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Okay. Hey, I just searched shots fired. 44th in Oakwall. A male black in a blue jacket. There's a little girl on D. He
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had a blue like uh jacket. He was just shooting in the alley over here. 44th in Oaken Wall.
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I'm not prepared. But you got to do what you got to do. The hardest things is waking up. Waking up realizing that
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she's not there anymore. I can't believe that we're talking about hya in a past tense. I mean, I wish you guys
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could have been here asking me about the, you know, the dancing at the inauguration, but unfortunately, um,
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this is what we dealing with. As we grieve for Hadia, we need to work together to protect our greatest
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resource, the children of the city of Chicago. You don't know how hard this really is.
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And those of you that do know how hard this is, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm Moren Maher. When Hideia
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Pendleton was shot in this park, she quickly became a symbol of deadly street violence in Chicago. But nearly every
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day, someone is gunned down in this city. Often the result of gangs fighting over territory to sell drugs. I'm Armen
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Kayan. In the fall of 2012, we began reaching out to some of the victims who are hurting and some of the people who
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are fighting back in the city at war over guns, gangs, and drugs. Police drop the weapon.
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We know from years of working the streets that much of the gang related shootings are drugrelated. What you're
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going to do today matters. To get the gangs, Jack Riley and the DEA go after their drugs. Heroin in particular. Jack,
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it's a little after 6:00 in the morning. What's on the agenda now here? Well, we're going to go ahead and serve a
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search warrant on a house that there's been numerous undercover buys made out of uh heroin.
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Flint, we're moving up to the house. All right, they're moving. Jack, we're at the door now. This is daily what we're
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up against on the street. I mean, that's why I look the way I look. That's why I
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don't sleep a lot. One homicide in this city is too many. One person abusing heroin in the suburbs is too
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many. I first started using heroin when I was 16. And the first time I did it, I
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was in my family room and I was thinking, "This is the best feeling in the world."
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Heroin has taken many of Paula Nixon's friends, but she can't kick it. I'm not strong enough. If I saw heroin in front
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of me right now, I can't tell you that I wouldn't do it. There is no amount of willpower that I have on my own that I
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can stop. The people that you were buying it from, are these people in gangs? A lot of them. Yes.
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A lot of drugs have been sold on in this intersection right here. And you're watching it from right here all day
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long, all night long. Yes. I don't give a damn where they come from. We ain't got to sell them. With drug dealers at
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his doorstep, David Muhammad risked his life to stop them. Every day for about a
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year. I videotaped them. There's the drugs. Made the pass. Got the money. It's worth it to lose my life if I have
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to to try to slow this down. For six months, we've watched David Muhammad stand up to drug dealers. Paula
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Nixon battle heroin addiction and the Pendleton's search for justice. The Chicago Police Force along with the DEA
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have been hunting down the drugdeing gangs. And we are there as it all unfolds. Tonight, a 48 hours
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investigation. The war in Chicago. [Music]