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>> i'm guy baker, i'm a detective. >> reporter: the homeowner was markus kaarma. kaarma and his common law wife, janelle pflager, had just moved to missoula. they were looking for a quiet, safe and kid-friendly place to raise their child. police spoke with janelle at the scene and recorded their talk with kaarma at the station. >> uh, so what we want to talk about is what happened tonight at your house. >> reporter: the couple told investigators the story actually began with a burglary three weeks earlier. and then just ten days after that, the burglars returned. >> somebody had trespassed in ...

You know it's somebody that you don't know. and they have crossed that invisible line from outdoors to indoors. and they are, by that definition alone, i would say, a threat to me. detective guy baker: >> well, you've got to be able to articulate the threat. >> reporter: and kaarma told investigators there was a real threat. the garage was full of tools the intruder could grab and use against him. >> i imagine an axe flying through the air and hitting me in the skull. >> reporter: and kaarma said he was positive he heard that scraping sound just moments before he fired the shotgun. >> i'm desc...

>> reporter: seemingly stunned, kaarma borrowed the detective's phone to call janelle. >> babe. >> hi. >> being charged with murder. >> you're joking. >> no. how is that deliberate homicide? >> it's just the way the statute reads. >> he was pretty surprised. >> yeah. he was surprised. and he was very emotional at that point. that's the most i saw markus be emotional during this whole investigation. >> reporter: diren's host parents had a tangle of emotions as they processed what police said had happened. >> not the kid we knew. wouldn't expect that. >> reporter: they were disappointed with dir...

Just randomly shooting from right to left. >> so you are thinking to yourself this does not look like ae justifiable shooting? >> no, at this point it's looking like we have a homicide. >> the county attorney's office agreed. detective baker dlielivered the news. >> so we just talked to the prosecutor, and she wants you to be taken into custody, so that's what's going to happen. >> for what? >> for homicide. >> what? >> seemingly stunned, karma borrowed the detective's phone to call janelle. >> i'm being charged with murder. no. how is that deliberate homicide? >> that's how the statute reads....

Student from germany had been shot and killed during an apparent burglary inside a neighbor's garage in the quiet town of mizzoula, montana. now darren was dead, and police were investigating. >> does that happen a lot here? >> people shoot burglars who are in their homes? >> no. it doesn't. >> mizzoula police department detective guy baker had the case. soon he was interviewing the man who pulled the trigger. >> hi, marcus. i'm guy baker, a detective. >> karma, and his common law wife had just moved to mizzoula. they were looking for a quiet, safe, and kid-friendly place to raise their child....