KMPH News Anchor Nicole Garcia and photographer, Matt Romero, were attacked by a man accused of child endangerment while covering a story at Bass Lake Monday.

Now 33-year-old Marc McMurrian is under arrest. He faces child endangerment and misdemeanor battery charges for the attack.

The first time the crew approached the man, they did not know he was involved with the incident, and he denied being involved.

Later, as the crew was shooting video in the parking lot, the man began yelling and using profanity, then approached the camera.

Madera County Sheriff's deputies say it all began early Monday afternoon, when he left his 8 ½ month old boy alone in a van as he carried supplies to a picnic area.

While he was gone, deputies say the baby crawled out a broken window and landed head first on the ground.

A Good Samaritan found him and called 911.

A teenager was shot at point blank range on the side of a busy Madera street Wednesday. Now police say two teenage gangsters are in custody.

The shooting happened around 2:30 p.m. Police say two teenage boys were walking home from a nearby continuation school, when they were confronted by three other teenagers from a rival gang.

One of the rival gang members shot four bullets into the chest of another teen. He died on the way to the hospital.

The Garcia family who lives nearby ran to his aid before police arrived. Cruz Garcia says, "I kept telling him hold on mijo hold on mijo, they will be here soon, calling 911 and I saw his friend let him go and he was crying."

Madera police say after the shooting, the three teenage suspects ran from the area and then tried to carjack someone. Patrol officers in the area stopped two of the three and arrested them.

Copper wire thieves have a new target to get rich quick and it could leave you without phone or Internet service. Crooks are now focusing on communication lines instead of street lights. 

There have been 20 new theft cases in the past month and a half. Copper thieves are now getting telephone poles to come tumbling down so they can get to the wire. AT&T has taken the brunt of the vandalism. The damage figure ranges between 200-thousand and 300–thousand dollars. 

Fresno County Sheriff's Deputies had their guns drawn when they entered a house on the 4500 hundred block of west Adams southwest of Fresno. Earlier Thursday, deputies got their first major break in the copper wire thefts case. They arrested 36-year-old Eric Harper. Deputies say they caught him stripping wire on the property. Harper, from Madera, is on parole for burglary.