Hours after the ambulance had taken Joel to the hospital he was declared dead, the doctor informed me that the bullet had hit vital organs which caused immediate death.
It felt like my world crumbled when I heard the news, I fell straight to the floor, my tears had no ending.
After a while the police arrived at the hospital, after they had gone to inspect the crime scene.
They checked on the health status of Joel and found out he had passed away way before he arrived at the hospital.
The detective in charge had told me to go to the police station, so as to get interrogated. I didn't hesitate I followed them straight to the station for questioning.
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I had finally arrived at the police station, I went to the interrogation room with detective Robles and a officer right next to him.
Detective Robles had a scrapbook and pen as he held a recorder along side. His face looked really unfriendly, like he was going to rule me as the murder within a blink of an eye.
"so miss what is your relationship with the deceased? " detective Robles asked
"I'm his fiance" I said as I cleaned tears from my face
"do you stay together "
"yes"
"where you there when the incident took place "
"No"
"Then where were you" he asked me with a very unfriendly look on his stiff face.
"Well I've been out all day, all the way from work to my mother's place "
"did you have any sort of contact with him"
"no, we were meant to go grocery shopping today, he was meant to pick me up from my work place, but he changed his mind, he then decided we meet at home, on my way home I received a call from my mom's neighbor saying she had an accident, then I rushed to my mom's place "
"so you're trying to tell me you don't have a hand in this"
"hell no" I yelled out in disbelief
"when did you discover he had been killed"
"When i got to the apartment, I tried getting into our room, but it was locked, I knocked several times, he didn't answer I never knew he was dead"
"so that means the killer locked him"
"yes, I guess so "
"so that means the criminal has a spare key to the room "
"no we had only one key"
"well getting into the room my team and I saw a key close to the entrance of the room, did you leave or drop the key to the room "
"as I said I tried getting in, but I couldn't, I didn't have the key to the room with me, i had to call the security to help open the door "
"interesting..., so do you know anyone who might have a motive to kill him"
I paused for a second to think, but no one came to my mind.
"No"
"Are you sure. So he has no enemies, he's never been in a fight with nobody, has nobody ever threatened him"
"okay there's this guy that has been stalking me, his name is Chuck, he had attacked Joel two months ago"
"so who is chuck to you, is he an ex boyfriend or what? "
"no, we used to work at the same place, his been stalking me for a year now"
"okay, do you know how we could reach out to this chuck guy"
"yes I've got the address of where he works"
"okay, write it down, and also we would need your mom's address"
"why?"
"we might need to interrogate her"
"why? " I asked again
He pulls himself closer to me
"see young lady you have to cooperate with us, a young man just died from a gun shot to the chest and two to the head, someone obviously planned this. So better cooperate or you'll become a major suspect"
"okay" I wrote down the address which he had demanded for.
"Thanks for your cooperation, we'll inform you on the latest, also stay in town we might need your help, does he have any relatives"
"Yes but they're not in LA"
"okay we'll still like to reach out to them, and also if you can find a place to stay for now, we would appreciate it, we're still making use of the crime scene, you're free to leave "
"Okay thank you "
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The taxi had dropped me off at my mom's, my body shivered as I walked down to door, i was still in shock and could not stop crying over his death.
I just couldn't believe it, it almost sounded like a joke, I wish it were a joke.
I gently walked to the door as I felt like I would have a mental breakdown at any moment.
I opened the door to the house with my spare keys, when I had gotten in my mom sat in the living room chair eating her dinner as she watched her favorite soap opera.
I closed the door, I almost tripped a bit, I had a dizzy spell this was caused from the bad news I had discovered today.
"Dear you're back. Thought you wouldn't come till tomorrow " she took a closer look at me, she got up from her chair rushing towards me
"dear why are you crying " she asked with so much concern
"mom!! " I cried out loud with an outburst of tears
"Joel is dead!!" I screamed out, It got to a point that I started saying words that nobody could understand even I myself couldn't understand.
I cried out intensely as I fell to the ground
"dear calm down" she said as she held my two arms as support
"mom I don't know why this happened " I said crying out loud
"when did all this happen" she asked
"I don't know when he was shut, but when I got to the apartment I saw him dead in our room"
"he was shut!! " she yelled out
"dear you're not going back to that apartment, you can never tell, the killer might come back".
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Close Enemy
Mystery / ThrillerAllie is twenty-five year old journalist, she lived a life of deceit without knowing her true identity, she only served as a bait to the one person she ever trusted which was her mother. All her life she always pleased her mother until she made one...
