One Hundred Six

Two men passed one another on the street, each giving a nod of acknowledgement to the other.  The taller of the two men, a gambler known as “Sticky” McKie, wheeled around two footsteps later, pulled a forty-five caliber revolver from his waistband, and shot the other man, Artemus Cormroy, in the back of the head, causing Cormroy’s instant demise. McKie had mistaken Cormroy for another man, Leonard Pipkin. Nothing more came of the encounter.