One of Our Own

Chapter 7

A/N: I own nadda! Please review and let me know how I'm doing!

Disclaimers note: CI isn't mine. It belongs to other people. The story is mine, but not the characters.

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Chapter 7

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"Mr. and Mrs. Tyres?" Detective Tutuola asked while standing on the porch of Lacy Tyres parents.

"Yes, can I help you?" Mr. Tyres asked.

"I'm Detective Tutuola. I'm investigating your daughter's death. May I come in and talk to you two for a few minutes?"

"Sure, please come in." Mr. Tyres said.

After everyone was sitting down in the living room, Lacy's mother spoke first. "I thought the other detectives were handling the case. Did something new develop?"

"There have been a couple of new things turn up. Nothing that I can discuss at the moment. Can you tell me a little bit about your daughter?" He asked. He was very careful not to mention that she could have been part of a serial killer's prey.

"She's been on the force for about seven years." Mrs. Tyres said as tears rolled down her face. "She loved it, much to our chagrin. We wanted her to do something ... that was safer. She is ... was our only child."

"Was she seeing anyone?" Detective Tutuola asked.

"She used to date a cop. They broke up a little over a year ago. She wanted to settle, but he wasn't ready. His name is Jacob Unip. Far as I know, they parted on good terms." Lacy's father said.

"How about more recent? Have you heard anything at all?"

Both parents shook their heads no.

"I understood she lived here? May I have your permission to look around her bedroom. It will give me some background information on her and might help me get a step closer to the killer."

"She had an apartment over the garage. She very seldom came into the house. She has a kitchen, bathroom, living room, and everything else that she needs up there. If you think it will help, you can go ahead and look around. The other cops told us we could go back in a couple of weeks ago, but we've only been up there once. It's just too hard right now." Mrs. Tyres said.

Detective Tutuola looked around her apartment making notes on various things. After an hour, the detective told her parents that he would be in touch.

Mr. Tyres walked Fin out to his car. "You know, we always expected a visit saying that she was killed in the line of duty, not that some psycho killed her on her weekend off." Mr. Tyres made a face. "That was the first 4 day weekend she'd had off in over a year. I almost wished she would have been working, maybe she would be alive now."

As the detective got into his car, he told Mr. Tyres that he would try to keep them up to date as much as he was allowed to. Inside his car, he called the captain to tell him that he was headed to Lacy's precinct.