I'm Spartacus
EDIT: According to this, the dude in the meme is not the actual shooter. I haven't seen any legit sources one way or another. It's just a meme, please leave this guy alone.
Or get him in touch with Hawk T'ua Girl. Either way, he deserves it.
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It's been pointed in several places already, but: That's not the guy. The one in the surveillance camera footage had a jacket without these high front pockets.
Agreed. Hopefully the dude gets a FAT payout for being publicly harassed by the police.
I'm sure the police will apologize and pay him handsomely. Also pretty confident tonight is the night I will be fellated by a super model.
I told you I cancelled our date, I have a toothache.
Pics or it didn't happen
Not the most accurate thing, but at least the backpack is correctly identified. The hoodie, shoes, etc unsure of.
I suspect the backpack is the only correct one because it's so obvious, and then the others are just the meme riffing on it not being a cheap backpack.
If I had money to burn I'd be buying that backpack tbh
The shooter seems fairly smart and like they wanted to get away with it. You don't buy an expensive recognizable backpack if that's the case. You buy a cheap generic fabric one, ideally second hand for cash. You also have extra clothes and fabric bags in there to swap out as you escape. That's almost certainly why it's so large.
Backpack is wrong. Shooter's backpack doesn't have black zippers, trim, etc. Shoes are also wrong, shooter's soles don't have the black bit. Hoodie is way off (wrong material, different design hood). It's just a joke.
It might be v1 version of it as opposed to current version
All of those items except for the suppressor are incredibly overpriced crap.
From what I know of suppressor prices (with legal suppressors requiring literally all of the paperwork and the filing fees to go with it), that suppressor seems like the best deal in the meme
Edit: Well, the second best deal.
Something tells me this guy didn’t pay the tax stamp and give the government his exact address and fingerprints when he acquired that suppressor.
Especially because from the video it doesn’t look like he’s ever shot that suppressed pistol before, or he’d have fixed it to actually cycle the gun properly. Having your gun jam on every shot is not exactly ideal when you’re planning something like this, and it sure sounds like he planned everything else decently well.
Likely the suppressor was homemade and probably not test fired due to the risk of getting caught. That means this guy likely lives in an urban or suburban area where people are likely to report the sound of muffled gunshots. That only leaves most of the country as suspects.
I think that is point
Are there really shoes that cost that much? And people buy them?
There are shoes that cost 10x that much and people buy them. Hell, Kanye West sold plain white T-shirts ten years ago for $300 each and he sold out in 5 minutes.
It's kind of a shit post, except the backpack. The brown jacket he layered over I think might be a Barbour jacket or trucker jacket.
It does look like a sapper or field jacket.
May have found the jacket, a particular Men's Levi's Hooded Sherpa Lined Trucker Jacket in work wear brown.
I bet I'm about to own one just like it
I owned one in blue, they’re very warm and comfortable
Unfortunately I tore open the right shoulder of mine last winter while stacking firewood.
looks like I’ll have to get one in brown now.
Is the listed jacket even real? 'Prometheus Designs' Jacket absolutely sounds like a meme.
You know Prometheus was the good guy, despite whatever Zeus says, right?
Nah it's real. Made by Prometheus Designs, but it has a different name the "Defiant Hoodie".
Backpack isn't right either. No black zippers and trim on shooter's.
Might be v1 version of backpack
Those clearly aren't the same shoes. Those identified ones have black lines from the print design literally on the side section we can see the clearest in the security video where his are solid white.
Some are saying it's the Adidas XPLR Path Sneakers in Black/Gray.
At those prices.... I wonder if the cops are looking at the victim's kids?
I'm fairly confident all of those are wrong. The backpack of the shooter doesn't have the black bits.
Shooter's bag looks like 100% fabric (so he can swap it later or ditch/destroy it). If I were him, it'd be a fairly cheap large fabric bag, with a few changes if clothes and extra backpacks inside. Get on a long-distance bus, change in the bathroom, get off before your stop and do this a few more times.
Also, buy everything from a thrift store. It'd save money and cover your tracks.
Backpack might be v1 version of it
Those two pictures don't match. The lower guy is much thinner, and probably taller, than the upper guy. And... we have no proof either of them are the shooter. Spoiler alert, it could be a masked woman who did it. What proof it was a man?
