Everything stops around you. Everything. So youre in the second floor of the building. Tonight, recordings in real time from the crime scene. Unprovoked, hit in the face. From the interrogation room. To the courtroom. He was bullied, threatened, and attacked. With that gun in his hand, he was the most deadly person in sight. But was it self defense, or retaliation. You have been portrayed as a bunch of bullies. Everybody was hammered. What will the jury decide . What would you do . A chance encounter. Good evening. Im elizabeth vargas. David is away on assignment. When you were shopping around for colleges, you maybe thought about the schools academics, athletics, maybe even alcohol policy. But you probably didnt think about whether or not guns are allowed on campus. Tonight, one family says they wish they had, because it resulted in death, and a murder trial, with a new one scheduled for next month. Heres matt gutman. Reporter its motto is, the world looks different from here. And it does. Northern Arizona University sits 7,000 feet in the air. Surrounded by the snowcapped San Francisco peaks and a Ponderosa Pine forest here in flagstaff, arizona. Plenty of wide open spaces, for any kid looking to strike out on his own. Theres so much to do. You have sedona and the grand canyon. The mountains. Flagstaff is really homey if you will. Its got a comfortable, welcoming feel to it. Nau, same thing. I mean, flagstaff and nau, theyre not separate. Its just all one big community. Nau is one of three state schools in arizona. Its got about 20,000 students, but it has a very closeknit feel among the students on campus. Reporter one of those students who arrives as a freshman in the fall of 2013 is 18yearold colin brough. Here to study business. And how did he come to choose nau . He applied to csu, boulder and nau. And nau was the furthest away so thats why he picked that one. Because he wanted to be away from home, and just wanted to be on his own. Independent. Reporter claudia and doug drop him off, 10 1 2 hours away from their colorado home. Sure he will be safe. Looking around this campus, can you tell why he liked it so much . Well its a great community. Its a beautiful community. Reporter at first, it seems colin is suffering from the alltoo familiar Fall Freshman blues. He would always kid me, im not going to be homesick. I cant wait to go. Two months later, i think i made a mistake. I want to come home. Reporter but the jitters start to fade once colin begins making friends. Like fellow freshman nick piring. We became random roommates freshman year in the dorms. I met his family the first day, just became really close right off the bat. Reporter would you say hes your best friend . One of my best friends, for sure. We ended up rushing the fraternity second semester. Reporter kyle zientek also meets colin at that fraternity. Well, youre smiling, youre grinning, so. Just thinking about just the kids like heart, honestly. The smirk that he always had too just was, i dont know. That kid had something just about him. Reporter the boys join the Delta Chi Fraternity at nau. A school where greek life is big on campus. The people, the programs and of course the parties. Parties like this one, shot by an nau student. Thats the part that worries colins parents. What was your impression . I kept thinking, like animal house. cause thats all i really knew. Reporter that paints a picture. I wasnt happy about it. But i told him he could make those decisions. Reporter and that was your whole philosophy bringing up the kids, right . When youre in my house im going to take care of you, youre going to be safe, but when you go off to college. Youre going to explore, make choices that youre going to live by. Reporter by sophomore year colin and his friend nick move offcampus to this apartment complex known as the courtyard. Its a popular spot for delta chi, housing several of their Fraternity Brothers and is conveniently located just across the street from nau. We had the whole little courtyard so we could go out there, maybe, you know, just get together, play some beer games or something. It had sort of a reputation at the time for being a place to party and hang out. Police were often visiting the courtyard, getting noise complaints, getting complaints of students drinking. Reporter were you concerned that colin would go off to college and start just partying his face off . I was always concerned about that and of course i didnt like it. But i knew in the end he would get it out. Reporter but before he would get the opportunity to do that, Tragedy Strikes on campus. Nau has been in existence for 118 years, and for 116 of those years there had never been a shooting on campus. That changed on the night of october 9th, 2015. Reporter the night starts out like so many others, with a party at the courtyard. What are you guys doing that night . Were just hanging out. Just a couple people drinking, its thursday night. It wasnt anything