07-17-2024, 09:16 AM
(07-17-2024, 01:32 AM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: 3.) The firearm was stashed at, or nearby, the building he climbed onto well before the rally.
Point #3 - He stashed the firearm at the rally site before the rally (possibly even days before). We know this by the tone of the woman screaming in item #2 above. If you listen to her voice, she sounds astonished and distraught. It's like she's truly surprised that he's acting out on something they may have snidely or sarcastically discussed. She sounds stunned that he's apparently walked away from the group (thus the "Get over here!" statement). 'Here' where the rest of the group he was with is; she's telling him to come back. It made his fantasy seem real to him.
I thought about that, too. The tall pine trees that hide the ladder could have been a good hiding place for the rifle.
However, I remember reading that the rifle, belonging to the kid's father, was lent to him on the same day as the rally. Took me a bit, but found something about that here...
ABC News
Quote:
Suspect asked to borrow dad's AR-15-style rifleABC News learned that on the day of the shooting, Crooks told his father he wanted to go to a shooting range and asked if he could borrow his dad's AR15-style rifle, said a source familiar with the matter. Since the father had occasionally allowed Crooks to go target shooting with the semiautomatic firearm, he didn't think anything was suspicious when he let him use the rifle again on Saturday, the source said.
Which, if true, leads me to ask if the father knew about his son's political affiliations and if he did, why hadn't he questioned his son why he wasn't going to the rally, but the shooting range, instead?
Well, in the end, it looks like the kid turned the rally into his own personal shooting range.
