North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 697 Investigation Begins

  Peter did not explain all the reasons to Jimmy. Although they were old acquaintances, they had basically no cooperation in recent years. It’s just that he knows Jimmy’s character very well, and as long as he can give a reasonable reason, that’s enough for Jimmy.

  A bottle of beer was quickly finished while they were chatting. Jimmy also almost understood the situation Peter was currently facing. Since he was already here, help him stand up. No matter how the case was handled, there was no shame in it. You must know that Peter was The helper who was transferred from Manhattan to the headquarters is now also from the Manhattan office. It would be a big shame if the two of them couldn't handle anything.

  After drinking and chatting, Jimmy stood up to say goodbye. Peter sent Jimmy to the living room. The doorbell suddenly rang. Peter opened the door, took a look and said, "Anderson."

  Jimmy had not seen the person outside the door. When he saw Jimmy next to Peter, he asked in surprise: "Hey, Peter, are you going out?"

  Peter: "No, I'm just sending him away. Come in."

  Peter let Anderson in, and he saw Jimmy off before turning back to the house.

  Peter drove Jimmy here when he came, and now he could only take a taxi back. However, Peter had guests, so he didn't delay their business here. After he came out, he called the taxi company and smoked a cigarette. A taxi arrived at the intersection and returned to the hotel.

  Peter returned to the house, said hello to Elizabeth, and took Anderson to the backyard. There must be something to say here at this time, and it would definitely be inconvenient to be in the living room.

  Peter took a bottle of beer from the side: "Beer?"

  Anderson smiled and took it: "Is that person just now Jimmy?"

  Peter also opened a bottle, took a sip and nodded: "Yes, I specially invited him to help us investigate the case."

  Anderson: "Why?"

  Peter: "He's the perfect guy."

  Anderson: "I mean why not use someone from the DC office?"

  Peter: "They can't. You should have seen Jimmy's information, right? He is the most suitable candidate, no matter from every angle."

  Anderson: "But he might make this a war zone. This is DC."

  Peter: "We have two people missing, Anderson, and this is not the time to think about that."

  Anderson nodded: "Just understand it yourself. There may be some trouble later, so you have to be prepared."

  Peter: "Well, don't worry, I know."

  The two chatted for a while, and Peter got up to see Anderson off. The chain reaction of Jimmy's arrival had already appeared. Anderson was one of Peter's friends here. What they said between them was quite clear, and Anderson had obviously understood some of it. Things, it seems that the storm behind will be a bit serious.

  In fact, Peter has considered these situations before. Jimmy is also very well-known in the headquarters, especially the last time DHS was embarrassed. Because of this incident, the upper management teamed up with others to launch an attack on DHS. The reason was that Jimmy was in their The joint operations of the two countries have shown great success, making DHS lose face.

  When such a person is seconded to the headquarters, although others will not say anything to his face, they will definitely pay close attention to this matter. This is one of the reasons why Peter asked Jimmy to come over.

  Peter is not a complete profit animal. Jimmy comes to help him handle this case. In addition to the many gains he can make, Jimmy will also gain a lot.

  Jimmy's character determines that he is very popular with those old-school people, and he used to be in the Manhattan office. Although he handled many cases and they were very exciting, the impression that people here at the headquarters can get by just looking at the information is really not that deep. Now he has the opportunity to leave a special impression on these people at the headquarters, which will be very beneficial to his future cross-agency scheduling and promotion.

  The key is that promotion in the FBI inherently requires adjustments in multiple departments and positions, as well as gaining a variety of business experience and cross-departmental management capabilities. Jimmy is so young and has so much credit, so moving up is inevitable.

  Of course, Jimmy didn't know Peter's plan. He came to DC mainly because of an official secondment. The headquarters contacted the Manhattan office and asked him to support him by name. It was Peter who was an acquaintance. Besides, he had been fishing recently. It's serious, so I came as soon as I came to avoid anyone making irresponsible remarks behind my back.

