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Maybe I’m just face-blind or being dense but the photos from the scene of the crime look like a different dude than the ginning hostel check in guy. The jackets and backpacks are different. Although people can have multiple jackets and backpacks. We don’t see much of the shooters face but the eyebrows look different. Although, people can pluck/shave eyebrows. I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

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[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They will find someone that roughly fits the description and he won't make it to jail alive... Case closed nothing to see here... Or something entirely different may happen..

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

It's not even the same jacket, obviously. You can spend 10 seconds and find 10 other differences.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

How do they explain the bag changing colors?

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I keep seeing the backpack as not matching, I don’t get how these are considered the same person, unless is going to be the next blue-black white-gold thing.

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[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

I’m thinking they’re gonna arrest Timothy Chalamet any moment now

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like a generic male, although the ladies say he is good looking.

Looks like nobody saw nothing in NYC tho lol

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope it's not the whole gold/blue dress thing all over again.

However, I read in another post one might just be someone they want to question to get to the master assassin.

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If they are the same person they may have two jackets that are very similar but slightly different and two different backpacks. Someone on top of opsec or paranoid having lots of easily changeable looks would make sense. Although ideally you would want different colored jackets. It could also be that the camera quality isn't good enough for the details in the jacket to show up and they only have two backpacks. It does really look like the two pictures on the right could be someone different with a similar jacket to the two pictures on the left though.

[–] Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Worst opsec agent ever. “My change of clothes will be… essentially the same outfit, but with a black backpack”

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you not watched Archer? You don't know if he'll wear his black tactileneck, or the slightly darker black tactileneck. It comes in both colors.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Smiling guy is a patsy they'll try to hang for this to help other CEOs sleep peacefully on their second yachts at night after a long day of forcing 5 day a week return to office mandates for overworked employees with "leadership" emails sent remotely from Saint-Tropez.

Weird thing is, neither of these photos has the guy... they already know the man responsible for this and many other deaths, his name was Brian Thompson.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pretty sure all of those pics are different people. I guess we'll never find them, might as well give up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

Not only do I agree, but also it has been my feeling that the Starbucks footage and visit was a performance of some kind, and the water and phone they found were a distraction. Dude seems to have otherwise thought this through pretty well.

I admit that's nothing more than a hunch though, and I can't really defend it against anyone who disagrees.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems pretty obvious the left two and the right two are different people.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Which raises the question:
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oooooh......I saw him! I think......I'm pretty sure he was a PS1 game back in the 90s.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

auto white balance in cheap digital video camera changes color appearances dramatically in different types of light bulbs

that would be my first guess/answer

edit: nevermind

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/08/g-s1-37361/nypd-releases-2-new-photos-of-man-sought-in-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Accounting for that, the hostel guy seems to have a rucksack or similar. They're quite distinct and notable bags. If it's not actually a rucksack, it's something with similar design elements, maybe a knockoff, since rucksacks tend to be rather expensive.

Rucksacks are popular with people who hike/move around a lot, the kind of people who would stop at a hostel for a night before moving on to another area/location/city/country, usually by non-typical means (hiking, walking, hitch hiking, etc).

That's just the personality type for one such person who would use such a combination of products, and by no means should describe, or imply a description, of the individual illustrated in the image. My entire point to saying any of this is that it's a very district design.

The shooter has a very simple backpack that lacks most of the notable features that I can see from the backpack/rucksack that the hostel person is using.

They're both backpacks, but one is notably different than the other.

While it's feasible they just switched backpacks, IMO it's far more likely that they're simply different people.

To me, this kind of naming and shaming attitude of a person of interest in an ongoing investigation by the press is disgusting.

If the images here depict two different people as I suspect they do, then the individual in the hostel images is likely to suffer consequences as a result of the brash and hasty release of their images by the press. It will likely affect them for years to come.

It makes for enticing headlines, that's for sure, but it's abysmal journalism. They don't seem to have any standards left regarding the truth, only whatever will attract the most views/clicks/reads/whatever.

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No breast pockets on the shooter’s jacket and there’s no way your white balance is going to be so off that a white backpack becomes black

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah the shooter had something more like a rain jacket. But he may have put on the rain jacket that he wasn't wearing earlier when going out to shoot the guy. Backpack is different, but that may have been stashed in the park.

But what seems odd to me is that this whole thing was obviously premeditated, but a guy that's intent on murder is smiling and chatting up the receptionist? I guess that's possible, but something that further suggests that it's a different dude.

We really only have the top half of the faces looking somewhat similar in a couple of grainy images. It's plausible it's the same guy, but given the information we have, it's more likely not. But we don't have all the information, so who knows?

[–] card797@champserver.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Seems like they'll never find em. Stand down.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It might be time to start smashing all the security cameras.

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[–] Heisenburner@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought I saw that these pictures were taken on different days and the guy on the right has been tagged as a "person of interest" and not officially a "suspect"

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