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But he says he wasnt the trigger man. >> theres no award you get for not snitching. but ive done plenty of things in my life that would eventually lead me here or dead, you know what i mean? i believe god is punishing me now for everything that i did, in fact, do. so im just taking this time to learn from all the mistakes and right all those wrongs. >> burks is serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of a south african immigrant. >> he came to america to work for his family. and he got killed....

More than one person in the car, the gunman may have been in the front passenger seat. >> the only description we have on suspect, two male blacks. last seen running westbound on summer view. >> reporter: memphis police broke down the door to an apartment complex and took one man into custody. the trigger man remains at large. this is the second police officer in tennessee killed in the line of duty just this year. nationwide, 70 officers have been killed this year doing their jobs. >> theres a ...

Death penalty, and thats not what im talking about, if you have it, this is kind of why, this is the guy that you have a death penalty for and why we sit in the likes of north korea and saudi arabia and iran and the other people who have states that kill their people. if youre going to have it, i dont know why that wouldnt fit the bill. thats a whole different debate and program. were keeping a close eye on another courtroom in massachusetts where its verdict watch in the trial of aaron hernan...

That evidence clearly shows hernandez had a calculated plan to kill odin lloyd. cnns susan candiotti picking up the story. >> reporter: a day of passionate closing arguments by both prosecutors and defense in the case of aaron hernandez. prosecutors for the very first time identifying hernandez as the trigger man in the shooting death of odin lloyd. and defense attorneys for the first time saying that aaron hernandez was, in fact, at the crime scene, saying this. calling him a 23-year-old kid wh...

Demetrius burkes admitted to being in the car in a drive-by shooting. but he says he wasnt the trigger man. >> theres no award you get for not snitching. but at the same time, the guy who did it, he got to live with it every day. im not completely innocent. ive done plenty of things in my life that would eventually lead me here or dead, you know what i mean? i believe god is punishing me now for everything that i did, in fact, do. so im just taking this time to learn from all the mistakes and ri...

And really, i saw secretary kerry on early this morning. obviously some tough decisions to take on. i think the bottom line is going to be, we have to insist that the trigger man be turned over for accountability, the fact the weapons got in seemingly with russian help, thats kind of the bottom line. and its not so much the access to the crime scene. its really kind of how did the weapons get to the site, how are they used, was there any training provided, and we really need to make this more of...

They thought where are we going to get this kind of money? lets rob a bank. >> if all of that sounds bizarre, a cast of characters out of the gang who couldnt shoot straight, to jerry clark it made a perverted kind of sense. especially when it came to ken barnes. someone with a long record of drug abuse who was supposed to be the trigger man. >> if you work law enforcement long enough, you will come across people who will do the most bizarre things you could ever think of that sounds very legiti...

He wanted a significant amount down in order to do it. they thought where are we going to get this kind of money? lets rob a bank. >> if all of that sounds bizarre, a cast of characters out of the gang who couldnt shoot straight, to jerry clark it made a perverted kind of sense. especially when it came to ken barnes. someone with a long record of drug abuse who was supposed to be the trigger man. >> if you work law enforcement long enough, you will come across people who will do the most bizarre...

That inheritance was worth $1.8 million. >> and in order to get that, she had to figure out a way to have him killed. the amount that it would take to have her father killed was an amount that they needed to rob a bank for. which in itself is one of the most bizarre motivations you could find. you had to steal money to use money to pay somebody to kill somebody. >> marjorie diehl-armstrong had talked to ken barnes about killing her father. he wanted a significant amount down in order to do it. t...

Armstrong, he says, believed that inheritance was worth $1.8 million. >> and in order to get that, she had to figure out a way to have him killed. the amount that it would take to have her father killed was an amount that they needed to rob a bank for. which in itself is one of the most bizarre motivations you could find. you had to steal money to use money to pay somebody to kill somebody. >> marjorie diehl-armstrong had talked to ken barnes about killing her father. he wanted a significant amo...