Atlanta 6 months ago
“So what do we got,” The detective lifted the crime scene tape and waltzed into the the grizly scene.
“Looks like a turf dispute detective”, replied investigator Jenkins. Detective Shepards’ VI assistant flashed details onto his optics highlighting various bodies.
“Is this related to the crime scene in Mechanicsville?”
“Seems like it. See that body over there, she was one of the Slicers, probably the last one from what it looks like in Mech, just got off a vid with the department, they’ve IDed the whole group. Same MO as the others. Raped then had her throat slit. Body over there is the Ripperdoc who runs this clinic. No defenses on that one, 2 shots to the back of the head. The more interesting part is those 2 over there. Both part of a local Raffen Shiv, both dead. One got what appears to be a scalpel attachment from a cyberdoc glove shoved through his eye, the other seems to have been bludgeoned repeatedly to death with with his own bat.”
Jenkin’s Augs sent him preliminary scans of the scene which he fed into his VI. Which began to reconstruct the events into a simulation. “Any cam feeds?”
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“Not inside, looks like they were scrambled. Found some footage from outside across the street. Shows them entering, like they were going for a regular appointment. Nothing for about an hour then, a gap for about 30 minutes of looped footage after that. No cams for about a block caught anything else.” Jenkins replied shooting a copy of that footage for his analysis.
Shepherd's simulations changed again based on the footage, projections becoming clearer and the probability of accuracy rising by about 10 %.
“Anything missing from the clinic?”
“No, looks like everythings here.”
“So Jenkin’s walk me through what you think happened. Let’s test your assessment and compare it with the new VI we just got issued.”
“So near as we can figure, as I said, they walked right in. shot the Ripper in the head, raped the Slicer then killed her. I figure one of his Runner clients came in offed the Raffen before they could clep anything, first one with a bat then the other with one of the surgical tools. Then they hacked the cams, wiped the traces and bounced out. Shame really, this clinic was the best in Atlanta, they tuned up and reflashed my Augs last week.”
“You been here before?”
“Yeah, great place the doc and his receptionist were very professional and really friendly, quick too.”
“My VI’s agreeing with you, looks like we can just close this one. Mark it up as gang shit and move on, don’t know why the Runner didn’t claim the bounty’s though. That would have been a good chunk of Eddies.”