A/N: While the team are working on a double homicide, Nick's girlfriend makes an appearance and an incident takes place. Kinda casefic.
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Story Notes: Set around Season 9.
- CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION -
Ray arrived at the Fingerprints lab, in hope that the results on the tape lifted from the explosive device. From what they'd salvaged, he'd been able to get something out of the remaining parts of the device. He found a transmitter, tape, a watch (like the one Riley had described) and the broken screen where the timer would've been displayed. He needed to know where the fingerprints had them.
"You're here for the print from the tape, right?"
Ray smiled. "Yep. Got the results?" The Fingerprints analyst handed him the sheet with the suspect's personal portfolio. "The bomb maker is one.. Hayden Delacruz."
"Hayden have any priors?"
"He was arrested for assault and battery a couple of years ago. Also did time for possession and assaulting a police officer."
The CSI thanked her and went to go tell the others what he'd learnt. Now they knew who the bomb maker was, it meant they could finally find the killer of their victim's. The dayshift had already followed up on a few leads but this new information could help them find their killer. He found Catherine in her office, going over what the dayshift CSIs had collected so far.
"Catherine,"
The blonde looked up at him. "Oh, it's you, Ray. What do you have?"
"The person who made the bomb. Lifted his fingerprint off some tape."
The supervisor's expression lit up. "Great. Ok, so we should bring him in?" "I think we should wait a while. We need to be sure we can connect him to the murder first." Catherine nodded. Ray really had been taking his training seriously, and it was showing quite clearly. So they made their way to the layout to piece the evidence together. This murder needed to be established properly. They needed the killer, a confession, and also a way to link the bomber to the murder of their victims.
"Ok, so go through it, what do you have from the original murder?"
CSI Jack Alexander (aka 'Alex') from the dayshift, pointed to the murder weapon. "We lifted some prints. Came back unknown." He ran through everything they'd processed and all the leads they'd followed. Some positive, some not so helpful. The trace Greg had collected from the steering wheel of the car was still being processed and Mandy still had a long lasting amount of fingerprints to go through, so they'd have to wait a bit for Trace and Fingerprints.
Catherine nodded. "Got anything specifically valid to the case, Alex?"
Alex picked up the wrench Riley had gotten from the car. "This is the murder weapon. Adams collected it from the back of the car. Blood on the receiving end matches both our vics. The handle was wiped clean but we did manage to get Trace that could match the type Sanders found." Catherine smiled. That was more like it. Once they got the Trace results back, they might end up with a possible lead. For now, A/V was the only lab that could help them with the others swarmed in piles of evidence.
"Alex, go with Greg to Archie and see if we can get anything off of CCTV."
"Yes ma'am." He said, picking up the bagged CCTV footage and making his way to the break room to fetch Greg before he went to A/V.
Nick sighed. "If we can figure out who was driving the car before it exploded, maybe we could find out who killed the vics because the murder weapon only helps us confirm the cause of death, and doesn't lead us to anyone in particular."
"We'll come up with something. We always do." Catherine insisted.
"I don't know, Cat. There's been no shortage of suspects for the double homicide... but, now we have the bomber, we might be able to find out who he was communicating with in his phone records."
"Go look into it, Nicky."
"I will. I'll page you when if I find anything."
Ray nodded. "I'll be here."
Nick left Willows and Langston in the layout, going to another lab to look into a little hunch he had. "How's Riley doing?" "I went there yesterday. She's recovering well."
"That's great. It's definitely not the same without her."
"It isn't. I need her to hold down the boys with me." Catherine said, laughing to herself.
Ray laughed too, continuing his notes on the case.