I love you, I won't kill you

Detective Second Detective Pedro Arias of the Detective Department under the Los Angeles Police Department felt that today was too unlucky.Not only have to rush to the police station to work overtime on Saturday night, but there is no overtime pay.The reason why there is no overtime pay is that the Los Angeles city government once again cut the police budget this year.

The reason for the bad luck was the shooting and killing outside a gas station tonight.Detective Arias originally wanted to vent all his ruined vacation mood on the suspect who shot the gun, but when he saw Julie himself, he had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky.

"Arias, come and take a statement. I'm going to verify the Kona ballistic report." Second Lieutenant (Inspector) Eric Zhou took off his glasses and said something to Pedro at the desk.

"Lieutenant, please hurry up. You know what I'm talking about."

"Okay, I don't think it's bad to let you have more contact with beautiful ladies."

The detective turned around and glanced at Julie who was sitting diagonally opposite, "Uh, Ms. Mitchell, let me get you a cup of coffee, okay?"

Julie looked up at him. "What? Oh, thanks."

"Take it easy, okay? I'm sure everyone does that when they shoot someone for the first time."

"I know, thanks. Uh, I wanted to make a call."

"no problem."

Watching the detective walk towards the rest area on the floor, Julie took out the phone, "Susan, I'm sorry! Uh, I may not be able to come to the bar tonight."

Susan said on the phone, "Why, that bitch Colleen took off her clothes and knelt on the carpet begging you not to go?"

"Please, it's nothing to do with Colleen. It's just... I shot someone."

"What?? God, are you at the LAPD or where?"

"I'm taking statements at the LAPD."

After finishing the call with Susan, Julie felt that she needed to make another call, "Hi, Evelyn, it's me."

Evelyn Zhou originally planned to have a happy dinner with family and friends on Saturday night.However, suddenly a call from the police station called his father away.

Now that the father is not at home, has this dinner lost its original meaning?She doesn't care.When she received a call from Julie, she happily asked, "Hi, Julie. Please, are you working overtime again?"

"No! Well, I've got something going on that might prevent me from having dinner with you and your family tonight. Tomorrow night, okay?"

"No way? My dad has gone to the police station to work overtime, so you can't leave because of something?"

"I'm so sorry, Evelyn."

After hanging up the phone, Evelyn fiddled with the iPhone 4 in her hand dully, thinking, "Okay. Now that the key players are gone, who am I going to play with?"

"Well, I have never been to LAPD where my father works. Today is Saturday, so I have time."

"Anyway, it's still early. It's less than half an hour away from LAPD to Susan's Bar in West Hollywood." Thinking of this, he greeted his mother and younger brother, grabbed his bag and car keys, and walked out of the gate.

Sitting in the cab of her second-hand 04 blue convertible two-door sporty third-generation BMW M3, Evelyn called her father, "Daddy, are you busy now?"

"Oh, Evelyn, yes."

"Well, I want to visit the LAPD, can you be my tour guide?"

"Not now. Well, you said your colleague was Julie Mitchell, right?"

"Yes."

"I think the suspect in this case tonight is your acting public defender friend."

Evelyn couldn't believe it and shouted, "Impossible! She is a government official, how could she be a criminal?"

Eric smiled slightly. "Take it easy, my daughter. I didn't call her a criminal."

"Please, Daddy, how can you still laugh when something happened to my friend?"

"I'm sorry, Evelyn. Well, you know where to find me."

Evelyn hurriedly pulled on her seat belt, turned the ignition on and put it in gear, and quickly drove the M3 away from the road in front of her house.While driving towards LAPD, he dialed Joanna's phone, "Joanna, this is Evelyn, something happened to Julie."

Joanna asked quickly, "What? What's going on?"

"I don't know. You know, my dad works at the LAPD and he said Julie is in the police station now."

"I see, I'll be right there."

All of a sudden, almost all the best friends knew about Julie's situation, except Amanda who didn't know.Susan drove to LAPD at the first time, and when she saw Julie talking to a male plainclothes detective, she walked over.

Pedro rolled his eyes and saw Susan.Whispered Julie, "Uh, sorry, is that lady your friend?"

When Julie turned her head and saw the person coming, some hot tears overflowed from her eyes, she nodded, "Yes."

"My God! Julie, are you really okay?" Susan looked at each other up and down and said.

"Yes, I'm fine. Oh, this is Detective Arias, who is in charge of investigating my case." Julie introduced to the two.

Pedro stood up abruptly, pulled a rolling chair by a colleague's desk, smiled and said to Susan, "Good evening, ma'am! I'm Detective Pedro Arias from the LAPD, please take a seat." .”

Facing the detective's series of actions, Julie felt a little unbelievable.But in an instant, he seemed to understand the meaning of the police detective who seemed to be of Mexican descent, "Susan, sit down and talk."

"Thanks, Detective Arias. Um, what happened to my friend?"

"Uh, from your friend's statement, the guy she shot tried to sexually harass her. After repeated warnings from your friend, this guy didn't want to stop. So, your friend shot self-defense."

Susan looked at Pedro, then at Julie, "God, how did this happen to you?"

Julie shook her head, "I don't know."

Both of them graduated from one of the most famous law schools in the United States. Of course, they are very clear that when investigating a criminal case, the police not only need the confession of the parties involved, but also need to analyze all the evidence at the scene of the crime in order to find out who is the murderer and who is the victim. and close the case.

Susan nodded to Julie, and held her hand tightly, "I believe what you said."

Then he looked sideways at the detective, "Well, detective, is the ballistic report from the scene out?"

Pedro shrugged, "Not yet."

"Well, okay. So, is there any surveillance video of the crime scene?"

"of course."

"I think the surveillance video can prove that my friend's words are true and false." Susan said.

"Ma'am, uh, may I ask...?" Pedro asked for the other person's name.

"Oh, I'm Julie's friend, Susan Whitney."

"Nice to meet you, Miss Whitney."

In less than 20 minutes, Evelyn drove to the place where her father worked.He hurriedly got out of the elevator and went straight to the office area where his father and his colleagues worked.

Looking to the left, my father is sitting in front of the computer carefully watching a black and white image on the screen.Looking straight ahead, Julie, who had helped her at work, and Susan, the bar owner, were sitting at the desk of Detective Arias.

As he walked forward, he asked eagerly, "Julie, Susan, are you all right?"

Julie shifted her gaze to Evelyn, "Hi, Evelyn, why are you here?"

After the three embraced warmly, Evelyn said a little embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, Julie. You never asked about my family situation, and I didn't take the initiative to bring it up. Uh, my daddy is from LAPD." Lieutenant Eric Chou."

Eric looked up and saw his daughter through the glasses, "Evelyn, you're here."

Pedro knew Evelyn from the photo Eric placed on his desk, and quickly got up with a smile and said, "Hi, Evelyn, I'm Arias."

Evelyn looked at him, curled her lips and said, "Hmm, hello."

After finishing speaking, he changed his expression and pulled Julie back, "What happened? I heard from my dad that you are at the police station..."

"It's okay, Evelyn. Trust me, Julie shot that bastard in self-defense," Susan said.

"What? Shot? Killed someone? Oh my God!!!" Evelyn's eyes widened in surprise.

At this time, Lieutenant Eric Zhou had finished analyzing the surveillance video of the gas station, and walked towards several people with the ballistic report just completed by the forensics department, "Evelyn, you sit aside first."

"No, why should I leave?"

"Honey, this is where I work. Do you want me to call your mother?"

Julie patted Evelyn on the shoulder. "I'm fine. Take it easy, okay?"

Susan stood up, smiled and said to Evelyn, "Let's go, let's find something delicious."

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