Russian ambassador shot!

[T.Lex]

I'd compare it more to Reinhard Heydrich.

Ok. The result might not be too different, just a matter of scale.

 

[T.Lex]

BBC and Yahoo (and apparently Russian news agencies) confirming ambassador has died.

 

[T.Lex]

Speculation: with all the social media coverage of Aleppo (speaking of snuff pics), Russia, Turkey and others will seek to further limit the content in distributed reporting. Would follow onto the work toward limiting "fake" news.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

UPDATE: The shooter of the Russian ambassador to Turkey was a Turkish police officer, he was killed by police forces after the assassination

 

[T.Lex]

Also reports that police/military have a building surrounded (maybe an apartment building) and shots were fired. Kinda wonder what the status is of the shooter's kin.

 

[T.Lex]

UPDATE: The shooter of the Russian ambassador to Turkey was a Turkish police officer, he was killed by police forces after the assassination

Turkey media have ID’d the assassin as a serving police officer - Mevlüt Mert Altintas. Member of Ankara police.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Look at the trigger discipline. Is this the shooter?

 

[T.Lex]

UPDATE: The shooter of the Russian ambassador to Turkey was a Turkish police officer, he was killed by police forces after the assassination

Yeah... and... uh... there's a pic of what looks like a very dead dude that looks a lot like shooter dude.

Now, it'll be interesting to see if the date stamps match the gofundme sites.

 

[cbhausen]

Full video of the shooting on Twitter...

Search @140journos

I won't link here. Pretty disturbing. Shot from behind with exit wound through heart and close-up of man's facial expressions while bullets impacted. Very hard core.

 

[T.Lex]

Full video of the shooting on Twitter...

Search @140journos

I won't link here. Pretty disturbing.

Yeah, wow.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The assassin shouted "allahu akbar" which means "the motivation for the attack isn't clear."

 

[T.Lex]

Also, in looking at some pics of his demise, I give Shooter some credit: it doesn't look like he tried to take human shields or anything like that. Whatever the body count ends up at, it doesn't look like he intended to take out "innocent" people.

 

[BIGE7.62]

News just said the ambassador has past away

Looks like this has already been posted

 

[printcraft]

Yeah, wow.

Magazine is missing the bottom plate.... Wonder who that belonged to and if it was shot off.

 

[T.Lex]

So here's something kinda interesting. Karlov spent 30 years (apparently) working in/dealing with North Korea. In 2007, was transferred to Turkey.

In the world of diplomacy, that's a huge change. People tend to have specialties and expertise in certain areas. Turkey and DPRK don't seem to have much in common.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

The assassin shouted "allahu akbar" which means "the motivation for the attack isn't clear."

Meh, there it is like saying "Well" or "Pues".

 

[T.Lex]

Magazine is missing the bottom plate.... Wonder who that belonged to and if it was shot off.

Yeah, noticed that, too. I suspect his handgun (Sig? I'm terrible at identifying non-Glock/non-S&W/non-Makarov pistols) took some hits while he was dodging incoming projectiles.

 

[T.Lex]

Look at the trigger discipline. Is this the shooter?

Yes, he's been ID'd, he was an Ankara police officer, he was shot and killed in the gallery where he shot the Russian ambassador.

Can we get these threads merged?

 

[miguel]

Didn't think to check that forum

That's on me. I idiotically posted in the wrong one in my excitement to rally everyone to the cause of retaking Constantinople...

Look at the trigger discipline. Is this the shooter?

And with both hands, too!

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Yeah, noticed that, too. I suspect his handgun (Sig? I'm terrible at identifying non-Glock/non-S&W/non-Makarov pistols) took some hits while he was dodging incoming projectiles.

Dude, it's a Canik. Harden up on the gun geekery, this is INGO.