As for my comment about Nicol’s “late Freudian slip,” I was having a little fun introducing the location.
As to why Nicol referenced Sheetz, I believe that being from Beaver County not Butler, he wasn’t as familiar with compass directions from where he was, nor was he that familiar with the AGR complex for calling out building numbers they had to have taped to the wall of their nests, which he wasn’t in at the time. He did have visibility to Sheetz, which is a popular gas station in that area. In Vegas we have Terrible Herbst’s. So, in his rush to get the message out he referenced the first landmark that came to mind that others would recognize. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t know there was a path to Sheetz given the way the buildings are arranged.
Thanks for doing this. Great work. Several things still puzzle me:
Why would he purchase ammo on the way to the scene. This is so strange that he wouldn’t have purchase the chief element of the deed long before in preparation.
Greg’s reference to “Sheetz” instead of a direction is puzzling, especially if Crook’s car was there. Did Greg know that and slip?
Seems like a lot of back and forth to sheets given the items locations lists. Am I reading this wrong?
Yes, and I probably confused everybody with my prior post. SORRY!
I thought you were suggesting by “Freudian slip“ that GN was trying to suggest at 5:45 PM that crooks was headed to Sheetz and if GN was in on it, obviously he would never have directed them to where Crooks might have been going to retrieve his rifle.
I think my mistake was that you were NOT suggesting that GN sent that message at 5:45.
We “know” that he sent that message either at 6:02 PM or 6:05 PM so I am still (not being a big fan of GN) not convinced he wasn’t in on it and for him to say at 6:02 PM or 6:05 PM, that crooks was headed to Sheetz was far more nefarious than just not being familiar with the AGR layout.
If that’s all it was, and he simply was unfamiliar, he should be fired and if I were the family of Corey, I would be bringing a wrongful death action against Beaver county and GN.
I think that’s why the Butler county A.D. tried to backtrack on the Congressional Paris testimony under oath when Paris said that both snipers left the overlook building. The Butler county A.D. knew that that statement by Paris, if true, would result in severe criticism and a wrongful death lawsuit.
Is your Toni line suggesting that there is “evidence”, it just speculation that he parked at Sheetz and that he flew his drone from there? Is that evidence from the FBI ?
Just trying to understand the basis/evidence for your conclusions
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s for my comment about Nicol’s “late Freudian slip,” I was having a little fun introducing the location.
Thank you.
The ammo - I don’t have a thought one way or another, except perhaps that early in I wondered if he wasn’t going there to commit a mass shooting. Keep in mind that he went to the shooting range the day before and probably spent all he had.
I initially had misinformation on times of arrival, and expected Crooks would need to use his car to get places in order for the timeline to fit. Once that resolved, I saw no need for Crooks to move his car, I was analyzing one sighting at a time ensuring no conflicts, and along with that I decided to track sightings of the various objects. In short, every sighting shows his car at Sheetz because he didn’t need to use it.
As for Nicol usibg Sheetz, here is a post where I gave my take on it.
all this stuff about crooks’ background and these explosives and his car or cars, etc, etc are very unreliable…
they are looking for a motive and do whatever they can to obfuscate as much as possible…
I believe it is best to focus on what we know with high confidence:
the man who was found dead on the roof of AGR building 6 was crooks
the first 3 shots were fired from the AGR site towards Trump
the next 5 shots were fired in quick succession, but firing 5 shots in less than a second is highly challenging, certainly for someone who did not train this skill (the people at the ranges where he practiced would have noticed such rapid fire)
the 9th shot was fired by a SWAT officer and likely injured crooks
the 10th shot finished crooks off, but it is uncertain whether that same SWAT officer or a barn sniper took that 10th shot
crooks’ body was released for cremation way too early
there are several registrations of crooks taking aim, but no unquestionable recordings of crooks really shooting, not even a single bullet
as far as I am concerned, that is about it which we know…
all the rest about what was found next to his body and in whatever vehicle and what he could have done with all that stuff is pure speculation and I believe we should not focus on any questionable inputs and simply stick to the facts
I think it’s all interesting to try to figure out his movements before he got on the roof. But the real issue is where did he get the backpack. All the rest of it is interesting but unnecessary although the work patriot has done is incredibly detailed.
I think that’s all that’s really critical; namely, Where did he get his backpack—- because it helps determine perhaps whether law enforcement, someone like GN, was involved.
So, as I mentioned in prior posts, theoretically I could see how he might be able to walk to Sheets and back in 20 minutes to get his backpack and rifle, I just find it hard to believe that after all that chatter on the radio, no one would see him walk towards Sheetz and come back on the west side of the AGR with the backpack. I just find that too hard to believe unless law enforcement are all involved.
The implications of your conclusion (if I understand it) that crooks left the west side of the AGR complex at about 5:45 PM to retrieve his rifle in his car at Sheetz (at least 1/3 of a mile away) and climb on the roof at 6:06 PM, (having been seen at the picnic table on the west side at 6:02 PM) are enormous in my opinion.
I believe we have video of many people standing on the west side of the AGR complex while the shooter is on the roof and the 608/6:09 pm timeframe and I believe Chris has pointed out at least four law enforcement officers (and probably as many as six) are on that side of the building at that time.
