but, as detective peay listened, something seemed off. >> just somewhat odd, the story.im, it somewhat changed. >> reporter: then that morning detective peay heard from his colleague chris hendrickson, who'd spent his night talking to those young men. rory mcguire, now in surgery, wasn't able to talk. but the other five, said detective hendrickson, told exactly the same story/ how they stole the solar lights, were chased, tried to surrender and then made a wrong turn. >> rory mcguire didn't know this area that well. and the kids realized after they passed it that they had missed this turn right here that goes down to antelope lake. >> reporter: why antelope lake? because, the men told detective hendrickson, there were cabins there, people, safety. >> that's what they believed. they believed that they would be just a few minutes from safety. >> reporter: but the main thing those young men told detective hendrickson was they did not shoot at chad wallin-reed. in fact, they assured him, they didn't have a gun. did you ask them? did you push them on that? >> oh, i pushed the