Chapter 61
Yune Street, 57th.
A black Dodge was parked at the curb.
Luke sat in the passenger side looking at a gray wooden house not far away and said to Marcus and Jenny, “According to the information Harry received, Lindsay is staying at her friend Logan Salwood’s house.
Judging by the situation at Ome Hospital, Lindsay is likely to have an accomplice, and Logan Salmu is also under some suspicion.
Be careful when you do it later.”
Marcus smiled, “Without Harry, we’d have a hard time finding Lindsay, do I count that as indirect credit?”
Luke didn’t bother to pay attention to him and continued to arrange the tasks, “Jenny and I will be in charge of the front door.
Marcus, you take the rangers and keep an eye on the back door, any questions?”
Marcus bristled, “No, Inspector Luke.”
A few minutes later, the backup rangers arrived.
Luke and the others entered Logan’s yard to split up.
Luke didn’t have a good impression of Logan, not only did the bastard try to steal the police car, but he also green-lighted his partner.
Absolute scum.
Once everyone was ready, Jenny walked up to the door, “Knock knock ……”
No response.
“Knock knock ……” Jenny knocked hard on the door again.
Still no response.
Jenny shouted, “Sir, I’m from the Immigration Bureau, there’s been a report that you’ve been taking in illegal immigrants recently, please open the door.”
After a while, a footstep sounded and the door opened.
A white woman with a haggard face stood in the doorway, “You’re mistaken, I’m an American citizen, not an illegal immigrant ……”
The woman didn’t finish her sentence, she caught Luke out of the corner of her eye, and her whole body immediately froze, took two steps back, and questioned, “Why are you here?”
“Lindsay, I need to talk to you.”
“Did David put you up to this? I don’t want to talk to you. I want nothing to do with him right now, so please leave.” Lindsay dropped the sentence and casually closed the door to her room.
Luke braced his hand against the door, “Where’s Lawn?”
“Who’s Lawn, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I saw you on the hospital monitor, nurse’s uniform, wheelchair, need I say more?” Luke didn’t make an outright arrest, he didn’t have enough evidence yet to prove that the nurse was Lindsay.
Lindsay stammered, “I …… don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Luke continued, “You were wearing a mask, I probably wouldn’t recognize you, do you think David wouldn’t recognize you either? The police are on to you, you can’t get away with it.”
Lindsay tried, “Aren’t you the Robbery and Murder Division? Why do you care about this kind of thing?”
Seeing the other party’s tone loosening, Luke struck while the iron was hot: “Lawn is involved in a major case, I hope you take it seriously, it’s no small matter.
And kidnapping is a felony in itself, not to mention that Lawn is still sick, if he dies, it’s first-degree murder.”
“WHAT? “Lindsay thought she heard wrong, her expression was a bit exaggerated, “I was just doing a favor and taking him out of the hospital, technically it’s not a crime at all.”
Luke asked back, “You admit you kidnapped Lawn last night?”
“I’ll say it again, I didn’t kidnap anyone, I just helped push him out of the hospital and he thanked me when we parted ways.”
Luke confirmed, “Lawn was in a conscious state at the time?”
“Of course, he got himself into the wheelchair, he’s just still having some trouble getting around, I never went against his wishes and it wasn’t a kidnapping at all.”
“Where is Lawn now?”
“I don’t know, he got off at a rather isolated spot after leaving the Omni Hospital and we haven’t seen him since.”
“Who instructed you to do that?”
“Uh ……,” Lindsay gulped out of the corner of her eye as she flicked back.
“STOP! LAPD!”
Then came Marcus’s voice, “Someone’s jumping out the east window.”
“Watch her.” Luke dropped the sentence and went after her with his gun.
He went to the east side of the house and saw a white man fleeing over the fence toward the far side, suspected to be Logan.
Marcus chased after him with a patrolman, and there should be another one guarding the back door.
Luke followed in pursuit.
“STOP! You can’t get away.” Marcus shouted as he gave chase.
“BANG!” The response was a gunshot.
“FUCK!” cursed Luke, instinctively looking for cover and hiding behind a tin trash can.
Then, it occurred to him that he had a bulletproof card, which amounted to an extra layer of defense.
Emboldened, Luke cocked his head and looked around.
Seeing Logan’s fleeing form once again.
“Marcus, cover me.” Luke took a deep breath and gave chase.
Logan seemed to have noticed someone behind him and turned to shoot again, “Bang!”
“Bang!”
Logan fired two shots in a row, as if warning his pursuer.
Luke waited for this moment, as long as Logan dared to shoot, he would just empty his magazine.
“Bang Bang ……”
Luke fired a burst of wild shots at Logan.
Marcus and the patrolman caught up as well, firing in Logan’s direction.
“Bang……”
Gunshots rang out all around, rattling people’s ears.
“Ah!”
A miserable scream rang out as Logan’s right arm was hit and his pistol fell to the ground.
The three men directly rushed up and grabbed Logan.
All three of Luke’s men had been shooting wildly just now, and they didn’t really know who had injured him.
Marcus handcuffed Logan and the patrolman called 911 for an ambulance.
Luke breathed a sigh of relief, his palms were already sweaty, and this was the first time he had experienced a gunfight since crossing the border.
When he was a criminal cop in his home country, Luke had also fired his gun, back then the police force had rules and regulations and shooting was more restrained.
Like today, a pike of bullets straight through, it was really the first time.
Cool.
“Ah ……” Logan was still there screaming in pain.
Marcus took care of the guards while Luke went to meet up with Jenny.
More patrolmen came to back up when they heard the gunshots.
Jenny kept an eye on Lindsay as well.
“Jenny, you take the men and search the house.” After Luke finished speaking, he took out handcuffs from his waist and directly cuffed Lindsay.
Lindsay was dissatisfied, “I’ve already told you everything I know, why are you still doing this to me?”
Luke questioned, “Did you hear the shots?”
“Yeah.”
“What’s your relationship with Logan?”
“Friends.”
“Was he involved in the kidnapping of Lawn.”
“I told you it wasn’t a kidnapping, just helping to get him out of the hospital.”
“Answer my question, was Logan involved?”
“Yeah.”
Luke asked rhetorically, “If it wasn’t a kidnapping, like you said, then you guys aren’t even guilty of anything serious, maybe not even jail time.
Why would Logan shoot a cop, that’s a felony.
You explain that?”
Lindsay’s mouth opened halfway before she said, “I don’t know.”
“I’ll ask again, who instructed you to take Lawn?”
“I really don’t know, Logan contacted me, I was just helping.”
“Logan was at the hospital that night too?”
“Yes.”
“What did he do?”
“He fired blanks and diverted the patrolmen away, I was in charge of pushing Lawn out of the hospital, that’s all, we didn’t commit a crime at all.”
“Logan didn’t fire an empty gun this time, he’s definitely going to jail, do you want to go in with him or assist the police in their investigation for merit and reduce your sentence. Think about it.” Luke pushed Lindsay into the police car.
Jenny put away her pistol and approached, “I led a search of the house and found no sign of Lawn.”
Luke sighed, “There’s no saving grace.”