Chapter 13: Realistic Gunfight

 Probably the relationship of the time is relatively late, there are not many people inside the restaurant, excluding the table where the two blacks are sitting, there are still four or five guests in the corner, plus the waiters are standing near the counter, from the transparent glass wall, the situation in the restaurant is clearly visible, enough to ensure the effect of filming.

  While dialing 911, Murphy turned on the recording function that came with his cell phone, there are some things you always need to be prepared for.

  "This is the 911 police station!"

  A woman's voice sounded in the receiver, "What's your situation?"

  "Hello, I'd like to report an incident." Murphy stared intently at the two black men through the glass wall, "The location of the two criminals who committed a fatal robbery on Bill Road in Santa Monica Valley last night."

  The person on the other side of the phone immediately asked, "Where are you."

  "I'm following them." Murphy had long ago made a mental note, "They just stopped their car at the intersection of Ronald Avenue and Seventh Street in Beverly Hills, and now they've gone into a chain of pizza parlors called 'Moltz', and I can see them ordering food inside."

  "Yes!" The other party confirmed, "It's the 'Moltz' chain pizza place at the intersection of Ronald Avenue and Seventh Street in Beverly Hills, right?"

  "Yes, this is it!"

  Seeing the waiter in the restaurant serving food to the two black men, Murphy paused briefly and continued, "I can confirm that these are the two culprits who committed last night's murder, that's them!"

  "Can you briefly describe their characteristics?"

  Hearing this, the corner of Murphy's mouth curled up slightly, "Of course! One black man was wearing a striped jacket, the other black man was wearing a beige long shirt, they were both bald, probably around thirty years old, these two black men are the only ones in the store right now."

  "Sir ..."

  Perhaps there was a reward involved, the other asked again, "What's your name? How can I contact you?"

  "Murphy, Murphy Stanton." Murphy immediately replied, "This is my number."

  He made a point of adding, "I saw that they seemed to be armed!"

  "You said they were armed?"

  At this point, Murphy was no longer going to continue, "I'm sorry, I'm going to hang up now, I think they've noticed me."

  This was of course a pretext, hanging up the phone and putting it away, Murphy took the handheld camera from the passenger side, after skillfully turning it on, the camera was aimed at the location of the two black men in the restaurant through the rolled down window glass.

  He looked over there intently, wanting to focus on the quality and quantity of this good scene he had directed.

  The case took place in the wealthy neighborhood of Santa Monica, and this was the famous Beverly Hills, Murphy believed that the police would never turn a blind eye to the information he provided, and would definitely send their manpower over at the first opportunity.

  Would those two criminals obediently tie their hands?

  Judging from the scene last night, this possibility was almost zero, how could two black men who were so ruthless not resist the police's arrest?

  Although the two blacks were not seen with guns at all, Murphy guessed that the chances of a gunfight breaking out were very high.

  Think about it, this is an incomparably real police shootout, Michael Mann directed "Stolen Fire", that shootout scene is highly praised for its classical realism, but compared to the scenes that may happen next, what can that scene be?

  The opportunity to shoot a super hot gunfight scene before even entering Hollywood is really too rare.

  More importantly, once he filmed the police shootout, what kind of big price could the news video sell for?

  The vehicles on the road were getting less and less, the surrounding gradually became quiet, the night breeze that occasionally blew through drilled into the car, bringing Murphy a slight coolness, his forehead already had quite a lot of beads of sweat, although this scene was going exactly according to his thoughts, he still felt tense when the climactic passage was about to come.

  Time seemed to have stood still, Murphy held his breath and watched the two black men through the camera shot, they were still eating and shouldn't be leaving anytime soon.

  A police car turned into the road silently, coming from the opposite side of Murphy's, and when it was about to reach the location where the pizza store was located, it stopped on the side of the road, and two patrolmen got out of the car one after another, and walked towards the main entrance of the restaurant.

  "Finally!"

  Murphy muttered in his mind, the camera changed to a wide-angle lens, and when the two patrolmen walked to the location of the restaurant's entrance, he captured them in the picture as well.

  The two patrolmen pushed the door and walked into the restaurant, seemingly not seeing the two blacks, just walking straight towards the counter, as if they were just ordinary customers who came to buy a late night snack.

  But their appearance, obviously aroused the alert of the two blacks, Murphy through the camera shot the screen to see very clearly, both blacks put their hands to the inside of the clothes, of which the fatter one, but also pulled out what, placed under the table.

  Parking position is Murphy carefully selected, from this angle, just can see the scene under the dining table, Murphy immediately switched to a close-up, appeared in the handheld video camera small screen above, it is a black M9 pistol, and the muzzle of the gun position pointed at the two patrolmen.

  Manipulating the camera, Murphy constantly switched between wide angle and close-up, just like a director and photographer at work, meticulously capturing all the wonderful images.

