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These stairs. he said at some point while the two were in the stairwell, sam turned. >> michael claims that he was in fear and closed his eyes and just fired his gun. >> then he, you know, comes toward me and i just you know, i just -- i closed my eyes and i just pulled the freaking trigger and i'm so sorry. >> with all the things he's telling you he's in a relationship with danielle, do you start to think we need to talk to danielle dreher. >> yes, so the next step was let's hear danielle's story. >> so detective szalbirak left michael and headed to the hospital where danielle had been waitin...

Time. this time immediately after sam had been shot. >> that same man. it just gave me chills. >> came running up the stairs towards me. i just looked at him and said what are you doing here? >> she recognized him and you can hear her on a 911 call. >> i didn't see -- i don't know. >> what are you doing here? >> i remember him just kind of making this motion like whoa. then he ran off. >> did you start to think in those split seconds that this mystery man was really after sam? >> yeah, i mean it was definitely a suspicion. >> it must have been such a puzzle. >> yes. >> puzzling too for detecti...

He found her tone to be strangely flat and unemotional. >> that was troubling to me. that was disturbing to me. >> i cannot believe he did this. >> danielle went on to say she had no idea michael planned to talk to sam that day. >> so michael never said anything about going over there? >> no, he didn't. >> but detectives were skeptical. they wondered if danielle knew more about michael's intentions than she was letting on. >> at this point, i don't know whether to believe her or not. >> you're not done with danielle dreher? >> oh, no, we're not done with her. >> for the moment, szalbirak left ...

Or that it was michael who shot sam. instead he started by asking danielle about her marriage to sam. danielle candidly described it as troubled. >> we had been not getting along for many months. >> danielle also explained that she knew sam was having an affair despite sam's best efforts to conceal it. >> dull know where he went today? >> today? i'm sure he went to his girlfriend's, yeah. but he always goes to her house. i'm not surprised by that. >> danielle then admitted she too was unfaithful. >> she was pretty straightforward, told me about the affair. >> it was wrong. i shouldn't have don...

Her upstairs neighbor, dianne mcknight also tried to aid the victim. >> there was just blood everywhere. and i didn't -- i just didn't know what to do. i ran back into my apartment and got towels. >> as the minutes ticked by, trish began to worry the shooter might still be in the area. >> then all of a sudden, you start to think, wow, i wonder where the person is that did this and for all i knew, the person upstairs shot him. >> but those questions would have to wait. soon paramedics arrived on the scene. they learned the victim was one of their own. it was firefighter sam dreer. the paramedic...