  After returning to the hotel and chatting with Nia on the phone, he washed up and prepared to rest. Peter had just mentioned the arrangements here. Peter himself would not act together, but he arranged for an agent to accompany Jimmy so that he could understand the surroundings. situation, and call on resources from the headquarters.

  This time is a brand new place, and it is Washington DC, which is relatively sensitive. If there is no one behind him to support him, Jimmy will not dare to go too far. If everything follows normal investigation procedures, the people in the Washington DC office will definitely not Too many clues are missed, and not everyone can find out what they missed from the results of the detective's investigation.

  So before going to bed at night, Jimmy had already focused his investigation on two special groups.

  Early the next morning, Jimmy came to the FBI headquarters again. Peter threw him a key and told him the license plate number. An agent next to him walked up to Jimmy and stretched out his right hand: "David Hope, senior agent, Nice to meet you."

  Jimmy also extended his hand to shake his hand: "Jimmy Young, from the Manhattan office."

  Peter: "Okay, you have plenty of time to get to know each other, let's do things first. Jimmy, you are responsible."

  Jimmy glanced at Hope and nodded, "Then let's go."

  Jimmy and Hope left Peter's office, first went to get Hope's equipment bag and then went to the parking lot. Hope took him to find the Saber car, two people in a car. It seemed that this Hope was very popular with Peter. of trust.

  Jimmy gave the key to Hope. He was not familiar with DC and it was better for Hope to drive. He also looked at the map and wrote down the route and surrounding neighborhoods. Jimmy: “Hope, what case were you responsible for before?”

  Hope said while driving: "The Counter-Terrorism Center is temporarily seconded to provide support."

  Jimmy nodded: "Have you understood this case?"

  Hope was not among the people in yesterday's meeting, which was strange. In fact, according to general judgment, the few people in the meeting room yesterday were the investigators of this case, and Peter did not introduce yesterday's people to Jimmy.

  Hope: "Yes, don't worry, I have read all the clues. In addition, I am also responsible for coordinating with other agents, so no matter what you need, you can tell me."

  Jimmy: "OK, I understand. Let's go to the scene first, and then go to the DC office."

  Jimmy had the right idea. Peter asking him to come over was not following the normal investigation path to solve the case.

  Jimmy and Hope got off the car in the suburbs. The neighborhood was indeed a little desolate. The nearest building was two hundred meters away. There was no road leading to this area.

  Two hundred meters is not too far a distance, but for ordinary people, most of their vision and hearing will fail due to this distance.

  Jimmy stood at the scene of the previous investigation and looked at the number tags on the ground and the positions of various white spray paints, and began to try to restore the relationship between the various clues here. Hope stood behind him, observing the environment from left to right.

  According to previous investigations by the DC office, there were only bloodstains of one person, Agent Benjamin Walker.

  Agent Walker is a newly transferred agent to the field. He has been an intelligence officer before and has little experience. So there is a possible explanation for the situation at the scene. Alex Baker and Benjamin Walker Based on a certain clue they got, they came here actively or passively, and then someone held them hostage with a gun.

  Benjamin Walker may have too little experience, or he may have said something that made the other party fire in anger, which caused him to be injured and bleed, but based on the amount of blood on the ground, he should not be dead, which means that the other party did not shoot him. The location of the heart or brain is not the location of the aorta.

  Senior agent Alex Baker is an experienced person. After all, to be a senior agent, he must have a lot of field experience. Maybe he was more aware of current affairs and did not do anything to irritate the other party, so he was not beaten, or was not injured. It is normal for there to be no blood when being beaten with fists and feet. Moreover, no traces such as footprints were found here, and the ground was not It is difficult to extract shoe prints in such a soft land.

  According to this possibility, they should have been brought here, then...

  Jimmy stood up and looked at the surrounding environment. If you walked, you could walk in all directions nearby. There were no walls or deep ditches. There was no way to judge the direction they were going. But if they were driving, then the only intersection was Just two hundred meters away.

