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NARRATOR: For homicide, the hardest cases to work
are ones with random targets--
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--unsuspecting victims who fall prey to ruthless predators.
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A little after 1:30 this morning,
an officer responded to a person shot.
It happened right here on the corner.
OFFICER LAYTON: We don't know.
He had no ID on him, no blood.
No.
The witness said she was coming down from the store in her car.
She saw the male laying on the sidewalk trying to flag people
down.
He said something to her about being robbed.
OFFICER: And his pockets were turned out.
OFFICER: Yeah, that's all we know.
That's it right there.
This is not the best way to start a case.
I don't know who my victim is.
I don't know who my suspects are.
I don't have any evidence on scene.
I don't have any eyewitnesses.
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And this neighborhood doesn't see a lot of homicides.
OFFICER LAYTON: At these complex we're at,
it used to be pretty rough.
I think because they redid them, it's
a lot better clientele because we don't
ever have any calls over here.
DETECTIVE BENTON: I had to GPS my way over here
because I couldn't remember where the street was.
It's been that long.
Yeah.
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DETECTIVE BENTON: Our victim is Michael Robinson.
I was able to identify him through his fingerprints.
He lives right around the corner from where he was found shot.
NARRATOR: 30-year-old Michael Robinson
is originally from Tennessee.
In 2010, he and his sister moved to Atlanta
to be closer to their mother.
He is a father to twin boys and a 9-year-old daughter.
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MOTHER (ON PHONE): Hello?
DETECTIVE BENTON: Hello?
MOTHER (ON PHONE): Yes?
NARRATOR: Benton reaches out to Michael's mother and sister.
What we know right now is that it was a robbery.
He was walking down the street, and he
was probably approached by I don't know how many
men at this time.
They did take his wallet, his cell phone.
No, I do not.
Um--
He was transferred to, um, the hospital, but he died at Grady.
MOTHER (ON PHONE): [inaudible]
[cough]
Is she OK?
It's the worst call that a mom's ever going to get.
I'm going to do my best to figure out what happened.
I really want to close this case.
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I can't do anything until I get more information.
NARRATOR: Benton heads out to meet
Michael's roommate hoping he might
know more about what happened.
There's always a chance that he met up with someone,
and they got into an argument, and he was shot,
and they wanted to make it look like a robbery.
You never know.
But if this is a stranger on stranger,
then the case just came twice to three times as hard to solve.
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Hi.
Do you remember exactly what time he left?
NARRATOR: The roommate says Michael left the apartment
around 1:00 in the morning to go to the gas station for a snack.
DETECTIVE BENTON: We didn't get the call till 1:30,
so he probably had been there for a minute.
Yeah.
No.
NARRATOR: Michael was an amateur boxer
training for his first professional fight in a month.
DETECTIVE BENTON: So he may have probably taken a swing at him.
Crap, they have cameras.
NARRATOR: There are 28 security cameras
throughout the apartment complex.
DETECTIVE BENTON: I'm going to go ahead
and get that video pulled.
I'll feel really good if we actually see something
on one of those cameras.
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This is the map where all the cameras are in the complex
because there's a camera right there
outside of the front of the building
where my victim would have left.
There's my victim.
This is at 1:04 AM.
He leaves the apartment complex.
He's going to cross over here.
NARRATOR: Less than five minutes after Michael leaves,
a group of young men head towards his direction.
Damn.
One, two, three, four, five.
Now there goes my victim going up the street.
Son of a bitch, they're going to chase after him now.
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We don't know what they're doing.
NARRATOR: The five men reappear, surrounding the victim.
DETECTIVE BENTON: OK, he just shot him.
Everybody else is running.
Yeah, he's shot He's hurt.
He's going back to the corner.
That's at 1:10, and he wasn't found for 29 minutes.
OFFICER: That's our ace.
DETECTIVE BENTON: And it's better than expected.
Somebody is going to recognize the--
the clothing these guys are wearing, the way they walk,
the way they hold themselves.
So we're going to do a huge media blast,
hoping that somebody is willing to step forward and call us
and say, this is who they are.
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We haven't had one person call in to help us out on this case.
I can tell you without a doubt these five
men accosted Mr. Robinson.
He's robbed, shot, and killed, doing absolutely nothing wrong.
We just think they're targeting people walking down the street.
They're armed and ready to kill anybody at any point in time.
That is on the video.
The video doesn't lie.
All I need is that one person.
I just need that one person to call.
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NARRATOR: One month after Michael's murder,
there are still no leads.
KATHY TURLEY: I could hardly sleep.
All I want is a little bit of peace.
If somebody could just come forward and give us
some names to match those faces on the video,
it would really help.
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