Last Day of His Life

On the last day of his life, Police Sgt. Devon Lawson woke up in the bedroom of Caitlin Jordan, the estranged wife of Officer Nick Jordan.

They hadn't been sleeping that long...He had come over her house after one o'clock that morning...They were lying in bed kissing passionately.....

"Ohhhhhh Devon...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Devon, we said we were going to stop meeting like this..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." moaned Caitlin...

"Caitlin...Caitlin..ohhhhhhhh my god, this is soo damnnn goood...I know..but I can't..I had to see you,I had to have you...You don't understand baby...You came down to the precinct today,looking so good, smelling so good It's just more than I can take.......and today you had on that short dress and those sheer stockings...I nearly lost my mind honey.." he said..

She met him at the door of her house...in a sheer purple baby doll, with matching purple bikini panties.....His eyes nearly fell out of his head...

He was kissing her neck, behind her ears ,her cheeks, her lips and breathing heavily...She had already opened his trousers...had his hard and engorged penis in her soft hands...massaging it, rubbing it..driving him crazy...

They stood in the middle of the floor kissing and practically slobbering over each other, breathing heavily and grinding up against the wall...

"Devon...Devon honey..whew...Hold up a minute...We have to stop this ........I just served Nicky with divorce papers...We should cool it until the divorce is final... What if this gets out?" asked Caitlin..

"It won't get out...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ouuuuuuuuu, girl you feel so good...I got to have you..ummmmphhhh..." he moaned...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu and I need to give it to you..." she moaned...and eased his penis out of his shorts...within minutes...she was on her knees..licking and sucking his rock hard penis..

He was moaning and nearly in a state of collapse....

They eventually wound up in the bedroom...He sucked on her breasts until she was sweating and panting...He then moved down lower...between her legs...

"Devon...ouuuuuuuuuuuu...I have to have you inside me NOW!" she screamed...

He smiled and entered her soft ,moist center and moaned...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh god this is soooooooooooooo gooodddddd!Whooooooo."

They began to make love slowly....The bed moved and sagged in a definite rhythm....the small headboard softly slammed against the wall...

He was a good lover...He brought her to orgasm multiple times....She felt like she was slowly losing her sanity when they made love.......

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu DEVON...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."she moaned..

"Ohhhhh baby...baby...you don't know how much I thought about you all dayy longggggg..I just had to have you...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." he moaned..

"You did?" she asked...


"YESSSSSSS!" he cried out...

They made love until nearly four in the morning, both climaxing into a crescendo of moans and screams and falling asleep in each other's arms...

And now this morning...They had awoke...It was almost six o'clock..They were making slow and sweet love once again...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Devon...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god." she moaned..

"Ohhhhhhh babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" he moaned...

She had been married to Officer Nick Jordan for five years...., She had been his girlfriend all through high school,She had gone to the prom with him...she had married him as soon as he graduated from the police academy...They had just bought the house she was in the year before...Now they were divorcing.....

She never knew just what had gone wrong between them....Maybe they had married too young...Maybe they both were immature, who really knew?  They were divorcing...

Nick's handsome supervisor, Sgt Devon Lawson had caught her eye and she his from the first time she had visited the precinct to visit Nicky...It had been an almost instant attraction between the two of them...but outside of some mild flirtatious bantering, nothing had ever happened between them until around Christmas of last year when Sgt. Devon Lawson came by to pick up Nick and his things after he and Caitlin had had one of their many arguments and she had put him out...He and another officer picked up a drunken Nick Jordan and drove him to a mutual friends house to crash.....but then...He came back...At first to talk to her...One thing led to another and they wound up in bed making sweet love the entire night..... They had been secretly meeting and sleeping together in motels since Christmas...This was only the second time he had actually come to the house where Nick and Caitlin had shared a bed and taken her..

Nick was staying with his mother now.

A little while later the two of them,Devon and Caitlin enjoyed a hot soapy shower together...After the shower ,They washed and got dressed...She fixed him coffee...

He kissed her passionately and she waved as he slipped out of her house the back way and got in his car and pulled off...

Not a bad way to start the last day of your life...huh?

We wouldn't know about this until later...Much later....

Me?  I'm Assistant District Attorney, Keith Wallace..and this is the beginning of one of me and my unit's most bizarre cases.

II-

I am Assistant District Attorney, Keith Wallace...When I woke up this morning...my wife, Detective Carlotta-Rodriguez-Wallace was gone...She had already gotten up and dressed and as she had been doing since we were dating...Had left me a handwritten note...with a lip stick signed kiss at the bottom wishing me a good morning and hoping she'd see me later on that day...She had to appear in court for one of her cases...

She had fixed a pot of coffee for me and left me a cup on the table when I woke up... I smiled reading her note and sniffed it...She had squirted the fragrance she was wearing..That jazmine fragrance she wore when we were in Puerto Rico recently...on the letter..I loved it....I loved her...

