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p>> what happened? p>> so much of the story has pchanged. p>> tonight, "20/20" returns to pwhere it all began, and ended. pdid you think there was going to pbe a shootout? p>> no, until they started pshooting. p>> we're putting all the pieces ptogether. pan entire family, telling what pyou've never heard before. pthe victim, painted as a pvillain? p>> people started to wonder, pshould i feel bad for her? p>> there's the animal. pare you happy? p>> reporter: the suspect, no pstranger. phe's their neighbor. pand one of his best friends, who pcracked the case, talking only pto "20/20." p>> this tears me up. p>> reporter: because after ptonight, whatever happened in pvegas doesn't stay in vegas. p>> if this were a movie, it

p>> we're like, what is the pactual story here? p>> reporter: a dangerous pintersection. p>> good evening. pi'm david muir. p>> and i'm elizabeth vargas. pa honk of a horn turned a night pinto a nightmare. p>> for the first time, the eople that were right there are pnow reliving it for "20/20." pbut as we come up on the pone-year anniversary, the pquestion remains. pwas road rage really the cause? phere's debra roberts. p>> reporter: it's a cool pthursday night in america's pfavorite adult playground, las pvegas. pand the strip is already pjumping. pbut across town, near another layground, in a part of vegas pwhere people actually live, a plocal mom is about to put

p44-year-old tammy myers is pgiving her daughter her first pdriving lesson. pat 10:00 p.m. at night? p>> i wanted to go at night, pbecause there's no cars around pyou could hit. p>> reporter: why did you pick pthat area? p>> it's close to home. p>> reporter: so, they go to this pempty parking lot at a nearby phigh school. ptammy and husband bob have pneighborhood. p>> we live in las vegas. pit's a 24-hour town. p>> reporter: bob is on business pin california, a traveling pvendor, selling hats and pevents. pson robert jr. is with him. pthe others, back in vegas.

phere's how crystal says it layed out. pshe takes the wheel, delicately pmaneuvering the car. pthen the lesson moves from the arking lot to the pneighborhood's main streets. p>> we stopped and she pulled pover, and we switched seats. p>> reporter: tammy takes the pwheel. pshe's going at a snail's pace, pwhen suddenly, an impatient pdriver appears. p>> a silver car, he's riding our pbumper. pi honk the horn. p>> reporter: that honk of the phorn, something we've all done, pwould change everything. pyou pull up here. p>> she turns right. pand right about here -- p>> reporter: she says that psilver car suddenly sideswipes pthem. pwho is this guy? p>> i didn't recognize them.

p>> yes, i was really scared. phe gets out of the car. p>> reporter: it's okay. ptake your time. p>> he says i'm going to kill you pand your daughter. p>> reporter: in a panic, crystal psays they flee the scene. pbut what happens next is a uzzle we piece together ptonight. peveryone agrees that sometime pafter 11:00 p.m., two cars go to pthe end of the cul-de-sac where pthe myers live. pand a sedan, in hot pursuit with pa gun. pyou heard the shots? p>> yes. p>> reporter: did you know she phad been hit? p>> yeah, i was screaming, mom's pbeen shot. p>> reporter: brandon remembers prunning to his mother's side as pthe sedan leaves the scene. p>> i was screaming, mom, please pstay here. pstay here. p>> everybody was telling her to

pclosing her eyes. p>> reporter: she's hit in the phead. pbrandon dials 911, and at 11:34, ptammy is rushed to the hospital. pdid you have any idea who had pshot your mom? p>> no. pall i saw was the gunfire. p>> reporter: bob gets fragments pfrom a distraught crystal. p>> she said, there was blood peverywhere, all over mom's head pand face. p>> reporter: he drops peverything, and begins driving phome. phow fast are you driving? p>> 100 miles an hour. p>> reporter: every thought psaturated with concern for his pwife. pit's not until the early morning phours of february 13th, when bob pgets a call from police.

pstarted off as a road rage, they pfollowed your wife home and shot pher. p>> reporter: he begins to call ptv stations, asking for updates pand granting interviews. p>> i'm speechless. pi've been with this woman 25 pyears. p>> reporter: he's now the vocal pspokesperson for the myers pfamily. p>> he called our station and psays, hey, i'm angry about this. phow could someone do this? p>> i didn't want to freeze out pthe media. pyou can't find killers without pthe media's help. p>> reporter: by daybreak, bob parrives and sees his wife's plifeless body. p>> i see my wife. pi said, i'm here, baby. pand i said, it's going to be pokay. pyou know?

