That's probably the most likely scenario. It's also possible that ALL of them stopped, and as he was about to gather their I.D.'s and begin to question them, he was jumped by all three and wrestled to the ground.
I've been waiting for a week now to hear about additional shoeprints at the scene that would verify the presence of these three men............... still waiting. :waiting: :waiting: :waiting:
I guess it's possible that the scene was trampled so bad during the manhunt, that nobody thought to isolate which footprints were there and visible when his backup arrived. The way this case has gone, it wouldn't surprise me. They may not have any shoeprints to work with. That area was flooded with a 100 officers and EMT personnel shortly after his body was found. Any shoeprints on Honing road were probably also obliterated during all the chaos.
Agreed, steelman, that too and the lack of dogs being able to chase anything down would argue for the perps getting out of there by car or boat or both before LE arrived, not on foot, as was initially suspected and searched for, I guess?