Buzz Kill

Sissy and I and Hop and Sirena entered the Medical Supply Store where Lt. Danny Ho of Robbery Homicide was sitting with a frightened man in the back room...

 "Thanks for calling us Danny..."said Sissy..

 "Yes...Maybe just maybe this can help us." I said..

 "We are starting to gain ground on this guy.."said Hop

"We've got to find him though." said Sirena.

'I saw the 20's on your case and when this guy called us..I thought maybe it could help you.."said Lt. Danny Ho...He looked at the man and said softly..

"This is Lt. Sissy Van Buren and her detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division and Assistant District Attorney Keith Wallace...Tell them what you told me.." he said.

The man began his story...

"It was two weeks ago...the night of the last lovers lane murders...this guy...an older guy, short...blonde hair, round pasty face pulled a 9 millimeter on me....as I was closin..He was bleeding profusely...I said.. Buddy you've been shot and he said , I bet you were number one in your class, get back in that shop...He forced me in at gun point.. He stole three boxes of bandages, gauze and rubbing alcohol and he robbed my register… Stole about a grand...

He warned me that if I went to the cops, he'd kill me...said he'd be watching me.. He was in an old pick up truck....

He pistol whipped me...  I was terrified...but after that cabbie got killed yesterday and he called that show Hard Bottom, I knew it was the same guy...I knew it...I put two and two together and I went to Robbery-Homicide.." said the man...

Hop showed him the photo we had of our suspect.. Russell Tucker Meyers....

'Is this the man who held you up and assaulted you?" he asked..

The man's eyes lit up...

"THAT'S HIM!!  THAT'S THE GUY" he said.

"Are you sure?" said Sirena...

"Yes.. that's him and I can even give you his license plate on that pick up truck..."he said..

"That makes two eyewitnesses and a DNA match and a fingerprint we pulled off of a burner phone last night at the scene of the cabbie's murder.." said Sirena..

"Sounds like you got a suspect.. Tragg is going around saying he should be heading a task force and that you guys will never make an arrest, That this killer is too smart and too fast for you guys.." laughed Danny Ho.

''He's such a Buzz Kill, Don't bring him up.." said Sissy..

I just laughed...

II-

At our headquarters  , Sharon was showing the remaining detectives Street Cam  and ATM Cam footage of last night's murder..

on one of the monitors...

"Look, there is the flash from the gunshot...and look, there he is getting out of the cab and walking away..."said Sharon...

"That's him...he's tossing the burner phone in the trash can.." said Carlotta...

"He's walking west.. and smiling.. which means he walked right past the first two cop cars on the scene as well as us and the M.E.'s office people.." said Tyriq..

"He blended in with the crowd of people who heard the shot and swarmed to the scene...Nobody noticed him..."said Jimmy...

''He's bleeding like a stuck pig.. Look, he left a trail of blood that nobody picked up on.." said Angie.

"Judging from the bloody bandages and guaze we found in those trash cans he must have gotten this stuff from some kind of medical supply place.. but he's lost a lot of blood.. I'm amazed he's still alive with a wound like that...If we don't find him soon.. He's going to die.." said Hazel..

"It would serve him right.. All the carnage he's caused." said Duke..

"The film footage, the DNA from the blood and the fingerprint puts him in for the cabbie's murder last night.."said Carlotta.

"Our surviving eyewitness puts him in for the murder Hop and Sirena caught.."said Tyriq..

"And his blood and DNA at the scene puts him in for the last double murder..but what about ours? The first shooting..?" said Jimmy...

"All of the gunshots come from the same gun and plus, he's confessed on tape and on television to all of them...Game set match...Russell Tucker Meyers is our guy..."said Duke..

"Now all we gotta do is find him." said Angie.. ''We've been to three addresses we had for him and he wasn't at any of those places.."said Angie.

''Well we've got another address" I said as Sissy, Sirena, Hop and Lt. Danny Ho and our witness walked in...

"Our boy held up a medical supply store...The night of the double murder...Our eyewitness identified him and gave us the license plate on the pick up truck he was driving that night." said Sirena..

"And unlike the cars...This truck isn't stolen...It's registered to.....Wait for it...Russell Tucker Meyers and it has an address that we haven't been to.."said Hop...

''Duke round up a team of the toughest plain clothes officers you got...borrow some guys from Narcotics and Vice.. Let's get this guy and get him fast." said Sissy...

"I'm on it... Everybody get your Vests and Trauma plates..and tool up...Let's do this." barked Duke.

III-

Lt. Tragg walked into the Television Studio where HARD BOTTOM was about to shoot..

"Another murder...A senseless murder last night and the detectives working the case have nothing...They been on this guy for two weeks.. Nothing...I can't wait to get on him and rip them a new one.. Although some of them used to be my detectives..It's not their fault...It's a crisis of leadership..."said Lt. Tragg.

"Uh Arthur....Uhhhh I don't know how to uh er ahhh tell ya this..but uh, well you can't be on the show tonight.." said  B.L. Benz.

''Huh? What are you talking about?" asked Lt. Tragg...

''Since the murder last night...Social media has been going crazy...Twitter and Facebook are blaming YOU for that cabbie's death...They say your tough talk egged him on..He had been quiet and you got him riled up...People have been writing in and calling in blaming you... My producers felt it would be better if you not appear on the show for a little while uh like until we call you.." said B.L

."WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT???  I'm the one that nearly broke this case wide open..We had him...We had him.."said Lt. Tragg..

"Lt. Sissy Van Buren and her detectives were there before we got there..."said B.L.

"They cheated.. They were monitoring your stations calls...They knew he was calling you...but it was my idea to trace and trap him..My people that tracked him down first..."said Lt. Tragg...

"It's not even your case...and now because of the way you talked to her...I can't get an interview with her.. Artie.. you're just a Buzz Kill man.." said B.L.

