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We were just a happy,
hard-working family

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who, you know, moved
into the united states

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to have a better life
and a future.

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I never saw the violence
coming towards us.

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Get down!

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No!

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I can't even imagine
the level of terror

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that those girls must
have experienced.

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We gotta go, man! Speed this up!

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Wait.

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I never in my life thought
that was gonna happen to us.

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It's one of the most horrific,

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if not the horrific case,
I've ever been involved in,

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and I've been involved in a few.

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Nobody can understand why this
happened the way it happened.

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They destroyed an entire family,

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took away three lives,
in 57 seconds.

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Not even a minute.

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These guys have to be caught.

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They didn't deserve to
die like this.

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I was born in dominican
republic, in fact,

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my siblings, as well.

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My parents are
from dominican republic.

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They were always hugging
each other and just smiling,

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making jokes.

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I used to tell them, listen,

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you're making me jealous,
you know, with all the love.

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You know, it sounds cliche,

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the american dream.

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The father, he came in here
for a better life,

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because this is the land
of opportunity.

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Yeah, got this good moringa tea

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from republica dominicana.

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- Hey!
- Good for you. Wow.

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Look at him!
He's so shy in the camera.

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And he came to this country

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to work so his children
could have a better life.

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Porfirio nunez,

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he was actually
a psychologist by training

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but could not continue to
practice in the united states,

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so he had to find another way
to make a living.

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The nunez family
decides to go into business.

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They buy a bodega
called lorena's.

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There was already a sign in
this store that said lorena's,

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so they just stuck with that
name, and they went from there.

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Lorena's is located
in west philadelphia

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in a northern neighborhood
called mill creek.

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It's, by west philadelphia
standards, a relatively

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quiet neighborhood,

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although it certainly does see
its share of violence

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and poverty.

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But it's a tight-knit community,

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and they were certainly
beloved by the people

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who lived there.

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I gotta be honest,

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miss rodriguez is kind of tough
on class right now.

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Each day after school,
19-year-old jessica

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and sister, laura,
work at the store

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with their father,
mother, and aunt.

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It's a family business,
and it was all hands on deck.

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- Hola papi!
- Hola papi!

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Hey, how was school?

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- It was good.
- Okay, take checkout.

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The girls would come
and work the register,

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and they would lock up.

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All right.

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That store is open
seven days a week,

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early in the morning
to late at night.

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My dad, he was such a nice guy.

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Everybody in the neighborhood
loved him.

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Hey, julie, are you?

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He would help people, you know,

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it's not like he was
just the guy owning the store.

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- How much is this?
- $3.50

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- hey, look, you take it.
- Are you sure?

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Yes, look, you pay
me when you can.

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If you didn't have money,
you can come and pay him back.

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- Okay? Okay.
- Thank you, mr. Nunez.

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You're welcome. Okay.
Have a good day.

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Bye!

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He was that kind
of guy, you know?

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On September 6, 2011, in
the lorena grocery store,

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the family was getting ready
to close the store

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and celebrate dad's birthday.

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Jessica and laura, as they
were getting ready to close,

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they were counting the money.

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Did you, wrap that shirt

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that I got dad for his birthday?

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Yeah, I put it in your room.

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And mom and the aunt
were in the back,

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cleaning up everything there
for the end of the night.

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And dad was just stocking
the shelves.

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As we are about
to close the store,

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these two guys come in.

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One of the men heads straight

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to the back of the store.

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I'm thinking
he's just a customer

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that's about to order
a sandwich,

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because my aunt
and my mom are back there.

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The other man approaches jessica

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and her sister
at the cash register.

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The guy
that's in the cash register

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pulls out a gun.

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That's when I noticed,

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okay, we're getting robbed.

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He forces my sister
on the floor.

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Get down!

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No!

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When she screams,
my dad comes to the front.

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Wait!

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And he yells, "please, stop."

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Stop! Please, stop!

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Like many store
owners, porfirio is

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armed with a handgun
for self protection,

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but he never reaches for it.

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And this is all happening,

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I mean, seconds.

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It's going really fast.

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Suddenly,
the gunman shoots porfirio

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in the chest.

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The other gunman
shoots jessica's mother, juana,

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several times
in the chest and face,

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and aunt lina
in the back and neck.

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The shooting starts
going crazy in the back.

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My dad is trying to save them.

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He's down, he's incapacitated
from his injuries.

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He can't move.

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Then, the gunman turns
his weapon back on porfirio.

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Next, both gunmen
focus their attention

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on jessica, who stands frozen
by the cash register.

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At that point,
I'm not screaming.

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I'm not doing anything.

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I'm just...

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Just breathing.

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What you waiting for,
an invitation?

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Hand me that.

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So now I have a gun
on my forehead,

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and then I have one on my waist.

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So I have two guns now.

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And I said to the guy
in front of me, I said,

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"please don't kill me."

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we gotta go, man. Speed this up!

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I said, "do you want a bag

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to put in the money?"

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and he says, "yes."

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I gave him the bag,
and they left.

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We out.

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And my sister, the entire time,
was on the floor.

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She has no idea what's going on.

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She thought they were
shooting cans all around

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the store,

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and so I said to her,
"no, they killed them."

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please be advised we have

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reports of a 1054.

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I was working as
a night police reporter.

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We would sit in the newsroom
and listen to police radio.

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I heard this call come out

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for a triple homicide
at this location.

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So as soon as I heard that,
I drove over to

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west philadelphia.

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The gunmen walk away
with about $700.

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Not a very significant
amount of money for

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killing three people.

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I just remember
this feeling of just

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shock and dread that descended
over this area.

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People love the nunezes,
so people just...

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Just didn't know how to react.

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From the moment
they come in to come out

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is 57 seconds.

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They destroyed an entire family,

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took away three lives,
in 57 seconds.

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Not even a minute.

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When
the first responders came in,

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they found mr. Nunez along
the refrigerator section

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in one of the aisles,

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and then, when they got
to the back of the store,

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behind the sandwich
counter they found

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the, aunt and the mother.

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Most of our cases are
one individual gettin' killed.

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We may have a double
every once in a while.

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It's rare that we'll have
three homicide in one place.

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And attributed to a robbery.

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It's just like, why,
like, nobody can understand

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why this happened
the way it happened.

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In the hours
following the triple murder

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of the nunez family,

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homicide detectives
process the crime scene.

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When me and my supervisor
arrived on the scene,

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no one was in the store,
because we didn't want

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to disturb the evidence.

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There were nine-millimeter
casings recovered,

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what we call ay the fcc,
a fire cartridge casing.

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You noticed one soon as you
walk in the front door,

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which we believe that might
have been the first shot fired.

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And there were several in

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the back where the two women
were killed.

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The crime scene unit
photographed,

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videotaped, sketched the scene,
and collected the evidence,

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and we collected anything
from fingerprints

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to dna to blood samples.

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We tried to get
everything to encompass

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all the evidence that we think

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we would need to
solve the crime.

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The next step is what's
called neighborhood surveys.

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It's old-style detective work.

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They knock on every door
and say, "do you know anything?

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"did you see anything?

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Tell me about this store."

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excuse me,
I'm detective hagan...

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Can you tell me what happened
here tonight?

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Anything you saw,
anything you heard?

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No, I just came over
'cause I seen the tape.

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There was some cooperation
from people in the community.

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Of course, there was some
people who didn't want

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to cooperate.

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Are you from the area?

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00:11:03,363 --> 00:11:05,224
- Yeah, live across the street.
- Yes, we live across the street.

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00:11:05,248 --> 00:11:06,893
These people live
in the neighborhood,

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so if they know the killer,
the killer knows them,

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knows where they live,
who their children are,

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with their grandparents are.

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They're praying
the police or solve it,

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but they can't step forward,
because the reality is this...

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People are threatened,

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and people are killed.

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Is there anybody else in
the area I should speak with,

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or...? - No, I'm sorry.

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- I really don't know much.
- No?

