremendous young man he was and how this was tragically a life lost too soon. >> jacai was the greatest grandson you could ever have. kind, courteous and just wonderful and i am going to miss him a lot. >> hugs of comfort did little to ease the pain of losing jacai colson too soon. >> when the phone rings at night you always fear something bad happened, and that's when she told me that he had been killed. [siren wailing] >> investigators say the 18-year-old was killed by friend killed by friendly fire in maryland. and they say the ambush was intended to be suicide by cop. and ford wounded but survived. and his two brothers allegedly filmed the attack and taken into custody. and colson died doing his dream jo

then, off-duty officer las colinas a -- officer colson arrives. bringing dinner to his girlfriend. but he is hit by a lull -- bullet they believe was fired from the fellow officer in the heat of the shootout. much remains to be confirmed. through the day the police are gathering evidence, finding fragments. but they stress last night that the officer's death is the fault of the suspect. >> he engaged several prince george's county police officers in a gun fight for which they responded heroically. brad: back live now. what you are looking at is one of the crime scene investigator vans in the middle of the shooting scene. as we pull out a little bit to the left, you will see the front of a building, walkway, fence, and a front of a building. that is the district three headquarters. it's where the initial shots were fired. officer colson was hit just about another hundred yards or so down the hill. now we gave you an awful lot of detail in that story about the alleged suspects. how they were videotaping it and how it was a planned suicide by cop and the suspicion, the belief among the po