Simone Gaddis came out of that house in under seven seconds, ran across a gravel yard to her daughter, and then — within about two minutes — took a phone out of a sixteen-year-old’s hand and cancelled an ambulance.

I have gone over that two minutes with three different professionals and with Simone herself, once, in a room with a mediator, two years later.

The honest reconstruction, which she does not dispute, is this.

She got to Wren.

She was on her knees on the concrete.

And somebody — she says she does not know who and two witnesses say it was Arliss and one says it was Tripp — said, close to her ear: Cade’s drunk.

If they roll an ambulance they roll a deputy.