Trump shot?

[Encia22]

I’ve been intrigued by the water tower debacle.

At first, I thought that the kid was just a decoy, a sitting duck to distract from the professional marksman who would have been on the water tower.

I’ve done some research using Google Earth and worked out the approximate distances to the target from the rooftop and the tower (see image below).

Here are the stats:

• Distance from location of kid on rooftop to target: 448 ft.
  
• Distance from top of water tower to target: 787 ft.
  
• Height of building: approx. 20 ft.
  
• Height of water tower: approx. 130 ft.
  
• Height of target’s noodle: stage: 4 ft. + man height 6 ft. = approx. 10 ft.
  
• Angle of shot from rooftop: approx. 2.5° downwards
  
• Angle of shot from water tower: approx. 9.5° downwards
  

With the new video simulations coming out, I exclude that any shots were fired from the tower. Looking at the Google Earth snapshot I did, it seems to me that the shots that didn’t hit the target would have landed in no man’s land and not hit anyone. Instead, the victims are more in line with shots from the kid’s rooftop location.

Granted, perhaps the kid panicked, acted too soon and the tower marksman didn’t have time to do the dirty deed.

Or

The apparent movement we see on the tower could be just a maintenance man who was startled by the ruckus and was taking a look. From what I understand, water towers can double as communication towers and so, the 'nipple' at the very top houses communication apparatus.

I can’t see a professional hitman just standing there, ogling the mayhem, exposing themselves for sniper target practice. Also, if I were a professional, I would have worn white camouflage to match the tower colour.

Anyway, below are some of the images I base this post on. There are more, but I don’t want to get overly technical and, ultimately, lost in confusion.

I’ll leave you to make up your own minds.

Water Tower (Not the actual one, but same type.):



The grounds and stage area:



Shooting distances from Google Earth: