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When we first watched the footage,

we could see a figure running away.

Several seconds later, you can actually see, uh,

another car appeared to follow

where the suspect had ran.

So we start to wonder,

are these people working in consort?

Is this a plan?

Was this something that was premeditated,

a conspiracy to commit murder?

It's the day before Thanksgiving,

and Armando Dominguez and his 18-year old brother,

Cristian, are working on their passion project together.

Cristian's Honda was Armando and his project.

All right.

Because every time he got something new

for that car, it was always an excitement.

It came in, let's fix it today.

Cristian lives in California,

having emigrated from Mexico 18 months ago.

Woo! Cristian!

He knew that the United States

gave him the opportunity

to do anything he wanted.

He wanted to take advantage of it.

After finishing high school,

Cristian secures a job at a nearby warehouse.

He wanted to work, you know,

for him to feel like he was able

to do something in life here.

He had that mentality

that if you wanna do something in life,

you got to work for it.

It's not gonna be hand-given to you.

It got to, like, uh, 8:00 and Armando started worrying.

The concerned couple drive over

to Cristian's workplace to look for him.

Let me go check inside, okay?

The parking lot was empty.

It was pitch black and there was

a security guard outside.

And we're like, "Is there anybody else in there?"

And then he was like, "No, everybody left."

Give us a call if you hear anything at all.

Yes. Yes.

What do we got?

Officer Buddy Porch

is among the first to arrive.

As I got to the intersection,

I looked towards the 7-Eleven

and there was a group of people

screaming and yelling.

It was a chaotic scene.

This guy, the guy in the truck...

I saw a single cab Chevy truck

white in color,

had front end damage.

You could see that the truck

had hit the brick building in such force

that there was major damage.

This wasn't like a little small hit.

Okay. I'm gonna need some paramedics here.

I got a situation down here.

In front of the truck lies a young man

with severe injuries.

I'm telling, you know, "Hey, breathe,

I got ambulance on the way."

The ambulance is on the way, okay?

I was truly concerned about his injuries

and what was going on with him.

Once the paramedics got there,

they removed his clothing

and which time they found out wallet with a ID.

We were able to identify the victim

as Cristian Dominguez.

I looked at the date of birth

and I quickly realized he had just...

He'd just turned 18.

He was just a kid.

And this horrific accident that happened to him

in our city and we didn't know why.

Cristian is rushed to the hospital.

On this night, I was an on-call detective

and I got a call of a hit-and-run.

Detective Coillot is joined

by Sergeant David Janusz.

When I arrived on scene, I began to look, uh,

over the truck that had been crashed

into the side of the 7-Eleven.

When I observed that there wasn't any ignition keys

in the ignition

and then it led me to believe that the driver had fled

from the vehicle, uh, taking his keys with him,

uh, either out of habit or out of panic.

So I, uh, ran the license plate

on the Chevy Silverado,

the vehicle was registered to a Hispanic male

by the name of John Nieto.

The registered owner is usually

the first place we'll start,

but we never assumed

that the registered owner is the driver.

The vehicle could have been stolen or carjacked

or it could have been sold

and they didn't do a transfer of title.

So we were trying to figure out

who the driver of the vehicle was

and why this actually happened.

Immediately started to look

for as many surveillance cameras

as we could in the area.

Janusz.

I know the 7-Eleven.

I know they have surveillance.

I've been to that 7-Eleven hundreds of times.

Mind if I look at your surveillance footage?

All right, then.

Cue it up to about 7:15.

So I started to review the outside footage.

I began with the camera that faced

where the truck had crashed

hoping to get more information

exactly what had happened over there.

We were really hoping that we would be able

to see something that would piece this together

and move us forward in with the investigation.

Whoa.

I observed Cristian running towards the store

and the white truck chasing down Cristian

at a high rate of speed.

It's heading straight for him.

That truck hit that curb

and continued just going towards our victim.

Go back, play that again.

The truck wasn't trying to brake

and I think that's significant for the investigation

because it shows that this wasn't an accident.

So someone did this on purpose.

We tried a different angle,

so we can see more of what was occurring.

The camera angle at the back of the 7-Eleven

captures the moment of impact.

The truck had crashed to something

and bounced off to the side,

ricocheting off of the side of the 7-Eleven building.

It is unimaginable that someone was capable

of doing something so violent

and horrible to another human being.

