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“Stay home Keep your door locked,” Chase said

“I have to eat,” she shouted “I went to the deli on Duboce and Sanchez for soup and a sandwich soht, and I was there for an hour There’s got to be cameras all over that place You can see for yourself”

Martinez said, “So froym? That’s your story?”

“Yes So like that”

Chase asked her, “And before you went to the gym?”

“I was at home The doorman can say when I left”

“Okay, Briana,” said Martinez “We’ll check your alibi

Or you can save us a lot of trouble I know this Christopher guy is a miserable pain in your butt, so look, you didn’t kill hiuarantee if you speak up, it will all go better for you”

“I did not shoot hiun to your … your lab or just smell it It hasn’t been fired in two years”

“This here,” said Martinez, digging a plastic bag out of his shirt pocket, “is a gunpowder residue test I’ to hurt”

“I don’t have to agree to that Do I?” Hill asked incredulously “I want my lawyer and I want to call him now”

“In a minute,” said Martinez “But first show me your hands, palms up”

“And if I refuse?”

“You can chill in a holding cell with fourteen or fifteen pissed-off prostitutes until we get a court order”

“Briana,” interjected theno to a GSR testto hide If you didn’t fire a gun, this will clear you You want that”