Two long-time rivals from the embattled Sweetwater Union High School district got into an disturbance Tuesday night in a Chula Vista mall parking lot.

Former Sweetwater board president John McCann, who is now in a tie in a Chula Vista City Council seat race, called 911 Tuesday night to report a traffic disturbance in the 900-block of Eastlake Parkway. He followed up with calls to the media to report that a community activist had almost run him over with his truck.

Kevin O'Neill, an active community member who just lost a race for a seat on the Sweetwater school board, said he never tried to hit McCann with his truck and was not violent in any way.

NBC7 obtained surviellance video from a business in a Chula Vista mall showing the altercation between these two men. The video does not show what happened before or after the quarrel or what may have provoked it.

What it does show is O'Neill pulling up beside McCann on two occasions.

It all began with dinner at Miguel's restaurant in Eastlake Tuesday night. McCann was dining out with Sweetwater Superintendent Tim Glover, and O'Neill was also at the restaurant.

"I don't dislike John," O'Neill said. "I don't support him. I don't think he's an effective leader." 

McCann said O'Neill is a bully. "If he doesn't get what he wants, he tries to go after you this way," he said.

By this way, McCann means he thinks O'Neill tried to run him over with his truck. McCann was outside the restaurant to take a call from the Registrar of Voters, concerning his city council race. An update Tuesday from the Registrar showed McCann just one vote ahead of former Chula Vista mayor Steve Padilla. That race is now a dead tie. 

The video shows McCann standing near planter in a parking lot and a white truck pulling up beside him, pausing for a moment and then driving away. McCann said he feared for his safety.

"Kevin O'Neill came over, drove his truck, came in front of me, started yelling at me and tried to intimidate me, flipped me off and left," McCann said.

O'Neill says he never raised his voice, and was only reminding McCann that he had left the superintendent, with whom McCann had been dining, waiting at the table for 15 to 20 minutes.

"To me, it was inconsiderate. That's all I said," O'Neill told NBC7. "I continued driving and John chased the truck and was banging on the truck."

In the video, you can see McCann running. He says he was running to get a photo of the truck's license plate as proof that it was O'Neill. Whatever happens next is out of frame, so the alleged banging on O'Neill's truck is not visible.

The video then shows O'Neill returning, and that's when he says McCann banged on his truck again.

"I came back around and I was like, 'John, do you want to speak to me?' And that's when he took off on how I was undercutting him and I was a blankety-blankety-blank and I didn't stay past that because it didn't make sense," O'Neill said.

McCann said he was in danger.

"I don't remember banging on the truck and, again, if anything, I pushed away," McCann said. "He's the one who is in the truck. I'm on foot. He's the one who tried to run me over." 

McCann also denies throwing anything at O'Neill's truck.

After O'Neill drove by the first time, the video appears to show McCann bend down to the ground, where rocks anchor the base of the planter, stand up and then make an overhand pitch in the direction of O'Neill's truck.

Even after NBC7 described to McCann the motions he appears to be making in the surveillance video, he continued to deny throwing anything at O'Neill's truck.

"I never threw anything at the truck. I was carrying a phone. I was on the phone and I think I may have dropped the phone, so I did not throw anything at his truck," McCann said.

After viewing the video Friday, McCann changed his statement to he didn't remember throwing anything at the truck. He also provided NBC7 with some papers that he says are proof that O'Neill is out to get him politically.

"This is a guy who spent thousands of dollars on false campaign ads against me," McCann said. "He has continuously bullied me and for him to say that he was just innocently coming up to me while I was on foot is a complete lie," McCann said.

O'Neill said he never tried to hit McCann with his truck.

"Which one of us is overreacting? Which one is showing leadership and maybe a little more constraint?" O'Neill said. "But, I shouldn't have to avoid him at all costs because he is mercurial."

A former Marine who pled guilty to strangling his wife and dumping her body in a river, confessed to the murder in a chilling recorded interview with two detectives. For the first time outside the courtroom, Caleb Crew's confession can be heard in the audio-taped police interview obtained by News4.

"You're going to feel better when you get this off your chest."
"It's obviously painful she's gone. Just walk us though it."
"Take a deep breath and walk us through it. I know you can do it."

Over and over, in calm, measured voices, Fairfax County, Virginia, detectives Chris Flanagan and Eric Deane turned to those phrases to try to get Crew to tell the truth. Their interview was conducted on Aug. 10, 2013 two days after Crew called 911 to report his wife Andrea missing.