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They'll even say up front,

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I am not saying anything,
because I don't want to die.

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All right, well,
I appreciate your time.

232
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Thank you so much.

233
00:11:33,894 --> 00:11:35,654
- Thank you.
- All right.

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At the homicide unit,
surviving sisters,

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jessica and laura, are waiting
to give their statements.

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It was...

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It was indescribable.

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I mean, what we were going
through was unbelievable.

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I met with jessica.

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I introduced myself and told her

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00:11:56,466 --> 00:11:58,533
I would be
the assigned detective.

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Jessica, I'm detective hagan.

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I'm assigned to
the incident that took place.

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I can't tell you how sorry I am.

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00:12:06,927 --> 00:12:09,007
She just kind of sat
there, emotionless.

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Still in shock.

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I understand it might be
something that you don't want

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to talk about at this moment,

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but I'm gonna need to ask you

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some questions.

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His first questions, I guess,

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is your regular first
questions after a crime

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like that, it's what happened,
you know,

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how did it happen,
where were you?

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00:12:29,282 --> 00:12:33,401
If I recognize the guys,
if I've seen them before.

256
00:12:33,503 --> 00:12:37,071
Jessica, did you get
a good enough look

257
00:12:37,157 --> 00:12:38,757
at these two

258
00:12:38,859 --> 00:12:40,558
to tell me what they look like,

259
00:12:40,660 --> 00:12:42,660
maybe what they were wearing?

260
00:12:45,449 --> 00:12:47,565
They were both black.

261
00:12:48,652 --> 00:12:52,470
One was 5'8", 160 pounds.

262
00:12:53,974 --> 00:12:56,407
He was the one who asked
for the money.

263
00:12:56,510 --> 00:13:01,112
She described the first shooter
as a shorter male, dark skin,

264
00:13:01,214 --> 00:13:03,364
a little on the husky side.

265
00:13:03,450 --> 00:13:05,617
The other guy was taller.

266
00:13:05,719 --> 00:13:08,436
Would you be able to pick
them out of a lineup

267
00:13:08,538 --> 00:13:10,188
if I showed you some pictures?

268
00:13:10,290 --> 00:13:12,010
Think you would be able
to recognize 'em?

269
00:13:14,394 --> 00:13:17,495
I will never forget their faces.

270
00:13:18,565 --> 00:13:21,466
All I kept thinking is,
like, there has to be a way

271
00:13:21,585 --> 00:13:24,402
where it... by me describing
certain things,

272
00:13:24,504 --> 00:13:26,454
they could just go
and find them.

273
00:13:26,556 --> 00:13:27,984
And then when you realize
how many people fit

274
00:13:28,008 --> 00:13:29,090
that description,

275
00:13:29,176 --> 00:13:31,926
you're like, wow, that's...
That's a lot of people.

276
00:13:32,012 --> 00:13:33,372
Detectives explore possible

277
00:13:33,396 --> 00:13:34,896
motives for the murders,

278
00:13:34,981 --> 00:13:37,315
even ones that seem dubious.

279
00:13:37,434 --> 00:13:40,401
One theory was mr. Nunez
was part of

280
00:13:40,487 --> 00:13:42,737
some kind of
dominican drug gang,

281
00:13:42,823 --> 00:13:45,490
and they came in to rob
store because, you know, he was

282
00:13:45,609 --> 00:13:48,809
dealing in drugs and he had what
they consider weight, you know,

283
00:13:48,912 --> 00:13:51,563
a large amount of drugs in
the store, so we kind of

284
00:13:51,665 --> 00:13:54,616
investigated everything to make
sure that, you know, there was

285
00:13:54,701 --> 00:13:58,953
no illegal activity, even went
to a prison to interview one

286
00:13:59,039 --> 00:14:00,349
of the guys
from the neighborhood

287
00:14:00,373 --> 00:14:01,934
that was supposed to be
a well-known drug dealer

288
00:14:01,958 --> 00:14:03,291
in the neighborhood.

289
00:14:07,214 --> 00:14:08,880
So mr. Nunez is clean.

290
00:14:11,935 --> 00:14:13,067
And the store is legit.

291
00:14:14,538 --> 00:14:15,738
He said, point blank,

292
00:14:15,805 --> 00:14:17,333
mr. Nunez was not a drug dealer.

293
00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:20,275
He was a family man,
and that was a business.

294
00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,777
And this is coming from
somebody who was known to

295
00:14:22,863 --> 00:14:24,707
sell large amount of drugs
in the neighborhood

296
00:14:24,731 --> 00:14:27,532
and was in federal custody
at the time.

297
00:14:27,651 --> 00:14:29,128
Although physical evidence was

298
00:14:29,152 --> 00:14:30,535
collected from the crime scene,

299
00:14:30,654 --> 00:14:32,871
it turns out to be a dead end.

300
00:14:32,989 --> 00:14:34,967
Unfortunately,
the fingerprints didn't lead

301
00:14:34,991 --> 00:14:37,692
to anything substantial
at that time.

302
00:14:37,794 --> 00:14:39,834
The only dna that was
collected would

303
00:14:39,913 --> 00:14:42,213
have been most likely
from the victims.

304
00:14:42,332 --> 00:14:43,965
We didn't find any other

305
00:14:44,067 --> 00:14:46,751
possible dna
from possible suspects.

306
00:14:46,836 --> 00:14:49,220
We ran gun checks on every gun

307
00:14:49,339 --> 00:14:51,756
that was confiscated
in philadelphia

308
00:14:51,858 --> 00:14:53,258
that was a nine-millimeter.

309
00:14:53,343 --> 00:14:55,944
I had a weekly report
coming from our firearms

310
00:14:56,046 --> 00:14:58,263
identification unit
when every nine-millimeter

311
00:14:58,365 --> 00:15:00,732
was confiscated in the city,
and we were not able

312
00:15:00,834 --> 00:15:02,674
to find a match on anything.

313
00:15:04,187 --> 00:15:06,227
Then there's a lucky break.

314
00:15:06,273 --> 00:15:08,673
Detectives track down
surveillance video from

315
00:15:08,775 --> 00:15:11,743
a chinese restaurant across
the street from lorena's.

316
00:15:11,845 --> 00:15:14,979
It was video that depicted
two individuals arriving

317
00:15:15,081 --> 00:15:18,149
to do the robbery and then
after the robbery, they flee

318
00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:19,651
the same way they came.

319
00:15:21,121 --> 00:15:22,453
Poor quality.

320
00:15:22,555 --> 00:15:24,088
You can barely make out faces.

321
00:15:26,293 --> 00:15:27,970
You can't really make
a physical,

322
00:15:27,994 --> 00:15:29,672
facial identification out of it.

323
00:15:29,696 --> 00:15:31,874
It's not clear enough to where
I could see the guy's face.

324
00:15:31,898 --> 00:15:33,376
But as you watch,
I'm going back and forth,

325
00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,681
you can see his mannerisms,
the way he's walking,

326
00:15:35,769 --> 00:15:37,013
the way he's carrying himself,

327
00:15:37,037 --> 00:15:38,277
you just don't know his face.

328
00:15:38,305 --> 00:15:40,638
You could still see the guy's
watch as he's leaving.

329
00:15:40,740 --> 00:15:44,509
The face of it was...
Was thick and significant.

330
00:15:44,611 --> 00:15:45,855
The video can't provide

331
00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:48,346
a visual identification
on the gunmen,

332
00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:51,265
but it does offer
a potential lead.

333
00:15:51,368 --> 00:15:52,650
White van.

334
00:15:52,736 --> 00:15:54,297
When we looked at the video,

335
00:15:54,321 --> 00:15:57,772
we noticed the van was
circling the block around

336
00:15:57,874 --> 00:15:59,490
the time of the murders.

337
00:15:59,576 --> 00:16:01,960
So we thought it was like
a getaway van.

338
00:16:03,997 --> 00:16:05,229
See this...

339
00:16:05,332 --> 00:16:07,265
Is that writing on the side?

