I stood over the body. The police and my team had been called to the scene fairly early in the morning. The boy on the ground was 20 years old and wore glasses. I looked closely and examined his wrist. He had cut deep horizontal lines into his wrist, a cry for attention. While examining his wrist, and I had almost missed I noticed a bullet hole in his chest. The boy had shot himself and slashed his wrist? Then I realized what was going on here. This wasn’t a suicide. This was a murder. We were looking at a boy who had been killed in cold blood.

“This isn’t a suicide. See the bullet hole in his chest?” I said

“Yeah, I’m perplexed. How did he get the slashes on the wrist.”

“Maybe, it was a prior injury.”

“You might be right about that.”

Diaz phoned the chief of police.

“Roberts, uhh yeah we noticed a bullet hole in addition to cuts on the wrist we are ruling this as a murder.”

“Well you’re not autospy analysts so make sure to get it to an actual expert.”

“Sure thing boss.”

Diaz turned to me.

“Woo What crawled up his butt?”

Chief Roberts had had a long standing feud with Diaz. Officer Diaz had beat him out for the Citizenship award at police academy.

Just then we saw a man go riding by on his bike. We raced outside and shouted hey which made him stop.

“Hi do you know the man in that house over there?”

“That’s Mr. Stevens.”

“We’re investigating a murder-“

I shot Diaz a very critical look and he cleared his throat.

“We’re investigating a suicide in that house over there.”

“Mr Stevens is dead? So that’s what the smell coming from the house is. I was just on my way over to the police department to report a strange smell coming from that house.”

“Could we have your name sir?”

“Of course it’s Jerry. Jerry Adliner.”

“Did you know Mr. Stevens?” Diaz asked

“Yep. We went to AA together. I had no idea he was depressed.”

“Often times people who are depressed are very good at hiding it.”

“Well I hope you find out what happened.”

Jerry got back on his bike flipped the kickstand up and then pedaled away.

“Did it seem weird to you that he said he hopes we find out what happened?”

“No why?”

“Usually in cases ruled as suicide the situation is pretty clear.”

Diaz dialed the police detective.

“Uhh chief I think we found a suspect.”

“But you haven’t even gotten an autopsy report or an official ruling from a coroner yet. Go to the coroner’s office.”

We went to the coroner’s office.

“Yep it was a murder. There is no way he could have done both of these injuries without one killing him first.”

We managed to track down through GPS from the police station our suspect on wheels.

We arrested him and brought him to the station.