Tracking the Butcher by William Joiner

Author:William Joiner [Joiner, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Lights from police vehicles blasted through the early morning darkness. Sirens broke through the silence and stillness. A police helicopter appeared over the horizon with its spotlight acting as a beacon guiding the patrol cars and the ambulance to the house. Officers Courtney Sanchez and Samuel Martin arrived. Officer Sanchez drove up onto the curb as she stopped in front of the Reynolds’ home. Before the car came to a stop Officer Martin was opening his door and rushed to Elgie’s aide.

“Lieutenant!” Officer Martin hollered as he banged on the Reynolds’ front door. “Lieutenant, are you okay?”

Officer Sanchez went to the trunk of the patrol car and got out a thirty-inch, two-man battering ram.

“Get out of the way, Sam. I’m going to knock it down!”

Martin grabbed the handle on one side of the battering ram and Sanchez grabbed the other. They swung the battering ram into the door once, then again, and finally on the third strike the door came open. They ran into the darkness and saw a light coming from the kitchen and ran towards it with their guns drawn. Martin got on the right side of the door, and Sanchez was on the left as two other officers came through the front door.

“Go down the hallway,” Officer Sanchez said, “we’ll enter through the kitchen.” Sanchez told Martin, “I’m going in. I think I hear someone.”

Sanchez pushed the swinging door open with her foot and slowly entered the room and saw it was vacant.

“I’m going through to the other side,” Sanchez said. “Cover me.”

Sanchez walked up to the next swinging door and pushed it with her foot. With the light from the kitchen, they could see Elgie lying on the dining room floor. Sanchez holstered her weapon and checked Elgie for a pulse. She found one.

“Lieutenant? Are you conscious? Lieutenant?”

There was no response.

“Sam, get the paramedics in here quick!”

Martin ran back out of the front door. The other two officers came through the hallway door. One of the officers found a light switch and flipped it like Vanessa did and got the same result. No lights. As she was checking Elgie, Sanchez heard Vanessa’s muffled voice and saw her secured to a chair that appeared to belong to the dining set. “Mrs. Reynolds!” Sanchez said. “Hold on, I’ll get you loose.” Sanchez took out her handcuff key and removed the handcuffs from Vanessa’s wrists then the cuffs from her legs. The second team of officers entered the dining room and propped open the door to the kitchen to provide some light.

Vanessa snatched the duct tape off her mouth and pulled out the gag.

“Is Elgie okay?” Vanessa asked.

“I don’t know yet, ma’am,” Officer Sanchez said. “The paramedics are on their way.”

The paramedics rushed in. Vanessa watched closely as they worked.

“George, I think he has a cut artery. I can’t tell if it’s nicked or severed, but there’s a lot of blood. Give me some gauze so I can put some pressure on it. Officer help my partner with the Gurney I can’t take my hand away.

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