340
00:16:07,367 --> 00:16:09,767
And the van had a inscription
on the side of it

341
00:16:09,869 --> 00:16:12,109
we couldn't quite make it
out through the video.

342
00:16:12,939 --> 00:16:15,956
So we wanted to find out
where is this van,

343
00:16:16,059 --> 00:16:18,309
who owns this van,
who was in this van?

344
00:16:18,411 --> 00:16:21,045
I mean, we couldn't say for
certain this is part of it,

345
00:16:21,147 --> 00:16:22,291
but we weren't gonna exclude it.

346
00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:24,265
We wanted to find those people.

347
00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:26,829
Philadelphia police hope
that this surveillance video

348
00:16:26,853 --> 00:16:28,714
will help them
catch two killers,

349
00:16:28,738 --> 00:16:30,154
investigators think the two...

350
00:16:30,273 --> 00:16:31,867
Somebody actually
saw it on the news,

351
00:16:31,891 --> 00:16:34,131
and it wound up being the guy
who owned the van,

352
00:16:34,227 --> 00:16:36,461
and he called,
made arrangements for comin' in.

353
00:16:36,563 --> 00:16:38,591
He brought the van in,
we took pictures of the van,

354
00:16:38,615 --> 00:16:40,059
and he was cleared
by investigation

355
00:16:40,083 --> 00:16:42,650
after he said, "I was just
picking up junk."

356
00:16:42,752 --> 00:16:46,821
from that point on, we went by
any tips that we gained.

357
00:16:46,923 --> 00:16:48,723
- Have a seat, sir.
- Thanks.

358
00:16:48,792 --> 00:16:50,603
One tip in particular seems to

359
00:16:50,627 --> 00:16:51,959
hold promise.

360
00:16:52,045 --> 00:16:55,229
So what information
do you have for me today?

361
00:16:55,331 --> 00:16:58,332
Well, I saw this pontiac grand
am parked in the neighborhood,

362
00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:01,436
it was black, and there was some
jersey tags on the car.

363
00:17:01,538 --> 00:17:06,024
A witness comes forward and says
that they live near lorena's,

364
00:17:06,142 --> 00:17:07,642
and the night of the homicide,

365
00:17:07,727 --> 00:17:09,789
they came home,
and they noticed a black

366
00:17:09,813 --> 00:17:13,731
pontiac grand am parked in
the area that had jersey tags,

367
00:17:13,817 --> 00:17:16,467
and that was an unusual
vehicle for these blocks.

368
00:17:16,569 --> 00:17:18,836
Was this car occupied,
was somebody in it?

369
00:17:18,938 --> 00:17:20,578
Or was... it was just
sitting there empty?

370
00:17:20,607 --> 00:17:21,884
Yeah, it was just empty.

371
00:17:21,908 --> 00:17:24,509
Then I heard the gunshots go
off, and I saw these two men run

372
00:17:24,611 --> 00:17:26,589
down the middle of the street
and hop into the car,

373
00:17:26,613 --> 00:17:28,146
and then it pulled off.

374
00:17:28,248 --> 00:17:30,643
The neighbor believed he saw
them getting in the pontiac,

375
00:17:30,667 --> 00:17:32,445
but we're not sure if it's
the same males that came out

376
00:17:32,469 --> 00:17:33,701
of the store.

377
00:17:33,803 --> 00:17:34,669
He just saw two males getting

378
00:17:34,754 --> 00:17:37,371
in the pontiac after
he heard gunshots.

379
00:17:37,474 --> 00:17:38,484
As soon as I heard the gunshots,

380
00:17:38,508 --> 00:17:39,985
I saw those two guys run
into their car.

381
00:17:40,009 --> 00:17:41,009
Shortly after, okay.

382
00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:42,838
- Seemed a little suspicious,
- okay.

383
00:17:42,862 --> 00:17:45,730
So I feel like they must
be involved in it or something.

384
00:17:45,832 --> 00:17:47,376
You have to be careful,
because some people

385
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,984
like to embellish on the story.

386
00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:51,380
I mean, we did investigate it,

387
00:17:51,404 --> 00:17:54,489
but we didn't find any
credibility to this story.

388
00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:56,824
Thank you so much.
This is helpful information.

389
00:17:56,910 --> 00:17:58,170
- Glad I could help.
- I appreciate you coming in.

390
00:17:58,194 --> 00:17:59,755
-No, problem.
Thanks for having me.
-Good job.

391
00:17:59,779 --> 00:18:01,939
To a certain point,
it gets frustrating when

392
00:18:01,981 --> 00:18:04,499
you're just looking
for a shot in the dark.

393
00:18:04,584 --> 00:18:06,784
You don't know exactly
what you're looking for,

394
00:18:08,922 --> 00:18:11,606
but hoping that one person who
might have saw something

395
00:18:11,708 --> 00:18:13,285
calls you and says, "listen,

396
00:18:13,309 --> 00:18:15,309
this is a person
we're looking for."

397
00:18:20,884 --> 00:18:22,945
Shortly after
the tragic murders,

398
00:18:22,969 --> 00:18:26,854
jessica is walking down
a street not far from lorena's.

399
00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:29,251
I remember it was about
two o'clock in the afternoon,

400
00:18:29,275 --> 00:18:31,355
I mean, kids were
coming out of school.

401
00:18:35,732 --> 00:18:39,266
And I see a guy riding
the bike from the other block

402
00:18:39,369 --> 00:18:41,602
behind me with a hoodie on.

403
00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,705
I could swear that was the guy
that was with us

404
00:18:44,791 --> 00:18:46,040
in the cash register.

405
00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:49,777
He's looking, but he's trying
to figure my face out,

406
00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:53,414
like, you can see him
riding very slow.

407
00:18:56,085 --> 00:18:58,085
And so he has both hands
on the bike,

408
00:18:58,138 --> 00:19:00,388
and when he sees me
standing there,

409
00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:02,507
he puts one of his hands inside.

410
00:19:05,395 --> 00:19:07,289
That's when I thought,
"I'm dead.

411
00:19:07,313 --> 00:19:08,596
This is it."

412
00:19:08,681 --> 00:19:13,467
and so he looks, but he sees
that I can't see his full face.

413
00:19:13,570 --> 00:19:14,735
He just takes off.

414
00:19:19,609 --> 00:19:21,420
And I called
the police right away.

415
00:19:21,444 --> 00:19:22,994
I said, "listen,

416
00:19:23,112 --> 00:19:24,529
I could swear that was him."

417
00:19:24,614 --> 00:19:25,854
we tried to track down the guy

418
00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:27,995
on the bike
and never could locate him.

419
00:19:30,653 --> 00:19:32,236
And we never validated

420
00:19:32,338 --> 00:19:34,839
whether it was the same male
or not that robbed the store.

421
00:19:34,958 --> 00:19:38,042
Jessica wanted to find
these guys in the worst way

422
00:19:38,127 --> 00:19:39,605
for taking her family
away from her.

423
00:19:53,393 --> 00:19:56,811
September 14, 2011, 8 days

424
00:19:56,930 --> 00:19:59,130
after losing the people
closest to her,

425
00:19:59,232 --> 00:20:02,366
jessica nunez and her sister,
laura, are starting to face

426
00:20:02,468 --> 00:20:06,070
the grim reality of
a new life scarred by loss.

427
00:20:08,174 --> 00:20:10,085
We took the bodies,
and we buried them

428
00:20:10,109 --> 00:20:11,993
in the dominican republic.

429
00:20:12,111 --> 00:20:14,031
My mom's family is still there.

430
00:20:14,998 --> 00:20:16,414
During the funeral days,

431
00:20:16,499 --> 00:20:18,177
you see so many people
around you,

432
00:20:18,201 --> 00:20:22,036
you don't have the time
to think, you're too busy.

433
00:20:25,208 --> 00:20:28,509
But I was going through so much.

