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Despite everything else going on, Rebecca and Sutter remained the on-call team that week, and Rebecca was awakened by a six a.m. call about a dead body in the Ingleside district. It turned out to have been a gang shooting, and although the two homicide inspectors had taken charge of the case, the Gang Task Force quickly arrested the killer. Witnesses and a confession ended the case.
Rebecca was glad of that since she had been in Homicide until midnight the night before, writing a report on the shoot-out in Hunters Point. She stuck to the facts as she saw them: four men, two had died at the scene, the FBI took the other two men into custody, and a number of people—as yet unofficially identified—had fled the scene. Her report made it clear this had been an FBI-led operation, and she had