For a young man running for his life,

knowing that this car,

this missile of 4,000 pounds,

5,000 pounds is coming at him

at 50 to 70 miles an hour,

it's heartbreaking.

All right. Let's take a look at the interior.

So I began to review the footage

from inside of the store.

I wanted to see if anything happened inside

that might have carried

to the outside parking lot area

such as a fight or some sort of argument.

Do you have another angle

inside the store?

It appeared to be business is normal.

None of the cameras inside of the store

show Cristian.

We're gonna need all the footage

from the surveillance cameras from tonight.

I realized that we're gonna need more video

to find out where this incident

started from,

so I requested other detectives

to start checking surrounding businesses

and residences.

Outside the 7-Eleven,

Sergeant Janusz looks for eyewitnesses.

Camera recording started.

One witness was actually in the street

in her vehicle and observed this entire incident happened.

Uh-huh.

Okay.

And she saw Cristian start to cross the street

through the crosswalk. She heard screeching tires.

The witness observed the truck complete a U-turn,

backed out towards Foothill in the area where Cristian

was hiding behind two electrical boxes.

The investigators looked for information

on the registered owner of the white truck.

Once we started to look

into John Nieto's background

to see if he had any gang affiliations

or any criminal history.

We didn't find that he had any prior convictions

of any other crimes.

Anything yet?

No.

Detectives visit Cristian's family

to inform them about the incident.

Thanks so much for having me in, guys.

- No problem. - No problem.

And they're, like, "Oh, are you guys related

to Cristian Dominguez?"

There's been an accident with Cristian.

And I'm gonna need you to come down

the station with me and answer few questions.

So it was important for us to talk to his family

to determine if he'd been in any fights

or ex-girlfriend drama,

like, who would possibly do this to him and why.

So we got in the police car.

And he took us down to the Fontana Station.

Camera recording started.

Detective Coillot turns on his body camera

and records the conversation.

They didn't know if Cristian

might've got in a fight with someone

or someone had a problem with him.

They told us that he was in critical condition

and that they were still trying to fight for his life.

Cristian's family

didn't know if he was in a relationship

with anybody but they did know that he bought

a birthday present for someone,

for a girl who had just turned 21.

Cristian had said that he was gonna get

a ride home from someone.

They didn't know her name.

So we were trying to find out

who actually dropped Cristian off

at the 7-Eleven.

I remember we sat there, they left.

I was like, "Can we see Cristian?

Can we go with Cristian?"

It felt like they were taking forever

for a response that we just wanted to hear,

like, is he okay?

And then they came in.

Uh, detectives, they had that face

that they... that they show on TV

and, um,

they were, like, um,

that Cristian hadn't made it.

That he hadn't made it.

The 7-Eleven footage is ready to go.

Perfect.

We needed to find out

who drove Cristian to the 7-Eleven

because that was the last person

to see him alive.

Uh, we started to backtrack on the footage

and started to check other camera angles.

As I was reviewing the footage

of the front portion of 7-Eleven,

I observed a gray car parked in the parking lot.

Keep playing it.

Wait, is that Cristian?

Rewind.

Yeah, that's him.

He didn't appear to be in any distress,

didn't seem like any issues were going on.

The vehicle that dropped him off

started to leave.

Because the time of night,

we weren't able to see who was driving

on that vehicle immediately.

Zoom in on that.

And, uh, the cameras were too far away

to get the license plate of that vehicle.

So we dug deeper into the video

and analyzed it frame by frame,

trying to figure out where the truck came from.

The suspect vehicle was a Chevy single cab 1500.

In our area of Southern California,

there's a lot of them.

What is that?

So after Cristian had walked out of view,

you can see the white Chevy come into view.

Rewind. Let's track the white truck.

That truck actually has no headlights on

which is strange because this is 7:30 at night,

it is completely dark

and then it goes out of the frame

going east in the same direction

that Cristian is going.

Based on the witness' statements,

we knew the suspect actually tried to hit him

the first time as he crossed the crosswalk.

There it is.

Several seconds later,

it comes back into view,

closer up and does a U-turn.

Turns on its lights

and goes again at a high rate of speed.

It goes out of the frame

and we know that Cristian is going in the same direction

but we can't see either the truck or Cristian

at this point in time.

One of the witnesses said the suspect takes

another pass at him, misses him again.

Then Cristian decides to run back towards the 7-Eleven.

So at that point,

he drove his truck as fast as he could

and ends up striking Cristian as he's running away.

It wasn't a hit-and-run.