pquickly dashed. p>> the main doctor says, she's pnot going to make it. pi told my wife, no matter what pit takes, i'll find out who did pthis to you. pmorning -- p>> i'm right here. pyou know what you did. pcome here. p>> reporter: he stands before pcameras saying there was as many pas three killers in the car. pby the end of the day's news pcycle, here's the official pnarrative. p>> police say three suspects pnearly collided with her green pbuick. p>> reporter: as the buick pbecomes a makeshift memorial, ptammy looks to be just another pvictim in a string of road range pincidents.

ptwo men going at it with a pbaseball bat and a wooden pole. pbut a mom, cut down in her own pdriveway. pbut despite all the attention, pno arrests. pthe next day, february 14th, a pheartbreaking valentine's day. pvegas police release the psecurity video of the sedan pcruising the neighborhood, and pwith it a come posite sketch. pthey say it's crystal's de pdescription of one of the men. p>> as far as we can tell, there pwas no prior contact, they're pcomplete strangers. p>> there's a manhunt, everyone

p>> reporter: that night, an pagonizing moment for bob myers. pat 7:05 p.m., he disconnects his pbeloved wife from the prespirator. p>> she'll never leave my heart, pbut she's gone. pi didn't want my baby to suffer. pbut i didn't want her to go peither. p>> reporter: but you had to do pit. p>> had to. p>> reporter: but before tammy pcan have a funeral, she's about pto be buried. p>> tammy myers went looking for pthe driver. p>> are you happy? p>> reporter: as the story takes pthe first of what will be many psharp turns. pwas the innocent victim really pall that innocent? p>> maybe this isn't what i

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p>> reporter: bob myers holds a pcandle light vigil. pbut now, there's as many pwhispers about shooting victim ptammy myers as facts about her. pjust hours earlier, police pannounce a stunning discovery. p>> the reason i wanted everyone phere was just to clarify some pthings. p>> reporter: a big piece of the pmyers account has been missing. pturns out, between that alleged proad rage incident and the pshootout, myers returned home, pdropped off her daughter, and pinstead of dialing 911, picked pup her son and went back on the proad. p>> she had her son come out and

p>> she got her 22-year-old son pto get his weapon. eople start to wonder, should i pbe feeling bad for her? p>> when the police held a press pconference, saying myers went pback out, they started to think, pmaybe this wasn't what i thought pit was. p>> reporter: suddenly, the pfamily is feeling the burn. pon social media, people began to pturn on your wife and son. pbob is suddenly doing damage pcontrol, insisting this isn't a pvigil for a vigilante. p>> my son is not an animal. phe's a hero in my book. p>> reporter: so, what's pbrendan's story?

pthe road rager was headed to the phouse to make good on his death pthreat. p>> i said, let's call 911. p>> reporter: why did you grab pthe gun? p>> just safety precautions. p>> reporter: brandon takes me on pa drive to relive that night pwith his frightened mom behind pthe wheel. p>> her mouth was open. pshe was terrified. p>> reporter: he pound ints out the pspot where he says his mom and pso pnobody is here. pso, they decide to go home. pbut then, just as they make a pright turn by the junior high pschool, he says they spot a psilver car. p>> it was really right here in

p>> reporter: things would pescalate, leading to the pshootout in the cul-de-sac, with pbrandon and the shooter pexchanging more than 20 rounds. pbut the exact how and who of the pincident still puzzles police. pthat is, until this woman picks pup a phone. pyou called the police? p>> i felt i had to. p>> reporter: were you pconflicted? p>> i still am. p>> reporter: they interview this pwoman, caitlin christian. pfor the first time, she's psharing her story. p>> i was sleeping, and my phone pwas going off the wall. p>> reporter: she says it's her pgood friend erich nowsch. p>> he said, i need to come over. psomething important. p>> reporter: how did he sound? p>> shaken up.

