. >> reporter: the driver was a 19-year-old named dustin hiroms.ding to the police, hiroms appeared to be high on something, possibly meth. initially he told the police that he'd come to carrollton to get money from his uncle. but seconds later he said he was looking for his stepfather. then he said his stepfather was in jail and that he was really looking for someone else. >> tell me who you are visiting here because now i'm confused. you said uncle, and then you just said -- >> his name is john, okay? >> okay. >> we always called him john, that was it. >> so john's a friend of the family? >> yes, basically. >> reporter: john? that's a name you'll hear later in this story. but at the time it meant nothing to the officers. >> we're not trying to cause no problems, ma'am. >> reporter: the whole thing might have been forgotten except for this. at one point hiroms blurted out that he was a hit man involved in a plot to kill a carrollton woman. at the time it sounded like another craze story from a drug-addled teenager. police looked into it anyway, bu