Shooter bought his ladder at Home Depot on day of assassination?
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Kid must have gotten paid. The ladder in question is like this one. $350 bucks
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Amucolo-22-ft-Reach-Aluminium-Alloy-Telescoping-Multi-Position-Ladder-with-Wheels-300-lbs-Load-Capacity-Yead-CYD0-MWT/328291527
I have 2 of those. Those ladders are exceptionally heavy. 22ft is 44ft worth of aluminum, plus rungs. HEAVY
I could never transport one on top of or inside of a car.
Agree, father in law has one at the cabin. He has me climb the 44ft up the side to clean the gutters. Takes both of us to walk it up.
Right. Because its built with an A-frame, its like carrying 2 ladders at once.
It’s more like 4 ladders each about 5.5 feet tall. Each half of the ladder is made from 2 ladders that can be extended up to 11 feet, and The middle of the “A” is actually a hinge that can open further and make it one 22 foot long ladder. The entire thing weighs about 35-40 pounds
And the ladder somehow fit in/on his compact car? And he had a bike there too. And he's single-handedly carrying that ladder AND rifle? And then at long range with seemingly no training and no scope on his rifle can make a headshot?
No form of mathematics can make this add up.
Carrying a rifle and the ladder at the same time by himself is certainly possible, pretty simple actually. Reach one arm through a gap between rungs, sit a rung on top of your shoulder, then (with the same arm) grab a rung further down the ladder to steady it. This would leave your other arm free to carry a rifle. The ladder linked above weighs about 35-40 pounds and is only about 6 feet tall when it’s not extended and up to 22 feet when fully extended,
As for transporting it to the rally, it wouldn’t fit inside a compact car and would would be a huge pain to secure to the roof, but I’ve heard he drove a van (haven’t seen it though). Media is also saying that the ladder he bought that morning has not been found and that he got onto the roof by climbing up from on top of the A/C handler. There are photos of a ladder there at that building, but it is a 10 foot tall, orange fiberglass step ladder.
I have heard that he was spotted walking through the field with his rifle but haven’t heard anyone say they saw him carrying a ladder,