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I didn't know how to breathe. 12 00:00:27,986 --> 00:00:29,279 I didn't know how to do any -- 13 00:00:30,489 --> 00:00:31,490 anything. 14 00:00:32,616 --> 00:00:35,577 So the big question is, who is this guy? 15 00:00:35,702 --> 00:00:37,663 [Coleman] Gangs, drug dealers. 16 00:00:37,746 --> 00:00:39,706 A lot of them think that they're untouchable, 17 00:00:39,790 --> 00:00:43,293 not realizing in the background we're watching. 18 00:00:43,377 --> 00:00:46,964 This is a truly evil person. He was a true serial killer. 19 00:00:52,135 --> 00:00:54,221 You're insane. You're a monster. 20 00:00:55,347 --> 00:00:58,725 He called himself the next John Wick. 21 00:00:58,850 --> 00:01:02,396 He's a real life murder-for-money hitman. 22 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:08,569 I'm Detective Joe Bamberski, FBI Task Force Officer. 23 00:01:08,694 --> 00:01:10,737 I'm Liz Becker, Special Agent, FBI. 24 00:01:13,615 --> 00:01:15,867 [narrator] When serious crime strikes, 25 00:01:15,951 --> 00:01:18,745 the Special Agents of the FBI answer the call. 26 00:01:20,247 --> 00:01:21,248 Fidelity. 27 00:01:21,331 --> 00:01:22,624 Bravery. 28 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:23,750 Integrity. 29 00:01:25,043 --> 00:01:26,712 This... 30 00:01:26,795 --> 00:01:28,088 is "FEDS." 31 00:01:37,055 --> 00:01:40,058 [dramatic music playing] 32 00:01:43,437 --> 00:01:45,271 What's up? 33 00:01:45,354 --> 00:01:49,443 At work, doing what I do, towing cars. 34 00:01:49,526 --> 00:01:51,945 It's a Sunday night, in the rain. 35 00:01:52,946 --> 00:01:56,575 [Khadija] Eric was literally love at first sight. 36 00:01:56,658 --> 00:02:00,370 Two days later, he was moving me out of the apartment 37 00:02:00,454 --> 00:02:01,580 that I was in. 38 00:02:03,081 --> 00:02:05,125 And I was moving into his. 39 00:02:05,208 --> 00:02:07,961 It was so quick, but yet, we knew. 40 00:02:08,044 --> 00:02:09,045 We knew. 41 00:02:11,048 --> 00:02:12,049 [Eric on video] Over here. 42 00:02:13,425 --> 00:02:16,303 In the beginnings 2017... 43 00:02:18,221 --> 00:02:21,975 I'll be 40 years old. Would you believe it? 40 44 00:02:22,059 --> 00:02:26,438 We were moving to down south. 45 00:02:26,521 --> 00:02:28,649 We were leaving. 46 00:02:28,732 --> 00:02:30,108 He had bought a truck from his mom. 47 00:02:30,192 --> 00:02:32,944 We were packing it up with a little bit of stuff 48 00:02:33,028 --> 00:02:35,030 that me and him had together. 49 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:39,409 Relocate down south, start a new life. 50 00:02:39,493 --> 00:02:40,494 I don't ask for much. 51 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:43,914 I just want to live. 52 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:46,500 The words are so powerful when I see that video. 53 00:02:48,043 --> 00:02:49,168 He just wanted to live. 54 00:02:58,470 --> 00:03:00,514 -[motors whirring] -[car honking] 55 00:03:00,597 --> 00:03:05,394 That night, I had been working at Melrose Place, the bar. 56 00:03:07,062 --> 00:03:09,523 It was a deli up front, tavern in the back. 57 00:03:12,275 --> 00:03:13,985 Eric, he was working for A. Bob's, 58 00:03:14,069 --> 00:03:16,363 the tow truck company down the street from the bar. 59 00:03:18,699 --> 00:03:23,704 I was outside, you know, on a break, and Eric came up. 60 00:03:23,829 --> 00:03:27,499 We were actually talking about, you know, how we were leaving. 61 00:03:31,253 --> 00:03:35,924 And we seen this man, dark-skinned man, 62 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:40,429 stone-washed jeans on, and he just opened fires. 63 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:42,723 All I seen was sparks. 64 00:03:42,848 --> 00:03:44,182 [gunshots blasting] 65 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:45,809 It was just rapid fire. 66 00:03:45,892 --> 00:03:47,811 [two gunshots blasting] 67 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:49,271 I tried to grab him. 68 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:57,738 But Eric pushes me where I'm in front of the bar door now. 69 00:03:57,821 --> 00:03:59,114 My back was burning. 70 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:01,825 I had gun fragments that I didn't even realize 71 00:04:01,908 --> 00:04:02,909 were in my back. 72 00:04:04,077 --> 00:04:05,746 I know Eric saved my life. 73 00:04:07,706 --> 00:04:08,707 It got silent. 