When they reached the apartment building they ran up the flights of stairs to the floor where the shots had been heard. There was a crowd of worried neighbors gathered around the front door. They drew their guns pushing everybody back.
Gibbs kicked the door open.
"NCIS!" he yelled to an empty room, or so it seemed. After they had clear the apartment Gibbs went back outside.
"I wanna know everything you know." He said in a threatening manner to one of the witnesses. He told him exactly what the officer had heard from the neighbor who called him.
Tony and Kate were still in a back room where they had found a body with the same manner of death as the previous body, blood smear on his face in a symbol which seemed irrelevant at the first scene. Kate simply stared at him, shaking her head disbelievingly.
"Kate? What is it?" Tony asked now worried.
"I used to share a room with him in college." She said in a small voice.
A look of realization swept over Tony. Kate began to frantically rummage around the desk and surfaces. She picked up what looked like a graduation photo and handed it to Tony. He quickly scanned the picture and saw Kate and the victim next to each other, throwing their hat in the air victoriously.
"Were you two…?" he asked.
She nodded, knowing what he was intending to ask but couldn't quite find the words.
"Oh Kate I'm sorry." He reached out to stroke her hair just as she turned around, making him disguise his caring gesture and scratching his head.
"I'm gonna go tell Gibbs."
"Right behind you." He called after her. He took in a deep breath which he then let out in a regretful sigh looking at the body.