Sin Becomes Evil Vengeful Psychological Thriller (3/3)

By Jeff Dejent

Sin Becomes Evil Vengeful Psychological Thriller (3/3)
Keywords: Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Crime Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Mystery & Detective, International Mystery & Crime

The third book opens with Chuck Burke fielding questions handed to him by Christine Wong, a local television news reporter. Burke makes it perfectly clear the arrest would have been a textbook exercise, except for the wrench thrown into the system by one of those 'vigilante types'.

Burke tells Christine he has a state department employee in the lock up at the state police headquarters.
Andy Howell's team members in the Action Officer's unit at Langley realize Andy never has and never will have anything to do with drugs. Unfortunately for Andy, Chuck Burke's routine arrest turned into a tragedy of bad publicity! What is Burke to do? With the cooperation of the Psychiatrist who labeled Buster Knowles a harmless hippie. He launches an investigation into Andy's character. Is Major Andrew George Howell, Action Officer in the Central Intelligence Agency fit for worldwide duty?

While Andy dog paddles upstream against a hostile bureaucracy. The Sinaloa gang members find themselves in a quandary. The youngest member of their gang, Theodore 'Tepo' Nayari is dead. How do they claim the body? How do they tell Tepo's parents their son lost his life in a drug deal gone bad?

Tepo's older brother, Francesco 'Frankie' Nayari calls down to his parents' home in Bogota, Columbia. Frankie lies to his father and his mother. Don Alberto Nayari and his former New York City fashion model mother- Angelina Nayari. Frankie says they were hard at work rescuing Ali Leon's son from his drug dealing and dissolute wife. The woman promised to return Ali's son in an exchange for cash and drugs. Instead, the woman sets them up in a gun battle with the Drug Enforcement Agency! By Jeff Dejent in association with Dynamic Entry Productions, LLC

Keywords: Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Crime Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Mystery & Detective, International Mystery & Crime

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeff Dejent
• Release date: Jan 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781940028255

Jeff Dejent

Jeffrey Dejent grew up and went to school in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He graduated from college in June of 1970. Away from the keyboard Jeff likes to ride bicycles and go jogging. When it snows he dabbles in things like software defined radio and computer hacking. Jeff welcomes comparisons / criticisms of his novels and screenplays against the works of the late greats Stephen J. Cannell, Mister Tom Clancy, and of course Mister James Patterson. He would be happy to ghostwrite for one of the big names in the industry. Problem is, the lines are so long, you have to take a number. If you cannot find anything new by Tom Clancy or James Patterson, you should give Jeff a try. If your favorite television shows include: Criminal Minds, NCIS, and Numbers, you will enjoy Jeff. Jeffrey Dejent, Novelist, Screenwriter, in association with: Dynamic Entry Productions. LLC

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SIN BECOMES EVIL

Vengeful Psychological Thriller (3/3)

By: Jeff Dejent

This novel published by an arrangement between:

Jeffrey Wayne Dejent

and

Dynamic Entry Productions, LLC

Copyright © 2013

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SIN BECOMES EVIL Vengeful Psychological Thriller (3/3) is a complete work of fiction. All the characters are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. The names, incidents, remarks, and opinions expressed by the characters are out of the author’s imagination. They must not be construed as real.

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SIN BECOMES EVIL Vengeful Psychological Thriller (3/3) is for mature audiences, age 18 years and up. The narrative includes a number of detailed action adventure scenes.

Images-

Photographic images on the cover and in the body of the manuscript are for the sole purpose of illustration. They do not advertise. Each picture falls within the Public Domain category. Our graphic design artist removed military markings from pictures of military vehicles, aircraft, and uniforms with the use of the clone tool in GIMP. In the rare instance when a human face turns towards the camera, our graphic design artist completely obscured his identifying features. For source credits and license information, see the appendices at the back of the book. Icons are from the Open Clip Art Library, a public domain source for high quality images.

