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[intriguing music playing]
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[Khadija]
All I seen was sparks.
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I think that was the time
I knew that Eric was gone.
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[news reporter]
The 28-year-old was tragically
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gunned down just outside
of his home.
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I just screamed
to the top of my lungs.
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No words that could explain
that feeling.
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[Det. Bamberski]
They're innocent victims.
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They don't deserve
what happened to them.
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[Khadija] I didn't know
what to do after that.
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I didn't know how to live.
I didn't know how to breathe.
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I didn't know
how to do any --
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anything.
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So the big question is,
who is this guy?
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[Coleman]
Gangs, drug dealers.
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A lot of them think
that they're untouchable,
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not realizing in the background
we're watching.
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This is a truly evil person.
He was a true serial killer.
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You're insane.
You're a monster.
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He called himself the next
John Wick.
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He's a real life
murder-for-money hitman.
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I'm Detective Joe Bamberski,
FBI Task Force Officer.
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I'm Liz Becker,
Special Agent, FBI.
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[narrator]
When serious crime strikes,
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the Special Agents of the FBI
answer the call.
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Fidelity.
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Bravery.
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Integrity.
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This...
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is "FEDS."
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[dramatic music playing]
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What's up?
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At work, doing what I do,
towing cars.
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It's a Sunday night,
in the rain.
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[Khadija] Eric was literally
love at first sight.
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Two days later, he was moving
me out of the apartment
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that I was in.
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And I was moving into his.
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It was so quick,
but yet, we knew.
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We knew.
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[Eric on video] Over here.
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In the beginnings 2017...
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I'll be 40 years old.
Would you believe it? 40
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We were moving to down south.
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We were leaving.
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He had bought a truck
from his mom.
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We were packing it up
with a little bit of stuff
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that me and him had together.
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Relocate down south,
start a new life.
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I don't ask for much.
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I just want to live.
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The words are so powerful
when I see that video.
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He just wanted to live.
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-[motors whirring]
-[car honking]
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That night, I had been working
at Melrose Place, the bar.
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It was a deli up front,
tavern in the back.
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Eric, he was working
for A. Bob's,
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the tow truck company
down the street from the bar.
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I was outside, you know,
on a break, and Eric came up.
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We were actually talking about,
you know, how we were leaving.
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And we seen this man,
dark-skinned man,
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stone-washed jeans on,
and he just opened fires.
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All I seen was sparks.
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[gunshots blasting]
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It was just rapid fire.
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[two gunshots blasting]
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I tried to grab him.
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But Eric pushes me where I'm
in front of the bar door now.
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My back was burning.
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I had gun fragments
that I didn't even realize
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were in my back.
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I know Eric saved my life.
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It got silent.
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[somber music playing]
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And somebody
was giving him CPR.
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I think that was the time I knew
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that Eric was gone.
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[ominous music playing]
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[train tracks rattling]
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[Becker] In 2017,
I was brand new to the FBI.
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I wanted to work
narcotics cases
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and violent crime cases and --
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so, therefore, this is
unfortunately, kind of,
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the perfect place to be.
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Philly is a very large city,
very vibrant city,
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has a lot
of great areas to visit.
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But there's also
the other side,
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where there's a lot of violence,
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gangs, homicides, narcotics.
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It's an uphill battle.
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[Becker] The city itself,
unfortunately,
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has a really bad
narcotics problems
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and violent crime issues.
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We're fighting for the top
of the most murders per city
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in the country.
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[Det. Bamberski]
There's a famous quote
in Philadelphia by Frank Rizzo,
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and it goes, "The streets
of Philadelphia are safe.
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It's the people in Philadelphia
that make them unsafe."
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I was in the homicide unit for,
uh, just shy of 28 years.
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It takes a toll.
It takes a huge toll.
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I worked probably in excess
of 2,000 murders
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with my partner, John McNamee.
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So my relationship with Joe
is kind of like
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looking in the mirror,
just not physically.
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I felt close enough
to call him my brother.
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I feel like I knew
more about him
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than I did my own siblings.
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[Det. Bamberski]
The unique thing with myself
and my partner was that we were
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also cross designated
with the FBI
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as a task force officer,
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which basically means
you're a local police officer
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who is then sworn in
as a federal officer.
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[Coleman] They're the same
as we are at that point,
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all working together,
all sharing information,
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all to try to combat
the violent crime problem
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that plagues us all.
