If not for those meddeling patriots alerting a cop that there was a shooter on that roof and that cop alerting that sniper and that sniper blowing yearicks brains out Yearick would have been snuck out of there and Crooks would have been swatted within hours.
Think that over and put the puzzle pieces together.
Who is Yearick?
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/474283089 This ought to help…OP explains his theory in the thread and it seems pretty solid to me.