Illusion of Elusiveness

It was a full moon.....That didn't bode well......Crazy things have been known to happen on nights with full moons...In fact, it was a proven fact that the crime rate actually went up on summer nights with full moons...

We had all played cards and tried not to talk about the days events or rather the events of the past two days...Five people murdered, three in a beauty salon, one in a laundromat and another in her apartment by a deranged man who blamed them all  because the woman he was engaged to , the woman he controlled decided to move out of his apartment and as far away from him as she could get....

This just didn't sit right with me....I've prosecuted several murders.....Gangland Hits....Simple murders, Serial Killings.....and even rampage or spree killings like this..but something like this hit me at my core...Where I lived...

I sat on the bed in our room at our safehouse...depressed....We had perhaps saved Latoya ,her brother and sister and her parents from this mad man...but we didn't save her three closest friends , the ex-boyfriend of one of them or even his side piece...Though I couldn't understand why he would have killed her...She had nothing to do with what the others did...

Carlotta sat on the bed next to me...

"Papi, snap out of it...We are doing all we can...."she said.

"I know...I'm not blaming you guys...I'm not blaming anyone..Just lamenting cruel fate..that's all.." I said."This shouldn't have happened...Why do people do things like this to each other...?" I asked...

Carlotta held my hand...

"I don't know papi...I don't know..." she said..

I leaned over and kissed her passionately....

Carlotta had the softest lips and the softest kisses I had ever had.....

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmm.....ouuuuuu papi...I think you are getting over it.." she said smiling and continuing to kiss me....

I rolled over on top of her and kissed her some more for a few minutes....Finally we stopped kissing and Carlotta got up...

She looked at the bulge in my trousers and smiled..

"Aye yi yiiiiiiiiii,ouuu papi..." she said and smiled sheepishly...

Soon she was undressed and standing in the middle of the floor in lingerie...

"I think I know how to take your mind off of your troubles.." she said...

"I think you can too..."I said...I quickly undressed....

She sat on my lap and we kissed some more.....

"Ooou papi...you are as hard as a baseball bat..."she said stroking me softly....

Soon we were both nude and in the middle of the floor kissing passionately...

"Damn girl, why do you have to be so damn hot?  I was trying to think seriously about this case." I said in between passionate kisses..Carlotta kissed me and stroked me softly...

"Perhaps you need a break...I need one." she said..

Our kissing got more passionate and before I knew it....We were in the bed....

I entered Carlotta slowly...licking her breasts and kissing her neck ,her earlobes ,her eyelids and finally her sweet lips...

She was so wet, so warm, so soft and smelled like a newborn baby.....I was totally entranced by her and neither of us could get enough of each other...

Five or six hours went by like nothing....Carlotta was having the most intense orgasm, I had known her to have...Her mouth opened ,but no words came out...tears just streamed down the side of her face, replaced by the most serene smile I had ever seen...It got me so excited, I came like a river....Shaking and opening my mouth wide...

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!" I said...

Carlotta laughed....

I held her in my arms....

"Thank you baby....I needed that.." I said.

"I know you did..I needed it too.." she said and leaned into me as I wrapped my arms around her...

Later we took a nice long shower,in which I held her gently in my arms as the hot steamy water and soap ran off of us.....No doubt, Duke and Hazel...Sissy and Eddie C. , Tyriq and Sirena were doing the same thing in their bedrooms..

When we all went to bed...Jimmy was still up ,looking at traffic cam footage..

 .He had an eye for detail..He was good at that..

 But Hop on the other hand and Sharon had turned in before both of us....

Carlotta and I heard them making sweet love long before we turned in....

Sometime early in the morning though....Hop joined Jimmy,

Looking at Traffic,Street,ATM and Business cam footage.

II-

The next morning, we found a pick up truck....but not just any pick up truck...A truck registered to our shooter....

"Hop...Jimmy...This was a good pick up...."said Duke as he, Tyriq, Carlotta and Sirena closely opened the door and searched the truck....

"We were up half the night...looking at footage..."said Jimmy....

"I know and you were uh missing out on something good.."said Angie salaciously....

 Both Duke and Tyriq looked at each other sheepishly....

"Youth!" said Tyriq...Duke and I smiled sheepishly...

 "You uh didn't miss anything good did you counselor???...I uh had to pass by your room to uh get to mine."laughed Duke slyly.."For the record...I didn't miss out on anything good either..."he said..

"Uh No I uh didn't.." I smiled..Our bed was really squeaking and the headboard was slamming against the wall hard...No doubt, Duke had heard...

"At any rate...he ditched this pick up truck here....We caught it on the traffic cam."said Hop...

"Bag this...Tag it...It's a Sig Sauer....No doubt our murder weapon...."said Carlotta...

Sirena opened it...."It's empty.....but why would he ditch it?" she asked..

"He's got other guns..."said Jimmy...

"My team is here...we are going to process it for prints and DNA..."said Hazel....

"Never have we had so much evidence on one person and no idea where they might be..." said Tyriq...

"We might be able to help with that..." said Sissy as she and Sharon drove up...

"At least I got an idea where he got his arsenal from...."said Sharon... "  Carlotta, when you ,Jimmy and Rico checked his financials...there were several payments to a Bruce Sauken..The guy Tamika told us about...I ran him through decks...He and a guy named Johnny Kilgore are major gun runners...We've been investigating those two for months now...We have a major sting set up for tonight...Want to come along?" asked Sharon...

"What has that got to do with our shooter? You think he'll purchase more guns?" asked Jimmy...

"We catch them and it might make them want to deal..."said Sharon..

"I'm down..."said Carlotta..