crazy. Reporter do you guys even know what started everything . No, no, i dont know what happened and how it started. Reporter around 1 00 a. M. Nick and kyle along with several other people at the party say they hear what sounds like an argument going on in front of the courtyard. It wasnt a memorable night. Reporter zach volpo and nick pletke are also delta chi brothers who are at the party that night. Theres a verbal confrontation going on on the street. All of the sudden i see the group move into the parking lot, and then thats when i saw the flashlight flick on. Reporter do you remember ever seeing the gun . I remember seeing a light. I thought it was, Security Guard or a cop or something. Had no idea. I look down for a second, either at and all of the sudden i hear three, four loud, really, really loud bangs. I thought it was fireworks or something. Reporter zach runs across the street into the nau parking lot and hes horrified. Colin brough and nick piring are down. Both of them bleeding on the ground. Each of them shot twice. I was in so much shock, i had no idea. And so i saw a puddle of blood next to me. The only person i didnt recognize was the one standing, and i realized that he was the gunman. Immediately turned around, book it back, try to find some cover. I saw this blinding light, it kind of clicked with me that somethings not right. Reporter the shooter fires off several more rounds. This time hitting delta chi brother nick prato and kyle zientek. How do you get shot in the back . I turned around when i saw that light. Next thing i know, like, on the ground and its just, its like all numb. Reporter when we come back, how did a College Party turn into a war zone . As police arrive, they confront the teenage shooter. Body cameras capturing all the action. Can i call my mom . 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And nick piring is shot in the shoulder and the hip. I could see colin from where i was, and i was yelling 911, like, someone call 911. The parking lot where the shooting took place, theres a dormitory that overlooks it, and a lot of people had their windows open, so they could hear what was happening. Reporter so you are second floor up, second window in right there . Yes. Reporter okay, i mean thats as close as you can get. Thats within spitting distance. The gunshots were pretty apparent. Reporter miqui scollard, a sophomore at nau, jumps from her bed and runs down to the parking lot into a crowd she doesnt know with bullets still flying. You begin to see people on the ground here. Yes, and the first person i see is nick. Hes laying here and im like, where are you hit . Like where are you hurting and hes like my shoulder. I see his shirt, and hes got a pretty big bullet wound there so i put my left arm, my left palm on his shoulder. Reporter what miqui doesnt realize is that at this moment the shooter is still on the scene, right behind her. And before you know it there was more gunshots. Reporter so you literally administering firstaid to somebody who had been shot . Yes. Reporter and then you heard gunshots behind you . And i hear gunshots again and i said, hes still shooting. Dont move, dont scream. Reporter thats when the two Fraternity Brothers nick prato and kyle zientek were hit. Afterwards i remember looking to my left and the boys that i now know from the shooting were screaming, stop shooting stop shooting i remember one saying, he dropped the gun. He dropped the gun. Before you knew it, we had officers on all of us with guns in our faces. Code three. Reporter nau police begin arriving with body cameras rolling. Every second of the aftermath is caught on tape. Check that kid back there. Multiple victims. I am going to need three or four ambulances at least. Reporter this video shows the chaos still unfolding, the young boys bleeding, lying shot on the ground. Miqui scollard applying pressure to nick pirings wounds. And on the other side right there, a quick glimpse of frantic 18 yearold on the ground, but this one is being handcuffed. Turn around, on the ground, on the ground. Please go help them officer, please. Please. Please go help them, im so sorry, please. Please go help them. Help me. Im so scared. I have one detained. He identified himself as the shooter. Reporter the hysterical student on that body cam is nau freshman steven jones. He had only been on campus a few weeks. Im so scared. I want my mom. Is your name steven . Yes, sir. Have a seat. Its just a very, very raw moment which obviously he probably doesnt know hes being recorded. I have the suspect in the back of my car right there. You identified yourself to me as the only, as the shooter. Theres nobody else involved . No, nobody but me. I take all responsibility. Okay. Reporter officers begin securing the scene, searching through the nearby dorm, outside paramedics work to save the four badly injured College Students. I was just looking up in, into the sky. Just screaming at the sky. Reporter what