An 8 year old girl was
staying with her father and step-mother at their apartment
building. Suddenly the door to their apartment was kicked
open and three men with guns rushed in. The step-mother, sensing
what was about to happen, pulled a blanket over herself and
her step-daughter. The little girl then heard a shot and heard
the father collapse to the ground as he begged the men to
spare his wife and daughter. The men then killed the step-mother.
The men had left their car running outside a rear door to
the building during the 20 minute crime. The armed guard who
was to have been on duty at the door where the murderers broke
into the building had failed to appear for work that evening.
In fact, he showed up at the beginning of his shift and filled
out a patrol log for the 8 hours he was supposed to work,
fabricating the entire evening's events. He slipped the patrol
log under the manager's locked door and then left the building.
Upon examining the guard's false report, it read that an hour
after the murders took place, "everything was normal
at the building" while, in fact, scores of police officers
and detectives were combing the entire building and investigating
the double homicide. |
