nowhere in the search for motive or the weapon tha killed him and then, a break. one of those women offered up tip, a pot dealer. but wouldn t leave police to the smoking gun they saw, back with, while he was sleeping, here s josh mankiewicz detective dimitri roo reuven has worked a lot of homicides. but the death of eric somouh angered him more than most he was just sleeping. to kill somebody while they ar sleeping is just, it s horrible eric s sisters were gratefu to have someone as committed a reuven working their brother s case he is a phenomena investigator and now, just days afte eric was murdered, it looked a if detective reuven might give the family some resolution one of eric s lovers, katrin vann, handed the investigators a new suspect. eric spot dealer it didn t make sense to m
craig melvin: he looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. he was in bed. his head was on a pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. craig melvin: the first guess was suicide, but there was no gun on the scene. hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. that s correct. craig melvin: and this was a man who had everything to live for. eric loved life. craig melvin: he loved his family and women, too, many women. did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers to question. craig melvin: no sign of a break-in either. someone either had to have a key or have been let in by eric. craig melvin: so it must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a .380 handgun. josh mankiewicz: that s the same kind of gun that killed eric. the same kind of gun. craig melvin: everybody loved him.
that young men liked to brag about to one another. call it the good life, the lush life, the fast lane. it s a world without too many rules, one in which you get close in a hurry to a lot of people you don t know too well. and it was perfect for eric. living just outside the nation s capital, eric somuah was not only living the american dream. he was selling it, too. the son of immigrants from ghana, eric was a top salesman, delivering luxury cars and the fantasies that come with them at this jaguar dealership in bethesda, maryland. he was focused and motivated to be the best. and he turned out to be our number one salesperson. josh mankiewicz: this was the guy who could sell ice in alaska. - right. - oh yeah. right. i tell him that, eric, you could sell anything. josh mankiewicz: eric s older sisters, suzy and cynthia,
wow. i mean, that s not like eric at all heard that he hadn t showed up not to show up for work. for work wow, i mean that s not lik eric it all, not to shop for work as his sister cynthia and other family members arrived a eric somouh building, thei fear level was off the charts. they stood vigil in the lobb as police went up to eric si floor apartment. would you think thi happened i was trying to figure out, where had he gone? his sister susie was stil on the way when cynthia got he answer the police have been i ericsson parliament. when the captain came and gently placed his hand on my arm and said that, ma am, i sorry, it s look like your brother has taken his wife live, i was raging with screams, i said there s no way, there s no way he took his life. eric loved life
over to erik s and he was like, what are you talking about? he was so adamant about no even knowing where eric lives. i m a we dealer, a motto delivery men, i don t deliver, people come to me. detective reuven wasn t about to take a drug dealer at his word we got a search warrant for his place and we recovered a safe from his apartment, and inside a safe was a three 80 handgun. and it s like, did he lie, tha the murder weapon. it s the same kind of gun it s the same kind of gun the gun was sent to the firearms lab as reuven check t see if he could prove that william would fork wasn ericsson part mint would force dna an fingerprints were not on the door or anywhere else. you look at a security tape was he on their anywhere then, the test came back on the dealers three 80 it was not the gun that killed eric, it was the same