Printing History-

The novel: SIN BECOMES EVIL Vengeful Psychological Thriller (3/3) published by an arrangement between Jeffrey Wayne Dejent and Dynamic Entry Productions, LLC Copyright © (USA) 2013

ISBN: 978-1-940028-25-5

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Dynamic Entry Productions, LLC | Terre Haute Indiana 47802-5422

All three volumes of the TRUST FUND BABIES trilogy are available bound as a single 7.44 by 9.69 inch trade paperback (638 pages, 238,317 words | ISBN: 978-1-940028-16-3).

To learn more about the murders of the Clutter farm family: In Cold Blood, A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences, by Truman Capote (1966) ISBN: 0-679-74558-0

For information about the shotgun killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez by their sons, Eric and Lyle: Bad Blood: the shocking true story behind the Menendez killings, by Don Davis (1994) St Martin, New York ISBN: 0-312-95334-8

Dedication-

The author dedicates the TRUST FUND BABIES trilogy to the memories of four women, angels of mercy. Three Nuns and a Catholic Lay Worker abducted, raped and shot to death in rural El Salvador during the night hours of December 2, 1980. Very truly, the sacrifice of these ladies is of the same character, the same import as the death of Lady Jane Gray, the- 'Nine Day Queen of England'.

In Foxe's Book of Martyrs we read:

"The next victim was the amiable Lady Jane Gray, who, by her acceptance of the crown at the earnest solicitations of her friends, incurred the implacable resentment of the bloody Mary. When she first mounted the scaffold, she spoke to the spectators in this manner:

"I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness, that I die a good Christian woman, and that I do look to be saved by no other mean, but only by the mercy of God in the blood of His only Son Jesus Christ: Then she kneeled down, saying, "Will you take it off before I lay me down?" And the executioner said, No, madam. Then she tied a handkerchief about her eyes, and feeling for the block, she said, What shall I do? Where is it? Where is it?

The Execution of Lady Jane Gray (Paul Delaroche 1797-1856)

One of the standers-by guiding her there unto, she laid her head upon the block, and then stretched forth her body, and said, Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit; and so finished her life, in the year of our Lord 1554, the twelfth day of February, about the seventeenth year of her age. Touching the condemnation of this pious lady, it is to be noted that Judge Morgan, who gave sentence against her, soon after he had condemned her, fell mad, and in his raving cried out continually to have the Lady Jane taken away from him, and so he ended his life."

