Chapter 2
While Mac was back at the crime scene Stella was at the hospital getting ready to ask Josh Lee, an injured victim, some questions about the crime he experienced.
Stella entered the hospital room where Josh was hospitalized in. He had bandages on his head from the attack of Cassandra's murderer. "Josh Lee?" Stella asked, as she came in the room. "I'm Stella Bonasera from the NY crime lab. Can I talk to you?"
Stella could tell Josh was in pain because he could barely keep his eyes open and it hurt for him to sit up and unfortunately, the obvious black and blue bruises on his head.
"Of course, what are you here for?" Stella sat down on the chair next to Josh. "I'm here to ask you questions about yesterday and this morning, do you still remember what happened?"
While Josh was thinking of what to say Stella remembered when she was in the hospital after Frankie had attacked her and when she had to shoot him, she couldn't imagine what Josh was going through.
"Yes, I still remember, so where should I start", Josh said nervously. He was still getting over what he experienced. "From the beginning, just take your time." Stella replied, getting out her pocketbook to write down the important details.
"Well, I was walking to my locker to get my books, I stay after school for football practice and I drive home and it was around 5:10 and I heard a scream from the music room." Josh explained.
Stella, who was listening attentively, was noticing Josh go silent for a moment.
"Wait, who was killed? I don't remember." Josh asked, with a confused look on his face.
"Cassandra Crenshaw, did you know who she was?" Stella asked.
"Oh my god, Cassie was killed? I can't believe this! Who would do this to her? I couldn't even tell who she was, same goes for her killer. All I saw was blood on the floor and right when I looked up, I got hit on the head by something really hard and everything went dark after that, all I remember is when I entered the room, the murderer had very dark clothes on, I pretty sure they were black, that's all I remember. I didn't know Cassie well, she asked me to tutor her.", Josh said.
"It seems like you cared about her, did you have a crush on her?" Stella smiled at him, but still had a sympathetic grin present.
"Of course I did, she was a really nice girl. She wasn't just this hot blonde girl with no brains she really cared about school and she really wanted to improve her grades in Algebra and Science, so she came to me. That's really all I can tell you, unless you go talk to one of her friends. Her really good friend is Victoria Adams and I'm pretty sure she will know more than me. I can give you her number or an address, and I'm pretty sure she is at work now, at the Smith's pharmacy." Josh said.
"Here you can write it down on here." Stella said and handed him a piece of paper from her pocketbook.
Josh handed the paper back to Stella with Cassandra's best friends' number and address on it.
"Please, don't let this person get away, they killed an innocent girl. Whoever would do that deserves to get punished." Josh said, as he slowly laid his back down on the bed.
"We'll do everything we can to find this killer, and I promise you that." Stella said with a confident smile and nodded at Josh and he nodded back.
As soon as Stella left Josh's hospital room she took out her cell phone to call Mac to tell him the interesting news.
"Hey Mac, it's Stella, Josh gave me very interesting details about the crime. He also gave me an address and a number of Cassandra's best friend and told me her workplace too." Stella said, as she was getting into her car.
"Great, I will meet you back here; I have something shocking to show you." Mac said to Stella as he was looking for evidence, which good be found all over the school, but he was focused by the closet where Cassandra was knocked down."
Mac was waiting at the front of the school when all of a sudden he saw a black SUV pull up in front of him. It was Stella, who was carrying her pocketbook in her right hand and her cell phone in her left. Mac had a big crush on Stella for a really long time, and he really wanted to show her his feelings.
"You look great!" Mac said cautiously, not knowing what Stella was going to say.
"Thanks, you too!" Stella replied, with a big grin on her face. She was going to get all red but she controlled her embarrassment, even though it was a great compliment from the guy she loved for years, but she just hasn't had the guts to ask him, but they both had to worry about solving this crime and catching this killer.
" Well, I called Cassandra's friend, Victoria Adams and I can't get a hold of her, I called her cell about 5 times, so I guess we might have to go find her at work.", Stella said as she was listening to her voicemail, to see if Victoria may have called her back.
"Before we do that, we have to find that weapon, and Hawkes already told us that it wasn't a knife so we can rule that out as a possible murder weapon." Mac said, as he and Stella were making their way back to the music room.
"So where do we start?" Stella asked, looking around the room for a possible starting place.
"Right from the beginning, at the entrance." Mac answered, as he walked toward the doorway.
"Well then, let's get started." Stella said as she put on her latex gloves as Mac did the same.
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