Subsonic

https://twitter.com/Xcellent78/status/1864380414636236879

WP won’t let me embed the vid,,, (HT to Vlad Tepes for the actual footage and some observable points)

First shot, failure to feed or failure cycle?   Seems to me that he is using ill-matched subsonics (suppressors don’t like +P loads) and hadn’t matched the slide spring for it.   Will cycle, but won’t fully cycle, may even stove pipe in some cases.  

Is this where the 3 ‘live’ rounds that were marked come from?   IF TRUE, the dude KNEW which rounds would be found and loaded accordingly.    If that doesn’t tell you there was a message involved, I suggest getting a room with a live in assistant to help you feed yourself.

And calm?  Dude was an ice cube.   Steady hands, quick recovery to cycle the action, totally ignored a fleeing witness,,,,

Leaving the scene: essentially jogged across the street.  DID NOT RUN,,,  Running in NYFC gets you noticed*, jogging across a street is normal and expected to survive against Traffic.   Then he ‘fled’ on an ebike?   Dude, thats damn near Central American ‘Hitman’ Protocol,,, simple, all around transport, QUIET, and can go places QUICKLY that a regular vehicle wouldn’t and much faster than being a jogger or runner (*and who the fuck runs in NYFC at night?  Someone that just did a bad,,,, begs for instant karma.)

enough with my analysis of the shooting.  Where I am getting bad vibes from is a local fox news report showing the ‘Suspect’ unmasked, then showing another picture (that looks more like the shooter from the vid) and its OBVIOUS the two are completely different people, different dress, no backpack (one that is kinda hard to hide at that) in the first pic, etc etc.   Even in the commentary over there, only about every fourth comment is something other than “Not the same person, shame on FOX for trying to get some innocent tagged”   Here’s the embed of that,,,,

Yeah, there is a chance the guy had multiple dress modes,,, shoe lifts to change his height, several layered jackets, but that backpack doesn’t just fade from sight    Dunno,,,

as for the no gloves thing as some suggested: in the first vid, it looks as if he doesn’t have gloves on, but its also rather grainy footage.   Kid gloves would appear as no gloves and with all the other aspects of this shooting, I would say, dude may not be ‘Pro’, but he sure as F! ain’t rank amateur!  He had something between his digits and things he was touching.   And I would bet with a high confidence that the phone they found ditched in the alley: stolen or a burner bought with cash.  Those are VERY EASY TO FIND IN NYFC  and I recall being offered several makes and models when I was in town (back when I was still touring), and that was back AFTER 9/11.  I don’t expect things to have changed all that much since then.

Take notes people, I think we are going to see more of this in the future.

And remember those S’s,, Shoot, Shovel, AND SHUT THE F! UP!!!    Even when the Just-us system works, a silent suspect drives the po-po nuts. (it means they actually have to do the job and INVESTIGATE/PROVIDE EVIDENCE.   And you can’t get cornered with Perjury if you never say a thing.)

Live

LEARN

Laugh

LOAD (and match your springs to your rounds load.   Unless you want  to leave a message,,,)