Carlotta went straight to court for her appearence, Stopped by Headquarters briefly and then headed downtown for lunch...

On this day,She had just missed Lt. Sissy Van Buren, who had gone to lunch with Angie and Hazel....

Her best friend, FBI Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Sharon Farrell-Hopkins was with her husband, Detective Tony Hopkins for lunch .

and her other good friend, Detective Sirena Pile was with her husband..and her partner..Detective Tyriq Pile for lunch...

Her other partner, Detective James "Jimmy" Barlow was in court himself with one of his cases....and he hadn't gotten out yet..

 And even Duke...Detective Edwin "Duke" Baylor...was no where to be found...

She called me, but I missed her call...by then I was in court...Finishing up one of my cases...

So my poor pretty little wife had to eat lunch by herself..It was rare that she didn't have someone to eat lunch with...On most days...everyone mentioned had lunch together....but it seemed like this was one of the rare days that everybody had different things to do and different places to be...

So Carlotta found herself in a tony little downtown eatery when a familiar face walked over to her and sat down next to her...He rubbed her back and her hips and smiled...

She was getting ready to smack this man in the face until she realized she knew him...

"DEVON???  Devon Lawson??? "she exclaimed and then busted out in laughter......as she leaned and hugged him....

"Carlotta? Carlotttttttttttttttttta....yesssssss."he said ,looking her up and down salaciously.....

He hugged her a little longer than he should have and continued to rub her  back softly......he eventually began to rub her soft legs....

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmm Carlotta, you smell amazing and your legs are so soft and your hips are.." he exclaimed..

"And you are still fresh.." she said and removed his hands...

They busted out laughing...

"How are you doing?" said Carlotta....laughing...

"I made Sergeant..." he said..

"Congratulations." she said.

"And I see you are Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace..." he said smiling...

"Si.."she said..

"Hey..Whatever happened to that guy you used to hang around with..Jimmy...Jimmy something or other?" he asked..

"Jimmy Barlow...He's a detective too..He's one of my partners in C.I.D." said Carlotta..

"Ohhhhhhh nice..You guys are elite detectives...Wow...And I see you are married...Married to an ADA...Not bad Carlotta...Not bad at all..How bout Jimmy..He married?" he asked..

"He is...He's married to an IAB Detective....She used to be in our unit .." said Carlotta..

"Really...Anybody I know?" he asked..

"Angie Belton."said Carlotta.

"I know Angie...I remember her and Duke and Tyriq when they worked my precinct...right before they became Detectives...."he said.

"Duke and Rico are in CID with us too." said Carlotta..

"Yeah? and Sirena? Tyriq's wife??" he asked..

"She's with us too." said Carlotta...

"Wow....Maybe I should take the detective's exam and come over there...That's where all the babes are."he laughed...

"Married Babes Devon...Happily married babes."laughed Carlotta...

He shrugged his shoulders...

"Yeah...you're right...I'm better off right where I am.."he said..

Devon ,Jimmy and her had been in the academy together...Devon was one of the biggest hounds ever...He had tried mightily to get her in his apartment and in his bed on several occassions.., but she couldn't be bothered with Devon...He just wanted sex...

"How bout you Devon?Are you married?" asked Carlotta.

"You kiddin Lotta??...Me? Married?? I aint the marrying type." he laughed...

"No,I guess you aren't" she said...Remembering all of the times he attempted to get free feels..How he tried to get her drunk and grind on her at the police christmas parties...

He was tall,athletic and handsome and had a bit of rougeish charm about him....but he used women, He slept with them until he got bored with them and then on to the next one... Outside of that though...He was a nice guy and a good police officer...

"You order yet?" he asked her..

"No..I just got here.."said Carlotta...

"Your lucky day...I'm buyin...Tell Jimmy,Duke,Angie and Rico...I said hey when you see em." he said as the waitress came to their table..

"I will."said Carlotta, smiling sweetly..

III-

A balmy summer day in Philadelphia....Carlotta and Devon enjoyed their lunch.....Suddenly....There is always a suddenly...the air was punctuated by the rapid sound of Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!.....

Devon looked up...

"What was that?" he asked...

Then there was the sound of glass breaking, screams and people running by the bistro.....

"That sounded like gun shots.." said Carlotta..

Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!..... came the sounds again...More screaming..More running..

"They're shooting!" shouted one man as he ran....He was hit in the back and fell to the ground...dead! He became victim number one...

Devon pulled his glock.....

Carlotta pulled her glock....

She flashed her badge as people rushed into the store and got down....

"POLICE OFFICERS!!! OUT OF THE WAY!!" she said in her thick spanish accent...

"POLICE! MOVE!" said Devon as they ducked down and headed into the streets...

