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[ Siren wailing ]

-And it came in as a medical-aid call.

It's a young, innocent girl.

A gunshot wound to the head

-There's blood on the floor. There's blood on the wall.

-No apparent reason.

Yeah.

-Keenya was the first.

And it's sad to think what happened here

and it's sad to think what started here.

-Sniper attacks, cold-blooded killer,

taking innocent life is not the American I know.

-What appears to be homegrown terror.

-Your children are not safe anywhere, at anytime.

- Hello. This is a call from... - Lee Malvo.

-...an inmate at the Virginia Department of Corrections,

Red Onion State Prison."

-41-year-old man,

John Muhammad, and a Jamaican-born teenager

-The sniper team that terrorized

the Washington metropolitan area."

-19-11, I have one down.

There's blood all over. I'm at the Mobil gas station...

-The most intense manhunts in American history...

-The serial killer hunting down random citizens.

-We have fear levels here

that I think are higher than they were after September 11th.

-President Bush is talking about fighting Iraq,

and we have a war zone right here in his own country.

-Oh! Oh!

Oh, man! Oh, man."

-A mother's life cut short by a single gunshot wound,

point-blank to the face.

Now police are looking for clues in the murder of Keenya Cook.

-John Muhammad.

- Dad!

-Oh, man.

-You think you know somebody, and you really don't know them.

-I met John in the Army.

Me and him hit it off right away.

We were friends.

He became a great friend.

If John needed a place to stay in town

or if he needed to use my car, it was never a problem.

He came here and he stayed at my house, you know?

So, when he came up to see me,

when I opened the door, he had Malvo with him.

Lee Malvo.

He was telling me this story about Lee was, like, homeless

or a child on his own or something like that,

and John started taking care of him.

And Lee was a good kid.

He never got out of line.

I never heard him swear or anything.

He was just a quiet kid that was respectful,

and he looked up to John.

Everybody thought it was John's son

because he was just a kid.

He was always with John.

He actually kind of resembled John a little bit, you know?

So it wasn't like anybody would think anything, you know?

John took care of him like he would have took care

of one of his kids.

They would go to the Y every day, lift weights.

At night, they might go for a run.

It was like he was training him.

Basically, getting him in shape

for whatever they were going to do.

If he had to take off and run a mile,

I guess he was ready to run a mile, you know, whatever.

They would go to the shooting range.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

"I'm hanging with my dad. We're going to go shoot."

Whatever, you know.

-In hindsight, everything on the table now,

you know, all the training, all the, you know,

shooting at the range and everything...

he was bred for that.

It wasn't like he ever discussed

what he was specifically training him for.

So, right down here is where he was shot.

Yeah.

Come here, I think of my dad laying there dead.

Yeah.

The picture that you see of my dad with the smile...

that's how my dad was all the time.

The peacemaker.

You know? He was the peacemaker.

He kept our family together.

-One of my staff came by in a cart and says,

"Boss, you need to come see this.

Something's very wrong."

When I got out here, you could just see that there was a body,

and you could tell it had been drug back under the bushes.

-We are treating this as a homicide.

Our homicide detectives are going to process the scene,

which extends outside of the golf course

into the desert area,

and they're just about to begin that right now.

-I was part of the homicide team.

He had a gunshot wound to the chest.

It was small in nature, what led us to believe

it was possibly a rifle.

Next to the chain-link fence up there was a wallet.

-I miss the way he was with my boys,

the way he was with my mother.

He adored them.

He adored them.

-I was in homicide for 17 years.

I'd never seen anything like this.

Out in the wide desert, we weren't able to find anything.

-Let us know something. We know absolutely nothing.

-Please, if anybody has anything, anything,

any information on this,

please tell the police.

Please help us find out why.

-I grew up a classic Italian family.

Very proud of being Italian.

They just have passion,

whether it be for food or for art or for music,

and all those things were really important in my life.

And we loved just the restaurant business,

so we bought an Italian restaurant.

We enjoyed the people.

Really fun place.

-It was good day.

We had an office party in the evening.

When that was over, I left.

And my friends walked to their car, which was...

One was right there.

One was right over here.

And I walked straight to my car, like I always did.

I opened the driver's door, sat in the car.

I shut the door.

I sensed, for a second, just a shadow to my left,

and before I could turn my head, I saw a flash of light.

After five shots, incredible silence.

I groaned and I opened my eyes,

and I had some thoughts that...

maybe this was it.

The fear was, I didn't know what it's going be like to die.

And I thought about my wife. I thought about my grandkids.

I could see each one.

My son.

I actually thought of a funeral, and it was for me.

And then I said, "No, that's not gonna happen.

You know, that's... I'm not going to die.

I'm not going to die in a parking lot.

It can't end this way.

I'm not going to die in this parking lot."

So, I got out of the car.

The blood was shooting out of my body as my heart beat,

parabolic blood going down the side of the car.

And then I turned and saw my friend with the phone.

Both my lungs were collapsing.

They'd hit an artery.

One of the shots had hit me in the spine,

so I was real close to being paralyzed.

But I lucked out.

I got out of the hospital.

I was a nervous wreck.

Not knowing why it happened and who did it.

Did he know my name?

Was he sure I was dead when he walked away?

Who was I to him?

-But I got a dress rehearsal.

I know that when you're close to it,

you're... you're not afraid.

-A mitigation specialist looks at factors

in a person's life that influence their conduct.