434
00:20:28,628 --> 00:20:31,712
I mean, no sleeping, no eating,

435
00:20:31,798 --> 00:20:35,349
and, of course,
having nightmares every day.

436
00:20:35,468 --> 00:20:37,468
You couldn't close
your eyes because

437
00:20:37,553 --> 00:20:39,637
you're thinking
you're at the store.

438
00:20:39,722 --> 00:20:42,306
Literally, I thought
I was gonna go crazy.

439
00:20:42,392 --> 00:20:44,892
It was a difficult time.

440
00:20:44,994 --> 00:20:48,996
I never saw it, like, that
violence coming towards us.

441
00:20:49,098 --> 00:20:51,616
I never, never in my life
thought that was gonna happen

442
00:20:51,701 --> 00:20:53,634
to us.

443
00:20:53,736 --> 00:20:56,170
I made that promise
to my parents

444
00:20:56,272 --> 00:20:58,272
to find the people
that killed them.

445
00:20:58,358 --> 00:21:00,775
Like, if the police is working,
I'm working, too.

446
00:21:02,078 --> 00:21:04,679
After that, I decided,
you know what?

447
00:21:04,781 --> 00:21:07,848
I'm gonna start working
in all the stores around

448
00:21:07,951 --> 00:21:10,968
the neighborhood or the area
until I find him.

449
00:21:11,054 --> 00:21:12,703
She worked at seven different

450
00:21:12,805 --> 00:21:15,673
grocery stores in
the surrounding area.

451
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,061
I decided I'm just
going undercover on my own.

452
00:21:21,814 --> 00:21:25,066
I would change my looks

453
00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:30,237
probably every 2 to 3 weeks,
I will dye my hair

454
00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:32,773
blonde to red to black.

455
00:21:32,875 --> 00:21:36,560
I went through so many
different haircuts.

456
00:21:36,663 --> 00:21:38,474
I was hiding it from my family.

457
00:21:38,498 --> 00:21:39,675
I was hiding it from my sister.

458
00:21:39,699 --> 00:21:41,677
I didn't want her
to worry about it.

459
00:21:41,701 --> 00:21:43,929
They were not happy that I was
working at a store,

460
00:21:43,953 --> 00:21:45,397
but they didn't know my motives.

461
00:21:45,421 --> 00:21:47,872
I never wanted to tell them
I'm doing this,

462
00:21:47,957 --> 00:21:49,518
because I'm sure they were
gonna stop me

463
00:21:49,542 --> 00:21:51,186
and tell me, "let the police

464
00:21:51,210 --> 00:21:53,094
just do their job."

465
00:21:55,548 --> 00:21:58,966
I kept in touch with her
just about every other day,

466
00:21:59,052 --> 00:22:02,086
and she was just relentless
in trying to get these guys

467
00:22:02,188 --> 00:22:03,204
locked up,

468
00:22:03,306 --> 00:22:05,466
and she was willing to do
anything it took.

469
00:22:07,076 --> 00:22:10,127
I didn't care if
I was gonna die in the streets.

470
00:22:10,229 --> 00:22:11,812
I knew my risks,

471
00:22:11,898 --> 00:22:13,676
and I knew what I was, you know,

472
00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:15,016
getting myself into.

473
00:22:15,118 --> 00:22:18,703
If she ran into the person
that killed her parents

474
00:22:18,788 --> 00:22:21,028
and her aunt, she probably
would have fought him.

475
00:22:27,263 --> 00:22:30,131
Meanwhile, detectives
continue to field tips,

476
00:22:30,233 --> 00:22:32,583
hoping one will yield the break
they're looking for.

477
00:22:34,587 --> 00:22:35,920
This is detective hagan.

478
00:22:36,005 --> 00:22:38,172
There was one tip
involving a guy.

479
00:22:38,257 --> 00:22:39,902
He fit the description
of the second male,

480
00:22:39,926 --> 00:22:41,425
who was a taller male.

481
00:22:41,511 --> 00:22:43,010
Are you sure?

482
00:22:43,096 --> 00:22:44,345
What's the man's name?

483
00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:47,732
His nickname was black.

484
00:22:48,935 --> 00:22:50,975
Black was known in
the neighborhood to

485
00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:51,852
do robberies,

486
00:22:51,938 --> 00:22:54,805
sell drugs, carry a gun
all the time,

487
00:22:54,907 --> 00:22:56,385
and he had just
got out of prison.

488
00:22:56,409 --> 00:22:58,526
So that kind of piqued
our interest also,

489
00:22:58,628 --> 00:23:01,011
maybe I'm looking
for some quick money.

490
00:23:01,114 --> 00:23:02,691
Through investigation,
we found out he wasn't even

491
00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:04,493
in the area at the time
of the murders.

492
00:23:04,517 --> 00:23:05,649
You get your hopes up,

493
00:23:05,752 --> 00:23:08,502
you think you're gonna get
a good lead to get to the bottom

494
00:23:08,621 --> 00:23:09,670
of the story,

495
00:23:09,789 --> 00:23:12,206
and then it's very frustrating,
because it just got

496
00:23:12,291 --> 00:23:15,209
to a point where
we ran out of leads.

497
00:23:15,294 --> 00:23:17,106
I think that the detectives
were feeling pretty

498
00:23:17,130 --> 00:23:18,495
exasperated by the fact

499
00:23:18,598 --> 00:23:21,599
that they just couldn't
get much on this case.

500
00:23:21,684 --> 00:23:23,112
These guys were still
on the loose,

501
00:23:23,136 --> 00:23:25,386
and they were clearly
incredibly dangerous

502
00:23:25,471 --> 00:23:26,720
and ruthless.

503
00:23:26,806 --> 00:23:29,840
People were afraid...
It felt very likely

504
00:23:29,942 --> 00:23:31,470
that they were gonna
strike again.

505
00:23:34,964 --> 00:23:36,675
If they did that once,
they'll do it again.

506
00:23:37,733 --> 00:23:40,217
They don't care.
These guys have to be caught.

507
00:23:42,622 --> 00:23:45,906
On Thursday, January 19, 2012,

508
00:23:45,992 --> 00:23:49,193
a little more than four months
after the nunez murders,

509
00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:52,630
philadelphia p.D. Homicide
captain james clark sets up

510
00:23:52,732 --> 00:23:56,550
a task force headed by
homicide veteran bob wilkins.

511
00:23:56,652 --> 00:23:58,230
Captain called me in the office,

512
00:23:58,254 --> 00:24:01,322
asked me would I like to be
a supervisor for the task force.

513
00:24:02,792 --> 00:24:04,169
The assigned detective
at that time,

514
00:24:04,193 --> 00:24:05,204
he was investigating,

515
00:24:05,228 --> 00:24:08,012
but he was starting
to run out of leads.

516
00:24:08,114 --> 00:24:09,208
That's where we came in.

517
00:24:09,232 --> 00:24:10,826
Captain made a decision just to

518
00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:13,350
get a fresh set of
eyes to look at the case.

519
00:24:15,104 --> 00:24:17,738
We started the investigation
from scratch,

520
00:24:17,857 --> 00:24:20,858
and we left no stones unturned,
we were everywhere.

521
00:24:23,696 --> 00:24:25,174
We'd look at the neighborhood,
we want to

522
00:24:25,198 --> 00:24:27,364
get a pulse of what's
going on out there.

523
00:24:27,450 --> 00:24:29,511
We're bringing in uniforms
from that district,

524
00:24:29,535 --> 00:24:31,952
people that work that area,
are from that area,

525
00:24:32,038 --> 00:24:34,016
see what they're hearing
on the street,

526
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,406
let us know, we'll start
interviewing people

527
00:24:36,509 --> 00:24:39,760
that we know associates
with the criminal element.

528
00:24:39,862 --> 00:24:42,663
We'll talk to the drug dealers,
we'll talk to the drug users.

529
00:24:42,765 --> 00:24:43,664
We'll start bringing them in,

530
00:24:43,766 --> 00:24:45,149
and we'll just start talking.