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The FBI opened
their door for us,
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and then we bring
an enormous amount
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of investigative experience.
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It's a combination of...
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I guess you could say,
old-school tenacity
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and new-school technology,
and it's tough to overcome
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when they work together.
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[Det. Bamberski]
On the night of January 12th,
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John and I were working
the 4 to 12.
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[Det. McNamee]
On the 4 to 12 shift
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you pretty much resign
yourself to the fact
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that you're gonna be
leaving the building
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to investigate a crime.
A murder.
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[sirens wailing]
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[dispatcher
and officer speaking]
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[Det. Bamberski]
I got the phone call.
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There had been a homicide
up in the Frankford section
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of Philadelphia.
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One person is shot.
They were pronounced dead.
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The victim's name
in this case,
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was Eric Robinson.
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Right here,
where we're standing,
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there was a lot of blood
on the sidewalk
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from where the victim
had fallen.
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He was shot multiple times.
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His girlfriend, who was
standing right next to him,
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was right here.
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[Det.McNamee] There's a lot
of ballistic evidence,
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a lot of shell casings.
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Looked like a very
personal shooting,
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by the amount of violence
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that we saw directed
at one person.
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-[Det. Bamberski] There's
the surveillance camera
-[Det. McNamee] Yeah.
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[Det.McNamee]
We knew by our observations
outside that the store
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at the corner probably
had video.
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[Det. Bamberski]
And we recovered some
very valuable video evidence.
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The video surveillance shows
the person
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who committed the homicide
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look outside the window and you
can see that person looking
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at Eric Robinson and Khadija,
who are standing just outside
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of camera view on the sidewalk.
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The video evidence from inside
the store was amazing.
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It clearly shows
the offender's face,
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his physical description,
the clothes that he's wearing.
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In my years in law enforcement,
I've never seen
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video surveillance footage
that was as clear
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as the Eric Robinson homicide.
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[Det.McNamee]
In addition to that,
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the video shows
the suspect exit the store,
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walk directly
to the victim, and...
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[gunshots blasting]
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...fire many shots.
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[gunshots blasting]
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There was no struggle.
This was a targeted attack.
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It was just a matter of fact
execution of a person
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on the sidewalk.
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[Det. Bamberski]
It's clear that Eric Robinson
is the intended target.
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What is the motive
of this murder?
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So we have to look
into the background
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of Eric Robinson.
Where is he from?
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Who does he associate with?
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What's up?
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At work, doing what I do,
towing cars.
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[Det.McNamee] We find out
he was a working man,
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was not on anybody's radar
in law enforcement
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for any kind of misconducts
at this point in his life.
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I'm thinking that whatever
this guy did, it was personal.
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So we had to speak
to Robinson's girlfriend.
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[Khadija] The next day,
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I walked back up to the bar,
and I laid in front of the bar
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where he's ki --
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in his blood.
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Until my daughter
and them came and got me.
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'Cause I didn't know
what to do after that.
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I didn't know how to live.
I didn't know how to breathe.
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I didn't know how to do any --
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anything...
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'Cause we had did
everything -- so much together.
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and...he didn't deserve that.
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I had to, of course, talk
to the detectives.
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And they asked me, did he ever
have an altercation in my bar?
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And I told them a customer...
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He was being very disrespectful
one night.
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Over flirtatious,
but not respecting the fact
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that I'm telling you
I have a man.
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And it was very negative.
It was nasty.
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Eric said a couple words
back to him.
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He didn't like Eric because...
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Eric stood up to him,
you know,
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and walked away from it.
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That's what I had
to tell the police.
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[Det. Bamberski]
That's a very viable motive
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for why somebody
would want to commit a murder.
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That happens all the time,
you know, romantic interests
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cause people to do crazy things.
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So we were chasing the lead
given to us by Khadija
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when the following evening
another murder occurred
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that led us
in a different direction.
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[gunshot blasting]
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-I love this picture.
- Mm-hmm.
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When he jumped in that pool,
and he came up.
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That had to be
the funniest thing ever.
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[Marie] He'll never get old.
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Khayyan and I were cousins,
30 days apart, literally.
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We were joined at the hip.
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It was not one day
that went by
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that we didn't talk
to each other.
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We just, it was, I don't know,
it was magnetic,
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like brother and sister.
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We had a good childhood.
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We both spent a lot of time
with my grandmom.
