I lost it. We could not understand how anybody would want to murder him. He looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. He was in bed. His head was waon the pillow. His entire upper body was tucked in. The first guess was suicide. Theres no gun on the season. Hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. This was a man who had everything to live for. Eric loved life. He loved his family. And women too. Many women. Did one of them love him too much . No shortage of lovers to question. I knew he was a ladies man. Im not stupid. No sign of a break in either. It must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didnt trust him. Inside the safe was a. 380 handgun. Thats the same kind of gun that killed eric. Everybody loved him so who killed him . We knew in our hearts that this murder was going to be solved. We believed that justice was going to be served for eric. Hello and welcome to dateline. It was a crime scene that offered little evidence and those who knew eric somuah c
spotted his drive and business savvy at an early age. suzy somuah: and he started a lawn cutting business in our neighborhood. early age the neighborhood kids, they were he would pay them, what, $2. a born capitalist he would tell me, susie, i going to be really rich on day. he wanted to go all the way to the top. from the day he was born, eric was a charm or and hi sisters and big brother michae always adored him. he was a wonderful joy to our family, and two are sister and i. eric was the baby of th family, we all enjoyed him because he was very vibrant. it was just the three of us and then he came along he was sort of our little doll then, erik grew up an became a living doll, to the
his work ethic earned hi success on the job a high-rise apartment in the d.c. suburbs and a busy an exciting social life he was a young man on top of the world. but his big brother still felt the need to occasionally offer advice, like that playing th field has its risks and can last forever he really respected me, the fact that i ve been with m wife, we ve been together 28 years, we always communicate and say hey, i want to be that but i just can t find the righ one. even as the youngest and th only one that had not married, eric was the glue that bonde his family eric was the person tha kind of brought the family together he remembered everyone s birthday, he made everyone fee really special so it wasn t just customers he was charming. he was charming his famil to he wanted everyone to com together in june, 2012, he brought
could eventually find somethin concrete if you kept looking weeks passed, then, months i think it s probably the toughest thing about this jo is if it goes on salt for while. you feel like you are letting the family down. yes, exactly. especially families or to stay in contact with you. eric s family was eager for answers. they were not shy about lettin reuven know that he gets, probably, dail phone calls from each one of us he was so patient in jus explaining detective reuven never said to you hey, maybe one of you could call me. no, never you look at your phone, and you don t even want to answe because you have no news it s the same it was last week we think we know who did it, but we can t prove it righ now. may 2013, the one yea anniversary of erik s murder approached frankly, the investigation had come to a standstill
held a gun, if you are far begun. it was simple, they tol her. she murdered eric. it was your gun that killed him, but the scientific fact the question was why. there has to be a reason, there has to be a reason if there isn t a reason, the you re going to go down, i m telling you as the most cold blooded that we have spoke with, because you re so good it s gonna look horrible well, you know, i m jus gonna have my day in court but katrina wouldn t give i up and asked for a lawyer. the detectives put her i lock-up and ruvin steppe outside to call eric s family. i was just like, thank yo guys, they are going to ge this woman getting a conviction wa ultimately the responsibilit of montgomery county state attorney john mccarthy even with the gun which get you an arrest and into the courtroom, this is pretty fa from an ideal case absolutely, to sell this to