the victim, a 17-year-old kid named george collazo and his friend michael sanchez who were walking through parking lot, and two other men walking toward them. according to the police reports, it is a bump. i m the victim going this way. there was a brief confrontation and some smack talk. according to the reports, it was a shorten counter. they walked down here and made a left. the reports showed that the other two men split up. one went to a car while the shooter followed collazo and sanchez down this side street. he said something to george and turned around. something was said. he was shot in the face. right above the lip. after the shooting, the shooter went back down the street, got into the car. the car makes a u-turn and goes south on white plains road. cops and an ambulance arrive within minutes. george collazo was rushed to the
the names michael sanchez and rob davis are about as common as john smith. eventually i find a possible address for robert davis. not in the bronx where george collazo was murdered but a different borough of new york city. we re here to look for rob davis. he lives here next to coney island. we don t know if he s home or even still lives here. we ll just go knock on his door and see if he ll talk to us. it can be nerve-racking when tracking people down. you never know what you can be walking into or what kind of reaction you ll get. but it is something i need to do. especially because of how important robert davis is to this case. as former detective bobby showed me. the official theory of the crime was that george collazo s murder was the result of a random altercation among strangers. the gunman followed them down a
(team sing) safelite repair, safelite replace. talking to a victim s family is always a tough thing to do. i know that contacting them might dredge up horrible memories, but i need to find out more information about george collazo and my search for the truth. also, it is only respectful that they know what i m up to. i find one of george s sisters living in north carolina. i send her an e-mail and then give her a call. hello. it is dan slepian, how are you? she s hesitant to talk on the phone, but says she ll be in new york in a few months and would rather meet then. so we set a date. this is important. i let her know i with like to film our conversation when we do. we set up our cameras in a room in the nbc news offices. and i wait for her to show up.
this murder was happening in new york or he wasn t. we re on our way to the bronx right now to where george collazo was murdered. first i need get details of the crime. i get ahold of some police reports but there is nothing like seeing the crime scene. i like to see where people were standing, what they could see and what they could hear. to help me make sense of it all, i knew who to ask. there s a lot that bobby can help decipher for me. bobby is former homicide detective. he was a cop for 20 years in the south bronx where he took down vicious gangs and locked up killers. all from the same area where this crime happened. i first met bobby in 2002. that s him in the hat. i m the guy to the right with the head phones around my neck. back then i was working for
within minutes. george collazo was rushed to the hospital where attempts to revive him failed. police combed the area for any evidence. they didn t have much to go on. in 1996 it was 1996. 20 years ago. now there are cameras every where. do you see three cameras there? so no video but there were two eyewitnesses. the first, the man walking with the victim. his friend, michael sanchez. the second eyewitness was robert davis. a porter who was sweeping just a few feet away from the shooting. so they take michael sanchez and robert davis to the station house. they ascertain as much as they can from them. both sanchez and davis described the shooter as an hispanic man in his early 20s. at that point you have a physical description. male hispanic and you have your books. each precinct keeps a record