Crew pleaded guilty to murder just last month, the confession a powerful piece of evidence that would have been critical at trial.

In the taped interview, the detectives talk with Crew for nearly two hours, urging him to come clean. He finally gets emotional and begins to provide chilling details about why and how he killed his wife.

Crew tells detectives the couple had gone to court on Aug. 8, 2013 where a previous domestic violence charge against him was dropped. On the way home they argued, and Crew stopped his Jeep in a parking lot. Andrea then threatened to call 911.

Crew tells detectives what happened next:

"I took the phone. I grabbed her out of her chair. She only weights 112 pounds. I grabbed her throat and strangled her in the back seat."

A detective asked whether Crew spoke to his wife.

"First thing I said, 'Goodbye.' I knew once I went down that path I couldn't go back. She said, 'Please Caleb.' I started crying but I couldn't stop," said Crew.

He then tells detectives, though he wife lay lifeless in the SUV, he checked and found a pulse. So he took off the tie he'd worn to court and wrapped it around Andrea's neck.

"Tightly?" asks one detective.
Crew: "Yeah"
Detective: "Why?"
Crew: "To finish the job."

Later that night Crew strapped a backpack filled with weights to his wife's body and threw her in the Occoquon River.

"What was the purpose of the backpack?" asked detectives.
"To take her to the bottom," replied Crew.
"Did you think there was still hope you could get away with it," asked the detective.
"Yeah, that's what I was thinking at the time," said Crew.

Crew tells detectives his biggest immediate worry was the couple's two young daughters, one just 11 months old and still breastfeeding.

"I was thinking, I don't know how else I'll live life after this. I don't want to mess up the girls' lives, of course, I already had. And thinking I have to cover it up," said Crew.

The cover-up lasted just two days until the police interview and Crew's confession. Crew is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 9. One of the most recent filings in his court file -- a certificate of completion for the anger management class at the jail.

The family of a man who authorities say was accidentally shot by police as he walked in a dimly lit stairwell at a Brooklyn housing project appeared at a rally to protest his death on Saturday.

Akai Gurley's 2-year-old daughter and the child's mother appeared with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the rally in Harlem on Saturday morning, as did Gurley's aunt.

"The issue of police going up dark stairwells with their guns drawn and their safety off is at the center of this ... case," Sharpton said. "We have raised this question over and over again. ... It is a matter of police policy."

Gurley, 28, was unarmed when probationary officer Peter Liang accidentally discharged his weapon in the stairwell Thursday night, according to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.

Liang has been placed on modified duty. He and another officer, both with less than 18 months on the force, were part of a violence reduction overtime detail on vertical patrol, conducting floor-by-floor sweeps of the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York at around 11 p.m.

They had gone to the eighth floor, the top floor, via elevator to check the roof when they noticed that there were no lights in the stairwell leading to the roof, Bratton said Friday. Given the location and lack of light, Liang drew his weapon and a flashlight for safety reasons, Bratton said. The other officer kept his service weapon holstered.

As the officers were entering the eighth-floor landing, Gurley emerged on the seventh-floor landing. He heard a noise and turned square to look up at the two officers a floor above him, a law enforcement source said. That's when Liang, who had his gun in his left hand and his flashlight in his right, fired accidentally, hitting Gurley 11 feet below him.

Bratton said no words were exchanged.

"All indications are this was an accidental discharge," Bratton said, calling the shooting "an unfortunate tragedy."

Community leaders blasted the NYPD and called for immediate reform.

"We should not have rookies, inexperienced police officers who are frightened of us, doing vertical patrols," said former councilman and incoming assemblyman Charles Barron.

Councilman Jumaane Williams called the shooting an example of "an overly zealous ethos for excessive force" within the NYPD.

He added in a statement: "Why were two probationary officers put on patrol in a 'high crime' area with no veteran officer to assist? Why was the officer's gun drawn with no safety before entering a vertical patrol? And most importantly, why is another unarmed black man dead at the hands of a police officer?"

Bratton said Gurley and his girlfriend apparently had opted to take the stairs because they didn't want to wait for the elevator, and law enforcement officials say she was a flight of stairs or so ahead of him at the time of the shooting. She didn't see the officer's gun fire.

Gurley stumbled down to his girlfriend on the fifth floor after being shot, and she ran to a fourth-floor apartment to ask for help and called 911, a law enforcement source said. She was given a towel to put pressure on Gurley's chest as she waited for paramedics to arrive.

