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Someone got a close-up of the guy who killed the woman. Facebook link. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Wednesday OP
Bastard murdered the woman. Just shot her point blank. Klarkashton Wednesday #1
Link doesn't work. Dave Bowman Wednesday #2
I think the shooter was female. mobeau69 Wednesday #3
I don't know why you would think that. Wiz Imp Wednesday #5
I'll watch again. mobeau69 Wednesday #9
Gnome's doubling down on the lie right now on the tube. mobeau69 Wednesday #10
No, it looks like a man. Baitball Blogger Wednesday #16
It was obviously a man obamanut2012 Wednesday #35
Given the amount (coupled w/ reliability) of CRAP floating around on Facebook stopdiggin Wednesday #4
Huh? The guy ID'ed on this Facebook post is clearly the murderer. Wiz Imp Wednesday #6
that is being refuted (as well as questioned?) in places, almost as quickly as it is spreading stopdiggin Wednesday #11
The video shows it is obviously him. There is only one ICE agent there not wearing a stocking cap. Wiz Imp Wednesday #12
I'm not making a call one way or the other. I am simply saying that stopdiggin Wednesday #13
Wow. Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the murderer has now been named Wiz Imp Thursday #38
Thank you for the clarity. John1956PA Wednesday #15
That is simply not true. Ms. Toad Wednesday #17
Sheesh. I thought it was obvious that I meant the guy can be tracked trough the entire video. Wiz Imp Wednesday #18
And how hard is it to remove a stocking cap? Ms. Toad Wednesday #20
I'm not blind or stupid. You can see his face at every point he is in the video and it is clearly the same person.. Wiz Imp Wednesday #22
I'm not accusing you of being blind or stupid. I am disputing the statement you made that you can track him Ms. Toad Wednesday #23
Wow. Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the murderer has now been named Wiz Imp Thursday #37
and your rush to be 'first', and 'cock sure' stopdiggin Thursday #40
Here is a snip I took from the video. The shooter's face is partially seen in the background. John1956PA Wednesday #27
Distinctive hair. tblue37 Wednesday #32
Thank you. The idea that you can't clearly say the man being ID'ed as the murderer online Wiz Imp Wednesday #34
Theres always someone DiverDave Wednesday #31
Because internet misidentification destroys lives. Ms. Toad Wednesday #33
His face is being spread all over Facebook. hamsterjill Wednesday #7
Good Raven123 Wednesday #29
. How often do we learn a mass murderer started out torturing/killing animals? Well, we are now at the next Hassler Wednesday #8
There's another pic of him before he puts up his mask, Ilsa Wednesday #14
Is it this one? Baitball Blogger Wednesday #19
Yeah, that's the shooter, isnt it? nt Ilsa Wednesday #21
It's the picture that is being circulated on the streaming services. Baitball Blogger Wednesday #24
K&R UTUSN Wednesday #25
The Shooter? 2na fisherman Wednesday #26
Someone made that with AI Diraven Wednesday #28
Thanks 2na fisherman Wednesday #36
And none of them render aid! Amoral bastards! surfered Wednesday #30
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has already identified him. valleyrogue Thursday #39

Klarkashton

(4,740 posts)
1. Bastard murdered the woman. Just shot her point blank.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:03 PM
Wednesday

He was STANDING a foot away from the window.

JFC this is all insanity.

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
5. I don't know why you would think that.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:13 PM
Wednesday

The murderer was clearly the guy ID'ed in the OP.

stopdiggin

(15,037 posts)
4. Given the amount (coupled w/ reliability) of CRAP floating around on Facebook
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:11 PM
Wednesday

I don't want anything to do with a link such as this.
Please reconsider ...

stopdiggin

(15,037 posts)
11. that is being refuted (as well as questioned?) in places, almost as quickly as it is spreading
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:32 PM
Wednesday

why would you insist that you have the 'real goods'?
I think I'm going to wait for other (and much more knowledgeable/reliable) sources. Is there a rush here ?

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
12. The video shows it is obviously him. There is only one ICE agent there not wearing a stocking cap.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:35 PM
Wednesday

That is the murderer. He has nothing on his head. That is the guy ID'ed here. You can follow the guy during the entire video. He starts to the right of the vehicle, moves around the front to the front left corner where he fires his shots. As soon as he's done shooting, he walks towards the wrecked car and then back down the street where he gets in another car who drives off. You are WRONG. It is clearly obvious on the video.

stopdiggin

(15,037 posts)
13. I'm not making a call one way or the other. I am simply saying that
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:38 PM
Wednesday

'identity' is being questioned - at the same time it is being spread on social media.

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
38. Wow. Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the murderer has now been named
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 03:02 PM
Thursday

and is the guy I said it was? It was 100% obvious from the videos that he was the guy. No matter how much you or anyone else try to argue otherwise.

https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-officer-minneapolis-shootig-identified
?ve=1&tl=1

John1956PA

(4,839 posts)
15. Thank you for the clarity.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:52 PM
Wednesday

Last edited Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:50 PM - Edit history (1)

The only thing I would add is that I think two shots were fired into the windshield, and the final shot was fired through the driver side window.

ON EDIT: I have now seen the image of the victim's wrecked vehicle. Only one bullet hole in the windshield appears in the image. I do not know how many rounds were fired or where they struck. But I am convinced that the law enforcement officer shown in the videos and discussed here in these threads is indeed the shooter and that the act was murder.

