Kudos Chris to open the question of sniper team 2’s visibility.
I had the same idea to use Google Earth, but found sniper team 2’s height advantage over Crooks to be smaller, less then one degree of 360:
3D view indicates the elevation as 414m of the barn’s roof’s ridge used by sniper team 2, while the elevation as 413m of the AGR’s roof’s ridge used by Crooks. From ridge to ridge, the delta is 1m. If we assume the sniper’s tripod was 1m tall and Crooks 0.5m below (to be generous) his roofs’ ridge, the delta between sniper’s scope and Crooks’ head would be about 1+1+.5=2.5m or 8.2 feet. Google Earth tells me the distance between sniper team 2’s position and Crooks is 558 feet - see above. So 8.2/558 = 1.4%, that’s how little the sniper’s height advantage is relative to the distance of the would-be shot. That’s a lot less than the incline of Crooks’ roof. In terms of trigonometry, I estimated the angle between sniper’s scope and Crooks’ head to be at most 0.82 degrees out of a max of 360 - see above.
I suspect that team 2 sniper would have had a clear view of Crooks’ forehead, as Crooks’ barrel would have been over the roof’s ridge (IF he did shoot at Trump) and his forehead would be another ~8 inches higher. But the hypothesis that the counter-sniper’s shot would have travelled through Crooks’ body seems highly unlikely, given the above calculation that the slant of the counter-sniper’s would-be shot would be a maximum of 0.82 degrees, and considering that the rest of Crooks’ prone body was lower than his forehead plus the fact his roof’s slant was much greater.
Further, a picture of Crooks’ head posted here a few days ago does seem to show an exit hole behind and below his right ear, rendering moot - it would seem - the hypothesis that the lack of fragmentation of his head/body owes to the bullet traveling along the length of his body.
The above supports Chris’ evidence that a 300 Win Mag from sniper team 2’s location did not hit Crooks’ forehead and travel through his body. But if it did hit his forehead from the red barns, it is odd that Crooks’ head is so intact and that there is no splatter as in B. Herrera’s experiment.
REQUEST: Can someone please verify that from roof ridge to roof ridge, the difference in elevation is just ~1m or ~3.3 feet? I’m using a laptop rather than a big screen, so my mouse pointing in Google Earth to get elevation may be sharpened by someone. Thank you.
On a side note in response to Chris’ yellow list, “Who was in charge?,” a recent video shows someone who looks like US Secrete Service SAIC
Timothy Burke at 0:25-0:27. He’s tall and thin, bald, wears glasses, a light grey suit, and looks 55-60 years old.
SCOOP: The REAL Reason Trump’s Assassin was not Eliminated on the Rooftop before Firing on Trump