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>> the camera was working and recorded this tape. what did it show you? >> it showed me a vehicle. a green honda drive up the street, a short time later turn around, and you hear the shots being fired, and you see that same green honda take off. >> and no one has come forward with details about who is in the car? >> we have names and i think they are involved but i cant put them behind the wheel and with the gun. >> you need eyewitnesses? >> yes. detective fields is convinced that his friends kn...

Unfortunately in east los angeles with a shaved head and they thought he was a gang member, and there is no evidence whatsoever to lead me to believe he was. wrong place, wrong time, and mistaken identity. >> what is tough about solving that? >> witnesses. witnesses. >> no one is coming forward? >> no one is coming forward. >> did they believe it was his brother? >> we believe so. we may have a jailhouse informant. surveillance that house. >> detective fields need an eyewitness or another gang m...

When you got to the scene, what is the first thing you did? >> we look on the ground for cat casings, and then in the air for cameras. this is los angeles, there are cameras everywhere. >> the camera was working and recorded this tape. what did it show you? >> it showed a green honda drive up the street, a short time later turn around, and you hear the shots being fired, and you see that same green honda take off. >> and no one has come forward with details about who is in the car? >> we have na...

>> no one is coming forward? >> no one is coming forward. >> did they believe it was his brother? >> we believe so. we have a jailhouse informant. surveillance that house. >> detective fields need an eyewitness or another gang member to identify ronalds killer, a small trace of dna lifted from a cough drop lifted from ronalds body was not enough to match a profile. some people say that, you know, people in the community, you talk to people and they say, that look, people dont come forward becaus...

Tough one. >> unless one of them is arrested for the something else and they want to lessen their sentence? >> that is what i can hope for. >> detective fields needs someone inside of ayalas gang to talk and a reason to tell why they killed gabriel ayala. you will be here waiting for them? >> i am going to be here. im not going anywhere. after a break, a young man out of prison tried to leave gang life behind. >> it felt good. just to get my life back together. you know, i have to take it a da...

Gabrielle was in his backyard when someone shot him in the head at close range. he was a gang member, and this looked like a hit. at the crime scene detective wayne fields picked up on a telling detail. >> whoever walked up on gabriel walked up to him. he had a gun in his waist and never pulled it out. that tells me that he knew whoever killed him. >> detective fields knew ayalla well. >> so it was not a big surprise what happened to him? >> it was not if, but when. >> it was a matter of time. >...

Bulletproof vests. >> reporter: detective fields believes the events leading up to ayalos execution began long ago. two years before he was killed, a rival gang member named francisco sanchez was approached by two gunmen outside this apartment. one suspect shot him multiple times. as he fell to the ground right here, the second suspect shot him again. authorities suspect the murder of sanchez was in retaliation for the killing of a rival two days earlier. gabrielle was one of the suspected shoot...

>> he was a gang member. every be in this division knew the ayala family well. >> they were well known? >> well known us to. several search warrants at that location, got guns, dope, bulletproof vests. >> reporter: detective fields believes the events leading up to ayalas execution began long ago. two years before ayala was killed, a rival gang member named francisco sanchez was approached by two gunmen outside this apartment. one suspect shot him multiple times, and as he fell to the ground rig...

And his cohort was convicted for that murder. >> reporter: so gabriel was killed by his own gang? >> i believe so. >> reporter: in the tug of war between gang rivalry and loyalty, gabriel ayala became a victim of both. what does that say about all that talk about gangs being a family? >> a dysfunctional family, as dysfunctional as they come. they dont share, they dont spend money on one another other than to buy beer, maybe some dope. >> reporter: its not a band of brothers. >> not even close. >...

Are him, was held on a separate charge so he was in custody. gabriel got released. >> reporter: this man, ayalas co-defendant, a member of the same gang was prosecuted and convicted of first-degree murder while gabriel ayala walked free. so what did his gang think? >> they thought he talked. >> they considered him a snitch? >> they considered him a snitch. >> reporter: richard moya is a former gang member who knows the inner working of gangs. the term snitch what does that mean on the street? >>...