Chapter 99 - Its Elijah (2/2)
”Although the investigation is still ongoing, the testimony from the survivor claims that it was brake failure. One moment they were driving and the next they couldn't stop. Before they could do a thing, it was too late,” said the team leader that the Chief of police directed him to.
But Marcel kept looking around as if he could come up with evidence the police currently working on the scene hadn't seen.
”Three incidents in one night and all as a result of a brake failure,” Victor mused, shaking his head, ”Sounds fishy. Who did we offend this time?”
”More like who did I offend?” Marcel said, then turned to the team leader, ”Have you checked the surveillance camera around the restaurant. If something was done to the cars, it should be during that period,”
”Ah, not yet but I have footage. We concentrated more on the scenes of the accidents,” the detective said, fishing out his cellphone.
He went through several folders in his file before opening one and handed the phone to Marcel, saying, ”That's a two-hour duration video. I was hoping to look into it when I returned to the station,”
”What's the time frame?” Marcel asked, he didn't care how long the video lasted.
”The camera captures the surroundings and features the moment the first car drove in till the last that left the restaurant that night. I made sure my men brought the best resolution,” the detective tried to please them with his services.
But Marcel was not in the mood to appreciate his bootlicking, he simply played the video while Victor leaned towards him to get a good view of the video.
Marcel fast-forwarded the beginning knowing that the perpetrator must have waited for everyone to arrive and settle before he struck. And it was in the process of forwarding it that he caught a blur and he stopped immediately.
His suspicions were right, Marcel confirmed as he observed the suspect's silhouette as he moved deftly from car to car, manipulating the brakes while his ignorant men were inside the building, drunk out of their senses.
No matter how hard he squinted, Marcel couldn't make out the identity of the assailant since it was late and the damn bastard knew how to manipulate the camera angle as if knowing he would be watched later.
However, what pissed Marcel was the fact that the assailant stepped right into the camera after he was done, his face showing and claiming responsibility for what happened.
”That damn bastard!” Victor was furious, ”Who is that and what gang does he work for because I swear to God if I don't -”
”It's Elijah,”
”Huh?”