Page: 148 | www.jesus.org.uk/vault/library/foxes_book_of_martyrs.pdf

TRUST FUND BABIES Three Table of Contents

CHAPTER 9 CHUCK BURKE STANDS IN THE SPOT LIGHT

Scene 101 Chuck Burke In Front Of The News Camera

Scene 102 Christine Wong Is In The Right Place At The Right Time

Scene 103 Emergency Services Technicians Triage Casualties

Scene 104 Christine Wong Delivers An On The Spot Report

Scene 105 Christine Wong Surveys The Scene

Scene 106 Christine Wong Interviews Chuck Burke

Scene 107 The Sinaloa Gang Makes Good Their Escape

Scene 108 Ali Leon Tends To Ricky Sinaloa's Bullet Wound

Scene 109 Ricky Awakes, He Tends To The Guns

Scene 110 Frankie Learns The Fate of His Baby Brother

Scene 111 The Sinaloa Gang Hears About Andy Howell

Scene 112 Christine Wong On Scene At The Medical Examiner's Office

Scene 113 We Gotta Do The Right Thing By Tepo

CHAPTER 10 FRANKIE JOURNEY'S HOME TO BOGOTA

Scene 114 Francesco Nayari Calls Home To His Mom And Dad

Scene 115 Frankie Calls His Parent's Home From Florida

Scene 116 Uncle Max Calls His Nephew Frankie

Scene 117 Uncle Max Hands Frankie A New Identity

Scene 118 Frankie Bluffs His Way Through Customs

Scene 119 Frankie Returns To His Boyhood Home

Scene 120 Frankie's Parents At Their Front Door

Scene 121 Frankie Nayari Rises For Breakfast

Scene 122 Alberto Nayari Deals With His Wayward Boy

Scene 123 Heaping Shame On The Nayari Family Name

Scene 124 Don Alberto And Francesco, Home From The Funeral Parlor

Scene 125 Church Funeral Service For Theodore 'Tepo' John Nayari

Scene 126 Tepo Laid to Rest, The Don Receives An Envelope

Scene 127 Day After Tepo's Funeral, Frankie At Breakfast

Scene 128 Don Nayari Hands Down His Decision

Scene 129 Ali Leon Speaks To His Son At The Balista Residence

CHAPTER 11 ANDY HOWELL IS THE PROBLEM

Scene 130 Andy Howell Gets His One Phone Call

Scene 131 Andy Howell Puts In A Request For His Evidence File

Scene 132 Moses Anderson Arrives At The Lock Up

Scene 133 Andy Howell Has A Political Enemy

Scene 134 Andy And Moses At The Arrest Point

Scene 135 Andy Howell Retrieves His Racing Bicycle

Scene 136 Moses Offers To Carry The Ball For Andy

Scene 137 Andy Howell Back With His Family After a Weekend in Jail

Scene 138 Burke Gets His Ducks In A Row

Scene 139 Chief Burke Confers With Doctor Edgar Coolidge

Scene 140 Chief Burke Sets Up A Meet With Colonel Wingate

Scene 141 Moses Anderson Briefs Donna Hespara

Scene 142 Donna Hespara Takes A Call From Doctor Coolidge

Scene 143 Donna Hespara Takes A Call From The DEA

Scene 144 Donna Hespara Confers With Colonel Wingate

Scene 145 Andy Howell Shows Up Late For Work

Scene 146 Chuck Burkes Climbs Out Of Bed On Wednesday

Scene 147 Chief Burke Is A Man On A Mission

Scene 148 Chuck Burke Meets Up With Don Calador

Scene 149 Is Major Andrew George Howell Fit For Duty?

