You know the type. High security, weeks or months of stakeout, sniper three blocks away…
The hitman sorta things I recall from the news are either planned and executed by national intelligence agents or some savage gunning and running from hired brutes, but never the variant with sophistication and private sector.
Fiction is fiction.
In real life, stalking the victim for months, sniper shots, or anything that involves any sort of sofisticiation or team of people is asking to get caught.
KISS principle. A successful hit would be as simple as possible, happen fast with no prior interaction, and involve as few people as possible.
I read a book a long time ago that talked about how many environmental activists end up in car accidents. In North America if you were an activist you were very likely to get in a car accident at night along a well known route…
I just read a story about a Tesla Model S that abruptly turned left into a median and accelerated straight into it, killing its occupant on impact.
Most new vehicles could do that too. Most vehicles come with driver assistance that includes braking and accelerating. They almost always have a Bluetooth connection as well.
Shoot, it’s not even new vehicles. The report I remember from a college team that trialed ‘car hacking’ was from
2014correction, 2011.This was steering
Indeed. Still, I’d assume if the hypothetical high profile target has security up to par, it requires a little more than to go in and start blasting. Even if very little planning is required, it would be because the hitman has sufficient expertise, indirectly the planning already being done over years of experience.
Or… You could do it like Spanish revolutionaries did it.
Richard Kuklinski.
He kept it simple. …mostly.