Jackie Bensen is a General Assignment Reporter at NBC4. With a focus on breaking news, she covers a variety of topics including culture and society, transportation and mobility, and crime and justice. Bensen has been featured in several notable outlets, including NBC New York and NBC Los Angeles.
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Jackie Bensen's reporting primarily focuses on local crime, breaking news, and evolving stories in the District of Columbia area. She covers a range of topics including crime, violence, family & relationships, animal welfare, and cold cases.
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By: Jackie Bensen, Maggie More
Imagine being in a mall food court at 6 p.m. on a Friday night — the crowds, the families with children — when gunshots ring out.
A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park. News4's Jackie Bensen reports.
A man was shot and killed in Glover Park Wednesday night, according to police. Police were called to the area at around 8 p.m. for a report of gunshots. Officers then found the man dead in an apartment. The circumstances of exactly what happened are not yet clear. Police on the scene were investigating a white Kia with Virginia license…
By: Matthew Stabley, Jackie Bensen
A man grabbed a kitten from the adoption area of a Maryland pet store, then allegedly tried to use her to rob a nearby bank.
By: Jackie Bensen
Maryland's Office of the Attorney General released police body camera video from the fatal shooting of a 46-year-old Rockville man at a bus stop in Gaithersburg last month.
By: Jackie Bensen
Pythons, geckos and a handgun were recovered at a Capitol Heights home after police served a search warrant in connection with a suspected reptile theft ring.
By: Jackie Bensen, Drew Wilder
Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos is accused in the killing of Carmen Lizet Puch, Fairfax County police said.
By: Jackie Bensen
A 24-year-old Wisconsin man arrested after a disturbing break-in and attempted assault on an 18-year-old woman also stands accused of trying to get into the White House and another D.C. home that once housed the president’s daughter. In her home on Kalorama Road in Northwest D.C., an 18-year-old woman awoke in her bed before 3 a.m. Wednesday and found a…
By: Jackie Bensen
A man arrested three times recently for trespassing near the White House remained out of jail only to get arrested again Wednesday — this time for
Blowing up on Nextdoor, Reddit and social media posts in D.C.’s Eckington neighborhood, a woman told police a man groped her while she was walking on U Street NE Sunday night. A neighbor’s security camera also caught the incident on video. The security camera shows the victim carrying a yoga mat on U Street near Lincoln Road NE around 10:30…
