The "shooter" was not a cop though, they say he was a denture technician. However, the rest of your narrative is plausible. I was strange as fuck how he supposedly had a fake cop car and uniform and this went on for 12 hours. However, I would like to offer another idea.
I have spent the better part of a few hours looking into the backgrounds of the shooter and victims and their photos. I did reverse image searches and went through what I could find on social media. Nothing. No facebook, linkedin, twitter, or instagram. There was that police officer victims facebook page but nothing was in her photos. If anyone else can find anything, I'm interested. My thought is that this whole thing is some kind of scam. I think the names and faces are made up. I would wager that no shooting actually happened.
The digital profiles are being scrubbed because he WAS a cop. When the story first broke the news was very clearly identifying Gabriel Wortman as a member of the local PD. He had a police cruiser because he was a cop.
Interesting. Have you seen or ? I have personal contact with these people so I'm going to have to take back my other statement. It sounds like you may really be on to something, brother.
I really wish I had archived some of the stories. They have been stealth edited. They are changing him from 'member of the local PD' to 'fake cop' and they are also scrubbing the accounts of the building fires.
...and no I had seen neither of those links. My theory was mostly extrapolated from the reported fact that he was PD and the fact that there had been multiple building fires. My first thought was 'that is not how active shooter situations go... building fires are part of the play book for how they respond to armed and entrenched combatants. That is how the popo end a siege.' Remember Waco?
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