48 Hours - Who Wanted To Kill Nicki Lenway?

A crime scene investigator is gunned down in broad daylight. The harrowing scene is captured on surveillance video. Who pulled the trigger? Erin Moriarty reports. This episode last aired on 6/10/2024.

Duration: 40m
Broadcast on: 24 Nov 2025
Audio Format: other

[MUSIC] >> Where's the victim? Who's shot? Who is shot? Where's the victim? >> On April 20th, 2022, my life changed forever. >> So we've got him that's coming right now. >> I was shot at Pointe-Link range two times. >> Right here, right here. This is a victim right here. >> Personally, Nikki, don't have one, so then I'm happy. >> It's a miracle she's alive. It's a miracle if she wasn't killed. >> Are you breathing on pain? >> Okay, all right. >> Someone wanted me dead. [MUSIC] >> Honestly, it was a normal day. I had worked the night before. I worked the overnight shift. I am a forensic scientist for the Minneapolis Police Department. [MUSIC] After getting my child to school, I slept, I picked him up from school. And then he had a visit with his father that night. [MUSIC] >> What would you do while he's visiting with his dad? >> So I typically would run errands, go grocery shopping, or do the things that were easier to do without my child. [MUSIC] >> When it's time for her to pick up her son, she steps out of her car, she can start walking, like dozens of other times that she's done this. [MUSIC] >> I'm halfway in between my vehicle and the door. And this person comes running up from behind me. [MUSIC] Shots were being fired. I fell to the ground, and the shooter stands over me, and continues to try to shoot. I felt my neck and then could see the blood. [MUSIC] >> I was just driving home. And I saw a person run up to another person. And then I heard two bangs, and that other person collapsed. [MUSIC] >> It maybe looked like a robbery or something that was so fast. >> That was the first thought. This must have been a robbery that was gone wrong. >> Was this a drive-by?

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