It seems someone called Pinnacle News first, Becca thought to herself when she arrived at the scene of the crime and found the cops were not around yet. She asked the people standing by and someone told her there was a hostage situation happening on the third floor.
Since she couldn't go in through the front entrance because of the crowd that had already gathered and the police that might arrive at any moment, she entered the dirty alley to find the back of the building.
The house was a poorly maintained cold water tenement building that the Chinese laboring class could only afford to live in. Like the building itself, its fire escape was rusty and rickety with some good parts of it broken off.