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Khayyan always came around.
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He always made sure
he stopped by.
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And Khayyan was her breath
of fresh air.
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There's no words
in the English language
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to describe him.
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Handsome, handsome
from the word go.
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Such a lovable child.
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He called me "shorty,"
and I don't know why,
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'cause I was taller than him.
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He was an all around boy,
and then he became a man.
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And I was so proud
of what he did.
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He had two sons,
loved them to death.
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He took care of them.
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He was a great provider.
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At the time,
he worked at A. Bob's
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as a tow truck driver.
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[Marie] He wanted to be
a police officer,
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and he was on that path.
He was on the path.
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He was working.
And that was my grandson.
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And I miss him.
I miss that relationship.
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[phone ringing]
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[dispatcher and caller speaking]
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[Marie]
Friday the 13th,
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sitting in my usual chair,
watching TV.
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My son's upstairs.
Common Friday night for me.
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And all of a sudden,
my son's coming down the steps.
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"Come on, let's go.
Khayyan's been shot."
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I said, "What?"
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We got there
before the ambulance.
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As I'm standing outside the ER,
watching across the street,
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I see the ambulance.
the lights go out.
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And if you don't know
what that means,
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that means
that the person's gone.
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My heart just sunk.
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Well, they took him out
of the ambulance.
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Then I looked, turned around,
I seen Khayyan's face.
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Couldn't believe it.
His face was all swollen.
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His head was blown up.
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He had always been big
as I don't know what,
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but he still was Khayyan.
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Then they called my son,
his mother, and they --
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and they told us
that he didn't make it.
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No words that could
explain that feeling.
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[Najeera] And when we
finally got the call,
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I just remember my knees,
my, like, they just buckled,
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and I just screamed
to the top of my lungs.
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And everything after that
was just a blur.
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I didn't want to be touched.
I didn't want to be held.
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I didn't want the comfort.
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Like, I just --
I just wanted him.
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I never went to the hospital.
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I regret not going
to the hospital so -- every day.
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Every day.
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And I want him
to know that.
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[intriguing music playing]
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[Det. Bamberski]
I was following up leads
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on the Eric Robinson murder.
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The homicide unit was notified
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that another murder
had occurred.
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The fact that they both worked
at the same tow truck company,
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we suspected that the homicides
were connected.
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So the murder of Khayyan Fruster
was then reassigned
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to John and I directly.
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I took a look at the CCTV
and was able to see
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how Khayyan was killed.
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There's a tow truck
sitting on the corner
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outside of Khayyan's house.
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Once Khayyan approached
the tow truck...
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opened the passenger door,
the shooter immediately ran up
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and, while the passenger door
was open, began shooting Khayyan
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and basically executing him.
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[muffled gunshot blast]
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[gunshot blasting]
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[Becker] Khayyan Fruster,
he was a completely
innocent person.
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The blatant disregard
for human life is insane to me.
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[Det. Bamberski]
The ballistic evidence
that was recovered
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from the Khayyan Fruster murder
was compared
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to the ballistic evidence
recovered from
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the Eric Robinson scene.
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It was a match,
meaning that the same gun
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killed both victims.
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We realized that Eric
wasn't killed
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for romantic reasons.
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Now we're looking
at a double homicide.
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We're now thinking,
"What's going on
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at the tow company that we need
to start looking at?"
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[Det. Bamberski]
At that time in Philadelphia,
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we were experiencing a lot
of unlicensed, unregistered
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tow truck operators,
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and some of them were warring
with one another.
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Not to the extent that
they were murdering each other,
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but it certainly wasn't
out of the realm
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to think that it may have
escalated to that point.
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[Det. Bamberski] We had a very
clear picture of the shooter.
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We had a very clear picture
of what he was wearing.
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[Becker] So we get this CCTV
footage of the Robinson homicide
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out on a billboard for people
to hopefully call in and give us
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an idea of who the subject
actually is.
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Once that happened, I was like,
someone has to know
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who this person is.
Someone's gonna call.
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This will be an easily
solved homicide.
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That never happened.
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It was very strange
that nobody came forward.
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What that means
is he's so dangerous
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that nobody wants
to come forward.
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We were starting to think that
it's somebody in the city
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that has some
kind of reputation,
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and it's a dangerous reputation.
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It's extremely frustrating.
The case did stall.
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The case hit a point
where we weren't able
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to move forward.
