Yes, there are indications it wasn’t a hit but a robbery gone wrong. We have minimal info from the police report but I did find this much:
There were signs of a struggle, marks on Rich, including a torn watchband.
Rich was conscious and talking to police. He lived for about 4 hours.
Hit men don’t leave their marks alive and talking to give descriptions, etc.
Hit men shoot, they don’t struggle with the mark.
Not proof of anything, but where’s the evidence this was a hit?
The scuttlebutt is that the job was farmed out to a couple of MS-13 types and was screwed up so bad they had to employ a backup at the hospital.
Where’s the evidence that the shooters wanted to take any property from Seth Rich?
I can SEE the murder.
I DON’T see the robbery.
Maybe a politically motivated “hit team” would want to make sure their “hit” wasn’t too readily recognizable as such.
His car was nearby? If so the ‘hit’ would have been a sedation and application of an apparatus bound to the target’s body in such a way with a handgun to present the shot spray correctly for a ‘suicide’. He may have been able to break away from the car and was shot (in the back?) instead. Just surmising, here.