I think Crooks' 'barrage' was likely part of the plan. Here's a possible scenario.
1) One shooter on building behind Crooks. One in the 2nd story of the 2 story building to the left. OR, two shooters on the roof behind Crooks.
2) Crooks is told to 'wait for my first shots'
3) Shooter behind Crooks fires three calculated shots at Trump
4) Crooks lets loose at the sounds of these shots
5) Within 0.5 seconds of Crooks' 5th shot (all 5 came in 1 second) the 2nd shooter either in the window of the building behind him, or on the roof behind him, takes him out. That's the 9th shot, which sounds very different from the first three and Crooks' five. It's more muffled, as if with a silencer. The tenth, about 10 seconds later, is similarly muffled but likely further away, so possibly the snipers on the roof behind Trump finally eyeballing one of the shooters and hitting him, hence the report of "blood in the bathroom".
Evidence for this, at least for the idea of shooters BEHIND Crooks is that I think Crooks was shot from behind.
However, the official story is that:
So, officially, Crooks was shot in the front of the head, or, if he moved his head to the side, perhaps in the side of the head. The audio evidence, however, strongly suggests that Crooks was shot while in his firing position, i.e. at Trump, because the shot that killed him came 0.5 seconds after his 5th shot, i.e. almost instantaneous.
From the position Crooks was in, the Secret Service sniper on the roof behind Trump would have had seen him from a slight angle, but still generally 'head on'. The official story confirms this - that the sniper could only see "
the top of his eye and forehead" -
Here's the problem. The picture of deceased Crooks' on the roof (apologies to those sensitive to these images) strongly suggests a rear entry wound and front exit wound.
This looks like an entry wound behind and below his right ear, and an exit wound slightly above and to the left of his upper left lip.
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Add to this the comments by a guy talking to "Dave on twitter" right after the shooting where he and Dave were discussing if the Crooks had been taken out and the guy says:
"I saw a big poof of hair go up in the air", which, from his position directly below the building that Crooks was on, is also consistent with Crooks being shot from behind.
It also explains why pretty much all law enforcement that converged on the AGR building in the immediate aftermath of the shooting focused exclusively on the roof of the building behind the building that Crooks was on. This video was taken 2 minutes 30 seconds after the first shots were fired.
This is the building roof they are focusing on relative to Crooks' known position.
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So without knowing the exact angle of the suspected entry/exit wound, here are the possible vantage points/trajectories of the bullet that killed him.
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