74 00:04:10,625 --> 00:04:12,919 [somber music playing] 75 00:04:13,003 --> 00:04:15,756 And somebody was giving him CPR. 76 00:04:17,339 --> 00:04:18,841 I think that was the time I knew 77 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:21,261 that Eric was gone. 78 00:04:26,892 --> 00:04:29,311 [ominous music playing] 79 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:33,231 [train tracks rattling] 80 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:39,279 [Becker] In 2017, I was brand new to the FBI. 81 00:04:39,404 --> 00:04:41,865 I wanted to work narcotics cases 82 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:44,117 and violent crime cases and -- 83 00:04:44,242 --> 00:04:46,369 so, therefore, this is unfortunately, kind of, 84 00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:47,496 the perfect place to be. 85 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:55,962 Philly is a very large city, very vibrant city, 86 00:04:56,087 --> 00:04:58,715 has a lot of great areas to visit. 87 00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:01,676 But there's also the other side, 88 00:05:01,802 --> 00:05:03,637 where there's a lot of violence, 89 00:05:03,762 --> 00:05:05,430 gangs, homicides, narcotics. 90 00:05:06,807 --> 00:05:07,808 It's an uphill battle. 91 00:05:09,059 --> 00:05:10,352 [Becker] The city itself, unfortunately, 92 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:12,813 has a really bad narcotics problems 93 00:05:12,938 --> 00:05:14,731 and violent crime issues. 94 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:17,984 We're fighting for the top of the most murders per city 95 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:19,110 in the country. 96 00:05:27,702 --> 00:05:32,541 [Det. Bamberski] There's a famous quote in Philadelphia by Frank Rizzo, 97 00:05:32,666 --> 00:05:36,086 and it goes, "The streets of Philadelphia are safe. 98 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:38,380 It's the people in Philadelphia that make them unsafe." 99 00:05:41,508 --> 00:05:45,971 I was in the homicide unit for, uh, just shy of 28 years. 100 00:05:46,054 --> 00:05:48,139 It takes a toll. It takes a huge toll. 101 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:53,687 I worked probably in excess of 2,000 murders 102 00:05:53,770 --> 00:05:55,814 with my partner, John McNamee. 103 00:05:56,857 --> 00:05:59,192 So my relationship with Joe is kind of like 104 00:05:59,317 --> 00:06:01,820 looking in the mirror, just not physically. 105 00:06:03,154 --> 00:06:05,240 I felt close enough to call him my brother. 106 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:08,285 I feel like I knew more about him 107 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:09,536 than I did my own siblings. 108 00:06:17,043 --> 00:06:21,923 [Det. Bamberski] The unique thing with myself and my partner was that we were 109 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:26,595 also cross designated with the FBI 110 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,055 as a task force officer, 111 00:06:29,139 --> 00:06:32,392 which basically means you're a local police officer 112 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:35,770 who is then sworn in as a federal officer. 113 00:06:37,981 --> 00:06:39,733 [Coleman] They're the same as we are at that point, 114 00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:41,943 all working together, all sharing information, 115 00:06:42,068 --> 00:06:46,448 all to try to combat the violent crime problem 116 00:06:46,573 --> 00:06:47,616 that plagues us all. 117 00:06:49,492 --> 00:06:51,912 The FBI opened their door for us, 118 00:06:53,163 --> 00:06:55,332 and then we bring an enormous amount 119 00:06:55,415 --> 00:06:56,875 of investigative experience. 120 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:00,670 It's a combination of... 121 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:02,881 I guess you could say, old-school tenacity 122 00:07:02,964 --> 00:07:06,259 and new-school technology, and it's tough to overcome 123 00:07:06,384 --> 00:07:07,552 when they work together. 124 00:07:14,225 --> 00:07:15,518 [Det. Bamberski] On the night of January 12th, 125 00:07:16,603 --> 00:07:19,731 John and I were working the 4 to 12. 126 00:07:19,814 --> 00:07:20,774 [Det. McNamee] On the 4 to 12 shift 127 00:07:20,899 --> 00:07:23,318 you pretty much resign yourself to the fact 128 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:24,861 that you're gonna be leaving the building 129 00:07:24,945 --> 00:07:27,072 to investigate a crime. A murder. 130 00:07:27,155 --> 00:07:28,698 [sirens wailing] 131 00:07:28,782 --> 00:07:30,784 [dispatcher and officer speaking] 132 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:37,666 [Det. Bamberski] I got the phone call. 133 00:07:37,791 --> 00:07:40,168 There had been a homicide up in the Frankford section 134 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:41,294 of Philadelphia. 135 00:07:42,629 --> 00:07:46,383 One person is shot. They were pronounced dead. 136 00:07:46,466 --> 00:07:47,884 The victim's name in this case, 137 00:07:47,968 --> 00:07:50,345 was Eric Robinson. 138 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:52,347 Right here, where we're standing, 139 00:07:52,472 --> 00:07:54,057 there was a lot of blood on the sidewalk 140 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:55,933 from where the victim had fallen. 