"WHYYYYY YOU UNGRATEFUL LITTLE.." screamed Lt. Tragg..

"SECURITY" yelled B.L. Benz..

Three beefy security guards grabbed Lt. Tragg and escorted him out of the television studio and into the street..

"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!!! BUZZ KILL...BUZZ KILL...I'LL SHOW YOU BUZZ KILL YA DAMN CHISLER!!!!!!" screamed Lt. Tragg.

IV-

"These are pretty nice apartments." observed Jimmy as he ,Tyriq,Carlotta and Sirena

along with six plain clothes officers all armed with riot pump shotguns and glocks slipped inside the building and got the residents on Tuckers floor to leave their apartments...

Sissy ,Hop, Duke, Angie and six more plain clothes officers all armed with Glocks took the other end of the hall...They did the same thing...

Russell Tucker Meyer's Pick Up Truck was parked out front...He was coming out of his apartment and spied us...Although we didn't have on uniforms...He knew cops when he saw them...He went to run back in his apartment..

"TUCKER...DON'T MOVE!!...IT'S ALL OVER!"said Duke..

Sissy aimed her glock at his head..

"I won't miss from this range...Neither will these others...You're under arrest for six counts of First Degree Murder, one count of attempted murder , Armed Robbery, one count."said Sissy...

He actually looked relieved...He fell to the ground...

"You mean seven counts don't you Lieutenant?" he said..

"No, six...one of your would be victims survived...He I.D.ed you..."said Sissy..

Russell Tucker Meyers laughed...

''Son of a bitch..." he said..

Hop and Angie handcuffed him....


He was in pretty bad shape....but good enough shape for us to brace him...

We took him back to headquarters where

 Hazel and some Doctors administered proper first aid to his wounds...

He sat in the Interrogation room with Carlotta, Angie and Duke..

He was advised of his Miranda Rights...He chose to wave them...He talked long and hard about his hardships with women...He confessed to stalking and killing all five of the victims at the lovers lanes...He said the cabbie was a mistake...He was angry at the way Lt. Tragg and B.L. Benza had called him out on television...That cabbie was just in the wrong place at the wrong time..

He also confessed to murdering his estranged wife in Las Vegas and burying her corpse in the dessert..

"You'll never find her.." he laughed...

Seven murders...

 ''What an evil man." said Sissy as  Russell Tucker Meyers was transferred to the Correctional Center's hospital unit...

 "I'm going to ask for seven death penalties.." I said,.

 "If Only..."said Sharon.

 "Wow...He was scary.." said Hazel..

 "I for one will sleep better knowing that kook is behind bars.."said Tyriq..

 "Me too believe it or not.." said Jimmy...

 "God...He was creepy...I hope the Las Vegas P.D. finds his wife's remains.."said Sirena..

"I do too...At least that worthless piece of excretement won't hurt anybody else " said Angie..

And at the Television Station..

"This just in...There has been an arrest in The Lovers Lane Murder Case....Russell Tucker Meyers was arrested by Lt. Sissy Van Buren and the Detectives of the Criminal Investigation Division shown here..

They worked around the clock with help from the FBI and the Medical Examiners office 

 Led by Deputy Special Agent in charge, Sharon Hopkins

and forensic investigator ,Dr. Hazel Baylor  who put together a case against Tucker-Meyers, an ex cop and sherrif's deputy that stuck...It is said that he has confessed to the lovers lane murders and to the murder of his estranged wife in Las Vegas...Her body has never been found." he said..

Watching it all from the bar was Poor Lt. Tragg...

"I don't believe it...I don't believe it...I just can't catch a break..." he said as he drank...

"Hey Artie...come on...stop being a buzz kill."said Curly, the bartender...

EPILOUGE-

Russell Tucker Meyers was convicted of six counts of first degree murder and sentenced to death...

He was convicted in absentia of the murder of his wife in Las Vegas and also sentenced to death..

His wife's body to date has not been found...

 It was time for a celebration...Everyone had gone home ,except the Night Sgt and a few uniformed officers...Sissy's husband ,Eddie C. set up a grill on the patio of our new headquarters and began grilling Hot Links..

 ''I gotta say for cops, you guys sure have some classy digs." said Eddie C. who was grilling with one hand and had his arms around his wife, Sissy..

"Edddieee, watch what you're doing.."cooed Sissy...

There was an ice chest full of beer...

Carlotta sat on my lap and we traded kisses...

as did Angie and Jimmy...

Duke and Tyriq were helping Eddie with the grilling...

While Hop and Sharon were sharing passionate kisses in the corner..

Just then Lt. Danny Ho walked in with his girlfriend, Private Investigator, Jade Lee , who was working at the McCluskey /Cozen/Connor and Pratt law firm..

 ''Enough Links for me..?" he jokingly asked..

"You mean for us.." joked Jade Lee.

''But of course" laughed Danny Ho devilishly....

"Sure there is plenty...Come on over...Don't mind Danny Jade...He's always been like this.."said Sissy...

"You know my girlfriend, Jade don't you?" he asked..

''Yes, we worked a case together a few years ago..When she was with the Tokyo Police...Congratulations on getting your citizenship recently and your P.I.'s license."said Sissy.

"Thank you Ms. Sissy...I do remember that case...We worked with Mr. Kevin." said Jade...

Remembering the case of a few years ago.

"I've seen you in court with Yvette Jones and her attorneys...

You've uh embarrassed Lt. Tragg several times.."said Sirena..

Jade just laughed..

Hazel passed her a beer...

''Then she's alright with me.." she said and the women laughed...

As the sun set...We all ate hot links and laughed and talked and drank beer...we deserved it...

I loved these guys.. all of em...They were more than my friends and colleagues...They were my family.


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