That's exactly what everyone should say to make search more troublesome
His nose doesn't look the same to me. The smiling one has a thinner nose with an uptick and the end. The other one looks wider and has a button nose at the end. I'm no expert though. I'm just looking at two photos.
I think these are two pictures of the guy that it isn't. From a coffee shop or hostel or something. It's just a shitty camera at an awkward angle takes pictures of a guy (actor Timothée Chamalet) with and without his backpack on.
Wear Lycra under it and keep a gas mask handy for the crowd control attacks.
Remember to leave your phone at home
Why the Lycra?
Skin protection. Check out the Hong Kong protestors’ methods. They optimized against crowd control. You can neutralize teargas with heavy gloves and a sealable container with water in it IIRC.
Some Etsy seamstress is about to make a killing (metaphorically).
Maybe it's just because I've been playing Stalker 2 but I keep thinking he has the same drip as Strelok from the first Stalker.
First thing I thought of also. With the face of Desmond Miles from Assassins Creed
He could crash at my house. I'd even take the futon
I've had a black neck gaiter for years and a black hoodie for years and I have worn them in my neighborhood for years.
I wore them the other day and waved at a neighbor that drove by and they slammed on their brakes and then sped off. I guess they took my Xmas cheer as a threat. Anyways they had an off duty cop standing in front of their house last night.
mission accomplished ?
Funny thing is, anyone willing to do an extremely targeted killing like this, and get away for so long, must be at least moderately intelligent. If they spent the time being able to figure out when and where he would be most vulnerable, who's to say they didn't spend a similar amount of time learning makeup techniques to cover their true skin tone, or stuffing gauze into their cheeks to change their facial structure, or small tubes in their nose to widen it out, or glue-on eyelashes and color contacts, or putting a rock in their shoe to change their gate (especially good in this case for establishing a false motive and sending the cops in the wrong direction), or learning how to sew and making that jacket out of a trench coat that successfully converts back to a trench at the pull of a string, or making a realistic silicone mask with embedded ultra-bright infrared LEDs that blind cameras (especially night vision) from being able to get an accurate picture.... With a little work, you can find step-by-step instructionals, or entire communities, for all of that.
For all we know, the real killer might be a one-legged dwarf from Zimbabwe with incredible stagecraft skills.
Don't forget to stick duct tape to the bottom of your shoes for a disposable and easy to replace way of hiding your tread prints if working in a muddy or sandy area
Who told you about lil Wayaida??!
The gait stuff is good. But I feel like it might be easier to stash a change of clothes somewhere rather then sewing up something that converts into something else.
so much work, when in reality all he has to do is not give his name and never mention it
All I know is I'm glad to already have next year's Halloween costume sorted
I'm still waiting to see one of those "steal his look" memes lol
What will they call this costume at the Halloween Store?
CEO Killer? 🤔
"The Adjuster" or "Robin Hood (2024)"
The solution
lemmy users remind me of my dog when he growls at someone because they changed their clothes and are therefore a different person
I think there's a healthy dose of remembering all the times it's been reported how police have railroaded innocent people for the sake of a conviction and closing the case, mixed with seeing this person as a modern-day Robin Hood and not wanting him to be identified. The dude could have been wearing a Beetlejuice suit with a face like Sloth from the Goonies and people would still say "that's not him" because he put on a tiny pink cowboy hat.
This man will be an American folk hero in time. And if that thought seems disgusting, I'll invite you to read up on American history.
Are these the same dude?
All white dudes look alike to me 🤷🏽
Nah I doubt it’s that White Supremacist latino dude
I have a confession to make.
It was me, Barry.
The smile? That would be great :)
I do like that coat
I'm pretty sure the coat in the bottom is the older version of this jacket from 2007ish that had a hood:
https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m67712266687/
But this parka has a hood, while the "person of interest" is wearing a jacket and a hoodie. At least that's my first thought, seeing how the hood's colour doesn't match that of the jacket.
Amazing how something in the news happens and people suddenly have never seen extremely common fashion choices before.
