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He passed the exit for the Three-Oh and continued to 96th Street, then doubled back, driving slowly, looking for signs of the shooting—tire marks, shattered glass, yellow plastic tape to mark the crime scene. There were none. For the second time that morning Dugan felt a twinge of concern. Good investigations, he knew, proceed from good crime scenes. Of course, a drive-by on the highway wasn’t likely to furnish much physical evidence. But the absence of any signs of violence at all—that and the brilliantly unfolding spring day—had taken him by surprise and added to his sense that Cargill’s murder was an aberration, an extraordinary event that would not yield easily to detection.
He became serious about his flying, began to focus on his schoolwork, and that spring got into all the colleges he applied to. He continued to err on the side of adventure—he would always be high-spirited and impulsive—but he wasn’t reckless. He didn’t drink and drive, he didn’t use drugs. And even at his most rebellious stage, he had been good-hearted, respectful to older people, and surprisingly solicitous toward his two-year-old niece. He certainly didn’t deserve to die. The amp in the car was still blasting a couple of hours later as Cargill and his friends began the drive back to Tarrytown, a leafy river town about twenty-five miles north, on the West Side Highway.
He was a natural storyteller with an earthy sense of humor and a taste for hyperbole. Mostly, though, he was a historian. He had a computerlike mind, an ability to process huge amounts of information instantly, then spit them back—names, dates, the minutiae of cases that investigators had forgotten in their entirety. Grifa recalls showing him a mug shot at their first meeting, one Errol Williams, a small-time Jamaican hit man she had just convicted on murder charges. Arsenault glanced at the photo, then ticked off the subject’s pedigree—his street names, gang affiliations, running mates, criminal history—right down to the neighborhood in Kingston where he’d been born.