The room next to the two of them was a small conference room, but at this time Lacey was in no mood to check the structure of the conference room, because the people from the trace examination department had not yet arrived, and the bodies of the five victims were still in the room.

So as soon as Lacey turned her head, she smelled an indescribable smell of burnt roasted meat.

“Fu-k！”

Hurriedly covering her nose, Lacey's face was very ugly.

"You go and get the surveillance of this building first."

Luo An didn't react, casually arranged Lacey's work, then took out the gloves from his pocket, put them on, and slowly walked into the room where there was still a little warmth.

The smell of barbecue in the room was even stronger, and seeing that the expression on Luo An's face did not change in the slightest, Detective Bailey and several NYPDs outside were suddenly full of admiration.

After carefully inspecting the door of the room, Luo An walked over to the five corpses in the room and began to carefully check their status.

There were some fragments at the feet of two of the corpses, and Luo An's brows suddenly furrowed when he took a flashlight at his feet.

It didn't take long for the agents from the slower trace laboratory department to finally arrive, and Lacey also turned up the surveillance and walked back:

"The surveillance in the corridors of the building has not been installed yet, I have only found the surveillance outside the building."

Holding a laptop in her arms, Lacey showed the screen to Roan and said:

"In the first five minutes of the alarm being triggered, only this guy left through the back door of the building."

In the surveillance video, a guy in a gray suit and a black and blue hat is in a hurry to leave the building.

"Male, very thin."

After watching the pictures in the video, Luo An quickly concluded:

"The left hand has been tightly covering the right hand, indicating that his right hand is most likely injured, and it is also possible that there is a target item that he finally obtained."

"That's right."

Lacey nodded, then asked:

"How's it going, Juan, what did you find here?"

Hearing this, Luo An directly handed her the fragments he had just found under the corpse.

"It's ......"

Taking the fragment, Lacey looked at it carefully, and said with some uncertainty:

"Fragments of the bottle?"

"Fragments of homemade Molotov cocktails, to be exact."

Loudly signaling to the agents of the trace examination department to bring all the debris on the ground back for examination, Luo An looked around, crutched his chin and said:

Judging by the situation at the scene, the councillor should have been chatting with four college students before the incident.

Immediately afterward, the door was suddenly opened, and Molotov cocktails were thrown into the room by the murderer.

The room was small and relatively closed, and the fire first started burning in the doorway and in the middle of the room, so the councillor and several students quickly lay in the flames. ”

Not only that, but the door to the room was locked, and there were traces of Molotov cocktail fragments in the hallway.

Even if one of them opened the door and ran out of the conference room, they would be burned alive by the flames of Molotov cocktails in the hallway.

After listening to Luo An's description, a flash of surprise flashed in Detective Bailey's eyes, and Lacey's face changed slightly.

How much enmity did the murderer and these five victims have?

"Go find the staff at the government building."

Patting Lacey on the shoulder, Roan took off his gloves and walked out of the room, saying:

"Wait a minute, you make a list of people who can enter this room."

"Okay."

Lacey nodded, and hurriedly followed with the computer.

——

The next day, Investigation Team No. 5.

"I'm sorry, detectives, the impact of this case is so great that the mayor has called to inquire about the situation, so we have to work overtime on Saturday!

But don't worry, overtime pay will never be credited to your bank account afterwards. ”

At the front of the office area, Augustus shouted loudly with his stomach puffed.

After William had handed out the folder to everyone, he turned his gaze to Mona and said:

"Tell me about the five victims."

“OK。”

Mona nodded, tapped on the keyboard a few times, looked at the computer screen and said aloud:

The four college students, two men and two women, named Vinny, Nikel, Kayna and Venina, are from the School of Business at Alfred University in New York, and they are still six months away from graduating.

The other councillor victim's name is Emmanuel Bain, a 56-year-old Republican, who is in his first year of receiving a seat on the New York City Council. ”

"Wow."

As we all know, New York has always been the stronghold of the Democratic Party, with as many as 2.8 million Democrats and only 500,000 Republicans.

In the New York City Council, Democrats also hold 51 seats, while Republicans have only three.

Thinking of this, Luo An said:

"So, we can tentatively conclude that the murderer's target was Congressman Emanuel Bain."

Luo Ann determined the main direction of the investigation next, and Augustus did not object, and continued to ask:

"Mona, can you find out who Emanuel's enemies are?"

"It's too easy."

Mona smiled slightly, tapping her fingers on the keyboard, and soon brought up Emmanuel's political leanings and propaganda:

"We, the Emanuel MP, call ourselves the guardians of the traditional values of the Federation.

So he was against feminism, against abortion, against gun bans, against white supremacy and white nationalism, against church schools, and against market freedom......"

After listening to Mona's introduction, except for Luo An, all the detectives of the No. 5 investigation team rolled their eyes in unison, and Augustus patted his stomach and nodded:

"Very well, it seems that more than half of the whole of New York is his enemy."

After a few seconds of silence, Augustus turned his gaze to Roan to the side.

Seeing this, Luo An did not hesitate, and immediately asked loudly:

"The fragments that were handed over to the traces department last night, have the test results come out?"

Ryder nodded hurriedly and replied:

"The results are in, you're right, those things are indeed homemade Molotov cocktails, and the liquid used is all gasoline.

Unfortunately, the Traces Laboratory did not find fingerprints and DNA on the fragments, so it was not possible to identify the killer in the internal database. ”

The expression on Luo An's face remained unchanged, and he continued to ask:

"Lacey, what is the status of the list I mentioned last night, and Emanuel's recent itinerary?"

"I didn't see anything wrong."

Lacey handed Roan the list of people who could enter the room, and said:

"Yesterday Emanuel gave a speech in the square in Brooklyn, then went to several communities to visit the crowd, and finally returned to the government building to be interviewed by the four college students."

Luo An nodded, carefully looked at the list of personnel for a while, and then looked up and said to the agents:

"Guys, the next step is to take a hard look at the surveillance in the area around the Brooklyn government building, and make sure we know where the man in the gray suit has gone after he left the building!

In addition, the interpersonal relationships, emotional status, and financial situation of the four college students also need to be carefully investigated! ”

"No problem!!"

The work was a bit heavy and a little complicated, but William and several technical agents nodded loudly and agreed.

Luo An nodded in satisfaction, turned to look at Lacey and Ryder, and said:

"You are going to visit the families of Congressman Emanuel, as well as the relatives and friends of the four college students, and see if you can find any useful clues in their mouths."

“OK。”

Ryder and Lacey agreed, dropped the folder and turned to walk into the gear warehouse.

Seeing this, Mona on the side raised her head and asked:

"So what are we going to do next?"

"Let's go find him!"

Handing the list to Mona, Roan pointed to a name on it.

"Who is this?"

"Apart from those four college students, he was the last person Congressman Emanuel ever met."

(End of chapter)