I have pretty much this exact coat, except it’s in blue, not tan. The hood is made out of cotton instead of the heavier denim/canvas the coat is made from.
I’ve owned several coats exactly like it over the years, I think all of mine were made by Levi, but I’m sure plenty of other manufacturers make similar styled jackets as the contrasting fabrics look nice and a thinner hood is more flattering.
Look at his collar in the photos, there’s no shadow or layer where the hood would go under the jacket like it would were he wearing a hoodie under a jacket.
Please, leave the subject alone too. 90% or Lemmy is about the shooting. The world is bigger then an asshole getting shot.
Someone got shot. Ok, sure, it happens, it's the US, who gives a shit anymore, the country is fucked up, it's healthcare system always has been, we fucking know already.
It's fine to have a news article and some funny memes, but hundreds of memes is a bit overkill I'd say. I've seen many memes about his clothes already, so even that isn't original anymore. Lemmy really is a mono culture, it's a bit sad rly. It mainly focuses on the stupidity of the US, which is funny, I know, but a bit more variety wouldn't mind. It gets old rly fast.
Tbf if you or had a family member constantly denied life savings for chemo/antibiotics/insulin it’s probably a valid feels and ima let America have the front page on this one. Empathy. Go get some.
As soon as a Healthcare system is put in place, people en masse voted to have it removed. Instead of voting for a stronger social system so poor and sick will have support instead of being thrown out on the streets and kept poor, people vote for a president ensuring the extremity rich get even more rich and the poor even more poor. I do feel for the people who are the victim of this all, and I know many didn't vote for this. But also many did. It's a country where people love to dig their own grave, and even vote to have their shovel taken away so they will have to continue to dig by hand. Although many didn't want this, the entire population voted democratically (although the voting system is corrupt too) to keep the rich and the corruption in power. Now with RFK as a health minister, like that's going in the right direction. To the unfortunate people who voted against but we're the minority, I would love to invite you here in Europe. We do have social safety nets and although they aren't perfect, at least they exist and you won't be charged 20k for an ambulance drive you have to wait for, for 5 hours due to a lack of them. Here it's 5 to max 10min and insured.
Then something else. Someone kills a CEO with a gun. The fact anyone can have military grade weapons is one of the reasons people get injured and killed, so they need insurance. It's one of the biggest source of major issues, like school shootings for example. Now the CEO gets killed. Violence is never the answer, it only makes everything worse I nthe end. This CEO will be replaced by another one, with a better security detail. The fact that Americans always use violence is so extremity dumb and is why am extremity dangerous former fuck up will be president AGAIN next month. Because of hate and the idea violence is the answer. When you think murdering someone is justified, you're no better then the asshole getting shot. There's a justice system for a reason, you shouldn't act as your own judge and executioner. (ok to be fair, the US justice system is corrupt AF).
So I so have sympathy for the the victims who didn't vote for this. I do not for the people who did.
I am getting so annoyed a CEO being shot in the US creates this mono hyper focus on it, as if there's nothing else in the world, while at the same time there's a genocide happening (funded by the US by the way) among other major world issues and conflicts making the world tension roughly the same level as the 1930's. But many Americans voted to increase support for Israel, so fuck them. There's the usual doom scrolling on many social media platforms. But as soon as something happens in the US, the entire focus of everything and everyone is on it. I hate it, if I want to see it I'll watch Idiocracy or something but I'm done with all the stupidity, hate and violence in that fucked up country.
You keep saying “many didn’t want this” as if to continually disclaimer while you take a shit on people. This is “I’m not a racist but” defence.
I'm claiming the problem is self-made and kept intact by most Americans and violence (in this case murder) isn't the answer and you compare me to a racist. Instead of personally attacking me, you could have come with supported counter arguments but so far you only came with "people their feelings" and "you argue like a racist". Have you ever thought of a political career?
Ahh now the racist is using ad hominem. Stay classy.
Go troll someone else if you have nothing useful to say
No im not leaving. Because The racist cries provide best tasting tears.
First everyone votes for worse healthcare and more money and power to mega corps like healthcare companies and people like this murdered CEO, than kill this guy because of the corrupt healthcare system while antivax RFK will be health minister in a month. But yeah, murdering people is good news. Enjoy the fun.