Chapter 39: Sounding the Alarm
The next day, just after dawn, the city's 110 alarm center reported.
A sudden ring of the phone, the operator picked up. Hello, this is the 110 police report center, what can I do for you? A man's voice came from the receiver. What did you say? Murder case? Please clarify your location. "Okay" I've noted it down, don't move from where you are, our people will be right there, please cooperate with us to understand the situation. Thank you for your cooperation.
The duty room of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, another urgent phone call interrupted the duty officer's beautiful dream. Dazed and confused, he picked up the phone "Hello! Who is it?" "I am the 110 police report center, just received a report, at Beijing Road main traffic intersection south 500 meters small alley occurred homicide, three people died, hope you can hurry to the scene." "Oh! Got it." Put down the phone, stunned for a while. Suddenly, a thrill stood up, what? Homicide? Hurriedly walked to the colleague sleeping on the sofa, "Hey" Old Yang wake up, no response. Damn, sleeping like a dead pig, Old Yang quickly wake up, still no response. Picked up the teacup on the table, looked at it and saw that there was still tea water, poured it down Old Yang's neck.
Old Yang suddenly sat up, his eyes full of anger, and shouted: "Gu Tianming, what's wrong with you, making such a big fuss so early in the morning!" Gu Tianming smiled apologetically and said: "Old Yang, don't get angry, I just received a call from the 110 police reporting center, saying that there was a homicide on Beijing Road. No matter how hard I tried to wake you up, you wouldn't budge, so I had to resort to this method."
Old Yang heard that a murder case had occurred, and his anger dissipated. He knew his weakness, sleeping very soundly, even if you carried him out to be shot, he wouldn't know. He immediately got up to make a phone call to inform the director, then hastily walked out.
A burst of police sirens came, and people who got up early for exercise and went to work in the morning all stopped in their tracks and watched. From a distance, I saw that more than a dozen police cars with flashing lights were approaching from afar, whizzing by. Everyone saw such an array, and they all speculated about what had happened, and there was a flurry of discussion for a while.
Outside the alley, a crowd of onlookers gathered, police sirens grew louder from afar, followed by screeching tires and then bang-bang-bang... the sound of car doors closing.
When people saw the police arrive, they made way for them to pass. As soon as they entered the alley, they saw Director Liu Jianmin squatting down to examine the scene, with someone standing next to him saying something. Old Yang instructed the police officers to seal off the scene, then brought Gu Tianming, the forensic doctor, and several criminal investigation team members over to Director Liu's side. He said: "Director Liu, you arrived first. What's the situation?" Director Liu nodded, then said: "Three people are dead. Two died by the car, and another one died over there," pointing to the other deceased person lying by the wall. He continued: "The scene is very strange, only the victims' footprints can be seen, with no sign of a fourth person."
He looked at the forensic doctor and said, "Old Tang, take a look. I'll leave it to you here." Old Tang opened his toolbox, put on gloves, took out the autopsy tools and evidence bags. He said to his assistant beside him, "You record this." The assistant nodded. Old Tang went to the nearest corpse, squatted down, looked at the corpse and said, "The deceased was shot, the fatal wound is in the middle of the eyebrow, one shot killed him, no other wounds." Then he picked up the gun and looked around, finding a shell casing nearby.
