By morning, the entire city knew something catastrophic had happened.
Police headquarters worked through the night, piecing together witness reports and crime scene evidence.
A strange pattern had emerged over the past few months, sightings of masked figures in combat gear, their faces hidden behind creepy white masks with permanent grins carved into them.
Every digital trace of this group seemed to vanish, surveillance footage corrupted or mysteriously deleted, electronic records disappearing as though they'd never existed.
If not for terrified witnesses, the police wouldn't even know such an organization existed.
The detention center massacre provided their first concrete lead. Escaped prisoners, when captured, all told the same story about masked men breaking in to rescue someone Officer James Davies had arrested.
