Why “two widely separated windows on the 32nd floor busted out”
Keep asking that question. I can see Columbo walking around in his trench coat scratching his head saying that over and over while chewing on a cigar.
As I wrote on another thread this morning, its not like shooter is markedly improving the field of view for shots at the massive target zone area from 30 stories up from 2 different windows ~40 feet apart.
Put the window clue together with the timeline and statement of ammo left over in the room. Why would a single mass murderer throw ~ 500-600 rounds down range in ~20 minutes, then “commit suicide” with ammo left over and the SWAT team still not gently knocking on the door (ultimately still most of an hour away).
The Arkancided dead body of the “shooter” fits with the other clues only if someone else was involved at the shooting location, initially helping to throw some lead down range from the 2nd window. Next step was to waste the useful idiot, with gambling debts, before police response, and then quietly slip out to somewhere else to play the role of a frightened tourist/gambler.
I think it likely that the only things to be found in the background of the dead shooter is that HE BOUGHT SOME GUNS. Is this, to borrow a phrase from something else I read today (sorry I don’t remember for attribution), “Fast and Furious on steroids” engineered by someone else?
We have to keep asking questions.
Another thing you can learn from listening to the police scanner is that at about the 30 minute mark one police says “there have not been any shots fired in 15 minutes”. So the shooter quit firing after 10-15 minutes but SWAT did not breach until over an hour. There was a security guard on floor 32 shot in the leg but that was in the first few minutes.