off on his own and then robbie said he heard gunshots. alarmed, randy woke up his wife and the three of them went to deer canyon road. how far away from your house is this? 80 yards, something like that. directly above. it s the next street above ours. so this is a neighbor s house? it s a neighbor s house. when they got there, police stopped them. we were hoping he would walk out, show up and come out the door. i walked up to the police officer and gave them a name and description and she kind of well, well, just wait here for a second. came back and said i think you guys need to go to the hospital and that it wasn t good. and as soon as she said that, i thought, gosh, we just passed an ambulance running up there and he must be in the ambulance.
prospect, but a shooting was unherds of. dash cams captured the chaos as first responders raced to the scene. what s the number? stop, stop. it was all happening just a few hundred feet from where foreign exchange student diran dede lived with his host family. i kind of woke up with a start. heard four loud pops, bang, bang, bang, fairley close together and then a pause and then another bang. randy heard the sirens and got out of bed. so i went downstairs just to make sure i could lay my hands on robbie and diren. and he came down stars with me and he was like, where is diran. he said he didn t know. he didn t know? i thought that was weird. i looked in the rec room so i came back to him and i said, what s going on? where is diren? robbie fessed up. he and diren walked out. he told randy how diren walked
what happened on that quiet street? did diren and robbie stumble into the a burglary in progress or some violent home invasion? the police asked robbie to answer some questions. while cade and randy rushed to the hospital. it wasn t long after we got there that the er doc came out and explained that his wounds were fatal and that he was no longer alive. terrible feeling. it was horrible. i went outside the hospital many times and just screamed. i and i it was we lost our son, too. sorry. when they brought us in to identify his body, it was horrific. looking at his beautiful body no longer complete. it was terrible. i think i screamed for hours.
radar in law enforcement? no. i had not heard garage hopping. no. these three friends of darren s say they had never gone garage hopping, but they know all about it. you all know people who do it or have done? yeah where. they understand it s illegal. yeah. but it seemed harmless. yeah, exactly. i mean, it s just you re, like, hey, dude, this is a way for you to get some extra beer. you know, when you are on a saturday night. i mean, did you think to yourself, you know, oh, my god, we didn t realize how dangerous that could be. but no one knew. no one would ever, ever be, like, hey, don t walk into that garage. you don t know if someone will shoot you. robbie told police that darren had done it before, but never taken cash or valuable property. he wasn t a criminal. he was like a kid. he was a kid trying to have fun and fit in the group, doing what the other guys do. trying to be part of them. was it really that innocent?
to find out the truth they needed to learn more about their german exchange student. here, again, is josh mankomanko with deadly exchange. exchange student darren was just two months away from returning to his family in germany when he was shot in a garage. the man who shot him said he feared for his life and for darren s best friend robbie, police learned the teen did enter the garage to steal. as robbie described it, darren was not the first kid in mizzoula to go sneaking into unlocked garages. he said the kids weren t after money, credit cards, or valuables. this stunt happened often enough that it had a name. garage hopping. the target was usually beer. the reason for garage hopping or garage shopping i ve heard it called both was for kids to go in and look for alcoholic beverages that they could easily get or take. until this shooting, that sort of wasn t on anybody s