The outfit just seems like WAY too much ------
It would sure make it easy if we had a "Criminal Attire for Dummies" guidebook, to know what crime this <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING> felt he was dressing to match. Is this what killers wear? Burglars? Trespassers? It is true that the <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING> seems to be "overdressed" -- but without knowing the mind of this <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING>, and what he was intending, we have no idea what experience he was dressing (or overdressing) for.
It might be that just the act of committing a B&E made him scared to death of getting caught, and he was trying to cover up everything from view, and also from DNA transfer.
As Ozoner has mentioned, maybe this <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING> expected to get rich from this robbery, with another recent church robbery netting $600,000. That's enough motivation to make you do all you can to be disguised.
The somewhat-extra padding certainly wouldn't be good attire for a fight. It made him more clumsy and harder to move. But maybe it made the <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING> feel like he wasn't so <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING>, having some fake muscles if he was seen somewhere that night?
None of us can say what was in the mind of this loser. Yikes, what a scary place to consider. I keep coming back to a<modsnip - NO NAMECALLING> who lived in fear, and tried to get rich easy. That's my speculative choice that fits what I see here ....
1 a scared-to death <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING>,
2 timid and breaching a middle-of-nowhere building at a time he would expect no one to be there,
3 hoping to get rich and finally have some money,
4 carrying a gun for protection, fearing something bad will happen to him in an all-alone setting!
5 An over-abundance of fear and caution has him try to see every room for loot (to watch his back, so to speak),
6 when MB arrives out of the blue, he is shocked, totally freaked out, and doesn't know what to do,
7 he's either distracted/unaware, or hiding fearfully when she enters,
8 as she gets closer, or when he suddenly sees her, in a heart-pounding panic he shoots her,
9 probably soiling his diaper in the process,
10 flees in abject terror,
11 remaining still the <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING>, gaining nothing from his failed robbery except the most frightening experience of his life,
12 his life is over and he can never tell anyone the most significant thing he has ever done, and
13 it's 7 years later, and he's STILL too scared to come outside again.
I admit that's a lot of speculation. But that's who I think this <modsnip - NO NAMECALLING> is, so that's how I think it all happened!