. >> reporter: this was the testimony of rodney scott, the homeowner.e was upstairs, taking a nap. >> if someone gun breaking into my house, i better get a gun. >> reporter: what did you hear? >> the first thing i heard was gunshots. >> fear comes over you, and you don't know if you're going to get hurt or killed. that's when i decided to fire my gun and try to trap them. >> turn around run away from the gun. >> reporter: you were hiding? >> i was shot as i was entering the closet. >> reporter: did you know you were shot? >> i touched my leg and it came up warm. >> reporter: then denzel is slumped next to him, shot in the chest, bleeding heavily. he died in your arms? >> he died in between, we're right there next to him. and just saying i'm sorry over and over again. >> reporter: to whom were you sorry? >> just for it all. >> reporter: what started out as a teenage impulse left one of them dead. that's when his friends called him for help. >> the guy was holding the gun at me. i said i'm sorry and took off. >> reporter: the terrifying news that there ha

scott, thank you. >>> this happened in the 1970s, but the investigation is now heating up. the gypsy hill murders. prosecutors say 66-year-old rodney howbauer was linked by dna testing. he was extradited from a prison in oregon last week to face charges in the rape and murders of paula baxter and veronica castillo. this was in 1976. it was on the peninsula. both girls were stabbed to death. he is also suspected of killing three other young women that same year. but officials have not been able to find enough dna evidence to link those cases. >>> new details are emerging about the incredible crash landing of a plane in the pacific ocean. the plane took off from northern california this weekend and was on its way to hawaii when it ran out of fuel. the whole thing caught on video. the pilot survives. nbc bay area's kimberly tere is live in tracy where the plane took off from. kimberly? >> reporter: janelle, that's right. the plane took off right here from tracy from the airport here and was headed to hawaii. and then something went terribly wrong, and the pilot crash landed the plane about 250 miles off the coast of maui. pilots acros

scott. >> thank you very much christina. the man who is charged with brutally killing two bay area women nearly 40 years ago is expected in a peninsula courtroom today. police say dna connects rodney howbauer to those murders. the decades old crimes became known as the gypsy hill murders. he was dna tested in an oregon prison where he was already serving time for an attempted murder. those tests linked him to the stabbing deaths of these two teenage girls in 1976. he's also suspected of killing three other young women that same year. >>> former oakland athletic ted lily is now faceing felony charges. lily allegedly filed false insurance claims last year after he damaged a recreational vehicle. prosecutors say lily damaged an rv on march 19th but purchased insurance for the vehicle march 24th then reportedly filed a claim march 28th. prosecutors filed three felony charges against lily. if convicted he could face five years in jail. >>> one east bay mayor is taking matters into his own hands to make a local park safe for kids again. starting today, boyd memorial park will be closed for 30 days. the city's mayor is calling for that closure to address health and security issues at the