Scene 150 Colonel Wingate Would Have Done The Same Thing

Scene 151 The Action Officer's Unit Breaks For Lunch

CHAPTER 12 FRANKIE RETURNS TO WASHINGTON

Scene 152 Frankie Gets Back In Touch With Ricky and Ali

Scene 153 Ali And Ricky Meet Don Alberto Enrique Nayari

Scene 154 Frankie, Ricky and Ali 'Get To Know' Andy Howell

Scene 155 Frankie, Ricky and Ali Are Cycling Enthusiasts

Scene 156 Don Alberto Hatches A Plan With Ali, Ricky And His Son

Scene 157 Karen Howell Takes Her Children To A Bicycle Race

Scene 158 Jason Blackstone Howell's First Critereum Race

Scene 159 Donna, Michael, Karen, Jason And Alicia

CHAPTER 13 THE HISPANICS STALK THE ANGLO VIGILANTE

Scene 160 Don Alberto Nayari Studies His Mortal Enemy

Scene 161 Chief Burke De-Briefs Gomez And Collins

Scene 162 The Anglo Vigilante Has Bright Blue Eyes

Scene 163 The Duel Between Frankie And Andy

Scene 164 Jason High On An Adrenalin Rush

Scene 165 Don Alberto Enrique Nayari Deals With His Son

Scene 166 Andy Howell And Chuck Burke Lock Horns

Scene 167 A Turning Point In Karen Howell's Marriage

Scene 168 Frankie Nayari Stalks Andy Howell

Scene 169 Frankie Nayari Draws A Bead On Andy Howell

Scene 170 Domestic Life In A Dodge Minivan

Scene 171 Jason Blackstone Howell Has A Flashback

Scene 172 Frankie Anticipates Andy's Next Move

Scene 173 Frankie Thinks Donna Hespara Is Andy's Wife

Scene 174 Donna Hespara Has Andy Howell's Master Card

Scene 175 Frankie And Donna Look Married And Angry

Scene 176 Donna Drops Andy's Wheel And Her Purse

Scene 177 Bill Hespara's Moving Violation

CHAPTER 14 ANDY HOWELL GOES PRO-ACTIVE

Scene 178 First Phone Call From Frankie To Andy

Scene 179 Andy Goes To Work With Scissors And Rubber Cement

Scene 180 Andy Bluffs His Way Into The DEA Comms Room

Scene 181 Andy Howell Hunches Out A Password

Scene 182 Andy Sets Up A Covert Listening Post In His Firebird

Scene 183 Chuck Burke Is On Top Of Things

Scene 184 What To Do with Howell's Bitch Wife?

Scene 185 Andy Hall Monitors Cordless Phone Calls

Scene 186 Andy Howell Carries Out A Dynamic Entry

Scene 187 The Comms Center People Report To Chief Burke

Scene 188 Dan Collins Picks Up On Andy Howell's Trail

Scene 189 Andy Howell Makes A Dynamic Entry

Scene 190 The DEA People Arrive At The Scene

Scene 191 Burke In Hot Pursuit of Howell

Scene 192 Colonel Wingate Enrages Karen Chesley Howell

Scene 193 Andy And Karen Go For A Walk On Veteran's Day

Appendix A Image Sources And Photographer Credits

Appendix B Image Permission Statements

CHAPTER 9 CHUCK BURKE STANDS IN THE SPOT LIGHT

Scene 101 Chuck Burke In Front Of The News Camera

Location: On the steps of the State Police Headquarters Building, Lucketts Virginia

Charles L. Burke, Chief Special Agent, United States Drug Enforcement Agency, Arlington Virginia, walks out of the duty office of the Virginia State Police headquarters building in Lucketts Virginia and into the lobby. Something catches his eye. Ten paces or so from the open front door, he sees an oval cone of light from a set of powerful flood lamps pouring onto the ground. Burke guesses, rightly so, there is a television camera crew right outside in the parking lot.

Chief Burke skids to a halt. Then he turns to face the glass door of somebody's office. Burke invests the next few minutes in a public relations grooming effort. He straightens out his all black S.W.A.T. uniform in the glass in the door as if the glass were a full-length mirror. With his shirt tucked neatly into his pants, he turns his attention to his black ball cap. Should he leave it on or take it off? The Chief decides to wear his cap with the visor facing to the rear.

As a last bit of stage business, Burke gets out his handkerchief and wraps it around his right hand as if it were a bandage. Let the people see how dangerous it is to be in the D.E.A.. He says to his image in the glass of the office door. At long last- Burke strides to the main entrance. It is time to deal with the media.

Chief Burke exits the building. He marches down the concrete steps to the parking lot. Burke cannot help but squint in the harsh lights from the television camera flood lamps. At the same time Burke comes to the parade rest position, the Duty Officer inside the building turns to look down at Andy Howell in his cell.

Through the bars, the uniformed Duty Officer says to Andy, Do you want a TV dinner? Andy lifts his head from his hands. He says dryly, Probably I should eat. I’m not hungry, but I should eat something.

Scene 102 Christine Wong Is In The Right Place At The Right Time

Location: Radiology Department, Community Hospital in Brunswick Virginia

Christine Wong finds it difficult to hold her microphone up to Doctor Kaplan’s face. Even in three-inch heels, she can barely reach up to be level with the radiation therapist’s remarkable six foot six inch height.

David Kaplan tilts his chin down as best as he is able, Yes Miss Wong, with this new machine we will be able to treat cancers we couldn’t help before. Doctor Kaplan makes a sweeping gesture with his right arm towards an elaborate device standing in the background.