141 00:07:56,017 --> 00:07:58,269 He was shot multiple times. 142 00:07:58,353 --> 00:08:01,064 His girlfriend, who was standing right next to him, 143 00:08:01,147 --> 00:08:02,273 was right here. 144 00:08:03,858 --> 00:08:05,652 [Det.McNamee] There's a lot of ballistic evidence, 145 00:08:05,777 --> 00:08:07,529 a lot of shell casings. 146 00:08:07,654 --> 00:08:09,739 Looked like a very personal shooting, 147 00:08:09,823 --> 00:08:10,824 by the amount of violence 148 00:08:10,907 --> 00:08:12,367 that we saw directed at one person. 149 00:08:13,785 --> 00:08:15,495 -[Det. Bamberski] There's the surveillance camera -[Det. McNamee] Yeah. 150 00:08:18,999 --> 00:08:21,876 [Det.McNamee] We knew by our observations outside that the store 151 00:08:22,002 --> 00:08:24,337 at the corner probably had video. 152 00:08:24,462 --> 00:08:26,881 [Det. Bamberski] And we recovered some very valuable video evidence. 153 00:08:33,722 --> 00:08:36,558 The video surveillance shows the person 154 00:08:36,683 --> 00:08:38,393 who committed the homicide 155 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:42,731 look outside the window and you can see that person looking 156 00:08:42,856 --> 00:08:47,652 at Eric Robinson and Khadija, who are standing just outside 157 00:08:47,736 --> 00:08:50,864 of camera view on the sidewalk. 158 00:08:50,989 --> 00:08:54,868 The video evidence from inside the store was amazing. 159 00:08:54,951 --> 00:08:58,788 It clearly shows the offender's face, 160 00:08:58,872 --> 00:09:01,833 his physical description, the clothes that he's wearing. 161 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:06,880 In my years in law enforcement, I've never seen 162 00:09:06,963 --> 00:09:08,673 video surveillance footage that was as clear 163 00:09:08,757 --> 00:09:10,633 as the Eric Robinson homicide. 164 00:09:12,218 --> 00:09:13,470 [Det.McNamee] In addition to that, 165 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:17,432 the video shows the suspect exit the store, 166 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,645 walk directly to the victim, and... 167 00:09:22,729 --> 00:09:24,355 [gunshots blasting] 168 00:09:24,439 --> 00:09:26,149 ...fire many shots. 169 00:09:26,232 --> 00:09:28,026 [gunshots blasting] 170 00:09:28,109 --> 00:09:30,945 There was no struggle. This was a targeted attack. 171 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:34,115 It was just a matter of fact execution of a person 172 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,241 on the sidewalk. 173 00:09:37,452 --> 00:09:41,581 [Det. Bamberski] It's clear that Eric Robinson is the intended target. 174 00:09:41,664 --> 00:09:43,708 What is the motive of this murder? 175 00:09:43,792 --> 00:09:45,543 So we have to look into the background 176 00:09:45,627 --> 00:09:47,545 of Eric Robinson. Where is he from? 177 00:09:47,629 --> 00:09:49,005 Who does he associate with? 178 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:50,090 What's up? 179 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:55,470 At work, doing what I do, towing cars. 180 00:09:56,846 --> 00:09:58,807 [Det.McNamee] We find out he was a working man, 181 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:02,060 was not on anybody's radar in law enforcement 182 00:10:02,143 --> 00:10:05,063 for any kind of misconducts at this point in his life. 183 00:10:05,146 --> 00:10:09,275 I'm thinking that whatever this guy did, it was personal. 184 00:10:10,944 --> 00:10:14,489 So we had to speak to Robinson's girlfriend. 185 00:10:19,661 --> 00:10:20,703 [Khadija] The next day, 186 00:10:21,788 --> 00:10:24,499 I walked back up to the bar, and I laid in front of the bar 187 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:25,625 where he's ki -- 188 00:10:26,668 --> 00:10:28,461 in his blood. 189 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:30,338 Until my daughter and them came and got me. 190 00:10:33,550 --> 00:10:36,010 'Cause I didn't know what to do after that. 191 00:10:36,136 --> 00:10:38,346 I didn't know how to live. I didn't know how to breathe. 192 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:40,640 I didn't know how to do any -- 193 00:10:40,765 --> 00:10:41,766 anything... 194 00:10:43,518 --> 00:10:45,979 'Cause we had did everything -- so much together. 195 00:10:49,732 --> 00:10:52,944 and...he didn't deserve that. 196 00:10:57,991 --> 00:11:00,660 I had to, of course, talk to the detectives. 197 00:11:01,786 --> 00:11:05,331 And they asked me, did he ever have an altercation in my bar? 198 00:11:05,415 --> 00:11:08,168 And I told them a customer... 199 00:11:09,502 --> 00:11:11,462 He was being very disrespectful one night. 200 00:11:11,546 --> 00:11:14,215 Over flirtatious, but not respecting the fact 201 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:15,675 that I'm telling you I have a man. 202 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,678 And it was very negative. It was nasty. 