were you able to see . I could just see colin like in the rocks at that point and just unconscious. I remember yelling at the paramedics to go help him. I guess there was nothing they could do for him. Reporter 20yearold colin brough lay dead on the ground. While his three Fraternity Brothers are raced to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. But in the back of that squad car the suspect steven jones isnt acting like a deranged rampage shooter, more like a distraught kid. Oh, my god. Reporter repeatedly begging for his mom. Im so scared. Can i call my mom . Well call your mom for you. We just got to figure all this stuff out first. Stand by real quick. Reporter 500 miles away in colorado, another mother and father are about to get devastating news. We really never talk about that day together. Reporter even to each other . Mmmm. Our youngest, doug, came down and he had gotten a text that theres a shooting at nau. First thing i did was text him. Reporter what time is this . 6 23 in the morning. Reporter you remember the exact time of day. Yeah. I called the flagstaff police, and they said the nau police were handling it. So i got to the nau person that was handling it and she told me colin had passed. It was just like a bad dream and i kept thinking, this isnt real. Like, this isnt this cant be. Reporter and then whats your next move . Do you try to fly right away to flagstaff . You dont move. You yeah. You dont move. Everything stops around you. Everything. Reporter while claudia and doug brough descend into a paralysis of pain, the community of flagstaff is reeling, trying to understand how this could happen here and why. Did you know at the time, that night, that it was a student . No. Reporter that had done the shooting . 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This was different. Reporter the shooter is 18yearold steven jones. He identified himself to police at the scene. He had only been on campus about three weeks. School had just started. Hed grown up in a middle class family, suburb of phoenix, homeschooled by his mother, was having some trouble apparently adjusting to college but was just beginning to make some friends. Just have a seat over there in that chair. Reporter the distraught teenager is led into a tiny interrogation room, still handcuffed. Can you put my hair out of my face, please . Reporter shaken. And when hes finally able to see the blood on his hands, horror at what they have allegedly done. Put your hands together like this. There we go. Perfect. Tight. What happened tonight . I dont think i should answer that without calling my dad first. Reporter at first reluctant, steven begins to describe a night that started out pretty tamely. He and some friends at another students place off campus. There were girls and the video game guitar hero. Did you guys imbibe on any alcoholic beverages . The girls were. They had beers. I had a sip of my friends beer but i knew that i was driving and i couldnt afford to. Reporter jones says after about a half an hour, he and three of his freshmen buddies jacob, shay, and hunter, want to head back to campus. They start walking towards jones red mustang parked in that lot across the street from the courtyard, where that frat party by now is in full swing. But along the way, jones says, they lose track of their friend hunter. So the three freshmen are walking down here. I went back to the scene with retired Dallas Police chief and abc news consultant david brown. They lost a friend, and they go knocking on that door. It seems pretty innocent to me. 10 or 12 dudes came out. And they started like, like talking [ bleep ], get the [ bleep ] off our porch, and then we were, we just decided to turn around and walk away. Reporter theres one person who seems to be the lead aggressor, at least verbally. Colin bough, is what witnesses are saying, is kind of the leader of the pack. What were they saying . Going to kill you, you [ bleep ], like, i bet you couldnt fight, go back to the freshman dorms. They were obviously very drunk. Reporter toxicology reports will later prove that colin brough was in fact very drunk. More than three times the legal limit, and he also tested positive for marijuana and for xanax. These guys are retreating. Theyre backing up. And it gets uglier and uglier. Until somewhere around here, this is where everything changes. Right. Steven jones gets coldcocked, unprovoked, hit in the face. He just [ bleep ] rocked my world, like, i have no idea what was going on, my glasses fell off. I could barely see. Reporter now, its not clear who did throw that punch, but eyewitnesses all later confirm that it was not colin brough. A reasonable person might think, yes, i might be seriously injured now. And so now, im taking off, running toward my car, trying to get away. Reporter and thats exactly what he does. Jones tells police that as he retreats towards his red mustang, he is pursued, chased into the parking lot. Police ask him to draw a map of his movements. When i started running from here they were right behind me. I thought i was going to die. Now, your perceptions may be offkilter because youve just been cold cocked. Maybe you think people are closer than they are. Maybe youre hearing noises louder than they really are. It can be that extreme when youre in fight or flight mode. Reporter although he is able to get the doors unlocked, steven says in his panic he cant find his other key to put in the cars ignition. And thats the moment, jones says, when he opens the glove compartment, pulls out his glock. 