By the way, in the United States, coroners and medical examiners have the same role. They both investigate the cause and manner of death and sign death certificates, but their qualifications are different.
Coroners belong to an official system that has been inherited from medieval England. Coroners are appointed by the government or elected by local governments. They do not require a medical degree. However, in the United States, a considerable number of coroners are already served by forensic pathologists. Yes, pursue professionalism.
Forensic doctors are generally forensic pathology experts appointed by the government. In some places, they are directly appointed by doctors recommended by local medical institutions. A medical degree is required.
Different states have different definitions of the coroner system and the forensic system. Arkansas is a conservative state and still retains the coroner system, but most states have replaced the coroner system with the forensic system.
In addition, another point is related to population. For areas with small populations, professional forensic doctors are very scarce. They can only establish a coroner system and let hospital doctors serve as coroners. From this point of view, it is actually very difficult. flexible.
The next day, Jimmy and Karg came to the coroner's office together. Dr. Kevin had already left. He had done an autopsy and submitted the autopsy report after he came back yesterday.
According to Dr. Kevin's report, the deceased was aged 45-48 years old. The fatal injury was a gunshot wound to the back of the head. There were no injuries on other parts of the body. The fingernails were intact. The forehead injury was an impact injury. It was speculated that he fell to the ground after being shot.
There is basically nothing to trace in such a simple report.
Kag took Jimmy out of the body and took the belongings with him. There was no wallet or ID, so the identity of the deceased could not be confirmed. This was another unsolved case.
The body was currently parked in the morgue, and the two of them were not interested in looking at it, so they took a copy of the autopsy report and returned to the police station.
Jimmy worked the night shift last night, and the case this morning seemed to be an open case. He was too lazy to work overtime, so he went home to rest, and worked two hours of overtime in vain.
There is no way to deal with this kind of unsolved case. We can only keep the information and wait for other discoveries to be made later, and then handle the case together. The county police department only has so few people in total, and it is impossible to devote experience to handling every case.
For Jimmy, it wasn't too exciting. After all, he had already killed a person with his own hands, and finding the body was not so exciting that he couldn't sleep.
The only regret is that yesterday I didn't use my ability to directly try to detect the opponent's location when I heard the gunfire. By the time the process was over, the person had already run away.
And yesterday, he also discovered the shortcoming of the mind's eye ability, that is, the distance is too close. His observation yesterday could only maintain a range of about 10 meters. I don't know if it will increase in the future. And it seems that there is only a 180-degree range in front of him. When he was exploring the surroundings yesterday, he had to turn his head to increase the screen coverage.
He returned to the police station for duty at night. During the day, the county police department had contacted the Little Rock Police Department. If there was a missing person case, they would confirm whether the body was that of the missing person. Others could not be done for the time being, so Jimmy went to the police station. The bureau didn't stop at all and just took the equipment and set out for patrol.
At around 10 o'clock, the dispatch center notified Jimmy that there were LRPD police officers requesting support near his patrol area. A firefight broke out. Jimmy turned on his siren and drove over. This kind of support was relatively rare because Jimmy's assigned patrol area was in Xiaoshi. It is in the western suburbs of the city, so there are occasional support operations. The patrol positions of several other county police are further outside, so this kind of thing rarely happens.
When they arrived at their destination, Jimmy parked the police car outside, and two LRPD police cars were already in place.
The city police briefly described the situation. There was only one old lady in the family. Around 9:30, someone ran into her house, broke in and robbed her.
The old lady excused herself to get jewelry, then went upstairs, hid in the bedroom and bathroom, locked the door and called the police. Now the suspect is still in the room, and it is unclear whether he has taken the old man hostage.
The suspect had a pistol. When LRPD officers arrived at the scene, the suspect fired a shot at the police car from the second-floor window. It was unclear whether he brought it with him or the old lady's gun. The police phone number had been hung up and the call was returned. Doesn’t make sense.
The city police sent one person to the back of the house to prevent the suspect from escaping. There were two police officers in front, plus Jimmy, the total police force was four, and other support had not yet arrived.
After Jimmy learned about the case, he pulled out his pistol, walked around to the side of the house, and checked through the window. The suspect was not on the first floor. He leaned against the wall and activated his mind's eye ability, and black and gray lines began to be outlined in his mind. The space in the house, and then he found two humanoid shadows, one at the corner of the stairs, probably holding something in his hand, and the other in a small room on the second floor, leaning against the wall and slumped on the ground, but without any movement.
The dark figure on the second floor should be the person who called the police. It seems that she may have been killed. The figure at the corner of the stairs should be the gunman.
Jimmy signaled the city police with his flashlight, then raised his finger to point at himself, and then pointed in the direction of entering the house. Police gestures were not universal. Jimmy could only hope that they could roughly understand what he was going to do next. Let them take cover and go in yourself.
Jimmy put the pistol back into the holster and pulled out the M686 from his right leg. He ducked to the front door and pushed open the door with a wooden stick he just picked up from the side. The door had already been broken in by the suspect. It was destroyed at that time, but now it is just hidden.
The topographic map in Jimmy's mind was still there. He exposed a little of his head at the door and took a look. There were no objects blocking the section from the door to the stairs, which was consistent with the topography in his mind. The suspect was approaching the half way up the stairs at the corner. He couldn't be seen, but Jimmy was sure he was over there.
Jimmy squatted down, then took a sudden step towards the room, stepped over the door and entered the living room on the side, and then quickly hid behind the sofa. The living room was at right angles to the stairs. The suspect could only see someone coming in, but he had no time to shoot.
The suspect never expected that police would enter the house like this. Under normal circumstances, the police should have shouted to him from both sides of the door. Jimmy's sudden movement completely disrupted the suspect's previous plan. He could only come down a little from the corner of the stairs to try to confirm the location of the police who entered the house.
The suspect moved down bit by bit, moving the muzzle of the gun along the visual tangent of the stairs, making sure step by step whether the area in the living room was safe. When he reached the blind spot, the suspect could only reveal a little of his body and head to check the rest of the area. Jimmy could see all the suspect's movements in his mind's eye. The moment he showed his head, Jimmy fired. "Bang", one shot. The suspect fell to the ground and fell down the stairs.
