matt s funeral service, as that days program explained, was intended to remember the joy, the laughter, the smiles. and no one would forget on that sad day, matt was also a rocker. matt was a drummer, but he had an acoustic guitar, he would always start stairway to heaven. and it seemed like, they were times, you ve grown a little bit more, learned a little bit more of it, taught himself to do it. and we asked the priest, father, i know this is unusual. but i said, if you have anyone who could play stairway to heaven, that would be beautiful. he said, let me see what i can do. so he came up with a group of musicians to honor matt with a song that he loved, about a symbolic stairway, that he climbed way too soon.
couldn t police put the puzzle together? a race against the clock, a family s most desperate hour. i said, i will do whatever i. can can they unravel this mystery in time? don t you understand? every minute counts. hello, welcome to dateline. insistently of young dreams interrupted. a talented drummer, who is aiming for a rock and roll stardom, suddenly disappeared. his parents immediately since he was in danger, and they were forced into a race to find him in time. here s dennis murphy, with taken. matt landrieu, from the detroit suburbs was just a regular guy. kid who delivered the pizza, travel the world on a skateboard, and cracked up his friends with jackass tile
medical examiner through dental workers. the determined cause of death was a single gunshot to the back of the head. already under arrest and now charged with a fresh crime, killing matt, was a man known on the streets as ihop. he had given police the phony name, guile, but his fingerprints revealed him to be 17-year-old ihab masalmani. born in this country? no, born in libya. his attorney, joseph cause mullet says ihab masalmani came to michigan to live with relatives, who according to juvenile court records, neglected him. he then entered the states child welfare system, and it did not go well. fleeing foster homes for a life, and detroit s gangrened thief side. my job here is to make sure he gets the best, fair trial he can get. state your name for the record. ihab masalmani. he faced a slew of charges, including murder, kidnapping, carjacking in the matt landry
officers arrive, the karen officers arrived, the car in question was gone. question was gone, they weren t and they were not sure sure what they exactly what it was they had to write up. had to write up. the the incident at the quiz incident at the quiznos, knows when largely went largely unnoticed, until unnoticed. so matt sister got tip matt s sister to it by, was a friend online. tipped off by a friend so now you online. then, you are a lot of have a lot of that information introduced bad information at your puzzle? i just disposal, right? felt sick when i i felt sick when showed him on the facebook i showed my mom the facebook message, and it said message and then says carjacking at the quiz carjacking at a quiznos. knows. as soon as she said quiznos, as soon as she said quiz knows, i i said, said, that was that was the the last place that matt used his last place mathews s debit card debit card, , other than the atm. other than the atm. he s got a by the you got him ne
abandon houses in detroit that area gangs called home. i am pleading to the mayor of detroit, that area needs to be cleaned up. it s nothing but a garbage pit. there are thousands of houses in detroit that are abandoned. that they live in. just knock them down? flatten them. in fact, in 2010, the detroit mayor started a project to do just that. the house where matt s body has been found was demolished. ihab masalmani was convicted of first degree murder, kidnapping and carjacking, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. robert taylor was also convicted of murder, and he was also serving a life sentence without parole. both have appealed their sentences. it took literally one second, one second to end matthew s life. and, in that one second, that has literally turned our family upside down.