Karma by Grant McKenzie

Author:Grant McKenzie [McKenzie, Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Famous Books
Published: 2013-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 38

Hackett froze when the officers ordered him to, but not before lifting the camera to his eye.

The child killer was looking directly into the lens, his right hand rising, the middle finger pointed straight up as the others curled down around it.

Hackett grinned. The Canadian papers would love the act of defiance in the gesture — perfect for stirring up public debate and giving their opinion columnists free reign to spout off about justice reform.

Hackett took the shot and zoomed in closer just as Hudson’s head was rocked backwards and his skull exploded in a bloody mist. Hackett’s finger never left the shutter release as his camera captured every detail at ten frames per second.

What surprised him most was the sound of the gunshots. They seemed no louder than a kid popping his lunch bag.

When Hudson was on the ground, Hackett turned his lens skyward to probe the roof. He was just in time to snap off one frame as the killer dropped his rifle and vanished.

Hackett returned his focus to Hudson’s twitching body and saw that both officers were rising from the ground, their hands groping for their weapons.

Hackett cursed as the realization hit that he would be their main suspect as a possible accessory. He turned and started to run for the mouth of the alley.

“Freeze!” screamed one of the cops. “Don’t go anywhere!”

“You know I didn’t shoot him,” Hackett called back over his shoulder.

He continued to move forward.

A gunshot — louder than the rifle’s — reverberated down the alley walls. Hackett stopped moving, just ten feet from escape.

Hackett saw Frankie standing at the mouth of the alley, staring back at him, his mouth agape.

“Turn around!” yelled one of the cops. His commanding authority was broken by an unnerving tremor.

Hackett winked at his cousin before taking a deep breath and yelling at the top of his lungs: “Hudson’s been shot. He’s in the alley.”

Before the cops knew what was happening, a storm of journalists, photographers and TV cameras, already alerted by the gunshots, flooded into the alley and swept past Hackett as though he was invisible.

By the time police backup arrived to handle the crowd, Hackett was long gone.

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