Seth Rich Murder: How Did Seth Rich Die? Who Killed Seth Rich? – Seth Rich was murdered in the Bloomingdale neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2016, around 4:20 a.m. Rich was shot twice in the back and died an hour and a half later. Unknown assailants killed him for unknown reasons, but authorities assumed he was the victim of a robbery attempt.
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Who was Seth Rich and How Did He Die?
Seth Rich grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, in a Jewish household. He earned a political science degree from Creighton University in 2011. He worked for the United States Census Bureau and volunteered for the Nebraska Democratic Party. He also interned for Senator Ben Nelson and was involved in Jewish outreach. He relocated to work with pollster Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in Washington, D.C. He started as the voter expansion data director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2014. One of his responsibilities at the DNC was to create a computer application to assist voters in locating polling places.
Rich was shot about a block from his apartment at the southwest intersection of Flagler Place and W Street Northwest in the Bloomingdale district of Washington, D.C., on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at 4:20 a.m.
He had been to Lou’s City Bar in Columbia Heights earlier that night, a sports pub 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from his apartment, where he was a regular client. He left at 1:30 or 1:45 a.m., as the bar was closing. An automated gunfire finder notified police of gunfire around 4:20 a.m. Rich was found conscious of several gunshot wounds by police officers less than a minute after the gunshots.
He was taken to a local hospital, where he died after being shot for nearly 12 hours. The fact that he was not shot in the head is considered as proof that the incident was not an “assassination.” He died from two shootings to the back, according to authorities, and may have been killed in an attempted robbery. Robberies have been reported in the area, according to residents.
Rich’s mother told WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., of NBC’s Washington affiliate: “There had been an uphill battle. His hands were wounded, his knees were damaged, and his face was injured, but he had two shots to the back of his head, and they never took anything… They didn’t finish the robbery; they just killed him.” The police informed the family that they had discovered a security video that showed a sight of two people who could be the killers’ legs.
Who Killed Seth Rich and Why?
According to officials, Seth had been at a neighborhood tavern until 1:45 a.m. on July 10th. He was a frequent at this establishment and preferred to stroll home after it closed. He contacted his father, who didn’t respond, and then spoke with a few of his buddies, according to phone records. Seth then dialled his girlfriend’s number at 2:05 a.m. They communicated until minutes before the incident because she was out of town.
Seth’s death, according to the authorities, was a tragic case of a failed heist. In the months following the murder, the neighborhood had increased crime. Robbers with weapons were on the loose, frightening victims and demanding that they unlock their phones. Seth still had his wallet, credit cards, and phone on him despite the torn watch strap.
Seth was allegedly the victim of a botched robbery, according to the police. Following the incident, however, various politically motivated conspiracy theories arose, with many assuming that Seth’s death was more than just a nocturnal heist. WikiLeaks released hundreds of hacked DNC emails a few weeks after the murder, prompting widespread outrage across the country. Then, in August 2016, Julian Assange appeared to suggest in an interview that Seth was involved in the disclosures. The Russians, on the other hand, were discovered to be the source of the leak by the authorities.
Wikileaks even offered a monetary reward for information about the case. Eventually, various theories began to circulate on the internet. One of them even claimed that Hillary Clinton ordered Seth’s assassination because he had information about the email dumps, while another blamed the Russians. These suspicions seemed to die down until May 2017, when a private investigator, Rod Wheeler, claimed on Fox News that Seth’s laptop included evidence linking him to WikiLeaks.
According to the news channel, a source claimed to have reviewed Seth’s correspondence with Wikileaks and that there was evidence of him leaking the emails. Rod, on the other hand, had never looked at the laptop because it was in police custody. There was no verifiable proof linking Seth to WikiLeaks in the end, and Fox News quickly retracted the story, saying, “The item was not first submitted to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we expect for all of our reporting.” Seth’s murder has remained unexplained since then, with authorities suspecting it was a botched robbery.