daddy won t let anything bad happen to you. so when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters into his own hands. you hear crack, crack, crack. the terror, the bullets. this is like glasses exploding. the crime scene, caught on camera. anybody in the vehicle in bc are. hands it was bad, worse than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in primeval woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened
will protect us. that he won t let anything bad happen to you. so when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters into his own hands. you hear crack, crack, crack. the terror, the bullets. this is like glass is exploding. the crime scene, caught on camera. anybody in the vehicle in bc are. hands it was bad, worse than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, wha
than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
did you have a gun? no. did anybody in the car have a gun? . no did you own a gun? no. the authorities were looking for a gun, they couldn t take his word for. it but neither could they. nor could we ignore one more big discrepancy between lewis s story, and chad s. remember, in his interview chat said he told lewis and his friends when he left the meadow that he was going to get help. i said that i was going to go call the sheriff. but that is not what lewis heard know he said he remembered quite clearly what s their assailant said. just before he got into his truck. he said, if i ever see any one of you, i m going to kill you guys. coming up. police trying to figure out who was telling the truth about the confrontation. i took off after. them i was a leap. ranger and assume that. i think it finally
men did run. they could ve dumped a gun out there somewhere. but they did all run. remember the one shot in the leg. the one congressman documented with his hand stick you knopp, was found bleeding on the menu. he didn t bleed out. he survived. his name is justin lewis smith. and he s about to give his accounts of a july 4th weekend, on a dark and lonely road in the high sierra. coming up. confusion. terror, a very different story, both shots in the dark. the next thing i know, glass is exploding. it s just complete chaos. when dateline