. >> reporter: this 76 year old valuen tina has gotten used to the gunfire and shelling nearby.lt this house with her mother and has lived here more than 50 years. >> translator: the house will cry for me if i leave. i would feel like i am betraying my home if i go. i will sit here until they bomb me. the house looked at me and sees that i am still alive, and so it lives on too. >> reporter: she talks to her friend who brings her bread every day. there has been no electricity here for months. she has no cellar to hide in. is that firing coming in this direction or going out she nervously asks. she says when her neighbor's house was hit shrapnel from the blast shot through her wall narrowly missing her sister who was lying on her bed. >> translator: sometimes the shrapnel is flying and i think where do i hide? do i stand in the corner or do i stand in the street. they are bombing. sometimes they shell for four to five hours non-stop. >> reporter: virtually every house in the neighborhood has been damaged in the fighting. thousands of families once lived here. now only stray dogs

. >> he struck april 17th at 3:00 in the morning, killing 18-year-old valuen tina, and her fiance, 20parked car in the bay chester section of the bronx. >> we got the shooting back in the bronx. a girl named valentin that but at the scene where that shooting occurred addressed to my supervisor and called himself the son of sam. >> he talks about being possessed by a man he refers to as sam and the man he refers to to as his father if and he said his father requires blood. >> this got people's attention. i think it was the sheer randomness to it. the fact you could be doing something as simple as talking to a friend in a car and someone would come behind you and open fire. it was pretty terrifying. it was frightening. >> i was in charge of the night time operation. task force that wanted to shoot him on site. that was our job, take him out on the street. we flood the streets of new york. >> people died and we're trying to stop it. it is not you. it's everybody. that's all we are trying to do. >> okay. ♪ >> in terms of the victim count, that doesn't place him at the top of the list in t