Liang and the other officer, who initially walked out of the staircase onto the eighth floor, soon realized someone had been shot, and went down to the fifth floor to attempt to render aid, the source said.

Gurley was pronounced dead at a hospital. Gurley, who has multiple previous arrests on robbery and other charges, was not armed when he was shot, authorities said. He lived in Red Hook.

Mayor de Blasio called his death a "tragic mistake."

The Brooklyn district attorney's office and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau are investigating. The New York City Housing Authority said it was cooperating.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson called the shooting "deeply troubling."

"Many questions must be answered, including whether, as reported, the lights in the hallway were out for a number of days, and how this tragedy actually occurred," Thompson said in a statement.

Authorities have interviewed the second officer and Gurley's girlfriend, but have not yet spoken to Liang. The district attorney's office will determine whether it will file criminal charges after interviewing Liang. Then internal affairs officers can question him, a standard policy.

Both officers were taken to the hospital for ringing in their ears, according to the NYPD. The housing project they were assigned to patrol has seen several serious crimes over the last month, including two robberies and two assaults. Two people were killed there this year, Bratton said.

Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said in a statement that the Pink Houses are among the city's most dangerous projects.

"Dimly lit stairways and dilapidated conditions create fertile ground for violent crime while the constant presence of illegal firearms creates a dangerous and highly volatile environment for police officers and residents alike," Lynch said. "Only time and a thorough investigation will tell us what transpired in this case."

Neighbors expressed concern during a candlelight vigil held for Gurley Friday night, chanting "Bratton must go."

Seventh-floor resident Dashwan Lopez said the lights in the hallway had been out for days before they were finally repaired Friday, prompting questions over whether Liang would have even drawn his gun if the lights had been on.

In Lopez's mind, "it could be better managed by housing, but it's still not an excuse to discharge your weapon without knowing what's going on," he said.

The shooting comes as the department is changing how rookie cops are used fresh out of the academy to give them more training and time with more senior officers.

Bratton is implementing a program that pairs less experienced officers with veteran officers on vertical and other patrols, but the program has had to be rolled out over time due to staffing constraints, law enforcement officials said.

Sharpton runs the National Action Network and is a talk-show host on MSNBC, which is owned by WNBC's parent company, NBCUniversal.

--Lori Bordonaro and Brynn Gingras contributed to this report.

When Hurricane Sandy hit Massapequa two years ago, so much was lost but at least one special thing survived all the destruction.

Inside a pile of debris on her front lawn, homeowner Leah Welsh found a vintage black-and-white photo showing a woman in a dress pinning a flower onto a man's tuxedo.

"I called my husband over and I said, 'Can you believe that I just found a picture? And look at the condition of it, it's perfect,'" said Welsh.

The picture is from a different time. Welsh does not know who the two people pictured are, but it's clear the photo captured a special moment.

"I think this is a photo of daughter putting a boutonniere on her father on her wedding day," she said.

She noted how apparent it was the two were happy.

"Just the smiles on their faces and the love you can see between them," she said.

"It actually brought tears to my eyes because... I couldn't believe that I found it," she added.

Welsh tried her best to find the owners but had no luck. Two years later, she dug up the photo again in another effort to locate the owners.

"Sandy was a huge devastation for a lot of people, and you can replace materialistic items and personal belongings, but a picture is really special," she said.

There was a promising development after her interview with NBC 4 New York late Friday: Welsh said she got an email from someone saying they were related to the people in the photo. She's hoping this may finally be her chance to return the photo to its rightful owners.

A vintage wedding photograph that washed up in front of a Long Island woman's house after Hurricane Sandy is being reunited with its owner.

Leah Welsh said that after appearing on NBC 4 New York and elsewhere to share the story of her quest to find the photograph's owner, she was contacted by the family of the woman in the black-and-white photo.

Welsh arranged to return the photo to the woman, who lives in the same Massapequa neighborhood as Welsh, on Saturday.

The Massapequa resident initially found the photograph about two years ago in a pile of debris on her front lawn. The image shows a woman in a dress pinning a flower onto a man's tuxedo.

"I called my husband over and I said, 'Can you believe that I just found a picture? And look at the condition of it, it's perfect,'" said Welsh.

Welsh doesn't know who the two people pictured are, but it's clear the photo captured a special moment, possibly of a daughter putting a boutonniere on her father on her wedding day.

Welsh noted how apparent it was the two were happy.

"Just the smiles on their faces and the love you can see between them," she said.

