Chapter 31 The New Case
A night of dreams, Charlotte opened his eyes a minute before the alarm clock rang the next day.
The improvement of spirit seems to have the function of standardizing the biological clock. After putting on the clothes, Charlotte pressed the alarm clock that had just rang.
Wash, shaved, and came to the kitchen. Charlotte made a simple breakfast for herself. It was another wonderful day after a cup of coffee.
Using disinfectant to drive away the remaining bloody smell in the trunk, Charlotte drove to the South Terminal Branch.
After checking in, I archived the two files I brought back yesterday, and then brought a stack from the archives room to my desk.
Half of them were unsolved cases, while the other half was Charlie who helped him pick out more typical cases, which have been solved.
I didn't pay attention yesterday, but when I called out the system this morning, Charlotte found that there was one more skill in his skill bar - basic criminal investigation.
It seems that studying cases can not only accumulate experience, but also directly convert them into skills.
Basic criminal investigation should be a pre-skill for primary criminal investigation. It is just a basic skill obtained through a certain period of study. It cannot be considered proficient, so it is easier to obtain.
When he was proficient in Richard's primary light weapons, Charlotte had seen his skill bar, which contained a basic firearm, which should have been obtained when he was training in shooting at the police academy.
If Charlotte still has skill points in his hand now, he would just spend a skill bar to unlock Charlie and believe that he would definitely find the primary criminal investigation mastery, but unfortunately he did not.
In this way, Charlotte can only rely on his own strength.
Follow Charlie to learn how to handle cases. With his current 14-point spirit, it may only take a year or two to upgrade this basic criminal investigation to primary criminal investigation proficiency.
Of course, Charlotte can only be regarded as a rookie detective now, and he himself knows this.
"Good morning, Sherlock!"
Charlie was used to arriving early, but he didn't expect that someone would come earlier than him today, so he went up and said hello.
He likes newcomers like this.
"Good morning, Charlie, is there any progress in the case of the D2 Gang?"
"No, but in addition to taking away drug money and casino flows that day, the gunman also took away several kilograms of sea actors. Antonio felt that this was a breakthrough."
If the murderer is really a gangster background, this is really a breakthrough. After all, there is no news on the road that anyone who has added a group of goods that should be D2 gangs.
As long as the detectives ask their informants to pay more attention to this aspect, the real murderer is the police, which is more embarrassing.
When he was making money, Charlotte beat the police to confuse the police's attention and took away the raids together and threw the pot to other gangs.
As expected, Antonio directly suspected them, not knowing that all this was futile.
If Antonio had a better attitude, Charlotte felt a little guilty, but now he just felt that his stomach hurts because he holds his smile.
Unexpectedly, the life of the Crime Squad was so fun, and Charlotte loved it more and more.
"Then I wish you to solve the case as soon as possible!"
"I'm just helping, you'd better wish Antonio and Bella good luck!"
"OK!"
Charlie did not understand Charlotte's humor and turned back to his desk to write a report, but at this moment the phone rang on his desk.
"This is the serious crime team of the South Branch. What's wrong?"
Before the operator Lena came, Charlie picked up the microphone directly, but after only a few words, he hung up the phone.
"Let's go, there's a case!"
Charlie greeted Charlotte while putting on the coat he had just taken off.
No one knew when the case would appear. He put down the file, Charlotte and Charlie took the elevator to the underground parking lot of the police station, and came to a Chrysler 300C.
“Nice Car!”
Charlotte couldn't help but exclaim. It was a plainclothes police car, with the police lights hidden in the air intake grille, and the pure black body looked extremely low-key.
Although there is no 5.7L V8 engine optional, the 3.6L V6 is enough to cope with general pursuit and interception tasks.
"Do you want to go out?"
Hearing Charlotte's admiration, Charlie, who took out the key, asked.
"think!"
"Then take it!"
As soon as the key was thrown, Charlotte reached out to catch it directly.
"Thanks Charlie!"
Charlie smiled and took the co-pilot directly. Although he also liked to drive, he wanted to get a preliminary understanding of the case while driving.
"At 7:05 this morning, the dispatch center received a report that someone might have heard gunshots on Dick Street. A group of patrol officers went to check and found a body at the scene."
Charlotte was driving in the traffic, and Charlie briefly described the case.
"So this time it's a homicide?"
The murder case is given priority to the serious crime team, and it is not the turn of Charlotte and others to handle the case of thieves.
"Yes, but after the patrol report, because the time was too early, no suspicious people were found in the nearby residents."
“That is, we have no witnesses this time.”
After turning the steering wheel lightly, Charlotte drove into Dick Street and parked directly behind two police cars.
“The car is driving well.”
Charlie praised him, he had arrived at the scene without feeling anything.
"It's okay!"
Open the car door and got out of the car and walked straight to the apartment building where the crime occurred.
"It's great that you're here. I'm Kevin. My partner and I came to the scene first. After finding the body, we protected the scene."
Seeing Charlotte and the others coming, a patrolman came up directly.
"Charlie, this is my partner Sherlock. Can you take us to the scene to see it?"
"Yes, the identity of the deceased can be confirmed, and it is Susanna, the owner of the apartment."
“Is it Latino?”
When Charlie asked when he heard this name, he usually had a distinctive name.
"Yes, but we have checked her information. When she was eight years old, she immigrated to the United States with her parents and was already naturalized."
In addition to drugs, cases involving Latinos are more smuggled.
However, this is the Immigration Bureau's business, and the patrol officers will not care about it, let alone the serious crime team. But if they have been naturalized, Susanna's death obviously has nothing to do with smuggling.
Walking into the apartment, Charlotte and Charlie saw the dead man lying in a pool of blood in the living room, wearing a bathrobe.
This made Charlotte wonder, turned his head and looked at the door lock of the apartment, which had no signs of being pried.
An acquaintance commits the crime?
Or did the murderer get the key in advance?
Charlie squatted in front of the body and looked at the gun hole on her chest.
"It's 22 caliber, no wonder the person who reported the case said he might have heard gunshots."
If you want to convert 22 inches, it is a 5.56mm NATO standard bullet.
The power of this caliber rifle bullet is known from the performance of the United States on the world battlefield, but if it is a pistol bullet, it is more used in sports pistols because of its small power and high accuracy.
If you don’t pay attention to the gunshot, it is easy to be ignored, but even if you hear it, it will make people wonder whether it is the sound of gunfighting in the action movie next door.
"But this shot hit the heart directly and instantly ended the victim's life. The murderer was professional."
Charlie is also professional, and he can see so many tricks with just one wound.
Chapter completed!