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From reddit: Brian Thompson was a drunk driver, insider trader, fraudster, and separated from his wife for years
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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
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It looked too amateurish to be a hit, although I suppose it could have been a budget hitman.
How many hits have you seen to be able to judge the quality?
I played through the first four Hitman games. It looked way more professional than average.
There wasn't even an exploding duck.
Or a homing suitcase
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.
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.
True, not being caught yet is impressive, whether it be luck or skill.
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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.
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...
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
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.
Maybe it was a hitman job at https://assassinexpress.com/? Cheap and works only once?
If the guy they're claiming did it, did it, he wasn't a hitman.