Well it seems they might have the guy in the T shirt and hat photos...
As to whether this person WAS the shooter, from what I've seen there's a distinct lack of pictures of this individual carrying a rifle-sized box bag etc...only a rucksack incapable of holding a .30-06 Mauser bolt-action rifle without it being dismantled. That leads to a whole series of problems.
"...a minister who is a member of law enforcement had communicated with the father of a suspect in the shooting, and the person was turned in to the authorities."
"Trump said that the father of the suspect drove his son to police headquarters."
If they don't get got in the meantime I'd imagine they'll get the speediest trial and trip to Terre Haute (unless donny decides to garotte him in Times Square or something).The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Still, at least their head law enforcement official isn't talking like he's in some bad action film in front of the media after reporting on an assassination. That would make them look really stupid.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
In my misspent youth I used to shoot as a lot of youths did: long before boys became indoor gamers and being seen with an airgun got police helicopters and armed marksmen on your tail.
Sometimes dare I say it, I used to shoot on land that didn't belong to me without permission. If I wanted to shoot mountain hare for example I would have to dismantle the rifle and scope, pack it up carefully, walk seven miles, then reassemble the gun.
At that point it HAD to be resighted. Just screwing it together again was no good as the sights would be inevitably be way off. To resight you had to take several shots to the extent that I had to eventually give up using the scope and revert to mechanical sights to be reasonably accurate.
So ...imagine the boy. First the gun has to be dismantled...then carried to the roof, then reassembled: no crucial opportunity to resight at all...but then at his first and only shot with scope sights no less gets a miraculously near perfect vertical in from that distance.
Then, despite all the chaos, he does what? There's still no sign of a gun bag, there's still only a rucksack carried by the figure on the roof ...so we are to believe with all this chaos beneath him, he actually sat and dismantled the gun then carefully re-stowed it in the backpack before running off, dropping off the building and heading away from the scene of the crime.
The rifle is then found later in some woods...again it seems, reassembled?
-It strikes me there's something rather incredible about all that. Always possible but you would need lady luck to be kissing your arse at multiple points to get there.
Questions... questions ...
Re: Follow the gun
Posted by RaskolnikovX on September 12, 2025, 4:57 pm, in reply to "Follow the gun"
As I posted below, less eloquently, that is where my antenna twitch the most. There are a lot of discrepancies and oddities there and it's definitely the point in the story where things don't hold together so far.
If he was going to ditch the gun he could have just left it there as they were certain to search the roof-tops, so why break it down (delaying escape), run, escape, then reassemble and dump it?
I'll be interested to see what we are told later.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
They say it was a Mauser 98 but this doesn't look like it breaks down easily
Posted by RaskolnikovX on September 12, 2025, 5:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Follow the gun"
On the other hand, there are all these "experts" out there telling us it shows all the marks of a professional hit.
I don't think it really does. Basic things like I can't imagine for example a professional hit man not taking a second shot for surety.
But it's worth going through the actual known chain of events and evidence as given.
As stated below I'm not prepared to discount the idea that it was indeed some lone fantasist: it appears there's a breeding ground before every US youth bedroom laptop: manufactured by the identity mania which has been substituted for economic power politics for which both Democrats and Republicans are responsible and in which Kirk was a participant.
-Regardless, it was one hell of a lucky or unlucky shot.
Re: They say it was a Mauser 98 but this doesn't look like it breaks down easily
The person they have arrested is certainly not a pro but apparently was taught to use weapons from the age of 10, so he had some familiarity.
As I posted downboard, the neck shot is what has made a lot of people think it has to be a pro but he likely missed, either up or down, from a body-mass or head shot respectively. Nobody aims for the neck.
The distance is not too demanding for someone like him who'd had a lot of experience with shooting, and presumably plenty of range time.
It just feels odd that he clearly planned his exfiltration well, managing to get into a non-camera saturated area on foot relatively quickly, then got 200 and something miles away, while leaving the gun to be found, then bragging to some family member who grassed him up.
Not the actions of a pro but someone who had shooting skills. From twitter it seems his family are all republicans and he's not trans. The MAGAts will be annoyed.
Time will tell I guess.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: Follow the gun
Posted by Shyaku on September 15, 2025, 5:15 am, in reply to "Follow the gun"
According to the narrative, he was limping past the doorbell cam because he had the gun down his pants or trowser leg (by translation into British).
Admittedly, the shots of him jumping off the roof afterwards did not seem to show same.
on September 12, 2025, 1:58 pm