Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 252 George in the Emergency Room (Second Update!)

The moment Helen's sobbing voice came from the other end of the phone.

Hawke, who was driving, had already started moving.

Squeak!
The black Audi A8, its tires screeching against the ground, drifted in front of 521A Palm Street, then, using its momentum, quickly rolled across the lawn in front of the garage and came to a stop with a thud.

Hawke and Gwen had already disappeared inside the car.

New Amsterdam Hospital.

Gwen felt a blur before her eyes, and when she came to her senses, she saw Helen waiting at the door of the emergency room, still on the phone.

"mom!"

"Gwen."

Helen, who had been gentle and composed, now looked visibly disoriented. Seeing her daughter Gwen appear before the phone call was even over, she clearly lost her composure and, without thinking, got up and hugged Gwen.

Helen's voice trembled.

"Your father is being resuscitated."

"what happened?"

Gwen, who was holding her mother Helen, sounded a little trembling.

Hawke looked toward the brightly lit operating room and, with his 'Sixth Sense - X-ray vision,' clearly saw George, who was on the operating table, anesthetized, with a tracheotomy tube intubated, and undergoing emergency medical surgery.

His six senses sank into George's body.

into the eye.

George was shot in the abdomen, shoulder, and neck.

The neck is better; it seems to be just abrasions.

But the abdomen was pierced, as were the shoulders.

Good guy.

One shot to the abdomen, one to the shoulder, and the last to the neck.

Tsk.

A professional, indeed.

Hawke sensed George's miserable state, took a deep breath, withdrew his gaze, and followed Gwen's eyes to look at the female detective who was waiting there with Helen.

The female detective's name is Hale.

Man as his name suggests.

He's of mixed race, but Hale is one of the best detectives under Sergeant George Stacy of the 12th Precinct, and he's also on good terms with Helen, so Hawke doesn't view Hale with prejudice.

Just as Hawke has always believed.

His moral bottom line has a certain degree of flexibility.

Also because she was worried about George, Hale ignored why Hawke and Gwen had arrived so quickly and told them what had happened.

She also received the news and rushed here from the 21st Precinct.

Hale wasn't entirely sure what exactly happened.

Because the incident did not occur in the jurisdiction of the 21st Precinct, but in the jurisdiction of the 12th Precinct.

Earlier, two patrol officers from the 12th Precinct were patrolling their jurisdiction when they stopped to have a coffee at a multi-story parking garage. Suddenly, they heard gunshots coming from inside the garage.

Without hesitation, the two patrol officers reported the shooting code.

then……

By the time backup police arrived at the scene after receiving the shooting code, the gunfire had stopped, and the two patrol officers were already lying in pools of blood.

George Stacy was also lying in a pool of blood.

The arriving police officers immediately called out the code 999.

The police station's radio calls contain countless pre-set codes.

Each code represents an event.

For example, 221 corresponds to a robbery.

Nine times nine times!
This is the most serious code; calling this code means one thing: a police officer has been shot.

All nearby police forces responded instantly, and ambulances from the New Amsterdam Hospital rushed to the scene immediately.

After the three men were loaded into the ambulance, one of the doctors recognized George, and the 21st Precinct received the news that their boss had been shot and his fate was unknown.

This is not.

Police officers ran to Helen's location, picked her up, and rushed her to the hospital.

Hale, who had a good relationship with Helen and was also a detective, rushed over immediately to be with her.

but……

"Mahoni has already gone there."

"The deputy sheriff is also negotiating with the sheriff of the 12th Precinct to see if they can secure jurisdiction over the case."

But the estimate is very slim.

Because the incident occurred within the 12th Precinct's jurisdiction, and while George was still being treated, the two patrol officers from the 12th Precinct had already been pronounced dead.

The 21st Precinct is furious because its sheriff was shot, and the 12th Precinct is furious because their colleague was shot and killed.

So, as Hale spoke, her expression showed some worry.

Hawke frowned.

"Detective Mahoney?"

"Yes."

Hale nodded.

Hawke asked Gwen for her phone, then walked aside, found Detective Mahoney's number, and dialed it.

Hale is one of the best detectives in the 21st Precinct.

This is also Detective Mahoney.

Hawke had seen both Detective Mahoney and Detective Hale at Stacy's apartment before; they were the only two detectives Hawke had ever met.

You could say these two were George's right-hand men.