"It actually brought tears to my eyes because... I couldn't believe that I found it," she added.

Welsh tried her best to find the owners but had no luck. Two years later, she dug up the photo again in another effort to locate the owners.

"Sandy was a huge devastation for a lot of people, and you can replace materialistic items and personal belongings, but a picture is really special," she said.

A California woman has been on the road for over four months, running across more than a dozen states and covering 2,700 miles in honor of the Navy Seals. Christina Lee hopes her journey from New York to the Bay Area will raise $100,0000 for the Navy Seal Foundation and allow her to cross another challenge off her bucket list.

The 23-year-old from San Jose was sitting in her New York University dorm room two years ago and thought a bucket list is just what her life needed.

"I didn't want a bunch of things I could do in a weekend," Lee says. "I wanted some real challenges I would have to work for."

That’s when she came across a Facebook post about a woman who was running across the country to raise money for charity. She decided to add that to her list.

"Once I wrote it down I was going to do it," Lee says. "There are no halfsies on the bucket list."

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She set out on her trek right after graduating college this spring, hoping her effort will raise money and recognize the work of the Navy Seals in serving our country.

"We don't thank our military enough," Lee says.

She is running without any support, pushing a jog stroller filled with her extra clothing and supplies. Lee says she is doing it the hardest way she knows how because something meant to honor Navy Seals shouldn't be a "walk in the park."

She had chosen the Navy Seal Foundation as her beneficiary because she felt the Seals, working in secrecy, didn't get all the attention and respect they deserve.

The run has also gained a deeper purpose.

Christina, a life-long supporter of the military, had chosen the Navy SEAL Foundation as her beneficiary because she felt the SEALs, working in secrecy, didn't get all the attention and respect they deserve.

She began her run as a way to honor all of them, but her effort gained a deeper purpose along the way.

In the first week of the run, somewhere in Pennsylvania, she received an email from Jennifer Collins, the widow of Navy Seal David Collins. 

Collins wanted to thank Lee for what she was doing for the foundation.

"She just sent me this email that said these people changed my life,” Lee said.

Collins told Lee how her husband has suffered a traumatic brain injury while serving overseas and how the injury plagued him after his return home. Collins shared how David had eventually killed himself and how the foundation had been there to help her and their two children.

"It just put it all in perspective," Lee recalls.

She now says she is always thinking of David during her run, particularly during the most challenging times.

"I think, so what if your feet hurt? At least there's no one shooting at you," Christina says.

Lee has fewer than 300 miles to go in her journey. She hopes to put her feet in the Pacific Ocean on December 6th.

All University of Virginia fraternities and associated social activities have been suspended until January after a 2012 alleged sexual assault incident was highlighted in a "Rolling Stone" article.

In an email message to the university community on Saturday, school President Teresa Sullivan called the actions in the article, “appalling,” and said the community as a whole needed to reexamine their responsibilities to stop rape and sexual assault on campus. Sullivan has also asked the Charlottesville Police Department to investigate the assault described in the article.

In the article published on November 19, a student named Jackie describes being raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party while she was a freshman at the University of Virginia in 2012. The article describes the pressure placed by other students upon her after the incident and the university’s response to the issue.

The school is one of 86 under federal investigation for inadequately handling sexual-violence complaints, and one of a dozen under a proactive probe launched by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, according to the report. "They are targeted efforts to go after very serious concerns," says Office of Civil Rights assistant secretary Catherine Lhamon in the article. "We don't open compliance reviews unless we have something that we think merits it."

In her email to the university community, Sullivan said she has heard the opinions and reactions from the "Rolling Stone" article, and is imploring the community uphold the honor of the University and bring the truth of the 2012 incident to light.

“I write you today in solidarity. I write you in great sorrow, great rage, but most importantly, with great determination,” Sullivan wrote. “Meaningful change is necessary, and we can lead that change for all universities.”

She announced that all fraternity organizations and associated social activities have been suspended immediately until January 9. The Inter-Fraternity Council voluntarily suspended social activities this weekend.

The Board of Visitors is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss the University’s policies regarding sexual assault as well as the 2012 incident, according to the email.

“We are united in our compassion, resolve, and determination," Sullivan wrote. "Compassion for survivors of assault; resolve to make our community better; determination to begin to solve this problem here and now.”

While the "Rolling Stone" report highlighted one woman’s plight on campus, a subsequent piece published on November 21 cast a spotlight on the university’s behavior toward other women – students and alumni – who said they suffered sexual assault on UVa.’s campus.

