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How does that make him a person of interest?Crooks snuck in and followed the snipers lead and parked by their cars. That is why he first became a person of interest and a text was sent.
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How does that make him a person of interest?Crooks snuck in and followed the snipers lead and parked by their cars. That is why he first became a person of interest and a text was sent.
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I'm not being defensive. You presented a fact not included in the video, that it was an LE who provided info on the house being cleaned. I tried to search and verify that but I was unable to. Everything I could find just said that he was told that info.Sorry, but you are now sounding like how a child would respond. Why so Defensive?
It should have certainly sparked some communication. I've said before, when the LEO fell to the ground after having the rifle pointed at him, that officer should have fired a couple of "warning shots" into the ground. The sound of gunshots would have allowed for a much faster response by the SS than using the available communication.You got to be kidding me, LE looking for someone on the roof would not spark some kind of communications to take Trump off stage?
Why have LE if there is no communications from them?
This is not a small mistake...this is Huge!!! and extremely ridiculous...
There's a 9th shot immediately after the 8th shot. Then a 10th shot 15 seconds later. This is by no means scientific but I pulled the audio from that video, put it in audacity, and took out the pauses. The first 8 shots sound like the same rifle. The 9th and 10th shot, I don't know. If you remove the 15 seconds space and listen then back to back, there may be a slight difference in the tone of the shot. My theory was a sniper may not have had a good picture on him but sent a shot his way anyway to the to suppress the incoming rounds.I watched that video posted by DiedSuddenly and at no point did the police order people to leave.
I have been thinking about the 15 seconds between the last shot by Crooks and the kill shot. Back in post #627 I made the comment that Crooks was about four feet behind the roof ridge and there were linear marks on the roof ridge cap like rounds came very close as they were shot towards the stage. I thought it strange that he would not be positioned over the ridge cap. There is video of him belly crawling up towards the ridge cap so he was trying to not be seen.
Maybe he took the shots prone on his elbows, four feet downslope of the ridge cap, so as to not be noticed. Maybe the SS Snipers really could not find him at that low angle. Maybe they were not high enough and the ridge cap hid Crooks.
That could account for the 15 seconds before the kill shot. Maybe he took the 8 shots and ducked off his elbows, then came up to make more shots and the SS sniper took him out?
It would be nice to see a view from the sniper's position towards Crooks.
I think the footage of him walking around has already been out. But someone walking around away from others, looking at the roof and not at trump should certainly raised some eyebrows if any leo saw that.With hundreds at this event, more and more phone camera footage is surfacing, here is the Shooter standing alone behind the fence:
I have my opinions on the shots myself. I have seen several videos, most of them on this thread, audio analysis by a couple of others. I think that there were only two rifles firing shots. There are eight shots fired by Crooks and one by the SS sniper. I do not think that the sound you hear as your 9th shot is in fact a rifle shot. Don't know what it is, but I do not think it is a gunshot. The trouble is that there is no single recording that captures them all from the exact same position. Every one that I have seen is a composite from different videos (smartphones) that are moving around giving the microphones different positions and echoes.There's a 9th shot immediately after the 8th shot. Then a 10th shot 15 seconds later.
I don't know we need to ask the counter sniper that sent the text. How easy is it to run the plates, he parked right next to them. Why would he said he knows you guys are up there, obviously he was on their radar at this point. Actually it is a strange text to me but I do not know how they communicate...How does that make him a person of interest?
It was not me, house being cleaned? Thinking @bigredfishI'm not being defensive. You presented a fact not included in the video, that it was an LE who provided info on the house being cleaned. I tried to search and verify that but I was unable to. Everything I could find just said that he was told that info.
It should have certainly sparked some communication. I've said before, when the LEO fell to the ground after having the rifle pointed at him, that officer should have fired a couple of "warning shots" into the ground. The sound of gunshots would have allowed for a much faster response by the SS than using the available communication.
And we don't know what was communicated to whom. We don't know what info moved from one radio system to another system and when. Again, it's normal to have state, local, and feds on different channels. For large events, it's normal to have different zones, like interior and exterior, on different channels. You may not like it or you may feel there's a better way but that doesn't make it so. From experience, the more people you put on a channel, the less opportunity there is for information to be passed along.
That roof, I would assume, was very hot too...I have my opinions on the shots myself. I have seen several videos, most of them on this thread, audio analysis by a couple of others. I think that there were only two rifles firing shots. There are eight shots fired by Crooks and one by the SS sniper. I do not think that the sound you hear as your 9th shot is in fact a rifle shot. Don't know what it is, but I do not think it is a gunshot. The trouble is that there is no single recording that captures them all from the exact same position. Every one that I have seen is a composite from different videos (smartphones) that are moving around giving the microphones different positions and echoes.
