toughness. >> from her. >> from mirabel? >> yeah. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra." i'm tamron hall. thanks for watching. xxx >> he was definitely charismatic. he lived every single day. he knew that it was dangerous but no one ever knew he would die from it. >> he was the new kid in town, super popular, all about adventure. >> this kid was awesome.

>> he jumped right into the culture. >> liked to show off a little bit. >> they were neighbors just down the block, a family in fear. >> they had had their vehicles broke into. she was scared? someone had been sneaking into their homes and now someone was in their garage. >> i was sitting there panicking like he's coming at me. >> in a flash, it was over. >> someone just got shot. >> that charismatic kid, dead on the floor. >> that's terrible. >> what happened in that garage that night. >> it's like the last person that would come to my mind. >> a neighbor protecting his home or parents trapped. >> makes a statement, it's showtime. >> it's showtime? >> exactly. >> a teenager, father, a murder. no one would be the same. >> we were all like taken aback. >> hello and welcome to "dateline" extra. i'm tamron hall. he came to america as an adventurous exchange student.

but he took one risk too many and it cost him his life. the events that unfolded on that fateful night ignited a heated international debate. was his death a case of someone acting in self-defense, a home owner protecting his family and property or something far more deliberate? here's josh mankiewicz with "deadly exchange." >> it's a dilemma that confronts every teenager, how to simultaneously fit in with your friends and rebel against everyone else. that two-step is made a little bit easier, maybe the knowledge or certainty that you will live forever. >> kids do dumb stuff all the time. >> sneaking out at night to meet other teenagers to drink, party or just hang out, that's nothing new. usually teens sneak back home safely. this wasn't one of those times.

>> some kind of joke and i just couldn't believe it really. >> i was freaking out. i was like, it can't be, it can't be. >> it was april 2014 two foreign exchange students living in atlanta slipped out of their home. >> he's barely breathing. >> just minutes later their amazing american adventure came to a sudden tragic end. >> where is he bleeding from? >> everywhere. it's horrific. >> no one ever knew any would die from it. >> it's the worst thing that ever happened to us. >> it all began so differently for him. a dream come true. he was an exchange student from germany, excited to soak up anything and everything american. at 17, he had landed in a special corner of this west, mo zula, montana.

>> he was definitely charismatic. >> three of his closest friends at big sky high school. >> he was way different than the other foreign exchange students that usually come. he was really outspoken and outgoing and he just jumped right into the culture. >> he wanted to do everything there was to do. >> he was a training athlete? it was no coincidence that jay bostrom, the teacher who recruited him to big sky also happened to be the soccer coach. >> no holds bar, just go get it done. when darren played, that's how he played. i think the guys were immedia immediately like, this guy is cool, a bad-ass. >> he's a pretty stocky kid, liked to lay people out. >> he was tough for sure. >> he threw down. >> according to his friends, his soccer skills and his good looks definitely helped him with the

opposite sex. >> he was always talking to the girls. in america and the girls back home in germany. >> the other soccer girls said he would never miss a chance to take his shirt off on the field and they knew he would put on a show for them. >> he lived with parents in a home in missoula. >> he called you mom and dad? >> he did. he really became our son, no doubt about it. >> dieren was more than just a fun kid. he was engaged in the world. >> this was not your typical american teenager, that wants to talk about sports stars and maybe the latest fashion. >> no. >> it's like, so what do you think about the situation in ukraine? >> by the end of the school year in 2014, dieren had a solid

circle of friends and tightest with another exchange student, this oneecuador, robbie. >> we had so many things in common with the same wishes and dreams. >> they were a package. >> you see one you will see the other? >> uh-huh. >> saturday the 26th was no different. the boys spent the evening pl playing video games and li listening to music in their basement. >> i went down about 10:30 or so that night and told them maybe crank the music volume down a little bit. >> around midnight, dieren was bo bored, restless and suggested he and robbie take a walk. >> it was kind of, i'm just really tired. come on. okay. >> so while kate and randy slept upsta upstairs, robbie and dieren s p slipped out the back door for a walk around the neighborhood. they headed up a nearby hill and

