Chapter 16
(Thursday, May 8, 2014)
Mac had never been so grateful for a low-key day. He’d made his blotter calls, then worked on more phone interviews. His retired sergeant friend called him back. Norton had been washed out of boot-camp when he was implicated in a gang of young men who were beating up Latinos. “They would roam at night, find a guy, and beat the crap out of him,” Sarge said. “Norton was involved, no question, but he wasn’t charged by the local cops. So, the Marine Corps just discharged him on entry level separation and washed their hands of him.”
“And he left the state, reinvented himself as just a dumb jock college student?” Mac said slowly. “And gets a scholarship at a university up here?”
“Sounds like it,” Sarge said. “Would they do that?”
Mac didn’t know. “I’ll fin