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[Marie] Months went by.
In fact, a whole year went by.
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And it wasn't fair.
It wasn't fair to him.
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And I wanted to get
to the bottom of it.
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So I investigated.
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I discovered Khayyan was
to testify against this man
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named Arthur Rowland.
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And that's where it went
from there.
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I found out Khayyan
was getting his car towed.
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They were hooking it up
to the tow truck.
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The guy pulled a gun.
So, Khayyan called the cops.
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Khayyan had to go to court.
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He's testifying that this guy
threatened him with a gun
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when he was doing his job.
He was doing the right thing.
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So I investigated
a little bit more
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into this
Arthur Rowland's lifestyle.
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I'm on the computer,
and I'm looking up his history.
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He's got a rap record like this.
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So I called the detectives,
and I let them know.
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I thought, this is the man.
This is the reason.
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And that's how
Detective Bamberski took over.
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[Det. Bamberski]
Khayyan's grandmom
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came to us
and said that Khayyan
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was due to testify
against Arthur Rowland.
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When we looked into
Arthur Rowland's background,
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I could see that he's a person
who's in the drug trade
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and had been so
for a very long time.
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On the night that Khayyan
was making an attempt
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to tow Arthur Rowland's
pickup truck,
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the police recovered the firearm
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that was used
to threaten Khayyan,
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as well as a significant amount
of narcotics.
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And then, the day before Fruster
was to testify in his case
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against Arthur Rowland...
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he was murdered.
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The sticking point with that
was Eric Robinson.
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We could not connect him
to Arthur Rowland in any way.
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And there was no doubt
that when we were reviewing
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the video footage
of both locations
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that the shooter
was not Arthur Rowland.
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He had a legitimate alibi
for both murders.
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[Det.McNamee] We needed someone
that could help us
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with information,
so we took the information
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to task force members,
and instantly,
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Agent Becker informed us
that he's a suspect
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in a major drug investigation
that I'm conducting.
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[Becker] We knew about him.
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Arthur Rowland
was a known subject
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in the violent drug-trafficking
game in Philadelphia.
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He was one of those people
that it was very difficult
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to get a case on him because he
was very surveillance-conscious.
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But we always knew
that he was the person
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that we needed to focus on.
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I would say that Arthur Rowland
is probably one of the most
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dangerous people that
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I have ever investigated.
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[Becker]
Over the course of months,
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we finally got a wiretap
going on who we believed to be
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a very senior figure
in the hierarchy
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of Arthur Rowland's
drug organization.
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It was clear
that Arthur Rowland,
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otherwise known as "Bo,"
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really had his tentacles
in everything.
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Arthur Rowland was
one of the main members
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of this drug-trafficking
organization,
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receiving large amounts
of methamphetamine
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and distributing it
to his people on the street.
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[Coleman]
This is what the Bureau does,
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and we do it very, very well.
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Gangs, drug dealers,
a lot of them think
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that they're untouchable,
that law enforcement
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can't get to them.
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Not realizing in the background,
we're watching.
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There's not an organization
that we can't get into,
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you know, if we decide that's
where we need to be.
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So, when Joe and John said
that they believe Rowland
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was a part
of their investigation,
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we were very interested.
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They're given all access
to our case files,
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information, whatever they need,
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and whatever we need
to work a case together.
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And that's the beauty
of this task force.
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We need to know anybody
and everybody that's connected
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to Arthur Rowland.
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So as individuals are
being identified on the wire,
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we were cross referencing
those images, their photos,
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to the CCTV footage
of the Eric Robinson homicide.
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[Det. Bamberski]
None of that was panning out.
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None of the people
that are tied into Rowland
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are fitting into the image
of the person
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who committed the murders.
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They are clearly
not the same person.
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Again, the frustration
level rises
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because you can't get past
this one part of the case
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that's now taking months to do.
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One of the disappointing aspects
of being a homicide detective
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in Philadelphia is
a lot of murders go unsolved,
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and that's frustrating
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for the loved ones
of the homicide victim.
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[Khadija]
I didn't want to wait anymore.
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Every day, I wake up,
I think about Eric.
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Every morning,
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every night.
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How did he get away
with this so long?
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I would call them.
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They would call me
back and forth.
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They did the work.
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They did the footwork,
but they couldn't connect it.
