he s coming after me. in a flash, it was over. that charismatic kid dead on the floor. fits it was terrible, i think i screamed for an hour. what happened in that garage 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 s showtime. it showtime? exactly. a teenager, a father, a murder, no one would be the same. we were all taken aback. welcome to dateline. he came to america as an adventurous exchange student, but he took one risk too many and it cost him his life. was his death a case of a homeowner protecting his family and property? or something far more deliberate. here is josh mankiewicz with deadly exchange. it s a dilemma that confronts every teenager, how to simultaneously fit in with your friends and rebel against everyone else. that two step is made easier by the knowledge, maybe the certainty, that you will live forever. kids do dumb stuff all the ti
a robbery was rare in prospect, but a shooting was unheard of. dashcam s captured the chaos of first responders racing to the scene. stop! it was all happening just a few hundred feet from where foreign exchange student diren dede lived with his host family. i woke up with a start, heard for loud pops, fairly close together and a pause and another bang. randi heard the sirens and got out of bed. i went downstairs to make sure i could lay my hands on robbie and diren. he came downstairs with me and said where is diren? he said he did not know. he didn t know? i thought that was weird. i looked into the room and didn t see diren, and i came back to him and said what is going on?
no different, the boys spent the evening playing video games and listening to music in randy and kate s basement. i went down, 10:30 or so that night, told them crank the music volume down a little bit. but around midnight, he was bored, restless and suggested he and robbie take a walk. and i was kind of like, i m really tired, come on, okay. so while kate and randy slept upstairs, robbie and him slipped out the back door for a walk around the neighborhood. they headed up the nearby hill and then turned to this road. then robbie said he walked into a different direction, robbie lost sight of him. i said he is not coming, i continued walking. robbie said he called out to diren dede, so he kept walking figuring out diren dede would catch up. that is when i heard someone
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, i said he is probably coming. i was sure that he was coming. but diren wouldn t return and what happened to the german exchange student would simultaneously make headlines around the world, and get americans asking, how far can you go to protect your home and family? coming up. 9-1-1, what are you reporting? a robbery. an urgent call to 9-1-1. somebody entered into our garage. shots were fired. when dateline continues. when dateline continues
committee, they quote wanted her to do the right thing in her interviews, it was initially shown anonymously during the hearings on tuesday. now back to dateline. teline welcome back. i m craig melvin. homeowner marcus carmen told police that he was living in a state of fear. his answers raised more questions. what really happened in that garage? and, what was he doing there in the first place? to find out the truth, they needed to learn more about their german exchange student. here, again, is make a wets. when he was killed in a neighbor s barrage, exchange student diren dede was just two months away from returning to his family in germany, men who shot and said he feared for his life. robbie, they did enter the