Couple of thoughts before nighty night.
Although many of us are talking seriously about the suicide possibility, it has NOT been confirmed. We are still just speculating, based upon what limited information is getting released about the case.
I asked a question a while ago and no one has answered it, that I know of, and have not heard anyone else ask it. But how sure are we that the voice we hear on the recording is in fact LTs voice? It sounds muffled, digitized, etc...to me and as we have seen from his videos, quite different than his normal speak. I would expect that on a call. But I just wonder if any actual analysis has been done in that respect. Where I am going with this would be a trusted person with him at the time who either overpowered him or threatened him, or incapacitated him in some way and murdered him back there. Then calmly radioed it in, pretending to me the LT. Just a thought.
Also, I would like to point out the fact that NO evidence, isn't necessarily "evidence." I keep hearing that because we haven't found the suspects, that they don't exist. Yes, I understand there was a massive manhunt and search dogs and helicopters and perimeters, etc...however...it would not be the first time someone was able to get away without being seen or even ever being caught. There are plenty of unsolved murders out there. To convince me of suicide, I would need evidence OF a suicide, not just a lack of evidence of a murder, such as ballistics, shot trajectory analysis, blood spatter analysis, gunpower residue, etc... I would also want corroborating evidence to support a motive. Sure, being shot in the line of duty pays a hefty sum to the family, but if that were truly a motive, we'd have LEOs offing themselves all the time. I know it isn't completely unheard of, but this takes the cake. Was he having serious money issues, so much so that an able bodied, experienced, intelligent, physically fit man would feel that the only way out would be suicide? I would need more. Was he sick and no one knew? Was his marriage in trouble? Was there an affair? I mean, there has to be something more for me to be convinced, at least at this point.
Finally, I will say this, and it could point to one theory or the other. But reviewing his FB page, the LT was very socially active in the counter-BLM movement. Lots of posts about standing up for LE. Lots of posts anti Obama and Holder. Lots of posts that went against the recent anti-police narratives that have been going around the past couple of years. Maybe this made him a target? Or maybe he felt that going out this way would actually help push the call for supporting LE? It initially did have a huge impact on turning the tables the other way. Suddenly, people were turning on blue porch lights, and posting stuff all over facebook, and going to vigils and going to the funeral procession. Did he think that would happen, he would be hero, his family would be taken care of, and his death would have meant something? If so, did he think he was smarter than all of the investigators involved in the case? He doesn't come across as dumb. He must have been aware that any plan could never be perfectly foolproof.
So while I am starting to veer in the direction of accepting that suicide is a very viable possibility, I am not quite there yet. Peace out all. I hope this case is resolved soon for the peace of his family, his fellow officers and the community.