22 handgun and gets out of the car. I turned on the flashlight and pointed it at them and said i have a gun, dont [ bleep ] move. And then where were those two guys at that time . I was right here in front of my car and they said im going to [ bleep ] kill you and two of them ran at me as fast as they could. Reporter those two guys would turn out to be colin brough and nick piring. Jones says he was standing two or three feet in front of his car when he pulled the trigger. He was running at me. He was staring right at me. He was saying he was going to kill me. I was afraid for my life. Reporter jones says after shooting colin and nick, the rest of the frat guys in the parking lot descend on him, pummeling him on the ground. So i grabbed my gun. I just put it in the air. I wasnt trying to hurt anybody. I wasnt even aiming at anybody. How many rounds did you fire . I dont know. I just remembered my training, my dad training me. Reporter he tells police his father, an nra certified instructor, taught him to shoot at an early age. I was trained to fire until its not necessary to anymore. Reporter and these photos from his social media accounts certainly paint the picture of a boy and his guns. But as it turns out, steven jones was not breaking the law by having that gun locked in his car on campus. The state universities dont permit guns on campus, with the exception of state law allows you to keep a gun in your car as long as its not visible and its locked up. Reporter it is a detail that colins dad doug just cant get past. If there wasnt a gun on campus, period, we arent sitting here. Colins sitting here. Thats what we have to change. All learning institutions should be weapon free. Reporter back in that interrogation room, after more than two hours of questioning, at 4 40 in the morning, officers break the news to jones about what happened to the boys he shot. Three people in the hospital. One has passed away. I was just trying to walk home. Reporter his selfdefense story notwithstanding, officers photograph jones injuries. His clothes are collected, and in a white disposable jumpsuit, the freshman who had been on campus less than a month is led off to jail, charged with first degree murder. As a College Campus mourns one of its own and a family prepares to bury a son, another one is preparing to mount a defense. Coming up, the trial of steven jones. The College Students he shot squaring off against him. So many young people testifying one after the other. Reporter why dont prosecutors believe his story of selfdefense . As compelling as he is in this interrogation tape, talking about how scared he was, and why he did what he did, the authorities clearly believe they know something more. Im like a sponge for this stuf i can learn it. Get it. Sell it. I can do this job in my sleep better than some people can do awake. 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I mean, weve talked about it and weve shared feelings and stuff but we dont talk about that night in particular. Its just, its not something we really want to keep on the forefront of our minds. Reporter but at trial, they will be forced confront what happened that night. In their Opening Statements prosecutors and Defense Attorneys paint dramatically different pictures of what happened in that nau parking lot. To the victims, the defendant was an assassin emerging from the darkness and they had no chance to protect themselves before the defendant unloaded ten rounds form his gun. Reporter prosecutor ammon barker argues steven jones was a calculating, coldblooded killer. The question for you during this trial will be what was the defendants intent when he shot these four unarmed victims. Reporter it is a question the defense is eager to answer in its opening statement. This is a case about an 18yearold kid who found himself in a situation where he was surrounded, bullied, threatened and attacked and did what he had to do to protect himself. Reporter when the testimony begins it does little to clarify what actually happened that night or even how it all started. People had vastly different stories of what they remembered or they saw or how many people were involved. Reporter and remember, some of those people were impaired that night making memories murky. Describe how many people you think you saw out there. I want to say i saw about four or five. Probably around eight people. Do you recall how many shots . Maybe two. I believe it was three to four. Reporter and this theme of contradicting accounts will be a recurring one throughout the entire trial. Take the testimony of jakob mike, one of the two freshman friends who was with steven jones that night. I saw people fall on the ground and then the light panned over me, i guess, and i put my hands up and i was like, its me, its me, jacob. What were you thinking . I was scared. Of who . Steven. Reporter he says he never thought his life was being threatened by those Drunken Fraternity boys. But on crossexamination, Defense Attorneys remind him of a 911 call he made where he sounds terrified. 