"Oh great, that was quick."
Jenna thought about the possibilities regarding the remaining fingerprints. One of the first things she did when her and her partner were assigned the case the day prior was look over the statistics for the neighborhood. She was somewhat surprised to find out not much was going on there. A few domestics, mostly ending in arrests, and a stabbing three blocks down, but it was domestic in nature as well. But the suspects knew the victim was alone, otherwise why would they break into her home? A husband or boyfriend could have been right in the other room for all they knew, and that was a risk no one in their right mind would take. That meant that they had watched her prior to killing her, at least enough times to learn her routine, find out whether she lived alone, etc. James mentioned interviewing the family, but Jenna also wanted to go around and ask the immediate neighbors a few questions. Maybe they noticed a vehicle that was out of place parked across the street. If the neighbors could give out a good description, preferably make, model, and color, then Jenna could pull the footage from the traffic cams and cross reference any vehicles matching the description driving into that neighborhood. She also wanted to ask the victim's family if she had any ex-boyfriends still living in the city who may have had any reason to pull off such a stunt. Unlike the commonly held belief that everyone should be wary of strangers, it was one's friends and family--the people they were the closest to--that could carry out some of the most vicious attacks.
But Jenna had to remind herself she wasn't in the office anymore. She would often let her thoughts carry her away from her company whenever she was working out how to best proceed from that point on. Not that it was a big deal, but it certainly was rude, especially if the other party noticed she wasn't all there.
"The shoe certainly gives us another good angle, we'll see if it gets us anywhere," she concluded before James got into the basics of knife defense. He first covered bursting, something that she wouldn't have thought about but was obviously a helpful tactic in order to stun an attacker long enough to be able to go on the offensive. Jenna practiced the move a few times alongside James. At first, she found it a bit awkward and unnatural, but continuously executing the same move eventually led her to effortlessly go through the motions, and that was when they decided to move on to work with the knife. In the past, Jenna had taken some basic self-defense course. It was comprised of a few classes Denise wanted to check out and Jenna had been invited, so of course she would tag along. The instructor taught the students to cross their arms out in front of their heads for protection. There was a chance of getting cut, but at least the face remained protected. The move was intended to be done simultaneously with a kick to the groin, but it was pointed out that realistically, it wouldn't be so easy to pull off and therefore one could execute the kick after the block. But unlike that class, Krav Maga went after the aggressor, and Jenna preferred that method. She would never run from a fight if she could help it.
After they were done with the lesson, James had asked her whether she wanted to learn anything else. Jenna was curious, no doubt, but she wasn't about to commit a majority of the day in the gym, and she wouldn't make James stay either.
"This was great for a first lesson, but I think we should pack it up. Where's the school at though? I would love to see what goes on in there before I commit myself to becoming a student."
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