novelraw Chapter 1431 - 772: Police Investigation
Chapter 1431 - 772: Police Investigation
Roland's call undoubtedly cooled down Jimmy's playful mood. What's more important than meeting Roland amidst these troubles?
Besides having not seen each other for a long time and missing him dearly, Roland is the only one who knows the Black Rainbow secret that Jimmy carries and can help him with it. As the only person who knows about his soul crossing into Jimmy, Roland's concern for Jimmy is rare and without any ulterior motives, much like James and Tom, making Roland unquestionably one of the people closest to Jimmy.
Apart from this bug skill, Heart Eye Vision, Jimmy's abilities like Revolver Talent and Black Rainbow were all given by Roland. Not to mention, Roland doesn't even know about his marriage, which he must tell him about this time.
Compared to meeting Roland, the messy tasks he's dealing with right now are hardly worth mentioning.
The only issue is that Roland said he has his own matters to handle. According to the information provided by the Church last time, Roland is likely still on the road of Demon Extermination, and the distance from Maine to California is quite far. One is in the northeast corner and the other in the southwest corner, which makes flying directly from Los Angeles a bit troublesome without any reason.
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Dave was somewhat surprised when he received Jimmy's call. He initially thought it was about the previous killer attacking Mrs. Harriton, but Jimmy's description clearly was not such a simple matter.
Whether it was the killer who blew up Harriton before or the one who later caused a car accident to threaten Mrs. Harriton, they were obviously technical professionals. This time, however, two gunmen died at the scene, an obvious strong assault, inconsistent with their usual style unless they weren't the same group. Otherwise, it cannot be explained, and different people imply it was arranged by different people. Many want Mrs. Harriton dead.
However, Dave is really unfamiliar with LAPD, so he can only contact people at the FBI Los Angeles office to help inquire, and since the people he contacts are relatively high-ranking, it takes some time to pass down the information. When he previously told Jimmy to wait for his call, it indeed took most of the day.
LAPD is one of the largest police institutions in the country, and the FBI can't get involved in their cases directly. They can only determine the case situation through personal connections with the officers handling it. Detective Cook is having a particularly tough day. The case was already big, and now he has to deal with various inquiries about the case, which is indeed frustrating.
This morning, he asked an FBI agent he knew to inquire about Jimmy's situation. Of course, it wasn't detailed information, just confirming his identity, and once confirmation was received, he no longer doubted Jimmy's words and continued his investigation. As for Jimmy's claim of investigating the case of Mr. Harriton being killed, it doesn't have much to do with his current investigation. He can contact when it's time to check social relations later.
Judging by the scene, the killer should be a combat team. They need to wait for the forensic department to confirm the footprints and ballistic information at the scene, but they have already allocated personnel to collect monitoring information from the building and its surroundings, and to conduct a detailed investigation on the two unidentified deceased. They also need to check the firearms found at the scene, among many other tasks, which makes it difficult to confirm anything in a short time.
The investigation of the deceased Mrs. Harriton and several bodyguards is also underway. However, their identities are clear, and the security company also urgently issued the contract signed with Mrs. Harriton, as well as the corresponding licenses and gun serial numbers registered by the bodyguards. All of this was legal business with no issues.
The surviving bodyguard is now in the hospital, but currently still in ICU, making it temporarily impossible to inquire about the scene situation. According to the doctor's requirements, at least 24 hours are needed before they can do so, so the current investigation is limited to external inquiries.
However, there is a gain from it. They successfully discovered the SUV. Although it's currently impossible to identify the license plate due to the distance of the monitoring, personnel has been arranged to retrieve road surveillance based on the case's timing.
Additionally, they found a peculiar situation. A person wearing a hooded sweatshirt approached the SUV a few minutes before the incident. Judging by the person's actions and later running away from the SUV, it's likely a robbery occurred, which gave the detectives viewing the surveillance a rare moment of amusement.
However, they did not continue to investigate this matter because such things are so common in Los Angeles that it is fundamentally impossible to investigate. People wearing hoodies are too common here, and even if they deploy a lot of officers for this person, they may not find anything since such persons are hard to determine if they live nearby, and they may act cross-regionally.
Due to the location, the available surveillance footage was very limited. While the apartment building had internal surveillance, the cameras were sabotaged before the incident. The scene suggested they were damaged by a silenced gun. Since it was early morning, the building security did not always monitor the cameras, directly leading to no anomaly being found before the shooting.
While Detective Cook was investigating the case, others weren't idling either. Another group of agents was investigating the shooting in the abandoned building, with seven people dead on site, each body filled with numerous bullets, blood all over, leaving the scene extremely brutal.