Christine Wong steps sideways and turns around to face the camera. The cameraman bends his knees slightly to bring his lens down level with Christine’s face. She holds her microphone a small distance away her chin. We’ve been speaking with Doctor David Kaplan, Chief Radiation Therapist at the Brunswick Community Hospital in Brunswick, Virginia. Now, it’s back to Bob and Giselle and Tom Cummings for a look at tomorrow’s weather. I’m Christine Wong, your Channel Seven on the spot reporter.

Christine holds her smile until the red light on the bottom of the camera goes black. Then she sighs in relief and hands her microphone over to the cameraman’s assistant. Doctor Kaplan walks off to see his next patient. He narrowly misses colliding with a young man with a hand held radio who rushes into the room. The young man walks quickly over to the Channel Seven On The Spot News Crew. He is all pumped up and out of breath.

Studio says there’s a big shoot out at the Seneca Mall. Something about the D.E.A. and a gang of drug dealers with machine guns!

Christine and the cameraman glance at each other for just an instant. The cameraman nods his head. He offers,

I can get us there in three minutes.

Christine’s face goes a little white at the thought of having to report on casualties from a gun battle. She has to force a casual tone into her reply,

We better get going.

The Channel Seven News Crew breaks into a fast trot. They rush through a series of windowless corridors, turning this way and that through the maze like basement of the Brunswick Hospital. The assistant producer, the man who took the microphone from Christine, has a difficult time keeping pace and winding the microphone cable into a smooth coil at the same time.

The young man with the two-way radio leads the way. After a bit, he opens a heavy metal door with no windows. Christine is the first person through the door. The news crew people soon find themselves out in the rear parking lot of the hospital, squinting in the warm afternoon sunlight. The party of four breaks up. Christine and the man with the hand held radio get into a dark red minivan with the Channel Seven logo printed on the side in huge white letters. The cameraman and his assistant clamber onto a truck about the size and kind used by parcel deliverymen.

The two vehicles are nearly up to the legal speed limit by the time the minivan and the truck are out of the parking lot. Christine Wong turns to the driver of the van and says,

Can you find the Seneca Mall?

The driver shakes his head and smiles at Christine. This is his turf.

It’s on fifteen just on the north side of Lucketts.

The van and truck caravan speed through the residential neighborhood surrounding the hospital. As they drive along, scanner radios on their dashboards gives out with short messages about the crime scene.

These are mostly from two sets of handheld radios, units belonging to State Police, and radios organic to Emergency Service vehicles.

Christine Wong and her driver hear a young female voice come over the speaker on the scanner radio in their van,

Both Drug Enforcement Agency Officers for unit one, Dispatch. I count two flesh and orthopedic injuries on the first man. One to the right shoulder and the second to the left elbow. Overall condition good to very good.

There is a pause while the radio on the dashboard makes a chirping sound.

The second officer has bullet wounds through the left bicep and right thigh. Flow dark red, under control with pressure bandages. I doubt arterial injury. Third wound on the second agent is to the right side of his chest. Very labored breathing, pulse rate at least one hundred and twenty. Condition critical, in need of an operating room as soon as we arrive, Copy, Dispatch?

There is another short pause. Christine and her driver make a very swift turn round a corner at a stop sign.

They hear a male voice on the radio say, Good copy on your transmission Brunswick one. Chest vascular surgeon on call tonight. No problem with the critical. Over.

There is yet another short pause. The female voice returns to the air.

She says, Two more casualties for the second ambulance. First, a white male with flesh wounds to the buttocks and thigh. I see exit and entrance wounds. Condition good. This one needs a police guard. People on the scene describe him as shooting at the police. The second casualty is deceased. Unknown Hispanic Male. No papers. Two small caliber bullet holes on the right forehead. Copy?

Christine Wong and the driver of the channel seven news van make a left hand turn against the on-coming traffic. They pull into the Seneca Mall parking lot.

