Dead By Wednesday
“He spent a few hours tackling the paperwork that seemed to multiply overnight. He wasn’t the only one working, and somebody had tossed a box of doughnuts on the break-room table so the morning wasn’t a total loss.
At ten, he dialed the number in Gabe Monroe’s file. Victim number three. The only African American in the group. The rest of the kids had been white. Gabe was fourteen and a freshman at Liekert Academy, a charter school that had opened less than ten years earlier. Mom worked in re...tail and his dad for the park district. Had a much older brother in his third year of a football scholarship at Notre Dame. Had a sister who was just a year older.
The phone rang. No answer.
He waited ten minutes and tried again. Same result.
He looked up the address. It was less than twenty minutes away. And Carmen’s apartment was on the way.
Fifteen minutes later, he was knocking on Carmen’s door.MoreLess
At ten, he dialed the number in Gabe Monroe’s file. Victim number three. The only African American in the group. The rest of the kids had been white. Gabe was fourteen and a freshman at Liekert Academy, a charter school that had opened less than ten years earlier. Mom worked in re...tail and his dad for the park district. Had a much older brother in his third year of a football scholarship at Notre Dame. Had a sister who was just a year older.
The phone rang. No answer.
He waited ten minutes and tried again. Same result.
He looked up the address. It was less than twenty minutes away. And Carmen’s apartment was on the way.
Fifteen minutes later, he was knocking on Carmen’s door.MoreLess
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