Chapter 8 - Highway Nine Had Another Witness
A truck driver had been parked at a closed gas station across the
highway.
Her name was Angela Ruiz.
She heard the gunshot.
More importantly, her dash camera had been recording.
The image was distant.
The audio was useless.
But the video showed Decker standing at my driver-side window.
It showed my car door closed when he fired.
It showed Miller recoil backward in surprise.
Then it showed Decker opening my door after the shot.
That timing mattered because Decker initially claimed I had begun
exiting aggressively.
The dash camera contradicted him.
Angela had nearly driven away without contacting anyone.
Then she saw the story on local television.
She called state investigators.
One ordinary civilian with a dashboard camera supplied evidence nobody
in uniform controlled.
When Marcus told me, I cried.
Not because the case was won.
It wasn’t.
May you like
Because somewhere on Highway 9, a stranger had decided what she saw
mattered enough to preserve.
