"Ann McShane." "I'm with Mr. Franklin." " Ms. McShane?" " Ann." "I've waited years for a seat at one of your tables, Mr. Lang." ""Frank" to my friends." "So is there a lot of money to be made tonight?" "I always have a lot of money at my tables." "Well, then you and I are gonna be very good friends." "Please, right this way." "Take your time, Larry." "I wouldn't want you to make a mistake." "After all, there is $67,450 here." "A couple of deuces." "Would you excuse me for a moment?" "Police!" "Don't move!" "N.Y.P D.!" "This way out, boss." "All right, get up." " Good morning." " Morning." "Where are you?" "At my desk." " Where are you really?" " I'm actually at my desk." " Hey, look, pigs are flying." " Very funny." "I got a new alarm clock." "It brews coffee and picks out my outfit." " Where are you?" " Headed to the Morganson Rec Centre." "Got a fresh one at the Youth League basketball tournament." "All right, I'll see you there in 15." "Bye." "Hundreds of people around." "Nobody will admit to seeing it go down." "Rec centre was sponsoring a tournament for all the youth teams." "Game had just started when the shooting happened." " Which was when?" " Twenty, 25 minutes ago." " Perimeter locked down?" " Security did the best they could." "I'm sure they lost some people after the shooting." "Let me guess." "That camera's not working." "Yeah, the neighbourhood kids use it for target practice." "Marisa Perez." "She was a freshman at CUNY." "Without video, we'll need lDs on all these spectators full interview with everyone." "And I think I'm on the last page of my notebook." "Please, stay all in this area, please." " This is insane." " You're all right." " They shot me." "I was just" " It's a graze." "I want you to look at me." " What's your name?" " Beverly." " Beverly...?" " Beverly Jackson." "You're gonna be fine, all right?" "It's just a graze." "These guys are gonna help you." " Oh, my God." " Up you get." "You're gonna be fine." "I gotta go help other people." "You're gonna be fine." " You'll be all right." " Okay." "Hey, you." "Come on." "Buddy." "Right here." "Let's go." "Caught these guys running away." "You got anything on them?" "You had a gun." "If he pulled the trigger, I didn't see." "Okay." "Get a residue test on his hands, see if he fired the gun." "I want you to get all these weapons and hand-deliver them to the lab ASAP." "Go." "You know who this is?" "No." "But he's wearing QB-6 gang colours." "We got guns dumped all over the place." "Seven so far." " Some were fired, some weren't." " Smart." " Don't wanna get caught carrying here." " Ballistics will work overtime." "This is officially a nightmare." "Without video, we need lDs on all these spectators." "Wait a second." "There was a guy running towards Marisa's body right before the shots were fired." "White, mid-40s, about 6'1", wearing a blue-collared shirt." "Red shoes, by any chance?" " Yeah." "How'd you know?" " One of the other vics had red shoes." " Let me go!" "She's my daughter!" " Hey, hey, hey!" "Let her go." "I got this." "Let her go." "Mrs. Perez, I can't let you touch her right now." " Okay, we can't let you." " No." "No." "She's my baby." "I'm sorry." "One shooting victim DOA." "Another seriously injured." " Several others being triaged." " Sir." " What's the vic's name?" " Jim Clayburn." "His boy told me he's a community activist." "Works with kids." "That the son?" "Got a name?" "Jim, Jr." "Goes by JJ." " He give you anything else?" " No, he wasn't up to talking." " JJ." " Yeah." "I'm Lieutenant Burns." "This is Detective Saunders." " How are you?" " I can't believe it." " I mean, how did this even happen?" " That's what we need to figure out." " Did you see who shot your dad?" " No." "Our people saw him run into the crowd as the shooting started." "Any idea why?" " What?" " Your dad ran before he got shot." "I was with my friends." "I didn't even know my dad would be here today." " He usually works Saturdays." " What work does your father do?" "He works with gang members." "Tries to get them straight, I guess." "We'll talk more later." "Go be with your father." "Clayburn works with gang kids." "Got at least one gang shooting." "Maybe we can cross "accidental victim" off our list." "My neighbour called to tell me Marisa had been shot." "So you live nearby?" "Just three blocks." "I yelled at her this morning." "For using the last of my shampoo." "Hilda, is there anyone you can think of anyone at all that might wanna hurt Marisa?" "She's a good girl." "She's going to college." "She's a good girl." "Was Marisa in trouble?" "Hilda, listen to me, okay?" "All I care about is finding whoever did this." "I need you to help me." "When she was 13, that gang, DKK they got her to join." "She didn't know what she was getting into." "And she was trying to leave them." " Trying?" " She was going to school, to college." "And then a couple of weeks ago, she went