Beat 1522, 10:10 p.m. Aug. 29
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Police were wrapping up their investigation of a double shooting in Austin, two boys 15 and 16, one of them hit in the back and the other in the head.
Officers had strung up yellow crime tape and had laid out at least 24 yellow markers where shell casings and other evidence had been found near the corner of Quincy Street and Lotus Avenue on Monday evening.
Two men and two women approached and asked if they could pass through.
“It’s a crime scene,” an officer guarding the scene told them. “You gotta walk around.”
The group turned and started to walk away. But a man in a white T-shirt and a pregnant woman in glasses stayed behind, arguing with each other.
The man demanded that the woman give him money. Their argument seemed almost playful.
“I got guns,” the man said.
“Your ass needs to be locked up,” the woman replied, laughing.
But their voices grew louder, their argument more intense.
A sergeant stepped up. “Hey guys, c’mon. Why you fighting near the crime scene? We don’t want another crime scene here.”
But the woman and the man didn’t seem to notice.
“Give me money before I beat you,” the man threatened.
“I don’t have your money,” the woman replied.
The man reached out toward the woman, but she moved away.
“Sir,” an officer said, stepping in between the two. “Sir, sir.”
“He got PCP in his pocket,” the woman said.
The two kept yelling at each other, and an officer called for backup. A minute later, two police SUVs rolled up on Lotus from Jackson Boulevard.
Detectives investigating the crime scene walked up to see what was happening. Someone on the third floor of a building teased the officers from his window.
“Officers,” the man said. “I see you.”
The sergeant’s patience ran out.
“Go that way,” the sergeant yelled at the man. “We’re done here.”
Two other officers escorted the woman onto the other side of the crime scene, away from the man.
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“What the (expletive)?” the man said.
A squadrol rolled up and officers placed the man inside. It drove away, and police returned to the crime scene in silence.