The 21st Precinct's high crime-solving rate is largely attributed to these two detectives. At this moment, in the multi-level parking garage, at the crime scene, Mahoney took out his phone, glanced at the incoming call, frowned, then thought for a moment, walked aside, and answered the call.

“I am Mahoney…”

“Detective Mahoney, it’s me, Hawke.”

"Hawk..."

Detective Mahoney heard Hawke's voice and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought it was Gwen or Helen calling, and if that were the case, he really wouldn't know what to say.

Because he had just arrived here.

"Hawk, you and Gwen are at the hospital too. How is Helen? How about George? What did the doctor say?"

"Gwen and Helen are very worried, and George is still in the operating room undergoing emergency treatment."

Hawke didn't hide anything from Mahoney, explaining the current situation at the hospital before asking, "What happened?"

Mahone rubbed his temples.

"I was afraid you would ask that."

"what happened?"

"I just arrived at the scene and am still trying to figure out why the sheriff was in the 12th Precinct's jurisdiction this morning."

"...You don't know either?"

"Yes, I just got the sheriff's schedule for today from the assistant sheriff. The sheriff was supposed to have a budget meeting today, but the assistant said that the sheriff called last night and canceled the meeting this morning without saying anything about it, just freeing up his schedule for this morning."

"..."

Hawke frowned upon hearing this, then seemed to realize something: "Could it be related to the case you're investigating? I remember when I came back for Christmas, George mentioned that it was still under investigation."

George was investigating before he and Gwen went to Fallstown that time.

When he and Gwen returned from Fallstown, it turned out that George was still investigating the case.

George wasn't a detective, he was a sheriff, the sheriff of the 21st Precinct.

As the sheriff of the 21st Precinct, George wields the highest decision-making and daily management authority in the precinct.

In fact, as a police chief of a branch office, there is no need to go to the front line in person.

But George comes from a detective background, so even now that he's a sheriff, he still follows up on some major cases.

In George's words, his career was over anyway.

For a branch commander, this is both the peak and the end of his career.

Mahoney paused slightly when Hawke brought up the case.

"What... Oh, you mean that case? That case has already been closed."

"Is the case closed?"

Hawke was slightly taken aback: "When was the case closed?"

Upon hearing this, Mahoney paused on the other end of the phone: "I can't say much more, you know the rules, Hawke, but the case was closed by the sheriff last month."

Hawke sensed something was off from Mahoney's tone.

"The kind of case that's officially closed?"

"……Yes."

Mahoney hesitated for a moment, considering that Hawke was his sheriff's prospective son-in-law, and said in a low voice, "The sheriff and I followed a lead for three whole months, and suddenly a suspect came forward to claim the body. All the physical evidence and witness testimonies pointed to this person. And as you know, this case was very stressful, so the sheriff chose to close it."

Speaking of it.

Mahoney paused for a moment, then footsteps came through the phone. After a while, once they found a more secluded spot, his voice came through again: "The sheriff's idea is that there's definitely a big fish behind this case, so he wants me to investigate it privately."

Hawke frowned.

"But you know nothing?"

"Yes, but I heard George mention it a few days ago, saying that he seems to have an informant."

"Informant? Who?"

"do not know."

Mahoney shook his head: "We originally planned to meet every day at lunchtime to exchange clues, but..."

Hawke continued, "Then George was seriously injured and went to the intensive care unit."

Mahoney hummed in agreement, keeping his voice as low as possible: "I suspect the sheriff may have been set up."

Hawke's mind raced.

"That informant?"

"Correct."

"Yesterday at noon, the sheriff said that he had made contact with the informant who knew the inside story, and he was trying to get the informant's information."

"I was the one who suggested I go."

"But the sheriff said that the informant only trusted him."

"result……"

"So, I suspect that informant. When I came here, I even went to the sheriff's office to look for him, but I didn't find any clues about him."

"study!"

Hawke raised an eyebrow and said, "You said George called his assistant last night to cancel today's schedule, so it's only possible that he received some information while he was at home."

Mahoney's eyes lit up.

Hawke then said, "I'll go back to my study and see if I can find anything."

Upon hearing this, Mahoney thought for a moment and replied, "Then I'll leave it to you. I'm waiting for the detectives from the 12th Precinct to see if we can take over this case. If not, we can work together."

"Okay, see you later."

"See you later."

Hawke said this to Mahoney on the other end of the phone, then hung up and walked back toward Gwen.

……

(End of this chapter)