[H3]Character Sheet[/H3]


[B]Name:[/b] Russell Poole

[B]Age:[/b] 41

[B]Occupation/Affiliation:[/b] LAPD Police Detective II -- Robbery-Homicide Division 

[B]Physical Description:[/b]

Poole is white and stands at five-eleven and weighs one hundred and eighty pounds. He has dark hair that is going gray and a matching cop mustache.


[B]History:[/b]

Poole comes from a police family, with his father, uncles, and cousins all working in law enforcement around Southern California. Poole was the first in the family to join the LAPD. After being sworn in in 1981, Poole served as a patrolman in the 77th Street Division for three years before being marked as detective potential.

For nine years he served as a homicide detective in both the Wilshire and Southern Divisions. During that time he investigated over one hundred and fifty homicide cases and closed more than three quarters of them, something short of a miracle in the bloody Los Angeles of the late 80's and early 90's. His strong track record as an investigator led to a call up to the big leagues.

In 1996, Poole was assigned to the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. A city-wide investigative unit, RHD is considered the cream of the crop for LAPD detective's. Poole works in the subsection known as Homicide Special, a unit that tackles high profile murders involving celebrities, serial killers, or anything too complicated for division detectives to figure out. Poole's first taste of RHD work came when he was the primary investigator on the murder of Ennis Cosby in early January, 1997. And while not at the North Hollywood Shootout, Poole also assisted in the investigation of the shooting's aftermath. 

Currently, Poole is the primary investigator on the shooting death of LAPD officer Kevin Gaines. His killer, another LAPD officer named Frank Lyga, has made several bold claims about the shooting. A white cop killing a black cop makes headlines in scandal plagued LA, and as black leaders call for Lyg'as head, Poole begins to look into Gaines' past and has uncovered something big.