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[Det. Bamberski]
I was thinking to myself,
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"How are we going to
tie this all together
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"and connect the two murders
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and link it
to the drug organization?"
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Is there something else
that I'm missing here?
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You just need that one piece.
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[phone ringing]
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[dispatcher and caller speaking]
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I was coming to work that day
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when I was notified
that there was a murder.
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The victim in the case
is a male by the name
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of Shawn Small.
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[reporter]
Police are now looking
for the gunman responsible
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for the murder that occurred
in the Overbrook Park section
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of the city.
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[Det. Peters]
So here in the parking lot,
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we find the victim.
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He slumped over
from the driver's side
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into the passenger's side.
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He's been shot one time,
execution style,
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in the side of the head.
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We have one witness
who sees the shooter
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come back up
to the victim's car.
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Now, at this time,
the shooter was on foot.
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He reaches inside the car.
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The shooter then wipes down
the side of the car
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with his jacket, and then
proceeds this way here
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towards 75th Street.
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So the first thing I wanna do
is I wanna look for cameras.
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When we review that video,
it was right there
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in the top corner.
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[Becker] It's not great
surveillance footage,
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but you can see the unknown male
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get out of the vehicle,
approach Shawn Small's vehicle.
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[Det. Peters] He stops
and fires the shot.
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And that was it.
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Then later on,
he returns on foot.
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We were able to get
another video
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that showed the shooter.
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He's wearing black
and bright yellow jacket,
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so it was easy to follow him
on surveillance footage.
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[Det. Peters] He sees
the police arrive,
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and then he runs through one
of the back alleyways.
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What can we do to find out
who that person is?
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When I speak
to Shawn's brother,
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he provides
me the information
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that he met with Shawn
the night before,
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that it was Shawn's birthday.
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He had met him at a bar.
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00:27:47,416 --> 00:27:49,251
So now I needed
to get their video.
496
00:27:50,502 --> 00:27:54,047
[Becker] We see a series
of vehicles pull up.
497
00:27:54,173 --> 00:27:56,466
Three males get out
of all three vehicles.
498
00:27:57,467 --> 00:28:00,012
One of them was our victim,
Shawn Small.
499
00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:04,641
[Det. Peters]
And he's with his brother,
500
00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:07,895
a gentleman who went
by the name P.R.
501
00:28:10,731 --> 00:28:12,399
The fourth guy,
502
00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:17,362
we don't know, but that was
the exact person that we had
503
00:28:17,446 --> 00:28:19,740
on camera
from the crime scene.
504
00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:23,577
He's wearing this distinct shirt
and the sneakers match.
505
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:27,206
Shawn's brother he told me that
he was with two gentlemen,
506
00:28:27,289 --> 00:28:29,124
that one he knew was P.R,
507
00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:30,417
and the other one
he did not know
508
00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:35,088
but was introduced to him
as Vern, Ern, Vance,
509
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:36,215
something like that.
510
00:28:37,591 --> 00:28:41,011
So, I watched the video
from inside the bar,
511
00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:42,554
and it was then when I get
512
00:28:42,638 --> 00:28:45,766
a really good picture
of the shooter.
513
00:28:45,891 --> 00:28:48,727
So the big question is,
how do I get to this guy?
514
00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:49,811
Who is this guy?
515
00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:04,284
[Det. Peters]
Now at this point,
516
00:29:04,409 --> 00:29:05,827
I'm like, so close.
517
00:29:05,911 --> 00:29:08,747
So I go to what's called
the Photo Imager.
518
00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:11,959
It's a list of people's
arrest photos.
519
00:29:12,084 --> 00:29:13,752
And I do a cold search.
520
00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:15,128
How the photo machine
works is --
521
00:29:15,254 --> 00:29:18,257
you're putting in combinations.
I have a description...
522
00:29:19,925 --> 00:29:23,011
physically, decent picture
of his face,
523
00:29:23,095 --> 00:29:26,431
and his name's Vern, Ern, Vance,
something like that.
524
00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:29,434
So I just start breaking down
combinations of those.
525
00:29:30,811 --> 00:29:34,398
First page, nothing.
Second page, nothing.
526
00:29:34,481 --> 00:29:35,607
I'm going through the pages.
527
00:29:37,401 --> 00:29:39,820
On the third page,
bang, there he is.
528
00:29:42,072 --> 00:29:43,073
PRTha -- that's the guy.