then turned on to deer canyon road. then robbie says dieren a walked off in a different direction and robly lost side ght of him. >> i called out to deer r-- dieren. >> he called but no answer and figured he would catch up. >> that is when i heard i see you there and after that just the shots, like three or four shots. i just started running. >> gunshots in a quiet residential neighborhood, a now terrified robbie ran back home. >> he was faster than i am. i said, he's probably coming, i was almost sure that he was coming. >> but dieren 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 from 911. >> somebody entered into our garage. shots were fired. >> and an urgent question. was it dieren? >> it was terrible. i screamed for help. >> no way possible something like this has remotely happened. >> when "dateline extra" contin continues. ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. (dad) she's all yours. (vo) but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. that reminds me... anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea... ...gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day

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inning by sky country. josh margins wits with ""deadly exchange." >> sunday morning was less than an hour old when gunshots ricocheted through the prospect neighborhood of mon zula, montana. >> why are you calling. a robbery. >> what's going on? >> somebody entered into our garage and shots were fired. >> man, somebody just got shot. >> a robbery was rare in prospect. a shooting was unheard of. dashcams captured the chaos as first responders raced to the scene. >> what's the number? >> stop, stop! >> it was all happening a few hundred feet from where foreign exchange student dieren lived with his host family. >> i woke up with a start, four loud pops, bang-bang bang, fairly close together, another pause and bang. >> randy heard the sirens and

got out of bed. >> i went downstairs to make sure i could lay my hands on robbie and dieren. >> he came to the du-- downstaih me and said, where was dieren? >> he said he didn't know. i thought that was weird. i looked in the rec room. i said, what's going on? where's dire ren? >> robbie fessed up. he and dieren sneaked out. he told robbie how he and dieren walked out on his own and then said he heard gunshots. ala alarmed, he woke up his wife and the three of them went to deer canyon road. >> how far away from your house is this? >> 80 yards, the next street above ours. >> this is a neighbor's house? >> a neighbor's house. >> when they got there, the police stopped them. >> we were hoping dieren would walk out and show up and come out the door.

>> i walked up to the police officer, gave him the name and description and that's when she kind of went, well, just wait here for a second. and then came back and said, i think you guys need to go to the hospital. that it wasn't good. as soon as she said that, i thought, gosh, we just passed an ambulance running up there. he must have been in the ambulance. >> what happened on that quiet street? did dieren and robbie stumble into a burglary in progress or some violent home invasion? the police asked robbie to answer some questions. while kate and randy rushed to the hospital. >> it wasn't long after we got there that the er doc came out and explained that his wounds were fatal and that he was no longer alive. >> it was a terrible feeling. >> it was horrible. i went outside the hospital many

times and just screamed. we lost our son, too. 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. >> dieren dede would never make to it his 18th birthday. >> if it was a joke, no way something like this possible happened to me or anything in missoula growing up. it was obviously a shock. >> it was the last person that would come to my mind, i guess. >> dieren's soccer coach assumed whatever happened to his star player, it wasn't dieren'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. >> 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. >> so they entered your garage and who shot him? >> my husband. >> and cops quickly learned something those who thought they knew dieren well could scarcely imagine. dieren wasn't a random innocent victim. the young exchange student was the apparent opposite. he was the burglar. >> looks like somebody was trying to break in your car right now. 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 had been 67ed out, -- sketched out, we don't feel

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welcome back to "dateline extra." a homeowner was telling a terrifying tale of being victimized in his own home, a tale that ended with the death of a german exchange student. now, investigators would try to determine if the homeowner's action were on the right side of the law or if he crossed the line. we return to josh mankiewicz with "deadly exchange." >> a high school exchange student from germany had been shot and killed during an apparent burglary inside neighbor's garage in the quiet town of missoula, montana. now, dieren dede was dead.

