Good work on the slides. Man, the testimony of GN is all over the place. I agree that GN did not actually think Crooks was important at first, but I can’t completely understand what the two snipers were doing.
If Crooks was automatically elevated from Suspicious to Person of Interest when the Range finder was spotted, as Ben Shaffer testified yesterday, how come GN and Butler did not work together to keep an eye on Crooks? They were a team right? Did they even talk to each other?
Some minor notes on the slides:
- The WTAE video starts at 17:06:49, but Crooks was not on screen yet. You first see him at 17:06:54. He only turned around and walk towards the west at 17:07:28.
- On slide 9 you accidentally indicated that Butler was moving, not GN.
- I already mentioned it, but just reiterating that GN’s final position was at the NW corner of Building 4 when shots were fired as stated in the AAR on page 16.
I think we need to pin down which two vehicles the AAR was talking about. I made a mistake in my timeline which says the vehicles stopping at 18:09:03 was 1 unmarked and another marked, but both were patrol vehicles. After 20 seconds a grey vehicle pulled in behind Officer Ross’s vehicle.
On the east side of the parking lot there were 3 parked vehicles in the bodycam footage, one of whom was a patrol vehicle. On the west side no vehicles were parked according to bodycam 122109. If we can get footage of the east parking lot before 18:08 or even 18:02 that would help pin down that event. Anyone helping us out here would help greatly.