Did any of the MSM stories say he actually saw her fall and was afraid to call 911? I based my earlier comments on what was said in post #4. Now I'm trying to find where that is stated?
It appears the sfgate article updated the article and removed the part where the father of the victim told the news publication what the mystery man purportedly said.
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Thought I was going crazy, I went back through all the stories and could not find it. Thanks!It appears the sfgate article updated the article and removed the part where the father of the victim told the news publication what the mystery man purportedly said.
You can see the prior version thru the wayback machine: (hope this is ok to do?)
Mystery man seen in last image of dead California freshman identified
A man seen with UC Santa Barbara freshman Liz Hamel shortly before she died under mysterious circumstances has been identified by authorities.
A big question for me is "what was he doing there" at that dorm, if he wasn't a student? Or was he? No one has reported that he was a student.
Exactly with fairly tight timeline it seems as he knew where to go. It didn’t leave much time to wander around around.
This ^ bbm.
I guess that given how rapidly they found him after her parents hired a lawyer and a PI, it is reasonable to assume that he was a local. JMO. So the question is, given that they probably knew him, whom were they protecting? Zero empathy to the poor victim and her parents, IMHO.
He may have been a local, but not a student, so what was he doing on the third floor of the residence hall? Why do you think that LE knew him? Santa Barbara has a huge transient population of young people and others. He may be a local, but the issue is that LE appears not to have spent much time looking for the unidentified male who was photographed by Liz's friends when they were together at the restaurant. Once the father and his lawyer got the word out with the photo, then apparently it didn't take very long for people to identify him. I don't think LE are protecting him, I think they are still investigating if he committed a crime or not, and they are working with the DA to determine this, at least according to the father.
www.independent.com
He didn't look like a UCSB student, JMO. He looks like someone who works in the trades (Carhartt Utility Jeans) and frequents the area near student housing.
Whatever happened, it was very quick. They only serve beer at the noodle bar, how long were they there? Was he buying her drinks?Some of this info I haven’t seen elsewhere yet:
Feb 14: Father said she’s seen in photos (I presume at the restaurant) at 10:06 looking happy.
At 10:27, the 9-1-1 call is made.
She is taken to the hospital and underwent surgery immediately.
The hospital was not able to identify her that evening.
The next morning, her friends filed a missing person’s report.
They were directed to the hospital to identify her.
Her parents were notified that afternoon.
She was declared brain dead on Feb 20, and died on Feb 21.
Young Man Questioned in Relation to UC Santa Barbara Student’s Death
Witnesses saw Liz Hamel, 18, and a man leave Isla Vista restaurant together about 20 minutes before a 9-1-1 call reporting her apparent fall from San Rafael dorm’s breezeway.
The father said tge walk from the Lao Wang restaurant to the San Rafael dorms takes between five and ten minutes.
I do wonder about that as well. How could she walk away without her phone and ID? She might have been drinking I suppose. But it still seems unusual. IMO
He looks like a student to me too. Carhartt clothing is a popular thing among young guys in So Cal.
It was published online where he is studying. Not in MSM though. I find it odd that they went to that location. And how come she didn't notice that she left her belongings behind?
