The bullet was shot from the muzzle and penetrated the target's body very accurately, causing the target to tremble...
Ahem.
Luo An's shooting was very accurate. Three bullets hit the left front wheel of the red car, and the remaining two bullets hit the left rear wheel.
The red car that was turning suddenly lost its balance and hit a tree on the side of the road.
Slowly parking the SUV to the side of the road, Luo An held a Glock 18 in his hand and walked slowly to the side of the smoking car in a defensive posture.
The driver was indeed Millard Thompson.
And because he complied with traffic rules and wore a seat belt when driving, the injury was not serious, just a broken thigh + coma.
As usual, Luo An took out his cell phone and called an ambulance.
Just after hanging up the phone, Mona called him again.
Seeing this, Luo An hurriedly pressed the answer button:
"How's it going, Mona, are you okay?"
"What can happen to me?"
Mona was a little happy to hear that Luo An cared about her, but the content of his words still made her roll her eyes.
After all, she, Mona, was trained at the FBI academy, so she still had no problem with basic fighting skills and marksmanship.
But now is not the time to talk about this. Mona smiled and said to the phone:
"I mean, Roan, thank you for letting me stay."
Luo An raised his eyebrows when he heard this:
"Mary Anne tried to attack you?"
"of course not."
Mona on the other end of the phone smiled and replied:
"But I found two interesting things at her house."
——
That afternoon, the No. 5 investigation team interrogation room.
Millard-Thompson, with his head wrapped in a bandage and his thigh in a plaster, sat in a wheelchair and looked at Roan and Mona across the interrogation table with a dark face.
Selectively ignoring the unhappy expression on Millard Thompson's face, and waiting for Mona to prepare her laptop, Luo An took a sip of coffee, coughed lightly and asked:
"Millard Thompson, 伱..."
Before Luo An could finish speaking, Millard shouted loudly:
“I’m telling you, I didn’t kill Brent!
His death has nothing to do with me! I have no intention of killing him at all! "
"Yeah?"
Luo An raised his eyebrows and asked:
"Then why did you run away?"
"Because I don't trust you FBI."
Millard said with disdain:
"I have a criminal record, and I even slept with Brent's wife. You will definitely identify me as the murderer."
"Wow, you really have a clear understanding of yourself."
Hearing Millard's words, Luo An nodded and shook his head, then took a few pieces of paper from his side, threw them in front of Millard's eyes, and said:
“But there are more reasons why we suspect you.
Mary Anne said to us, you went drinking with friends last night.
But we asked all your friends and couldn't find any trace of you drinking with any of your friends.
So, where were you at about 11:30 last night? "
When Millard heard this, his face suddenly froze. After lowering his head and thinking gloomily for a moment, he still said the same thing:
"I didn't kill Millard. I wasn't the one who killed him."
Seeing Millard's attitude, Luoan pondered for a few seconds, tilted his head and looked at Mona. Mona nodded and took out two pieces of paper from under the laptop.
These two pieces of paper are the two interesting discoveries that Mona said.
One of them is the hospital's test report.
"Millard, did you know? Mary Anne is pregnant. It says she's four and a half weeks pregnant."
Millard looked at the report card in front of him with no expression on his face.
There was neither joy nor surprise.
Seeing this, Luo An still had a smile on his face and just handed another piece of paper to Millard's eyes:
"This is Mary Anne's scheduled abortion, just two weeks from now."
Upon hearing this, Millard's body suddenly trembled, and then he hurriedly turned his eyes to the paper on the table.
Seeing the surprised and uncertain expression on Millard's face, which then became increasingly ugly, Luo An calmly took a sip of coffee and then added some fuel:
"Brent and Mary Anne have been divorced for a year, and if I guess correctly, this child is yours.
From the look of you, it seems like Mary Anne is telling you that she wants to abort this child..."
"Fu-k! This damn sign..."
After hearing Luo An's words, Millard's face gradually turned the color of liver.
After a long silence, Millard knocked on the trial table hard and said in a hoarse voice:
"I want to see a lawyer."
——
Outside the interrogation room, the office area of Investigation Team No. 5.
"How about it, Roan."
Augustus held a box of burgers and distributed them to the agents of Investigation Team No. 5 one by one. Finally, he walked up to Luo An and asked with a smile:
"What's going on here at Millard?"
"Still discussing with the lawyer, but we already know the truth on his side. Lacey and Ryder also went to arrest Mary Anne."
After taking the burger and taking a bite, Luo An shrugged, saying that the story was nothing new.
The husband was always busy with work and neglected his wife. The wife was unbearably lonely, so she started a passionate double row with the plumber.
The specific situation of double rows has been demonstrated in detail by many license plates in the island country. If necessary, please go to the browser.
When it comes to playing games in a double row, if there is one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three. In short, in the end, things developed smoothly into divorce-demanding alimony-murdering the ex-husband.
Augustus nodded:
“So, the truth of this case is that Mary Anne used the excuse of pregnancy to ask Millard to kill her ex-husband Brent.
Ostensibly, after Brent's death, the two shared Brent's money.
In fact, Mary Anne planned to send Millard to jail afterwards, abort the child herself, and then keep Brent's money to herself? "
Speaking of this, Augustus looked very complicated and didn't know what he thought of.
After hearing what Augustus said, Luo An swallowed the burger in his mouth, shrugged and said:
“Under normal circumstances, this case does develop like this.
But things don't always develop according to people's plans, so some minor surprises occurred during the specific actions of the case. "
When Augustus heard this, he was stunned while biting his hamburger. After thinking for a few seconds, he tilted his head and asked:
"Did something go wrong when Millard went to kill Brent?
For example, when Millard arrived, Brent was already dead? "
"That's right."
Luo An nodded, indicating that things were similar to what August thought.
The place Millard and Brent agreed upon was indeed the park where the crime occurred.
But before Millard could pass, Brent was killed by someone else.
Because the murderer threw Brent's body into the river, Millard waited for several hours without waiting for anyone, and the cold wind blew all night in vain.
This is also the reason why Millard remained silent before and is still discussing it with his lawyer.
Millard's actions were clearly attempted homicide.
In the United States, for attempted murder, the penalty will also vary depending on the criminal record, motivation of the crime, weapon used and other factors. Sometimes it will be sentenced to a misdemeanor, sometimes it will be sentenced to a felony.
"OK."
After listening to Luo An's description, Augustus, who finished the burger in a few bites, patted his belly, tilted his head and asked:
"So, we're back to square one, right?"
"No."
Luo An, who had just finished half of his burger, shook his head, wiped his hands and took out a piece of paper from the side, handed it to August and said with a smile:
"I found a new clue.
This thing is probably the real reason why the murderer killed Brent Hughes. "
(End of chapter)
