Chapter 621

You took some time that afternoon, while Sabrina and Eric were finally more focused on work than talking through his love life, to start looking up news articles about the whole Tommy situation.

What you found was ... a little shocking.

First, Mosche actually got the story fairly correct as much as you could tell.

Tommy Tiernan had been doing a Masters in Philosophy, and he’d been murdered in what was suspected to be a professional hit gone wrong. The news articles made a point of showing how much Tommy looked like the son of a local mob boss - since you weren’t from the city the name wasn’t recognizable to you - and that even the police had thought Tommy had been the guy right up until they went to give notice to the father and the son answered the door, alive and well.

The articles went on to acknowledge that Tommy had, in fact, simply been out for a walk in the city when he’d been attacked. He’d been shot five times at close range by the assailant and had likely been dead within moments. They didn’t mention if he’d had THC or anything else in his system, but considering he’d been pretty clearly murdered and not in an accident, that probably wouldn’t have mattered much to the cops or coroner.

You tried looking for any news of the case moving forward, but other than a small, buried article about ‘Assassin Still At Large’ a couple of months later, there didn’t seem to be any follow-up from the media. Then, pushing your luck on how long you were durdling around instead of getting work done, you did some more research on the guy Tommy was supposed to be.