back to them." "I don't know why." "And now she's dead." "According to her mother Marisa Perez knew Jim Clayburn." "He helped her get into college." "When she got into CUNY, she told her mom she was quitting the gang." "Leaving a gang is hard if it's all she knew." "If she was one of his victories, Clayburn might not have given up easy." "Could be he went after whoever shot her." "Clayburn's out of surgery." "He'll make it." "Good." "What do we have on the two guys we grabbed at the scene?" "One guy's gun hasn't been fired, the other had a.45." "None of the rounds removed from vics match." "What about the other body, guy from QB-6?" "Fingerprints peg him as Oskar Mendoza." "Not the kind of boy you wanna bring home to mother." "Guy was dedicated to his chosen career." " Which is what, general dickishness?" " Maybe." "But if QB-6 killed Marisa and DKK killed Mendoza in retaliation QB-6 is not gonna let it go." " Whole thing could spin out of control." " So, what are you thinking?" "Time to call in the cavalry." "This is Detective Ben Cortez with the Gang Squad." "He'll give us a better idea what we're up against." "These are arrest photos of known members and associates of DKK... ..Dominican Killa Kings, the gang Marisa ran with." "Recruit mostly out of high schools." "Carving out territory in Queens and the Bronx." " What about that other gang, QB-6?" " Queens-Bronx 6." "Let me put it this way." "DKK traffics narcotics and occasionally shoots somebody." "QB-6 traffics narcotics, guns, people." "They do hits for hire, arson." "That's all on a good day." "Any warning these two gangs were about to start shooting?" "No, we made progress recently." "Just started to get some better lntel." "Sorry we're late." "We were finishing on-scene interviews." "This is Ben Cortez." "Yeah." "You were at the rec centre." "I was just getting to that." "We got tipped that DKK were going to the tournament." "In QB-6 territory?" "You didn't think to mention that?" " Look, I didn't see who shot the girl." " "The girl"?" "Marisa." "Her name is Mari" "But you know that, don't you?" "That's why you were so upset when you saw her." "You knew her." "As a matter of fact, I did." "She was my Cl." " She was your "better intel"?" " Yeah." "You used a 17-year-old as a confidential informant?" "She was helping us build a case against DKK." " lnforming on her own gang?" " For about a month, yes." "Well, no wonder you looked so shocked when you saw her on the ground." "You got her killed." "I am all for taking down a gang, but using a 17-year-old girl?" "Maybe her gang never found out." "We don't know that's what killed her." "Yes, we do." "She was turning her life around." " Cortez screwed it up." " Best thing we can do for her..." " ...is find out who killed her." " Okay, but I'm not working with him." "So take Roe." "Get out to that rec centre." "See what you can put together." "We are standing here on-site..." "Okay, we got 10 shots to account for." "Yellow markers are for shell casings." "Red are guns." "Cones are victims." "Okay, let's start with the first shot." "It came from over here." "Sound was muffled." "Had to be point-blank range." "So that would make our first victim after Marisa, Jim Clayburn." "Yeah, found him right here." "So maybe we're right." "He knew who was after Marisa and confronted him." "Okay, what's next?" "Five shots from over here." "Three from a bigger-calibre gun." "Six shots so far." "It's one of our guys we picked up, .45 automatic." "None of the victims was shot with a.45, so he's just shooting." "From this angle, one bullet could have hit our bystander, Beverly Jackson." " Bullet like that will do damage." " lt was just a flesh wound." "I'm sure it stung a little, but she was kind of dramatic." "Your empathy is overwhelming." "Then the only thing we've got is the gang kid, Mendoza, standing." "Four shots left." "Four shots." "And Mendoza's still alive." "Crime Scene picked up 10 shell casings." "Yeah, so?" "So there was an eleventh shot." "It killed Mendoza." " I heard it." " Yeah, where from?" "Right back here." "There's a Parks Enforcement guard there." "He might have had a front-row seat." " Yep, he was there." " He give a statement?" "Herb Waters, age 51, 16-year veteran of the Parks Department." "His statement, and I quote:" " "l didn't see any of the shooters."" " We should talk to him again." "If he didn't see a shooter, maybe he saw someone pick up the casing or looking for something on the ground." "Hey, quick." "What did I have for lunch yesterday?" " I don't know." "What did you have?" " I don't know." "I was hoping you'd remember so I could order something else." "I just..." "Like I said, I heard shots, then I saw that guy go down." "Which one?" "There were two." "One of these." "Him." "Older guy." " Okay." "Jim Clayburn." " He okay?" "It's too soon to tell." "So you saw Mr. Clayburn get shot." "Did you get a look