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Yep I think you’re right. He would’ve need to <mod edit to "get away"> immediately, no time to mess around with retrieving/attaching the battery which can be a pain. The plot thickens! I definitely think someone told him BT was leaving the hotel. The way he went from chilling in Starbucks to shooting him did not feel like a lucky coincidence in time. Especially because he’d been staking it out for ten days.
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I do wish they had shared whether or whether not the hostel worker had recognized an accent. Even if she only needed the single NJ id....she could have recognized an accent.
exactly, there was someone at BT's hotel, I think the same guy who he met at the Rock 47-50 stop to handoff. The perp went one stop North and the accomplice walked, with the battery, to BT hotel, as soon as BT left his hotel, the accomplice took the bike to the getaway spot where he minded the bike until the murder was done. I assume LE has scoured the Rock Center B/F platform because that is where the handoff HAD to happen for them both to get into position. And like I said, the perp got on the northbound F one stop. And the accomplice HAD to have walked to BT with battery. No way to take subway, he had to have walked
Someone posted the list of stops on that route between Atlanta and NYC so I guess they’re reviewing the footage from all those stops.
And I'll add that I would bet any amount the BT stayed at one of the Marriotts on 54st, west of the Hilton. I believe there are two very close to each other, I have stayed at the Residence Inn, I think there is also a nicer one a few doors down, Both very close the the Hilton
Thanks for these thoughts and insights.
It’s great to have your insight as someone who really knows the area. Do you think it would’ve been super easy for him to change clothes/appearance in Central Park and essentially disappear into the subway etc?
just look at the NYC subway map. BUT, it's tricky bc at first glance it looks the the F station the perp emerged from could have been direct from the UWS, it's not.
yes, CP is huge, there are a ton of places to go "off road" and there are no cameras. The accomplice would have had to have jumped on a subway, (while the perp was escaping the crime scene) to then have rendezvoused AGAIN in CP. Off the top of my head, the accomplice would have had to have taken a west side train, that dropped him off at one of the CPW stops, if I had to plan it, and I was going to take a plane out of the country post murder...the plan would be for the Accomplie to get on at the 7th ave B stop, get off at the 96st B stop, get the Ebike from the perp, then the Perp jumps on the A train and takes it all the way to JFK.
they know he got off a bus at Port Authority and that bus's first stop was Atlanta. They don't know where along the line he got on. I'm sure a witness will tell them at some point.
Well it would explain arriving 10 days early to plan for sure!
and I'll add that, it seems like the Douglas houses, where he picked up the E-bike battery was most likely just the guy who rented them the E-bike..and I assume they had to drop that bike off at the Douglas houses and the 96st stop is convenient to get the bike back to whoever they rented it from, or borrowed it from.
yes, which also begs the question...how much were they getting paid? It must have been a lot. But staying in NYC for that long is not smart with all the cameras. It's just all kind of odd. On the one hand, they pulled it off thus far with a relatively tight plan. But to do this in NYC is utterly low odds of NOT being caught. Good execution of an awful plan.
It sounds like he, or an accomplice would have to be local or very familiar with the subway routes? Or I suppose ten days of planning could help, but with cameras I would guess such repetitive movements would be easy to pick up by now. Seems the movement and timing here is complicated.
Yes to all. And I asked the same question about picking up the battery. And I concluded it was an unplanned glitch and they had to pick up a second battery bc the first one died. And I also am starting to change my theory as I work this all out. I'll post on a fresh comment. But, bc of all this familiarity with the subway etc, I agree, more here than I thought.
Your pink arrow is off by a bit. The shooting was by the side street entrance to the Hilton and that side street entrance is much closer to sixth avenue (about where the fifth horizontal dot from the right is.)