pover, confessing to a shooting pin the neighborhood, saying he pmay have shot a rival drug pdealer. pthen he shows you something. p>> he pulled out his gun and pextra clips for the gun. p>> reporter: extra clips. pnowsch leaves. pthen days later, it hits pcaitlin, he may have been pinvolved in the myers shooting. pyou heard there was a mom of pfour that was killed. pwhat goes through you at that pmoment? p>> how could this happen? pi didn't finish the article pbefore i got up and called the olice. p>> reporter: she makes a pwrenching decision to turn in pher trusting friend. phow did you feel? p>> terrible, but there's always pa right and wrong. p>> reporter: the next day,

pour affiliate is on the scene. p>> we're in the tactical phase, ptrying to take the suspect into pcustody. p>> a very confusing scene, peverybody is arriving on-scene. p>> reporter: one of those parriving, the suspect's mother, pin obvious distress. p>> please! pturn your [ bleep ] phone off. p>> reporter: but questions are pmultiplying. pfor one thing, erich doesn't pdrive, and bears little presemblance to crystal myers' pdescription of the shooter. pand just as bizarre, the plocation of his house. pjust a block away from the pmyers' house. pwe go over the map with dan pabrams.

p>> little do they know, it's a pblock away. p>> you can see his home from my pfront door. p>> reporter: and you walked over pto his front door, really angry. p>> pajamas and all. p>> reporter: you were yelling. p>> oh, i was upset. p>> reporter: bob myers is pdevastated. pand in that moment, his punderstandable grief turns to punforgiving anger. p>> there's the animal. pa block away! pare you happy? pmy wife was the victim. pshe lost her life. pand it was like, they were pmurdering her all over again, prepeatedly, daily. p>> reporter: finally, a pshirtless nowsch surrenders.

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pdrug dealer, known as baby "g." p>> got you water. pall good? p>> mm-hmm. p>> good. p>> reporter: his father pcommitted suicide when he was p10, and lives with his mother. phe may be in need of a four ather pfigure, and the detective is phappy to oblige. pafter some friendly talk -- p>> so, tell me about erich. p>> reporter: the cuffs are off. ptrust building. pand very slowly, the detective pstarts pulling the string. p>> what's this about? p>> you guys think i did psomething. p>> reporter: nowsch says he's no pkiller. pjust a pot ahead

plight up at the park across the pstreet from the school where pmyers was giving the driving plesson. pbut he says on the night of the pmurder, he was hanging out at pthis guy's house. pa local rapper named young pcrane. pthen, talk of weapons. p>> have you ever been in ossession of any handguns, real pguns? p>> yeah. pbut i got rid of it. p>> when? p>> probably a month ago. p>> describe it. p>> reporter: much-needed rotection, nowsch says, because prival drug dealers have been pthreatening him and his family. pan hour later, detectives

pletting him know they've already pblown up his alibi, because pcaitlin has already told them. p>> i knew about that gun you pwere talking about, way before pyou ever told me. p>> this is crazy, dude. p>> it is. peverybody is trying to see you pdo the right thing. pbut everybody realizes, you made pokay? pand the fact that you sought out pkatie to talk to that night, pthat lets me know this was preally bothering you. p>> reporter: he can no longer phandle the weight. p>> come here. ptell me what happened, okay? pget this off your mind. p>> i didn't mean to hit no mom pand bros. p>> so, tell me what happened. ptell me from the beginning, perich. p>> reporter: now, get ready for pnowsch's story, beginning just pafter 10:00 p.m.

parmed and paranoid when he pnotices the buick circling pslowly in the parking lot. p>> she was just following, peverywhere i went, that car was pthere. p>> reporter: he says he was sure psomeone was stalking him. pso, he calls a friend so he can pget away. p>> until i knew this car was out pof sight. p>> reporter: the friend arrives pin a silver audi sedan. pnowsch thinks he's escaped his penemy ies but then they find him pagain. phe tells police something that psurprises them, someone in the pother car was brandishing a gun pat him. p>> so far, you're telling us pthat they were waving a gun. plisten to me. pnobody but you has said that. p>> reporter: and reveals

pgone unreported. phe fires shots at tammy's car, peven before the fatal shooting. p>> i started shooting them. p>> reporter: he says the cars pseparate, and he starts heading phome. pbut as he turns on his street, psuddenly, they're face-to-face. pand nowsch follows that car into pthe cul-de-sac. p>> i thought they were the guys pthat had been threatening me. p>> what did you see when you ulled? p>> i run up to the door. pall i keep thinking, they're pgoing to grab more straps. pi got scared. p>> reporter: after unloading his pgun, nowsch flees the scene, pthinking he protected his pfamily. ponly days later, he realizes he pmay have just destroyed one. pwhat was his reaction when he prealized?