The roof lights of two ambulances and three squad cars flash randomly, like huge fireflies, in the early evening light.

As Christine's team drives up to the scene, dispatch at the hospital comes over the speaker of the scanner.

The hospital radioman says, Good copy on the last two casualties. One white male in good condition in need of an operating room tonight. One Hispanic male, for the cooler. Tell the police we can hold the body but it has to go to the medical examiner’s office in the morning. Our pathologist won’t touch a forensic case.

Scene 103 Emergency Services Technicians Triage Casualties

Location: Seneca Mall parking lot, near Lucketts Virginia

Christine hurries out of the new team minivan. She walks over to a young lady, a Paramedic, standing near the passenger side door of a cube van converted to an ambulance. The Emergency Services Technician holds a wallet sized microphone on a coiled cable up to her face.

The female Paramedic glances at Christine Wong and smiles. In three-inch heels, Christine is the same height as the lady in uniform. The EMT goes back on the air,

Copy on your orders to the state police. Estimated time of arrival ten minutes or less. Any orders from the chest vascular surgeon?

There is a pause, the man’s voice back at the hospital replies, Doctor Salazar says do you know if the chest wound has a pneumothorax?

The girl with the microphone in her hand frowns. She shakes her head and says, Didn’t get a good exam on the chest, I left the shirt on. Call you back in ten seconds, over.

The young lady emergency technician turns away from Christine. She puts the radio microphone down on the passenger’s seat of the ambulance. Next, she hurries over to the Drug Enforcement Agency Officer lying on a stretcher, Eddie Kavinay.

While two other emergency technicians set up an intravenous fluid unit on the man in the black S.W.A.T. uniform. The girl kneels at his side and cuts away his black long sleeved shirt with a pair of bandage scissors. Then she presses her stethoscope against both sides of Agent Kavinay's chest in various locations. A worried look grows on her face.

Scene 104 Christine Wong Delivers An On The Spot Report

Location: Seneca Mall parking lot, near Lucketts Virginia

While the emergency medical services team labors to save the lives of the men wounded in the ferocious gun battle at the Seneca Mall. Christine Wong and her crew set up their camera equipment for an 'On the Scene' report. Christine turns to face to the west. Her motion places the casualties and medical people behind her right shoulder. Christine's cameraman points his camera at the girl reporter. He works the zoom lens in an effort to fill the background of the scene with the figures of the wounded, medical people, state police and bystanders. When she sees the red light go on at the base of the camera, Christine Wong starts reporting the news.

I’m Christine Wong your Channel Seven On The Spot Reporter. We are here at the Seneca Mall, just north of Lucketts Virginia.

With an exclusive report on a shoot out between a gang of drug dealers and officers of the Drug Enforcement Agency. As you can see in the scene behind me, two agents have been wounded and one of the drug dealers killed. Just now the emergency medical services team have stabilized the critically wounded officer. They are about to transport him back to Brunswick Community Hospital.

Christine glances over her right shoulder as she finishes up with her intro. What she sees makes her step to the side and gesture to her cameraman to take in the whole scene. The cameraman raises his camera up slightly. He twists the camera's zoom lens. Christine Wong speaks into her microphone,

The emergency medical services people are loading the body of the dead drug dealer into the ambulance. Next to him, a wounded suspect, thought to be involved in the crime. As Christine speaks, her cameraman brings his floodlight to bear on Buster Knowles. The young man lying patiently and relaxed on the stretcher.

Buster squints in surprise at the harsh light from the camera. He turns his head towards the light. Buster sees a television news van and a television news van crew. It dawns on him that he, Buster Knowles, is on television! Buster starts moaning and groaning for effect.

Mister Knowles twists this way and that, the wounds in his buttocks and right thigh open up and start bleeding. Buster tries to raise himself up on his elbows. He stares into the camera and cries. Am I shot up real bad?

