Sébastien "Seb" Lefebvre was the victim in Murder à la Mode (Case #2 of City of Romance).
Profile
Sébastien was a journalist for Flamme. He had brown eyes, quaffed brown hair shaved at the sides, a moustache and a thick beard. At the time of his death, he donned a maroon, olive and purple tartan buttoned-up shirt with the top button undone under a sky blue denim jacket with a white fur collar. He wore taupe pants, a black belt and brown shoes and sported a silver nose ring through his left nostril. It is known that Sébastien used a vape pen.
Murder details
Sébastien's body was found with a bullet wound in his chest at a bistro near the Arc de Triomphe. After extracting the bullet from his chest, Nadia deduced that the killer had used a silencer, explaining how the shot had gone unnoticed on the street. She also found cigarette ash on Sébastien's clothes. After finding a vape pen in his pocket, Nadia concluded that the killer smokes Laval cigarettes.
Later, Carrie and the player recovered a silenced pistol from a trash can at the bistro. Nadia confirmed that the pistol was the murder weapon. After finding microfibers stuck in the gun, Nadia deduced that the killer had wiped the weapon clean. However, after discovering that the microfibers were soaked with lens cleaner, Nadia concluded that the killer wore glasses.
Relationship with suspects
Sébastien was one of Flamme editor Martine Meunier's star journalists. When she discovered that Sébastien was going to have his own TV show, she argued with him as she needed him at Flamme, resulting in Sébastien backing down. Intern Juliette Segal developed a crush on Sébastien. However, she was too scared about losing her internship to act on her feelings. Stacy's CEO Howard Stacy had attempted to enlist Sébastien as he felt that his support would be a boon to his plan to open a Stacy's location in Paris. However, Sébastien was against Howard and took to social media to drum up resistance against Stacy's, causing the value of Stacy's stock drop in value by 51 percent. Fashion designer Gianni Domani had caught Sébastien snooping around his studio and believed that he was trying to spy on his work to sell information to other designers. Sébastien had also angered Chior CEO Simone Lemaitre by writing an article about her in which he described her as "a woman of a certain age", implying that she was past her prime.
Killer and motives
The killer turned out to be Juliette.
Upon confessing, Juliette told the team that she had wanted to work for Sébastien, even showing him her fashion illustrations to prove her skills. However, Sébastien hated them, going so far as to try to tell Martine to fire her. Fearing that she would get blacklisted from the industry altogether, Juliette sent him anonymous threats and settled on shooting him with a silenced gun to save her career. Judge Lebrun sentenced her to 35 years in prison.
Case appearances
- Murder à la Mode (Case #2 of City of Romance)
- Death by Design (Case #5 of City of Romance; mentioned)
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