Chapter 20 – Stakeout
2:50 PM Saturday Afternoon, August 23rd, 2014
“Radio patch call from Patrol Sheriff, line two.”
Mel punched the lighted button, “Sheriff Crane.”
“Deputy Treadway, Sheriff. Got a drive-by victim in North Zanesville; middle aged white male, alive but barely.”
“A drive-by?” I was stunned. Drive-by shootings don’t happen in Zanesville! “Where exactly?”
“Off 66, near the mall.”
“Any ID?”
“No Sheriff. A bus is on scene and he’ll be underway any second now. Harding is en-route to Genesis. He’ll meet them there.”
“I’m enroute to Genesis also. Get statements at the scene.”
“Roger.”
“Crane out.”
I hightailed it out to my duty SUV. The mall was less than two miles from the hospital and if Shane Harding, my only current detective was already enroute from the scene, he
