You insistence that the bullets must have passed through 3 walls means you fail geometry.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002989849
This post includes a commonly-reported diagram of where the shooter was in theater 9. There is a significant range of locations near the door he entered (upper right corner of this diagram) that would allow a shot to not hit the "stair well" wall in 9, thus only needing to penetrate 2 walls at most.
Depending on which row the person in theater 8 was in, the angle might only require passing through one wall.
Hahaha. So you wish to redesign the crime scene? That diagram is very much out of date (up to date, now, however, because the theater was redesigned and now somewhat resembles the diagram). Also, that is not an exact layout, and the original website that hosted that image even said so. Here's another diagram that looks more like the actual layout, but you shouldn't accept this one either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1_QwrYGbvc
Before I show you images you will tell me are out of date, one must also note the blatant problem with the diagram you show simply because the theater was large enough to hold well over 400 people. It is also being said, now in recent hearings, that only one canister was recovered from inside the theater (they appear to want to claim the canister bounced off a railing, causing a smoke trail to appear to come from the "middle light" as was reported, and Seeger and Dates only saw him throw one, and that a second canister was recovered from inside the car).
Now, as for the interior, we have the following image which shows the interior of theater 9, which we know is theater 9 because only theater's 8 and 9 had emergency exits at the top, according to an exployee interviewed after the shooting (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUxRD7XNwc ):
http://www.cinematour.com/picview.php?db=us&id=25861
http://www.cinematour.com/picview.php?db=us&id=25860
http://www.cinematour.com/picview.php?db=us&id=25859
And, just for reference, this woman claims to be a resident of Aurora, and claims she used to be a manager at the theater, and posted this image saying it is theater 9, and "shows the shooter's vantage point":
http://amandakrause.fsimbs.com/century-16-shooting-another-colorado-tragedy/
From the images, you can clearly see the stairwell walls greatly cover the seated section adjacent to them. A person of standard height standing up out of the chair might barely clear the top of the wall.
However, congratulations. You successfully attempted what I referred to as the way to explain this trajectory. The shooter had to shoot the wall from the ground level. Now you simply have trajectory issues, not to mention the shooter exhausted a shotgun before he switched to the AR, and probably did so after he got on the stairs (I have to find the interview that mentions when the guns were switched).
Hankins was seated four seats in and obviously behind people. His forearm was hit, and it was hit near the elbow, with the bottom half described as "where the shrapnel ended up", lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DieJN9ZUD8
oh just found this cover up attempt. Never could find these articles before, and boom. Brings back memories...:
"“At first we thought it was special effects. We saw the floor smoking ... then something flew past my neck,” he said.
It turned out to be a bullet."
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120720/news/707219924/print/
"But quickly, Ostergaard realized he was mistaken — when debris began to whizz by his head. It was too dark to see, but what Ostergaard thought was the sound of firecrackers was actually bullets coming through a partition wall into the theater."
http://lakeforest.suntimes.com/news...-man-describes-scene-at-colorado-tragedy.html
Which is in direct contradiction to his interview, and this article:
"Ostergaard was unsure of where the shrapnel came from that struck the teen in his group. He couldn't say whether it was from stray bullets in the neighboring movie theater or if it was from what he described as an "explosion" in a nearby stairwell."
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Steven-Ostergaard/1824075834
I rather enjoy the position that is occurring at this point. Ok, good. So now the official is that the shooter fired from ground level, and the bullet whizzed by Ostergaard's head... Now it's a simple matter of diagramming the shooter's position...
Anyway, gj. That is how you keep the bullet from passing through 3 walls. Sucks for the official they are actually trying to make it look like Ostergaard experienced a bullet whizzing by his neck despite everything he's already said... That's a big lol. Well, we'll just have to position the shooter, now.