Jimmy didn't go to the front door position, as there were 2 police officers and a K9 there, enough to cope; he stayed by the side door to prevent someone from jumping over the wall in desperation and slipping out the back door.
After a while, an LRPD Sergeant arrived with two people. The situation had already been communicated over the walkie-talkie: calling in a superior meant someone had to take the blame, just to give a heads-up to the higher-ups at the station. They were ready to directly break in the door and enter.
After the Sergeant's arrival, the LRPD officers were positioned on either side of the door. Now with 5 men and a dog at the front door, handling one person inside the house shouldn't be much of a problem. Jimmy, using his Heart Eye Observation, noticed the standing man didn't have any weapons in hand, nor any obvious bulges of a gun shape on him.
As an officer reached to open the door from the broken glass, the person inside suddenly dove onto the couch and immediately pulled out a gun from the couch position, firing three shots towards the door.
An LRPD officer who was about to open the door was inadvertently shot in the arm, those by the door dodged backwards, and the nearby officer also fired blindly at the door after the injured officer moved away, not to hit anyone inside but to suppress, giving the officers time to pull back and regroup.
"Officer down, officer down, 350 West 35th Street, patrol officers please come to support."
The area was still under police blockade, not allowing all personnel to come for support immediately, as it wasn't yet confirmed if the person inside was indeed the fugitive.
Officers in search status, upon hearing the message, rushed over to support while Jimmy continued watching the situation inside. The person in the bedroom remained motionless, still sitting up against the headboard. This was suspicious, as someone had fired shots; he should least be hiding or ducking down or rolling under the bed for cover.
Heart Eye was still displaying an image composed of black and gray lines, and it was not possible to clearly discern the person's condition inside. Jimmy couldn't directly inform the front officers about the status inside the house.
The suspect inside was still aiming at the front door from the sofa position; he was lying on the sofa. If the curtains were not drawn, it wouldn't be easy for those outside to pinpoint his position, which was an advantage as long as he guarded the door, preventing the police from entering.
The LRPD officer who had been shot at the front door had already been taken to the side to stop the bleeding on his arm, a small hole, the bullet had directly pierced through his arm. From the look of the wound, it was a small caliber .22 bullet, not a big problem, as long as he was quickly taken to the hospital.
Some of the subsequently arriving officers came along with a bullet-proof shield. After the Sergeant made the arrangements, he immediately instructed some officers to advance with the shield at the front, and others by the side of the door. Two officers behind the shield prepared to storm the front door.
The officer who had earlier tried to open the door hadn't opened it; those behind the shield didn't plan to open the door normally, but directly blasted the lock with a shotgun round, blowing the lock apart.
With the bullet-proof shield in front, the safety of the officers was secured, and everyone could safely enter the house.
As the officers blew the door lock off, the person inside abandoned his ambush on the sofa and instead got up and ran toward the bedroom. The house was single-story, with no upstairs staircase-like terrain for him to defend.
After the door was opened, the officers already saw the fleeing suspect. At this moment, there were no rules against shooting if the suspect didn't shoot at the police, and several officers fired directly. The fleeing suspect fell, his pistol dropping beside him. His body twitched a few times and then stopped moving; blood had already started to pool on the floor.
The shield-bearing officer continued to advance, first approaching the pistol and kicking it farther away, then approached the fallen person, turned the suspect over with his foot, confirming he was the fugitive, while others came forward to check if he had died.
Jimmy had already left the back door by the time LRPD entered the house. A team of shield-bearing officers failing to subdue one person would have been too embarrassing. What he was more concerned about now was the person in the bedroom; even though the police had fired inside the house, that person had not made any move.
Jimmy entered through the front door; LRPD officers had already gone into the bedroom for a search, and Jimmy followed. Indeed, an elderly man lay tied up by his hands and feet with clothes, slumped against the headboard, his head tilted, already breathless.
The elderly man's fatal injury was a gunshot to the head, and there was a patch of blood on the wall. It was obvious that the fugitive had entered, taken him hostage, tied him up, and found a gun in the room, subsequently killing him.
This was utterly inhumane; since he was already tied up, why kill him? If the fugitive had just come to steal a set of clothes to facilitate his escape, there was absolutely no need to kill.
This year, Jimmy had encountered criminals who had also committed murder, such as the one who had burglarized and killed an old woman, who Jimmy had directly shot dead. But those were cases of being discovered and angrily killing to silence victims. This instance, where the homeowner was already controlled and still killed without being exposed, was truly unprecedented.
Sometimes you just have to admit, as a normal person, it's completely impossible to understand how these utterly vicious criminals think.
Jimmy exited the house, taking the captured criminal from LRPD to his police car's cage, informed the dispatch center of the search results via the radio: one criminal captured, another already killed by LRPD officers, then drove away to the detention center.