craig melvin: he looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. he was in bed. his head was on a pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. craig melvin: the first guess was suicide, but there was no gun on the scene. hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. that s correct. craig melvin: and this was a man who had everything to live for. eric loved life. craig melvin: he loved his family and women, too, many women. did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers to question. craig melvin: no sign of a break-in either. someone either had to have a key or have been let in by eric. craig melvin: so it must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a .380 handgun. josh mankiewicz: that s the same kind of gun that killed eric. the same kind of gun. craig melvin: everybody loved him. so who killed him? we knew in our hearts that this murder was going to be solved. we believed that justice was going to be served f
Because i was thinking, why is he here? katrina told them how uneas she felt with the dealer in th apartment. it was just a littl uncomfortable, he just seemed little weird so i just around five a.m., katrina said she got out o there. she said the guy, then, jus came up to her as she wa leaving and basically pushed her out of the door. based on katrina s account, police believe eric was killed sometime in the early mornin hours of june 5th 2012 reuven brought in the dealer for questioning. a man named william would fork he was like, i have no idea who that is, never met him before did you believe him now, i knew erik called him and katrina s story tied him t eric reuven hammered away it would force for hours, finally getting him to admit he sold eric marijuana the night of th murder but the dealer bulked when reuven asked why he later went
Over to erik s and he was like, what are you talking about? he was so adamant about no even knowing where eric lives. i m a we dealer, a motto delivery men, i don t deliver, people come to me. detective reuven wasn t about to take a drug dealer at his word we got a search warrant for his place and we recovered a safe from his apartment, and inside a safe was a three 80 handgun. and it s like, did he lie, tha the murder weapon. it s the same kind of gun it s the same kind of gun the gun was sent to the firearms lab as reuven check t see if he could prove that william would fork wasn ericsson part mint would force dna an fingerprints were not on the door or anywhere else. you look at a security tape was he on their anywhere then, the test came back on the dealers three 80 it was not the gun that killed eric, it was the same