Off camera before we have visual, someone moved the rifle. I’m not alleging foul play as that’s probably SOP but it is noteworthy that there was activity before we “arrive” on scene.
Could be. I’m still curious about the actual angle, caliber, location, etc. details. I’d have expected a .308 or larger to have done more trauma damage (exploded head), unless it maybe just clipped off the top of his head. Witnesses said they saw a lot of hair/blood. The injuries to his left eye socket and bulging in his neck and bone/tooth in his mouth suggest obviously huge internal damage, hydrostatic nature.
From his last known image, his head was turned 90 degrees toward the loud crowd to his right yelling at him.
EDITED: Others have shown convincing image of a exit wound behind/below Crooks right ear. This suggests he was shot from the direction of the rally stage area, entry near the left temple, exit behind left ear. Shot while his head was turned to his right.
I could see one, maybe 2 casings to Crooks immediate right about 2 ridges/valleys over. I am in agreement there is a mystery with the casings. I would think the nature of ejection and they’d roll to rest in a angle we could see brass cases pretty easily. Although I don’t dispute Crooks fired 5, I do not think he fired 6, 7, or 8 shots. I think he fired the group of 5, was turning to the crowd or probably to escape before being beaned.
We know in other videos a count of 5 is immediately given. Later a count of 8 with more shells to his left are given, which is an improbability or impossibility with a right ejecting rifle. We know he likely didn’t have time to reposition, nor would that have been tactically sound, and he wasn’t laying on his side from a different video so there’s no good explanation absent the shells being kicked over there, otherwise moved (lodged in a boot from these guys contaminating the scene) or placed there. I find the remarkable LACK OF INTEREST in the crime scene bewildering as these guys just stand there looking around and cursing for the camera… “Guess we won’t get a picture of Trump now,” is a bizarre statement. Notably absent is ANY concern for any victim’s condition, no radio traffic, no concerns if Trump is alive, no distress from these men for royally screwing up and whether Trump survived, etc. Bizarre…
Let’s say it’s not Trump but one of these cops wives or children, they’d be having a breakdown, “how is she, how is she?” These cops all were part of the biggest screwup in 60 years and not really that upset??? Again, really Bizarre…