been there? >> i probably would have been the one to get off to go check that pump. >> reporter: why would anybody want to hurt him? >> i can't find a reason why somebody would want to kill him. >> and this bomber, whoever it might be, came very close to also murdering fabian. >> if you want my button pushed bring a challenge to it. >> reporter: the da john pointer found fabian's plight to be particularly heartbreaking. >> i couldn't imagine 7 years old and seeing my dad blown up. >> reporter: and running all that way. >> people don't understand, it was like maybe a couple miles as the crow flies. but to run through what we call colusa mud, which is the rice fields, and it's just -- i mean he had to take his shoes off. he was literally covered with it. you could hardly walk through it. for him to run all that way, it was amazing. i remember asking if he knew what 911 was. and he told me and he was right and i asked him if he knew how to use a cell phone. he said yeah. i asked if your dad had a cell