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That evening Leri and Wynne found themselves at the precinct. They were called in one after the other into a windowless fifteen by twenty-foot room, with three chairs and a table in between, on the table were bottles of water, tape recorders, and writing pads.

Tony had been certain Leri knew something, gender says he was the one who killed those men, Ms pretty doesn't cut it for someone who had the gusto although she looked more like a bystander which he suspected was her way of dealing with it.

Yet, looking at the man sitting at the other side of the table, he could see him trying hard to compose himself. Another officer who had announced Hammado as his name watched Leri with sullen vigilance while his thick stubby finger thumbed on his pen. He kept at it till he felt the time was right, then he pressed the red record button of the silver tape recorder lying on the table and began,

"Start from the beginning." Hammado requested.

Leri's Adam's apple did a handspring. He had played that scene over and over again but stringing it to words and spilling it seemed a little difficult. Tony read him enough and passed one of the four bottles of water to him. He had a gulp and another before he began.

"About an hour after I had come back from my shift. I was watching a television program when I heard a gunshot. I did not know where it had come from so I turned down the volume of the television and listened. I couldn't hear anything. So, I stepped out of my apartment and had a look around, I did not see anything unusual, but as I turned to go inside I heard more shots.
It came from the penthouse. I ran inside, picked up my steel baseball bat, and ran up the stairs. When I got there, I saw the door lying on the floor. Then I saw the bodies..." He faded.

Hamodoo who had been doodling all this time looked up and asked,

"Where was Ms. Wynne and what was she doing?"
"She was behind the couch and holding a gun at me."
Detective Tony shifted in his seat, he could not imagine her wielding a gun, talking more about killing the hefty men.

"Okay, go on!" Hammado said after passing a glance at his co-interrogator.

"She saw it was me and dropped the gun. And I entered. Kerub was on the floor, behind the bar. He was shot and bleeding from his shoulder. We helped him with first aid before you came." He motioned at Tony.

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