A Child of a Crackhead by Shameek Speight Page A

at the first building on the second floor.
    He didn’t know where he went. He didn’t know the project buildings and the back exits. He went outside and cried for his partner’s lives that were lost as he heard the sirens coming closer for the backup he needed, but it was too late. He already lost Black Ice.
    The S.W.A.T team and uniform cops surrounded the Brownsville Projects.
    Detective Roy was an overweight cop that was in charge of the investigation. He approached the young cop that chased Black Ice inside the building. “What’s your name officer?” Detective Roy asked they young cop.
    “Officer Reed sir” He answered.
    “Okay Officer Reed, tell me what the fuck is going on? Why do we have three dead cops and six gunmen?” Detective Roy asked.
    “Did you say three dead cops?”
    Officer Reed asked. He only knew of his partner and one other man.
    “Yes there are three dead men of our own. Start from the beginning.” Detective Roy ordered.
    “My partner and I were driving by when we saw the gunfight going on. He jumped out of the car to try to get things under control.”
    “Do you know what the gunfight was about?” Detective Roy asked.
    “No sir, but all the gunmen seemed to be shooting at one person. He was dark skin and really black. He had two guns and was shooting right back at all of them like crazy.” Office Reed started.
    Detective Roy’s heart jumped a beat.
    He knew who ran this hood, Black Ice. He’s wanted to take Black Ice down for years, but there were never any witnesses when a murder showed up and everybody knew Black Ice did it. But, no one was foolish enough to snitch on him. Detective Roy still remembered the pair of hands they found tied up on the power lines a few years back.
    “Okay officer, keep going. Tell me how the other two cops ended up dead.”
    “We all…” he began until interrupted by Detective Roy.
    “What do you mean ‘we all’?”
    “Well sir the other two officers and myself started chasing the tall man that everybody was shooting at. The suspect we were chasing turned around and fired on us.”
    He swallowed hard. He needed to give another reason why other than that they shot the young man on the ground that was still alive out of cold blood. He sure wasn’t going to tell him that. He continued, “Once the suspect fired at us we exchanged gunfire and killed him. My partner walked up to him to disarm him. When I turned my head the other suspect that the man we killed was chasing, was leaning up against the building wall in a shadow with two guns pointed at us. I tried to warn the other officers, but it was too late. The suspect killed them in cold blood. I was on the floor and took cover and fired back at him. He, meaning Black Ice, ran into that building right there.
    I followed him inside, but lost him. He was laughing sir the whole time running.”
    “Officer Reed if you saw the suspect again, would you be able to point him out in a line up?” Detective Roy asked.
    “Yes sir I would. He had the evilest eyes I’ve ever seen.”
    Detective Roy turned to the S.W.A.T
    team and ordered them to search the building. He ordered the uniform cops to go door to door ordering everybody out of their apartments and to search through the apartments. Detective Roy knew now for sure that the shooter of the death of the cops had to be Black Ice. The evil eyes and the laughter the officer talked about could only be one person. He thought I’m going to get that nigga one way or the other, if it’s locking his ass up or putting his body in a body bag.

Chapter 19
    Ray Ray was in the mix of the crowd of noisy people around the crime scene.
    After hearing everything he needed to get the news to Black Ice. He slowly walked off and headed back to his building. He ran up the four flights of stairs into his apartment on the fourth floor. He locked the door.
    “Yo, it looks bad out there.” He said as he turned around to face Black Ice who was on the couch smoking crack out