Whoever drove that truck intentionally

ran over Cristian.

It's now clear that the truck

was lying in wait for Cristian.

So detectives backtracked through the footage

to determine when it arrived.

They focused their attention on the main street.

There it is.

You can see the gray car pull up.

And then several seconds later,

you can see the white Chevy come into view.

Made a U-turn, parked with its lights off,

facing the 7-Eleven as if it was...

watching Cristian or knew Cristian was there.

He watches him.

We then observed the white Chevy Silverado pull out.

So we wanted to piece together

exactly what was causing the driver of this truck

to intentionally try to run over Cristian.

The truck's registered owner,

John Nieto is linked to several addresses.

The investigators want to make sure

they have the right one.

We didn't wanna tip him off

to the fact that we were currently investigating him

or his residence.

We wanted to make sure that we had

all of our information gathered correctly

before we made contact.

And I can hear him screaming, "No."

That, "No, no, it wasn't true. No, no, no, no."

That's all I heard.

It was heartbreaking to hear.

Armando felt guilt.

He felt like it was his fault in a way

'cause his job was to protect his brother and he didn't.

Detectives notified me, uh, that they had located a house

directly west to the 7-Eleven

that had a video surveillance footage.

All right. Let's see if this gives us something new.

I could see Cristian running.

I could see the truck chasing him.

Play it again and punch it in on Cristian.

He's just in complete panic

trying to get away from this vehicle.

Keep playing.

I could see that the subject that exited the vehicle

appeared to be a male and we watched him run,

uh, north from the vehicle out of sight.

Rewind. Let's see that again.

Hold on.

It also showed the driver

going back into the truck.

And then running up Alder one last time.

I didn't believe that the driver of this truck

had any concern about

what injuries he caused Cristian.

And noting that the keys in ignition were missing,

it led me to believe that the individual

grabbed the keys out of the ignition.

Can you keep playing?

Hang on, what's that car doing?

Few seconds later, I observed

a vehicle driving slowly

through the 7-Eleven parking lot,

it ultimately pulled out onto Alder

and drove in the same direction as the suspect.

We weren't what this other car was.

We didn't know if it was a witness

or a good Samaritan chasing the suspect down.

We just knew it was important.

So when we were watching

the 7-Eleven video again,

you can barely see the movement of the driver

appeared to come back to the truck.

But then you see a female come into frame.

She starts to run in the direction

of where the suspect had ran.

She starts to come back

and looks at Cristian.

She just casually walked out of the frame.

Kinda confusing as to why, uh, they either

wouldn't try to help Cristian

or wouldn't stay on scene

and call 911 for help.

Switch back to that, um, that residential camera.

Rewind. See that again.

You see the female motion

in the direction of where the suspect was.

I've never seen anything like this before,

but my instinct would be to run to the victim.

My impression was they knew each other.

And then you can see her

walking back towards the direction

of the front of the 7-Eleven.

Moments later,

the gray car pulls out of the 7-Eleven

and drives north in the same direction as the suspect.

Okay. Change angles.

Let's see if we can piece this together.

We're able to determine

that the female got into a gray car.

And then she drove northbound on Alder.

Is that the gray car that dropped off Cristian?

You can definitely tell it's the same car.

So we start to wonder,

are these two people working in consort

to make sure that Cristian gets killed that day?

I went down to the warehouse to try to find out

who possibly could've taken Cristian home

because the family had said that he gets rides

from other coworkers.

The family said that he had bought

a birthday present for someone.

The manager had said that one of the employees

that he hung out with had just had a birthday.

We started looking into who that was.

Meantime at the station,

investigators dig for more information on John Nieto.

We started to pull up

his driver's license photo just to get a picture.

Uh, we started to dive into social media,

we found some accounts that related to John Nieto,

uh, that further matched the photo

from his driver's license.

We identified a female that he appeared

to be in a relationship with by the name

of, uh, Elisabeth Mancilla.

As I started to look into her further, uh,

Detective Coillot called me.

Janusz.

And informed me that Cristian hangs out

with three females at work

and one of them had just had a 21st birthday.

Her name's Elisabeth Mancilla.

Thanks.

I started to look into other vehicles

that were registered to John Nieto.

I found a Infiniti G35

that was also registered to John Nieto.

I checked to see the color of John Nieto's G35,

which matched the same vehicle

that I observed dropped Cristian off

at the 7-Eleven.

So we kinda connected the dots between Elisabeth

being the girlfriend of John Nieto.