  No obvious ruts were found here, which means they must have walked over there.

  Jimmy began to expand the scope of his investigation in a circular direction along the location of the blood stain. He soon saw the clues he wanted to find. There may have been omissions in the previous investigation. A piece of grass on the ground was overturned. It looked very strange from a distance. It's hard to see clearly. You can see that the grass here is a little low. The key is that Jimmy's sense of smell has improved a little as his body has strengthened. Even after three days, Jimmy still smells a little different.

  Jimmy took out a pen and pushed away the grass. After searching the grass, he finally found a little blood stain. "Hope, bring the camera and the evidence bag."

  Hope quickly ran back to the car. Jimmy took pictures first, then put on gloves to collect some blood-stained soil and a few grass leaves from the ground and put them into the evidence bag. "Put this away and send it to the laboratory when you get back." Urgent processing. We continue to investigate."

  Hope put away the evidence bag and watched Jimmy continue to circle around to investigate. He couldn't help but nod. With his reputation, he must have real skills. Such a hidden blood stain was never found before. Now Jimmy only turned around a few times. I discovered something in the circle. When the results of the investigation are announced after returning home, the people in the DC office will probably be very upset.

  Jimmy found a blood stain nearby again, and this time the blood stain was smaller. After that, he didn't see any blood stains in other places. No, no matter how urgently a person who was shot was bandaged, he would still be injured when he was taken away. There couldn't be only such a little blood stain, unless he was in a car or other means of transportation.

  Returning to the car, Jimmy looked at a nearby house, which had been interviewed and recorded by previous detectives. Jimmy took out the record from the car and checked it. The nearby residents said that they found nothing unusual. , and no gunfire was heard.

  Jimmy asked Hope to follow him in the car. After walking for a while, he finally found his target. A gray-blue tent was placed on the roadside with some cardboard boxes next to it.

  Homeless people are a beautiful sight in every city in the United States. Except for the police expelling them or the local community prohibiting them from entering under certain policies of the city government, you can basically see them everywhere, and even let them go. People have the feeling that there are homeless people everywhere. In fact, the main reason is that they move around frequently. The actual number of homeless people is not too many. There are only tens of thousands of homeless people in a big city.

  Jimmy asked Hope to drive to buy two hamburger and coke combos, and then he carried them over. Talking to the homeless man was a test of Jimmy's endurance. This homeless man probably hadn't been to a relief station for a long time, and he hadn't taken a shower or had his hair cut. He was in far worse condition than Jimmy was in at that time.

  After enduring the discomfort in his nose and paying for a hamburger and Coke, half a pack of cigarettes, and a few dollars in cash, Jimmy finally got the clue he wanted.

  Back in the car, Jimmy said: "Hope, drive back and arrange to call the traffic surveillance. A gray van left here shortly after the gunshots were fired. He determined that the car was not a nearby car."

  Ordinary citizens do not have high trust in the FBI. They are also afraid of retaliation, so even if they see something, they may not tell the truth. For these homeless people, they are living one day at a time. , Jimmy, a generous and hospitable person, is a temporary angel to him. Not only does he have food to eat, but he also has cigarettes, which is enough for him to live a good life for a day or two.

  He is the only homeless man nearby, and Jimmy has no way to conduct cross-verification. Now he can only investigate this clue first.

  His second target was gang members, but after arriving at the scene, he knew that his idea was too simple. This is not New York City, where gangs cover a wide area and there are many people, but here there are only simple gang members around the scene. In some suburban houses, gangs cannot survive in this environment, unless one of these residents happens to be a gang member.

  Jimmy didn't have time to conduct an investigation on everyone, so he could only give up his second goal temporarily, but there would definitely be another chance later. If what the tramp said was true, then the route of the car would definitely be related to some people. intersection, the direction of investigation is also easy to determine.

  (End of this chapter)