203 00:11:20,054 --> 00:11:22,432 Eric said a couple words back to him. 204 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:24,017 He didn't like Eric because... 205 00:11:25,310 --> 00:11:27,395 Eric stood up to him, you know, 206 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,563 and walked away from it. 207 00:11:29,981 --> 00:11:31,482 That's what I had to tell the police. 208 00:11:33,443 --> 00:11:35,236 [Det. Bamberski] That's a very viable motive 209 00:11:35,361 --> 00:11:37,864 for why somebody would want to commit a murder. 210 00:11:37,989 --> 00:11:40,408 That happens all the time, you know, romantic interests 211 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:41,868 cause people to do crazy things. 212 00:11:43,036 --> 00:11:48,082 So we were chasing the lead given to us by Khadija 213 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:52,170 when the following evening another murder occurred 214 00:11:52,253 --> 00:11:54,589 that led us in a different direction. 215 00:11:54,714 --> 00:11:55,757 [gunshot blasting] 216 00:12:05,683 --> 00:12:07,477 -I love this picture. - Mm-hmm. 217 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,730 When he jumped in that pool, and he came up. 218 00:12:10,813 --> 00:12:12,982 That had to be the funniest thing ever. 219 00:12:13,066 --> 00:12:14,067 [Marie] He'll never get old. 220 00:12:16,319 --> 00:12:20,531 Khayyan and I were cousins, 30 days apart, literally. 221 00:12:20,657 --> 00:12:22,158 We were joined at the hip. 222 00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:25,453 It was not one day that went by 223 00:12:25,536 --> 00:12:27,413 that we didn't talk to each other. 224 00:12:27,497 --> 00:12:29,040 We just, it was, I don't know, it was magnetic, 225 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:31,167 like brother and sister. 226 00:12:32,335 --> 00:12:33,503 We had a good childhood. 227 00:12:33,628 --> 00:12:35,797 We both spent a lot of time with my grandmom. 228 00:12:36,923 --> 00:12:38,841 Khayyan always came around. 229 00:12:38,925 --> 00:12:40,510 He always made sure he stopped by. 230 00:12:40,635 --> 00:12:44,305 And Khayyan was her breath of fresh air. 231 00:12:47,183 --> 00:12:49,102 There's no words in the English language 232 00:12:49,185 --> 00:12:50,270 to describe him. 233 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:53,982 Handsome, handsome from the word go. 234 00:12:54,065 --> 00:12:56,109 Such a lovable child. 235 00:12:56,192 --> 00:12:58,403 He called me "shorty," and I don't know why, 236 00:12:58,528 --> 00:13:00,154 'cause I was taller than him. 237 00:13:01,155 --> 00:13:03,074 He was an all around boy, and then he became a man. 238 00:13:03,199 --> 00:13:05,326 And I was so proud of what he did. 239 00:13:07,036 --> 00:13:09,372 He had two sons, loved them to death. 240 00:13:09,455 --> 00:13:10,832 He took care of them. 241 00:13:10,915 --> 00:13:12,417 He was a great provider. 242 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,588 At the time, he worked at A. Bob's 243 00:13:17,714 --> 00:13:19,048 as a tow truck driver. 244 00:13:20,550 --> 00:13:22,218 [Marie] He wanted to be a police officer, 245 00:13:22,343 --> 00:13:25,263 and he was on that path. He was on the path. 246 00:13:25,388 --> 00:13:27,932 He was working. And that was my grandson. 247 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:32,895 And I miss him. I miss that relationship. 248 00:13:40,903 --> 00:13:43,990 [phone ringing] 249 00:13:44,073 --> 00:13:47,035 [dispatcher and caller speaking] 250 00:13:55,126 --> 00:13:56,294 [Marie] Friday the 13th, 251 00:13:56,419 --> 00:13:58,588 sitting in my usual chair, watching TV. 252 00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:02,508 My son's upstairs. Common Friday night for me. 253 00:14:02,592 --> 00:14:04,469 And all of a sudden, my son's coming down the steps. 254 00:14:04,594 --> 00:14:06,721 "Come on, let's go. Khayyan's been shot." 255 00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:07,805 I said, "What?" 256 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:12,226 We got there before the ambulance. 257 00:14:12,310 --> 00:14:16,147 As I'm standing outside the ER, watching across the street, 258 00:14:16,272 --> 00:14:19,484 I see the ambulance. the lights go out. 259 00:14:19,609 --> 00:14:20,943 And if you don't know what that means, 260 00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:22,987 that means that the person's gone. 261 00:14:23,112 --> 00:14:24,864 My heart just sunk. 262 00:14:26,199 --> 00:14:28,034 Well, they took him out of the ambulance. 263 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:32,538 Then I looked, turned around, I seen Khayyan's face. 264 00:14:32,622 --> 00:14:34,165 Couldn't believe it. His face was all swollen. 