(Several days later, Garrett and his sister, Gini, are having a take-out dinner together at Gini's high rise apartment)
Gini: You look so, so tired.
Garrett: I am so, so tired. You look beat.
Gini: I am beat, beat up, beat down you know how it goes with everything this past week. I did my best but it just isn't going well for Hanna.
Garrett: How is it looking for her charges.
Gini: The way it looks right now is that she will be charged with two counts of murder in the first degree. Each charge carries a life sentence and a death penalty. I'm working as fast and hard as I can and I have my entire team of investigators working on it.
Garrett: Any leads or prospects?
Gini: None. For Richard there is the issue that they say Hanna lied when she said he locked the door. She is standing by her statement that Richard locked the door. When Henry came into the office he did have a pass key on his keyring.. He could have unlocked the door but his keyring recoils back to a holder on his waistband belt. There is no proof the door was locked or unlocked. If the pass key had been in the door knob or on the floor we still wouldn't have anything to work with because the veranda slide doors were open. I could show that the veranda is enclosed with decorative ironwork with no exit. But I can't actually prove the door was locked and the fact that Richard was unarmed and disabled are at the forefront of these charges for him.
Garrett: Disabled?!
Gini: Hanna said he lunged at her but with her having the gun and they are trying to prove that he was acting in self defense of himself when he tried for the gun. She kneed him in the groin and he was off balance and fell full force onto the edge of the desk breaking his arm. It was a compound break and they said his arm was no longer functional to shoot or even hold a gun. Therefore, they are certain that she shot him. She said the gun discharged during the struggle and the falling motion when together they both fell onto the desk then onto the floor.
Garrett: So, there's no solid proof of the door being locked, Richard was unarmed and during a struggle for the gun he suffered a compound fracture to his arm that rendered him unable to even hold a gun. Yet he is shot and killed.
Gini: Hanna says she didn't even know had broken his arm. She said as they were falling she got leverage of the gun but the gun accidentally discharged as they landed on the floor.
Garrett: How can you prove he was a threat when he had a compound fractured arm?
Gini: It just happened so fast and Hanna felt her life was in danger. She did say to the 911 dispatcher that she had shot an attacker. Even if she had known he broke his arm it would not have mattered with the discharging of the gun when falling onto the floor. She was holding the gun in self defense, he was trying to get the gun in his self defense. She had intent to kill him and there is no intent that he would have killed her. They are saying all he wanted was to have control of the gun when she shot him.
Garrett: Let's talk about the murder charges against Hanna for killing Henry.
Gini: Since the police can testify they heard him calling for help and warned that she had a gun, they are thoroughly convinced he was under direct threat of his life. He, reached for the gun and she pushed back thinking he was turning the gun towards her chest when she clung to his arm and lifted he legs for her weight to pull him down. He did fall towards her not releasing his grip on her arm but the gun discharged with the bullet striking him in the neck. The bullet that killed Richard struck him directly in the heart. They have records of Hanna being at target range practices and she went through extensive gun training before buying her gun, and guess what?
Garrett: What?
Gini: She can bench press 185 pounds. The prosecution thinks they have more than enough evidence to prove it was not self defense for her. She was willing and had intent with possible motive pending more investigation to be revealed. It is looking like they will file charges of first degree murder, one count for each brother.
Garrett: What about the jewelry? She said she saw Richard holding a piece of jewelry inside the vault room.
To be continued: tomorrow ( bonus mystery story blog)
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