531
00:24:45,218 --> 00:24:47,698
Somebody has to know something
or somebody's seen something.

532
00:24:50,389 --> 00:24:53,340
A few months after she
sees the man on the bicycle,

533
00:24:53,442 --> 00:24:56,393
jessica is working the cash
register at the haver deli

534
00:24:56,496 --> 00:24:58,863
when she thinks
she sees the man again.

535
00:24:58,965 --> 00:25:00,509
I was working in
a bigger store this time,

536
00:25:00,533 --> 00:25:02,493
and there was
cameras everywhere.

537
00:25:04,887 --> 00:25:08,072
I saw a guy that looked
just like one of them,

538
00:25:08,157 --> 00:25:09,773
the same guy that I

539
00:25:09,876 --> 00:25:11,836
could swear passed by
on the bike.

540
00:25:12,778 --> 00:25:15,396
The way he looked at me
and how he was walking,

541
00:25:17,266 --> 00:25:19,444
just the entire moment
that he was at the store,

542
00:25:19,468 --> 00:25:22,136
I'm freaking out because
again, I'm thinking these people

543
00:25:22,238 --> 00:25:24,638
are looking for me to kill me.

544
00:25:26,726 --> 00:25:29,660
Jessica calls
detectives and, in a panic,

545
00:25:29,762 --> 00:25:31,682
rushes to the back of the store.

546
00:25:36,352 --> 00:25:38,769
It is just so many things
going through my body

547
00:25:38,871 --> 00:25:40,404
at that moment.

548
00:25:40,506 --> 00:25:42,523
I remember having a breakdown.

549
00:25:42,625 --> 00:25:44,570
I couldn't even breathe.
I couldn't even breathe.

550
00:25:44,594 --> 00:25:46,677
I felt, like, dizzy.

551
00:25:46,779 --> 00:25:48,612
It was really bad.

552
00:25:53,169 --> 00:25:56,987
Immediately, I dispatched
uniform out to the location.

553
00:25:57,089 --> 00:25:59,569
When we get to the store, that
individual's not in the store

554
00:25:59,659 --> 00:26:02,626
anymore, and it comes out,
this is not the guy.

555
00:26:14,824 --> 00:26:17,107
After four months,
the nunez murder

556
00:26:17,209 --> 00:26:19,910
investigation is still
at square one.

557
00:26:21,464 --> 00:26:24,582
But on Tuesday,
January 31st, when two

558
00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:27,468
detectives run into each other
outside of court,

559
00:26:27,587 --> 00:26:29,531
they make an important
connection.

560
00:26:29,555 --> 00:26:31,288
- Joe!
- Tom.

561
00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:33,591
How are ya?

562
00:26:33,676 --> 00:26:35,203
Detective murray was assigned

563
00:26:35,227 --> 00:26:36,387
to special investigations

564
00:26:36,429 --> 00:26:39,613
within southwest detectives
specializing in robberies.

565
00:26:39,715 --> 00:26:41,627
Very good reputation
as far as,

566
00:26:41,651 --> 00:26:45,352
a thorough investigator,
a dogged investigator.

567
00:26:45,438 --> 00:26:46,570
Just a good detective.

568
00:26:46,656 --> 00:26:48,000
Actually, I've been meaning
to talk to you.

569
00:26:48,024 --> 00:26:50,052
I've been reassigned a case,
and I wanted your input,

570
00:26:50,076 --> 00:26:51,525
the nunez groceries.

571
00:26:51,611 --> 00:26:53,088
I'm like, "listen,
it'll save me a phone call.

572
00:26:53,112 --> 00:26:55,090
"I'm glad I ran into you...
I'm being re-assigned a case,

573
00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:57,142
"and I was gonna reach out
to you about it.

574
00:26:57,166 --> 00:26:58,315
It's the nunez grocery."

575
00:26:58,417 --> 00:26:59,249
nunez, yeah.

576
00:26:59,335 --> 00:27:01,318
You ought to take a closer
look at that

577
00:27:01,420 --> 00:27:03,487
aanda grocery armed robbery
on gratz street.

578
00:27:03,589 --> 00:27:04,933
There's another one on reedland.

579
00:27:04,957 --> 00:27:05,839
- Really?
- Looks a lot like

580
00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:07,291
your nunez case.

581
00:27:07,376 --> 00:27:08,854
Detective murray tells gaul

582
00:27:08,878 --> 00:27:10,906
he thinks it's possible
that the same men who

583
00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:13,330
committed two recent armed
robberies could also

584
00:27:13,432 --> 00:27:16,100
be responsible for the nunez
triple murders.

585
00:27:16,185 --> 00:27:17,245
All right, thanks.
I'm gonna follow up,

586
00:27:17,269 --> 00:27:18,664
all right? I'll call you soon.

587
00:27:18,688 --> 00:27:20,688
- Sounds good.
- Cool. Thank you, man.

588
00:27:20,723 --> 00:27:22,951
The other two robberies
are the exact same method

589
00:27:22,975 --> 00:27:25,859
of operation, you know,
two guys come in.

590
00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:28,218
One guy goes to the front
where the cash box is,

591
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,125
and one guy goes to the back
and they keep

592
00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:32,849
an eye on the store.

593
00:27:32,952 --> 00:27:35,369
The task force is able
to acquire surveillance

594
00:27:35,488 --> 00:27:37,608
footage from one of
those grocery stores.

595
00:27:38,491 --> 00:27:40,452
It looked like a prime video,
like, it was really good,

596
00:27:40,476 --> 00:27:42,543
and you could see
the one offender in

597
00:27:42,645 --> 00:27:45,245
the rear of the store as
the robbery is committed.

598
00:27:45,348 --> 00:27:47,308
You see his gun,
you see the watch.

599
00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:49,500
It's really, really specific.

600
00:27:49,585 --> 00:27:51,585
It was observed that
one of the males

601
00:27:51,671 --> 00:27:56,407
in the video had the same
clothing on as the nunez store,

602
00:27:56,509 --> 00:27:59,193
which really brought
our attention to him.

603
00:27:59,295 --> 00:28:02,363
So we released that video
to the press just saying, look,

604
00:28:02,465 --> 00:28:04,565
we're looking for help
for this robbery.

605
00:28:04,667 --> 00:28:07,084
Once we do that,
some tips are coming in.

606
00:28:08,754 --> 00:28:11,321
On February 7, 2012,

607
00:28:11,424 --> 00:28:15,142
someone calls and says
he recognizes one of the men.

608
00:28:15,244 --> 00:28:16,143
Are you serious?

609
00:28:16,245 --> 00:28:17,861
Let's get him in here
right away!

610
00:28:17,947 --> 00:28:19,508
At one point,
my detective comes to me

611
00:28:19,532 --> 00:28:21,749
and says,
"this guy may be able to I.D.

612
00:28:21,851 --> 00:28:23,951
On the photo."

613
00:28:24,053 --> 00:28:25,119
okay.

614
00:28:26,756 --> 00:28:28,889
He gaul, we got somebody
who can I.D. The killer.

615
00:28:28,991 --> 00:28:31,675
- Really? Brilliant.
- Got him.

616
00:28:32,995 --> 00:28:34,005
When we get that information,

617
00:28:34,029 --> 00:28:35,574
everything stops, I mean,
we just

618
00:28:35,598 --> 00:28:37,965
stopped dead in our tracks.

619
00:28:38,067 --> 00:28:41,201
We get this individual in,
now we're listening to this guy

620
00:28:41,303 --> 00:28:42,870
tell us what he knows.

621
00:28:42,972 --> 00:28:43,982
So how do you know this guy?

622
00:28:44,006 --> 00:28:45,906
I recognized the picture on tv.

623
00:28:46,008 --> 00:28:47,886
I used to hang out with
the guy around philly.

624
00:28:47,910 --> 00:28:49,821
I see him at parties
on the corner.

625
00:28:49,845 --> 00:28:51,123
I knew the same people he knew.

