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Gabe narrowed his eyes. “Like you haven’t seen it already?”
Willa Mae squeezed his arm. “Just answer the question, Gabe. Cardozo’s simply connecting the dots.”
Gabe exhaled impatiently. “It’s on my phone. Which is in Captain Holmes’s custody.”
Cardozo nodded. “Thank you. Now, did you hear any of what the two men were saying to each other?”
“No.”
Cardozo didn’t seem offended by the brusque answer. “Did they seem friendly with each other?”
“Before one of them shot the other?” Gabe asked sarcastically, then sighed when Willa Mae surreptitiously elbowed him. “Sorry. I’m tired. I’m not sure how to answer that. We couldn’t see the shooter’s face. Between his hoodie and the sun behind him, he was pretty well hidden. Mule seemed relaxed enough, right up until the end, that is. They were talking at a normal volume, I guess. They never yelled.” He glanced at Willa Mae to make sure he’d said the right things, and she nodded at him. Well, at least I haven’t incriminated myself.
“You were carrying a gun,” Cardozo commented.
“Yes.”
“Did you fire at the man in the hoodie?”
“No.”
Cardozo smiled, like they were playing a game. “Did you fire earlier in the evening?”
“Yes.”
“How many times?”
“Once.”
“When was that, Mr. Hebert?”
Willa Mae patted his arm again. “You can answer that. They have the security footage from Molly’s apartment. Your action of defending Molly has been noted as such.”
“It was somewhere between one fifteen and one thirty this morning.”
“Who did you shoot?”
“I don’t know his name. He had a gun pointed at my...” He frowned, unsure of how to label Molly. My girlfriend? My partner? “My private investigator’s chest. He’d forced her to drop her weapon by threatening her family, then started to call to his partners that he had her.”
“You thought he’d harm her?”
“I had absolutely no doubt that he would have.”
“At that point, why did you think the men were there?”
“To harm—or possibly abduct—Miss Sutton’s sister and niece.”
“What purpose would that have served?”
Gabe wanted to scream but reined in his temper and forced himself to remain civil. “To force Molly into the open so that they could use her to either lure Burke or to follow her to where key witnesses were hiding.”
“When you shot the man in the garage, did you intend to kill him?”
Gabe couldn’t control his flinch. “No. I was actually aiming for his shoulder. I would have accepted an arm or a leg or even a torso, but I hit his neck.”
Cardozo nodded again. “It was a kill shot.”
Gabe swallowed. He’d have to deal with the fact that he’d killed a man later. He couldn’t let himself be distracted now. “I guess so.”
