It was the impression among many of the first responders that there was more than just one sniper up in that tower. I wonder if another suspect didn't get away after the first twenty minutes, when most of the victims were shot--on all sides of the tower.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-29/news/mn-21186_1_charles-whitman/2
He was firing so fast and so often, with so many puffs of smoke coming from different angles on the observation deck, that many on the ground believed there were
two or three snipers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy1B5mfzCBA
22:35 mark
PO Houston McCoy: I looked up there on the north end there's the one shot, then right in the middle there's a shot, then on the south end there was a shot.
Voice Over: .... (The sniper was)shooting from east, west, north, and south. He(the gunman) gave the impression that
there was more than one sniper.
McCoy: I thought
there was at least three of them right there, you know.
Article from Austin-American Statesman, Aug 2, 1966
It was so deadly and efficient police officers were not convinced until the moment of Whitman's death there were not
two snipers firing at human targets below.
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1728
At first it wasn't obvious to police, bystanders or the media if there was
more than one person shooting from the Tower.
http://www.westtexasscoutinghistory.net/McCoy-story.html
Houston McCoy: "On remaining at the northeast corner, I had drawn and cocked my .38 revolver, being leery of
another possible sniper."
http://www.westtexasscoutinghistory.net/McCoy-Waco-Tribune-Herald.html
Waco Tribune-Herald April 23, 1967
From the volume of fire, police believed
several people were up there....
http://www.westtexasscoutinghistory.net/McCoy-Chief.html
Austin Police Chief Bob Miles:
"The first report didn't really strike a note; it just said something about invetigating someone shooting from the tower. But the next report, when I started paying attention, said there appeared to be
two of them shooting from the tower."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A8hgoACMpM
PO Jerry Day: 2:12 mark
"There were shots coming from everywhere. ... It looked like
a gang of people up there."
Any thoughts from anybody who has lingering doubts?
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