These are good shots that you guys have pulled out of the video. My point was the placement of the three vehicles in the convoy may indicate the taxi was surrounded by all three. According to Wuterich's statement
here
...."The white, four door sedan was parked on the side of the road within 100 m of the IED attack, and within the security parameters of our convoy. I heard yelling mostly from the west where Cpl De La Cruz was shouting in broken Arabic and using expletives to the military aged males who occupied the white car.
This places Dela Cruz west of Wuterich and thus closer to the taxi. If Dela Cruz's is in vehicle 2 as indicated in Vanity Fair Rules of Engagement, this would make sense.
His weapon was at the ready, as it should have been. They were not complying and in fact were starting to run in the opposite direction to the south away from where Cpl Dela Cruz was approaching them. I took a knee in the road and fired. Engaging was the only choice. The threat had to be neutralized. Vehicle Borne IEDs were a serious threat and would have incapacitated our squad making us combat ineffective.
If Wuterich is in vehicle 3 as shown in one of your screen captures above, he is on the same side of the road as the taxi, but farther from the taxi. Then we have this about Salinas.
I don't remember anyone else firing at the same time I was, although at a squad debrief later on I learned that Cpl Dela Cruz had engaged the men at the car at the same time as I did and Cpl Salinas reported that he had opened fire, as well. After I watched the military aged males fall to the ground, Cpl De La Cruz advanced on them and I saw him fire at the bodies as they lay before I turned to make my way to the casualties. That is when I started hearing small arms fire from the south.
That's why I asked where vehicle 1 was. If Salinas was west of the taxi in vehicle 1, then the three shooters, Salinas, Dela Cruz, and Wuterich pretty much had a triangulated shooting position on the taxi. Who killed the men, then? I don't think anyone really knows.
As a minor point of interest, I overlaid (somewhat clumsily) the first published map from the Washington Post on top of Cobra's Google Earth map just to see how the placement of the convoy compared...
You can see how the Post misled readers by showing the Humvees directly alongside the white car.
Also, Cobra puts the IED blast further east (indicated by the big yellow dot on the road).
You haven't asked about houses 3 and 4 yet, but there are just off Cobra's map--indicated by the second yellow dot at the upper left.