Investigators obtained clues including a palm print, a shoe impression and a high-powered hunting rifle found in a wooded area along the path the shooter fled. But they had yet to name a suspect or cite a motive in the killing.
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    “I assume, discarding it would be part of the plan to escape. To carry a long rifle. It surprises me the person abandoned it,” Chittum said. “It certainly makes it easier. It’ll have biological evidence and the trace itself will produce leads.”

    I’d be shocked if this wasn’t:

    • recently picked up at a gun show
    • paid for in cash
    • ammo paid for in cash, or self-manufactured somewhere nowhere close to the incident
    • thoroughly cleaned
    • never handled by the marksman with hands uncovered

    The plan was always to leave the gun. That’s just good opsec in this situation.