Student of Murder
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Real people, real crimes, real life drama. - It was early evening of August 31st, 2012, when Yancy Noel left work and headed home. He started driving his battered old Subaru up interstate five. At some point, he encountered a man in a BMW. He had no way of knowing that he was going to be dead in 10 minutes. - Yancy Noel was just a guy who lived in North Seattle, had a girlfriend and a dog, like to climb mountains. He was one of us. - When you prosecute murder cases for as long as we have, the random nature of death is what gets in your head. - He was my best friend for 22 years. He was my touchstone. He was the guy who kept me grounded. - People adored him. The last few moments of Yancy Noel's life were pulling up at a stoplight. The BMW pulled up next to Yancy's Subaru. Yancy turned and saw this car and this man next to him. He saw the gun pointed at his head and he saw the bullet that shattered the window and tore apart his face. And then he turned and was shot three more times in the head. (soft music) - The witnesses really didn't know what had happened. They heard the shots and then they saw the BMW pull into oncoming traffic screeched out, leaving tire marks, going so fast that when the car hit a hill, it took air and then sped out of sight. (soft music) - When I arrived that day at the murder scene, it was dusk. They had yellow crime scene tape around Yancy Noel's Subaru. There was blood outside the driver's door. The driver's seat was saturated with blood. - When police respond to a murder, they're looking for a reason. Was anybody mad at Yancy? Did Yancy have any enemies? - There might have been some kind of road incident, some kind of traffic incident. - And what are people thinking that there's a killer on the loose? - There was a killer on the loose. Anybody could have been the next target.
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Was the shooting of a Seattle man a random incident of road rage.