529
00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:47,077
The guy from the picture
in the bar to this guy,
530
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,871
it's the same guy.
531
00:29:49,955 --> 00:29:52,124
The name was Ernest Pressley.
532
00:29:52,207 --> 00:29:56,753
Pressley was arrested two days
prior on another case.
533
00:29:56,837 --> 00:29:59,506
I really was getting
one break after the other.
534
00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:02,634
So I prepare an arrest warrant
for Pressley for the murder
535
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:03,802
of Shawn Small.
536
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:13,562
So, I kind of have the who,
so where's the why?
537
00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:20,110
And this is when I dig into P.R,
and then I find out that P.R
538
00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:21,862
was associated
with Arthur Rowland
539
00:30:21,987 --> 00:30:23,905
and their business is drugs.
540
00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:28,827
The more I dug into Rowland
and the more I dug into P.R.,
541
00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:34,291
there was no way that I felt
that a federal agency
542
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:35,876
wasn't watching them.
543
00:30:37,336 --> 00:30:39,755
John and Joe were
the FBI task force,
544
00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:42,090
so I reach out to them.
545
00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:46,678
He calls me over, and he says,
"Take a look at this guy."
546
00:30:48,263 --> 00:30:51,350
And I look, and I look closer,
547
00:30:51,433 --> 00:30:55,312
and I'm like, "That's it."
That's our shooter.
548
00:30:57,105 --> 00:31:02,027
Ernest Pressley is the shooter
of Eric Robinson
549
00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:03,403
and Khayyan Fruster,
550
00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:06,531
as well as the shooter
of Shawn Small.
551
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,204
It was, like, we got the guy.
We knew we had the right guy.
552
00:31:12,329 --> 00:31:15,832
There was no questioning
that it wasn't the same person.
553
00:31:15,916 --> 00:31:17,709
But in the beginning,
Pressley wasn't cooperating.
554
00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:21,546
[Det. Bamberski] Arthur Rowland
was still out on the street.
555
00:31:21,630 --> 00:31:24,716
Pressley was like,
"I can't speak on these guys
556
00:31:24,841 --> 00:31:27,344
"because I know
what will happen to me,
557
00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:29,721
the same thing that happened
to Shawn Small."
558
00:31:29,805 --> 00:31:32,474
[Becker] But at that point,
we have enough evidence
559
00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:34,393
against Arthur Rowland.
560
00:31:34,476 --> 00:31:36,978
We've had enough pounds
of methamphetamine
561
00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:38,688
that we had seized.
562
00:31:38,772 --> 00:31:41,358
We had enough phone calls
that we were listening into.
563
00:31:42,401 --> 00:31:43,819
[Coleman] We know
how they're operating.
564
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:46,446
We know who's doing it,
and we decided
565
00:31:46,571 --> 00:31:48,073
it was the right time.
566
00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:03,380
[Becker] So that morning
was a massive coordination
567
00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:05,757
where we had
search warrants and arrests
568
00:32:05,841 --> 00:32:09,261
going on in California
and then also in Philadelphia.
569
00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:12,013
Arthur Rowland is living...
570
00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:14,933
close to what we call
the Main Line,
571
00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:18,270
which is a very nice part
of Philadelphia
572
00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:20,313
in a high-rise condo.
573
00:32:22,441 --> 00:32:23,942
[Det. Bamberski]
We went up to the apartment
574
00:32:24,025 --> 00:32:25,360
that Arthur Rowland
was living in.
575
00:32:26,653 --> 00:32:28,947
Rowland actually refused
to open the door.
576
00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:32,742
So once FBI, SWAT
forced open the door,
577
00:32:32,826 --> 00:32:36,288
he was inside,
and he was taken into custody.
578
00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:38,498
[Becker]
The house is searched.
579
00:32:40,167 --> 00:32:43,837
We find narcotics,
large stacks of money,
580
00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:47,382
he had a gold necklace
581
00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:51,386
that had diamond-encrusted
pendant on it that said "Bo,"
582
00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:52,471
which is his nickname.
583
00:32:52,554 --> 00:32:54,181
So it just really gave...
584
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,309
a good picture
of how much money
585
00:32:57,392 --> 00:32:58,393
he was making.
586
00:32:59,728 --> 00:33:01,563
[Det. Bamberski] There was
a handgun right by the door,
587
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,398
and Liz Becker recovered
588
00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:06,193
two machine guns
that were secreted
589
00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:08,653
in the nightstands
in the bedroom.
