Craig Sutter

 

Craig Sutter worked for Lone Star for 20 years. He worked for several years as a beat cop. He also drove a squad car (with his ex-partner Tomohiro Tekashi), served in the special ops team, and eventually managed to get transferred to criminal investigations. In the Seattle CI unit he managed to reach the rank of detective and became the head of the Everitt Homicide squad. He solved several high profile cases, including the murder of Grey Ghost, an elven Shadowrunner who had ties to one of the Tir princes. The Grey Ghost case, one which his superiors encouraged him to drop, led Sutter to a disaffected runner who had betrayed and murdered his friend for huge paydirt. The murderer, Chris Nimble, was killed while while incarcerated in a max security Prison and Sutter received a marked nod from the Shadowrunning community. When Sutter was downsized 5 years ago, along with many other Lone Star employees, he was approached by some people in the community with offers for work. Sutter was reluctant to get involved with crime and worked as a low paid security guard and a networker administrator. As time wore on and his family began was forced to make serious cutbacks to their lifestyle, Sutter made a choice. Now its been 1 and half years in the shadows for Sutter and he has become an accomplished runner with a reliable rep. Still, his Lone Star connections make a lot of Mr. Johnsons suspicious and many runners still treat him with some disdain, especially those from the new generation who have never heard of the case of the Grey Ghost.

Sutter is a 44 year old married man with twin teenage daughters. His wife is a legal secretary and works hard to keep his name clean for him. Sutter has a bad drinking habit and his wife is extremely concerned that he is cheating on her with someone at the Dirty Jack. Sutter was recently told that by his doctor that he has liver cancer and probably only has a year or two to live, unless he can afford treatments. He is desperate for work, hoping to be able to put aside money for his kids to go to a good college and to provide for them after he is gone.

Sutter is friends with an augmented police dog named Kristina which he managed to save from being gassed when Lone Star was downsizing. He is capable of doing basic decking, although he has a pretty sad rig these days. He is also skilled as a wheelman and has numerous contacts in useful places (DocWagon, Lone Star, Knight Errant, Criminal Organization, etc...). He also has years of experience in the security field and is a consumate investigator. He is admittedly no street samurai, but Sutter is more than adequately familiar with which way to point a hand cannon.