The Right Wrong Thing by Ellen Kirschman

Author:Ellen Kirschman [Kirschman, Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608091546
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Published: 2015-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Four police cars, lights on and sirens blaring, pass me as I turn the corner on my way to police headquarters. This is a rare sight in Kenilworth. Most of the crime here happens behind closed doors. Lakeisha Gibbs’ death was an anomaly, the first officer-involved shooting in several years. A fifth and a sixth car speed past. I pull into the parking lot. Chief Reagon and Captain Pence are running down the stairs. There’s an unmarked patrol car with a driver waiting for them at the bottom.

“What’s happened?”

“Get in,” the chief motions me toward the car. “Tell you when we’re on the way.” Pence jumps into the front passenger seat, and the chief and I get in the back. Pence’s jaw muscles are twitching. The chief’s face is in lockdown. She doesn’t look at me but stares at the back of the driver’s head. “They’ve found a body. We think it’s Randy Spelling.”

Tiny black dots push at the edges of my eyes. I grasp the back of Pence’s seat to keep from falling forward.

“How?” I ask.

“Don’t know yet.”

“Where?”

“At a park in East Kenilworth,” Pence answers without turning around. “Some guy walking a dog found her under a bench.”

“Under a bench. What was she doing?”

“Beats me. You’re her psychologist.”

“Was,” I say. Pence looks at me but doesn’t say anything. “How?” I ask again.

“How what?”

“How did she kill herself?”

The chief turns to me for the first time. Her face is drained of color. There is a small quiver at the corner of her mouth. “She didn’t kill herself, someone shot her to death with her own gun.”

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