Gotta Ya!
Dade County Elementary School agreed without hesitation to provide a tutor for Kyle Caine as long as needed. The woman they would be sending was a retired woman, who had sometimes substituted at the school. She had taught Kyle's class once or twice and he knew her. This would help the boy feel more at ease. The boy did not need anymore unnecessary stress.
It had now been a full month since Horatio had been attacked. To say the team was getting more pissed off by the day with no leads was an understatement. But today was the day they would hit an amazing stroke of luck. A junkie looking for money for his next hit robbed a corner store. It needed peacefully with the guy not having the guts to fire a shot. But the gun they took from him was found to have another print single print on it, along with the robber's. it also had minuscule amount of foreign DNA, not enough for a profile but enough to show it was from a female. The robber insisted he had found the gun in a dumpster a block from the store he robbed and he showed them. There was also two rounds of bullets to fit the gun they found, bullets full of prints. They ran the gun for registration, finding it indeed had a registered owner. However the gun was also reported as stolen a year ago in a burglary at a Miami residence. Just as they thought this case were nothing special, results from the print check came back
The print on the trigger came back an exact match to Julia Albery. Her fingerprints were on file with the military after she served briefly as a nurse.
The ballistics report followed.
This gun shot Horatio.
Every avenue had to be checked but Eric and Ryan were pretty sure the guy were only a junkie who got lucky enough to find a gun, that he was being truthful about how he came upon the gun and he had nothing to do with shooting Horatio Caine.
The man was easily cleared. He was in court across town, being arraigned on drug charges when Horatio was shot.
An arrest warrant was issued for Julia.
And not a moment too soon.
Believing she had killed the father of her child, when police arrived to arrest her, she was packing suitcases in the trunk of her car. In her purse, a one-way ticket to Argentina.