Some fights come down to a hole the size of a pen barrel, or maybe a candle. Empty space at one end and the possibility of an equation at the other. Force equals mass times velocity. But only if the trigger gets pulled. Looking at that hole, waiting, wondering.
Some fights end very fast, and forever.
He's out late at night with a valuable cargo. The report gives no indication of whether the weapon is registered or not. When I read that, I wonder if this is the guy the two young men from Aptos were going to rip off. The randomness and spread of these six events resist connection, but you wonder if any of the stories overlap, and maybe in some imperceptible way they do. When Gamez is picked up by sheriff's deputies, it is either late at night or very early in the morning, depending on what hours you keep.