Rick Smith

I said, Paulie, there's been an incident involving John.

And she goes, what happened?

What happened?

And I said, he'd been shot.

By the time we got to the hospital, there was a doctor and the nurses, and he was in a triage unit.

When I first saw him, he was shaking, shaking like a dog.

He was holding the towels up to his face, and I asked him, who did this, John?

Melvin Rainey was in the trash hauling business.

He was a convicted arsonist.

He had a reputation of getting even with individuals by sneaking in the night and burning properties.

Jeff Flanagan was found shot to death.

His body was recovered in a cranberry bog directly across the street from Melvin Rainey's home.

Melvin Rini basically walked free on all of those accounts.

I think because people were afraid to prosecute him.

And I'm talking about policemen afraid of him because they had families and they'd go to bed at night and you don't know if he was gonna burn the house down with your kids in the house.

And just prior to that court hearing, John Busby was shot.

I thought instantly that Melvin Rainey had shot him.

and now we're gonna start after Melvin.

I would challenge anyone to go to any police department and ask the question, if one of their officers was shot in the line of duty, what would they do?

And I can tell you the response will be, they're not gonna stop investigating that crime until an arrest is made.