The lack of noticeable splatter on the roof behind Crooks’ body does not comport with the idea of a .300 WinMag round hitting it while he was alive and in an upright position with his head held up. That is the notion that’s been forwarded by the coalescing “Official Narrative.”
As ultra-slow motion video demonstrates, a .300 WinMag shot like that would have pretty much taken Crooks’ head clean off and left a huge cone of spatter/splatter that clearly wasn’t present at the rooftop crime scene. We know this because the on-scene officers walked right up the roof lanes on either side of the body.
If a .300 WinMag had hit an upright head, the first responders would have been stepping gingerly through a fanned-out cone of scattered biological material. Instead, they strolled on up and around and across what should have been a field of gore.
So the only explanation for the fairly clean rooftop is that Crooks was already in a fully prone position, and the bullet from Sniper Team #2 entered the top of his head and traveled deep into his body without exploding outwards.
Maybe that’s what they meant by “one in a million” when describing the shot? Almost nothing was visible to the snipers above the roof ridge cap because he was already fully prone?
Again, a low=profile fully prone body would be consistent with Crooks already being shot dead by the ESU sniper. So we’re going to keep that hypothesis alive for the moment.
Speaking of evolving and discarded hypotheses, I cover my approach to the analytical process and describe the green, yellow, and red versions of data and investigative material and how those categories either support or help reject various hypotheses. This evidence-based process is how I think, and now I’ve taken the time to put it down on slides for you to review, ponder, and critique.
Also in this report, I cover the fact that Sniper Team #1 had no view of Crooks and was in no position to take a shot. A tree was blocking their line of sight.
But Sniper Team #2 was not only in position but also a solid 10-15 feet higher than Trump, meaning that it would have been impossible for Crooks to poke his head above the roof ridge and see Trump long enough to take the shots without the Sniper team being able to spot Crooks first.
This conclusion is rooted in simple geometry and can be safely and immediately tucked into the green category. To explain away this anomaly, the only possible excuse for Sniper Team #2 is that they were looking some other place for some reason and didn‘t see him for the 2.5 minutes Crooks was bear crawling about on the roof of building 6. But the videos of Sniper Team #2 seem to show them to be attentively focused in that direction.
Other possible, but also deeply unsatisfying explanations might include (1) they were told to stand down; or (2) they were told it was a training exercise; or (3) they were misinformed by someone that the figure on the roof over there was a friendly.
That last explanation doesn’t cut it for me because, with the extremely high-quality scopes they had, it must have been crystal clear that Crooks wasn’t a law enforcement or security officer raising the prospect that they were informed by someone that it was an undercover LEO on some sort of mission.
Finally, I end with a plea: We NEED the RAW, uncompressed, and unprocessed version of this important video:
Link to above video: https://x.com/YWNReporter/status/1812683230413283789