i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales and this is dateline. he was definitely charismatic. he was the new kid in town, super popular, all about adventure. this kid was like, awesome. he jumped right in th culture. he liked to show off to the girls. they were the neighbors just down the block, of family in fear. they had their vehicles broken into, she was scared. someone had been sneaking into their home and now someon was in their garage. i m sitting there panicking he s coming after me in a flash, it was over that charismatic kid dead o the floor. fits it was terrible, i think i screamed for an hour what happened in that garag that night it was the last person that would come to my mind. a neighbor protecting his home or preparing a trap makes the statement it showtime it is showtime? exactly a teenager, a father, a murder, no one would be th same we were all taken aback welcome to dateline he came to americ
he s coming after me. in a flash, it was over. that charismatic kid dead on the floor. fits it was terrible, i think i screamed for an hour. what happened in that garage that night? it was the last person that would come to my mind. a neighbor protecting his home or preparing a trap? makes the statement it s showtime. it showtime? exactly. a teenager, a father, a murder, no one would be the same. we were all taken aback. welcome to dateline. he came to america as an adventurous exchange student, but he took one risk too many and it cost him his life. was his death a case of a homeowner protecting his family and property? or something far more deliberate. here is josh mankiewicz with deadly exchange. it s a dilemma that confronts every teenager, how to simultaneously fit in with your friends and rebel against everyone else. that two step is made easier by the knowledge, maybe the certainty, that you will live forever. kids do dumb stuff all the ti
that whatever happened to hi star player, it wasn t diren s fault. i m trying to imagine, di he go to a party and get sho by another kid was he downtown missoula and got in a scuffle i didn t understand. so what did happen? police on the scene quickl concluded only one person wa shot, they intruder mentione in that 9-1-1 call who got shot? the robber. he s half injured. okay, so they entered you garage, and who shot him my husband. and cops quickly learne something those who though they knew diren well could scarcely imagine diren wasn t a random innocent victim the young exchange student was the apparent opposite. he was the burglar it s like someone s tryin to break into your car right now. police were about to hear a story from the man holding the gun right that night the story of terror, and a family under siege and we ve been sketched out
first place? to find out the truth, the needed to learn more about their german exchange student. here, again, is josh mankiewic with deadly exchange when he was killed in a neighbor s garage, exchang student diren dede was just to wants the way from returning t his family in germany, the man who shot him said he feared fo his life and from diren s best friend robbie, police warned the teen did enter the garage to steal. as robbie described it, wa diren not the first good i missoula to go sneaking into unlock garages he said the kids were not afte money, credit cards, o valuables. this stuff happened ofte enough that it had a name, garage hopping and the target was usually beer. the reason for garage shopping or garage shopping, i ve heard it called both, was for kids to go in and look for alcoholic beverages that the could easily get and take. until this shooting, that sort of was not on anybody s
sunday morning was less tha an hour old, when the sound of gunshots ricocheted through th prospect neighborhood of missoula, montana. 9-1-1, what are you reporting? a robbery okay, and what s going on somebody had entered into our garage shots were fired someone got shot! a robbery was rare in prospect, and a shooting was unheard of dashcam s captured the chaos a first responders raced to th scene. stop, stop! it was all happening just a few hundred feet from where foreign exchange student diren dede lived with his host family i kind of woke up with start, heard for loud pops bang, bang, bang, fairly close