Mr. Ballin
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But after about 30 minutes, Detective Lloyd turned the page, and suddenly something he saw immediately stood out to him.
And for about 30 seconds, Detective Lloyd just stared at the paper, having no idea what to make of what he was seeing.
And what he was seeing was basic biographical information of a small-time gang member named Anthony Garcia, who had recently been arrested for driving with a suspended license.
Now, to this point, many other detectives had seen this document about Anthony Garcia, and they hadn't thought anything of it.
But when Detective Lloyd looked at this page about Anthony Garcia, a photo of Anthony immediately stood out to the detective.
but before detective lloyd was prepared to run to his boss and tell him about this huge discovery he had made he thought you know what i need to do a little bit more digging because this could totally be wrong so detective lloyd left the paperwork on the desk he put his coffee down and he walked his way out of the office and down to the room in the police department where they stored all of the files for all the unsolved murder cases
And so Detective Lloyd, he goes in there and he begins walking up and down the rows until finally he found the case that he was looking for.
He grabbed it and he walked back to his desk.
He sat down and he began to read it.
Now, this unsolved murder case, which was from four years ago in 2004, did not appear on the surface to have anything to do with Anthony Garcia.
But Detective Lloyd was reasonably sure that there were details in this unsolved murder case from 2004 that would prove his theory about Anthony Garcia.
The file that Lloyd was reading described a murder that took place on January 23, 2004.
That night, a 23-year-old man named John Juarez was standing in front of this liquor store called Mr. Ed's Liquors, which is located in a small neighborhood in Los Angeles.
John was a devoted father to a four-year-old girl, and he was also a devoted member of a gang.
But on this particular evening, John was not doing anything criminal in front of this liquor store.
He was just standing there near a street sign, kind of minding his own business.
But at some point, two men walked up to John and asked him where he was from, but before John could even answer, one of these two men drew a gun and began firing shots into John, and one of those rounds struck him in the head and killed him.
Now, after Lloyd had read through this file and the description of the murder several times and felt confident he had gotten all the information he could, he still wasn't sure if this was enough to prove his theory about Anthony Garcia, so he decided he would actually go to the liquor store where this murder happened and see it for himself.
And so Detective Lloyd, he hopped in his car, he drove to Mr. Ed's Liquors, he parked in the parking lot, and he just looked around.
He kind of scanned around the whole area.