at who did it?" "No." "Everything happened so fast." "I went to go help him." "You know, let's go over this again." "Let's see." "So where were you standing?" "Here." "So you ran from here to here." "All right." " You see this kid get shot?" " No." "I didn't get to Clayburn." "There were more shots." "It was chaos, kids running everywhere." "I was trying to keep them safe." "What about afterwards?" "See anyone looking for something on the ground?" " What do you mean?" "Looking for what?" " A shell casing." "We got an extra shot, no casing to go with it." "Wow, how do you know that?" "So did you see anyone or not?" "Look, I shouldn't have even been there." "I don't know the area." "I work out at Spring Creek Park." "I'm trying to pick up extra overtime..." " ...before I retire next month." " I get it." "I get it." "You're dealing with a gang guy." "Seems scary to come clean." "Hey, but if you got something to say, I need you to say it." "It looked like he was reaching for a gun." "Who?" "You shot Mendoza." "He was reaching to his waistband." "And all those punks were pulling out their weapons." " I was just trying to protect the kids." " What was he reaching for?" "A cell phone." "A lousy cell phone." " I gotta take you in." " I wasn't even supposed to be there." "He was just scared." "Didn't have the training to be in that situation." "Hope the DA cuts him some slack." "Clayburn awake?" "Last I checked, just out of surgery." " Carrie, talk to you a second?" " Sure." "Just get me access." "There's gotta be a doctor with parking tickets to fix." " Okay." " Hey." " I'll go check on Clayburn." " Close the door." " Yup." "No problem." " What's up?" "I got a call from a lieutenant in the three-eight." "Why were your fingerprints lifted after a raid on an illegal poker game in some Chinese restaurant?" " They have good dim sum?" " You're a cop." "Whose annual salary doesn't begin to cover my mother's care." "That's your excuse?" " You needed money for Alice?" " Come on." " lt was a harmless game." " It's illegal." "I'm sure they arrested a lot of very bad people." "You're lucky one wasn't you." "Lose your badge, go to jail." "How's your mom then?" " What do you want me to say?" "I don't" " Ballistics came back." "None of the weapons recovered are a match to the victims." "But get this." "The gun that shot Marisa is the same gun that shot Jim Clayburn." " We just don't have it." " We don't." "If they're connected, we're looking for one guy." "Beverly Jackson is finally ready to talk." "I'll go talk to her." " We're not done here." " I am." " I should go." " Yes." "Just go with Mike, see what you can dig up about Clayburn." "The kids are taking it hard." "That's what they call them:" ""Jim's kids." Jim poured everything he had into this mission." "When his wife died in '98, he decided to bring all these lost kids into his family." "To turn his grief into something powerful." "I'm sorry." "They're not all gonna turn out to be success stories." " Gotta be somebody who had a grudge." " This neighbourhood has seen gang reformers come and go for decades, but Jim he was in a class by himself." "People respect him." " That's half the battle." " No threats, calls, letters?" "These kids loved him." "They wouldn't have hurt him." "Or let anybody else hurt him." " Had you seen Marisa around lately?" " No, she was back with the gang." " And Jim knew that?" " Yeah, he was upset." "He asked if there was something he could to do get her back." "Maybe he tried too hard to convince her the DKKs started to question her loyalty." "What else you got, Estella?" "Some of the girls from around here were saying that Marisa was in trouble with the DKK." " For what?" " I didn't ask and no one told me." "But I bet you got an idea." "In this neighbourhood, having ideas will get you shot." "Detective." "Detective Wells." " I'll sit in on the interview, all right?" " What did you have on her, Cortez?" "She was getting out, on her way to college, had a full scholarship." "You dragged her back in." "What did you have on her that was so terrible?" "She was in a car with a kilo of coke in the trunk." "Was she driving?" " No." " Then no way that sticks." "She wouldn't know that." "Did you threaten to call the admissions office?" " Bye-bye, scholarship?" " Listen, I did pick her up." "But I didn't threaten her." "When she found out I was in a gang unit, she offered to go back in to help us." " She didn't want kids getting trapped." " You could have said no." "Believe me, next time I will." "There isn't a next time." "She's dead." "Thanks for coming in, Ms. Jackson." "I would've come in sooner, but I didn't think I'm much help." "Well, you never know." "Even if you didn't see who shot you, maybe you saw someone running away." "I didn't see anything." "I was just walking back from the cheese shop on 31st Avenue and heard some loud sounds." "I didn't even realise I was