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Maybe I’m just face-blind or being dense but the photos from the scene of the crime look like a different dude than the ginning hostel check in guy. The jackets and backpacks are different. Although people can have multiple jackets and backpacks. We don’t see much of the shooters face but the eyebrows look different. Although, people can pluck/shave eyebrows. I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i used to lived next to an organized crime person.

they would fuck with me constantly because i have a problem of keeping my mouth shut because i do.

and when they left on vacation they would use their underlings to fuck with my life. some horrible shit would happen to me. and then a few days later they would return smiling and smirking asking how i was doing.

the following is my opinion: trump hired that killer (probably someone with a beef against insurance) through some underling with the promise of a big payoff, left the country to France, and the killer was supposed to be paid off after the kill but was left with monopoly money because trump never pays his debts. And now the killer is dead and in the Hudson never to be found in one piece.

now trump will use the killing to push a hardcore agenda of police and constant surveillance to make sure it won't happen again.

and the rich will pay him to make sure that it doesn't.

but it will happen again. and trump will leave the country right before it does.

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[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I was curious when I was hearing the police chatter saying the suspect was wearing a "cream-coloured" jacket, when in the assassination footage it's pretty undeniably black or a dark colour at least.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

Never underestimate how actively worthless "eyewitness" testimony is.

I was not aware of this detail. But if it were just bystanders telling stuff to cops before they got a hold of the footage, they are going to go with it. Especially since it is already pretty worthless to begin with (so many jackets are easily reversed).

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

I heard he was wearing a ~~white and gold~~ blue and black coat.

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[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

How do they explain the bag changing colors?

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

They were taken on different days.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago

Different days, different clothes, different person.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 3 months ago

Everyone keeps saying look at this photo of the suspect. All I see is an image that won’t load.

Weird.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Oh really? The image loads for me, but I certainly didn't see anything.

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

auto white balance in cheap digital video camera changes color appearances dramatically in different types of light bulbs

that would be my first guess/answer

edit: nevermind

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/08/g-s1-37361/nypd-releases-2-new-photos-of-man-sought-in-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Accounting for that, the hostel guy seems to have a rucksack or similar. They're quite distinct and notable bags. If it's not actually a rucksack, it's something with similar design elements, maybe a knockoff, since rucksacks tend to be rather expensive.

Rucksacks are popular with people who hike/move around a lot, the kind of people who would stop at a hostel for a night before moving on to another area/location/city/country, usually by non-typical means (hiking, walking, hitch hiking, etc).

That's just the personality type for one such person who would use such a combination of products, and by no means should describe, or imply a description, of the individual illustrated in the image. My entire point to saying any of this is that it's a very district design.

The shooter has a very simple backpack that lacks most of the notable features that I can see from the backpack/rucksack that the hostel person is using.

They're both backpacks, but one is notably different than the other.

While it's feasible they just switched backpacks, IMO it's far more likely that they're simply different people.

To me, this kind of naming and shaming attitude of a person of interest in an ongoing investigation by the press is disgusting.

If the images here depict two different people as I suspect they do, then the individual in the hostel images is likely to suffer consequences as a result of the brash and hasty release of their images by the press. It will likely affect them for years to come.

It makes for enticing headlines, that's for sure, but it's abysmal journalism. They don't seem to have any standards left regarding the truth, only whatever will attract the most views/clicks/reads/whatever.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

It's kinda crazy because I own the backpack he had on during the incident, it's a peak design camera bag and it's pretty expensive. Definitely not the bag the dude at the hostel is wearing.

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[-] spector@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The clothing color could be due to lighting. Remember the blue black dress meme? Multiple backpacks is too easy. So that's a non-issue.

That being said. Why isn't anyone considering that maybe the cops couldn't give a shit either. But they have to try because the money people said so.

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[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

They will find someone that roughly fits the description and he won't make it to jail alive... Case closed nothing to see here... Or something entirely different may happen..

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or something entirely different may happen..

We got fuckin' Nostradamus over here 😂

[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago

Or perhaps we have a person who is sick and tired of having accounts blocked and I hedge my language with some lawyer talk...

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago

Maybe he gotvfriends as a distraction?

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[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

They have over 200 photos already. I think the smiling photos are on a different day.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago

If they're on a different day then it's even less believable.

[-] Heisenburner@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I thought I saw that these pictures were taken on different days and the guy on the right has been tagged as a "person of interest" and not officially a "suspect"

[-] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

The police said he’s a person of interest. All the news reports are calling him the shooter. I saw a clip from Good Morning America and they didn’t even bother saying “alleged”. It seems crazy irresponsible.

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[-] Alice@hilariouschaos.com -1 points 3 months ago

Honestly one looks like a very famous Podcaster and the other looks like a woman to me

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 months ago

The nose I can go either way on. It looks "different" to me but wearing a mask and not grinning makes a huge difference there (it is why you are told to not smile for ID photos). The eyebrows are more a function of angle and resolution as you can see some darkness on the left (and he is obviously scowling and not flirting with a cute desk girl).

As for the jacket and backpack? Too lazy to look up the backpack models (people figured it out) but the one on the left looks small enough to fit in the one on the right. So he has his backpack for travel and then a smaller one full of gun and snacks and whatever else for the stakeout.

I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

Never talk to the cops without a lawyer and NEVER voluntarily talk to them.

Also? The cops are going to find SOMEONE in the next week or so. And you can be damned sure they are going to take advantage of all of the news and social media about how this is a skilled hitman fighting for the loss of a loved one who WILL NOT BE TAKEN ALIVE. They'll corner whoever they can pin it on, shoot them a few times, and then plant a gun and call it a day.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

No, I think they match, but if I wound up on his jury, I might start to doubt it.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

"Mr Westin, do these two men look similiar to you?"

"No...."

"But I haven't even shown the second picture yet."

"Ok, show me.....but I'll still say no."

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

"OK, now do these two pictures-"

"Not guilty!"

"Excuse me?"

"Oh , sorry, too soon? I'll wait."

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