Julian Shot Above the Tuna Sterilisation Vat; Falls In; Is Processed and Shipped; His Ring Found in a Can; Ring Fed to Fluffy; Julian Is Missing; Everyone Is a Suspect
The gauntlet. The escape. The car through the garage door. The cannery. The vat. The ring. The cat. The Gazette has been preparing for a who-shot-JR situation since the armed citizenry of Harmony began converging on the Crane Manor and is now reporting it.
Julian Crane, having spent the better part of sixteen issues generating grievances across the population of Harmony, was shot this week above the Tuna Sterilisation Vat at the Harmony Cannery and fell in. The Gazette notes the full chain of events that preceded this outcome.
Ethan, Luis, TC, Antonio, Eve and More were all closing in on Julian on the Crane Manor grounds simultaneously, each armed and each with documented motive. Julian escaped. He left Ivy tied up in the garage, drove through the garage door, and fled to the cannery.
There, above the Tuna Sterilisation Vat, while hanging from a valve and reliving his dark deeds - which this paper has documented exhaustively across sixteen issues - he was shot. He fell in. He was processed with the tuna. He was shipped with the tuna. Sam shut down the cannery to investigate but the tuna from last night's vat had already left the facility.
Julian's jacket was recovered from the vat. He has been reported missing. His ring was subsequently found in a tuna can and fed to Fluffy. The Gazette notes the ring's journey: from Julian's finger, to the Tuna Sterilisation Vat, to a can, to a 'cat'. The Gazette considers this one of the more extraordinary chains of custody in its sixteen-issue run and notes it without editorial embellishment because none is required. Tabitha, for her part, stole cans from the cannery on her way home. The Gazette notes this and notes we have come full circle from Julian being fed cat food to Julian being fed to a cat.
Ethan Winthrop · Motive: Julian's conduct with Theresa. Armed. At the manor.
Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald · Motive: Sheridan. The murder order. Long standing everything. Armed. At the manor.
TC Russell · Motive: Paternal mandate. The car crash. Julian's history with Eve. Armed. At the manor.
Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald · Motive: Sheridan & More probably. Armed. At the manor.
Eve Russell · Motive: Eighteen years of documented grievance. Armed. At the manor.
Ivy Crane · Motive: 23 years of documented grievance. Was tied up in the garage. Alibi: the garage. The Gazette notes this is a strong alibi but notes Ivy has resources.
Rebecca Hotchkiss · Motive: The Theresa marriage revelation. Holsters a pistol in her garter. The Gazette notes the garter holster as relevant to the investigation.
Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald · Motive: Theresa. Also the fountain incident.
Tabitha Lenox · Motive: Centuries of accumulated grievance. Stole cans from the cannery afterward. Suspicious timing.
Everyone is a suspect. Almost everyone had motive. The Gazette notes this is what sixteen issues of Julian Crane coverage produces.
Tabitha Lenox located and looted the Crane gun safe at the Crane Manor during the general chaos of the Julian situation. The Gazette notes Tabitha has added a firearms collection to her documented operational resources, which already include: a basement of spirits, a vision well, the sceptre, rhyme-based magic, a hot tub surveillance apparatus, and now a library of small guns. The Gazette notes this and notes that Tabitha arrived at the manor during a situation where everyone else was also armed, which suggests either operational awareness or very good timing. Probably both. 