590
00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:12,282
[Becker] It was a kid's room
that Arthur Rowland
591
00:33:12,365 --> 00:33:16,119
was keeping two extremely
dangerous,
592
00:33:16,203 --> 00:33:18,747
high powered,
semi-automatic rifles in.
593
00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,290
It tells me a lot about him.
594
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:37,098
[Coleman] Once Rowland
was finally arrested,
595
00:33:37,182 --> 00:33:38,850
we were hoping that Pressley
596
00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:40,435
would be more inclined
to talk to us.
597
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,189
In April of 2019,
Ernest Pressley
598
00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:47,442
came in for an interview
at the FBI Philadelphia office.
599
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,699
It's Liz Becker, Kevin Coleman,
myself, and Joe.
600
00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:57,702
So I said,
"OK, let's sit down."
601
00:34:03,250 --> 00:34:05,585
I couldn't even get
the Miranda warnings out
602
00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:09,880
when Ernest Pressley said, "I'm
going to tell you everything."
603
00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:37,784
And then we knew we had him.
604
00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:42,371
And at that point,
it was pretty much, "OK,
605
00:34:43,748 --> 00:34:44,748
"can you elaborate
606
00:34:44,873 --> 00:34:47,293
on why you would do
these things?"
607
00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:48,962
And he elaborated
on why he would do them.
608
00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:58,013
These are things that...
609
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:00,599
everyone's familiar
with because generally
610
00:35:00,682 --> 00:35:02,058
they're television shows.
611
00:35:02,142 --> 00:35:04,811
But this was real,
a real life
612
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,564
murder-for-money hitman.
613
00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:21,828
[Det.McNamee]
After he identified himself
614
00:35:21,911 --> 00:35:26,708
of killing Robinson,
we really still suspected
615
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:29,085
that Fruster's murder
was connected.
616
00:35:39,387 --> 00:35:41,890
Ernest Pressley
tells us that he was hired
617
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,601
to kill Khayyan Fruster.
618
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,187
Then we ask the next question,
which is,
619
00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:48,772
"Why did you kill him?"
620
00:36:00,116 --> 00:36:02,327
[Becker] Pressley is alleging
that Arthur Rowland
621
00:36:02,452 --> 00:36:04,412
was the one getting
the firearms
622
00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:06,915
for the homicides
and then paying
623
00:36:06,998 --> 00:36:08,291
the individual to do them.
624
00:36:25,975 --> 00:36:28,770
The intent was to kill
Khayyan Fruster
625
00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:30,605
and prevent him from testifying
626
00:36:30,689 --> 00:36:31,690
against Arthur Rowland.
627
00:36:37,153 --> 00:36:39,489
There's no witness,
there's no crime.
628
00:36:39,614 --> 00:36:40,657
But I still have that...
629
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,369
gnawing thought
in the back of my mind,
630
00:36:44,494 --> 00:36:46,705
why Eric Robinson?
631
00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:13,440
So his plan was,
632
00:37:13,523 --> 00:37:15,525
"We'll kill
a tow truck driver tonight,
633
00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:17,861
"and tomorrow night,
634
00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:21,156
"when we kill Khayyan Fruster,
635
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,032
it'll look like
a tow truck war."
636
00:37:23,158 --> 00:37:25,452
Which is exactly
the path we follow.
637
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:29,289
[Becker] Eric Robinson,
he just happened to be
638
00:37:29,372 --> 00:37:32,041
wrong place, wrong time,
and they targeted
639
00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:34,461
him just because of where
he worked at.
640
00:37:39,883 --> 00:37:43,803
Classifying Eric Robinson
as a sacrificial lamb,
641
00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:45,054
you almost wonder if there's,
642
00:37:46,055 --> 00:37:47,891
like, a soul in there.
643
00:37:48,016 --> 00:37:49,601
[Det.McNamee]
It was frightening.
644
00:37:49,726 --> 00:37:51,728
I realized that we're talking
to somebody
645
00:37:51,853 --> 00:37:55,231
who's capable of incredible
amounts of violence
646
00:37:55,356 --> 00:37:57,650
without any remorse or guilt.
647
00:37:57,734 --> 00:38:00,111
I say very, very
few times in my life,
648
00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:03,239
I've encountered
a truly evil person.
649
00:38:05,742 --> 00:38:07,035
This is a truly evil person.
