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
radar? no, i have not heard garage hopping. these three friends of dire say they ve never gone garag hopping, but they know all about it you all know people who d it, or have done it? yeah. they understand it s illegal? yeah. but it seemed harmless? yes, exactly, i mean, they re like, hey, do, this is not a way for you to get som extra you know, when you are on saturday night i mean, did you think there was, you know, oh my god, we didn t tell him how dangerou this could be. but no one knew no one would ever, ever there are like, oh, hey don walk into that garage, we ll never know who s gonna shoot you. robbie told police that diren had done it before, bu never taken cash or valuable property he wasn t a criminal. he was a good. he was a kid trying to have fu and feeding the group, doing it, doing what the other guys do trying to be part of the was it really that innocent