it is not a drive around and seek a target close to the avenue of escape which has been chosen
it is, rather, a set up the shooting from a chosen point
AND
then, shoot whatever target comes into the "killing zone" ....
this will insure a partial method of randomness into the victim selection .....
Nemer, those first two are not mutually exclusive. After he finds a good spot, I would think he parks his vehicle then sits and waits. Like you, I doubt he gets out of his car because that would a) increase the chances someone might get a good look at him, b) increase the chances his potential victim would move a step or two and mess up his clean shot thus leaving him standing there aiming a gun for no reason (so to speak), c) take away precious time during which he might be escaping, and d) with nothing to rest his gun on, decrease his accuracy.
However, who is to say he can't afford to be selective as well? I tend to think that the first person that provides him a perfect kill shot gets it, but certainly it's perfectly reasonable to theorize he could just wait, say, for a woman this time. What actually lends more credibility to the "selective (as opposed to random) victim" theory is that he drove to a school, shot a child, and left a note there. Obviously when you drive to a school and shoot a kid, you aren't being random about your type of victim. So if he was this selective at least once, why not other times as well?
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