i think i screamed for hours. >> reporter: diren dede would never make it to his 18th birthday. >> i thought it was a joke. i was like, "there's no way possible. nothing like this has remotely happened to me. or, like, kind of anything in missoula growing up. and so it was just -- it was obviously a shock. >> it was just, like, the last person that would come to my mind i guess. >> reporter: diren's soccer coach assumed that whatever happened to his star player, it wasn't diren's fault. >> i'm trying to imagine, did he go to a party and get shot by another kid? was he downtown missoula and got in a scuffle? i didn't understand it, i was >> so what did happen? police on the scene quickly concluded only one person was shot, the intruder mentioned in that 9 is 1 call. >> who got shot? >> the robber. he's badly injured.