shot till I saw my arm." "One of the ones who was shot." "A young girl died." "I don't appreciate your attitude." "I know about the girl." "You're a lawyer, right?" "Mulligan  Waters?" " Yes, we're at 45th- -45th and Park on the 59th floor." "I know." "So you didn't see anything." "Nothing." "What about when you were walking to the cheese shop?" "Do you remember which route you took?" "Before you answer know that we are gonna use all of our resources to verify your answer." "You'd be easy to remember." "You wore that orange jacket, turquoise scarf and those earrings that were frankly way too big for the outfit." "So, what if I was?" "So, what?" "So just because you didn't see anyone doesn't mean someone didn't see you." "Maybe someone in a gang." "Also means that if you're lying to us we'll charge you with hindering the prosecution." "You wanna take a peak at these pictures again, ma'am?" "I saw this girl." "She was arguing with a man." "I don't know what about." "He was holding her arm." "She was trying to get away." "Describe him." "Hispanic, early 20's, brown sweatshirt." "Cap with a lot of metal and stuff on it." "Wait a second." "Yeah." "How'd you know?" " Who's this?" " Tito Alvarez." " He's DKK." " DKK." "I didn't see him at the rec centre." "I did." " You're thinking he's the doer." " Look, I was there" "A witness who saw him manhandling Marisa right before she was shot." "Hey, we got some stuff on Tito Alvarez." "DKK practically runs in his family." "His brother went away for a drive-by in '08." "Uncles and cousins wearing the colours going back a decade." "Any specific history with Marisa?" " None that I can find." " How about Clayburn?" "Clayburn's programme reached out to gangs so Alvarez would've known about him, but that's all that I got." " All right, good." " You want I should close the door?" "Why would I want you to...?" "Sorry about that." "Not my business, but is something going on with you..." " ...and our star reporter?" " No." "Same as usual." "All right." "Let me ask you." "That buddy of yours in Vice in the three-eight, you guys still close?" " Yeah, Jim Parsons." "He's a good guy." " And he's discreet, right?" "Sure." "I mean, depends what we're talking about." " Maybe I'll give him a call." " All right." "Like I said, it's none of my business but back in the day when you two were..." "Was she...?" "Was she always so original?" "Yeah." "Well, give Jim a call." "If nobody's dead, he can probably help." "Yeah." "Yeah?" "I'm heading over." "That was the hospital." "Clayburn's awake." "Clayburn's conscious, but he's touch-and-go." "Get his statement and make Tito as a shooter." " I should be out looking for Tito." " Cortez has the whole Gang Squad out." "He's taking time out from recruiting teenage informants?" "How nice of him." " JJ, how you doing?" " Fantastic." "Mr. Clayburn, are you able to answer some questions for us?" "He can't talk yet." "The tube." "He's been using this." "They're cops, Dad." "He wants to know if his kids are okay." "Yeah." "They're having a vigil at the church for you." ""Marisa?"" "No, I'm sorry." ""She was so brave." "My hero."" "I know." "That's why we're here." "We want to catch whoever did this." "We think the person who shot Marisa is the same person that shot you." "Do you recognise anyone in these photos?" "Tito Alvarez." "Is this the man who shot you?" ""Yes."" "Okay, I think that's all we need." "Thank you." "Ben knows where Tito is." " Girlfriend's house." " Great." "Thanks." " Can I help you, officers?" " Looking for Tito Alvarez." "He here?" "I don't know any Tito." " I think you must be mistaken." " Mrs. Garcia, please." "Is your daughter at home?" "My daughter?" "Police." "Where you going, Tito?" "Saves time on the strip search." " Love what you've done with the place." " Why Marisa?" " Why Marisa what?" " She was a good girl, Tito." " I wasn't even at the game that day." " You were." "I saw you there." "You must be mistaken." "I told you I wasn't." "Sweatshirt, blinged-out baseball cap." "A little mustard right here from the hot dog you were eating." "Okay." "Okay, I was there." "But I didn't shoot nobody." " What were you arguing about?" " What?" "You were slapping her around before she got shot." " Hey, Marisa was hauling off on me." " Why?" "I didn't want to get with her crazy ass anymore." "You and Marisa were involved?" "No, baby." "Me and Marisa hooked up." "She got clingy." "I didn't want to be locked down." " Supply can't meet demand, you know?" " Sure." " Clayburn." "What's your beef with him?" " Who?" " Don't play dumb." " You mean Mr. Jim's Kids?" "Wait, hold up." " You guys think I shot him?" " Yeah." "We think you shot him." "Right after you shot, Marisa." "You used the same gun, baby." "No." "I don't have no beef with that guy." "I didn't shoot him." " Why did you run?" " I didn't, I stayed." " I left a statement." " Don't remember that." "I used