danny bounded up the steps to answer the door. shots rang out. danny was hit. mark was shot in the abdomen. i saw my son holding his chest. i knew he wasn t going to make it. one of the sweetest kids i ve ever met. her husband was rushed to the emergency room for surgery. i was in total shock. you get to call there s been another murder. correct. the man knocked on the door and said are you data and said yes and started shooting. we weren t expecting to link a murder in california to this attack. i thought this is crazy. nobody is safe. i had a feeling they wanted me. this was revenge. that someone would come to my door and take my only child is unfathomable. hello, and welcome to dateline. esther salas was a proud mother. she and her husband just celebrated their son s birthday. as festivities wrapped up, they shared a beautiful moment with love. then hate to shattered everything. investigators questioned if the attack was part of some bigger plot and r
You know, quite frankly is amazing. her dispair from daniel s death was compounded by a horrifying realization. her job as a federal judge was most likely the reason her son was gone. there is a part of me, immediately after everything happened, that i sort of said to myself, you know, did i make the right decision? but then i think about my son and how proud he was. she remembered when she was being considered for the judge ship. curled up in bed with daniel, who was ten at the time, she told him she was unsure if she should take the job. he s like, why, mom? and i said, well, honey, it s going to require a lot of mommy s time. and i just worry about the impact on you. and he says, i get that, mom. i get that. and there was this pause. and then all the sudden he goes,
as law enforcement raced to find her sons killer, judge salas spent those early morning hours at robert wood johnson hospital. the loss of her only child was sinking in. daniel was your everything. he was the center of my universe, our universe, he was everything. was he a mama s boy? [laughs] the biggest moments boy. he and i had a connection that, you know, quite frankly is amazing. her disappear from daniel s death was compounded by a horrifying realization. her job as a federal judge was most likely the reason her son was gone. there is a part of me, immediately after everything happened, that i sort of said to myself, you know, did i make the right decision? but then i think about my son and how proud he was. she remembered when she was being considered for that judge ship.
Of defense attorney. so, although he s represented some individuals accused a very serious crimes, we weren t aware of any that had serious grievances against him. as law enforcement raced to find her sons killer, judge salas spent those early morning hours at robert wood johnson hospital. the loss of her only child was sinking in. daniel was your everything. he was the center of my universe, our universe, he was everything. was he a mama s boy? [laughs] the biggest moments boy. he and i had a connection that, you know, quite frankly is amazing. her disappear from daniel s death was compounded by a horrifying realization. her job as a federal judge was most likely the reason her son was gone. there is a part of me, immediately after everything happened, that i sort of said to myself, you know, did i make the right decision? but then i think about my son
Down killing everyone on board. forced us to come to the conclusion that the flight was deliberately crashed. reporter: the cockpit voice recorder capturing it all. investigators say as the plane hits cruising altitude, the captain asks lubitz to take control, stepping out of the cockpit presumably to use the restroom. the 27-year-old co-pilot switches the plane into autopilot setting off the nearly ten-minute long deadly descent. the pilot frantically knocking on the door pleading to be let back in the cockpit but there s no response. amidst the sound of screaming passengers, andreas lubitz is heard breathing normally until the moment of impact. they are listening to the breathing and considering the pattern they are hearing is with someone who is conscious, alert and doing something they intend to do. reporter: a horrifying realization for families of the