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2016-06-17 -Lurid Crime Tales-

I'm Former NYPD: Here's Why I Suspect There Was More Than One Shooter In Orlando

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Posted by DarthVader 2016-06-17 10:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, but I'm loathe to consider anyone from NYPD an expert in anything, especially shoot. Okay okay, maybe donut eating and coffee laced with booze drinking. He also makes no mention of the fact that the bullets likely passed through several people and when firing at a packed mass like he was, missing is going to be pretty hard.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-06-17 11:11|| 2016-06-17 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Ballistics will tell.

Posted by gorb 2016-06-17 11:16|| 2016-06-17 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I think there was at least one other shooter and the ballistics report won't see the light of day until after November 2nd.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-06-17 11:20|| 2016-06-17 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Similar thing happened in the Aurora, CO theater shooting. All the initial reports had multiple shooters, which made sense because otherwise why didn't people just run out the exits? And the death toll in Orlando is hard to credit to just one guy.

Posted by Iblis 2016-06-17 12:50|| 2016-06-17 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The off duty policeman hired as a security guard exchanged fire with Mr. Mateen, as did the first police officers to arrive on the scene. This is separate from any possible additional bad guys.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-06-17 13:38|| 2016-06-17 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 People didn't run out the exits because one 'hero' (if he is to be believed) blocked the door thinking he was keeping the killer inside and ignored the pounding of everyone trying to get out.

That and the natural instinct is to get down and hide which is suicidal in such situations when you should literally fight or flight depending upon your proximity to the shooter.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-06-17 16:03|| 2016-06-17 16:03|| Front Page Top

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