Wow ... that's quite some thread -- !! Thanks.

In trying to answer this ...

125890207 more damning evidence against operation mockingbird

Officials told the Riches that their son, who died at a nearby hospital less than two hours after being shot, didn’t know he’d been hit in the back by two bullets. He wasn’t in pain, they were told. But he was confused. When Seth Rich was asked where he lived, he gave a previous address, Joel Rich said.<

Someone above mentioned the possibility that Seth Rich was drugged while he was at the bar.
Those who know him say that he was never drunk or even tipsy and was unsteady as he was leaving the bar.

What kind of shots in the back wouldn't you feel pain from? Or pass out from? Is it possible that he was accosted on the street and an attempt to assault him -- like "put him in a coma" kinda thing?

He was bruised which seems to support a scuffle. Suppose he tried to run away and got far enough away where they fired at him? That might have produced two shots from a long distance that barely entered his back and that might be why he didn't know he had been shot and didn't feel pain?

But why they shot him and didn't wait for another opportunity to do the job is a bit of a mystery.

Did he actually have the laptop with him and were they after that?

Wouldn't he have junked the laptop he used if he did transmit info to media and Wiki?

Wouldn't he have gotten a new one?

Also remember, parents were told that he was conscious and talking and that emergency workers or doctors were surprised that he died two hours later. Someone had to have been at the hospital for the insurance plan -- make sure he's dead. The "disorderly orderly"?