phow did he go from punk kids plooking for me to the life of a pmother? p>> reporter: he saves his pbiggest surprise for last. psaying he knows myers, has eaten pdinner at her table. p>> so you know the family? p>> i know the whole family, man. p>> anything you want to tell the pfamily? p>> i thought they were going to pharm my family out. pnot a family's mom. pnot tammy. p>> reporter: the stunning prelationship is confirmed for pthe first time when bob later paddresses the press. p>> we knew how bad he was, but pwe didn't know this bad. p>> reporter: claiming his wife phad mentored that troubled pyouth. p>> she was really good to him. pshe fed him, gave him money. ptold him to pull his pants up.

pthat you didn't disclose that pyou knew him and then later on, pyou did. p>> because i didn't know. pi didn't know his last name. pi just knew him as erich. p>> reporter: detectives leave phim alone in a room, to call his pmother and say he won't be pcoming home. p>> mom, i love you. pi've already told them peverything. pthe reason i confessed, they pknew everything. p>> reporter: but the case is far pfrom closed. pnowsch won't give up the driver pof the silver sedan. pand claims no knowledge of a rior road rage incident. pand was there a darker side to pthe relationship between the ammy pand her killer? p>> she used to come to the park pand try to purchase things off pof him.

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sanders: i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. p "20/20" continues with a pdangerous intersection. p>> reporter: ten days after the pshooting of tammy myers, a pwide-eyed erich nowsch is pushered into a courtroom for the pfirst time. pan image that brings his friend pcaitlin to tears. pwhat do you see in this shot? p>> just terrified. p>> reporter: he looks the icture of a confused kid here, pdon't you think? p>> yeah. p>> reporter: in court, nowsch is pwith his new defense team. pthey're known around town for ptheir assertive advertising.

pdefense. p>> we're conducting our own pinformation. pand some appear to be bearing pfruit. p>> reporter: they want the pconfession tape to be tossed pout. psaying he had smoked pot, and pwas impaired while making the pstatements. p>> he was high, and the police pknew it. pthat compromises the result. p>> reporter: and they claim the pkilling of myers was justified. p>> the facts seem to point to pself defense in this situation. p>> reporter: do you think erich pshould go to prison as a murder? p>> no. p>> reporter: because she says pfor months, erich was facing a pbarrage of threats from what he

p>> coming through phone calls, ptext messages, saying they were pgoing to skin him, his baby psister, take care of his mom as pwell. p>> reporter: you saw the text pmessages? p>> absolutely. p>> reporter: and he thought they phad come for him the night of pfebruary 12th. p>> in his mind, this was them pcoming at me, this is me rotecting myself. p>> reporter: and she believes pnowsch's claim that he saw psomeone pointing a gun at him, pand he began shooting. pthere's no doubt in your mind, pthat he saw someone wave a gun pat him. p>> no doubt, he felt threatened, pit was him or them. p>> reporter: but brandon says he pdidn't wave his gun.

pheinrich says she has trouble pbelieving them. pwhat was the true relationship pbetween tammy and nowsch? p>> she would come to the park pand try to purchase things off pof him. p>> reporter: heinrich points out pthat they found a painkiller in pmyers' purse. pnowsch never mentioned anything pof the sort in his pinterrogation. pbut the accusations lead to pheadlines that the shootout was pabout dirty drug dealing. p>> the one thing we can ositively say about this, it pwas not about road rage. p>> reporter: and the

pdefense trying to muddy the pwater. pdid anybody in your family ever pbuy drugs from him? p>> definitely not. p>> reporter: some question the pfact that your wife had ainkillers in her purse. p>> she had a prescription for it pfor three years. p>> how do you plead? p>> not guilty. p>> reporter: on march 12th, pnowsch pleads not guilty. pnowsch won't say who was driving pthe car, but cell phone records plead to his buddy, derrick pandrews. pnow they're in a courtroom with

