The Shooting

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“I think what was most jarring about the shooting was how calm the shooter seemed to be. He seemed to be methodical.”

“Who would do this and why?”

“Was this a professional killer? Was this a a hit job, a hired assassin?”

“When detectives went back and started looking at these images frame by frame over and over again, they noticed a couple of things. First of all, they noticed how far away the shooter was from Brian Thompson. Detectives were saying to us that if this had been somebody who was really a trained assassin, he wouldn’t have fired from 10 or 12 feet away. He would have fired from 5 or 7 feet away. He took off before he made sure that his victim was dead, and trained assassins would not do that.”

“Police didn’t think this was a professional job, but they did acknowledge it seemed to be pretty well planned.”