Elisabeth being the coworker of Cristian.

Elisabeth being the one who drives the gray Infiniti.

We were able to compare her driver's license photo

to the video of the female

who walked towards Cristian.

We were able to confirm it was her.

Once we found out the plate of the Infiniti,

we found out that that license plate

had been scanned overnight numerous times

at a apartment complex in the city of Rialto.

So we put a surveillance team at that apartment complex.

They see Elisabeth Mancilla's car parked out in front.

That's the same four-door gray sedan

who dropped off the victim Cristian

right before he was killed.

But as the hours tick by,

there's no sign of John Nieto or Elisabeth Mancilla.

So we were really hoping

that the suspect hadn't fled on foot.

And then finally they observed a female

and a male exit an apartment.

Uh, the female appeared to be Elisabeth Mancilla

and the male matched the driver's license photo

for John Nieto.

John Nieto got in the gray Infiniti

and left the location.

The Fontana Police Department,

uh, conducted a traffic stop on John Nieto

and took him into custody.

Other detectives and officers were able to detain Elisabeth.

But at this point in the investigation,

Elisabeth was still just a witness.

Once John Nieto was detained,

I conducted an interview with him.

He had a very calm demeanor about himself.

He even kinda had a smirk.

He said after, uh, a warning that he gave her

to stop texting with other men,

Elisabeth had texted another man

which ended up being Cristian.

So John had even called Cristian

at one point and basically threatened,

um, Cristian, um,

to stop any type of relationship

he had with Elisabeth.

He lays out

that this was willful

premeditated,

deliberated,

and that that had been building over time.

Uh-huh.

He let his anger get to him.

And at this point, his rage was so high.

He knows that he just murdered somebody

and, uh, really didn't care.

Detectives turn their attention

to Elisabeth Mancilla.

There was part of us that thought

that Elisabeth set him up.

Where she actually took Cristian to the 7-Eleven

at a certain time and coordinated

with John Nieto to have Cristian murdered.

I conducted the interview with Elisabeth Mancilla.

She showed, like, zero to little emotion.

Real calm.

Turns out she wasn't even cheating on him.

They weren't even together.

She decided to look at Cristian

lying there helpless, get in her car,

go find John

and then help him escape the scene.

Detectives find no evidence that Elisabeth

was involved in the planning of Cristian's murder.

Elisabeth has acted

as an accessory after the fact.

And what that means for her legally is that

she at the very least has been

harboring a known criminal.

She went out of her way to help hide John

and get him out of the area.

In harboring him in her apartment

while police were obviously

trying to investigate the crime

and track down the person responsible for it,

made her a criminal.

Investigators can now piece together

the events leading to Cristian's murder.

Cristian and Elisabeth worked together

and Elisabeth had told John

that she was gonna be working overtime.

And this is kinda what triggered John

to do something about...

the relationship that he thought was going on.

So he started to develop this plan in his mind.

He drove his truck to another convenience store,

um, located across the street from the 7-Eleven,

so he could a clear view of who's coming and going

from the parking lot.

He was lying in wait, waiting for that moment,

waiting for that opportunity.

So when Elisabeth drove up in her Infiniti

and she pulled into the parking lot

at the 7-Eleven,

he waited for Cristian to get out of the car,

and he watched him get out of the car,

and walked to the corner.

When John saw Cristian

get out of his car

that he provided for Elisabeth

to go to work,

this is what was like the last straw for him.

At that point, he needed to kill him.

He tried hitting Cristian one time and missed.

And that is when John is able to do the U-turn

in the 7-Eleven parking lot, come back around,

and run Cristian down

and smash his body against the wall.

And that's how he died.

Elisabeth Mancilla is offered a plea deal

and is convicted of accessory to a felony.

For testifying against John Nieto,

she is given a lesser sentence

of 150 days in county jail

with weekend work release.

John Nieto is convicted of first degree murder

and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

The video helped us out a tremendous amount

by showing us a premeditation,

by showing a stalking,

and unfortunately ultimately it showed,

uh, John striking Cristian with his truck

and killing him.

I've thought about, like, if I had him here with me

one-one day to be able to tell him,

um, how I feel about him not being here,

I would tell him that I miss him

and he's always in my heart, in my prayers and...

like, to keep taking care of us.

And especially his brother Armando.

Because Armando's heart aches about it.

I'm pregnant now, I'm...

I feel like a perfect name

for my child would be Cristian.

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