"Did you come up with a motive?" Archie inquired.
"Nick's running with the idea that it's drug related. The gun killed three drug dealers."
"How does that relate to the shooter getting stabbed?" Archie asked.
"I don't want to influence your best guess at the intended victim." Sara replied. "Show me what you've got."
"I've input all the parameters, and here is a reconstruction as best as I can get it."
Sara watched on screen as the shooter walked in and fired off his gun.
"That's the angle of the surveillance camera; can you swing it around to the shooter's perspective?" She inquired.
Archie tapped the keyboard and the perspective changed. Archie ran the sequence again.
"And a 180."
"So does that answer your question?" Archie asked.
"Yes."
"And fit with Nick's theory?"
"Theories are great, but you need the evidence to back them up. Thanks Archie, keep this Nick and Catherine will want to see it."
"Sure." Archie agreed.
CSI CSI
Sara grabbed the evidence bags she needed took them into the layout room to process.
She carefully set about putting together the pieces of glass that had shattered when it had been hit with a bullet back together.
When she had it back together she managed to dust it and lift several prints which she ran through the computer. While the computer was working she processed some more evidence.
After finishing looking at her evidence and getting results from the computer, Sara had a few more answers, after glancing at her watch she knew she was into the second shift.
Sara continued putting the pieces together.
"Hey Sara." Greg said when he walked in room.
"Hey Greg. Done being a lab tech again?"
"Yes. How's the case coming?"
"Getting nearer to an answer." Sara replied.
"Got a reason for the shooting yet?"
Sara pushed her findings across the table.
"Nick's out with Brass processing."
"He sent a knife back and wanted me to run DNA on it and prints." Greg handed her the file.
"Let me practice my psychic abilities. The blood matches the shooter and the prints match the prints I have."
"You should have your own show. Motive?" Greg prompted.
"Shooter had a nice line in stealing from drug dealers and if they didn't cooperate they ended up dead."
"And knives make a very good defensive weapon just not against guns and the drug dealer decided to fight back."
"We end up with a very pissed off shooter who is bleeding to death." Sara stated.
"Who walks into the oyster bar at the Stratosphere and kills a woman and injures two other people including the person who stabbed him."
"That's what all the evidence points to and who Archie's computer simulation shows as the mostly likely target and the others were collateral damage."
"Why do I have to work DNA when we get interesting cases?"
"You could have ended up with the ginger guy or Grissom's hit and run."
"True." Greg conceded. "So what now?"
"Wait until Nick comes back with more evidence, get Brass to go and arrest the person who stabbed the shooter and call Catherine and tell her we solved her part of the case."
"How about coffee?" Greg suggested.
"Coffee would be great, throw out whatever days made."
"Blue Hawaiian it is." Greg agreed.
"You're going to have to tell us where you keep it one day."
"Not a chance." Greg replied. "I'll go and make the coffee."
"I'll call Catherine." Sara said.
TBC