Chapter 609 A Way to Fall Asleep

Ashley hummed in response. She could feel the stiffness in her back from sitting too long. She leaned against Elias for comfort but said little, as she still had work to finish. Elias quickly scanned the case. In summary, the incident was a classic case of self-inflicted consequences. There was a middle school and a technical school separated by just a street in the west of Capebatt City. Most of the students at the technical school were, to put it mildly, troublemakers with one foot in the underworld. One such student, Theo Ellis, was notorious for getting his gang together to extort money from the middle school students across the street. For the past year, they had been targeting Marco Marley, a shy secondary school student, regularly demanding money from him. Too scared to resist, Marco complied. One day, Marco was walking with a female classmate and was blocked again. The gang found his female classmate attractive and tried to harass her. Marco, driven by both a desire to pr