The room next to the two of them was a small conference room, but Lacey was in no mood to check the structure of the conference room at this time, because the people from the Trace Inspection Department had not arrived yet, and the bodies of the five victims were still in the room.
So when Lacey turned her head, she smelled an indescribable smell of burnt barbecue.
"Fu-k!"
Lacey hurriedly covered her nose, looking very ugly.
"Go and get the surveillance of this building first."
Luo An didn't respond, casually arranged Lacey's work, then took out his gloves from his pocket and put them on, and slowly walked into the room that was still a little warm.
The smell of barbecue in the room became stronger. Seeing that the expression on Luo An's face did not change at all, Detective Bailey and several NYPD officers outside were filled with admiration.
After carefully checking the door of the room, Luo An walked to the five corpses in the room and began to carefully check their status.
There were some debris at the feet of two of the corpses. When he took a flashlight to shine on them, Luo An suddenly frowned.
Not long after, the agents from the Trace Inspection Section, who drove relatively slowly, finally arrived, and Lacey also came back after adjusting the surveillance:
"The surveillance cameras in the corridor of the building have not been installed yet. I only found the surveillance cameras outside the building."
Holding a laptop in her arms, Lacey showed the screen to Luo An and said:
"Five minutes before the alarm was triggered, this guy was the only one leaving through the back door of the building."
In the surveillance video, a guy wearing a gray suit and a black and blue hat was seen running away from the building in a hurry.
"Male, very thin."
After watching the scenes in the video, Luo An quickly concluded:
"The left hand has been tightly covering the right hand, indicating that his right hand is most likely injured, and it is also possible that there is the target item that he finally obtained."
"That's right."
Lacey nodded and then asked:
"How's it going, Luo An, what did you find here?"
Upon hearing this, Luo An directly handed her the fragments he had just found under the corpse.
"This is……"
Taking the fragment, Lacey looked at it carefully and said with some uncertainty:
"Shards of the bottle?"
"To be precise, they are fragments of a homemade improvised Molotov cocktail."
Loudly signaling to the agents of the Trace Inspection Section to take all the fragments on the ground back for examination, Luo An looked around, tilted his chin and said:
"Based on the situation at the scene, the congressman should have been chatting with four college students before the incident.
Immediately afterwards, the door was suddenly opened and the Molotov cocktail was thrown into the room by the murderer.
The room was not big and relatively closed, and the fire started burning from the doorway and the middle of the room first, so the congressman and several students soon lay in the flames. "
Not only that, the door to the room was locked, and there were traces of Molotov cocktail fragments in the corridor.
Even if someone among them opened the door and ran out of the conference room, he would be burned alive by the flames of the Molotov cocktail in the corridor.
After listening to Luo An's description, Detective Bailey's eyes flashed with surprise, while Lacey's face changed slightly.
How much hatred does the murderer have against these five victims?
"Go find the staff at the government building."
Patting Lacey on the shoulder, Luo An took off his gloves and walked out of the room, saying:
"Wait a minute and make a list of the people who can enter this conference room."
"OK."
Lacey nodded and hurriedly followed with the computer in her arms.
——
The next day, Investigation Team No. 5.
“I’m sorry, detectives, the impact of this case is so great that the mayor called to inquire about the situation, so we had to work overtime on Saturday!
But don’t worry, overtime pay will never be forgotten and credited to your bank account afterwards. "
At the front of the office area, Augustus shouted loudly with his belly puffed out.
After William distributed the folder to everyone, he turned his eyes to Mona and said:
"Introduce the information of these five victims."
"OK."
Mona nodded, tapped the keyboard a few times, looked at the computer screen and introduced loudly:
"Four college students, two men and two women, named Vinnie, Nicole, Kiana and Venina, are all from the Alfred University Business School in New York. They are still 6 months away from graduation.
The name of another council victim is Emanuel Bain, a 56-year-old Republican. This is his first year holding a seat on the New York City Council. "
"Wow."
As we all know, New York has always been the stronghold of the Democratic Party. There are 2.8 million Democrats and only 500,000 Republicans.
In the New York City Council, Democrats also occupy 51 seats and Republicans only have 3 seats.
Thinking of this, Luo An said:
"So, we can tentatively determine that the murderer's target is Congressman Emmanuel Bain."
Luo An determined the main direction of the next investigation. Augustus did not object and continued to ask:
"Mona, can you find out who are Emmanuel's enemies?"
"It's so easy."
Mona smiled slightly, tapping on the keyboard with her fingers, and quickly retrieved Emmanuel's political leanings and propaganda content:
“Congressman Emanuel calls himself the guardian of the Commonwealth’s traditional values.
So he opposes feminism, abortion, gun ban, supports white supremacy and white nationalism, supports church schools, and advocates market freedom..."
After listening to Mona's introduction, except for Luo An, all the agents of Investigation Team 5 rolled their eyes. Augustus patted his belly and nodded:
"Very good. It seems that more than half of the people in New York are his enemies."
After a few seconds of silence, Augustus turned his gaze to Luo An.
Seeing this, Luo An did not hesitate and immediately asked loudly:
"Have the test results come out for those fragments that were handed over to the Trace Inspection Department last night?"
Ryder nodded hurriedly and replied:
"The results are out. Your judgment is correct. Those things are indeed homemade simple Molotov cocktails, and the liquid used is all gasoline.
Unfortunately, the Trace Inspection Unit found no fingerprints or DNA on those fragments, so it was unable to find the identity of the murderer in the internal database. "
The expression on Luo An's face remained unchanged and he continued to ask:
"Lacie, what's going on with the list you mentioned last night and Emmanuel's recent schedule?"
"No problem found."
Lacey handed Luo An the list of people who could enter the conference room, and then said:
"Yesterday, Emanuel first gave a speech in a square in Brooklyn, then went to several communities to express condolences to the people, and finally returned to the government building to be interviewed by the four college students."
Luo An nodded, looked at the personnel list carefully for a while, then raised his head and said to the agents:
"Everyone, we need to carefully check the surveillance in the area near the Brooklyn Government Building. We must know where the man in the gray suit went after leaving the building!
In addition, the interpersonal relationships, emotional status, financial situation, etc. of the four college students also need to be carefully investigated! "
"no problem!!!"
The work content was a bit long and complicated, but William and several technical agents nodded loudly and agreed.
Luo An nodded with satisfaction, turned to look at Lacey and Ryder, and said:
"Next, you go visit the family members of Congressman Emmanuel, as well as the relatives and friends of the four college students, and see if you can find any useful clues from them."
"OK."
Ryder and Lacey agreed, threw down the folders and walked into the equipment warehouse.
Mona on the side saw this, raised her head and asked:
"Then what do we do next?"
"Let's go find him!"
Passing the list in his hand to Mona, Luo An pointed to a name on it.
"Who is this?"
"Other than those four college students, he was the last person Congressman Emanuel met while he was alive."
(End of chapter)
