she was leaving work that evening. and had apparently been shot in the process. do you know where you re hit at? my legs. reporter: the location of the shooting sounded familiar. what s the name of your office? it s healing hands physical therapy. reporter: so did the name of the victim. what s your name? becky sears. reporter: becky sears, the best friend and co-worker of murder victim kay parsons. that is kind of a holy cow moment. this is the same woman next door to this house where there d been a vicious beating. yes. it seemed an odd set of coincidences. so this is the back door of healing hands? this is the back door of the business that we got called to. reporter: as the sergeant pulled up to the scene, he learned becky had been working late on the company payroll. she was heading to her car when she was jumped. apparently when she had turned around, an unknown male subject wearing dark clothes and a white baseball cap rushed out of the bushes at he
who had apparently been the victim of an armed robbery as she was leaving work that evening. and had apparently been shot in the process. do you know where you re hit at? my legs. reporter: the location of the shooting sounded familiar. what s the name of your office? it s healing hands physical therapy. reporter: so did the name of the victim. what s your name? becky sears. reporter: becky sears, the best friend and co-worker of murder victim kay parsons. that is kind of a holy cow moment. this is the same woman next door to this house where there d been a vicious beating. yes. it seemed an odd set of coincidences. so this is the back door of healing hands? this is the back door of the business that we got called to. reporter: as the sergeant pulled up to the scene, he learned becky had been working late on the company payroll. she was heading to her car when she was jumped. apparently when she had turned around, an unknown male subject wearing dark cloth
a vicious beating. yes. it seemed an odd set of coincidences. so this is the back door of healing hands? this is the back door of the business that we got called to. reporter: as the sergeant pulled up to the scene, he learned becky had been working late on the company payroll. she was heading to her car when she was jumped. apparently when she had turned around, an unknown male subject wearing dark clothes and a white baseball cap rushed out of the bushes at her, with a firearm, demanding his money or next time it was going to be her face. reporter: that s when the assailant shot becky in the legs. the subject apparently didn t rob her, didn t take anything from her, but turned around and ran back into the bushes the way that he came. she s not known for doing the night deposits with cash. there s no cash here. exactly. not at this time of night. what s the target, what are you going to get? has to be personal. i would think so. reporter: emts transported becky
reporter: then just 36 hours into the murder investigation another attack, this time a shooting. just ten miles from the crime scene on hot springs drive. 911 . somebody came out from behind the trees and he shot me. reporter: sergeant steven douglas was the investigator dispatched to the scene. my partner and i received a phone call from the road patrol division in reference to a woman who had apparently been the victim of an armed robbery as she was leaving work that evening and had apparently been shot in the process. do you know where you re hit at? my legs. reporter: the location of the shooting sounded familiar. what s the name of your office? it s healing hands physical therapy. reporter: so did the name of the victim. what s your name? becky sears. reporter: becky sears, the best friend and co-worker of murder victim kay parsons. that is kind of a holy cow moment. this is the same woman next door to this house where there d been a vicious beating.
thinkin about? i hate to say, but you know, he just appeared to be in a different type of crowd than we were hangin with. so, you know, he might ve had some issues goin on. reporter: remember, investigators did interview chris right after the attack. they were looking for dirt on his brother michael. do you think your brother did this, or do you think somebody absolutely not. but something about chris struck them as odd. right from the get go, we sit down with christopher and he is trembling. you re sittin here shakin like a dog tryin to crap out persimmon seeds. okay? i understand it s traumatic, but you re extremely overnervous. immediately we ask him, we said, what s wrong? why are you shaking that bad? honest to god, i think i have parkinson s. i always shake like this. parkinson s disease? i was like, christopher, you re 19 years old. that makes no sense. reporter: it was a bizarre little detail they tucked away while they focused on other suspect