I presumed nothing. There was a comment previously made in the news that he didn't live in that neighborhood. Which, BTW can only be accessed by 2 streets which connect to the highway. It backs to a a river of some sort and they have docks fronting that river so he couldn't have approached from the river side.
Here's a pic showing both of the alternatives for his route, the red one to the right now being ruled out and the purple one to the left being the way it actually was. More/less. It's 1.3 miles from the western part of the neighborhood in question to that highway junction, so the mom's house is apparently pretty close to that.
I think this additional info adds to the case that the victim was just out for a mid-day run and that these guys made a mistake. Or hunted him down in cold blood and for no reason at all.
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