At least two of them are positioned closer to the northern side of the western part of the AGR complex. If we assume that all those law enforcement individuals were there between 5:45 PM and 6:09 PM, was it possible that crooks could leave the AGR complex on the west side, walk all the way to Sheetz and come back with a backpack , right in front of these law enforcement officers?!?!
Two of these LEO’s were towards the northern side of the west side AGR complex where there was almost nobody else. Crooks would’ve walked right in front of them. That’s the issue. I’m having.
The implication would be that everyone of those law enforcement officers simply were derelict in their duty, or were part of the conspiracy
Gray Hughues Investigates documented in his video of almost two weeks ago (https://youtu.be/yfDpCKVN7aU) that crooks threw his backpack over the passage between AGR buildings while he was walking/jogging to his resting place…
it is perfectly possible that he deposited his backpack out of sight near or behind the air conditioner which gave him access to the roofs.
the fact is that he was swinging his backpack across the roofs on his path from that air conditioner to the low roof on AGR building 6…
Well documented and visualised, thanks for your great work!
I still have an issue with him parking the car for such a long time at Sheetz. Their video surveillance seems to reach every corner of the property (maybe I even missed some) and for sure they have more in the shop. That said I would be 100% certain that he was captured on camera if he was there at some point.
Surveillance cam @parking facing property entrance south
In slide 7 you state it would have been higher risk to be seen/captured by sec cam when parking in commercial areas. Here I don’t agree with you, we have to keep in mind how many visitors drove in this relatively small village (~4’000 inhabitants) that day and parking their cars all over the place. I don’t think anybody would feel it is suspicious if a guy gets a backpack out of his car and walks towards the rally. I mean the people around that fence line came in with camping chairs, picnic mats and bags (probably food/drinks)
He for sure didn’t go with the rifle in a backpack even close to the security area with the magnetometers. As far as I understand, he was quite intelligent and not at all a dumbster. So why should he do that. Maybe he had a rangefinder along when he was there but for sure not a rifle.
I rather think Sen Barasso meant it in a retrospective way when he said he was identified as a character of suspicion because he had a rangefinder as well as a backpack. From what we know at the moment: Yes he was identified as a suspicious person and yes he was reported by GN to have a rangefinder at one point and to have a backpack at another point. But this has nothing to do with the magnetometer situation (where I believe he didn’t have a backpack along, rangefinder maybe).
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin for example told Fox News that Senators were told (in this FBI/USSS briefing cal with Senators): “The shooter was identified as a person of interest around 5:07 or 5:08 because he had a backpack and a range finder. Shots rang out more than an hour later, at around 6:11”
Since Crooks was filmed at exact that time, but without a backpack along “A video, released by WTAE, catches Thomas Crooks moving and looking around at the south side of the AGR Building 6. According to WTAE this happened at 5:06pm”. Maybe he had a backpack just before or just after this video sequence but would that be plausible?
Exactly this.
He wasn’t prepared well, didn’t memorise the site plan and so on and so on. Best he knew was Sheetz what was about in the same direction, so he said that what he said.
By the way: Did you find out already from which window GN spoted Crooks (allegedly with his backpack along) just before he went up the roof?
I originally wrote my article on the radicalization on 7/24 (but didn’t post it). But I had this weird-ass dream back then that there were 2 shooters. Woke up at 3am and couldn’t stop thinking about it.
In the dream the 2nd shooter was quite a distance back from Crooks with a slightly different angle than Crooks. He was part of the group that radicalized Crooks (through the methods listed on my article) and his job was to take out Trump if Crook’s failed, and then to take out Crooks to get rid of the radicalization evidence. (I also thought him trying to take out Crooks would account for the angle on the shooting of Cory Comperatore, and would give away the location of the 2nd shooter).
I don’t put any stock in dreams, but sometimes the relaxed state of good sleep helps us to see the forest.
At any rate, I think the evidence mostly diminishes my overall (dream) view, but I think it reinforces the actual radicalization. Especially, that they would have had multiple young men they were fishing to radicalize, but Crooks was the most responsive candidate.
But it makes me wonder if the other candidates are being “disappeared” before they can come forward as whistleblowers.
As long as we don’t assume these items were placed by his dead body by somebody else, there is photo proof for a remote control (containing a 9V block battery) and a smartphone (exact model unclear).
Well, the orders were they were looking for someone that looked just like crooks. They were supposed to be looking for him. Are you saying that they were expressly told even if you see him don’t stop him?
VegasPatriot’s slides can straight up be used as the script when Hollywood is doing the TMC vs DJT movie.
As for the question where did he retrieve the backpack and more importantly the rifle from. I still see the possibility that he went there the night before (night-owl operation) and placed the rifle and/or the backpack (with the rifle inside) somewhere. Keep in mind that the USSS (and probably the locals as well) didn’t sweep the AGR buildings prior to the event. Somewhere could be here for example:
If he flew his drone from Sheetz, I guess that’s possible-Although I don’t believe anything, me fraudulent bureau of investigation says.
If he did fly it there, I think he then may have moved his vehicle closer to the other side of the complex where all the parking was beyond where the vendors were and where he was spotted at 4:26 PM. I still don’t think, his backpack was retrieved from the car at Sheetz