911. This guys killing my friend. Where are you . Mountain view. Whats going on there . Someone is [ bleep ] attacking my friend. I was just hysterics and out of, out of my mind, i guess. Reporter then there are the three surviving victims. Nick piring testifies first, saying he never heard his friend colin threaten steven jones or saw him lunge at him. He also tells jurors that he witnessed colin get gunned down and it was only at that point that he ran towards him. But theres a problem with nicks testimony, and the defense zeroes in. You told police a pretty different story that night, didnt you . What did i tell them . You told them that you ran up because you were trying to calm people down. Correct. In fact, you told the police that you were, to use your words, mainly trying to calm colin down. Isnt that what you said . That is correct. Reporter next on the stand is nick prato. He was shot in the neck during that second wave of gunfire and testifies he witnessed both colin and nick piring also get shot. Right after i watched colin get shot, nick piring jumped in the air and thats when i saw nick piring, midair, get hit. Reporter but the defense lawyers score another point, highlighting an inconsistency from his original police interview. They read back his own words, where he never mentions seeing anyone get shot. Well lets take a look. It was hard it was hard to make out. Once i heard the gunshots of course i was looking over there to see what the hell happened. You didnt say anything about him getting shot, did you . No, i did not. The defense is trying to do two things here. Number one, highlight inconsistencies in these Fraternity Brothers stories. Number two, try and make their actions, their movements seem as menacing as possible. Reporter and that brings us to kyle zientek, the last of the gunshot victims to take the stand. He tells jurors he was shot twice while running away from steven jones. But the defense has the goods yet again. Listen to what he told police. You were asked, so, in other words, were you running towards the shooter or away from the shooter . Yes. Could you please read your response to the jury. I think i was running towards the shooter to get his gun. Reporter three key witnesses tripped up on crossexamination. But the most dramatic moment of the trial is still ahead. When we come back, what you almost never see. The defendant steven jones takes the stand in his own defense. Hello, my name is steven jones. 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As i was getting back up i felt someone behind me try to grab the back of my shirt and i started running. They were saying things like, get the [ bleep ] back here. What the [ bleep ] are you afraid of . Reporter he says he gets to his car and makes that split second decision to grab his gun and get back out. They were running as fast as they could full force, looking me dead in the eye. And then whats the very next thing that you remember . I fired my gun. I knew that if i waited even another split second i would get seriously hurt or die. Reporter the parents of the boy who did die are apoplectic in the courtroom. It was hard. It was hard for me to even be in that room and you could just see how cold and just almost removed he was. Kind of like a video game. Reporter but did any part of you think, man, hes also a kid. Hes 18 years old. Hes a child. Oh. I said that. I said his life was ruined as well. Reporter and jones story on the stand isnt Holding Water for some others who are in court listening, namely, his victims. Nobody deserved to die that night, period. But would you say that colin was the aggressor . No, i wouldnt say that. I wouldnt even say it was an aggressive situation. It was a verbal argument from what i could see. Reporter there are people who say that steven jones was just defending himself against a bunch of bullying frat guys. Thats his defense. I never even saw the kid until he came back with a gun, so reporter and when its the prosecutions turn to crossexamine steven jones they hammer him on that critical question of intent. Okay, but you were going to kill someone because you thought you were going to be killed. Correct . No, it was never my goal to kill someone. What do you think happens when you shoot someone in the chest . They