detective notes clearly indicated karen smith told him she had not seen the shooting. smith was brought to the 79th precinct and interviewed by scarcella, her story changed. now using her real name, she says july smith told him that she saw the shooting and the shooter was derrick hamilton. >> got to union avenue police station is when he had his interrogation and he came in and said, look. i got five witnesses who say they saw you killing him. i think he expected me at that point to say something. again, i had nothing to say because i knew nothing, you know. then he said, well, i don't care whether or not you killed or not. you are going back to prison for your previous crime. you didn't do enough time for that. hamilton would ultimately spend the next it 1 years behind bars but he never stopped claiming that scarcella and the prosecutors who con convicted him twisted the facts in order to put him away, claims that would be the foundation for his fight against the system. >> you can catch the next episode of the system with joe berling jer this sunday. it airs at 9:00

karen smith arrives at work early in the morning at the sunoco gas station and convenience store.nager, it's her job to get the store ready for the day's business. >> he came in and i looked at him. >> smith sits behind the counter waiting for the man to speak. >> he stuck his hands in his pocket and he leaned on the counter, and he had his fist on the counter, and says, you know what i'm here for. >> unfortunately, smith knows exactly what he means. the store has been held up many times, but this frightening experience is caught on the store's surveillance camera. >> the last ten years i was getting robbed like every month. they would come in and stick me up. i'd give them the money and they'd run out. >> smith is surprisingly calm. although she's not 100% sure the man has a gun, she doesn't take any chances. >> so he gave him everything out of the drawer. >> but this robbery isn't like the other hit and run stickups that she's experienced. this guy wants more. >> he wouldn't leave. and he asked me to come from behind the counter. i said, what for? you already got all the money.

smith died two years ago. >> his widow and the friend who was with him when that tragedy struck spoke publicly for the first time. and fox 29's karen> reporter: according to witnesses, brad smith was simply taking a walk on the beach right along the water's edge with his best friend and their two daughters when all of a sudden the beach collapsed. >> walking on sand, next thing i know i'm in the water, and there was nothing underneath me. there was no, new york city sand to push off from. nothing. i'm just swimming and my daughter is on my back and all i could think of i get got to get to shore. >> with his daughter wrapped around his neck scott made it in. little brandy was picked up by a jet skier but nobody could find her father brad. >> i just ran. i mean -- yes. just ran down the beach and the kids were there in the ambulance already, and it was -- it's the move terrible day ever. >> reporter: this is the video of that day two years ago as the coast guard searched in that section of north wildwood's inlet beach. >> the protected i believe is right around here by ordinance. >> reporter: a lawyer shows me on a map exactly where

karen hepp has the the story. >> reporter: according to witnesses brad smith was simply taking a walk on the beach along waters edge with his best friend and their two daughters when all of a sudden beach collapsed. >> walking, on the sand, next thing i know i'm in the water. there was nothing underneath me, there was no sand to push off from, nothing i'm just swimming and my daughter is on my bag and i thought i have to get to shore. >> reporter: with his daughter wrapped around his neck scott made it in. little brandy was pick up by a jet skier but be in could fine her father, brad. >> i just ran. i just ran down the beach and the kids were there and the ambulance, all ready and it is the most terrible day ever. >> reporter: this is video on have that day two years ago as coastguard searched in that section of the north wildwood's inlet beach. >> protect area i believe is right around here by ordinance. >> reporter: lawyers shows me on the map where brad disappear. they said other have died here before. >> this beach needs to be shut down. >> reporter: family is filing this lawsuit, for damage is a begins new jer

smith shortest ace. hopefully that i have right tonight explain this, director of admissions, right to the top. at the inch, karen, welcome. >> welcome, thank you. >> won't they still take the sat test? i mean the test itself, they just don't have to smith the results? >> exactly, student have the option. many students will decide that the test scores in addition to their high school grades, their transcript information, presents the best picture. but for some students they'll say i'm moran a test score, night to provide something additionalment temple option allows them to do that. >> i'm in high school. do i still have to take the sat? >> it depend, we're one of 800 schools that offer test on sean al policy. some student want to broaden that reach. it is a personal decision. when we think about it, at tell it be, and as we explain it to our families and our students, we want them to look at the whole of their academic and make the de us. >> but why not just take it, if it is real a high school, i'll smith it. >> to up them. >> if it stinks i'm not going to. >> again, to me, what's most representative to them. f

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