In the just released FBI documents, it was revealed that the police could not get any information from Seth Rich about his shooting because he was too drunk to assist them.

On August 18th 2016, the local television station Fox 5, gives the following account of Seth’s last hours.

Seth Rich was at Lou’s City Bar in Columbia Heights on the night before he was murdered. Rich was a Green Bay Packers fan and a regular at the sports bar.

Once the bar closed at around 1:45 a.m. on July 10, the 27-year-old walked out of the bar to the sidewalk and started talking with the manager. The manager on duty who knew the DNC employee very well asked him if he wanted a ride home knowing that he had about a mile walk to his home. The manager said Rich declined the offer and decided to go to The Wonderland Ballroom located a couple blocks down the street. However, police cannot confirm that he was at that bar.

There were reports that Rich was highly intoxicated. But sources tell FOX 5 that those toxicology results are still not back. According to witnesses at Lou’s City Bar, they said he had a couple of drinks. Police sources believe that the two hours after he left the bar, the alcohol he consumed would have already worn down.

Rich’s walk home from Columbia Heights to his home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood would have roughly taken him 30 minutes. Rich was fatally shot as he was on the phone with his girlfriend at about 4:20 a.m. What happened from when he left Lou’s City Bar or The Wonderland Ballroom to when he was gunned down remains unclear.

Whats interesting to me about this Fox 5 report is that 6 weeks after the murder, the local TV station had sources within the police department who were willing to speak off the record. Having more than 1 source in a police department is pretty standard for a local news reporter to have. Those sources would soon dry up.

On a side note, the reporter in question, Marina Marraco, was the reporter who got Rod Wheeler to give her a scoop on the Seth Rich case.

She quoted Rod Wheeler on the 10 oclock news the night before Malia Zimmerman’s story was going to run.

Here are a few other observations.

1) Seth was not highly intoxicated when he left the bar at 1:45 am. This would have been in the initial police report. Seth did attend a party before arriving at Lous but the servers at Lous wouldn’t keep serving someone who was visibility drunk

2) Police would have been able to determine if he tried to get a drink from another bar. He only had at the most 15 minuttes to walk to another destination. That narrows the places for police to investigate. Bars in that area close at 2 am, including the Wonderland Ballroom Here is info from a 2016 flyer.

New Year’s Eve 2016 – Wonderland Ballroom

8:00pm – 2:00am EST

Thursday, December 31

3) The only way he could have been highly intoxicated would be for him to have gotten access to a bottle of liquor.

I’m sure Seth’s friends would have told police if that was something he was known to have done. Liquor stores close at midnight in Washington DC.

4) Toxicology reports can take anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks so the police source for the August 2016 story was likely correct. However, what is odd is that the reporter was never able to find out the results. I’m sure she tried to follow-up unless she her station was pressured to remove her from the case.

A search of her stories reveals that she did not follow up on the Seth Rich case with the exception of her editors apologizing for her previous story. Basically, the murder investigation just ended as far as information given to the public.

This corroborates the reporting of private detective Rod Wheeler. He stated that the police were ordered by political leaders to not talk.

5) The police would have interviewed each person Seth talked to on his way home. Those individuals would be able to say whether he was slurring his words or not and whether he may have been drinking from a bottle. If he was highly inebriated, he would have had difficulty even making phone calls let alone walk over a mile.

6) If he was too drunk to talk to police, how did he put up any kind of resistance to would-be robbers? Wouldn’t it have been easy for the bad guys to get his wallet, phone, and watch? Or, just any of those 3 items.

7) If he was too drunk to talk to police, why wasn’t he too drunk to talk to his girlfriend minutes before he was shot?

I believe the ‘He was Highly Intoxicated’ story was meant to be a talking point in conjunction with the ‘Botched Robbery ‘ angle.

People would be highly suspicious of the DC police if they knew a shooting victim was able to talk to them.

People would assume the shooting victim would have provided a description of the attacker(s). Not providing a description to the public would be a serious breach of protocol.

Various news reports said that he remained conscious for almost 2 hours. It’s difficult to understand how someone who the police said would not be drunk at 4 am could be not able to speak even a few sentences in the time paramedics arrived until he passed away 2 or 3 hours later.

By the way, there is no proof that his death was the result of a botched robbery. You can’t have both Highly Intoxicated and Botched Robbery in the same sentence. Robbers would love to encounter someone without the ability to resist. Interestingly, Seth did have scratches and other injuries consistent with someone fighting back.

8) Looking at it through the eyes of the shooter. If you were out to rob someone and they were highly intoxicated, why would you shoot them when you didn’t get any valuables? Any description from a drunk wouldn’t be that reliable.

The Fox 5 report concluded with the following…

Police sources close to the investigation also said that there have been seven arrests linked to armed robberies in the Bloomingdale neighborhood that happened just days before Rich was killed. Those arrests were made after the murder and there were three guns that were recovered after the apprehension.

However, none of those guns have matched with the ballistics in Rich’s murder.

Note: No other person was shot in the above cases. The robbers didn’t want to add murder to their charges.

In conclusion, the FBI and the Washington DC police department should be pressured by local and national media to publicly release the Toxicology report and autopsy of Seth Rich.

This would address the growing skepticism as to whether there is an ongoing coverup into the circumstances around the murder of Seth Rich.

It would also draw attention to an unsolved homicide that I’m sure many people would like to see solved.

Seth was (the last time I did a deep analysis), the only non minority in the Washington DC area during the decade of the 2010’s to be murdered and there not to have been an arrest of a suspect.

Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge on whether Seth Rich or anyone in his family was involved in the leak of the DNC emails. My analysis is based on various YouTube videos, social media posts, court cases, and other published articles.