And, so, in 2003, I was tasked

with going to Jamaica

to investigate Lee Malvo...

how he would bring violence,

bring destruction,

and bring chaos to the heart of America.

-She want him to have a good education.

He was very bright and was the type of child

to help who cannot understand their bookwork.

That's how Lee used to be.

Lee said, "When I grown up, I would like to be a pilot."

I'm telling, it really, really hurt.

And I know that Lee is hurting inside,

because this is not what he wished to be in life.

To hold gun and to kill no one.

One thing I would ask all fathers and mothers...

be careful.

See to it your children are trained the way that

Jesus want us to train our children and give them all love.

Because this is bitter.

It is bitter.

-When Lee was about 5 years old,

in the early '90s, Lee's mother,

Una James, decided that she no longer

wanted to be in a relationship with Leslie Malvo.

They decided to separate.

He was being separated from his hero, his dad.

His father was the one who would intervene

when his mother was too harsh in her punishment.

-She would beat, beat, beat, beat.

She have a beautiful son and she never know.

-Boy...

-This is where Lee and I spent a lot of time.

The children are taught that for every, every dark cloud,

there is a silver lining.

For the first time, he said, he got a room of his own.

All we gave Lee was love,

and that's all Lee ever wanted.

After having Lee for almost two years,

Lee's mother called me.

She said, "He leaves for Antigua tomorrow."

Very, very emotional for all of us,

very painful for all of us, because we wanted to

see Lee grow, mature into an adult.

I had to tell him, and he just looked lost.

You know where you're at a crossroad

and you just don't know where to turn?

He just stood there.

He just stood there and he was there for about

10 minutes, and I said, "Lee I can't change it.

There's nothing I can do. I wish I could."

And then I remember, I got up and I hugged him very tight

and I said, "Lee, we'll just have to do it together."

We went together to the airport,

and he hugged me, and he says, "I'll be back."

And I'm still waiting for him.

-John came back into town.

He told me... he says, "Robert, I'll tell you what.

I'm gonna go get me an AR-15."

He liked rifles.

-Bull's Eye is a place where people

who enjoy the shooting sports buy supplies,

hang out, train, and shoot recreationally.

Everyone, every citizen has that right until they abuse it.

That's our constitutionally God-given right.

Constitutionally granted, God-given right.

Lee Malvo and John Muhammad...

I do recall meeting them at a gun show.

I would have handed them a business card

and said, "Go down to the shop and talk to my employees."

-Okay, so, this is a Bushmaster AR-15-style firearm.

It is the civilian version of a military rifle,

so it is a very good, you know, defense piece.

It's just fun to shoot.

It's very simple, easy to maintain.

The ammunition is readily available.

Light bullet, high velocity.

A very durable, easy-to-shoot, very fun weapons system.

And how it's used...

That comes right back down to the individual.

-John, he said, "Lee's a sniper. Hey, this dude's a sniper."

You know, you might be a marksman,

but, I mean, to me, a sniper means

that you actually shot somebody and killed them, okay?

So I just took it as B.S.

That was the last time I saw him.

It was probably maybe a month,

two months before all this started.

Somewhere along the line,

he just slipped through the cracks.

I don't know what the turning point was.

And what you have is an American tragedy.

-Benny Oberoi survived the attack.

-Please!

Oh, man! Oh, man!

-A victim shot and killed at this Atlanta liquor store.

-It was my idea.

I made her move over here.

My sister... So, she decide to work

in a beauty supply store.

And I always feel so much guilt.

She was a beautiful, wonderful, loveable person.

She was a wonderful mother and wife.

She was only six years older than me,

but sometimes just like my mom and really close.

-I was actually coming from the

Baton Rouge General Hospital, right here.

Some people had run out in the road

and were waving us down saying,

"Stop, we need help, we need help."

I saw somebody laying on the ground.

She was very small in stature.

I remember her laying in the parking lot.

It's just a normal person who was closing her business

and expecting to go home to her family.

We try and stay really disconnected from,

I guess, the emotional part of it.

Sorry.

But I just remember, before they had

removed her from the scene,

there was a truck that had pulled up here.

There was a little boy in the front seat,

looking through the window,

and I just kept thinking, "Please get him out of here,"

because, you know, it was just so sad.

It was tragic.

-He was, at the time, 10 years old.

He saw his mom there.

After that, went through a tough time,

'cause they were really close.

And he stayed in his room.

He didn't talk to nobody.

It was such difficult to see him go through.

Even now.

That day, his life is finish.

And he's just making his own world

and he tries so hard, his little world himself.

He tries so hard.

Tried to do it right,

but he couldn't because he need her home.

-I have worked a lot of calls

and a lot of tragic calls

and a lot of trauma and violence in this city,

and, you know, after a while, a lot of that runs together,

but this one... It stands out in my mind.

The little boy in the truck.

That's why it sticks out in my mind.

Wow.

When it's the kids, everybody feels it.

Those kids should still have their mom, you know?

-After bringing Lee to Antigua, Lee's mother left him.

He was surviving on his own, out of this little shack.

-This is where my shop used to be.

People around would come

and play games or would surf the net.

-Lee went to the shop and he saw this man with his son.

- Daddy! - How you doing, baby girl?

Walk to dad! That's right!

I can do anything because my daddy told me.

He told me I can do it, and I believe I can do it.

That's right.

-My little princess, Selena.

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