The bullet came out of the muzzle of the gun and entered the target with great precision, and the target trembled......

Ahem.

Roan's marksmanship was accurate, three bullets hit the left front wheel of the red sedan, and the remaining two bullets hit the left rear wheel.

The red car, which was turning, instantly lost its balance and slammed into a tree on the side of the road.

Slowly parking the SUV to the side of the road, Luo An held the Glock 18 and slowly walked to the smoking sedan in a vigilant posture.

The person driving the car was indeed Millard Thompson.

And because he obeys the traffic rules more and wears a seat belt when driving, the injury is not serious, just a thigh fracture + coma.

As is customary, Luo An took out his mobile phone and called an ambulance.

As soon as he hung up, Mona called him again.

Seeing this, Luo An hurriedly pressed the answer button:

"How's it going, Mona, are you alright?"

"What can I do?"

Mona was a little happy to hear that Luo An cared about herself, but the content of her words still made her roll her eyes.

Anyway, she Mona was also trained at the FBI Academy, and she still had no problem with basic fighting skills and marksmanship.

But now is not the time to say this, Mona smiled and said to the phone:

"I mean, Roan, thanks to you for keeping me here."

Luo An raised his eyebrows when he heard this:

"Mary Anne tried to attack you?"

"Of course not."

Mona on the other end of the phone replied with a smile:

"But I found two interesting things at her house."

——

In the afternoon of the same day, the interrogation room of Investigation Group No. 5.

Millard Thompson, with his head bandaged and his thighs in a cast, sat in a wheelchair and looked at Roan and Mona across the interrogation table with a dark face.

Selectively ignoring the unhappy expression on Millard Thompson's face, waiting for Mona to prepare the laptop, Roan took a sip of coffee, and then coughed lightly and asked:

"Millard Thompson, ......"

Before Roan could finish speaking, Millard shouted:

"I tell you, I didn't kill Brent!

His death has nothing to do with me! I didn't even want to kill him! ”

"Really?"

Luo An raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Then why did you run away?"

"Because I don't trust you FBI."

Millard said with disdain:

"I've had a criminal record, and I'm married to Brent's wife, so you're sure you'll identify me as a murderer."

"Wow, you know yourself so well."

Hearing Millard's words, Roan nodded and shook his head, then took a few pieces of paper from his side, threw them in front of Millard's eyes, and said:

"But there's more to our suspicion of you than that.

Mary Anne said to us, you went to drink with friends last night.

But we asked all your friends, and we couldn't find any trace of any of your friends drinking with.

So, where were you last night around half past eleven? ”

When Millard heard this, his face suddenly froze, and after a moment of gloomy thought, he still said the same sentence:

"I didn't kill Millard, I wasn't the one who killed him."

Seeing Millard's attitude, Roan pondered for a few seconds, tilted his head to look at Mona, who nodded and took the two pieces of paper out from under the laptop.

These two pieces of paper are the two interesting discoveries that Mona is talking about.

One of them is a test report from the hospital.

"Millard, you know what? Mary Anne is pregnant, and it shows that she has been pregnant for four and a half weeks. ”

Looking at the report card in front of him, Millard had no expression on his face.

There was neither joy nor surprise.

Seeing this, Luo An still had a smile on his face, but he also handed another piece of paper to Millard's eyes:

"This is Mary Anne's scheduled abortion, and it's just two weeks later."

Hearing this, Millard's body shook suddenly, and then he hurriedly turned his gaze to the paper on the table.

Seeing Millard's shocked and then increasingly ugly expression, Luo An calmly took a sip of coffee, and then added to the fire:

"Brent and Mary Anne have been divorced for a year, and if I'm not mistaken, this child is yours.

Looking at you, it seems that Mary Anne told you that she was going to kill this child......"

“Fu-k！ This damn mark......"

Hearing Roan's words, Millard's face turned a pig's liver color little by little.

After a long silence, Millard slammed the judgment table hard, and said in a hoarse voice:

"I asked to see a lawyer."

——

Outside the interrogation room, the office area of Investigation Team 5.

"How's it going, Roan."

Augustus held a box of hamburgers and distributed them to the agents of Investigation Group 5 one by one, and finally walked up to Luo An, and asked with a smile:

"What's going on with Millard?"

"It's still being discussed with the lawyer, but we already know the truth on his side, and Lacey and Ryder have also gone to arrest Mary Anne."

Taking a bite from the burger, Roan shrugged, saying that the story was nothing new.

The husband is always busy with work and neglects his wife, and the wife is lonely, so she has a passionate double row with the plumber.

The specific situation of the double row has many license plates in the island country for detailed demonstration, if necessary, please move to the browser.

In the end, things go smoothly to the route of divorce - asking for alimony - murdering the ex-husband.

Augustus nodded:

So, the truth of this case is that Mary Anne used pregnancy as an excuse to ask Millard to kill her ex-husband Brent.

Ostensibly, after Brent's death, the two shared Brent's money together.

In fact, Mary Anne planned to send Millard to prison afterwards, beat the child herself, and then have Brent's money to herself? ”

Speaking of this, Augustus's expression was very complicated, and he didn't know what he thought.

Hearing Augustus's words, Roan swallowed the burger in his mouth, shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Under normal circumstances, this case did develop like this.

But things don't always develop according to people's plans, so in the course of the specific actions of the case, there are some small surprises. ”

When Augustus heard this, he was stunned when he bit the hamburger, and after thinking for a few seconds, he tilted his head and asked:

"Could it be that Millard went to kill Brent and something went wrong?

For example, when Millard goes, Brent is already dead? ”

"That's right."

Luo An nodded, indicating that things were similar to what Augustus had thought.

The location agreed upon by Millard and Brent was indeed the park where the crime was found.

But before Millard could pass, Brent was killed by someone else.

Because the killer threw Brent's body into the river, Millard waited for hours without waiting for anyone, and the cold wind blew all night.

This is also the reason why Millard didn't open his mouth before, and he is still discussing it with his lawyer.

Millard's actions were clearly attempted killing.

In the United States, the punishment for attempted homicide will also vary depending on the suspect's criminal record, motive for the act, weapon used, and other factors, sometimes it will be sentenced to a misdemeanor, and sometimes it will be sentenced to a felony.

“OK。”

After listening to Luo An's description, Augustus, who had eaten the hamburger in a few bites, patted his stomach, tilted his head and asked:

"So, we're back to square one, right?"

“No。”

Luo An, who had just finished eating half of the hamburger, shook his head, wiped his hands, took out a piece of paper from the side, handed it to Augustus, and said with a smile:

"I found a new clue.

This thing is probably the real reason why the murderer killed Brent Hughes. ”

(End of chapter)