Ms. Toad

(38,311 posts)
17. That is simply not true.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:09 PM
Wednesday

The officer is not visible in at least half of the video. He is visible right after the shooting, he disappears from view, the camera swings around (away from the direction he walked), then back to the woman's car in its ending location, then a man who appears to be the same man walks toward the camera (from the direction of the woman's car) when the close-up is captured.

I'm not making an assessment one way or the other as to whether he is the shooter - BUT - he is not visible "during the entire video."

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
18. Sheesh. I thought it was obvious that I meant the guy can be tracked trough the entire video.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:16 PM
Wednesday

Which is 100% true. He is the only ICE agent not wearing anything on his head.

Ms. Toad

(38,311 posts)
20. And how hard is it to remove a stocking cap?
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:21 PM
Wednesday

He's not the only ICE agent on the scene, and he disappears from view for about half of the video.

How do you know it is not a different agent (who either wasn't visible before, or who was but took his hat off) that came walking back toward the camera?

Because you cannot track him through the half of the video in which he is not visible, you can't track him through the entire video. You can track him until he walks toward the woman's car. You can track someone who doesn't have a hat from the woman's car back toward the camera. Because of the gap, there is no way to be certain it is the same person in both the beginning and the ending of the video.

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
22. I'm not blind or stupid. You can see his face at every point he is in the video and it is clearly the same person..
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:44 PM
Wednesday

You're making such ridiculous arguments they are worthy of MAGA. Keep arguing if you like. You're wrong and only serve to make yourself look foolish. You're not smarter or better than other people here like you clearly believe yourself to be.

Ms. Toad

(38,311 posts)
23. I'm not accusing you of being blind or stupid. I am disputing the statement you made that you can track him
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:00 PM
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through the entire video.

You can track the shooter from the shooting, walking toward the victim's car. He is an ICE agent without a cap.

Then he completely disappears - for at least half of the video. You have no idea where he is, or even if he is still at the scene.

Near the end of the video, you can track an ICE agent walking from the victim's car toward the camera. That ICE agent did not have a cap.

There were dozens of ICE agents in the area (as can be seen by reviewing a number of videos). The early part of the video showed only a half-dozen of them. You have no way of knowing if there were other ICE agents on the scene who were not wearing caps - only that the handful which appeared at the beginning of the video were. Even if every ICE agent on the scene was initially wearing a hat, hats are trivial to remove. In addition, there were no close-ups of the shooter at the beginning of the video. They were all shot from a distance, with so little resolution that not much detail was available. So you have no way of knowing the shooter (in the beginning of the video) is the same agent shown in close-up at the end.

It may be the same video. But, with internet vigilantism alive and well, the consequences of mistakenly identifying the wrong person as the shooter could be disastrous. It is irresponsible to make statements asserting that you can track them through the entire video, when it is impossible to do so with any certainty.

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
37. Wow. Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the murderer has now been named
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 02:59 PM
Thursday

and is the guy I said it was? It was 100% obvious from the videos that he was the guy. No matter how much you or anyone else try to argue otherwise.

https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-officer-minneapolis-shootig-identified
?ve=1&tl=1

stopdiggin

(15,037 posts)
40. and your rush to be 'first', and 'cock sure'
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 06:09 PM
Thursday

was driven by .. ?
And your outrage and indignation for those that would say let's go a little slow .. ?

We were being told (on these same pages) and at the same time, that some of the images being presented were AI generated. And - to be honest, I see no real utility in having a positive ID twenty minutes earlier than a reliable news source.

Wiz Imp

(9,016 posts)
34. Thank you. The idea that you can't clearly say the man being ID'ed as the murderer online
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 09:42 PM
Wednesday

is actually the murderer is total bullshit. It is obviously the same person as you can see here

Ms. Toad

(38,311 posts)
33. Because internet misidentification destroys lives.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:59 PM
Wednesday

It may well be him. But it also may not be him. If it isn't, it won't be the first time I've suggested holding off on attacking someone based on an internet identification that later turned out to be wrong (too much later for the innocent people caught up in the wrath of the internet). It won't even be the first time on DU.

My point was that the person I responded to insisted that they could track him through the entire video. He is not even visible in half of the video, so there is no way anyone can track him through the entire video. The first part of the video is too distant to see much (the reason no one is citing that as identification). The end at least superficially resembles him (white male not wearing a cap in ICE gear). But because he vanishes for the video, there is no way to reliably connect the shooter (the first part of the video) with the person in the close-up.

Hassler

(4,767 posts)
8. . How often do we learn a mass murderer started out torturing/killing animals? Well, we are now at the next
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:16 PM
Wednesday

Stage of Killer Kristi's fascist killing spree.

Diraven

(1,830 posts)
28. Someone made that with AI
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:25 PM
Wednesday

Directly from a frame at 1:10 in the video where he has his mask on. So it's not his real face.

2na fisherman

(241 posts)
36. Thanks
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 10:05 PM
Wednesday

That's why I put a question mark after title. My guard was down. There are always hazards of AI fake photos. The ID of the shooter must be identified eventually.

valleyrogue

(2,593 posts)
39. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has already identified him.
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 03:04 PM
Thursday

The pictures of him don't really matter now.

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