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"Not sure i can tell you, it just SMELLED from the get-go"

Well the thing that smells to me from the get-go is that on the evening of this murder Fox news was reporting that about 6 people had seen something and that 4 of them were claiming that the person was of ME of Hispanic extraction and that 2 were claiming they saw someone who was white. No I understand that eye-witnesses are not always reliable but when you have this many people that are saying the same thing it stands to reason that there is something there.

What I gathered from the news conference this morning, if one could gather anything from it at all, is that there was only one witness and they had been discredited. So it is, at this point, almost impossible to conclude anything from what law enforcement is telling us.

What I gathered from the news conference this morning, if one could gather anything from it at all, is that there was only one witness and they had been discredited.

I recall seeing 2 witnesses in a police car (2 females)being taken down for questioning according to the media.

Instead of endless speculation, lets see if we can reason this out.

We have two options, the witness reports are either credible or they are not. If the witnesses are NOT credible how would that be? Well, eyewitness accounts have proven to be wrong on numerous occasions. Ok, problem number one. What do the police know which leads them to believe that the accounts are inaccurate?

Perhaps the witnesses all gave such varying descriptions that it is impossible to know which, if any, might be correct. This doesn't seem to be the case, unless the weight given the descriptions in the first place was overblown. *I think this is a distinct possibility given how our media reports in a crisis.

Now lets look at it as if the reports ARE credible. If the reports are good, why would the police retract them? First idea, perhaps they are afraid of a backlash against innocent ME's? I don't give this much weight, more likely to have had that problem after 911 than this instance and it didn't happen much then.

Second, perhaps the shooter(s), once they think they have given enough information away to get caught, will disappear. The police want the shootings to end as much as everyone else, but they want it to end because the bad guys have been caught, not simply run outta town.

Any other ideas?