626
00:28:51,147 --> 00:28:52,290
What's his name?

627
00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:53,680
It's ibrahim muhammed.

628
00:28:55,735 --> 00:28:57,535
Ibrahim muhammed.

629
00:28:58,621 --> 00:29:01,238
He gives us a name,
ibrahim muhammed.

630
00:29:01,323 --> 00:29:03,273
We put that in our database.

631
00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:05,215
And sure enough, he pops out.

632
00:29:06,162 --> 00:29:08,202
Is this the man
you're talking about?

633
00:29:09,381 --> 00:29:10,881
That's ibrahim muhammed.

634
00:29:10,966 --> 00:29:12,766
I swear to god that's him.

635
00:29:13,753 --> 00:29:15,969
We get a photo of him,
we go show the guy.

636
00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:18,248
He says, "that's the guy
I'm talking about."

637
00:29:19,308 --> 00:29:21,141
he's a drug dealer.

638
00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:24,261
He was selling drugs in the area

639
00:29:24,346 --> 00:29:25,426
of 62nd and reedland.

640
00:29:25,481 --> 00:29:27,898
31-year-old
ibrahim muhammed has been in

641
00:29:27,983 --> 00:29:31,318
and out of jail for theft
and felony drug charges.

642
00:29:31,437 --> 00:29:33,854
Now we have
a person of interest.

643
00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:35,819
We know who we're looking for.

644
00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:38,275
At this point
in the investigation,

645
00:29:38,327 --> 00:29:40,005
we have a meeting
with narcotics.

646
00:29:40,029 --> 00:29:41,149
We showed 'em the photo,

647
00:29:41,197 --> 00:29:43,317
we tell them this is
our person of interest

648
00:29:43,415 --> 00:29:44,932
on the triple homicide.

649
00:29:46,735 --> 00:29:48,502
They take off running.

650
00:29:48,604 --> 00:29:51,071
In hopes of catching
ibrahim muhammed,

651
00:29:51,173 --> 00:29:53,407
the narcotics unit
carries out a drug bust

652
00:29:53,509 --> 00:29:56,643
on the 6200 block
of reedland street,

653
00:29:56,745 --> 00:29:59,713
and, in a stroke of luck,
five months after the brutal

654
00:29:59,815 --> 00:30:01,448
murder of the nunez family,

655
00:30:01,550 --> 00:30:04,051
detectives arrest
ibrahim muhammed,

656
00:30:04,153 --> 00:30:06,787
one of the suspected killers.

657
00:30:06,889 --> 00:30:08,822
They get him selling.

658
00:30:08,924 --> 00:30:10,786
They arrest him at that point,

659
00:30:10,810 --> 00:30:12,454
and when he arrives at homicide,

660
00:30:12,478 --> 00:30:14,473
we place him in
one of our interview rooms.

661
00:30:16,599 --> 00:30:20,767
Detective gaul is eerily
reminded of the robbery video.

662
00:30:20,870 --> 00:30:22,202
He walks him in.

663
00:30:22,304 --> 00:30:24,671
I'm watching his physical
characteristics, seeing

664
00:30:24,773 --> 00:30:25,906
type of gait,

665
00:30:26,008 --> 00:30:29,776
you know, saying type physical
description, angular face.

666
00:30:29,879 --> 00:30:31,979
And the watch was
very significant.

667
00:30:32,081 --> 00:30:34,159
It was almost,
like, emblazoned in my brain,

668
00:30:34,183 --> 00:30:36,750
you know what I mean?
From watching the video so much.

669
00:30:36,852 --> 00:30:39,119
Listen, my friend,
I'm on your side.

670
00:30:40,756 --> 00:30:41,766
I just need to ask you

671
00:30:41,790 --> 00:30:44,708
some questions about
the nunez triple murder

672
00:30:44,810 --> 00:30:46,705
that happened
this past September.

673
00:30:46,729 --> 00:30:47,806
One of my tactics was when

674
00:30:47,830 --> 00:30:49,891
I went in was just
friendly conversation.

675
00:30:49,915 --> 00:30:51,960
I didn't want him to feel
under pressure.

676
00:30:51,984 --> 00:30:54,304
I didn't want him to feel
like we was bullying him.

677
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,654
It wasn't me. It wasn't me.

678
00:30:57,740 --> 00:30:59,900
I don't know what you guys
are talking about.

679
00:31:00,659 --> 00:31:01,942
I didn't do it.

680
00:31:04,246 --> 00:31:07,281
Look, the only thing that's
gonna save you right now

681
00:31:07,366 --> 00:31:09,983
is telling us exactly what
happened and exactly what

682
00:31:10,085 --> 00:31:11,618
you did.

683
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,431
I said, "look, you've been
waiting for this knock

684
00:31:13,455 --> 00:31:16,290
on your door since
September 7th of 2011."

685
00:31:16,392 --> 00:31:17,586
I said,
"here we are in the middle

686
00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:20,561
of February, and the knock
on the door came."

687
00:31:20,663 --> 00:31:22,996
I'm trying to explain to him,
listen, they have you,

688
00:31:23,098 --> 00:31:24,138
they know it's you.

689
00:31:24,233 --> 00:31:25,465
They got you on video.

690
00:31:26,635 --> 00:31:27,668
Okay, okay.

691
00:31:27,770 --> 00:31:30,370
It was supposed
to just be a robbery.

692
00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:32,392
I was never gonna shoot anyone.

693
00:31:33,175 --> 00:31:35,108
But the guy, he had a gun.

694
00:31:35,210 --> 00:31:36,888
They targeted bodega stores.

695
00:31:36,912 --> 00:31:39,095
Usually they would come in,
produce the gun,

696
00:31:39,198 --> 00:31:41,009
people would give over the cash,

697
00:31:41,033 --> 00:31:42,544
and the guys would just leave.

698
00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:43,951
But they panicked.

699
00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:45,130
Everything is a blur.

700
00:31:45,154 --> 00:31:47,037
Soon as I got to the back,

701
00:31:47,122 --> 00:31:49,122
I shot the woman.

702
00:31:49,224 --> 00:31:50,691
And I saw the guy on the floor,

703
00:31:50,793 --> 00:31:53,810
I saw him trying to get back
up, and I shot him dead.

704
00:31:55,564 --> 00:31:57,259
He described how
he shot all three.

705
00:31:57,283 --> 00:31:58,360
So now we have enough to

706
00:31:58,384 --> 00:32:00,867
arrest and charge ibrahim
muhammed for all three

707
00:32:00,970 --> 00:32:02,319
just based on his confession.

708
00:32:02,421 --> 00:32:05,472
If he had done
just a regular robbery

709
00:32:05,591 --> 00:32:08,025
and walked out
and left that family intact,

710
00:32:08,127 --> 00:32:10,408
he wouldn't have got the heavy
hammer that homicide

711
00:32:10,462 --> 00:32:11,295
went after him.

712
00:32:11,397 --> 00:32:12,874
When you kill someone,
you've now joined

713
00:32:12,898 --> 00:32:15,766
the big leagues,
because we don't let that go.

714
00:32:15,868 --> 00:32:18,302
When we heard that there was
an arrest finally made,

715
00:32:18,404 --> 00:32:19,937
it was just relief.

716
00:32:20,039 --> 00:32:22,723
There was palpable relief
across the city.

717
00:32:22,825 --> 00:32:24,958
It was like, "thank god."

718
00:32:25,060 --> 00:32:27,728
ibrahim muhammed wastes
no time in naming

719
00:32:27,830 --> 00:32:29,262
the other gunman.

720
00:32:29,365 --> 00:32:31,331
Who was your accomplice?

721
00:32:31,433 --> 00:32:32,566
His name's malik.

722
00:32:33,669 --> 00:32:36,703
- And malik's last name?
- Scott.

723
00:32:36,805 --> 00:32:38,450
I think that his motive
to give the malik scott

724
00:32:38,474 --> 00:32:39,554
was he was hoping that

725
00:32:39,608 --> 00:32:41,775
that would turn into
a bargaining chip.

