Chapter 2 Officer Hodginkson
Officer Ian Hodginkson, seeing the flashing police lights and ambulance outside number 86 Walnut Road slowed the car down and parked. Jumping out, the cold night air hit him instantly and sent a chill down his back despite his uniform and jacket. Ian and his partner Officer Gurrero walked up the driveway, the ambulance taking off, sirens blearing,
"At least they got a survivor" Ian remarked to his partner, clearly still in a good mood after having such an uneventful week in the sleepy town. The older and much less enthusiastic Officer Gurrero just let out a sigh, probably wishing he was at home in bed with his wife Vickie. Walking past the police tape, Ian saw the crowd that was watching, hoping they could get some info on what had happened, Nosey people never sleep I guess he thought to himself. Inside there were a few other cops, and a CSU taking photos and dusting for prints.
"What do we have Mike?" Ian asked looking around the room, eager to have some involvement in the case.
"Young woman stabbed by an intruder, she let of a few shots at him but he got away. Neighbors heard the noise and found her unconscious; paramedics think she'll be ok. No one saw the asshole, hopefully the girl got a good look at him, her names Harmoni Michales, Caucasian 23 years old." Spouted off Mike Goldsmith, chief of police in Greenlake.
"I want you two to keep an eye out for anything or anyone that seems suspicious while on patrol tonight".
"Yea Boss" Ian replied, his eyes travelling to a picture hanging on the wall, a young man holding a baby with one blue eye and one green, odd he though, you don't see people with eyes like that everyday. Mike came up to Ian and looked at the photo along with him, "Must be the girl and an older brother or something" remarked Ian, wishing he could do something more to help with the case something like this didn't happen everyday in Greenlake.
"No that's her father" sighed Mike, "Dylan Quinn, he was in my year at school, poor kid, became a dad at 16, hung himself two years later when his girlfriend left, she took the kid and moved to New York, it was all a big scandal at the time, everyone in Greenlake knew about it."
"Well looks like you got everything under control chief, guess we'll be on our way now" Officer Gurrero interrupted, giving his partner a look for keeping them so long when they were meant to be on patrol, not that there was much to do tonight anyway. Always quiet in winter here, especially for a town of eight and a half thousand people.