To read the initial "Rolling Stone" report, click here. To read the second story, click here.

After a two-year hiatus, the long-standing Chula Vista Starlight Parade is back with appearances by carolers, the Grinch, reindeer and Old Saint Nick himself.

The parade will start at 6 p.m. Dec. 6 in Chula Vista’s historic Third Avenue Village. But before that, the Third Avenue Village Association will host a “Holiday in the Village” on Third Avenue from noon to 5 p.m.

The event is perfect for the kiddos and will boast performers, children’s activities, contests and live reindeer.

Perhaps its signature attraction is “Frosty’s Snow Hill,” a snow-covered hill in Memorial Park that you’ll be able to sled down.

In the evening, stick around for the Starlight Parade, which will go down Third Avenue from H to E streets. Onlookers will be able to catch about 30 festive floats along with another 30 marching school bands and dance performers.

The best part of all this family Yuletide cheer? It’s free. So bundle up in a scarf and hat and get ready to get your Christmas cheer on!

A troop of Francois’ langurs at the San Diego Zoo bring new meaning to "it takes a village to raise a child."

The langurs, also known as Francois’ leaf monkeys, are spending this week introducing a new, 8-day-old baby to their bamboo and gourd-filled habitat.

Distinctive for its head of bright orange hair, the little langur has been passed around among the older ones. Zoo keepers say the monkeys practice alloparenting, so every family member helps to raise the little guy.

Scientists believe the infants’ colorful head of hair help the troop identify and look after them.

In the first six months, the baby’s fur will fade to black. Soon, it’ll look more like the other langurs, who are reminiscent to a 19th century emperor with bright white mutton chops.

San Diego Zoo officials say they were the first in North America to house Francois’ langurs, and their breeding efforts helped found the monkeys’ population in zoos across the country.

Visitors can see five langurs now live in the Asian Passage of the zoo because the species is native to Asian tropical forests.

Two Oceanside men were convicted of defrauding 3,261 homeowners across the nation in a $13 million loan modification scheme through a sham law firm in Oceanside, the United States Attorney’s office said Thursday.

Dean Gregory Chandler, the former president, chief executive and attorney of 1st American Law Center, and Michael Eccles, a former manager in the firm’s telemarketing call center, received their guilty verdicts after a three-week trial and a day of deliberation.

Chandler was convicted of eight felony counts, including three counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count each of conspiracy and money laundering. Eccles was convicted of five counts, including conspiracy and two counts each of mail fraud and wire fraud.

“Mr. Chandler and Mr. Eccles misused and abused their positions of trust to prey upon those who were financially vulnerable and desperate to save their homes,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric S. Birnbaum said in a press release. “Today's convictions reaffirm our commitment to hold accountable the guilty who profit by taking advantage of vulnerable people.

Chandler created the firm in partnership with convicted drug trafficker Gary Bobel, who was separately convicted and sentenced for his role in 2009, according to evidence presented at trial. Bobel oversaw the call center and the team of telemarketers, who pitched loan modification services on behalf of the law center.

The team of attorneys would negotiate on behalf of their clients with the mortgage lenders and draft all documents to be sent to the mortgage lenders, the prosecutors say. The firm promised “attorney retainer fee” averaging $3,495 would be preserved in an attorney-client trust account until the client was satisfied, according to evidence presented at trial. If they were not satisfied, the clients were protected by a money-back guarantee.

The U.S. Attorney says the firm proceeded to funnel client’s money into other account to pay co-schemers, sales commissions and company expenses, and they failed to provide refunds to many clients who requested them.

Eccles was later promoted to the manager of the call center in December 2009, where he fabricated more lies to suggest to clients that they could take comfort in the established success of the firm they would hire, according to trial evidence. Evidence at trial determined Chandler’s primary role was to mislead regulatory and enforcement agencies that threatened the law firm’s operations.

The defendants will next appear before United States District Judge Roger T. Benitez on February 23, 2015 for sentencing. A restitution hearing for the victims of 1st American Law Center is set for April 21, 2015.

A New Jersey substitute teacher has been arrested after sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student in her car, prosecutors say.

Linda Hardan, 21, was arrested Friday on charges of criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child, the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office said Saturday.

Hardan is accused of assaulting a student from Manchester Regional High School, where she worked as a substitute teacher, prosecutors said. The attack occurred Thursday in Hardan's parked car in Wayne, prosecutors said.

