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side. Think! He had to do something. If he just let this happen, he’d never see little Taylor again. Kim would never so much as speak to him again. No, that was unacceptable. It was time to take a calculated risk. There was nothing to lose at this point.
         He leaped directly at the two officers, throwing his body sideways, catching them both off guard as they all tumbled to the asphalt. The quiet one had reached for his gun as they fell and had it part way out of the holster. Tony heard it clatter to the ground and reached for it as the two officers attempted to throw him off. He slammed his knee into the tall officer’s side as he scrambled for the gun.
         As he crawled toward it, he had to move off of the officers, thus taking his weight off them. He decided to go for it and scurried to the gun. Just as his fingers wrapped around the butt he spun around sitting upright. The tall cop had gotten to his knees and had his gun drawn. Tony leveled the gun and fired twice. At least one shot hit the cop in the chest knocking him to his back. Tony scrambled to his feet and ran over to the officer. He was gasping for air, but his vest had stopped the bullet.
         Tony stood over him and fired one shot into his face, turning his head as the gun went off. He tried not to look at the body, but caught a glimpse of the bloody mess at his feet. The other officer was to his right whimpering as he tried to crawl away. Tony walked toward him as the cop looked up at him.
         “Look man. Look, this is all a misunderstanding ok? You can just go on your way. I won’t say anything.”
         Tony didn’t say a word as he pulled the trigger again, hitting him in the neck. The cop grabbed his neck as blood sprayed out from between his fingers. He twitched and jerked around for a minute before going still. Tony dropped the gun and fell to his knees as the realization of his actions sank in. He just killed two men, both police officers.
         Until now, the worst crime he’d gotten away with was smoking some weed in college. Now he was a murderer. That would never change, no matter what. As he tried to stand, his stomach lurched as he threw up. It felt like everything he’d ate in the last month was coming up. He couldn’t stop heaving. When he finally stopped, he wiped his mouth and stood.
         After a minute he realized he was still along a roadside next to two dead cops he’d just killed. Shit! He grabbed the tall one’s body by the legs and dragged him to the truck. He picked the cop’s body up under the arms and lifted him into the truck. He had to roll him over one of the crates close to the tailgate and flip his legs up and over, but he got him in. The second officer was shorter and heavier. It took him a few heaves, but he got him into the truck. Once they were both in, he pulled the tailgate closed.
         Once it was closed up, he ran over to their car and turned off the lights. It was starting to get dark, so he pulled the car as far off the shoulder as he could and turned the car off. The dashcam was running, it would have captured everything. He used the butt of the gun to smash the fasteners loose and ripped it off the dash and pulled as many wires as he could with it. He wiped down the inside of the car and the door handle and got back into the truck and tossed the police dash cam inside. He started the engine and drove off.
         The rest of the trip, he didn’t think too hard about what had just happened, only about putting as much distance between himself and the city. Still, something had been wrong. That wasn’t a normal traffic stop. From the time they had pulled him over, they knew exactly what they were looking for. Meaning someone had set him up. He reached for the glove box and pulled out the satellite phone. After several rings a voice answered, but he didn’t recognize it. After a short exchange, he learned it was Jose’s boss.
         “What the fuck is going