Murder in the Alley

He walked into the alley to relieve himself on the way to the car. No way was he going back to that restaurant. As he zipped his pants up, turned, and walked back to the alleyway opening, he felt a searing pain on his body. Turning, he saw a flash and stumbled backward out of the alley. A faint scream was heard by him before death claimed him. He died before he hit the ground. Not many people were around to see him die except for the set of friends out for a walk.  Those two would and could always find trouble even if they were sleeping on a trip for vacation-and have.  Both Steve and Abdul thought their respective wife and significant other would be safe-they had just had babies.  What could happen when out for a walk with their daughters?

Beautiful sunny day, not a cloud in sight as Marisol and Mayra gazed outside their window seat in the living room. Mayra's personality was showing more. Mayra smiled when she heard Mommy or Daddy, Abdul. She smiled when she heard you say Grandma and frown if she doesn't see Grandma. As Marisol held Mayra up so she could look out the window, the phone rang. She sat her daughter down on the sofa and went to answer the telephone. On the third ring, she answered. "Hello?" "Hey, girl. It's Nikki and I want to come over. We, Leisia and I, have the day off because the boss man hired someone new. Is it okay?" "Sure girl. Mayra and I would love company. We could sit out on the porch and have tea and scones." Says Marisol. Leisia jumped into the conversation and said, "Good. Listen, Nikki has been reading up on the murder. She wanted to tell you some information-think she told the police or Steve." "Oh well okay okay." They both said goodbye and hung up

The three women met up after Nikki’s ultrasound that morning for Starbucks, in Linden at Aviation Plaza.  Nikki ordered a venti Vanilla Crème hot.  Leisia ordered a venti Café Americano hot.  And Marisol ordered venti Vanilla Chai tea.  The babies were with the babysitter.  After paying for their order, they decided to sit at an inside table until their orders were filled; then go outside to sit at their favorite spot.  They had to drive to it but today the girls changed their mind and went to sit on the car top.  Leisia spoke up saying, “A couple of months back in the end of November, the lodger, as Mr. Sessions was called, had a package delivered right before he left. When asked if he wanted it stored, Mr. Sessions said no. But a strange thing happened before it was delivered.  I told him, ‘A call came through to verify his location. The man on the phone said needed to verify the room number but he wouldn’t give the company information.’ So,

The body of the lodger as he was called was brought in and placed in the morgue waiting to be autopsied. The police gave Sandy the bag which carried his personal effects. She shook her head and sighed, saying to the dead man, “Not sure why you were murdered but we are definitely going to find out what happened.” Quickly going over the notes from the crime scene, she notes that in the bag was his wallet. Spying his driver’s license, she got his full name: Mr. Leonard Sessions. He was 45 years old and not in bad shape. Inside his wallet, she found money in the amount of $1,000.00. His credit cards were also intact. Also contained in the plastic evidence bag were a cellular phone-the latest model Samsung S-series and an awfully expensive coat. Prior to moving on, she attempted to take fingerprints off the coat, wallet, driver’s license, credit card, and cellular phone. She would match them with the fingerprints if any were on the corpse. The process was slow and painstaking as she want

After he left, Steve went back to the precinct and sat down at his desk. His partner was out on sick leave.  Thinking to himself Steve couldn’t believe it- that man was sick all the time with the newborn baby.  They kept swapping the cold.  But he was a single dad.  So, Steve cut him some slack. Hell of a way to start a new life- lost his wife in childbirth but gained a strapping baby boy.  He didn’t like anybody but his Daddy, since his mother died in childbirth.  Leaning back, he went over what he had mentally to do in his head and decided to tackle two items first.  Picking up the telephone, he called Leisia.  Drumming his pen on the desktop he waited impatiently for her to pick up the phone and reflexively checked his watch.  Then he breathed a sigh of relief, Reyna would be deep in her slumber for her nap. Still waiting and getting impatient, he started to paw through his notes until he hit on the one, he had written prio