realizing that it s amber. how could that be? her life was just beginning. amber meet friends for life. there was just no trying with our friendship. it just was. but that life didn t last long. amber is on the floor, face down, and she has a plastic bag wrapped around her heads. it still is open, the door is open. most people who rob a store don t kill anybody. my whole world just died right there. for months, the murder stayed cold. didn t have witnesses, didn t have video, didn t have the any. we had everything going against us. we go down and talk to the detective, we would not let it go. then a break. another victim. he would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. and she knew a secret. could she risk revealing it? something is going to happen tonight. a killer ready to run, face to face with the one person who might be able to stop him. he just reached over the glove compartment and he pulled out a gun. and i said, please don t kill me. i m go
wrapped around her heads. it still is open, the door is open. most people who rob a store don t kill anybody. my whole world just died right there. for months, the murder stayed cold. didn t have witnesses, didn t have video, didn t have the any. we had everything going against us. we go down and talk to the detective, we would not let it go. then a break. another victim. he would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. and she knew a secret. could she risk revealing it? something is going to happen tonight. a killer ready to run, face to face with the one person who might be able to stop him. he just reached over the glove compartment and he pulled out a gun. and i said, please don t kill me. i m going to get out of their. alive. hello, and welcome to dateline. i m natalie morales. amber belken was a force to reckon with. a pet young woman whose big dreams and drive made her seem unstoppable. then she was found murdered. was amber the victim of a
Vista for american film. This is cnn breaking news. Im Natalie Allen at cnn center in atlanta. We are following breaking news here. A shooting has occurred in california at a Food Festival near san jose. This is video new into cnn from a witness. The sound of gunshots there and people running as this festival was about to end. This is when it happened. It happened in gilroy, california at the annual and very popular gilroy garlic
festival marketed as one of the countrys largest Food Festivals. According to local news reports quoting witnesses, there are people hurt, and a Law Enforcement official tells us that the atf is responding. This tweeted a short time ago from the Police Department. It says the hearts of gilroy pd and entire community go out to the victims of todays shooting at the garlic festival. The scene is still active. We are closely following the developments from the breaking news. Cnn is monitoring the story from our l. A. Bureau. Also with us, cnn crime and justice rep
and then i m looking at brandon like, i do understand how this happened. you know, i don t want to blame anybody but your first thought is, who was around. who can you look and see? maybe he had something to do with it? it s got to be a pretty shocking thing to discover. i mean, is hard to describe. you just have 1 million emotions running through. you don t know what to do. the police came. took one look and called raymond ray bob roberts. then a detective with the san antonio police department. it looks like a robbery gone bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office. she s dead. if i can get some information on her. any witnesses. so we hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in amber s store. but most people did not know who. including amber s father as he
bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office. she s dead. if i can get some information on her. any witnesses. so we hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in amber s store. but most people did not know who. including amber s father as he headed over there. i jumped in my truck and i called a friend of mine who was a defense attorney and i said, i need you to call anybody that you can. see what you can find out. i was just about there and he called me and he said, well how far are you from there? and that s when he realized, it wasn t that amber found someone dead. they found her. my knees just buckled and i just my whole world just died right there. it s a pretty dreadful