A retired Army Special Forces medic who was found guilty of killing his girlfriend’s husband says he was on a “mission” when he killed the man.
In an exclusive interview with Dateline, Darrin Lopez told correspondent Josh Mankiewicz that it was like being on a military mission when he gunned down 49-year-old American Airlines technology director Jamie Faith, the husband of his high school sweetheart Jennifer Faith, in 2020.
“I was doing what I had to do to protect Jennifer,” he said in the two-hour episode of Dateline airing today at 9pm ET/8pm CT on NBC. (An exclusive clip is shown below.)
Jamie was shot seven times with a .45 caliber handgun by a masked gunman on the morning of Oct. 9, 2020, while he and Jennifer were out walking their dog Bernese mountain dog, Maggie, in north Oak Cliff, Texas.
After shooting Jamie, the gunman tried to take some of Jennifer's jewelry after duct-taping her hands. He then jumped into a black Nissan Titan pickup truck with a distinctive "T" decal on the back window parked on the street and sped away.
Soon after the killing, Jennifer went on TV news to thank everyone and to plead with authorities to capture the person who was the "backbone of my family."
"It's been horrible," she told Fox 4 News. "Devastating. I teeter between completely heartbroken and completely devastated every day."
However, authorities didn’t buy her innocent claims, alleging she orchestrated a sinister plot to kill her husband by manipulating Lopez, her high school...
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