19. Dangerously In Love

                                    

                                          
Detective Grant's Point Of View:
Watching her enter the apartment I have been staking out Maria Reinosa's apartment. I need to get some evidence on these brothers to finally end this.
"I am so sorry I am failing to get your killers. But I promise to get them all responsible for y'all death my angels..." I promise my deceased wife and daughter looking at their picture. I exited my vehicle to make my move. 
Knocking on her door I hear her yell out to me. Asking who I was very cautiously. But I rather say my identity to her face. 
"Yes who are you?" She opens her door. Her reddish brown hair laid to the side and she stood there in jeans and a tank top.
"Detective Grant with the NYPD I am here to ask you a few questions about Michael Jackson and William Sinclair?" I say showing her my badge. 
"I don't know any William Sinclair and Fuck Michaelangelo we broke up so goodbye." Maria says obviously scorned.
"Was that before or after he got with a woman name Zenia?" I question before she closed the door. 
"I don't know he is a hoe so who really knows. He could of been fucking us both together. He could of left me to fuck her just like the hoe before her. Either way that pendejo always come back to me..." She says shrugging. 
"Ma'am please I am investigating a murder. A stripper was brutally murder in broad daylight. Her lover has mysteriously disappeared. A mother and a daughter was killed during a shootout on their block. This is all connected potentially to Michael and his new girlfriend Zenia. If there is anything you know please can you tell me?" I plead with her hoping to appeal to her humanity. She stepped aside and let me in to her apartment.
"Look he didn't discuss shit with me about William all he said was that was his street soldier. He helped me and my friend Chi-Chi escaped Raymond's clutches before he try to turn me over to Justus. So I owe that whore motherfucker my life. That's why he is not working for him anymore and he is on his own." Maria informed me and I had no clue. 
"Why did he chose to save you and Chi-Chi and start this potential war?" I question. 
"That I don't know but I do know this. If you are talking about the shootout that happen out here last year in Bedford. Than I can tell you Michaelangelo and his brother was nowhere near that block. Justus Walker and Raymond Brown had a meeting with them a day earlier. Telling him to fold down his business before it gets ugly. They refused and set out to a meeting in Chicago. Prince went and made Michael and I go to Miami to set up shop with Chi-Chi." She informs me and now I am confused is she lying to protect him.
Why would a rookie cop lie about what happened to him? And if the brother arms were out of town why would Justus and Raymond kill my family? 
"That's where Michaelangelo and I became a thing. When we got back they were being blamed for something they didn't do. Then when that policia was killed. Michaelangelo and I were doing business in Miami. Prince he was said to be watching over some chick in them projects. I believe they call them Wingate." Maria says and I know that's where Zenia lived before she moved in with William. Her friend Keisha currently reside there. I may have to speak to them all again.
It was only after an associate of their's were murdered that they moved to his current residence. No one still has came forth on who murdered Daeshawn but I knew it had to be them brothers. 
"So you are saying Michael and Prince aren't responsible? How about that stripper killed a few days ago?" I asked her. 
"That I don't know maybe it was someone else. Everything that goes wrong in this city is not tied to Michaelangelo and his brother okay. Justus and Raymond are some real evil pieces of shit. They sell girls and beat us. They sell drugs and all of that too. How about investigate them for a change?" She says lighting up a cigarette.