"Anything is better than just sitting around..waiting for him to strike again..."said Tyriq...

"Too late for that...There has been another shooting" said Sirena..

"WHAT?" said Sissy incredulously...

III-

The body of James "Buddy " Newsome lie in a puddle of blood...in front of his apartment....

Witnesses said a dirty old blue or green pick up drove by and the man called his name out and fired one shot...the shot that hit him in his head and killed him from a Sig Sauer and kept going...

"Same as our two yesterday...Wanna bet that the truck we found and the gun in it are the murder weapon?" asked Hazel as she examined the body with Sissy and Angie..

"What did this guy do?" asked Angie...

"According to his ID, he was the Foreman at the Repo Depot...Where Ransom last worked.....He is probably the one who either fired him or told him he was fired." said Sissy...

"This was broad daylight boss lady...We have several witnesses...Sounds like our guy.."said Carlotta..

"Me, Jimmy and Hop have a team on the cameras in the area..."said Tyriq..

Jimmy and Hop were directing uniformed officers as to what to search for...

"My guess is that this guy moves around a lot..He doesn't stay anywhere too long..He sets up and uses one vehicle ,then drives to where his next vehicle is hidden and pulls off in the opposite direction."said Sirena..

"You're right...I've got guys at all of the train stations ,the Airports and the bus station as well as the regional rail and Septa stations..a total BOLO on this guy and his photo everywhere..."said Duke..

I continued to brood...This guy was terrorizing the city...Everybody was talking about him and he was  dropping an average of two people a day and we were powerless to stop him..The Mayor wanted action on this fast, So did the D.A.'s office....

We didn't have a clue as to where he was or who else was on his list....

IV-

Sharon and her FBI agents and Agents of the ATF made their sting that night without us...They arrested both Johnny Kilgore and Bruce Sauken...and broken up a major gun running ring...They arrested 12 other men and got a warehouse full of illegal guns...It was a big haul for Sharon...

At least somebody had made a major bust...

Sharon and her FBI agents and the agents from the ATF leaned on them for close to three hours.....She returned to our safehouse that night with some news..


(They all would eventually be convicted and receive 10 years in federal prison.....because of their help, Kilgore and Sauken received five years in federal prison...)

"Kilgore and Sauken admitted to selling Tyrone Ransom a crap load of guns for close to two years...said he was one of their best customers...and guess what...?They gave me this address... You guys wanna take a run at him? "said Sharon...

It was daybreak...

Carlotta and Angie had found the house...Where he was said to stay...Parked in front of it was the Blue Tow truck...

Sissy and I walked up next...

 "This looks like the place..."said Sissy.

"That's definitely the tow truck....You girls get the plates?" I asked.

"Yes...They match..."said Carlotta..

"We've been watching the place for a half hour..Haven't seen a sign of him...Where is Duke?"asked Angie..

"Here he comes...He got the warrant!" said Sissy...

Duke, Tyriq, Jimmy,Sirena and Hop came down the street with ten tactical squad officers...All had on Kevlar and trauma plates and were armed with riot pump shot guns...

"Okay Girls..Let's join the party" said Sissy, who loaded her glock...

Carlotta and Angie loaded theirs and headed across the street with their Lieutenant...

Duke knocked on the door...

"RANSOM...We have a warrant for your arrest...Come out with your hands up." he said.. There was an eerie quietness...

Duke knocked again...

"RANSOM...We have a warrant for your arrest...Come out with your hands up." he said.. Again there was an eerie quietness...

Duke instructed one of the Tact squad boys to knock the door down..He did...

 Sissy ,Duke, Carlotta, Angie and five Tactical squad officers entered the house with guns drawn...From the back..

Tyriq gave the order to break down the door and it was done.. Rico, Jimmy, Sirena and Hop and five Tactical squad officers broke in the back door and entered with shotguns drawn and flash lights on...

"CLEAR!" came the sounds of police officers..

"CLEAR"

"CLEAR!"

"ALL CLEAR!"

I knew what that meant...He had eluded us once again or had he?

"He's not here..but this is definitely his place."said Carlotta...

"Look at all these guns.." said Jimmy...

"Oh My God...This guy had an arsenal..."said Tyriq...

"Look, about six burner phones...and all of these cheesy love letters to Latoya..." said Sirena...

Hop looked at Photos and personal effects...A Laptop computer, a tablet...another smartphone...

"I'm calling for more back up..We've got a ton of evidence...This is good."said Hop..

"Good? Good? He's not here." I said.

"No, but we have what I believe is his main method of transportation and a ton of evidence we are going to take out of here tonight...We just broke his back..He hasn't got that many resources Keith..We got his truck..We got his guns and we got his computer,his phone,his tablet, his laptop..his phones ,we got a whole new look into his world..The noose is tightening around him."said Sissy...

"We may be able to see who else he targeted..." said Angie..

Duke found two bras and two pairs of panties lying on the floor in the bathroom..

"He hasn't been alone..He's had guests.. There is a trash can full of used condoms." said Duke..

"Maybe he's with a girl right now, which is why he's not here."said Jimmy...

"He could be somewhere near...Down the street...Next door even.. He may have went on foot.."said Carlotta..

"Here comes back up...Grab some officers..Do a door to door search...Talk to everybody on this block...Everybody...If that rat is anywhere near...I want him flushed out."said Sissy...

All of the police cars and police activity brought the usual onlookers out to the corner...

If he was around...by now he'd seen us and got into the wind again....But time was running out on him...

I had faith that we were about to close in on him...It was just a matter of time...

(DEFINITELY TO BE CONTINUED)