a fake name." "I don't want y'all calling me to testify." " You're full of it." " Cop was a white dude." "Big fat-ass dude, all right?" "Frisked me and everything." "Believe me." "All right, look, don't give me any lip." "Show me some lD." "You got id?" "What's your name?" "Cop made you take your sweatshirt off, didn't he?" "Right?" "Yeah, before he frisked me." "So what?" "I need to talk to you." "Yo, this ain't right, man." "I want to talk to my lawyer." " I want my phone call" " Why don't you shut up, Tito!" "Tito's telling the truth." "He wasn't armed." " Are you sure?" " We didn't find the murder weapon." "I saw that officer frisk him." "He did not have a gun." " He couldn't have shot Clayburn." " So Clayburn was wrong?" "Either that or he's lying." " Assuming you're remembering right" " She's remembering right." "Doesn't mean he didn't shoot." "He could've handed the gun off." "Hey, when we brought Tito in, he took his phone call." "A perp overheard him order a hit on the amigo who got him locked up." " What amigo?" " Tito didn't mention a name." "If Tito handed his gun off to someone, they can tie him to Marisa's murder." "We better figure out who it is and find them before Tito's people do." "We know Tito didn't shoot you." "Why keep insisting that he did?" "Look, I'm not making this up." "Tito's a killer." "Look at me and tell me who really shot you." " I don't know." " Who are you protecting?" "One of the kids in your programme?" "They're cops, Dad." ""l forgive you."" "JJ shot you, didn't he?" "Your son?" "Why?" " Did he shoot Marisa as well?" " What?" "No." " Look, you don't understand." " Then make me understand." "It was an accident." "It's my own fault." "I spent so much time with my kids my other kids, that I neglected my own son." "I think that JJ wanted me to feel the pain that he felt." " JJ was there with the gang, wasn't he?" " He's not in the gang." "But they let him hang around." "He does it to get back at me." "You're saying shooting you is some kind of cry for attention?" "He didn't mean to shoot me." "I saw him there with his friends." "I went to grab him." "I felt he had something under his jacket." "I was afraid it was what it was." " A gun." " He's so much smarter than that." "I tried to take it away and it went off." " So JJ fought you?" " Tito gave JJ the gun to get rid of it." "White kid's less likely to get frisked by the cops." "But JJ didn't know that Tito had killed Marisa." " He thought he was helping a friend." " But you knew Tito killed Marisa." " That's why you said he shot you, right?" " Marisa called me in a panic." "Her gang found out she was working with police and Tito was gonna kill her." "I raced down to the park to try and pick her up." "But she was already dead." "I told you I'm not lying about Tito." " He's a murderer." " Yes, he is." "He knows JJ can prove it." "He sent the gang looking for him." " What?" " Where is JJ right now?" "I was sending him out of town." "He went home to pack stuff." "We gotta go." "Those guys were at the rec centre." "Al, there's JJ." "Stop the car." " This is the gun Tito gave you?" " Yes." "You'll testify to that in court?" "Yes, of course." "Then we're done here." "Hey, Burns, let me ask you a question." "Wells." "What's her deal?" "Her deal?" "You know, is she seeing anyone?" "Yeah, she's in a relationship." "Hey." "Look, I just wanted to set the record straight on Marisa." "I told you if I had to do it over again, I'd have said no..." " ...but the fact is I'm not so sure." " You're not so sure?" "This is a hellish job, trying to stop children from killing children." "I say God bless Jim Clayburn for everything he does but unless those kids see things another way, it's never gonna stop." "And you and I can't show that to him." "Only the Marisas can do that." "Not anymore, she can't." "Don't be so sure." "Anyway, I just wanted to be honest with you." "Cortez." "I appreciate that." "How is JJ?" "Well, he's not completely off the hook." "He did discharge a firearm in public." "But with his testimony against Tito, DA should go easy on him." "So about this harmless little card game." " Do we have to talk about that?" " I get the money part." "Your mom." "I'm not saying it's right, but I get it." "And since nobody was injured I'll square things with the three-eight, tell them you were undercover." " Thank you." " But you and I both know this stuff you do, it's not really for the money." "Maybe not." "See, I think you get a little bored sometimes." " You like to push it a little." " Maybe more than a little." "Except there's this whole badge thing." "You know, what we do here?" "Right." "I know." "I'm gonna work on that." "Just say you'll be careful." " That a promise?" " That's a:" "So you're on a waving basis now?" "Yeah, it would appear that way." " He's not your type." " Really?" " Absolutely." " How can you be so sure?" "Because I don't like him."