Friends and family of the murdered gainesville man can't understand why he was killed. But the police think they have this one solved.

They say Arnold Lee Manuel admitted to killing thirty-two year old Eugene Robinson. Police say it was a robbery attempt gone bad in Northeast Gainesville. The killer was let in the home, where he tried to rob Robinson. But the robbery didn't go as planned. That's when shots were fired, and Robinson was killed. But as police responded to the call, a policeman saw a man without a shirt running through a construction site. The officer caught the man and brought him in for questioning. That's when police say he confessed to killing Eugene Robinson

By Jason Dunning, WCJB TV 20 News