726
00:32:41,877 --> 00:32:45,379
His main concern
was the death penalty.

727
00:32:45,481 --> 00:32:46,964
That guy felt no remorse.

728
00:32:48,217 --> 00:32:52,936
Two days later, on
Saturday, February 11, 2012

729
00:32:53,022 --> 00:32:56,723
30-year-old malik scott is
apprehended by law enforcement.

730
00:32:56,809 --> 00:33:00,394
Malik also has a long rap
sheet of prior convictions.

731
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:02,846
Even though we have enough
to arrest malik scott

732
00:33:02,948 --> 00:33:05,515
and ibrahim muhammed
based on his confession,

733
00:33:05,617 --> 00:33:08,068
everybody wants to have
a successful trial.

734
00:33:08,153 --> 00:33:12,289
Now the next game plan is we're
gonna show identification,

735
00:33:13,459 --> 00:33:16,543
arrays, you know, photo arrays
to the witnesses.

736
00:33:16,662 --> 00:33:18,628
Hi, jessica,
it's detective gaul.

737
00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:21,348
Yes, we've got something.

738
00:33:21,450 --> 00:33:22,644
They called me and they told me

739
00:33:22,668 --> 00:33:25,368
that they needed to come over,
it's early in the morning,

740
00:33:25,471 --> 00:33:26,720
I'm like, "my gosh."

741
00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:29,373
I was in shock.

742
00:33:43,138 --> 00:33:46,173
It's just over
five months since jessica nunez

743
00:33:46,258 --> 00:33:48,069
and her sister
watched their mother,

744
00:33:48,093 --> 00:33:51,261
father, and aunt's execution
during an armed robbery at

745
00:33:51,363 --> 00:33:53,463
the family's grocery store.

746
00:33:53,565 --> 00:33:55,348
Jessica is anxiously awaiting

747
00:33:55,434 --> 00:33:58,068
a meeting with detective gaul
and wilkins.

748
00:33:58,153 --> 00:34:00,298
I had a feeling that
it was something good,

749
00:34:00,322 --> 00:34:01,666
whether they got one of the guys

750
00:34:01,690 --> 00:34:04,658
or I thought they got, like,
the gun or something.

751
00:34:04,777 --> 00:34:07,194
Now, jessica, I've got
a couple of photos to show you,

752
00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:08,712
okay?

753
00:34:08,814 --> 00:34:11,415
Can you tell me if
you recognize either of

754
00:34:11,517 --> 00:34:12,549
these two men?

755
00:34:14,269 --> 00:34:15,535
My god.

756
00:34:16,739 --> 00:34:19,823
As soon as I saw the pictures,
I knew who they were.

757
00:34:19,925 --> 00:34:21,324
That's them.

758
00:34:21,427 --> 00:34:23,547
These are the people
who killed my family.

759
00:34:25,831 --> 00:34:27,025
Grown men don't cry,

760
00:34:27,049 --> 00:34:29,277
but you could see wet eyes,
you know, as we're talking, ,

761
00:34:29,301 --> 00:34:31,541
because that's how you felt
just looking at her.

762
00:34:32,905 --> 00:34:34,482
It's okay. It's okay.

763
00:34:34,506 --> 00:34:36,346
Your parents would be proud.

764
00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:39,003
Once we got the identifications,

765
00:34:39,027 --> 00:34:41,027
we have enough
to charge malik scott

766
00:34:41,096 --> 00:34:42,529
and ibrahim muhammed.

767
00:34:45,501 --> 00:34:47,981
Detectives can finally
piece together what happened

768
00:34:48,036 --> 00:34:51,538
to the nunez family
on September 6, 2011.

769
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,907
It's porfirio nunez's birthday,

770
00:34:54,009 --> 00:34:56,476
and the family is getting
ready to close up a little bit

771
00:34:56,578 --> 00:34:57,722
early for the night so that

772
00:34:57,746 --> 00:35:01,030
they can go be together
and celebrate his birthday.

773
00:35:01,133 --> 00:35:03,394
I don't think that these guys
went in there to kill

774
00:35:03,418 --> 00:35:04,568
the nunezes.

775
00:35:06,505 --> 00:35:08,550
I think they went in there
to rob the place.

776
00:35:08,574 --> 00:35:09,984
The other two robberies,
even though they didn't

777
00:35:10,008 --> 00:35:12,809
end in death, they were still
that violent-type,

778
00:35:12,895 --> 00:35:15,055
intimidating nature
right from the juncture.

779
00:35:15,931 --> 00:35:17,375
They definitely had
it pre-planned.

780
00:35:17,399 --> 00:35:18,993
They hit 'em right before
they were closing,

781
00:35:19,017 --> 00:35:21,434
and they went in there almost
like a tactical team.

782
00:35:22,688 --> 00:35:24,666
Malik always goes to
the counter, that's his thing.

783
00:35:24,690 --> 00:35:27,023
He's the counter guy
getting the money.

784
00:35:27,109 --> 00:35:28,720
Then the second gunman,
he's the one that always

785
00:35:28,744 --> 00:35:30,704
goes to the back,
and muhammed is

786
00:35:30,779 --> 00:35:31,661
the violent guy.

787
00:35:31,747 --> 00:35:34,998
He likes being out there
giving the orders.

788
00:35:35,083 --> 00:35:35,866
Hurry up!

789
00:35:35,951 --> 00:35:37,901
We gotta go, man. Speed this up.

790
00:35:38,003 --> 00:35:38,835
Get down!

791
00:35:38,921 --> 00:35:41,288
No!

792
00:35:41,373 --> 00:35:43,907
Malik grabs laura. She screams.

793
00:35:44,009 --> 00:35:44,791
No!

794
00:35:44,877 --> 00:35:46,321
Jessica freezes...
The guy has a gun.

795
00:35:46,345 --> 00:35:47,511
Dad, when he hears

796
00:35:47,596 --> 00:35:50,297
his daughter scream,
turns, runs to the counter,

797
00:35:50,382 --> 00:35:52,160
as he's running there,
he's saying... Wait!

798
00:35:52,184 --> 00:35:52,966
"wait, wait, wait!"

799
00:35:53,051 --> 00:35:54,351
wait! Wait!

800
00:35:54,436 --> 00:35:56,281
And it's malik that,
once he sees

801
00:35:56,305 --> 00:35:57,916
the threat of mr. Nunez
with the gun,

802
00:35:59,391 --> 00:36:01,391
he shoots him.

803
00:36:01,476 --> 00:36:02,620
He didn't deserve to get shot.

804
00:36:02,644 --> 00:36:04,038
He was trying to protect
his girls.

805
00:36:04,062 --> 00:36:06,863
At that moment,
he wasn't protecting a store.

806
00:36:06,949 --> 00:36:08,909
He was protecting
his little girl.

807
00:36:10,152 --> 00:36:12,268
Now muhammed goes
and sees the two women

808
00:36:12,371 --> 00:36:14,048
that obviously see him the most.

809
00:36:19,628 --> 00:36:21,044
He kills both of them,

810
00:36:22,748 --> 00:36:23,663
comes back,

811
00:36:23,749 --> 00:36:26,833
sees mr. Nunez
still moving around.

812
00:36:29,888 --> 00:36:30,888
Shoots and kills him.

813
00:36:32,591 --> 00:36:35,926
It happened so quickly,
they didn't see it coming.

814
00:36:36,011 --> 00:36:37,510
They didn't expect it.

815
00:36:37,596 --> 00:36:41,131
This was the devastation
of a family, killing

816
00:36:41,233 --> 00:36:44,501
good people and then killing
unarmed women.

817
00:36:44,603 --> 00:36:46,931
It's one of the most horrific,
if not the horrific case,

818
00:36:46,955 --> 00:36:49,272
I've ever... I've ever
been involved in.

819
00:36:49,358 --> 00:36:51,358
And, I've been
involved in a few.

