Leaving Julia in the parking lot to register the cars that are still parked since the park is closed, these cars didn't leave yesterday, which conveniently helps Jimmy and the team.
Besides noting the license plates and car models, they need to check from outside if there's anything unusual inside to avoid the shooter leaving anything here when switching cars, which is very likely.
Watching Julia pull out her notebook to start registering, Jimmy couldn't help but sigh, it's indeed more convenient with more people. If it was just him, merely doing the onsite inspection and registration would be the entire day's job, not to mention going back to watch tapes, it would be much slower.
Jimmy and Mark first returned to the site of the shooting incident, and they split up to check both sides, confirming the bullet holes previously examined by the police. Since there's only one shooter, finding the range of bullets can determine the shooter's position based on the trajectory, whether there was any movement, thus narrowing down the investigation range considerably, filtering out many irrelevant people.
Moreover, the obstacles between the parking lot and the shooting scene can also assist in locating the shooter.
Mark's service experience made him very familiar with guns and ballistics, just based on the bullet holes and distance, he identified the shooter's location, and the spot he assessed now has no cars, meaning if the shooter wasn't firing from that position, he might have fired from inside a car and immediately drove away from the park.
Besides normal investigation, Jimmy also activated the Heart Eye Observation. This is just a normal park, there is no hidden basement or the like, it's just that Jimmy is a bit paranoid now, a few people died here, he is somewhat worried something unusual might occur, like the emergence of some random bound spirits...
No choice, he just saw an abnormal apartment building a few days ago and reviewed an exorcism file from twenty years ago in a church, having such thoughts is actually quite normal.
Luckily, no such situation appeared here, after Jimmy and Mark regrouped they returned to the parking lot, and once Julia finished registering they headed back to the office, with a bunch of troubles to handle there.
Jimmy: "Julia, you take the surveillance to the technical department, register it into the system, then let the tech people assist in investigating the footage, I've already communicated with Ruiz and he's agreed to provide us support."
Julia: "Okay, I'll stay over there for now."
Jimmy: "Alright, pay special attention to the monitoring at the park entrance, check all vehicles entering and leaving."
Julia nodded, took the surveillance tapes collected by the NYPD from the evidence box, and left the office. Julia Lee herself is a network expert, proficient with computers, so her going to communicate with the tech department was rather fitting professionally.
Jimmy looked at Mark: "Mark, categorize the testimonies first, prioritize investigating the information on the three deceased and five injured, check the records first, then we need to visit their families to see if there are any relevant clues."
Mark nodded, the information the NYPD checked isn't as complete as what the FBI has, so a re-investigation is quite necessary.
The investigative process is very complex, naturally requiring a lot of people, this is where Ruiz's promise of support to Jimmy becomes necessary. The technical department's tech support is crucial, mainly needing their personnel to cooperate with Julia in finding all suspects and suspicious cars in the surveillance.
Jimmy and Mark, after investigating the information on the deceased and injured, headed out for interviews, but this step still required Julia to come along, as both rookies, such opportunities to gain experience shouldn't be wasted.
The families of the three deceased were prioritized in their investigation, but all three deceased were just ordinary citizens, with two being pure housewives without jobs, and there was nothing unusual about their families.
The third deceased was a little-known writer, who occasionally published some commentary in newspapers, he was just unwinding in the park, a regular relaxation routine during breaks from writing, no enemies were found.
Jimmy even specially asked his family to help find some of his previous writings, all were regular editorials, no targeted comments on specific individuals were found, making the possibility of personal vendetta low.
Jimmy took his two associates back to the car and drove back to the office. The three discussed the data on the three deceased in the car and reached a unanimous conclusion that the shooter likely did not target them, based on the current situation, it appears to be a random shooting.
Due to time constraints, the investigation on the other five injured was left for later, as they were still hospitalized due to successful surgeries, and they could go to the hospital for interviews, which was relatively easier than the three deceased. Jimmy slackened a bit, directly assigning it to Mark and Julia to handle the next day.
The next day, the technical department had almost processed the surveillance video near the park and entrances, identifying many license plates, matching them with DMV records, and ultimately compiling a thick dossier delivered to the Homicide Team office.
Mark and Julia had yet to return, Jimmy took the dossier and printed screenshots of various vehicles, pondered for a moment, and phoned Julia: "Julia, where is the information on the vehicles you registered on site yesterday?"
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