Concerning the Door 13 situation:
I see that as pictured in your slide 14. Not sure though if the Cops came into eastside parking lot with a car, maybe they were just around patrolling and looking for that suspicious person. In my opinion the timeline in the AAR is just not really accurate and therefore very confusing for understanding what happened when.
For example: the AAR says “18:05 - Approx suspect at picnic tables and moving direction of Sheetz, he has a back pack
(communicated by [GN]) via radio”
=> since the WaPo Radio Transmission Protocols we know that sighting was radioed at 18:02
Also the AAR “1 Marked vehicle and unmarked vehicle pull in together”
=> The two police cars in your slide 16 are the ones standing beside the watertower when they got radioed “someone’s on the roof”, probably by BWC2-122111. When the car with dashcam M500-010482 drives in to parking lot east, there are only 3 cars already parked there (think you covered that in one of your slides before). This cars are first captured at timestamp 18:08:11. Nobody opens door 9 until GN steps out at 18:13:24.
=> The silverish colored unmarked car is first filmed by BWC2-122111 at 6:09:19pm (corrected time). Driving from north to south in to the parking lot.
Also the AAR “18:06 - 18:12: [GN] goes downstairs of building 1 to meet patrol to let them know suspect is around building on side of fairgrounds”
=> Downstairs of building 1 is only 3 doors GN could have potentially met up with somebody. There’s door 9 to the east, door 10 to the south and door 11 to the west. The only one plausible would be door 9.
That’s why I think they misnumbered the building or haven’t been precise enough about it. I could imagine the following timeline:
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6:03pm: After he radioed his sight, GN went downstairs of building 2 and steps out of door 13. He’s looking for Crooks but didn’t see him. Instead the 2 Cops came around and he told them about the situation and they should go look for him.
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6:04-6:06pm: One of the Cops goes south- and the other one northwards around the AGR complex. Maybe one of these Cops, upon receiving the infos from GN, was the sheriff’s deputy who radioed to his colleagues at 6:04pm “All units be advised also that individual is headed towards Sheetz”.
GN heads back into building 2, up the stairs to the 2nd floor. In order to get sight of Crooks again, he looks out different north and west facing windows but doesn’t see him. -
6:05-6:06pm: Crooks uses an HVAC unit to climb up to the roof of building 6, he’s filmed by a security camera of King Cones Castle Ice Cream shop.
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6:07-6:09pm: For the Cop who went northwards it was about 230 yards to the position in front of building 9-1/Door 3 (AGR numbering). There he turns around, maybe after seeing the other Cop coming in from the south. He’s filmed at this position by BWC2-122111 at 6:08:05pm (corrected time).
For the Cop who went southwards it was about 200 yards to the position in front of shipping ramp AGR 2 (AGR numbering). He’s filmed there by BWC2-122111 at 6:08:22pm (corrected time).
GN is still moving around inside the AGR buildings and tries to get sight of Crooks. -
6:10-6:13pm: GN is going downstairs again and traverses through the gangway into building 1. Maybe he’s at door 9 at one point and watches through the door glasses. He recognises the police cars out there and the officers passing and running towards the spot behind the cypresses, that’s around 6:10:30 (AAR page 13). One of the guys get hoisted up and sees Crooks on the roof but get a rifle pointed at him and let go, that’s at 6:10:55.
GN is then rushing inside AGR to building 4 where he hears the first shot (AAR page 16). He makes his way back to building 1. -
6:13:24: GN steps out of door 9.
Some strange things I discovered and don’t really know what to do with it:
=> The guy right hand side of the picture is the same Cop who went southwards seen in the last picture.
It’s not to see in the footage but it seem he’s meeting up somewhere at the northern AGR entrance with the Cop who went northwards. He also went in the exat same direction about 30 seconds beforehand.
=> Also odd, between 6:07:01-6:07:09 (corrected time) somebody is walking in front of shipping ramp AGR 2 (AGR numbering) from north to south. Filmed by BWC2-122111. Who is this guy?
