At exactly 8:30 pm on Saturday, an accident occurred across the highway along Allen avenue. A black ranger rover had hit a woman and her ten-year-old daughter over the pedestrian walkway, leaving them laying down in a pool of blood. The force of the impact had bulldozed the woman with the red scarf over the zebra crossing where she instantly died after hitting her head on the ground, while the little girl was left bleeding profusely and unconscious. The news was all over the television. The local Police ruled the case as a hit-and-run accident, the driver had fled the scene, and only the statements of multiple eyewitnesses were taken into consideration, but the Police investigations took place for about a week.
According to that investigation, the CCTV footage of the scene where the accident had taken place revealed that the driver who at the time before the accident was speeding off limits, and failed to acknowledge the signal of the tragic light control which led to the force of impact that hit the victims who were at that time, crossing towards the other side of the road. The black rover was approaching very fast above the speed limit from about a mile away from the zebra crossing lane. The female victim who was in her thirties and was holding her ten-year-old kid at the time was trying to cross along with a couple of pedestrian walkers, those who were still a few paces behind. When the traffic sign showed the red sign, all the vehicles slowed down.
At that moment, the female victim and her little kid proceeded to walk, but the rest of the other pedestrian walkers were still behind. The black rover with tinted windows suddenly drifted out from a corner at the further intersection of the highway which seemed to be at a very high speed. The two victims had walked towards the middle of the freeway, just right in front of the speeding vehicle. As soon as the impact occurred, it would have been too late for the driver to hit the brakes. By that time, the vehicle had run through the victims. The vehicle stopped at a slow but sudden drift which left skid marks across the highway. It didn't take more than two minutes before it sped off again. This sent enough tremor to the sight of the remaining passerby and caused them to panic. All of which were shown by the footage.
From the investigations carried out by forensic experts; the crime investigation unit was able to collate enough evidence to assert that a crime was been committed. From the investigations carried out by detectives in charge of the case; sources revealed that four individuals were involved in the accident, and were discovered to be college students attending Wilmour's High Academy. Four college students namely; Thomas Atkins, Peter Kingsley, Veronica Samuels, and Grace Henshaw, these four individuals were discovered to have been partying at a famous night club at Allen Avenue, before the time of the incident. No eye witness could place them during the time of the incident. However, eyewitnesses later placed the four of them getting into the same black range rover at the park of the nightclub.
The digital experts had to run a thorough facial recognition on the plate number of the vehicle in the video footage, which was traced to have been registered to Thomas Atkins; a nineteen-year-old boy with puffy dark hair, about six foot tall, a nice cleaned face with a strong physique. He was a public figure, popularly known as 'Tommy', he plays basketball at both school and State team NBA level. His father is a former Senator for the House of Assembly and currently running as a candidate for the upcoming gubernatorial election.
Senator Badejobi Atkins, a stern-looking figure in his late forties. Highly respectable and well known for his vigorous charisma and innocuous record in his entire political career, he had served three different terms as the former Representative Speaker for the national congress of the house of assembly early in his career until he decided to run for the highest post in the senatorial district in which he had occupied for the past two terms in his twenty years of a political career. He was known to be a very ambitious man, whatever he puts his sight to, he will get at any cost. Although, his entire political record always came clean. No faulty records could be pointed to have tainted his reputation as to have harbored any form of prejudicial sentiment towards the law, he was as clean as snow.
Thomas, along with the three other suspects were all teenage students in one of the best colleges in the country. They spent all evening partying at a fancy club before a distress call was received at the nearest police station that a fight had ensued at the club. Police officers were dispatched to the scene immediately which led to a certain escapade that led to the suspects leaving the club together in the tinted black range rover he received as a birthday gift from his mother the same day the unexpected event occurred. However, it took the police investigations twenty-four hours to run facials recognition on the plates of the vehicle before the reports came in that it was registered to Thomas on the morning of the day of the incident.
Senior Inspector Sunny, a middle-aged man with a combed mustache, walked into the Police bureau like Santa on a Christmas day. He headed towards the elevator inside the building. As soon as he got there, he stood and pondered for a while. He then pressed the button on his left side and the door to the elevator slid open, he stepped in. Just as the elevator door was about to close back, a hand was stretched out to block the door from closing which in turn slid it open. A male figure approached, he was about three inches taller than the inspector, he stepped into the elevator and had a smirk on his face when he realized who he was joining in the elevator.
"Haha, If it isn't the great Sunny!" Said the man in a buttoned shirt and a trouser. "Inspector Sunny!" He said again.
This time, the inspector rolled his eyes and feigned ignorance. He released a sigh and shifted his attention toward the elevator button. He pressed a button and the door closed.
"Fancy seeing you here, don't you think?" The tall man said again.
"Oh! just shut up and mind your business. Will you." The inspector said with a shrug.
"Ha, Looks like someone's a little bit grumpy this morning," he said teasingly. "The weather must've roughed you up a bit sheey" he continued. "Would you like a cup of coffee? Or perhaps, a cold beer " he mocked, with a smirk on his face.
"I'm not in the mood for your rubbish jokes. Frank"
Just as the other man was about to say something, the elevator door opened again. And the inspector stepped out followed by the man in T-shirt. He dragged his weight across the floor tile as he strode towards the far corner of the hallway leaving his compatriot talking by himself. He stopped by the entrance of an office door and knocked twice before he stepped in. A grey-haired man in his sixties was on a phone call while he signaled towards the inspector with a hand gesture to invite him in to come to sit down on the chair opposite the desk in front of him. A few moments later, he dropped his phone call and faced the inspector with his folded hands together.
"Sunny!" He called
"Sunny. Sunny. Sunny." He called again repeatedly. "How many times did I call your name?"
The inspector frowned and rolled his eye.
"I believe you called three times sir," he said reluctantly.
"Well, I've always known you to be deaf to simple instructions, Sunny. I called you four times" said the man in his sixties.
"The first time didn't sound like it was a..." Sunny interrupted before he lost his words. "Never mind".
The sixty-year-old-looking man looked into his drawer and brought out a folder and threw it in Sunny's direction on the desk. It landed right in front of him. Sunny picked it up and brought out a document.
"There's the warrant you requested, it just came in this morning." The old man said. "Do not disappoint me this time" he said firmly again.
"Yes sir, I won't." Sunny rose from where he was seated and saluted the old man before he turned around to leave the office. A warrant had been issued by the court to immediately arrest the suspects involved in the hit-and-run accident, and Sunny was in charge of reprimanding those suspects.