February 8, 2017. 6:17 P.M.
Case #: 102.011.11.21-110
OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF POLICE INTERVIEW

INTERROGATOR: Could you explain all these? Why did you attack your friends? Why did you go beserk like a wild dog? Why was a recording of two men plotting against Joey Cassidy found in your possession, that coupled with an envelope containing fifty thousand dollars.

MARSHALL: [Unintelligible]

INTERROGATOR: Could you please speak up, Mr. Marshall?

MARSHALL: I don’t know, sir. I just [pause] i don’t own those things.

INTERROGATOR: Okay fine, we’d come back to that later. Let’s take this from the top to make it less complex. Why did you attack your friends?”

MARSHALL: I think some sort of drug was in my system. I was drugged.

INTERROGATOR: [LIGHT SNORT] if you were drugged, how did you know you were drugged. We haven’t taken you to the hospital, yet. No sort of tests have been conducted. So why do you say so?

MARSHALL: Because I know. I took the drug.

INTERROGATOR: Meaning you drugged yourself? On purpose. So you’d be able to carry out whatever task that was demanded of you by your hirer.

MARSHALL: No, it’s nothing like that. [Sighs] I just–it’s really complicated, Sir. I don’t know where to start from.

INTERROGATOR: We got all day son, fire away.

MARSHALL: [Exhales] Ever since what happened at J.C. last year, I kind-off had this vibe that somebody was being targeted. And I initially thought the disaster was to eliminate someone in particular probably and make everyone else die alongside the target as collateral damage. I mean no one would question the death of students in a jungle, they’d all assume it’s as a result of natural causative factors.

My mistake was to let my guard down thinking that whomever was behind everything wouldn’t be able to compromise us at home or in school, but I was wrong. He compromised somebody– someone I don’t know yet, whom happens to be in the school. This person was his contact back at J.C. and was also key in what happened yesterday. I know I might sound obnoxious right now – but I’m positive this person was responsible for drugging me and placing incriminating evidence in my bag.

INTERROGATOR: Let’s even assume everything you said make sense, when it clearly doesn’t and let’s also assume it’s true also. You were drugged right, but no one dragged you to the roof-top alongside your target? So how does it happen that Joey whom appears to be the target on the recording found in your back was the same person who was with you on the roof-top?

MARSHALL: They planned it, sir. They made Joey to be there at that exact location.

INTERROGATOR: Really? You and your friend seem to be contradicting each other. Joey was here a while ago to testify in your favor. And he said something about you trying to protect him, and muttering words along the line of – ‘someone trying to target him to render his father heirless.’ Care to explain that, or it was just the drugs speaking.

MARSHALL: [Unintelligible]

INTERROGATOR: Mr. Marshall, please? Speak out!

MARSHALL: I knew Joey was the target. The recording told me so.

INTERROGATOR: The recording which happened to state the target for your mission. Please let the record show that we’re looking at some sort of modified Mp3 player containing the infamous audio recording of two men speaking in hushed and muffled tones.  So Jake, tell me how did you come about the recording?

MARSHALL: I recorded it.

INTERROGATOR: At whatever meeting you had with your boss?

MARSHALL: No, I recorded it in Castle’s compound. I was snooping round the East wing one day for clues and then I heard the voices of two males speaking in an unknown language. I recorded it and translated it with the media player.

INTERROGATOR: I want to assume all media players aren’t capable of such feat. So I’m gonna ask you how you came across such device.

MARSHALL: [Bland Silence]

INTERROGATOR: Same thing I thought. You can’t tell me because it was handed over to you by whomever paid you that fifty thousand dollars.

MARSHAL: it’s complicated sir, you have to believe me.

INTERROGATOR: I have to believe you? Can you hear how silly you sound? You happened to have come across some foreign men speaking another language stating your friend – Joey as a target? My ten year old kid would come up with a better lie than that.

MARSHALL: I’m not lying sir. [Pause] I just I know it sounds so unreal but you have to believe me.

INTERROGATOR: Could you explain the money, at least?

MARSHALL: I told you earlier, sir. It doesn’t belong to me. I don’t own it and I don’t know where it could have come from. I mean you have to look at the possibility that someone slipped that money into my bag at school.

INTERROGATOR: According to a brief background check we were able to infer that you lock your bag frequently in school. But on that particular day, you left it open for a reason.

MARSHALL: I saw no reason for it. The session at the gym was pretty short and the safety was faulty.

INTERROGATOR: Or you’re just lying and left it open on purpose so that whomever your contact was in the school would experience no difficulty in giving you your pay.

MARSHALL: I’ve said it countlessly, sir. I have no hand in this. I would never hurt Joey willingly or Ben either. I was drugged, the only reason all my reasons aren’t making any sense is because I’m clearly being framed by someone. You have to see reason with me.

INTERROGATOR: I don’t think you know the magnitude of the crime you committed. You are been charged with murder son, in cold blood. It’s only a matter of time before the poor boy who you shoved over the building dies in the hospital. If you don’t know he has been going from one cardiac arrest to the other. You can’t tell me to believe you, there is incriminating evidence all over the place. A recording stating a target, money in your bag serving as payment and oh, did I mention a brief background of aggressive behavior last year at Castle?

MARSHALL: What aggressive behavior?

INTERROGATOR: Let the record show that an image of Jake Marshall assaulting a student of Castle, most likely a senior is being displayed on the screen. This particular video is taken from the official school gossip site, and was viral last semester. In this video, Jake wrenched his assailants fists behind, and twists the right arm momentarily.

MARSHALL: [Unintelligible] No, that was a different dispute. It has nothing to do with this.

INTERROGATOR: [Bangs fist into table] It has everything to do with this! You have a background of aggressive demeanor is what it means. I’m pretty sure this must have been the clip to qualify you for your hit-job. Your hirer must have seen it online.

MARSHALL: I said I’m not working for anybody.

INTERROGATOR: Clearly you don’t know how this works. The only reason we are affording you this luxury of questioning you about these details is because you seem like a responsible enough person and because of your heroic deeds back at J.C. last year. I happily signed up for the post to investigate you, son because I thought you’d have valid reasons. But all you’ve been given me all day is crap.

MARSHALL: I said I was being frame–

INTERROGATOR: Tell me, what anyone would benefit in framing you. Are you some big shot reporter? Or some mogul of some sort. And even if I wanted to take that seriously, once more. You said you were drugged, when and where? Are we supposed to assume this same personality is behind it? Or they just hoped fervently that you’d accidentally stumble upon a drink that’d propel you to do their dirty work?

MARSHALL: [Bland Silence]

INTERROGATOR: Son, you better reflect on your actions and think of something feasible. I’d be back in the next hour again to enquire further, and if you don’t have something good enough to give me asides from your Jason Bourne crap, then I’m afraid you’re going to face trial. And if you do, you know it’s not gonna end well with such premise. You might be a minor but keep in mind that the figure of your apparent target is the son of a business magnate. He has the influence and power to make you suffer like you’re an adult. Reflect, son. Reflect.

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