>> does that happen a lot here? people shoot burglars in their homes? >> no, it doesn't. >> police detective guy baker had the case. soon, he was interviewing the man who pulled the trigger. >> hi, marcus, i'm the detective. >> the homeowner was marcus and he and his common law wife had just moved to missoula. they were looking for a quiet, seay and kid friendly place to raise their child. police spoke with janel at the scene and recorded their talk with karma at the station. >> what we want to talk about is what happened tonight at your house. >> the couple told investigators the story actually began with a burglary three weeks earlier and then just 10 days after that the burglars returned. >> somebody had trespassed in their vehicles and in their garage, which was unlocked. >> cash, credit cards and a cell phone were taken. the couple filed a police report

but the burglaries remained unsolved. now, marcus said he feared they were being targeted. >> we've pretty much been living in fear and it sucks. to know we're being watched and targeted and knowing how hard it is for you guys to actually catch a burglar with no evidence. >> he said they know longer felt safe in their own home and were terrified they'd been robbed again. >> we had been sketched out and don't feel safe and i'm on edge about everything. neighbors warned them about the string of burglaries and suggest everyone lock their cars and gara garages. >> having somebody burglarize you is a terrible feeling. it does leave people feeling violated and angry. >> yes, i would agree. >> that's not uncommon for people to be upset and extremely vigilant after a burglary? >> i would agree, it's not. >> the more time that passed with the burglars at large, the more fearful marcus and janel

said they became, in part because he was a seasonal firefighter and would have to travel for work soon. leaving mother and child alone for months. >> she was scared that marcus was going to be going off on a seasonal employment here soon. >> so karma told police his wife decided to put together a homemade security system that would warn them if another intruder showed up. >> motion sensor one and motion sensor two. >> she had placed a baby monitor on the east wall of the garage. >> a video baby monitor. >> once the alert sounded due to the motion detector, they could see what the baby monitor could see. >> all of that was connected through a smartphone app, so when the motion sensors were trigger eed an alert would allo them to view live video of their garage. that saturday night, karma said they were trying to relax after putting their son to bed. >> i had recorded the movie

"lincoln." we were watching that. about a third of the way through that, not sure what the time was, it was dark outside. but we went outside and had a smoke in the garage like we always do. we would usually leave the garage door open to air it out. >> but five minutes later an alert from the motion sensors, someone was in the driveway, an intru intruder, perhaps the same one who had targeted them before. these photos are from the home security system. that's dieren entering the garage. marcus carmen says he loadgrabb loaded shotgun he had for protection. >> i'm standing there and i can't tell if it's locked or not. i'm starting to shake at that point, the adrenaline is coming, like, my god, these guys actually came back to the house. carmen said his wife turned back while he went out the front door

and to the garage. >> a few step those front you saw where my truck was parked pretty much with my butt tou touching my grill guard. that's where i stood. she flipped on the light. >> carmen told detectives he was blinded by the sudden light and the only way for the intruder to get away was to go past him. then -- >> i heard something move like a piece of metal hit the cement. either that or a piece of metal hit a piece of metal. it sounded like either a metal wrench being picked up or maybe the axes. >> so marcus carmen says he did the only thing he could to protect himself. >> immediately, i fired high up into the right corner of the garage. here i am, looking at my garage. i think in total four rounds were shot, all directly, one, two, three, four. >> if i live in montana, what

right do i have to shoot someone who has entered my house? >> you have the right to use any force necessary in defense of yourself but no greater force. >> okay. but i mean, this was a burglar who had broken in, you don't know who he is, you know it's somebody you don't knsnoknow any have crossed that invisible line from outdoors to increasdoors a they are by that definition alone a threat to me. >> you have to be able to articulate the threat. >> carmen told investigators there was a real threat. the garage was full of tools the intruder could grab and use against him. >> i imagine an ax flying through the air and hitting me in the skull. >> carmen said he was positive he heard that scraping sound just moments before he fired the shotgun. >> i'm describing the sound when i said it would hit, i'm pict e picturing in my head i am going to die. to earmark cuss carmen tell it

