I got a notification through the citizen app which implied that they had more than just the weapon potentially linking him - I think the called the connection “significant” or something like that. No idea how reliable citizen app for this sort of thing, though.
The linked page from post #303 does say that the person being questioned had a fake New Jersey ID. The suspect in the case allegedly used a fake New Jersey ID for various purposes.
Yes that’s what I saw.
If you have the money you can, especially if you have access to the dark web.The kind of people who seriously want to have someone killed usually are the kind who will find a way. Doesn’t mean they always succeed, a lot of the times they get caught by undercover agents posing as hit people.
Fair enough, but are they the kind of people who’d also be like “Then fill your backpack with Monopoly money…” The more details that emerge, the less likely “hired assassin” seems to me.
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I don’t think this was a professional hit, like the mob would do or something, doing it in public the way he did, on a crowded street, is not what a pro would do. That the shooter found out where he would be is not a big deal, as others have posted, they could have found out pretty easily. A true pro would have checked on the victim and found a place where they were vulnerable, where there would be no witnesses and it would be quiet. Could someone have taken money to do this and be a bungler? Perhaps, but I think unlikely. That there was stuff written on the bullets tells me it was something else (though you could argue a pro would do that to try and divert the reason; I highly doubt that, too much effort for too little gain).
Latest I heard was it could have been someone looking for attention, publicity, it would fit with the way he did it. The guy looks young, which (to me) would lead away from it being about something happening with health insurance that got him angry (it is still possible of course), such things are a lot less likely to happen to a younger person, unless a family member had problems.
As far as the reaction, I am not surprised. It doesn’t mean it isn’t horrifying, but it also doesn’t surprise me given how many people are hurt by health insurance companies with their practices, how many people end up bankrupt even with insurance and so forth. My wife got mad at me when I said that if the guy goes to trial, they may have trouble convicting him if the reason is that he had something bad happen that he pinned on the insurance company (if it was a thrill killing, no). Read up on the 1930’s, there were more than a few people who saw bank robbers like Bonnie and Clyde and the like as modern day Robin Hoods (they weren’t, they were opportunists and muderers) because of the negative feelings people had for banks after the 29 crash, when so many banks went under and people lost everything. It doesn’t make it right, but it does say, like with the banks in the 30’s, how badly people feel about health insurance these days.
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The shooter must have had a spotter that he was speaking to on the phone prior to the shooting, so evidence of that other person’s whereabouts and history could be one thing police already know but are holding back.
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That is possible, or he was talking to someone saying “Dude, guess what I am doing”. You wouldn’t need a spotter for a crime like this if he knew what the victim looked like, though the area is busy he likely could easily follow the victim and do what he did.
If multiple people were involved then if they have the cell phone he used, it could be used to help crack the case, assuming they know the number and can trace through the carrier (not sure how possible that is these days or not).
That they have the guys face means they can use facial recognition to track his movements. That they don’t know his name yet means he was never arrested (they can check against mug shots these days both state and federal pretty quickly and easily), so that will mean things like DNA won’t help much that they supposedly have (it will help convict him, but likely not find him).
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From the NBC news report:
“ The man was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald’s where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police, sources said.
The man had a similar gun to the one used in Wednesday’s assassination-style killing outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, sources said.
One of the Altoona man’s fake IDs also matched the fake ID shown by the suspected gunman when he checked into an Upper West Side hostel before the shooting, sources said.”
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Dude’s downfall is going to be too many stops in fast food places. Starbucks and McDonald’s.
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His real downfall was flirting.
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I don’t know…He planned his getaway pretty well it seems, would he be this careless now? This seems odd to me, tbh. And would he really have not gotten rid of the weapon? That’s a pretty big oversight for someone who seems to have planned the rest pretty carefully - right down to the shell casing messages.
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Hard to believe he kept the fake ID that ties him to the hostel. I wonder if that part of the report is accurate (or unconfirmed). CNN said this person had several fake IDs on him but didn’t say they one was the fake NJ one used at the hostel.
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So he kept the gun but left the backpack in the woods?
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More from ABC - they recovered a computer too:
Local law enforcement is telling NYPD it looks like their suspect. They also are telling NYPD one of the fake IDs in his possession matches the one the suspect allegedly displayed at Upper West Side Hostel, the sources added.
Law enforcement are also asking Greyhound for its passenger manifest, to see what name the man being questioned gave them.
Numerous NYPD officials are en route to Altoona, which is in central Pennsylvania, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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This is an intriguing line from the above link:
“The suspect was in possession of some documents that investigators also want to examine as potentially relating to motive, though further details on the documents were not clear.”
Wonder what that could be…
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“The handwritten manifesto found on the person of the man detained in Altoona criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, according to a senior law enforcement official.”
And the name on the fake ID is Marc Rosario
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The NYT is reporting that the man has a “handwritten manifesto” and “criticized health care companies for putting profits above care.”
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This plot twist makes me think the silence was very bad because this stroke of luck isn’t related to the investigation.
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