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South Side Staircase and Plaza

Daytime view of a brutalist concrete complex showing a multi-level staircase, dark metal railings, glass windows, a brick wall section and terraced grass

What This Image Shows

A medium-wide daytime view of the concrete complex, centred on a multi-level external staircase and the plaza beside it: pale raw concrete, dark metal railings, glazing, a section of brick wall and terraced grass. It is an empty-site photograph, taken without a crowd.

The image carries a scatter of unrelated overlaid text picked up from whatever browser or feed it was captured through — fragments of a Spanish-language news item about a firearm disguised as a smartphone, thumbnail captions mentioning a high-powered bolt-action rifle and the FBI releasing photographs, and partial tour branding. None of that text describes this photograph; it is interface debris from the capture, and it should not be read as a caption for the building.

The picture is filed under the name Side Shot because this staircase and the plaza beside it are the approach the side-trajectory theories are built around. As a clean, uncluttered record of that ground — the step heights, the railing lines, the depth of the terraces — it is more useful for testing those theories than any of the annotated crops.

For those theories see The Shot and the Shooter Position and Alternative Calibers and Weapons.

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