An Autumn Homicide
Riding my bike to a friend’s house on a late fall day in October just before the clocks are set to fall back, a day that I remember so vividly. The transition of shorter days and longer nights where the leaves are changing to a reddish brown color just before falling with the sight of dusk upon us. It was on this day that my life almost ceased to no longer exist.
On this day, my friend and I decided after school we would ride our bikes to her house to play video games just before choir rehearsal. Once there we decided instead of video games we would play with the neighbors in the apartment complex where she lived. As we were playing our infinite round of hide and seek the neighbors mother called “girls it’s time to come …show more content…
One of the police officers checked the scene and immediately called for backup as he proceeds to knock on the door for a response. He calls out “it’s a negative a negative I’m going in” to no one in particular. The officer in his steel toed boots which accompanied his police uniform kicked the door open only to have the door slam back close. As I stand there watching the police officer take his semi-automatic gun out of the leather band holster and proceed to enter the apartment complex across the walkway more units have arrived to start sectioning off the area with yellow crime scene tape. To my horror, a man’s body lay at the front door with blood pooling around his body when a petite brown skin female officer approaches me and moves me out of sight of the action. She begins to ask me several questions about the chain and events and reveal that I would have to come down to the station to make a statement. As I walk to her patrol car and get in the front seat I ask her “was that man dead?” she replies “very” and my heart sinks. As I sit in the front seat of her car she tells me that I have to put my head down as reports are showing up to the crime scene and because I am a minor I cannot be on camera without permission of my parents. We arrive at the station and I am taken into the back room where the
Riding my bike to a friend’s house on a late fall day in October just before the clocks are set to fall back, a day that I remember so vividly. The transition of shorter days and longer nights where the leaves are changing to a reddish brown color just before falling with the sight of dusk upon us. It was on this day that my life almost ceased to no longer exist.
On this day, my friend and I decided after school we would ride our bikes to her house to play video games just before choir rehearsal. Once there we decided instead of video games we would play with the neighbors in the apartment complex where she lived. As we were playing our infinite round of hide and seek the neighbors mother called “girls it’s time to come …show more content…
One of the police officers checked the scene and immediately called for backup as he proceeds to knock on the door for a response. He calls out “it’s a negative a negative I’m going in” to no one in particular. The officer in his steel toed boots which accompanied his police uniform kicked the door open only to have the door slam back close. As I stand there watching the police officer take his semi-automatic gun out of the leather band holster and proceed to enter the apartment complex across the walkway more units have arrived to start sectioning off the area with yellow crime scene tape. To my horror, a man’s body lay at the front door with blood pooling around his body when a petite brown skin female officer approaches me and moves me out of sight of the action. She begins to ask me several questions about the chain and events and reveal that I would have to come down to the station to make a statement. As I walk to her patrol car and get in the front seat I ask her “was that man dead?” she replies “very” and my heart sinks. As I sit in the front seat of her car she tells me that I have to put my head down as reports are showing up to the crime scene and because I am a minor I cannot be on camera without permission of my parents. We arrive at the station and I am taken into the back room where the