MrBallen

Jimenez looked at Michael's hands and saw that they were covered in scratches, which told him that Michael very likely must have fought with his attacker.

Jimenez stood back up, but just as he was about to walk inside the house, he stopped because he noticed that some guitar and violin cases were haphazardly stacked up outside on the porch.

And this struck him as odd because nobody in this neighborhood would ever store expensive musical equipment outside or really anything sort of like obviously expensive outside because it could get stolen.

But regardless, Jimenez stepped through the front door and into the kitchen, and as he did, he saw more music gear.

This time it was an amplifier and a guitar stand that had been left to the side of the door just inside the house.

On the floor near the gear, Jimenez saw broken glass from a shattered window pane.

And so already, Jimenez was beginning to develop a theory.

He wondered if maybe Michael had interrupted a robbery.

Maybe the thief or thieves had been in the process of shuffling the musical equipment out of the house onto the porch, kind of stacking it up near the door as they were doing it, when Michael came out and confronted them.

The broken glass in the kitchen suggested that the fight maybe started there or at least in part happened right there.

And then from there, you know, they moved through the door onto the porch where Michael was ultimately shot.

And then when Jimenez did a walkthrough of the rest of the property, he found in Michael's workshop that it was perfectly intact and none of the very obviously expensive tools had been taken or moved.

And so to Jimenez, this cemented his theory that very likely Michael had interrupted a robbery.

And so very likely, at least according to Jimenez's theory, after the robber shot Michael, you know, he figured that they must have panicked and then just taken off without finishing the job.

By this point, the crime scene was swarming with members of the forensics unit and also uniformed officers.

Jimenez knew it would take hours to process the scene for blood, fingerprints, and other trace evidence, and also officers were already out knocking on doors in the neighborhood looking for witnesses.

So Jimenez decided to leave and go talk to detectives in the burglary division to see if they had any similar cases or usual suspects.

Back inside a headquarters, Detective Jimenez walked quickly to the burglary division.

He rapped on the open door of one of the offices there and caught the attention of a detective at a desk.

Jimenez explained the case he just caught, laid out his theory about a home robbery gone wrong, and then asked the detective if he had any recent robberies on or around North Sparkman Boulevard.