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If it was from the roof, then that's an amazing shot. Trained military of some country. Maybe Russian? Who knows, but no random citizen.
200 yards is a fairly standard shot for any deer hunter and is not particularly difficult with modern tech. You don't need to have been a special forces sniper to take it anyone with even cursory experience could provided they had a decent rifle. Pretty much everyone I know who shoots (hundreds of people) could make that hit.
I would in fact suggest that it being a neck shot indicates the possibility they weren't actually a particularly great shot. A head shot is a much larger target, a neck shot is half the size, I would theorise that it was a headshot attempt that miscalculated the distance and the neck impact is the bullet drop over that distance (ie they aimed for a 100m impact point and it was actually 200m or whatever the correct distance was).
HOWEVER
Taking that shot and getting away indicates a level of professionalism / planning well above that of the average deer hunting Fudd.
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