May 27, 1996
Stella slowly snuck out from behind a dumpster, eyeing an unsuspecting person with a McDonald's bag in his hands. The man looked very exhausted and worn out, likely due to physically and emotionally exhausting work. Her only accomplice now was Angell, the other, Aiden Burn was killed after being hit by a fire engine during an emergency call.
Both Stella and Angell, though in their early twenties looked like they were at least forty, being homeless for over five years now. With nighttime having descended on the cityscape, the man with the bag of fast food was walking through a poorly lit section of street when Stella sprinted from behind the dumpster, and with near lightning speed, snatched the bag of food from the guys hand and dashed off into the night.
"HEY! HEY! HEY!" the man yelled, with a commanding voice, pursued the woman. Having been running for nearly two blocks, Stella barely avoided being hit by a car, as she ran a red light on a busy intersection. The man himself dodged a pedestrian and kept running after Stella, and flashed a police badge and nearby people, many of them impoverished, hid in the doorways to get out of his way.
"Get back here!" he yelled, gradually closing in on her. He pulled out his walkie-talkie and called the MC PD. Having chased Stella to a dead-end alleyway, he saw her, looking back, as she threw the bag over the fence that was just beyond the cul-de-sac. He chased her, but she had managed to get over the fence and with the food, had fled into the night.
The man, was a rookie police officer named Mac Taylor.
Taylor climbed over the fence and continued to chase after her. Having chosen one of the alley ways, he heard the sound of shuffling behind a dumpster before a ragged-looking Stella had suddenly erupted from the space between the apartment and the dumpster. Despite her quick reaction, Mac had grabbed onto Stella's hole-ridden shirt, causing her to stumble. He then slid his foot in front of her leg and caused her to trip, dropping the bag onto the ground. Having grabbed the food from the ground, he continued to chase her down the street.
Despite being worn out, he caught up with the homeless Greek woman and tripped her once more, causing her to fall onto the sidewalk. He abruptly pinned her on the ground with his knee, in order to prevent her from escapting this time.
"This is officer Taylor, over. I've been attacked by a suspect, presumably a homeless woman who I have on the gr…." Mac said before he felt another person tackle him to the ground, allowing Stella to escape, albeit without the food.
Having fought this other person off, Mac realized that the person he had chased for several blocks had escaped. Instead, he helped handcuff a 20-something young male who he instantly recognized as a wanted drug dealer, Ethan Burkman. Having handcuffed him, the police cars arrived and Burkman was taken into custody. Stella had however, gotten away and fled into the night.