the sirens. >> joel lovelien was rushed to an e. r. in the same hospital where he worked as a computer tech. >> then the doctors came in and told me they did everything they could. but that joel was gone. >> 800 miles away in montana, joel's mom and stepfather received the most terrible news parents can hear. >> you raise your children and the things you do to protect them, and somebody in one minute takes his life. like you've stolen my child. >> joel, just 38, left behind not only his family and fiancee but a daughter, alexa, from his first marriage. >> you hear there's an accident. you think that it's something that can be fixed. i went to a hospital thinking not dead. >> later, joel's step dad learned more about the horrible details. >> the grand forks police department called us, they determined that it was a murder. >> who would want to hurt him? >> i don't know. i don't know anybody who had that much hate in their heart to commit a crime like that. >> so, this is just, what, bad luck being in the parking lot at the wrong time? >>