CHARLES MAYER HIGH SCHOOL
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
09:45AM MAY 10th 1994.
He ran down the corridor as fast as his legs would carry him but sixteen year old Dennis Reed knew he couldn't escape. Behind him footsteps echoed, walking slowly.
Dennis sharply turned leading him into the dimly lit high school toilets. He ran into a cubicle, slammed shut the door and closed his eyes.
Dennis has always been a victim of bullies but had lost weight in his teens and so the majority of this had ceased. He was an intellectual young man who intended on attending Harvard to study business and communication.
The bathroom door swung open. Dennis breathed in sharply as he knew; this was it.
He saw a pair of white trainers appear at the bottom of the green cubicle door. Dennis found himself focusing on a small red stain that stood out on the mans footwear but his distraction didn't last long as his gaze was drew to the lock being turned from the outside of the door.
Dennis clambered onto the toilet seat and tried to escape over the next cubicles wall, as he heard the door creak behind him.
Dennis' eyes widened. He felt his black trouser leg dampen against his flesh. The searing pain behind his knee cap caused the boys leg to buckle and he dropped to the tiled floor, blood flowing across the white tiles. He found himself looking at his arm laid out to his side, his fingers twitching. The trainers re-appeared in view. The next thing the victim saw was a glint of metal and a puddle of blood appear from his severed forearm.
His vision went blurry but he looked up, he looked directly into the eyes of his own killer. A man he knew well; he was no ordinary bully, he was a grown man. And as Dennis opened his mouth to scream his name, the weapon, now identified as a machete, flew down into Dennis' face.
The last thing the boy had read was the word 'VENTE' written on his killers arm in blue marker pen.
The case was open for a year but was filed COLD.