you all know people who do it or have done it? yeah. right? they understand it s illegal? uh-huh. yeah. but it seemed harmless? yeah. exactly. i mean, it s just it s like, hey, dude, this is a way for you to get some extra beer, you know, on a saturday night. 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
that worked in montana. reporter: but this is america, not germany. aren t you allowed to protect yourself, your home, your family? was even that on trial now? dogma and kaarma were about to collide. coming up this is your house. you defend it as you choose to defend it. he knew that it was a kid coming in his garage. battle lines are drawn. and a revealing recording. and then i heard the kid yelling, no, no, no, no. please. did diren plead for his life? when dateline extra continues.
wasn t diren s fault. i m trying to imagine, did he go to a party and get shot by another kid? was he downtown missoula and got in a scuffle? i didn t understand it. reporter: so what did happen? police on the scene quickly concluded only one person was shot, the intruder mentioned in that 911 call. who got shot? the robber. he s badly injured. okay. so they entered your garage. who shot him? my husband. reporter: and cops quickly learned something those who thought they knew diren well could scarcely imagine. diren wasn t a random, innocent victim. he was apparently the opposite, he was the burglar. someone is trying to break into your car right now. reporter: police were about to hear a story from the man holding the gun that night, a story of terror and a family under siege. and we ve been sketched out. we don t feel safe. i m on edge about everything. coming up they had had their vehicles broke into.
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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. reporter: diren dede would never make it to his 18th birthday. i thought it was a joke. i was, like, there s no way possible. nothing like this has remotely happened to me or kind of anything like in missoula growing up. it was obviously a shock. it was just, like, the last person that would come to my mind, i guess. reporter: diren s soccer coach assumed that whatever happened to his star player, it wasn t diren s fault. i m trying to imagine, did he go to a party and get shot by another kid? was he downtown missoula and got in a scuffle? i didn t understand it.