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The Sniper Chapter 31: Tracey and Lazaro Brawl
Route 2, Massachusetts, 1972
Readers can read earlier chapters of “The Sniper” on Never Stop Writing. The link to the previous chapter, The Sniper Chapter 30: Tracey Questions Petrocelli at Home is https://medium.com/never-stop-writing/the-sniper-chapter-33-tracey-questions-petrocelli-at-home-00fe517ee58a
In the early morning, with the sky showing only flecks of the light of dawn through the clouds, Tracey, working alone without telling Clay or Pinter about his mission, pulled his cruiser into a far corner of the gravel clearing across Shirley Road from the building at Lazaro Paving and waited for Nick Lazaro to show up for work. Rather than seeing him again at his mother’s house, Tracey chose the paving company’s isolated location to have the kind of meeting that he wanted.
At about 6:45, Lazaro’s green Mustang pulled into the parking lot, separated from the business by a thin line of trees. When Lazaro got out of the car, Tracey shouted from across the lot, “Nick!”
Lazaro looked up. “You again?!”
“I want to talk to you.”
Lazaro hesitated a moment, then started to walk toward Lazaro. He stopped about ten feet away from Tracey.