It wasn't clear if Hardan had a lawyer. Calls to a phone number at her address in Prospect Park, New Jersey, went unanswered.

The internet is larger than you think.

Using websites like Google and Yahoo is only the tip of a massive internet iceberg that goes far beyond a typical search.

There's what could be considered a "black market web" that you should be concerned about, an entirely different internet used by people across the world. It's not what you do every day when you go to Facebook or look up your favorite Apple Crisp recipe.

This internet requires special software, and it is deeper and darker than what you've experienced.

"Think of it kind of like an illegal bazaar,” said FBI Special Agent Bradlee Godshall.

It started as a way for the US military to communicate abroad without being detected.

“The TOR was originally a project from the United States Navy. It was intended for governmental purposes and as so often happens, it gets utilized for other uses,” Godshall explained.

There are now sites where you can be anonymous as you gain access to any and everything you can think of: “Guns, narcotics, valid credit card numbers, cloned phones, weapons," said Godshall.

Ken Weston is a researcher at Tripwire. Within seconds of searching the dark web, he found hundreds of credit card numbers for sale for as little as two dollars. If you wanted more information, the price jumped up to $5.

"Here, they all included social security number and date of birth, and then that's going to be a bit more expensive," Weston said. 

The dark web has been trouble for law enforcement. Every transaction is done without names and when the FBI finds one site, another pops up.

"The dark web is too massive. Even in the registered domain registers, there are 555 million. Those are just registered and that doesn't even count the dark web,” Godshall said.

Weston found ads for a 3-D printed gun, counterfeit money, drugs and even an ad for a hitman. The FBI says this underground internet is something your children probably know about it and could access.

"The computer and the electronic virtual world has infiltrated into our phones, into our tablets. It's something that is everywhere. It's something parents need to take a very active and strong stance against," Weston said.

Special Agent Godshall says the dark web is kind of like a double-edged sword because in addition to the criminal use of it, it also provides to put highly sensitive political information out to a wider market.

Law enforcement is searching for the person who shined a green laser at a plane headed for Lindbergh Field — a potentially dangerous, federal crime.

SkyWest Flight 6639 was about eight miles from the airport when the laser hit it just before 6 p.m.

The flight landed at the Commuter Terminal with no further problems, and no injuries were reported.

Harbor Police is taking a report from the crew and will forward it to the FBI, which launched a campaign over the summer to crack down on such offenses.

The San Diego Police helicopter circled the area where the laser originated but did not find the suspect.

Pointing a laser at an airplane — also called "lasing" -- carries a punishment of up to 20 years in jail.

NBC News reports the biggest problem while flying isn't getting eye damage, but instead being distracted while coming in for a landing, which is the most hectic time of a flight.

Green lasers can appear 35 times brighter than a red laser with similar power.

A Boston man has been arrested after police say he ran naked from a women's restroom at Logan International Airport and attacked an 84-year-old man late Saturday morning.

According to police, 26-year-old Cameron Shenk went into the restroom, removed his clothes and climbed into the drop ceiling. Then, police say, he fell through the ceiling and ran from the restroom "naked and bleeding."

After he left the restroom, police say Shenk attacked the victim, who was seriously injured and transported to the hospital. His injuries are not considered life-threatening.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was injured while Shenk was being taken into custody.

Shenk faces charges including attempted murder, mayhem, assault and battery on a person over 60, assault and battery on a police officer, malicious destruction of property and a lewd and lascivious act.

The suspect will be arraigned at East Boston District Court.

In an unrelated incident about 30 minutes earlier, troopers said they responded to an assault in a BMW outside the airport.

According to police, the driver of the BMW, 52-year-old Anton Hilton of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, attacked a 21-year-old female passenger.

Hilton was arrested and charged with assault and battery and kidnapping. The woman refused medical treatment.

In a statement, Massachusetts Port Authority, the airport's operator, thanked Massachusetts State Police for its response to the incidents.

Earlier in the day, former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling tweeted about a bomb squad responding after his son brought a fake plastic grenade to the airport.

NECN will have more as this story develops.

Deputies have arrested three men who they say have been in hiding since a stabbing outside a local Walmart.

On Thursday, 29-year-old Roady Briley, 24-year-old Randy Briley and 24-year-old Kevin Cave were arrested at Lilac Oaks Campground in Valley Center.

The suspects are accused of stabbing a 20-year-old man and stealing his backpack outside the Santee Walmart at 170 Town Center Parkway Nov. 9, according to the sheriff's department.