650
00:38:08,495 --> 00:38:10,038
You took this man
for no reason.
651
00:38:11,164 --> 00:38:13,082
You're insane.
You're a monster.
652
00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:15,543
Not only that,
653
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:18,588
he did that,
but then you turned around
654
00:38:18,713 --> 00:38:21,925
and took another young man
who had just had a baby.
655
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,135
There's so many
families affected.
656
00:38:27,597 --> 00:38:29,349
[Det. Bamberski]
"Ernest", I said,
657
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:31,684
"You're looking at three
murders here."
658
00:38:31,768 --> 00:38:34,813
The U.S. Attorney's office
was seeking the death penalty.
659
00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:36,731
When we brought up cooperation,
660
00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:42,445
he immediately responded with,
"I know how cooperation works
661
00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:45,865
"over here, and I'm
going to tell you everything.
662
00:38:45,949 --> 00:38:47,951
I'll tell you about
two more murders."
663
00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:52,163
Which almost knocked everyone
out of their chair.
664
00:38:52,288 --> 00:38:54,874
He admits to five that
he pulled the trigger on
665
00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:58,419
and then co-conspirator
on another homicide.
666
00:38:58,503 --> 00:39:00,421
[Det. Bamberski]
So we solved six murders.
667
00:39:00,505 --> 00:39:02,131
He was a true serial killer.
668
00:39:03,883 --> 00:39:05,760
[Becker]
One of the cell phones
that was seized
669
00:39:05,844 --> 00:39:08,847
from Ernest Pressley
at the time of his arrest,
670
00:39:08,972 --> 00:39:14,477
I got to look at myself
and how he names his phone
671
00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:15,770
was "John Wick."
672
00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:18,481
I think that he took pride
in being a hitman
673
00:39:18,565 --> 00:39:21,651
and called himself
the next John Wick.
674
00:39:32,912 --> 00:39:34,831
[Det. Bamberski]
Pressley took a guilty plea
675
00:39:34,914 --> 00:39:36,916
for all of the incidents
that he was involved in,
676
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,254
and he was sentenced
by the judge to life in prison.
677
00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:44,632
He declined to cooperate
any further at that point,
678
00:39:44,716 --> 00:39:48,386
and he never testified
against Arthur Rowland
679
00:39:48,511 --> 00:39:49,512
or anybody else.
680
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,140
[Becker] Arthur Rowland
was never charged
681
00:39:52,223 --> 00:39:56,603
for the actual murder for hires
of those individuals.
682
00:39:56,686 --> 00:40:00,023
However, because
of the drug conspiracy,
683
00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:02,609
the judge sentenced him
to 40 years in prison.
684
00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:20,710
[Det. Bamberski]
We were able to take
685
00:40:20,835 --> 00:40:24,380
two extremely
dangerous individuals
686
00:40:24,464 --> 00:40:27,050
off the street for a really,
really long time,
687
00:40:28,051 --> 00:40:29,510
and one
for the rest of his life.
688
00:40:31,054 --> 00:40:33,514
[Becker]
The families that were there
for the sentencing,
689
00:40:33,598 --> 00:40:36,184
they got to see somebody
come to justice,
690
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:39,228
and hopefully that brought
them some kind of closure
691
00:40:39,354 --> 00:40:40,480
in the end.
692
00:40:40,563 --> 00:40:42,941
That is why we wear the badge
and we carry the gun.
693
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:49,781
[nostalgic music playing]
694
00:40:49,906 --> 00:40:52,408
[Marie]
I spoke at Pressley's trial,
695
00:40:52,492 --> 00:40:54,369
and I let them know
that he took something.
696
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,537
He took a good person
off the face of this earth.
697
00:40:57,747 --> 00:40:58,790
I miss my grandson.
698
00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:02,001
How much?
Immeasurable.
699
00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:05,672
What, where he'd been?
700
00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:08,091
He should've been here.
701
00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:10,259
He should be here.
702
00:41:14,764 --> 00:41:15,807
[Khadija]
Eric's with me every day,
703
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:19,519
and his love shines
through all of it.
704
00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:22,438
And eventually,
I'll be back with him.
705
00:41:23,940 --> 00:41:26,067
I'm gonna give him
the biggest kiss and hug
706
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:28,444
I could probably
ever give somebody
707
00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:30,238
in my whole entire life.
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