walking, figuring diren would catch up. that is when, like, i heard someone yelling. you re there. i see you there. something like that. after that just the shots, like, three or four shots. and i just started running. reporter: gunshots in a quiet residential neighborhood. a now-terrified robby ran back home. he was faster than i am. i said, he s probably coming. i was almost sure that he was coming. reporter: 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 911. what are you reporting? a robbery. an urgent call to 911. somebody entered into our garage. shots were fired.
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 and told them maybe crank the music volume down a little bit. reporter: but around midnight, diren was bored, restless and suggested he and robby take a walk. and i was kind of, i m just really tired, diren. he was like, come on. and i was like, okay. reporter: so while kate and randy slept upstairs, robby and diren slipped out the back door for a walk around the neighborhood. they headed up the nearby hill and then turned on to deer canyon road. then, robby says diren suddenly walked off in a different direction, and robby lost sight of him. i was like, he s not coming. i ll continue walking. reporter: robby says he called out to diren, but there was no answer, so he kept
and he must have been in the ambulance. what happened on that quiet street? did diren and robby stumble into a burglary in progress or a violent home invasion? the police asked robby to answer some questions. while kate and randy rushed to the hospital. it wasn t long after we got there that the e.r. 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 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
i mean, did you think to yourself, oh, my god, we didn t tell him how dangerous it could be. but no one knew. no one would be like, hey, don t walk into that garage. you never know if someone is going to shoot you. reporter: robby told police diren 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. reporter: was it really that innocent? true or false. diren was committing a crime. he was. entering somebody else s home, even their garage, that s a crime? yes. even if the door s open? yep. reporter: and if kaarma s life was threatened, he had the right to shoot, didn t he? but as police went over kaarma s story about what happened just before the confrontation, something stood out. when kaarma was describing how his wife first noticed someone was approaching their garage. she s like, showtime. she s lik
montana. 911. what are you reporting? um, a robbery. okay. what s going on? someone entered into our garage. shots were fired. reporter: a robbery was rare in prospect, but a shooting was unheard of. dash cams captured the chaos as first responders raced to the scene. stay to the right. what s the number? stop, stop, stop. it was all happening just a few hundred feet from where foreign exchange student diren dede lived with his host family. i kind of woke up with a start. heard four loud pops, bang, bang, bang, fairly close together. and then a pause. and then another bag. reporter: randy heard the sirens and got out of bed. so i went downstairs, just to make sure i could lay my hands on robby and diren. and he came downstairs with me and he s like, where s diren? and he said he didn t know. he didn t know? and i thought that was kind of weird. and i looked in the rec room, and didn t see diren. and i so i came back to him and i says, what s going on?