Officials said the victim suffered five stab wounds to his lower back. He was treated and released from Sharp Memorial Hospital.

All three suspects face charges of attempted murder and robbery. They are being held in the central jail without bail.

Allison Sotelo walks through Balboa Park with her husband and two daughters.

She said when the family goes on vacation, they have one simple goal: "As long as everyone is having fun."

But that's not always easy, and unhappy children can spoil a good trip.

"We all know if you're on a trip with unhappy kids or sulking teenagers, you're miserable," said travel writer Eileen Ogintz. 

She told NBC 7 the key to family happiness on vacation is getting the family excited in planning the trip.

"You definitely should get the kids involved in planning it," said Ogintz. "A lot of times you would be surprised as to what the kids say they want to do."

Ogintz is the author of the syndicated column "Taking The Kids" and believes when the family is vested in where they are going, the happier everyone is going to be.

Jeffry Eslinger, who works for the travel research company D.K. Shifflet & Associates, said for kids today, the world is literally at their fingertips.

"Before it was the parent who said, 'Guess what, kids? We're going to wherever,'" said Eslinger.

Now children have the advantage of social media and websites to discover great family trips.

According to Eslinger, modern families are the most traveled Americans in the history of the country, with Gen X and Millennial families opting for more active experiences in their vacations.

Instead of "drive-by" vacations, families are choosing trips that involved hiking, biking, eco-trips and more. Families are also visiting foreign countries like Europe, Central America and Asia.

But no matter where families go, these experts are convinced that getting everyone involved in the planning will make for a happier trip.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department confirms it is investigating a case involving violence against a West Hills High School student.

According to investigators, it happened Friday, Nov. 14 around 3 p.m. along Kaschube Way and Kreiner Way.

NBC 7 spoke exclusively to that student and his mother. She has concerns about how the school is responding to the incident.

“He's been the victim of violence. He's been a victim of a hate crime, and there's been no support for him from the school,” his mother said. She and her son did not want their identities revealed because of concerns about retaliation.

The freshman admitted to playing a role in starting the drama but never thought the consequences would be so severe. He said it started when a female student stole his colorguard saber. He said he hit the back of her head, took back saber and walked away.

He said after school, a group confronted him. He told NBC 7 that group included the girl and about 10 other guys.

“A group of like 10 guys I never met before. They started calling me gay and [expletive] and all that,” he said. “They simultaneously flipped me off and kept calling me gay, and I overheard a few of them saying they were going to jump me.”

When he went to be with his friends, he said the group showed up again.

“They came up behind me and pantsed me. Underwear and all. It was terrible.”

Things got worse. As he was walking home from school, he said the girl and three boys who were part of the initial group that humiliated him started following him.

“One of the guys punched me in the right temple, and then he pulled me off the wall and was punching and kicking me…They were extremely violent. They were trying to stomp on my head. They were trying to kill me,” he said.

The teen’s mother told NBC 7 she feels the school isn’t doing enough to keep her son safe.

“‘Oh yeah we'll take a quick statement here. Take it home, write it out, bring it back the next day’ was basically their level of response,” she said.

West Hills High School did not respond to NBC 7’s request for comment, but Grossmont Union High School District released the following statement:

We are aware of the situation and took immediate action once the incident was reported. Law enforcement is investigating this matter and corrective action has been taken by the school to protect student safety.

The district was unable to comment further due to privacy concerns.

The Sheriff’s Department said the case is under investigation, and it’s working in conjunction with the school district. A spokesperson said detectives are talking to witnesses and if there are others out there who saw what happened, they would like to hear from them. Possible witnesses can call the Santee Sheriff's Station at 619-956-4000. They can also remain anonymous and call the Crime Stoppers Students Speaking Out Hotline at 888-580-8477.

A man with San Diego ties pretended to be a high school student to assault a teenager in Bay Area.

Police in Milpitas, California, say John Mark Andres Molina, 28, posed as a student from Independence High School in San Jose as he began to communicate the 15-year-old alleged victim through social media.

Tricking the teen into believing his false identity, Molina assaulted the minor on multiple occasions over an extended period of time, investigators say.

Milpitas police began investigating Molina in Oct. 2014, and they arrested him at his San Jose home.

He is being held in Santa Clara County jail on a $150,000 bail.

Detectives say Molina has San Diego and Hawaii ties, and they are seeking other potential victims.

Molina has used various aliases like Mike Velasco, Johnny Velasco, Johnny Andres Velasco, Johnny Mike Andres Velasco and Christian James Velasco, according to investigators.

