Crime Scene
So Kapoor goes out on his morning stroll, a quick walk around the block (two blocks, really). He reaches an intersecting cross-street, and as he looks down that road at the next intersection one block away, a speeding car whizzes into sight and smashes into a Suburban heading the other way, hard enough to flip it. Within seconds, three police cars show up. They have clearly been chasing the car that just caused the crash. Kapoor can still see the Suburban, its roof partially caved in, its windshield whitened with fractures; the other car is hidden behind a building. A cop leaps from his car and pulls a gun, pointing it toward the building, presumably holding it on the suspect (Kapoor cannot see because the building's in the way). He advances until he too is behind the building. Other police cars converge on the scene from all directions. They must want this guy badly. Looking at the flipped SUV, unable to see the driver from where he stands a block away, Kapoor wants him too.
What crime did this villain commit, and what made it worth risking the life of a complete stranger who was just trying to get from point A to point B? Someone's going to the hospital, hopefully to emerge shaken but intact, hopefully without having to fight insurance companies for coverage. But it was a bad crash, and the driver could be injured, crippled, or dead. Kapoor's not a violent person, but after seeing that incident he just wants to pummel the bad guy the way Jack pummelled the blonde man in Fight Club.
Update: The father and daughter who were in the Suburban appear to be okay. Shaken but intact. The whole block is cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape. The local postman saw the suspects (two) fleeing south along the frontage road four blocks north. It seems the bad guys turned onto the street on which Kapoor saw the crash, clipped a guy in a wheelchair who'd been crossing the street, came up behind the Suburban, saw an oncoming cop car, panicked, and...well, it was a three-vehicle collision. The suspects hit the Suburban from behind, pushing it into the cop who hit it from the side. Everyone seems to be okay, except for the man in the wheelchair. No word on him.
More: According to local news, this all started as a carjacking. The man in the wheelchair is in critical condition. He was struck not crossing the intersection, but on the sidewalk waiting for a bus. The suspects made it to the highway, so Kapoor apparently saw the cop pointing his gun at an uninvolved person, no doubt scaring the crap out of him or her. The two carjackers were caught, one of them after jumping from the highway and breaking his leg.
What crime did this villain commit, and what made it worth risking the life of a complete stranger who was just trying to get from point A to point B? Someone's going to the hospital, hopefully to emerge shaken but intact, hopefully without having to fight insurance companies for coverage. But it was a bad crash, and the driver could be injured, crippled, or dead. Kapoor's not a violent person, but after seeing that incident he just wants to pummel the bad guy the way Jack pummelled the blonde man in Fight Club.
Update: The father and daughter who were in the Suburban appear to be okay. Shaken but intact. The whole block is cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape. The local postman saw the suspects (two) fleeing south along the frontage road four blocks north. It seems the bad guys turned onto the street on which Kapoor saw the crash, clipped a guy in a wheelchair who'd been crossing the street, came up behind the Suburban, saw an oncoming cop car, panicked, and...well, it was a three-vehicle collision. The suspects hit the Suburban from behind, pushing it into the cop who hit it from the side. Everyone seems to be okay, except for the man in the wheelchair. No word on him.
More: According to local news, this all started as a carjacking. The man in the wheelchair is in critical condition. He was struck not crossing the intersection, but on the sidewalk waiting for a bus. The suspects made it to the highway, so Kapoor apparently saw the cop pointing his gun at an uninvolved person, no doubt scaring the crap out of him or her. The two carjackers were caught, one of them after jumping from the highway and breaking his leg.