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Police Survives By Heartstrings in Residential Massacre.
LONDON—A municipal police officer was the sole survivor of the first political violence to come from the Outskirts. Police headquarters received a neighbour’s 999 call at 9:53 in the evening complaining of screams and gunshots coming from police Sgt. Nikolas Hurn's house. Police responded immediately and found three dead Melissa Hurn, 32 accountant, wife and mother of two; James Hurn, 7; and Flora Hurn, 2. Investigators indicated that Officer Hurn was left for dead by the assailants. Police found him breathing despite one gunshot to the head and two in his torso. He is currently in the St. Mary's Hospital listed in critical condition. A spokesman for London Police Department speculated that he may soon be transferred to the National College of Neurology and Neurosurgery, as Hurn had been shot in the head.
This morning four suspects were apprehended after police officers followed them via CCTV. Police found Hadi Tigra (40), Kian August (39), Frydryk August (35), and Ridwan Fauzia (31), hiding on the first floor of an outskirts tenement block. Both of the two murder weapons were recovered thanks to CCTV and after being checked for fingerprints, have been added to the prosecutor’s list of evidence.
Little is known about the four suspects except their name and country of origin, but Alfred Bight, the barrister in charge of the prosecution, speculated this morning that their motivation could have been political in nature.
These killings are almost certainly connected with the protests in front of parliament,” he said this morning. “Officer Hurn's most recent assignment was public security within the Outskirts; this link is not a tenuous one, nor is it unimportant. The safety of the nation's peace officers must be assure before the common citizen can rest easy at night.”
The news has been met with great chagrin by the nation's political establishment who have rushed to assure the public that security in depopulating areas will be treated with high priority. MP Alexandra Lathen, of Oxon, and chair of Parliament's Security Bureau said this morning new measures of “ensuring security cannot be done without.” She went on to say that her staff were already collaborating with other MPs in search of “ viable solutions to the present social unrest.”
Cassius Bellick of Biomerge has taken Officer Hurn's recovery “as something of a pet project,” according to the man himself, and has pledged not only his company’s considerable expertise in prosthetics and tissue building, but his own personal assets to ensure Officer Hurn's recovery is as successful as possible.