820
00:36:52,244 --> 00:36:53,755
What you waiting for,
an invitation?

821
00:36:53,779 --> 00:36:55,645
Speed this up!

822
00:36:55,747 --> 00:36:57,113
Hurry up!

823
00:36:59,117 --> 00:37:01,284
We out, bro.

824
00:37:01,370 --> 00:37:03,598
Detectives will never
know why the gunmen spared

825
00:37:03,622 --> 00:37:05,505
jessica and laura's lives.

826
00:37:05,624 --> 00:37:06,851
They're blessed to be alive.

827
00:37:06,875 --> 00:37:08,987
We don't know why the guys
didn't kill 'em.

828
00:37:09,011 --> 00:37:10,159
We have no idea.

829
00:37:10,262 --> 00:37:12,106
Some guys would have killed
everybody in the store,

830
00:37:12,130 --> 00:37:14,275
so there were no witnesses
left... for them two

831
00:37:14,299 --> 00:37:16,499
to be alive, it's a miracle.

832
00:37:16,602 --> 00:37:18,842
My family had a grocery store
just like theirs,

833
00:37:18,887 --> 00:37:21,187
and all of us worked in it
just like they did.

834
00:37:21,290 --> 00:37:23,418
Our store had been
burglarized, had been robbed

835
00:37:23,442 --> 00:37:24,524
at gunpoint,

836
00:37:24,643 --> 00:37:27,277
knifepoint... I would pray that
they wouldn't be killed.

837
00:37:27,362 --> 00:37:28,678
My mother, father, sister,

838
00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:31,259
grandmother... I'm glad I had
the case, because what I feared

839
00:37:31,283 --> 00:37:33,316
the most, those girls lived.

840
00:37:33,402 --> 00:37:36,803
So it was very personal saying
that these girls need me.

841
00:37:36,905 --> 00:37:39,372
On December 6, 2016,

842
00:37:39,491 --> 00:37:41,302
5 years after the triple slaying

843
00:37:41,326 --> 00:37:43,376
at lorena's that
shook philadelphia,

844
00:37:43,495 --> 00:37:45,695
the case finally goes to trial.

845
00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:48,715
I'm so nervous now,
because yeah, we got them.

846
00:37:48,817 --> 00:37:50,383
But are we gonna get justice?

847
00:37:50,485 --> 00:37:52,730
Are they gonna walk out within
a year or two and then come

848
00:37:52,754 --> 00:37:55,138
back and probably kill
the little girl that put them

849
00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:56,406
in jail?

850
00:37:56,508 --> 00:37:59,375
I was going through
so much mentally

851
00:37:59,461 --> 00:38:01,461
thinking that that was
gonna happen.

852
00:38:03,098 --> 00:38:05,815
I remember sitting in
the courtroom.

853
00:38:05,917 --> 00:38:07,784
We were holding hands.

854
00:38:07,886 --> 00:38:11,104
Once they had a verdict,
I remember my family praying.

855
00:38:12,474 --> 00:38:16,076
On December 21, 2016,
ibrahim muhammed

856
00:38:16,178 --> 00:38:19,446
and malik scott are found
guilty of first-degree murder

857
00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:21,965
in the 2011 deaths

858
00:38:22,067 --> 00:38:26,386
of porfirio nunez,
juana nunez, and lina sanchez.

859
00:38:27,889 --> 00:38:29,367
The jury came back
in an hour, guilty.

860
00:38:29,391 --> 00:38:31,708
They didn't even ask for
a single picture exhibit,

861
00:38:31,793 --> 00:38:34,744
they just ordered lunch
and convicted them like that.

862
00:38:34,846 --> 00:38:36,412
I started crying.

863
00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:37,964
My sister started crying.

864
00:38:40,102 --> 00:38:41,334
You feel peace.

865
00:38:42,404 --> 00:38:46,122
But then you realize that no
matter... no matter how many

866
00:38:46,224 --> 00:38:47,107
years they get in jail,

867
00:38:47,209 --> 00:38:49,209
you're still not gonna
get them back.

868
00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:53,480
And you still have to
understand that you're not

869
00:38:53,565 --> 00:38:55,548
gonna have your dad walkin' you

870
00:38:55,650 --> 00:38:59,252
down the aisle or, you know,
call your mom if

871
00:38:59,354 --> 00:39:00,587
something is wrong.

872
00:39:02,391 --> 00:39:04,491
You still have to realize
those things.

873
00:39:07,412 --> 00:39:10,780
We got the guys,
and what little solace it

874
00:39:10,882 --> 00:39:14,050
gives them saying these guys
were brought to justice,

875
00:39:14,136 --> 00:39:15,468
they didn't get away with it,

876
00:39:15,587 --> 00:39:17,837
you know, my parents are dead,
but guess what?

877
00:39:17,923 --> 00:39:20,006
You got caught.
You got convicted.

878
00:39:20,092 --> 00:39:22,070
I know that the family,
the survivors,

879
00:39:22,094 --> 00:39:25,145
didn't want them to face
the death penalty,

880
00:39:25,263 --> 00:39:26,824
because it was against
their beliefs.

881
00:39:26,848 --> 00:39:29,566
So this was the best thing
that prosecutors

882
00:39:29,668 --> 00:39:31,546
in the city could do
for them was to

883
00:39:31,570 --> 00:39:34,437
make sure that these men have
no possibility of parole.

884
00:39:34,539 --> 00:39:35,983
They're never gonna be
back on the street.

885
00:39:36,007 --> 00:39:37,357
They're never gonna

886
00:39:37,459 --> 00:39:39,170
see the light of day outside of

887
00:39:39,194 --> 00:39:42,445
a prison ever again to
terrorize another family.

888
00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:44,781
Jessica took over the role
of her mom and dad.

889
00:39:46,168 --> 00:39:49,335
She took care of her younger
sister and her younger brother.

890
00:39:49,454 --> 00:39:51,432
She became spokesperson
for the family.

891
00:39:51,456 --> 00:39:53,317
Just resilience is the word
I can think of

892
00:39:53,341 --> 00:39:54,774
when I think of jessica.

893
00:39:54,876 --> 00:39:57,577
If I thought I was so weak
and I didn't think

894
00:39:57,679 --> 00:39:58,912
I was like this strong girl,

895
00:39:59,014 --> 00:40:00,441
then my dad would tell me I was,

896
00:40:00,465 --> 00:40:02,766
or... or "you can do
everything you want,"

897
00:40:02,851 --> 00:40:06,636
and "you can do anything if
you put yourself into it."

898
00:40:06,721 --> 00:40:09,606
took me a few years, um,
to understand that,

899
00:40:09,691 --> 00:40:10,807
yeah, I am strong.

900
00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:13,760
I survived,
and I learned to move on.

901
00:40:16,848 --> 00:40:18,726
And jessica finds a way to honor

902
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:21,401
her family by doing
what she loves most.

903
00:40:27,209 --> 00:40:30,009
The music was
my connection with my dad.

904
00:40:30,112 --> 00:40:33,880
He likes to sing and act,
and I had the same personality.

905
00:40:35,050 --> 00:40:38,818
In July 2019,
jessica was selected to compete

906
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,955
on "reina de la cancion,"
the spanish version

907
00:40:42,073 --> 00:40:44,541
of "the voice."

908
00:40:44,626 --> 00:40:48,211
I remember the first time
when I did my audition,

909
00:40:48,296 --> 00:40:51,965
I literally felt like they
were walking with me on stage.

910
00:40:52,083 --> 00:40:54,112
I was filled with so much
happiness and peace

911
00:40:54,136 --> 00:40:55,051
at the same time.

912
00:40:55,137 --> 00:40:58,171
And so I will always
say something to them.

913
00:40:58,256 --> 00:40:59,256
Be like, "listen,

914
00:40:59,307 --> 00:41:01,508
"your little crazy girl's
about two something,

915
00:41:01,593 --> 00:41:03,843
so just rock with me."