265 00:14:34,290 --> 00:14:35,458 His head was blown up. 266 00:14:35,540 --> 00:14:37,293 He had always been big as I don't know what, 267 00:14:37,418 --> 00:14:38,961 but he still was Khayyan. 268 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:43,132 Then they called my son, his mother, and they -- 269 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:44,801 and they told us that he didn't make it. 270 00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:48,346 No words that could explain that feeling. 271 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:53,726 [Najeera] And when we finally got the call, 272 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:58,147 I just remember my knees, my, like, they just buckled, 273 00:14:58,231 --> 00:15:01,067 and I just screamed to the top of my lungs. 274 00:15:02,276 --> 00:15:04,737 And everything after that was just a blur. 275 00:15:04,821 --> 00:15:07,156 I didn't want to be touched. I didn't want to be held. 276 00:15:07,281 --> 00:15:10,326 I didn't want the comfort. 277 00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:12,203 Like, I just -- I just wanted him. 278 00:15:13,788 --> 00:15:15,123 I never went to the hospital. 279 00:15:16,499 --> 00:15:19,836 I regret not going to the hospital so -- every day. 280 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,337 Every day. 281 00:15:21,421 --> 00:15:23,005 And I want him to know that. 282 00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:28,136 [intriguing music playing] 283 00:15:30,721 --> 00:15:33,182 [Det. Bamberski] I was following up leads 284 00:15:33,307 --> 00:15:35,685 on the Eric Robinson murder. 285 00:15:35,768 --> 00:15:37,854 The homicide unit was notified 286 00:15:37,979 --> 00:15:40,106 that another murder had occurred. 287 00:15:42,525 --> 00:15:46,154 The fact that they both worked at the same tow truck company, 288 00:15:46,237 --> 00:15:49,824 we suspected that the homicides were connected. 289 00:15:50,992 --> 00:15:54,787 So the murder of Khayyan Fruster was then reassigned 290 00:15:54,871 --> 00:15:56,539 to John and I directly. 291 00:15:56,664 --> 00:16:01,169 I took a look at the CCTV and was able to see 292 00:16:01,252 --> 00:16:03,754 how Khayyan was killed. 293 00:16:06,132 --> 00:16:08,259 There's a tow truck sitting on the corner 294 00:16:09,427 --> 00:16:10,720 outside of Khayyan's house. 295 00:16:12,180 --> 00:16:13,931 Once Khayyan approached the tow truck... 296 00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:20,688 opened the passenger door, the shooter immediately ran up 297 00:16:20,771 --> 00:16:24,692 and, while the passenger door was open, began shooting Khayyan 298 00:16:24,775 --> 00:16:26,194 and basically executing him. 299 00:16:26,277 --> 00:16:27,236 [muffled gunshot blast] 300 00:16:27,361 --> 00:16:28,571 [gunshot blasting] 301 00:16:30,907 --> 00:16:34,577 [Becker] Khayyan Fruster, he was a completely innocent person. 302 00:16:34,702 --> 00:16:38,581 The blatant disregard for human life is insane to me. 303 00:16:40,958 --> 00:16:42,668 [Det. Bamberski] The ballistic evidence that was recovered 304 00:16:42,752 --> 00:16:45,505 from the Khayyan Fruster murder was compared 305 00:16:45,588 --> 00:16:48,174 to the ballistic evidence recovered from 306 00:16:48,257 --> 00:16:49,842 the Eric Robinson scene. 307 00:16:49,926 --> 00:16:52,887 It was a match, meaning that the same gun 308 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:54,472 killed both victims. 309 00:16:56,432 --> 00:16:58,976 We realized that Eric wasn't killed 310 00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:00,144 for romantic reasons. 311 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:03,648 Now we're looking at a double homicide. 312 00:17:08,736 --> 00:17:10,320 We're now thinking, "What's going on 313 00:17:10,445 --> 00:17:13,449 at the tow company that we need to start looking at?" 314 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:17,578 [Det. Bamberski] At that time in Philadelphia, 315 00:17:17,662 --> 00:17:22,124 we were experiencing a lot of unlicensed, unregistered 316 00:17:22,208 --> 00:17:24,627 tow truck operators, 317 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:26,796 and some of them were warring with one another. 318 00:17:28,256 --> 00:17:31,968 Not to the extent that they were murdering each other, 319 00:17:32,093 --> 00:17:33,803 but it certainly wasn't out of the realm 320 00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:36,597 to think that it may have escalated to that point. 321 00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:40,393 [Det. Bamberski] We had a very clear picture of the shooter. 322 00:17:40,476 --> 00:17:42,520 We had a very clear picture of what he was wearing. 