he faced down a threat. it was kill or be killed. that was justifiable homicide. the young soccer star who was by now in the morgue must have had a darker side many didn't see. detectives decided to dig deeper into the lives of dede and the man who shot him. what they learned would only deepen this mystery. coming up. >> true or falls, dieren was committing a crime? >> he was. >> was dieren the only one breaking the law? >> showtime, he said. >> janel makes the statement, it's showtime. >> it's showtime? >> exactly. >> there would be anger and astonishment on both sides. when "dateline" extra continues.

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with donald trump will campaign with him tomorrow. and the president will be at his first joint campaign event for hillary clinton and the president hosted an event for military families thanking them for their service. welcome back to "dateline" extra. i'm tamron hall. homeowner marcus told police he was in fear. his answers raised questions, what really happened in that garage and what was der denden dir den d d dierden dede doing there? >> when he was in that garage, exchange student dede was two months from returning to his family in germany.

the man who shot him said he was fearing from his life. from his best friend, robbie, the police learned the teen did enter the garage to steal. as police called it he was not the first kid in missoula to go sneak into garages. he said the kids weren't after money, credit cards or valuab valuables. this stunt happened often enough it had a name, garage hopping, and the target was usually beer. >> the reason for garage hopping or garage shopping, i've heard it called both, was for kids to go in and look for alcoholic beverages they could easily get and take. >> until this shooting that wasn't on anybody's radar in law enforcement? >> i had not heard garage h hopping, no. >> these three friends of dir den said they had never gone garage hopping but know all about it. >> you all know people who do it or have done it? >> yeah. >> they understand it's illegal? >> yeah. >> but it seemed harmless? >> exactly. like, hey, dude, this is a way for you to get some extra beer

on a saturday night. >> did you think to yourself, my god, we didn't tell him how dangerous that could be? >> no one knew? like, hey, don't walk into that garage, you never know if someone will shoot you. >> robbie told police dieren had done it before but never taken cash or valuable property. >> he wasn't a criminal. he was a kid trying to have fun and doing what the other guys do, trying to be part of them. >> was it really that innocent? >> true or false, dieren was committing a crime? >> he was. >> entering somebody alelse's home, that's a crime? >> yes. >> even if the door's own? >> yes. >> and if his life was threat threatened, he had the right to shoot, didn't he? as police went over carmen's story about what happened before the confrontation, something stood out when he was describing

how his wife first noticed someone was approaching their garage. >> it's like, showtime, i see something, a flashlight. >> he says, janel makes a statement, it's showtime. >> it's showtime? >> exactly. >> suggesting what, they've been getting ready for this all night? >> that sounded like a very interesting statement to me, it's showtime. >> it didn't seem to fit with someone claiming to be terrified in his own home. then he told police he took his time going out to confront the intru intruder. >> i stood up off the couch and slowly walked over towards the front door. she's like, hold on, hold on. >> all of which might make you wonder, with all that time to think, why not stay inside and lock the doors and call police? >> i think the easiest thing that could have been done, once they were aware someone was outside, being alerted by the tones on their phone, to call

911. >> while carmen said he feared for his life, they found no weapon or acts or tool near der den's body. the teenagerer was unarmed. another red flag. carmen said he couldn't see into the garage. cops talked to doctors who treated dieren and examined the shotgun patterns on the garage wall. >> he says he can't see anything yet he's able to track a moving person in the garage and he hits him two out of four times. >> one, two, three, four. >> i didn't believe he's rand randomly shooting from right to left. >> you're thinking to yourself, this does not look like a justifiable shooting? >> no. at this point it's looking like we have a deliberate homicide. >> the county attorney's office agreed, detective baker delivered the news. >> so we just talked to a prosecutor. she wants you to be taken into custody. so that's what's going to happen. >> for what?

