Cover-Up Being Finalized

Media assisting in the details:

• Chicago police could soon issue a final report on the mysterious shooting at a White Sox game last summer. Two women in the stands were shot and injured, and theories have varied about how it happened.

Theories do not vary. 

What story will be told and what the media is willing to sell to the ignorant is varying. The facts known within the Department haven't varied much at all:

• Police may soon provide some answers, but it may not provide a satisfactory answer for fans or the team.

  [...] During the game, two women were injured by bullets that struck them while sitting in the left field bleachers. One 40 caliber bullet was recovered. Another bullet remains lodged in the leg of the woman who was most seriously wounded.

So two bullets? Or one bullet (in a known location) and one shell casing? Because the media is famous for not knowing specifics or reporting specifics accurately.

Here comes the cover-up:

• Shortly after the incident, the acting Chicago Police Department Superintendent Fred Waller suggested the shots had to have been fired from inside the ballpark. "It's still under investigation, we're dispelling a lot of things," Waller said at the time. "It's coming from outside is something that we've almost completely dispelled."

  However, days later White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf told reporters Waller had updated him with different information. "The police have not ruled out the possibility or the probability that the gunshots the other night came from outside the ballpark," Reinsdorf said.

Yeah, right. You know what DID rule out the "possibility or probability" that the bullet (singular) came from outside the park?

• physics - for a SINGLE bullet to travel the supposed distance from the ShotSpotter reading, maintaining a climbing trajectory to surmount the exterior wall, then descending sharply downward to strike a victim in the lower leg - bypassing railings and seats - with enough momentum to penetrate flesh to the point that no surgical recovery was attempted, is beyond the realm of impossible;
• physics again - for TWO bullets, fired in rapid succession, AFTER the barrel deviation from the first shot's recoil, THEN returning to a firing position for the second shot AND hitting another person with the previously mentioned climbing and falling trajectories and avoidance of physical obstructions, is not just beyond the realm of impossible, it's laughable that any moron would believe it. 
• Study up on "Minute Of Angle" and apply it to 1,760 yards. Now apply it to a pistol with a 4" barrel and no optic. Laughable.
  

 What happened is this:

• security failed to detect said handgun which was concealed in the fat folds of a Chicago public school teacher whose address is outside of the city;
• a negligent discharge resulted in a scorch-mark across the belly and a fired bullet in the victim's leg;
  
• the Sox couldn't admit security failed and the CPD failed to shut down either the seating area where EMS responded to or delayed/evacuated/shut down the game - it was an active crime scene for all intents and purposes....no one knew shit;
  
• Reinsdorf, who pays a lot of taxes, leaned on the Department to disavow Waller's completely honest and realistic interpretation of the investigation.

But it'll be covered up:

• Now, sources told ABC7 that police are poised to report that it's most likely the shots were fired outside the stadium based on several factors.

  There was no visible reaction in the left bleachers that would have been expected if a gun had gone off nearby and there was no sign of any muzzle flash. No one tested positive for gunshot residue. Perhaps most significantly, the injuries to the victim's leg would have been much more extensive if the shot had been fired from the vicinity of the left field bleachers.
  

We already told you how the shots didn't come over the wall and hit anyone from a mile away. Based on our long experience, most people don't recognize gunshots for being gunshots, especially if they come through a layer of skin, belly fat and a layer of clothing. Chances are, most cops wouldn't recognize it either. And all of that would hide a muzzle flash pretty effectively. It wouldn't conceal a burn mark though.

As for damage, that's a crap evaluation since it depends too many factors - how the gun was held (which it wasn't), gun maintenance, decent cartridge or not, etc.

Now add in the refusal to cooperate with police by the CCL holding teacher and the victim. Did they swab the belly burn or just the hands? Who decided the bullet couldn't/wouldn't be recovered? Does the CCL licensed weapon match the caliber of the fired round? Were the season tickets for those seats renewed or revoked for next year? 

All questions that we aren't hearing answers to.

Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one.