of breath easily; and that he had difficulty walking fifteen feet shortly before his murder. Sampson’s admission that he had to help McCloskey up a hill to the site of the slaying corroborated this testimony. This evidence sufficed to ground a conclusion that McCloskey was a particularly vulnerable victim, that is, that he would have had a more difficult time escaping from his assailant than the average person. See United States v. Gill, 99 F.3d 484, 486 (1st Cir.1996) (noting that the vulnerable victim federal sentencing guideline is “primarily concerned with the impaired capacity of the victim to ... prevent the crime”). And given the circumstances of this case, McCloskey’s vulnerability easily could have contributed to his death. No more was exigible. Cf. Paul, 217 F.3d at 1001-02 (<HOLDING>). The cases on which Sampson relies do not
holding bank customers affected by embezzlement could be victims for purposes of vulnerable victim enhancement holding that the victim impact and victim vulnerability aggravators were not overbroad and explaining that though the concepts of victim impact and victim vulnerability may well be relevant in every case evidence of victim vulnerability and victim impact in a particular case is inherently individualized holding the harmed victim need not be the victim of the offense of conviction holding a single vulnerable victim is sufficient to support application of the vulnerable victim enhancement holding vulnerable victim factor sufficiently supported by evidence that victim was 82 and physically unable to resist attackers