Christine's cameraman works the zoom lens on his camera. He focuses in on Buster’s twisted face. Buster squints in the intense light. He is about to bring up his hand in front of his eyes when he realizes the gesture will block the view through the lens of the camera.

Buster mutters, Let em know I'm undercover! As the police and emergency medical services people roll his stretcher up onto the ambulance Buster says dramatically.

Where’s Chief Burke? Did he get shot up, too?

Christine Wong is a little taken in by Buster’s on stage theatrics. She whispers into her microphone, Ladies and Gentlemen! The man in front of us in plain clothes may well be an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency!

As Christine Wong finishes her statement, the emergency services team slams the back doors on both of the ambulances. They drive away from the parking lot, roof lights flashing and sirens blaring. The cameraman follows the hasty retreat of the vehicles, accompanied front and rear by state police squad cars. Christine says to her audience,

There you have it. A speedy resolution to a remarkable incident. I'm Christine Wong, your Channel Seven On The Spot Reporter.

Christine makes a slashing gesture across her throat. The cameraman stops filming the scene. He turns the lights off on his light bar.

Just then a man in a white shirt and a tie, one of the bystanders, walks up to Christine Wong. He swallows nervously and says, I’m Roger Bowman. Miss Wong. Mall manager and chief of the security police.

Christine’s cameraman needs no further instructions from Christine. He turns his camera back on as Christine jockey's into position for a face-to-face interview. To start things off, Christine speaks directly to the camera lens.

We have a Mister Roger Bowman with us at the scene of the Seneca Mall shoot out. Mister Bowman is the mall manager. He has some details for us about the situation. Christine turns to Mister Bowman, What facts are you able to release to us at this time, sir?

Roger Bowman swallows again. His Adam’s apple moves up and down. He clears his throat and says, The whole thing began at about five this afternoon. A group of three or four men started shooting machine guns into the van parked over there.

Mister Bowman points at Buster’s shot up windowless van. The vehicle leans crazily towards the left. In the direction of the tires Tepo Nayari shot up with his machine pistol when he tried to kill Buster Knowles. Mister Bowman continues,

When the drug enforcement officers got out of the van the drug dealers ran into Kelly’s restaurant. From there the battle went into the K-Mart.

Mister Bowman pauses to see if Christine has any questions. She asks, Where was the drug dealer killed?

Roger Bowman breaks into a nervous little smile. When our mall security force joined in the shoot out it was too much for the men with the machine guns. They took hostages and tried to back out of the store. Then another fellow in a yellow shirt got a pistol from somewheres. Right in front of the pharmacist, he shot the last guy going out of the store! Twice in the head!

Christine nods at Mister Bowman. It is clear to her Bowman's comments are good copy. Was the man who shot the hostage taker one of your undercover policemen?

Mister Bowman replies, No. We’re sure of it. The girl, a K-Mart cashier, told me she saw him ride off on a bicycle just after lunch. Somehow, he got into the battle. Nobody knows who he is.

Christine Wong realizes Mister Bowman has shared all of his useful information with her audience. She turns to the camera, That’s an eye witness description of the crime. An exclusive report from your Channel Seven news team mobile reporting staff. I’m Christine Wong at the Seneca Mall north of Lucketts Virginia. Now it’s back to the station.As Miss Wong completes her outro, the cameraman turns off the camera and his light bar. He stands up to his full height, obviously relieved to be able to straighten his legs. Mister Bowman takes hold of Christine Wong's right elbow. When she turns to face him he says,

The police told me they arrested the guy in the yellow shirt and he’s down in the jail on the south side of town. I heard the special weapons and tactics team leader is there right now.

Christine Wong thinks to herself- 'Be still my beating heart!' It is a struggle for her to conceal her enthusiasm from Mister Bowman. Her mind fills with visions of a face-to-face interview with a man in an all black swat uniform. She wonders- "Where do I stand to