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The Blue Column 4th Street Shootout written by Mike Colonna Exterior: Long Beach California-Late afternoon An Orange colored Toyota Supra drives East on Fourth Street to Obispo. A young teenage girl and her boyfriend stop at a liquor store. She drives up to the front, her boyfriend hops out, enters. The girl still has the motor running, the boyfriend rushes out of the store to a hail of AK-47 bullets. The Young girl ducks under the dash, her boyfriend does not make it to her car. A lone gunman pours bullets into the car, the young girl is protected inside the car. Police sirens are heard in the distance.  POLICE DISPATCH OPERATOR All units in the vicinity of fourth street and Ximeno gang activity. Shooter is on the loose. Police cars arrive on the scene. One lifeless body lays on the curb between the Liquor store entrance and a parked Toyota Supra. Officers enter the liquor store, others officers look inside the Toyota Supra and find a young girl sobbing, afraid for her life, is hiding under the dashboard. OFFICER LARRY AMBROSE Are you OK? YOUNG FEMALE I think so. My dads gonna kill me. He just gave me this car for my birthday. OFFICER LARRY AMBROSE Honey, don’t worry about that, I’m glad you’re not hurt in any way. YOUNG FEMALE How’s Bobby? OFFICER LARRY AMBROSE I’m afraid he didn’t make it. YOUNG FEMALE Oh no. (Sobbing) he was just buying some groceries for his mother. Officers are checking out the Supra, dozens of holes around the hood, the windshield is shot up. Machine gun shells are laying across the intersection. OFFICER LARRY AMBROSE Come on honey, let’s get you out of here. The young girl holds on to the Officer's hand and eases out from under the dash and out of the Supra. The young girl focuses in on a two Paramedics wheeling a gurney with her friend covered with a sheet from head to toe. YOUNG FEMALE Oh my god, oh my god. They must have been waiting for him. OFFICER LARRY AMBROSE Who must have been waiting for him? The young girl starts sobbing. Officer Stan Chavez supervises the removal of the dead teenager and walks over to Officer Larry Ambrose. OFFICER LARRY AMBROSE Stan, I see camera’s above the entry of the store, check on that for me. INT: LONG BEACH - LIQUOR STORE - AFTERNOON Officer Chavez enters the Liquor store, begins interviewing the owner. OFFICER STAN CHAVEZ I need a copy of your outdoor CCTV cameras. LIQUOR STORE OWNER Good thing we checked on them last week, they should be working. I’ll get them for you. OFFICER STAN CHAVEZ Thanks. Liquor Store Owner returns, with the videos. LIQUOR STORE OWNER I know the kids family, they come in here at least once a week. OFFICER STAN CHAVEZ Do you know his name, where he lives? LIQUOR STORE OWNER Let me check, sometimes they pay by check, their address could be on one of the checks. Liquor store owner walks to the back room, returns with checks, and looks at the officer. Has a remorseful look on his face. OFFICER STAN CHAVEZ What’s wrong. LIQUOR STORE OWNER I told the dead boy’s mother her check bounced, she told me she was embarrassed, I told her to bring me the balance when she had it. Officer Ambrose looks at the check. OFFICER AMBROSE If you can wait a few days, we’ll take care of her check. LIQUOR STORE OWNER No problem officer. I’ll call her and tell the boys mother, it’s been taken care of.