>> for homicide. >> what? >> seemingly stunned, karma borrowed the detective's phone to call janel. >> i'm being charged with murder. >> you're kidding? >> no. >> deliberate homicide. >> it's the way the statute r d reads. >> he was pretty surprised. >> he was pretty surprised and very emotional at that point. that's the most i saw marcus be emotional during this whole investigation. >> dieren's host parents had a tangle of emotions as they processed what police said had happened. >> not the kid we knew, wouldn't expect that. >> they were disappointed with dieren's actions but livid with karma's. >> i just got more angry and more angry that that happened. who thinks like that? >> just that why? it was the why at that point? why would someone feel compelled to do this?

>> marcus karma faces a deliberate homicide charge for killing a 17-year-old german exchange student. >> many were outraged a homeowner could be arrested for defending his family and property. kathryn hockey is a crime reporter at the local "missoulian." >> some people were like, of course i could shoot somebody in my home. >> i received a lot of phone calls and a lot of people afraid this would intrude on their own rights to protect their home with a gun and their own gun rights. >> the german press also followed the story closely. their take echoed the thoughts of many in this country, that dieren was the victim of an american cowboy culture that glorified gun violence. >> they were really incredulous that somebody could just shoot somebody for coming into their house, they just didn't understand how that worked in

montana. >> 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 karma were about to collide. coming up -- >> this is your house. you defend it as you choose to defend it. >> he knew it was a kid coming in his garage. >> battle lines are drawn and a revealing recording. >> then i heard the kid yelling, no, no, please. >> did dieren plead for his life when "dateline extra" continues. new one a day with probiotics. your multi with more.

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the night he shot an exchange student he was acting in self-defense, that he had been afraid for his life after a series of burglaries and break-ins. did a phone call tell a different story. was karma afraid or angry and ven vengeful? that question was about to be posed to the jury. josh mankiewicz picks up our story, "deadly exchange." >> eight months after dieren dede's death, marcus karma went on trial for murder. seeking justice for their son, his parents traveled from germany to a courtroom where they were befriended by a same group of friends who had loved their boy. >> a lot of us got a chance to meet his parents when they came for it. they were really really awesome, a lot like dieren. >> his parents watched as the man who shot their son faced the charge of deliberate homicide and the defense team led by attorney paul ryan, that was

outright excessive. >> he was a man who was fearful. >> he laid out a basic narrative, marcus karma, who had twice been victim of burglars, thought he was dealing with another one that was dangerous. >> he thought he was dealing with drug seeking individuals who were erratic and had no idea how they would respond. his attorney said the believed they were armed and ready to attack. >> because he felt his life was threatened by the movement specifically of mr. dede, he had to take the steps unfortunately to take his life. >> the danger of a burglary is when there's a confrontation and they all want to escape and they will do whatever they can to get away. >> the defense said there was no debate over one central fact, dieren dede went into that garage to steal. on the stand, karma's lawyer got dieren's friend, robbie, to admit, that despite warnings,

dieren didn't see much wrong with garage hopping. >> i think dieren never felt like it was crime. >> but you were warning him, you were telling him it wasn't right, it was reckless and dangerous, right? >> yes. i understand but maybe he didn't understand. >> in fact, the defense suggested that dieren was part of a local burglary ring that was stealing more than just beer. and may have been behind the previous break-in at the karma house. >> they all knew each other and all went to big sky. >> defense attorney ryan argued the police never really investigated those burglaries at karma's house and with no arrests, his client was left in a fearful agitated state. a psychiatrist who examined karma diagnosed it as high magnitude stress. >> your body changes dramatically as far as how you're reacting to things. fight or flight. while some people may have retreated or called the police,

he came forward and confronted the individual. >> his body went into fight mode. >> the defense said karma felt threatened in his home and was within his legal rights to shoot under something called the castle doctrine. >> the legislature has made decisions that it should be easier to protect yourself within your house. you may or may not like the castle doctrine. i never asked you to like the law and the judge doesn't either but he says you have to follow the law. >> defense attorney ryan insi insisted marcus karma was guilty of nothing more than protecting his family. >> this is your house. you defend it within your house as you choose to defend it. >> by the time the defense re rested, those closest to dieren dede felt marcus karma's lawyer had redefined what this case was about. >> who dieren was kind of got lost in this, didn't it? >> a lot of what i saw and heard

