Anonymous wrote:This guy looks like a lowlife. I bet it had nothing to do with anything. He just got mad at the victim over something stupid and decided to kill him.

Considering he shot at a trooper during a seemingly minor traffic stop, you might be right.

This guy looks like a lowlife. I bet it had nothing to do with anything. He just got mad at the victim over something stupid and decided to kill him.

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Anonymous wrote:What was the motive?

I bet the perp was stealing the narcotic medication from the patient. This unfortunately happened to my dad after he fell and broke his hip at his nursing home which as A+ rated.

How does killing this victim facilitate theft of the medication? Why not just...not give the medication to the guy? I don't doubt that nursing home personnel sometimes steals medications. I just don't see how killing him furthers that goal.

I missed understood. I didn't realize he was drugging him. And if he was so rich why did he have a roommate? Very weird.

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Anonymous wrote:One theory: One of the step kids hired him to kill the victim. They were careful to leave zero trace, and they will say he’s making up a lie about them hiring him in order to get a reduced sentence.

Prosecutor here. That's possible, but it is really really hard to hire a hitman without leaving some evidence. There would very likely be unexplained communications between the stepkid and the shooter. If nothing else, there would be evidence that the shooter recently came into unexplained money.

I also think the fact that the shooter apparently hung onto the gun is incongruent with this theory. Any hitman worth his salt would have disposed of it.

Yeah but as a prosecutor I'm sure you've seen more than a few less than intelligent criminals. I'm not saying this was definitely a murder for hire (we both agree it's possible), but there are plenty of cases where someone thinks they're hiring a professional only to find out later that it was an amateur who slipped up. You're right, there will be evidence if this is in fact what happened.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the killer thought the victim “disrespected” him somehow. Alternate theory- the victim caught the killer stealing something.
Do you think this was premeditated?

Yes it was premeditated. At the press conference it was revealed that the perp disabled the alarm sensor on a door over a month before the murder and propped it open with napkins so he could go in and out undetected. And he did enough planning to bring a gun, mask and wig with him. So yes, all signs point to premeditated.

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Anonymous wrote:One theory: One of the step kids hired him to kill the victim. They were careful to leave zero trace, and they will say he’s making up a lie about them hiring him in order to get a reduced sentence.

Prosecutor here. That's possible, but it is really really hard to hire a hitman without leaving some evidence. There would very likely be unexplained communications between the stepkid and the shooter. If nothing else, there would be evidence that the shooter recently came into unexplained money.

I also think the fact that the shooter apparently hung onto the gun is incongruent with this theory. Any hitman worth his salt would have disposed of it.

Agreed. I feel that someone first set up this man. Isn't it all too convenient that he is wearing the same coat, has wigs at home and did not get rid of all that?

Someone else may have shot the man but this guy is the patsy? It is however, not a perfect crime. The forensic accountants can trace the money. There is an inside man, an outside man, and this dumb fuzt who may or may not have pulled the trigger. He starts to fire at the policeman on a traffic stop makes me feel that he was extremely nervous and believed that he will be caught.

Does not have the brain cells to plan a crime. Can only shoot when cornered.

Same coat? Wigs at home? Please.

This was mental illness. I don't think anyone is going to find that this murderer was given money by the step kids.

Anonymous wrote:One theory: One of the step kids hired him to kill the victim. They were careful to leave zero trace, and they will say he’s making up a lie about them hiring him in order to get a reduced sentence.

Prosecutor here. That's possible, but it is really really hard to hire a hitman without leaving some evidence. There would very likely be unexplained communications between the stepkid and the shooter. If nothing else, there would be evidence that the shooter recently came into unexplained money.

I also think the fact that the shooter apparently hung onto the gun is incongruent with this theory. Any hitman worth his salt would have disposed of it.

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Anonymous wrote:What was the motive?

I bet the perp was stealing the narcotic medication from the patient. This unfortunately happened to my dad after he fell and broke his hip at his nursing home which as A+ rated.

How does killing this victim facilitate theft of the medication? Why not just...not give the medication to the guy? I don't doubt that nursing home personnel sometimes steals medications. I just don't see how killing him furthers that goal.

This. The perp wanted THIS particular individual dead. Not the roommate or partner, nor the other residents. There was a reason this individual was targeted. The perp could have acquired meds without killing him.

I'm sure we'll get a better idea of the motive in the coming days or weeks.

Maybe the accountant or the lawyer of the man already cleared out the bank and wanted this idiot to murder him.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the killer thought the victim “disrespected” him somehow. Alternate theory- the victim caught the killer stealing something.
Do you think this was premeditated?

It is premediated. But the man has stupidity written on his face. Someone else made him do that.