r/FreeLuigi • u/numbmillenial • 1d ago
Discussion Comparison between taxi guy and LM
https://imgur.com/a/comparison-lm-vs-uhc-suspect-yRDIp3
The real shooter is still out there, smh
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u/nyanintruder 1d ago
This could even been LM, but still don't proves that he's the shooter
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u/Upset-Most4553 1d ago
This is where I’m at too. Like it definitely could be him, but that doesn’t mean anything in the actual case against him.
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u/Peony127 1d ago
Promise I'm not being racist (quite the contrary actually!), but ever since Taxi Cab Guy's photos first came out, I already said to myself that his eyes and brows look Middle Eastern.
Mediterranean guys interest me so I know what I'm talking about lmfao
Both of their eyes and brows are beautiful, but the intensity of Taxi Cab Guy's eyes are very different from LM's.
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u/tonkinese_cat 1d ago
I thought the exact same thing, Taxi Cab Guy’s eyes and brows immediately gave me a middle Eastern vibe. Hostel Guy too, to be honest. I have a really hard time connecting either of them to Starbucks Guy.
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u/picasso_baby 7h ago edited 6h ago
The taxi photo is strange to me because in the back seat you can see this person is wearing a tight silky-looking head covering, it’s low down and covering the forehead and part of the eyebrows. It looks too tight to be a hood, it’s like a durag?
The hood of the jacket is also standing up weirdly, could be the angle but it looks high and an odd shape.
And it looks like they have a black face mask on under the surgical mask? The photo that was released inside the taxi doesn’t show the side of face.
But when the person is photographed outside the taxi, the sides of face are visible under the surgical mask and there’s no forehead/hair covering as you can see the hairline.
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u/snoo-apple 1d ago
Oh I absolutely agree. Someone did something. LM did nothing
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u/Little-Bandicoot84 1d ago
Agree but its hard to prove in courts . Feels like they just want to convict him imo Feeling so bad for poor boy that he has to deal with court
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u/Junior_Resolution190 1d ago
also doesnt Taxi guys upper eyelid look more full whereas LMs gives more of a sunk look
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u/Desert_Nootropics 1d ago
i wasn't convinced LM was a fully different guy until now. do you have the original, higher def. taxi cab photos? or did the nypd mysteriously scrub them?
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u/pauleywauley 1d ago
Just in case if people missed this interesting post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeLuigi/comments/1hmgkqc/facial_recognition_software_amazon_rekognition/
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u/compscigirl8 1d ago
Taxi guy, Starbucks guy, and hostel guy all look like different people to me but the taxi one especially looks nothing like him in my opinion..
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u/vi_sinclair01 1d ago
I saw someone on this sub run these pics through Amazon's AI facial recognition and taxi guy came up as NOT a match to LM, so even AI agrees!
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u/QueensGambit90 1d ago
What’s the deal with the taxi guy? I see this photo all the time but why?
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u/numbmillenial 1d ago
According to the NYPD, the shooter biked to central park immediately after the shooting, then took a taxi to the bus station after he emerged from the park. They're saying this is him.
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u/Outrageous-Farm439 1d ago
And then they have footage that he went all the way downtown and took a train there. 🤷♀️
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u/Little-Bandicoot84 1d ago
How do they find the taxi? There are so many taxi in nyc and its hard to remember each passenger
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u/itseasytoguess23 1d ago
They have the license plate and taxi number through cctv. This connection was made with facial recognition and could absolutely be incorrect. There are similarities but many differences as well.
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u/Capital-Eggplant-177 1d ago
Taxi guy looks middle eastern and looks older then LM, he also has darker, piercing eyes, darker, coarser eyebrows that have a higher arch and are more groomed.
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u/Ok-Grab9754 1d ago
They kept repeatedly saying how the shooter was so skilled in avoiding cameras (which he was when en route to the crime scene and while exiting). But then once he gets in the cab he chooses to move away from behind the partition and look directly into the dash cam? It’s so fishy. Smells like a red herring.
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u/Terrible-Session5028 1d ago
It could be him. Any Mediterranean/Italian person can tell you that their hair grows just as fast as you cut it. But yes, that does not mean that he is the shooter. Sarena Townsend - please look her up on TikTok because she is amazing. She’s a New York criminal attorney as well. Said that the same thing can be said for DNA. That even if they do find his DNA, on the water bottles and wrappers like the law-enforcement claims, it’s still literally doesn’t mean that he’s the shooter.
I will say whoever the shooter is though , should’ve worn gloves, lol. Not so much for the fact that it concealed the fingerprints, but just because it gets cold in New York in December
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u/OrangeLemon5 14h ago
Yes, terrible for your fingers to get cold when you are out committing a murder.
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u/thelastgilmoregirl 1d ago
Please also pay attention to the distance between the outer corner eyebrow and the hairline! It’s much more narrow for cab guy and a wider distance for LM!
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u/Objective-Bluebird60 17h ago
Noticed this too. The end of the eyebrows go closer to the hairline for taxi guy than for LM.
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u/thelastgilmoregirl 1d ago
I have been writing about this in the comment section for over a week now so I’m so happy to see more people notice this. I don’t wanna take credit for this great collage though by just reposting, perhaps OP can also post this on r/pics and r/newyork etc? Or if it’s okay with OP to repost the collage?
I truly don’t believe that LM is the shooter and these pictures paints an important picture 🙏🏼
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u/numbmillenial 1d ago
No, feel free to repost anywhere you can! The more people who see it, the better.
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u/Lethums 1d ago
This is really eye opening. My only concern is why is the taxi guy and LM wearing the same jacket? It’s hard to say it is just one big coincidence. In his initial mugshot he is wearing a jacket identical to the taxi guy.
This doesn’t connect him to the crime, but it is something to consider if law enforcement has good evidence to connect the taxi guy to the crime scene.
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u/thirtytofortyolives 1d ago
This is my concern too. It really looks like the same jacket, down to the placement of the stitching.
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u/avoplant 1d ago
right?! and the dark blue inner shirt looks similar too, but it might be a coincidence/lighting issue.
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u/thirtytofortyolives 17h ago
There's even the little folded flap that looks present on both jackets. It's hard to brush everything off as a coincidence, but it could be. I haven't studied men's jackets but maybe a lot look like that?
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u/numbmillenial 1d ago
It's a nondescript black quilted jacket. I can assure you there are tens of thousands of men between NYC and PA who have that same jacket. Walk around NYC for 5 minutes and you'll spot dozens of them.
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u/Junior_Resolution190 22h ago
in mugshot that was taken in McDonalds actually I see that lower part of jacket slightly changes color no?
Even if we account for lighting problems, still the color change looks too uniform like a straight line
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u/Unique_Negotiation47 9h ago
The hostel jacket is not the same of mugshot… too many jackets https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeLuigi/s/BCbK1baoRu
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Fed gov included taxi pics in their criminal complaint
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u/Objective-Bluebird60 17h ago
Yea now I’m starting to see that LM has wayyyy more eyelid space than taxi guy. Taxi guys eyelids also seem more hooded than LMs.
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u/Outrageous-Farm439 3h ago
This guy in the taxi might not be the shooter either. Just some guy who took a taxi that looked like LM and was wearing black.
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u/LunarTeacup 1d ago
Taxi guy, guy from the hostel and shooter guy are three different people to me.