323 00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:50,236 [Becker] So we get this CCTV footage of the Robinson homicide 324 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:55,825 out on a billboard for people to hopefully call in and give us 325 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:57,535 an idea of who the subject actually is. 326 00:17:58,536 --> 00:18:01,163 Once that happened, I was like, someone has to know 327 00:18:01,289 --> 00:18:03,416 who this person is. Someone's gonna call. 328 00:18:04,584 --> 00:18:07,336 This will be an easily solved homicide. 329 00:18:09,171 --> 00:18:10,631 That never happened. 330 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:13,509 It was very strange that nobody came forward. 331 00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:16,512 What that means is he's so dangerous 332 00:18:16,596 --> 00:18:18,514 that nobody wants to come forward. 333 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:21,142 We were starting to think that it's somebody in the city 334 00:18:21,225 --> 00:18:23,185 that has some kind of reputation, 335 00:18:24,312 --> 00:18:25,605 and it's a dangerous reputation. 336 00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:30,526 It's extremely frustrating. The case did stall. 337 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:32,612 The case hit a point where we weren't able 338 00:18:32,695 --> 00:18:34,071 to move forward. 339 00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:47,710 [Marie] Months went by. In fact, a whole year went by. 340 00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:51,297 And it wasn't fair. It wasn't fair to him. 341 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:53,507 And I wanted to get to the bottom of it. 342 00:18:54,675 --> 00:18:55,843 So I investigated. 343 00:18:57,219 --> 00:18:59,805 I discovered Khayyan was to testify against this man 344 00:18:59,889 --> 00:19:02,058 named Arthur Rowland. 345 00:19:02,183 --> 00:19:03,726 And that's where it went from there. 346 00:19:05,394 --> 00:19:09,357 I found out Khayyan was getting his car towed. 347 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,734 They were hooking it up to the tow truck. 348 00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:14,528 The guy pulled a gun. So, Khayyan called the cops. 349 00:19:15,738 --> 00:19:16,989 Khayyan had to go to court. 350 00:19:17,073 --> 00:19:20,409 He's testifying that this guy threatened him with a gun 351 00:19:20,493 --> 00:19:23,913 when he was doing his job. He was doing the right thing. 352 00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:27,416 So I investigated a little bit more 353 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:30,294 into this Arthur Rowland's lifestyle. 354 00:19:30,419 --> 00:19:33,506 I'm on the computer, and I'm looking up his history. 355 00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:35,841 He's got a rap record like this. 356 00:19:35,925 --> 00:19:39,595 So I called the detectives, and I let them know. 357 00:19:39,679 --> 00:19:42,390 I thought, this is the man. This is the reason. 358 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:46,560 And that's how Detective Bamberski took over. 359 00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:50,606 [Det. Bamberski] Khayyan's grandmom 360 00:19:50,731 --> 00:19:53,567 came to us and said that Khayyan 361 00:19:53,651 --> 00:19:57,697 was due to testify against Arthur Rowland. 362 00:19:57,780 --> 00:20:00,032 When we looked into Arthur Rowland's background, 363 00:20:00,116 --> 00:20:03,869 I could see that he's a person who's in the drug trade 364 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:06,789 and had been so for a very long time. 365 00:20:10,793 --> 00:20:13,462 On the night that Khayyan was making an attempt 366 00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:17,466 to tow Arthur Rowland's pickup truck, 367 00:20:17,591 --> 00:20:19,719 the police recovered the firearm 368 00:20:19,802 --> 00:20:21,887 that was used to threaten Khayyan, 369 00:20:21,971 --> 00:20:25,141 as well as a significant amount of narcotics. 370 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:28,853 And then, the day before Fruster was to testify in his case 371 00:20:28,978 --> 00:20:30,104 against Arthur Rowland... 372 00:20:31,939 --> 00:20:32,940 he was murdered. 373 00:20:34,108 --> 00:20:38,195 The sticking point with that was Eric Robinson. 374 00:20:39,864 --> 00:20:42,867 We could not connect him to Arthur Rowland in any way. 375 00:20:44,076 --> 00:20:47,580 And there was no doubt that when we were reviewing 376 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:50,166 the video footage of both locations 377 00:20:50,291 --> 00:20:52,668 that the shooter was not Arthur Rowland. 378 00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:57,339 He had a legitimate alibi for both murders. 