Another Day at the Office

[Joseph Wolfe]

It was another night just like the last month or so. At this time of night Joseph found himself sitting at his desk going over the case file with his assistant Melina.

"I don't understand how he could have committed the murder if he was across town recorded on CCTV running a red light and then apparently almost side swiping an El Camino."

Melina took the case out of his hand and opened it to a page to show to Joseph. "Didn't it say the street light's camera was busted?" She skims a few pages "Aha right here."

Joseph takes the file out of her hand and reads where she points to. "But..." as he points to a section he has highlighted a few pages away "... here is a CCTV camera with a time stamp at the time the witness showing Mr. Mathers walking out of a strip club and hailing a cab."

He flips another few pages around the file "We have a testimony of a witness outside of his apartment five minutes after the hailed cab of him taking an elevator up to his apartment with an unknown female." Joseph drops the case file. "The woman is found the next day dead with her throat cut ear to ear almost decapitation off the coast of Miami and his car is gone from his apartment building with the claim of "He let a friend borrow it. He doesn't even try to deny the fact of the girl being with him so the prosecution is tearing me apart here in his defense." Joseph rubs his eyes.

Melina stands up slowly stretching for a few seconds before motioning to the clock. "My day is officially done as of this moment... well technically thirty four minutes ago." She clasps the door knob "I'd advise you to go home and get some rest. You do have to make your last attempt to paint your client as innocent before the verdict is read." With those words she closes the door behind her on her way out.

Joseph gathers his notes and throws them into his travel bag. He gathers his belongings and locks all the doors behind him on his way out. He walks slowly to the car garage and opens the door to place his belongings in the back seat and thats when it happened.

*BLAM*
*BLAM*
*BLAM*

Three gunshots ran out in the parking garage. Joseph dropped to the cold concrete floor as glass shattered near him and the mirror to his car exploded into a shower of glass and metal. He climbed to his knees and scrambled on all fours to the door of the building slamming into the locked door. He swears loudly as he fumbles for the door key.

*BLAM*

The gunshot shatters the glass of the fire axe within his reach. Joseph drops the keys and runs as fast as he can for the cover of cars.

Who the hell is shooting at me? Joseph thinks to himself. He runs faster for the exit. The sound of salvation greets him: Sirens of the police as they drive toward his location. Footsteps not his own are heard running to the fire escape and seconds later the escape door slamming into a wall.

Joseph rests again a wall as the red and blue lights bathe him. He hears the shouts of officers doing their job and he complies with their orders and tells him to search him for his ID and to catch the guy who shot at him who is currently escaping down the fire escape.

OOC: Tag - Any police officer

[Scott Martin]

(OOC: Any other officers can join in too, Scott can always use help!)

Scott had gotten the call from dispatch to head to the scene of a shooting. Several gunshots were reported, but as of now there were no victims. Officers already in the area had taken up pursuit, but Scott had been called in get information from the man being shot at, and if need be his police dog Nino could try to sniff out the trail if the other officers lost him on foot.

Scott had arrived to to the parking garage after several of the other officers. After getting an assessment of the current situation from his superiors on the scene he walked over to the man who had been the target of the gunfire. He opened up his badge showing it to the man. "I'm Officer Scott Martin, I need to ask you some questions. Before I do, do you need an ambulance called?" He offered. The man didnt look injured but he could be shaken up enough that he wanted to go to the hospital.

[Joseph Wolfe]

Joseph answers the questions posed to him by the officers first responding to the crime scene. After a few minutes of the first responders doing preliminary work a man stepped forward out of the crowd and identified himself by showing his badge.

Scott Martin

"I'm Officer Scott Martin, I need to ask you some questions. Before I do, do you need an ambulance called?"

Joseph still in a slight bit of shock shook his head no. After a few deep breaths he regained a little bit of his composure and decided he could talk to this man.

"I can answer a few questions...." he said in a timid voice.

[Scott Martin]

Scott gave the man a few minutes to look at his badge before putting it away. He wasnt the type of officer to just flash the badge and expect people to trust him immediately. He didnt mind people needing to see his qualifications first.

He nodded as the man informed him that he didnt need an ambulance. "If at any time you change your mind, let me know, and we'll have one here right away"

"Your name is Joseph Wolfe, is that correct?" Scott said looking down at the pad of information he had gotten from the other officers. "I'll need you to tell me what happened here. Start with before the gunfire, anything you were doing or that you saw"