The writing writing style is one of the things I find odd.
Great pains are taken to make the reader like Danny and be so happy that he lived to call the girl. This distracts from the “facts”.
Maybe it’s all true, but there are details which don’t match the earlier story.
Also, I saw a photo somewhere here with 3 - 5 other young men with the two brothers
Pretty sure was taken in Times Square and a couple of the men were said to be Chinese.
I think the asian dinner companion looks like the guy in the middle. Those apple cheeks.