All hell had broken loose...

The gunfire appeared to be coming from a Septa Bus..

Two white males...Evan Clayton and Johann Storm armed with Ar-15 assault rifles apparently had began shooting from the bus....They had already killed the bus driver and two passengers....They wounded several people who had fled the bus trying to get away....

They had shot out the front windows and were lighting up the streets...destroying the windshields of cars and buses...

"GET SOME PHILADELPHIA!!!!" cried Evan Clayton...The mastermind and a certified psychopath in the making...He was 18, had just graduated from high school just two months before....He had been rejected by the Army,Navy,Air Force,Marine core and Coast Guard...because he couldn't pass the psych exam....His grades hadn't been good enough to get him into any local colleges and the girl he wanted had left him for another guy....Angry at the world...He spent his days getting high and plotting his revenge on the world...

He fired another burst on the streets...

Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!.

"We are gonna make Columbine look like a kid's birthday party "said his side kick...Johann Storm, 19,another psychopath in the making.....A high school drop out who also spent most of his days,drunk and high, doing much of nothing...He had recently been fired from his job at CVS and his girlfriend, and mother of his child was threatening to put him out.....

"Carlotta...you got a shot?" asked Devon as he set up behind a parked car...

"It's not a good one.."said Carlotta....

"Take it anyway...We gotta slow them guys down until we can get some back up."said Devon...

Carlotta took two shots....They shattered the window, but missed the shooter...Evan Clayton....

He smiled...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh look a here..we got a couple of piggies Johann....Let em have it JO...LIGHT EM UP! GET SOME  PIGGIES!" he screamed with maniacal glee as both aimed at Carlotta and cut loose...

Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!. Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!.came the rapid fire.

Carlotta ,however was gone...and she set up and fired again....

Devon used this opportunity to take two shots of his own...One of his shots broke a window...The flying glass cut the ear of Johann Storm...

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!....I don't believe it...I've been shot!!!" he screamed...

"Oh shut up...You have not!!!...You just been hit by some glass...Pipe down." said Evan Clayton...

Carlotta got on her walkie talkie...

"Boss Lady...Boss Lady....Shots are being fired!! ...in center city.....I need back up immediately...It's just me and one other officer...We are pinned down...A lot of people have been shot!" she said..

"Chica!!! Keep your line open...We'll follow the GPS signal...Don't try to engage them anymore...Go some place safe...We are on the way!!!!"said Sissy....

I was in the office at the time....I heard the whole thing...

"Carlotta is in trouble???Oh My God!!" I said.

"Keith..You can't be there..it's too dangerous..."said Sissy...

 "Siss...please....That's...That's my wife..."I said, surprised that tears were flowing from my eyes...At the thought of her being hurt...

"I know...I know...You stay here in command center and follow the action...I promise you..I'm going to bring her back to you, safe and sound...Carlotta is a good cop..a damn good cop...She knows what she's doing.."said Sissy, who then looked at her guys.....

"EVERYBODY!!!!...KEVLAR AND TRAUMA PLATES....We have two active shooters...I need every man possible...except the guys in control center...I need all lines open....

Duke grabbed his shot gun...

Tyriq loaded his glock....

Sirena ,Hop and Jimmy loaded their glocks....

and Sharon and a squad of FBI snipers prepared themselves..

"We are on our way Sissy...I'll see you there."said Sharon as they headed out... Captain Ed Cantrell and a half dozen Tactical squad patrolmen entered the office...

He looked at Sissy....

"You ready darlin?" he asked...He wasn't going to even try and talk his prize student out of not going..

"I'm ready..."said Sissy..with a steely eyed resolve..

''Let's hit it."he said.

IV-

Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!..  Pop-Pop-Pop pop pop pop,pop pop pop!.. came the sounds of rapid rifle fire from the bus....

"These knuckleheads must be crazy....They can't hole up in that bus but for so long."said Devon Lawson.....

"They've done maximum damage already...look at all of the bodies in the street!"said Carlotta...

"You call for back up?" he asked..

"Yes...They're on their way." she said...

"Good..because I'm runnin out of ammo..How bout you?" he asked...

She went in her purse and loaded another clip into her glock and passed him an extra clip...

He smiled..

"Sexy and well prepared.." he said..

Carlotta smiled...

A Police car rolled up...

The two shooters riddled the car with gunfire..luckily, the two officers escaped ,unharmed and made their way to Carlotta and Devon....

Carlotta looked up and smiled..She saw Duke with his shotgun and Tyriq with his glock, Hop with his glock and Jimmy with his glock and about ten uniformed officers setting up and hitting the bus with gunfire...

She looked behind her... Lt. Sissy Van Buren and Detective Sirena Pile were there with her Kevlar vest and trauma plate and seven uniformed officers...

"We got here as soon as we could Chica..." said Sissy, hugging her good friend....

