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
together, and then pause, an then another bank. randy heard the sirens an got out of bed so, i went downstairs jus to make sure i could lay m hands on robbie and diren. and he came downstairs with me, and he was like, where i diren? he said he did not know he didn t know? i thought that was kind o weird. and i looked in the rec room and didn t see diren, so i cam back to him and said, what s going on where is diren robby fest up hey and diren had sneaked out. he told randi and diren ha walked on their own. the three of them went to th road how far away from your house i this 80 yards, something lik that, directly above it is just the next street directly above ours. this was the neighbor s house? the neighbor s house. but when they got there, th police stopped them. we were just hoping diren w
really tired, come on, okay. so while kate and randy slept upstairs, robbie and him slipped out the back door for walk around the neighborhood they headed up the nearby hill and then turned to this road then robbie said he walked int a different direction, robbi lost sight of him. i said he is not coming, continued walking. robbie said he called out to diren dede, so he kept walking figuring out diren dede woul catch up that is when i heard someon yelling, you re there, i see you there, something like that after that just the shots. like three or four shots i started running. gunshots in a quite residential neighborhood and now terrified robbie ran back home. he was faster than i am, said he is probably coming
just walk out somewhere, you know, show up and come out the door okay around the back i walked up to the police officer, gave him a name in th description, and that s when she kind of went, well, wait here for a second, and the came back, and said i think yo guys need to go to hospital an that wasn t good and as soon as she said that, thought, gosh, we just passe an ambulance warning up there, and he must have been in the ambulance. what happened on that quiet street did diren and robbie stumble into a burglary in process, or some violent home invasion the police asked robbie to answer some questions. while caden and randy rushed t the hospital it wasn t long after we got there that the our doctor came out and explained that his wounds were fatal, and it wa