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[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago

separated from his wife for years

Remember that according to the FBI more than half of murderers know their victims personally, and about a quarter are family relations.

I think the police really need to drop this whole "assassination" false flag and investigate the more probable angles. Could be that he was closeted and killed by a jilted lover, or the husband of the secretary he was banging, or a hitman hired by the estranged wife. No sense in harassing every man with a green jacket over this.

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

False flag? What are you on m8? Just gonna invenet your own narrative? The bullets had writing on that was a title of an book bashing g the industry...

[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

Just trying to get the cops to stop harassing innocent and unrelated people is all.

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I plead the 5th

[-] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

He gotta be on poppers...

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It looked too amateurish to be a hit, although I suppose it could have been a budget hitman.

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

How many hits have you seen to be able to judge the quality?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

I played through the first four Hitman games. It looked way more professional than average.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

There wasn't even an exploding duck.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Or a homing suitcase

[-] Acrimonious@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

From a movie hitman perspective sure. Real life "hits" don't look like they do in the movies though. You can find videos of truly amateurish hits online easily. The most violent cities in US see them happen often. Whomever this person did this was calm, seemed disciplined, got the job done. On a scale from drive by to James Bond, I'd put him solidly in the middle.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

Most 'budget' hitmen would have been caught by now. The average hitman is a local schlub who has no idea what they're doing and can't even afford to leave the city or neighborhood that they live in. The police speculate that the guy was from out of town and probably left the city ASAP. While we really have no idea what his story is, he probably is a slightly above average hitman if he managed to kill someone as important as Brian Thimpson and still evaded capture after almost a week.

While murderers have been caught months or even years after the fact, those murders aren't as brazen or open as this one was.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

True, not being caught yet is impressive, whether it be luck or skill.

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[-] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

You think? An amateur would not have had that level of composure when the gun jammed. At a minimum they understood the limitations of their tools beforehand and was not surprised when it happened.

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think it jammed, some kind of silencer issue where you have to manual reload. I don't know guns just repeating talk I've heard. So the gunman would have known to manually reload like that...

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

He likely had an unregistered suppressor, which would lack a part that prevents jams. I've seen people saying he was probably accounting for the possibility of a jam

[-] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes I was dumbing it down but you're both right. My point is that they new it would happen and was prepared for it, ensuring smooth operation regardless of the limitation.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it was a hitman job at https://assassinexpress.com/? Cheap and works only once?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

If the guy they're claiming did it, did it, he wasn't a hitman.

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