The Del Mar man serving a 37-year prison sentence for raping two women he met online targeted others through hacking and stalking that made one alleged victim feel "endangered," she told NBC 7.

San Diego resident Victoria Kinney said met former Navy Lt. Sean Banks before his arrests, before his rape trial and before his sentencing.

To her, he was "Rylan," a man with similar morals, values and beliefs who she met through the online dating website ChristianMingle.com.

After messaging back and forth, Kinney told NBC 7 she felt something was off about Banks, so she stopped replying.

"And shortly after that, he called me, letting me know that he had found my phone number on the Internet and had my address and my family's address and my email accounts," she said.

He told her he was a hacking forensics specialist for the Navy, so he was able to pull up things a simple search on Google couldn’t find, Kinney said. But Banks claimed he told her this to keep her safe and protect her.

All too soon, she discovered this was the farthest thing from the truth.

As they continued to talk, Banks brought up things Kinney had only told one friend through text messages, making her suspect he was hacking into her phone.

Then, out of the blue, he called her and said he had been accused of rape. According to Kinney, he told her she could not talk to police because it would be obstruction of justice.

But Kinney did just the opposite, going to investigators with her suspicions that Banks hacked her phone.

“I felt like I wasn't safe. I would like wake up in the middle of the night and just have like hot flashes and shaking and just freak out, but not because it was more scary knowing that he knew everything about me, he knew my family,” said Kinney. “I felt like I endangered my family. Not knowing what he was capable of doing was the scariest."

Soon after, she got a text message from someone claiming to be police, asking her to click on a link for the investigation. The district attorney’s office told her the message was not from law enforcement.

They believe Banks asked someone to send it so if Kinney clicked on it, he could wipe evidence that they every communicated from her phone.

"So I wanted the police to know that in order to help the rape victims because I knew if he can erase evidence, if he can delete things, delete emails, texts, that may be why he was able to get away with it for so long,” she told NBC 7.

Kinney is telling her story now in hopes that other people will protect themselves from online vulnerability.

She learned from police not to click on unknown links that could open you to hacking, use protected Google Voice for calls and texts and download a virtual private network (VPN) app, which essentially encrypts your data.

Above all, trust your instincts.

"For women it's just very important to know that even if someone is claiming to be a Christian or on a Christian website — Christian Mingle says, ‘Find God's match for you.’ And nobody would think that God's match for you is a rapist hacker,” she said.

She believes some blame lies with Christian Mingle and other dating sites, for she said one of Bank’s rape victims tried to contact the website administrators after her encounter with him. However, Bank’s profile was not removed, and a month later, he met Kinney.

Kinney said the site should have a hotline for people to call if something bad happens or offer a way to verify users.

NBC 7's calls and emails to Christian Mingle’s legal department requesting comment have not been returned, but the website says experts manually review all profiles and use automated tools to identify questionable ones.

While she never met him in person, Kinney went to Bank’s trial, an experience she calls the worst in her life.

When prosecutors revealed the GPS and hacking equipment Banks allegedly used to stalk women, Kinney said she started shaking and threw up.

But now, she said she’s happy it happened.

"I think that it made me smarter and it made me keep myself safer and keep my family safer so I'm glad that it happened,” said Kinney. “I don't want him to feel like he won or that he hurt me because he didn't. He made us all smarter."

A man was shot and killed during a hunting trip with his father in West Windsor, New Jersey, according to police.

The accidental shooting occurred Saturday afternoon on the 1200 block of Old Trenton Road. Officials have released little information on the incident so far but said a man in his 70's and his 45-year-old son were hunting Canada geese on a large property they owned. The father and son were properly licensed to hunt the birds, according to investigators.

Police initially told NBC10 the elderly man accidentally shot his son in the back of the head. However, they later told NBC10 the victim died from a gunshot wound to the head and neck from his own firearm.

Responding police officers and medics found the victim in a patch of woods on the property. After several life saving attempts were made he was pronounced dead at the scene.

"The initial call was for a hunting accident out here at the farm," said West Windsor Township Police lieutenant Matthew Kemp. "Medics and police officers were immediately dispatched and came across a person who was obviously deceased. Everything appears to be an accident. We're just dotting the "I's" and crossing the "T's" to be sure that's what it is." 

Police also said the father and son were the only two people in the hunting party.

West Windsor Police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the incident. They have not yet released the victim’s identity. An autopsy is scheduled for next week.