I see where you went here, but I think it's reasonable to assume he was talking to girls he knew, who were trying to help navigate him.
Based on everything else we've learned, he was well liked, connected with family, had a new girlfriend, and even falling down inebriated, was a polite and affable young man.
For every accident abd any type of accident, there is a moment -- often a series of them -- that creates the event. Looking momentarily at one's phone while driving. Choosing suddenly to go this way and not that way.
So now we know that he knew he was lost and he was taking steps to get unlisted. If only he had just stopped. Waited. But he was walking within a city, people around, not terribly late. He didn't know he was moments away from catastrophe.
If he did indeed vomit, it makes sense he'd take his shirt off. Set it on the ledge. I don't care a good visual for the area but if he was talking on speaker phone, his phone could easily have been in his shirt pocket. With his CC. Sets his phone on the ledge. In taking the shirt off, the CC falls out. And bing bang boom his phone gets knocked off/over the edge. He leans over to save it, and top heavy, falls in. Alternately thinks he can retrieve it and dives in. Expensive phone. Wanted it back. If he were on a boat, wouldn't it be reasonable to jump in and grab your phone before it sinks or is carried away? Might explain just exactly how he got in the water. Intentionally. To save his phone. Only to be overtaken by the cold water and unforgiving current.
LE is doing an outstanding job piecing together his last minutes. And they'll get there. If he was on the phone, that will fill in some of the order of events. When did he vomit, where was he on his route, where was his shirt found if indeed that was his shirt.
His phone went virtually instantly silent in tandem with his position between cameras, the one capturing him moving forward and the one in which he never appeared. Either he and his phone landed in the water together or his phone went in first and he went in after. With the same tragic, deadly results.
Everyone around him will bear that woulda shoulda burden, any one thing happening differently and that catastrophic moment might have been averted. But that is the nature of accidents.
May it give his loved ones strength to see the lengths to which LE is going to bring their beloved boy home.
JMO
So terrible that this couldn’t have had a positive outcome within the first 48 hours. I feel with both Riley’s case and Sebastian Rogers, both went very bad and I was [maybe naively] expecting both to turn out well.