made him sound like a foreigner who came to stir the pot and make trouble. >> intimate crime? >> yeah. >> to prosecutors andrew paul and jennifer clark, the real criminal in this case was marcus karma, who was plain and simple, a murderer. >> the fact is that the defendant was angry and ven vengeful. he knew that it was a kid coming in his garage. he has his 12 gage in his hand and he waits. >> to counter the defense's suggestion that dieren was part of some ring of thieves targ targeting marcus karma, investigators track down the teens who had hit karma's garage, the ones who took the cash, credit cards, and -- >> he had a bong and a jar of weed and some alcohol. >> did you know a man named dieren dede. not personally, no. >> to the best of your knowledge, was he involved in a burglary ring? >> no. >> did karma really fear for his

life that night? prosecutors said ballistic told the story. the first shot to hit dieren was to the back of his left arm meaning he couldn't have been charging towards marcus karma. >> then he's got to do it one more time, he's got to make that final blow. >> the final shot was straight to the head. but prosecutors weren't done, they had what they thought was explosive evidence. just before the trial began a recording surfaced, made the night of the shooting, of a conversation an officer at the scene had with janel. in it she reveals that just before the final shot, she heard dieren beg for his life. >> then i heard the kid yelling, no, no, no, please! and then by then there was already a shot fired. >> the prosecution said that after the shooting, karma sounded like a man who was proud of himself. >> there's an article online

already and the comments are all in your favor. >> really? >> this is a jailhouse phone call between karma an his wife, talking about the news coverage. >> why is he being charged? this is bull bleep. why has he been arrested? >> tomorrow morning, will you buy 100 copies or something of the paper? >> what did you say, hon? >> dvr, record the local news tonight on tv and keep the newspapers from tomorrow. >> he seemed to be very proud of that fact versus remorseful. >> but was this premeditated murder? the only other witness to the shooting was about to tell her story. coming up, a purse left as bait? >> the purse was -- >> and one more revelation. >> you said he had been sitting up for three nights with the shotgun. >> a hairstylist is about to provide the most hair raising testimony of all, when "dateline

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welcome back to "dateline extra" marcus c car men's defense when he shot an unarmed teenager. through the court of the investigation, witnesses offered details that could paint his actions in a whole new light. now, it was the prosecution's turn to convince the jury that he was a man bent on revenge. here is josh with the conclusion of deadly exchange. >> marcus was on trial for killing an unarmed teenager in his garage. the prosecution was about to argue that not only was the shooting unjustified, it was planned, premeditated murder. to prove it, they put the defendant's wife, janelle on the stand, as a reluctant key witness. janelle told the jury the same thing she and the defendant had said all along, they were living in fear of intruders. >> nearly every day i was like i

was looking over my shoulder all the time. we were very worried all the time. >> why did they leave their garage door wide open on the day of the shooting, especially after they warned their neighbors to keep their garages locked. janelle said they smoked cigarettes in the garage and wanted to air it out. >> i believe that it would be my right to have our garage open and to air it out from the smoke inside. >> the prosecution argued that janelle and her husband left the garage door open on purpose because they were setting a trap. janelle denied it, but admitted she deliberately left a purse in the garage with items in it that could be traced back to her. the prosecution said, that was bait. >> you wanted to catch them? >> the purse was for them to take so they didn't come into the house so when i called the

police and say, here is something traceable. >> so an open door and a purse in plain sight. the prosecutor said janelle and her husband set the stage and then waited and watched so when he walked in, they weren't scared, they were excited. >> it was like show time. >> on the stand, janelle denied saying those words. >> do you remember saying "show time" when you saw that? >> no, i don't remember saying that. >> in court janelle also changed her story about what she heard in the garage that night. now, denying he had been pleading for his life. >> then i heard the kid yelling, no, no, no, no, please. >> my question is was, as you sit here today, you never heard him say the word, no? >> i feel like she didn't do a lot of favors on the witness

