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pointed back to poorly dressed businessman that lay several feet away near what was clearly his wallet and briefcase.

6
    “W hat are we missing here?” Sofia asked herself quietly. “Bishop, I know you don’t want to, but can you run through them one more time?”
    Bishop released a long, aggravated sigh as he flipped through the pages of his pocket notepad and began reading in a dull monotone.
    “The first guy was a solo. Thirty-four year old white male. He was found in an alley downtown. Career criminal. In and out of prison his whole life. Seems to have had some ties to the Aryan Brotherhood. Said to have been a potential member that was handling some of the Brotherhoods business on the outside. He had recently beaten a vehicular homicide/drunk driving wrap where the victim was a ten-year-old boy. He appeared to have been beaten to death. No witnesses at the scene and no one has come forward. The marks on the body made by the assailants led us to believe the beating was done by a group. All muscles from the victims arms and legs had been torn from the body post mortem. No useable DNA located at the scene.” Bishop snapped to his next page of notes.
    “Second and third victims were black males. Both twenty-four years of age, found at the bottom of an embankment off of Holmes Blvd. Both were suspects in several ongoing murder investigations and appeared to be enforcers for a local gang. Both beaten to death, both bodies had the muscles torn from the bone at the arms and legs.” He flipped loudly again.
    “Next was that really big bastard down in Five Points. Twenty-eight year old white male. Beaten to death, muscles torn from the arms and legs. No known affiliations…” Bishop looked at the page blankly for a second as if he expected more information to magically appear. “I guess that’s it on him.” He then flipped the tiny page again and brought his focus back to the current crime scene.
    “Here we have five bodies. It appears that four of them robbed and killed “the suit” over there before they were attacked by our guys. One of the four has this guys’ credit cards,” he indicated towards the body of the man that clearly didn’t belong with the others based on his appearance, “and a knife with blood on it, plus the stab victim didn’t become snack food. All of his bits and pieces seem to be intact. It would be nice if the blood on the knife belonged to one of our attackers, but it looks like it’s gonna match the unfortunate Mr. Business over here. These three look familiar, but I’m not really sure why. We may have had to take them in a few times. It won’t surprise me if they all have several pings in the system. They don’t have any tats that point us in any way toward any level of gang affiliation. May have been out to make their bones.” Bishop looked over to Lucian momentarily before adding, “You know, that’s how these gangsters refer to a guy’s first kill. Lucian looked up with huge smirk on his face as he bounced his eyes between Bishop and Sofia.
    “Did you seriously just try to give me a lesson on some street slang, dude?” Bishop lowered his head to conceal his smile in hopes that Lucian would take it easy on him. “Im’ma let that go this time and chalk it up to you tryin’ to make up for your terrible joke a minute ago,” Lucian continued jokingly.
    “And we found out that the third guy had several complaints against him, didn’t we?” Sofia asked as she stared at the body of the victim that appeared to have been mugged. She was locked in on the specifics of the case and wouldn’t let herself be dragged into their silliness.
    “Third scene, fourth victim.” He echoed, flipping through the pages in his notebook as he tried to find the specifics on the victim.
    “Yep. Looks like he’s been brought in a few times for domestic violence. Beat his wife up several times, but she always refused to press charges or even make a statement.” Bishop dropped the monotone