old salt wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 6:27 am
Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 5:42 am
old salt wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 3:11 am
It depends on how you define a mass shooting. Was his objective to kill as many people as possible or to eliminate Trump ?
Re oversight of rooftops, there is a water tower with a railed walkway that could be used by a 2 man overwatch counter-sniper team with a clear view of numerous rooftops, including the one used by the shooter.
Don't think the problem was locations for sniper teams - one of the teams dispatched the shooter within minutes. The issue is why the elevated location of where the shooter was located wasn't properly covered.
If a sniper team or just an overwatch team of a couple police with binoculars & radios, were placed on the water tower -- multiple rooftops could have been surveilled, including the rooftop the shooter used. The issue is not having enough snipers -- it's insufficient overwatch.
Here is my analysis....based on what we now know:
The pitched roof where the gunman was positioned, provided him cover from the CAT (Counter Assault Team) as he was able to stay low enough below the peak pitch of the roof to stay unseen, until he popped up and got close enough to the top peak of the roof to take aim. Had the CAT team and/or overmatch team, been at a higher elevation than the gunman, they all would have not been handcuffed by visibility of the roof pitch.
My guess, is that when the local cop got on the roof, and the gunman had to turn and point his weapon at the cop making the cop retreat, that provided the CAT a chance to identify the shooter and begin to lock in on him.....it just so happens the gunman must have hurried after he reset from the altercation of the local cop event on the roof. So there was a simultaneous event taking place, in a very short window of time, as each were gaining lock on their target.....that is when the gunman fired first, the CAT sniper jumped at first shot, had to reset and focus, the gunman was able to get off a multiple shots as the CAT sniper was relocking and ultimately fired for the kill shot.
The only portion of this that is fuzzy to me, is how the CAT sniper made his kill shot after the multiple rounds from the gunman. My guess, is that b/c of the elevation change between the CAT and the gunman, the CAT sniper never had a clean shot until the gunman actually tried to retreat after his shots, assuming his head was bobbing up and down as he was crawling back to exit roof.....or the CAT sniper made one phenomenal shot with the limited visibility to of the gunman and roof pitch. The gunman also had to know he was a dead-man regardless, b/c there were law enforcement waiting for him on the ground....so the gunman may have intentionally put himself in a position to be taken out after his shooting spree.