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pjurors will hear next month at ptrial. pthe d.a. thinks he can finally pexplain what happened. p>> there's nothing to support pthat mrs. myers was doing panything other than giving her pdaughter some driving lessons. p>> reporter: but what happened pnext is a series of bizarre, ptragic coincidences. p10:10 p.m., tammy is offering pthat driving lesson to her pdaughter in the parking lot. pby coincidence, nowsch is in a ark across the street. phe's carrying a handgun, and the pweight of the world on his pshoulders, after death threats pfrom rivals. phe apparently misconstrues the

p>> just out for some driving plessons. p>> reporter: 10:50 p.m., after pthe lesson, myers gets back pbehind the wheel and drives phome. p10:56 p.m., a silver sedan asses them. pher daughter slams on the horn. pit's full-on road rage, as the psilver car stops. pthe driver walks out, and says, pi'm going to kill you and come pback for your daughter. pback at the park, nowsch is icked up by friend, derrick pandrews. pcoincidentally, driving a pdifferent sedan.

pdaughter and picks up her son pbrandon, who grabs his pistol. phe happens to be a registered phandgun owner. p>> it's a mistake, but it is pwhat it is. p>> reporter: the search begins. pmom and son take off looking for pthe road rager. pthen they locate him, so they pthink. p>> it was right here in front of pus. p>> reporter: what does she see? p>> those are the ones that pthreatened to kill me and your psister. p>> reporter: a fatal instant of pmistaken identity. p>> she thinks she's found the pcar here. pand it's at that same moment pthat nowsch thinks he's being

pso now, you have both of them pmistakenly pair pmistakenly paranoid about the pother. p>> reporter: then the same exact pgreen buick is spotted, nowsch psurmises he's the one about to pbe attacked. pmoments later, shots fired. pthe first, but not the last time pbullets would fly that night. p>> at that point, the evidence pshows that mr. nowsch raised his pweapon in a threatening manner. p>> i said, mom, we're getting pshot at. pat that point, she's shaking. p>> reporter: he says he didn't phit anybody. p>> this should have been the end pof it. pnowsch has now gotten to pthreaten the drug dealers he pthinks are behind him. pthey've learned their lesson. p>> reporter: both cars speed poff. peach heading home, taking arallel streets.

pblock apart. pand in a cruel twist of fate, pthey wind up on the same street. pthe myers pull into the pcul-de-sac. pandrews follows them in. p>> that's when they got out of pthe car. p>> the minute he follows them pinto the cul-de-sac, he's now pbecome a threat. p>> reporter: what did you think pwas about to happen? pdid you think there was going to pbe a shootout? p>> no, until they started pshooting. peverything was slow motion. pit was weird. p>> reporter: nowsch empties phis .45 and reloads. p>> the evidence shows mr. pnowsch, for stupid reasons, pchose to drive in a neighborhood phe was familiar with, saw two

p>> reporter: the sedan backs paway, and brandon sees his pmother on the ground. pjust seconds more and you would phave both made it into the phouse. p>> yes. p>> there's no evidence to psuggest that brandon or mrs. pmyers did anything to legally rovoke and give mr. nowsch the plegal right to use deadly force. p>> if the prosecutors are right

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plast time on mt. shasta circle. pthey're moving. p>> i catch myself all the time pcalling her. pi sit in my chair, go, hey, pbabe? pnothing comes back. p>> reporter: the quiet pcul-de-sac, once a safe and psecure street for the boys' pfootball fun, will now be premembered for the woman they pcouldn't protect. pthe family has had a book pwritten. pbob will wait until after that pto lay his wife's ashes to rest. p>> everything that was said

pthe ground, i want all the truth pout. pand i think the only way that pwill happen is a trial. p>> she was a nice lady trying to phelp a troubled kid. pthat's what the evidence will pshow, and nothing more. p>> reporter: just this week, panother incident in las vegas pbetween the driver of this truck pand a motorcyclist. pbut brandon didn't need this to pgive peace a chance. pin the wake of his mother's pdeath, he surrendered his istol. p>> the cops have it. pi told them, i don't want it pback. pthey can keep it. p>> reporter: for crystal, the pyoungest myers child, life has pbeen difficult. pthe loss, the scorn, the guilt. pyou saw everything. p>> yeah. pi ask myself, what if we didn't pgo?

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