Mr. Coleman, he said. Officer Reyes told me what happened on 23. I want to hear your version of floor 2, the mechanical room, and what you found in the transfer switch panel. All of it, Darius said.
Every detail you can give me. Darius sat down and he told it. He told it the same way he had always written incident reports sequentially, factually, without editorializing. Every observation noted in the order he'd made it. The call at 11:47.
The drive-in. Gerald at the lobby desk. The transfer switch on suble 2. The manual override. The photograph on his phone.
The cell signal going dead. The elevator. The maintenance hatch. Floor 14. The security dispatch office on 16.
The hardwired phone. The call to 911. The footsteps in the corridor. The records room. The ceiling drop.
When he got to the part about dropping from the ceiling onto Marcus Webb, Okafor stopped him. You restrained him physically. Yes. With what? My forearm.
Standard control hold. I worked emergency services for 9 years structural and industrial. We were trained for physical intervention. Okafur wrote something down. Did he resist?
For about 2 seconds, then he stopped. Did you threaten him with a wrench? I laid it on the bits desk where he could see it. Why? Darius looked at Okaphor steadily.
Because I wanted him to make a decision about whether to keep fighting and I wanted that decision to be easy. Okapor looked at him for a moment. Then he nodded and wrote something down and moved on. And Darius had the impression that whatever Okafur wrote down in that moment was something favorable. Across the table, Victoria was talking to the second detective.