get seriously hurt. Thats what you think happens every time . Sometimes people who get shot in the chest die. Right. Reporter and then taking a page right out of the Defense Attorneys playbook, they press him on exactly where he was when he fired his gun, returning to this police interview. Got out of the car and stood in front of my car maybe like two, three feet, like right in front of the door. Reporter two or three feet he says, but the evidence shows that after getting out of his car he actually walks over 90 feet toward colin brough, before he says colin charged him. Back in that parking lot i saw for myself just how far steven jones actually traveled from his car. It was over 90 feet between him and the next closest person. Reporter big difference between a couple of steps and 90 feet. This is a lot of distance between where he was feeling pressure. Reporter right, its seconds. And where the next person was that wouldve been on top of him. Reporter even if youre running that, that takes some time. The authorities clearly believe that he went those 90 feet in order to exact revenge, to kill someone, not, they believe, just to defend himself. I didnt know how far away they were at the time. Okay, but you keep saying to the officers that you were right in front of your car, right . Correct. I mean, you say that again and again. So each time youre describing that youre just wrong about it, right . Correct. Putting a defendant on the stand is always a risk. When he has to admit an error on an important issue, thats a real danger for the defense. Reporter before steven jones leaves the stand, his own attorneys are hoping to leave the jury with one lingering exchange. Steven, if you didnt fire your gun, do you think you would be sitting here today . No. Reporter day eight. Closing arguments. The defense implores jurors to put themselves in jones shoes. If youre being tackled by a group of guys like this, drunk, outnumbered you, theyre clearly trying to get your gun. You dont have much more time before theyre going to overpower you. What would you do . Reporter and they remind the jury that under arizona law steven is justified in using deadly force if it is to protect himself from being seriously injured or killed. But prosecutor ammon barker tells jurors jones story is riddled with lies for one reason. Because he is trying to bolster a bogus selfdefense claim. We know he was punched in the face. But what he did afterwards has nothing to do with selfdefense and everything to do with retaliation. Reporter jurors head out to begin deliberations. And as the hours, then days pass, five families are left to wait and to worry. I know youre not in the mindframe of blaming the parents. I blame the parents. I blame the parents. He was a young kid. He was taught to shoot silhouettes. Not even, like, tin cans like you would think if youre teaching a kid. But this was the way he was raised. And he did what he was trained to do. 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Like, how could they hear all the evidence and not come back with a guilty verdict . The key issue was, did the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt that steven jones committed a crime . Juror robert nagle spoke only to 20 20 after the mistrial. In my opinion, the state did not prove their case. Reporter when the jury first voted, most believed steven jones was guilty of a crime. They just couldnt agree on what crime. Some thought first degree murder, some thought Second Degree murder, some werent sure. Reporter but nagel says he and several of his fellow jurors actually found steven jones to be a more credible witness on the stand than the Fraternity Brothers. I believe once that colin brough and nick piring came toward steven jones, he had the right to protect himself. Reporter and for that, he says, he believes jones was justified in using deadly force. Steven jones had absolutely no choice but to shoot colin brough. When i asked the question, hey, who wouldve shot these boys in this situation . Four of us said we would. Reporter by the end of deliberations he says the jury was evenly split. Prosecutors intend to try steven jones again, hoping theyll have better luck with a new jury. But the young men who survived that night are ready to move on. A lot of us want to forget about it. I mean obviously not forget about colin and all that, but we kind of want to forget about, i dont know, just move past it. I guess should say. Reporter have you prepared yourselves for the possibility that steven jones were not going there yet. No. Reporter may walk free . No. I do not believe that in my heart for one minute. No. I believe that justice will prevail so this doesnt happen to anyone else. That retrial she wants is now scheduled to start in october. We contacted steven jones and his family, but they declined to speak in advance of the trial. Thank you for watching. Thats our program. 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