Abrupt Crime Scene

[psychette]

The once quiet neighborhood is bustling with activity now. At first, it was an ambulance. Now there are a few police cars showing up. An officer is taping off the crime scene.

It's the courtyard of a hotel in Miami, one of those that was built to simulate being in Mexico. The courtyard is lined with brown flagstones, a decorative fountain in the middle. The hotel curves around the courtyard with a few staircases leading up to the various levels of rooms.

There's a man's silk tie on the ground near the body. He appears to be a janitor for this estate according to his name tag. There's two bullet holes in his side and one in his foot. A few shell cases on the ground as well near the wall.

The paramedics are working on getting a stretcher with Jackie on it into the ambulance.

ooc: if anyone else joins in csi-ish, horatio gets to take point on this case.

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His neck was still sore from being strangled and he wasn't too sure of his voice at the moment. It wasn't like he needed to tell anyone how to do their jobs, at least not yet. They knew what they were doing.

Technically, Horatio couldn't touch the shooting since he was directly involved. IAB would handle that angle. He could, however, investigate Jackie's attempted murder. Reaching in his suit jacket, he took out a pair of latex gloves and put them on. He crouched near the body but the tie caught his attention. There was a blood smear on it. The janitor wasn't holding it when he was shot, and it wasn't Horatio's blood. It probably wasn't Jackie's blood either; H had looked her over before and she wasn't bleeding that he could see.

Horatio called over a uniform and ordered for the rest of the hotel to be checked. There was more to this.

He stood up straight when the sirens of the ambulance sounded and watched it drive away. "What did you see, Jackie," he said, more to himself than anyone else, "that made this man want to kill you?"