CINCINNATI—In an act that demonstrated a singularly cold-blooded focus, 32-year-old Andrew Thompson reportedly turned off his cellphone Monday with the depth of a mobster smothering a key witness with a pillow. Sources confirmed that as Thompson grasped the iPhone, his proper hand shook whereas pushing down its aspect energy button as if he had been struggling to snuff the life out of a federal witness with intimate information of a criminal offense household’s monetary dealings. A number of stories indicated that, like a hardened killer unmoved by the muffled pleas of a former affiliate begging him to spare their life, Thompson went on to disregard a pop-up from the cellphone asking if he actually needed to show it off. In accordance with sources, the pull of his Instagram and TikTok feeds briefly tempted Thompson to rethink this rash act, as if he had been a skilled murderer who pulled away the pillow on the final minute to induce the doomed particular person to run, run, and by no means look again. Nevertheless, sources added that Thompson quickly hardened his coronary heart by reminding himself that he wanted a superb night time’s sleep after which grit his enamel with the willpower of somebody appearing underneath the sacred code of omertà, somebody who knew their life was in danger if they didn’t perform the hit. Stories acknowledged {that a} second later the cellphone’s clean display stared up at him just like the useless, empty eyes of a corpse. At press time, Thompson was stated to have put the cellphone away in a drawer and left it for the night time as if he had been leaving a useless physique behind for a screaming liked one to seek out the subsequent morning.
