What if you are on to something. Seven teams of four hit men, plus LHO acting by himself, all coincidently and unknowingly hitting him at the same spot. The plaza was actually crowded with teams all wondering “hey, who is that?”
Solves everything except, the ships the payricia Olga and the Nina and was docked in Corpus Christie. The uss elderidge even briefly appeared off the Texas coast. Why? Certainly because it was playing rock music of “I fought the law and the law won”.