379 00:21:01,218 --> 00:21:03,137 [Det.McNamee] We needed someone that could help us 380 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:05,890 with information, so we took the information 381 00:21:06,015 --> 00:21:10,436 to task force members, and instantly, 382 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:14,523 Agent Becker informed us that he's a suspect 383 00:21:14,607 --> 00:21:17,943 in a major drug investigation that I'm conducting. 384 00:21:19,028 --> 00:21:20,321 [Becker] We knew about him. 385 00:21:20,404 --> 00:21:23,032 Arthur Rowland was a known subject 386 00:21:23,157 --> 00:21:28,579 in the violent drug-trafficking game in Philadelphia. 387 00:21:28,704 --> 00:21:31,791 He was one of those people that it was very difficult 388 00:21:31,874 --> 00:21:36,128 to get a case on him because he was very surveillance-conscious. 389 00:21:36,212 --> 00:21:39,715 But we always knew that he was the person 390 00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:41,550 that we needed to focus on. 391 00:21:41,634 --> 00:21:44,220 I would say that Arthur Rowland is probably one of the most 392 00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:45,387 dangerous people that 393 00:21:46,514 --> 00:21:49,225 I have ever investigated. 394 00:22:05,533 --> 00:22:07,827 [Becker] Over the course of months, 395 00:22:07,910 --> 00:22:13,165 we finally got a wiretap going on who we believed to be 396 00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:16,210 a very senior figure in the hierarchy 397 00:22:16,293 --> 00:22:18,504 of Arthur Rowland's drug organization. 398 00:22:23,467 --> 00:22:25,594 It was clear that Arthur Rowland, 399 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:27,471 otherwise known as "Bo," 400 00:22:28,472 --> 00:22:31,058 really had his tentacles in everything. 401 00:22:42,695 --> 00:22:43,946 Arthur Rowland was one of the main members 402 00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:45,990 of this drug-trafficking organization, 403 00:22:46,073 --> 00:22:48,158 receiving large amounts of methamphetamine 404 00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:50,744 and distributing it to his people on the street. 405 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:02,256 [Coleman] This is what the Bureau does, 406 00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:04,425 and we do it very, very well. 407 00:23:04,550 --> 00:23:07,428 Gangs, drug dealers, a lot of them think 408 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:09,597 that they're untouchable, that law enforcement 409 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:10,639 can't get to them. 410 00:23:10,764 --> 00:23:14,018 Not realizing in the background, we're watching. 411 00:23:14,101 --> 00:23:17,521 There's not an organization that we can't get into, 412 00:23:17,605 --> 00:23:19,565 you know, if we decide that's where we need to be. 413 00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:32,661 So, when Joe and John said that they believe Rowland 414 00:23:32,786 --> 00:23:34,538 was a part of their investigation, 415 00:23:34,622 --> 00:23:36,290 we were very interested. 416 00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:40,669 They're given all access to our case files, 417 00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:41,837 information, whatever they need, 418 00:23:41,962 --> 00:23:44,089 and whatever we need to work a case together. 419 00:23:44,173 --> 00:23:45,799 And that's the beauty of this task force. 420 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:56,477 We need to know anybody and everybody that's connected 421 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:57,645 to Arthur Rowland. 422 00:23:57,728 --> 00:24:01,649 So as individuals are being identified on the wire, 423 00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:06,904 we were cross referencing those images, their photos, 424 00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:10,282 to the CCTV footage of the Eric Robinson homicide. 425 00:24:11,659 --> 00:24:12,826 [Det. Bamberski] None of that was panning out. 426 00:24:13,994 --> 00:24:16,747 None of the people that are tied into Rowland 427 00:24:16,830 --> 00:24:19,333 are fitting into the image of the person 428 00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:20,834 who committed the murders. 429 00:24:20,918 --> 00:24:23,045 They are clearly not the same person. 430 00:24:23,170 --> 00:24:26,340 Again, the frustration level rises 431 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:30,219 because you can't get past this one part of the case 432 00:24:30,344 --> 00:24:32,429 that's now taking months to do. 433 00:24:34,556 --> 00:24:38,560 One of the disappointing aspects of being a homicide detective 434 00:24:38,686 --> 00:24:43,023 in Philadelphia is a lot of murders go unsolved, 435 00:24:43,107 --> 00:24:44,400 and that's frustrating 436 00:24:44,525 --> 00:24:47,236 for the loved ones of the homicide victim. 437 00:24:48,529 --> 00:24:50,489 [Khadija] I didn't want to wait anymore. 