This guy was supposed to be very smart, and judging by all the pre-planning, if he thought he needed a 2nd window smashed on that side of the building for any reason...one of those other windows in the same large room would make far more sense than in the other room next door.
He had to have known he didn't have unlimited time so having to go into the other room through the door would be costly in terms of time. Furthermore, he most likely didn't have the video set up in that other room to monitor the hallway.
The smashed out window in that other room next door just really doesn't add up.
“The smashed out window in that other room next door just really doesn’t add up”
Better line of site to the fuel tanks. However, that flies in the face of the planning you point out. Combined with his pilot background makes it very odd he bothered shooting at those kero tanks, but he did.
It does if his goal was to make people uncertain of the number of shooters or which direction to run. And that is exactly what happened. He booked the room. Obviously did not need it for himself. Note the food service cart was placed in front of that second rooms door. So it served a purpose.
Very good points.
Although having a second room may have been a way of hiding for just a bit longer. It sounds like SWAT broke into just the one door - not sure why they didn’t enter both.
Maybe the security guard said “So I was at the door and he started shooting like crazy at me and hit my leg. Then I heard a single shot, and then it was quiet.” (I was going to have the guard hear a “thunk” after the single shot - but I’m guessing after all of that nearby gunfire his hearing was shot.)
HMMM - the photo of the shooter in the pool of blood - no hearing protection iirc. That seems odd - with all of the planning that he did. Maybe THAT’s why he didn’t fire the remaining hundreds (thousands?) of rounds he had.
“Geez that’s loud - I can’t take it anymore!”