''And not a moment too soon...It's two guys..They look like teenagers..They're on that bus.."said Carlotta.

"Here Lotta put on your Kevlar and Trauma Plate." said Sirena ,who also hugged her..."Oh Hi Devon..."she said to Sgt. Devon Lawson...

He smiled..

"Heyyy Sirena.." he said..

Sharon ran up on the two of them...

"Heyyy,I got snipers in place....If we see an opportunity, we are gonna take em both out.." she said.

The two teenagers hurled smoke bombs and light concussion bombs out of the windows...The smoke and the loud noise immobilized everyone...

"ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH....The little bastards are using smoke bombs and concussion bombs...I can't see em..hold your fire.." said Duke..

"Where are they gettin this ammo?" asked Tyriq, coughing and ducking down.....

"Stay here Duke,Rico...Me and Hop are gonna see if we can get a make on their escape route..."said Jimmy...

"I see em Jimmy...They're running down that alley.." said Hop....He gathered some uniform policemen and he and Jimmy gave chase...

By now..Carlotta ,Sirena, Sharon and Sissy had joined up with Duke and Tyriq...

Sissy and Carlotta were coughing and stumbling...but they made their way to Duke and Tyriq with the help of Sirena,Sharon and some FBI agents..

"I am so glad to see you guys."said Carlotta...

"I'm glad to see you partner...Hey Devon.." said Tyriq..

"Hey Rico...I'll share small talk later....I'm goin down that alley and back up Jimmy.."said Devon Lawson...

"Everybody alright?" asked Duke...

"Yeah..but they need to be careful....That alley is like a maze..It leads into several different alley ways..with all this smoke and noise...they could wind up shooting each other.."said Sirena..

Sirena was right...We hard a loud gunshot just minutes later....

By now..Captain Ed Cantrell and his tactical unit cops were on the scene...

"Take that alley boys...those two little bastards aren't getting out..." he said..

Just then a smoke bomb exploded and it was followed by a concussion bomb that shook the entire area...and sounds of more screaming.....

Jimmy and Hop had got seperated from the uniforms and found themselves staring into the cold eyes of Shooter, Evan Clayton!

They were partially blinded by the smoke and disoriented by the loud sound...

''Well..Well well....look what I got here...a couple of well dressed piggies...You won't get away from me now piggies..." he said and aimed.....

Just then the voice of Captain Edward Cantrell was heard...

"That's where you got it wrong son...You aint gettin away from me!" he said and fired one round that went through his shoulder...another round that hit him square in the chest and another round that went right between his eyes...

He dropped his assault rifle and backed up in shock...

"I don't believe it...I've been shot!" he exclaimed and then dropped to the ground...Dead!

The alley was now flooded with Police and FBI agents....I had arrived on the scene by that time with Hazel...

I held my wife, Carlotta tightly and as close as possible...kissing her constantly...

Sissy, Duke, Tyriq ,Sirena and Sharon entered also...

Jimmy and Hop were still coughing.....but alright otherwise...

"Wow...he's just a kid..."mused Hop...

"There was two of them..Where is the other one?" asked Carlotta...

"They split up...Devon went after the other one..."said Jimmy still coughing...

"Come on...All of you...Let's get out of this alley and all of this smoke.."said Captain Ed Cantrell..

Out in the street....Ambulances were loading the wounded into them and pulling off.. 18 people had been wounded...four seriously and the rest..non-life threatening.....9 people were confirmed dead...

Nine body bags were lying in a row and Forensic Investigator, Dr. Hazel Hunter -Baylor and her people were just shaking their heads...

"Oh My god....Nine people dead...cut down by automatic rifle fire.." said Hazel...

"Ten dead darlin...We got one of the shooters...the other got away..." said Captain Ed Cantrell...

An officer came out of the alley....

"We got another one dead Captain..An Officer..!!!! "he said.

"What? We said....

He led us all back into the alley and there lying face up...with blood rushing out of a head wound was Sgt. Devon Lawson....His lifeless eyes still open...

"Oh my god! Devon!!!" said my wife, Carlotta...She put her hands over her mouth and the tears just streamed down her face...

Jimmy walked over..kneeled down and closed his eyes...

"We were in the Academy together...Me, Carlotta, Devon.....Damn man...."he said.

"I knew him...He was good police."said Tyriq...

Sirena knelt down...She was weeping silently too...

"Damn...I always thought some woman's husband or boyfriend was gonna take him out...Never thought he'd die like this.." she said.

Duke said nothing...He just punched the palm of his hand....

I said nothing...We had had the worst mass shooting in the city's history...18 wounded...4 seriously...11 dead...amongst them, a police officer,one of the shooters....and one shooter on the loose...

Yeah, just another summer day in the city...

(DEFINITELY TO BE CONTINUED)