Holding his arm over the protective rail, the lift came to an abrupt halt as Evan clutched the rail as not to fall over. That wouldn't be too good, subconcsiously measuring the height, about 20 feet, yikes... Pulling out his camera again, he snapped pictures in angles of the body before setting it down again, pulling out his fingerprinting paraphanelia. Dusting the neck and wrists, he sighed. And epithelials or prints left on the skin were now dead, the body was here for quite a few hours. Nodding to the young cop next to him in the lift, latex gloves on his hands, Evan waved up through the skylight where two other officers, also wearing gloves and boot covers as not to disturb any evidence on the cross bar and roof. Tilting the cross bar of wood, they lowered it through the window, Evan easing the body into his plastic covered arms. "Drop it!" Evan ducked away as the two officers on the roof dropped the crossbar and the younger one in the lift caught it. "Alright, bring us down!" The lift slowly crept downward, and Evan took a deep breath. Now he just had to deal with the roof, then the heights would be over, hopefully. "Wanna hold 'im?" The young cop just grimmaced at Evan and he couldn't help but laugh, stepping out of the now grounded lift and, with the help of a few cops, laying the deceased man out on a second plastic tarp laid out, the young coroner's assistant, Ryan, waiting.
"Hey, Ry, what up?"
"Nothin' much. Hanging?"
"No, really?"
"Shut up, how was the lift ride?" Evan softly glared at Ryan who muttered, "Sorry," before proceeding to take a few last pictures and let Ryan analyze.
"By liver temp, I'd say he's been dead for anywhere from five to seven hours. No gunshot wounds, no defensive wounds or any visible wounds at that. Hey, what's that?" Pointing across the lobby to something small and black on the floor, Evan stood, following Ryan's point, and found a pair of cracked black frame glasses. Picking them up and zipping the evidence bag closed, he sighed, making his way back to Ryan. "Well, if this was suicide, it's the same as jumping; why would you watch your own death?" Ryan shrugged and left Evan perplexed as he went to head outside to the roof ladder. "Hey, tell the Doc not to wash the vic before I get him processed, kay?"
The jet black haired, crystalline blue eyed coroner's assistant nodded, waving him off, not even turning around as Evan slid his sunglasses back on as he made his way down the side alley where the roof access ladder was. Accessible to anybody. The cops smirked, mocking him as he laid his latex hands on the ladder, first plastic covered boot on the bottom rung, sighing. "Alright, you got this, you've got it Ev." Making his way steadily up the ladder, he took in a great breath of air, thankful he made it to the roof. Cracking his kit again, he pulled the camera, shooting the view of the lobby from the skylight and the way the skylight was propped open. Dusting it, he cussed under his breath at the absence of prints. Nothing, he had nothing. The front handles of the bank doors were covered in fingerprints, but most were unusable and were mixed with at least three others. About to head down the ladder to print it, he heard over his radio cinched on his belt something that chilled him.
"Control,This is Det.Khan..Shots have been fired at the Cotton Club on George Street!!" No, not the Cotton Club, but there was only one he knew of. Filled with worry, he realized Alyssa and Sara were working that case, and immediately whipped out his phone, hitting the speed dial 1, praying for Alyssa to pick up.