  Until now, the venue, the shooting background, and the main actors of the two factions were all in place, and Murphy was only waiting for the final shootout scene to start.

  However, the two black men were still relatively restrained, and they couldn't figure out the reason why the police showed up here, after all, the other party might really just be here to buy a pizza for a late night snack.

  Another police car came from the opposite direction and parked near the previous one, and the two policemen got out and walked towards the restaurant.

  These two cruisers were very slow, and as they walked past, they took out their pistols and checked them, and although they eventually put them back into the holsters on their belts, they were clearly prepared to use them.

  Murphy's camera left the restaurant for a moment to focus on the two patrolmen, following them back inside again.

  The two cops, despite the fact that they were also heading towards the counter and seemed to be just coming over to use their late night snacks, the two black men's demeanor produced a change, and in the footage Murphy switched to a close-up shot, he could see them muttering something to each other rather clearly before the fatter black man took the lead and stood up.

  "OH, GOD!"

  Murphy could see clearly that as the fatter black man stood up, the hand holding the M9 pistol lifted up and aimed it at one of the later patrolmen.

  The cop's reaction time was also fast, and he also felt toward his waist holster as the black man stood up.

  "Bang! Bang ..."

  Gunshots rang out, blood sprang up on one of the policemen and he fell on his back to the ground, two black men opened fire one after another, shooting at the policemen, and the remaining policemen pulled out their respective firearms to return fire.

  The fatter black man became the second shot, the bullet seemed to hit his head, so close to the distance by the large-caliber pistol, the back of the head burst out a large mass of blood mist, directly sprayed to the back of the glass wall above, stained a large piece of red.

  Until then, the restaurant has been scared silly other customers, only issued a piercing scream.

  Perhaps living in the United States of America this kind of gun-ridden country, have been educated before the relationship, those customers were frightened and did not run around, instead, one by one to hold the head drilled under the table, thus also avoiding accidental injuries.

  Although his mouth cried out for God, Murphy's hand was always steady and shot all of these one by one.

  The gunfight in the restaurant was more real and more brutal than what was presented in any movie footage.

  In just a few seconds, too, the second policeman was shot, and the blood that flowed from his collapse looked so blinding and dazzling that it simply captured everyone's attention.

  The remaining black man was quite ferocious, and after shooting down the second cop, he turned his head and fired a shot at the glass wall behind him, the glass falling sparsely as if it were shattered ice, while he rushed over there in a single bound, jumping straight out of the diner and into the alley where he had parked his car, pulling open the door of the black sedan to get in.

  The two cops were still shooting, and unlike on the movies, it was really hard for the cops to shoot someone inside a vehicle that had been started at high speed.

  The black sedan drove out of the alley and turned onto this road where the Ford sedan was parked, and Murphy, seeing that another police car had come to support him and was in direct pursuit of the black murderer, took one last wide shot of the restaurant before mounting his hand-held camera on the passenger side bracket as fast as he could so that the lens was pointed and shooting directly in front of him, and hastily started the car to follow.

  At the very front, the black man drove in a hurry to escape; in the center, a police car clung on; behind, Murphy followed closely, with the camera still rolling.

  The speed of the car was getting faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, it was close to seventy miles per hour, but neither the criminals and the police, nor Murphy himself, had any intention of slowing down the car.

  In an instant, the black sedan at the front of the line reached an intersection, only to run into a red light, and the black man, surely not stopping, rushed into the intersection without any deceleration.

  This is the Beverly Hills where people come and go, one of the busiest sections in all of Los Angeles, and even in the late hours of the night, there are a lot of vehicles coming and going.

  In the movie, breaking through the red light of this kind of traffic intersection is always safe, but reality is not a movie after all.

  The black car rushed into the intersection, just driven to the half position, was the right side of a Chevrolet SUV drove rapidly, and could not brake the car collided with a Chevrolet SUV.

  The ear-piercing sound of metal collision, the black car was far heavier than their own SUV a collision, no longer able to maintain balance, rolled out sideways.

  Here is an intersection, there are other vehicles in the passage, rolling black sedan immediately triggered a chain of collisions, all kinds of vehicles are like bumper cars in the park, chaotic crash into a pot of porridge.

  Murphy stepped on the brakes, his Ford sedan can be parked outside the intersection, see the situation inside, and immediately took over the passenger side of the camera is still filming, changed to manual filming.

  Not only that, Murphy jumped out of the car and immediately rushed to the side of the crash scene, looking for a suitable angle to film this rare car accident.

  Right at this moment, the black sedan that was the center point of the crash that triggered the crash, the already deformed door was kicked open from the inside, and a blood-covered person staggered and climbed out, supporting the ground with his empty hand, as if trying to stand up.

  Getting out of the car was not only Murphy, but also the police officers on top of the pursuing police car, seeing the blood-covered black man trying to get up, the two slowly approaching police officers immediately pulled the trigger ...