438 00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:52,366 Every day, I wake up, I think about Eric. 439 00:24:53,367 --> 00:24:55,035 Every morning, 440 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,787 every night. 441 00:24:56,870 --> 00:24:58,539 How did he get away with this so long? 442 00:25:00,833 --> 00:25:01,792 I would call them. 443 00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,044 They would call me back and forth. 444 00:25:04,169 --> 00:25:05,212 They did the work. 445 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:08,048 They did the footwork, but they couldn't connect it. 446 00:25:10,676 --> 00:25:12,302 [Det. Bamberski] I was thinking to myself, 447 00:25:12,386 --> 00:25:14,888 "How are we going to tie this all together 448 00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:17,891 "and connect the two murders 449 00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:21,562 and link it to the drug organization?" 450 00:25:23,105 --> 00:25:25,941 Is there something else that I'm missing here? 451 00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,401 You just need that one piece. 452 00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:37,036 [phone ringing] 453 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,581 [dispatcher and caller speaking] 454 00:25:55,512 --> 00:25:57,765 I was coming to work that day 455 00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:00,517 when I was notified that there was a murder. 456 00:26:00,601 --> 00:26:02,519 The victim in the case is a male by the name 457 00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:04,104 of Shawn Small. 458 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:06,106 [reporter] Police are now looking for the gunman responsible 459 00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:08,859 for the murder that occurred in the Overbrook Park section 460 00:26:08,942 --> 00:26:09,943 of the city. 461 00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:13,655 [Det. Peters] So here in the parking lot, 462 00:26:13,781 --> 00:26:15,157 we find the victim. 463 00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:17,409 He slumped over from the driver's side 464 00:26:17,493 --> 00:26:18,535 into the passenger's side. 465 00:26:18,619 --> 00:26:20,329 He's been shot one time, execution style, 466 00:26:20,454 --> 00:26:21,455 in the side of the head. 467 00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:26,251 We have one witness who sees the shooter 468 00:26:26,335 --> 00:26:28,295 come back up to the victim's car. 469 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,798 Now, at this time, the shooter was on foot. 470 00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:32,132 He reaches inside the car. 471 00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:34,510 The shooter then wipes down the side of the car 472 00:26:34,635 --> 00:26:37,721 with his jacket, and then proceeds this way here 473 00:26:37,805 --> 00:26:39,515 towards 75th Street. 474 00:26:40,891 --> 00:26:43,018 So the first thing I wanna do is I wanna look for cameras. 475 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:50,651 When we review that video, it was right there 476 00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:52,653 in the top corner. 477 00:26:52,778 --> 00:26:54,113 [Becker] It's not great surveillance footage, 478 00:26:54,196 --> 00:26:56,156 but you can see the unknown male 479 00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:59,159 get out of the vehicle, approach Shawn Small's vehicle. 480 00:27:00,285 --> 00:27:02,412 [Det. Peters] He stops and fires the shot. 481 00:27:04,081 --> 00:27:05,499 And that was it. 482 00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:07,334 Then later on, he returns on foot. 483 00:27:08,502 --> 00:27:10,087 We were able to get another video 484 00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:12,005 that showed the shooter. 485 00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:14,800 He's wearing black and bright yellow jacket, 486 00:27:14,883 --> 00:27:17,177 so it was easy to follow him on surveillance footage. 487 00:27:21,431 --> 00:27:23,225 [Det. Peters] He sees the police arrive, 488 00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:25,936 and then he runs through one of the back alleyways. 489 00:27:27,396 --> 00:27:29,273 What can we do to find out who that person is? 490 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:34,820 When I speak to Shawn's brother, 491 00:27:34,903 --> 00:27:37,281 he provides me the information 492 00:27:37,364 --> 00:27:41,994 that he met with Shawn the night before, 493 00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:43,453 that it was Shawn's birthday. 494 00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:45,831 He had met him at a bar. 495 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. 55182

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