stand? >> no, she didn't. >> she, denied saying something that could be played on tape, right? >> janelle talks a lot. and, as a defense attorney that often doesn't work out very well. >> janelle was never charged in the case. why wasn't janelle charged in this? >> her statements to the officer she wanted to catch the burglars and wanted to identify them. >> prosecutors say they had no evidence that she knew her husband was going to harm someone. so what exactly was marcus thinking? prosecutors brought in two witnesses to support the argument that the shooting was nothing short of a planned execution. >> he said he had been sitting up for three nights with a shut gun waiting to kill some f'ing kids. the woman said he came in ranting about his recent burglaries and his chilling plan to fix them. >> i did say to him, oh my gosh, you know, have you called the police? he says, no, the f'ing police

will not do anything about it. and then he had mentioned that he wouldn't mind in a couple did come by because he wouldn't mind shooting a couple. >> he was going to kill them, take care of it. >> did he use those words, take care of it? >> i think it was "fix it". >> do you recall him saying anything else? >> he said i'm not kidding, you're seriously going to see this on the news. >> it's intent to kill. he's announcing it. >> he's telling them, you know, you wait and see, you're going to see this on the news zbh that's a defense attorney's nightmare, is testimony that your client told somebody else, i'm going to commit this crime and then they're later charged with that crime. >> correct. >> as the trial came to an end, his friends gathered to support his visiting parents.

>> there was a huge group of kids who went to the closing statements, we went to support them on those last days. we filled up the seats with, i don't know how many kids. >> tree in front of our house became essentially the memorial for him. and more and more things showed up that -- we felt more and more loved than we probably ever have, they were trying to show support for us. >> jurors had to consider the law and nothing else. here is how the prosecution laid it out. >> the issue in this case, what the defendant believed at the time he shot and killed darren, was not belief reasonable and was the deadly force used necessary. that's your issue. >> jurors went to deliberate and after eight hours over two days, they returned to court. >> we, the jury, find the defendant marcus kendrick car

men guilty. >> the courtroom erupted in applause and in tears. and while they say the verdict was a relief, the parents still feel the raw pain of his death. >> nothing brings darren back, you know, it's just heartbreaking that someone felt compelled to do this. >> would you be host to another foreign exchange student. >> no, my heart is too broken. i couldn't do it. >> two months after the verdict, marcus addressed the family at the sentencing hearing. >> i took a man's life and i'm sorry. i did what i felt was necessary to protect my family and myself. and i hope that no one ever finds themselves in the position that i was in. >> the judge sentenced him to 70 years in prison. >> i almost wish he never said

sorry, it was so empty, his face had no expression. it was scarey, we were taken aback. i was like take it back. there was no meaning in that. >> and they say, garage hopping is no longer popular. >> have attitudes changed about all of that since then? >> of course. >> i haven't heard a thing about it since. >> it's unheard of. >> now it is? >> yeah. >> darren's friends are hoping people will forget the one deadly mistake he made and remember, instead, the bright charming guy they loved. >> you know, you're all pretty young to have to go through this. you feel like this has changed you? >> yeah. >> 100%, yeah. every day you wake up, you think, obviously something like that can happen and you need to like do things that matter. >> life seems a little more precious now. >> he's encouraging us to do a lot of things.

i think he's still pushing us. that's all for this edition of "dateline extra" i'm tam ra hall, thanks for watching. she was a married mother of two. >> there was nothing about her life that would raise any red flags. >> she amazed them all, her whole group of girlfriends at the gym. >> she was totally dedicated. >> heather, turn around. you've gotten smaller. >> a stunning 200-pound weight loss and a whole new life came with it. >> you can see that transformation. you could see the confidence in her. >> then, she was gone, missing at school. >> i