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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      It’s cold, need something. “No jacket” would call attention. Gotta both be pretty nondescript not to call attention too, no hot pink or sports teams (maybe yankees in the city, but if he leaves NYC nondescript is better.)

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      We should know within a day because if flirty Starbucks guy isn’t him then that person will almost certainly come forward to get removed from investigation.

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        55 days ago

        Why? Seems safer to just keep your head down. He didn’t do anything, why should he let the cops try to pin it on him?

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          A bunch of comments on here and Reddit about how police will do everything they can to make sure he’s seen as a threat during arrest and kill him? I don’t think that’s the case, but if this guy has nothing to do with it and felt the same it would be much safer to just walk into a police station and get ruled out of the investigation. Better that than risk a cop spotting him one day and thinking himself a hero.

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            24 days ago

            If happy dude isn’t the CEO clean up guy, walking into a police station would be the best to way to ensure he gets the CEOs death pinned on him or worse. Happy dude would be best hiring a lawyer and following their advice.

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              24 days ago

              Assuming he was elsewhere on CCTV at the time of the shooting (work, university, cafe) he should be ok.

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                34 days ago

                Something I’ve learned in life is that should be and is are not the same thing. You’re right, that he should be okay, but the cops are going to want to stick this to someone. It’s way too high profile for them to let it go. If happy dude isn’t their guy and walks in the front door, the cops would make him their guy.

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                  14 days ago

                  Facts. Dudes best bet is a lawyer and to lay low.

                  If that was me, there’s no way I’m walking into a police station on my own.