i m craig melvin and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards, wealthy homes and she had the worst o possible luck, in that h picked her yes i d like to report an attempted break in - a mother, home alone. cops raced to her front door a she walks into an ambush in he backyard how does somebody die in matter of seconds with officer around her home? it was surreal, it wa awful. your first thought of tha time it s a burglary gone wrong. but the burglar caugh red-handed starts pointing fingers. this is a guy who aspire to be a hit man - she was a sitting target. does it now mean that you charge them all with effort now the detectives lay a trap we triedd to play cat and mouse. we re getting reall paranoid about being - one are you wired will they catch their prey? you hold your breath, the world s gonna stop this. you never think it s goin to be you. oh no
And right now on ana cabrera reports, Breaking News, Extreme Weather turning deadly in texas. At least four People Killed after torrential rain and tornados rip through the lone star state. We have the latest from houston. Plus, Michael Cohen dueback on the stand monday. Has the defense delivered any knockouts to the prosecutions star witness. And desperately needed aid finally reaching gaza by sea. Why humanitarian groups warn its not nearly enough. We made it to friday. It is 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with that Breaking News from texas where at least four people have been killed from a powerful storm system. It knocked out the lights to more than a million homes along the gulf coast, Spawning Tornados and floods, destroying property. Heres a look at some of the debris flying just outside the lobby. This is a houston skyscraper there, and then look at that, the Blownout Windows Leaving Gaping Holes all the way up the side of houstons downtown well
the officers who didn t do anything wrong you re waiting for someone t bring you the key. they waited a short period o time, within a minute, they re yelling for her, ma am, can yo come back, hello where are you? just a minute or so enough freeland to surprise th burglar who stabbed her in the neck, grab some jewelry, and ran into the arms of the police the detective filed around the crime scene. we saw the bedroom drawer were open, jewelry, things wer thrown around. so you look at a lot of things in disarray. it looked like a standard daytime burglary, gone horribl bad, of, course when lyn encountered the rober. but one thing stood out, like, well, a bloody knife i ve been in the burglary division for four years bu i ve never had one come with a device simply for killing. so, time to focus on that so-called burglar. caught with a bloody knife i his pocket his name was nicholas harvey he was 22 years old and this was unusual. he didn t have a criminal background, he never h
that day, stating quote, lol, i m not mad at you. you have to learn not to get caught. reporter: then, the morning of the shooting, prosecutors say a teacher was alarmed by a picture drawn by the teen that included a gun, a bullet, a person appearing shot and the words the thoughts won t stop, help me. a bullet with the words blood everywhere. a laughing emoji and the words, my life is useless, and the world is dead. james and jennifer crumbley were then called to the school, told they were required to get their son counselling within 48 hours and the parents resisted taking him home. he was returned back to class with his backpack, where we have reason to believe gun the gun was stored in the backpack. reporter: later that day as the shooting unfolded and word spread, jennifer crumbley texted her son ethan, don t do it. some 15 minutes later, jason crumbley called 911 saying the gun was missing. he stored it unlocked in his bedroom drawer and he thought his son may b
what they call earned media, getting the press to talk about you rather th rather than payg for ad and that doesn t speak to the ethics or journalism of it. why he would say that now, he s a master distractor and trying to flip it and get people having that debate. the more important debate as you know and as you ve covered and will speak to mr. mcniemi about is in the world where the internet is more important than anything else, where you ask the average american, i would say under 50 or of any age, would you be more worried about everybody getting into your phone or going through your bedroom drawer but i think in 2018 it is the phone. the law and regulations haven t caught up and the companies who say they re so good at everything, mark zuckerberg is telling everyone he s an expert as how to monetize and connect people and then any time they get caught and we ve caught them on racial housing discrimination