Murder+at+3B

by Adam, Austin, and David


 * On the third floor of the Happy Times Apartment Building, Jorge El-Vechy sat calmly at his kitchen table coloring a picture of a jalapeno pepper, while listening to his favorite radio station, Mariachi 101. Then his radio began to get louder and louder, until it was as loud as it could get. Jorge slowly turned around to find a large mysterious figure in his small cluttered kitchen. The person became more visible, as he slowly crept closer to him. He was wearing worn out blue jeans and a red shirt. He looked furious, and Jorge could tell he meant no good. The man slowly pulled out a silenced pistol and shot him straight in the heart. Jorge fell to the ground in an instant, with red blood running down from both sides of his chest. The killer started to search Jorge’s house for anything that he had wanted. After searching all of the rooms, the murderer heard a large group of people outside the apartment complaining about the loud music. The murderer quickly broke a window and jumped out onto the fire escape and climbed down. The people at the door heard the window shatter and called the police. **
 * When the police arrived, a group of people told the police officer about what had happened. The police asked the owner of the building for the key to apartment 3-B, which was Jorge’s apartment. Once inside the apartment, the officer and the crowd of neighbors followed the sound of the loud music into the kitchen, where they found the dead body of Jorge lying on the ground. **


 * Scattered around Jorge’s body was shattered glass and blood. The police officer also noticed a hole in the window. He also saw a bullet stuck deep in a wall to the right of the window. Officer Jackson looked out the window at the fire escape. He saw a wallet that was dropped on the escape. He picked it up and saw that it was Jorge’s wallet. **
 * “I will need to call a detective”, said Officer Jackson. “I will be going now, and I will have to ask you all to leave.” After everybody had left, Officer Jackson called Detective Harrison to come and solve the mystery of who broke in, how they got in, and why they killed the resident of 3-B. **
 * About five minutes later, Detective Harrison came speeding down the street in a shiny black sports car. A tall thin man in a black coat and pants stepped out of the car. It was Detective James Harrison. He and Officer Jackson met up in front of the apartment to discuss the case. After Officer Jackson talked to the detective about what had happened in apartment 3-B, Detective Harrison walked around and looked about the apartment. **


 * Once inside, he tried to find out how the murderer got into the house. His first thought was the front door was unlocked, but then he realized that the officer had to borrow a key to get in the apartment. He saw the broken window and wrote it down for evidence. The next thing Detective Harrison looked for was the way he was murdered, which was not hard because he noticed the bullet that was stuck in the wall. The last thing the detective tried to find out while he was at the apartment was who had murdered Jorge, and to do that he needed more clues. **
 * The detective began to search around again for more clues, the first place he looked was in the trash can, but the only thing in there was a crumpled up contract for land, on a nearby farmer’s property. It was signed by Jorge. Detective Harrison didn't bother with it. He walked to the front hall by the door where he found a trail of muddy footprints, with hay dried into it. He got the thought that maybe the footprints were from someone who had come in to see what happened with the police, but maybe they belonged to the murderer. **
 * The detective decided that he needed to hear what Jorge’s neighbors had to say about the murder. The first neighbor that Detective Harrison talked to was a small old lady who seemed to have lived there a long time. She said her name was Susie, and she was a wise old lady, but unfortunately she knew nothing about Jorge’s death. The second neighbor was a fat man who smelled funny, and went by the name of Victor, the man claimed to be Jorge’s best friend but he couldn’t prove it. Detective Harrison started to ask him some questions about Jorge and by the answers that the man gave him it was obvious that the man didn’t know Jorge at all, that made Detective Harrison suspicious. The last person the detective talked to was a local farmer named Billy Dooney. Billy told the detective that he had just recently met Jorge, and that Jorge wasn’t very kind to him, and that his death didn’t matter much to him. **
 * “Okay”, said Detective Harrison. “ That’s all I need to know”, and he left quickly without saying goodbye. **
 * Detective Harrison rushed back into Jorge’s apartments and grabbed the contract for land. The farmer’s name was Billy. Harrison thought either Billy or Victor had murdered Jorge, but he did not have enough clues to prove that either of them had done it. **


 * He decided to ask other neighbors what they knew about Billy and Victor, and what kind of people they were. He went up two floors to ask around about Billy. The first person he talked to was Ian . Ian told the detective that Billy was a farmer, and that he had some land about half a mile north. Ian also said that he heard a thud in his wall in the late morning. That must have been from the gunshot, detective Harrison thought to himself. **
 * “Does Billy rent out land to people?” asked Detective Harrison. **


 * “I’m pretty sure he does, but I’m not positive,” Ian said. **
 * “I think I have a new lead, thank you, Ian” said the investigator as he left Ian’s house and went to investigate Billy’s farm. Harrison drove onto Billy’s driveway. Once Harrison got out of his car, Billy pulled out an AK-47 and started shooting at the Investigator. Harrison dove into his car. Half his body hanging out of the car, he drove in reverse and hit Billy’s mailbox. Harrison crawled completely in and closed the door. Billy was still spraying bullets at Harrison. Harrison drove completely out of Billy’s driveway and called for backup. **
 * Five minutes later, Officer Jackson and a fully armed squad arrived. Half of them went around to the back of Billy’s house and the other half went to the front. Each group broke down the door and went through each room checking for Billy. After they searched the whole house, one group heard a car start. They all started towards the garage. When they opened the door they saw Billy speeding away. Officer Jackson told the groups to stay where they were in case Billy came back. Officer Jackson raced to his car and started after Billy. **
 * As soon as Jackson got to his car he turned on the sirens and sped after Billy. Billy took a sharp turn to the right. Jackson phoned the station and asked for a road spike team. Jackson chased Billy onto the road with the barricade and ordered him to stop from his speaker. But Billy kept speeding away. Ignoring the Officer, Billy thought to himself that his tires were tough enough to get through the road spikes. But they weren’t. He reached the road spikes and his tires popped. He slid into the barricade of cop cars and flipped over. The cops that were in the cars bursted out and surrounded Billy’s car. **


 * “Get out of the car and put your hands up!” officer Jackson yelled. Billy, dazed and confused from the wreck, stumbled out of the car and put his hands up like the officer demanded. He was taken to court and his total prison time was prison for life for murder of Jorge El-Vechy, resisting police officer enforcement, attempted murder of police officers, stealing, and not having a gun license. **
 * After Billy went to jail, Detective Harrison went to ask Billy why he murdered Jorge in the first place. It turned out that Billy murdered Jorge because Jorge bought land on his farm. Billy had sold the land before he had the idea of making an outlet mall on the piece of land that he sold. He thought he would make millions off the mall, and that nobody would find out that he murdered Jorge. **