Tonight, I saw something on Fox that I had not seen before. A grainy still that is labeled something like 'these are the last two pictures of the shooter that I got when he pointed his rifle at us just before the SS sniper took him out'. Or something along those lines. I don't know where this comes from or exactly when it was taken. But it could mean that in those 15 seconds he turned the rifle on some people on the ground and then was shot. However, the more I think about it that does not make a lot of sense since Crooks was not close to the side of the building during the shooting. So maybe it was as he was crawling up the roof?
So based on the audio and the videos, especially the one on the roof after Crooks was shot, this is my opinion on what happened.
While he was 'rushed' to take the shots due to the policeman seeing him and then falling from the roof, he took his first three shots with deliberation. The timing between each was unrushed. There is a pause and then five more quickly taken shots. His AR had no bipod. He did not have any barrel rests or anything else to place the barrel on. He was shooting prone. He was four feet down-slope on the roof behind the roof ridge cap. He would have had to raise his body a little, like using his elbows to raise the barrel enough to shoot over the ridge cap and down towards Trump.
Three shots taken aimed. He pauses and maybe drops down a bit, and then comes back up adrenaline pumping, arms shaking, breathing hard, and the next five shots taken quite wildly, rushed, on his elbows. Drops down for a bit and then comes up to take more but gets popped in the head.
This is a waveform of the audio pulled from a single video with one recording device. Nothing was done to the waveforms you see. There were sections removed from between the shots taken out so everything fits in one screenshot and everything can be heard back to back. The guy moves a little bit to find cover when the shooting starts. The shooting starts around 4:50.I have my opinions on the shots myself. I have seen several videos, most of them on this thread, audio analysis by a couple of others. I think that there were only two rifles firing shots. There are eight shots fired by Crooks and one by the SS sniper. I do not think that the sound you hear as your 9th shot is in fact a rifle shot. Don't know what it is, but I do not think it is a gunshot. The trouble is that there is no single recording that captures them all from the exact same position. Every one that I have seen is a composite from different videos (smartphones) that are moving around giving the microphones different positions and echoes.
Tonight, I saw something on Fox that I had not seen before. A grainy still that is labeled something like 'these are the last two pictures of the shooter that I got when he pointed his rifle at us just before the SS sniper took him out'. Or something along those lines. I don't know where this comes from or exactly when it was taken. But it could mean that in those 15 seconds he turned the rifle on some people on the ground and then was shot. However, the more I think about it that does not make a lot of sense since Crooks was not close to the side of the building during the shooting. So maybe it was as he was crawling up the roof?
So based on the audio and the videos, especially the one on the roof after Crooks was shot, this is my opinion on what happened.
While he was 'rushed' to take the shots due to the policeman seeing him and then falling from the roof, he took his first three shots with deliberation. The timing between each was unrushed. There is a pause and then five more quickly taken shots. His AR had no bipod. He did not have any barrel rests or anything else to place the barrel on. He was shooting prone. He was four feet down-slope on the roof behind the roof ridge cap. He would have had to raise his body a little, like using his elbows to raise the barrel enough to shoot over the ridge cap and down towards Trump.
Three shots taken aimed. He pauses and maybe drops down a bit, and then comes back up adrenaline pumping, arms shaking, breathing hard, and the next five shots taken quite wildly, rushed, on his elbows. Drops down for a bit and then comes up to take more but gets popped in the head.
According to the guy who sent the text, "I'm just letting you know." It obviously wasn't urgent information.I don't know we need to ask the counter sniper that sent the text. How easy is it to run the plates, he parked right next to them. Why would he said he knows you guys are up there, obviously he was on their radar at this point. Actually it is a strange text to me but I do not know how they communicate...
Understand but "he knows you guys are up there" up where? Why say that. Just sharing my thoughts, there is alot of info that could be taken from this text in this guys thoughts without specifics being sent. I personally hate texting, it is very limited to all the details that someone could say instead of a short text.According to the guy who sent the text, "I'm just letting you know." It obviously wasn't urgent information.
Haha...the Internet handed it to you, all of us...No way for me to know if it’s real, the reporter is not known for reporting bad info.
But because he didn’t personally hand it to me, and CNN hadn’t reported it yet, it must be bogus.
We should know more in a few years.
It may have been a misprint or an inaccurate summation. A number of other news sources state he used aliases to make 25 firearms related purchases. The CNN article includes a quote from Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office. “Starting in the spring of 2023, the subject made more than 25 different firearms related purchases from online firearms vendor using an alias.”Where did a 20yo get the $ to buy 25 additional firearms?
Probably a simple explanation, nothing odd, probably working at the local church and delivering pizza for Uber.,
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