if we assume that crooks fired the 5 rounds from the roof along the orange line in the picture below, the shot recordings learn us the following:
- there is a bit less than 1 second between the registration of the 8th shot and the 9th shot, and
- the 9th shot was fired by a SWAT officer along the red line in the picture below
I do not see how this 9th shot would have damaged the stock without taking away the front part of crooks’ right chin, as the heading difference between the red and the orange lines in the picture above is about 12 degrees…
if the SWAT officer hit the stock, bullet 9 would have gone in between crooks’ chin and hit the stock
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in the picture above, you can clearly see that a shot entering the bottom part of this man’s left chin would exit his right chin and encounter the rifle’s stock…
if crooks looked to his right (direction towards the witnesses under the trees, away from the AGR parking), a sniper on the southern barns behind Trump could have taken a shot with a WinMag 300.
this shot would not damage his face too much as his cheek/chin/neck/throat it is mostly softer tissue, and the first really hard matter the bullet encounters is the polymer stock…
so, if crooks turned to his right immediately after the 8th shot, bullet 9 of the SWAT officer could have taken the hit with this entry/exit/stock damage, but this does not seem to be very likely, given the fact that there is the picture with the semper fi t-shirt where crooks seems to be sitting up right, rifle to his cheek, pointing/aiming the rifle in the direction of the semper fi t-shirt man…
bottom line: it is unlikely that bullet 9 hit that stock while crooks looked to his right.
next option: crooks was still aiming in the direction of the rally area and got shot by the SWAT officer with bullet 9.
if he held the rifle somehow loosely, the 9th bullet could have damaged the stock if the bullet came from the left hand side of crooks, but that would not have been that SWAT officer:
if it was that SWAT officer, and bullet 9 damaged the stock, then the bullet should have travelled between crooks’ chin and the stock:
I really cannot see a way how that SWAT officer can have hit that stock with bullet 9 without blowing away crooks’ right chin or his right shoulder…
and it makes much more sense if bullet 10 took him out while he was looking to his right holding the rifle near his right cheek…
so, the question is very simple: how would you explain
- the damage to the stock,
- given the relatively intact face of crooks
- bullet 9 when shot from the SWAT officer
- bullet 10 when shot from whoever you think fired that round
I think you will quickly come to the conclusion that it cannot have happened as is described in the Congressman’s report…