Before any shots were fired, people in the crowd knew something was amiss. What happened next was chaotic, deadly and over in seconds.
, some people in Butler, Pennsylvania, knew something was amiss. A man crawling along a roof, armed with a rifle, had caught the attention of some Trump supporters gathered just outside the rally, out of Trump’s sight but within earshot.
“We could clearly see him with a rifle. We’re pointing at him,” a witness later told the BBC. “I’m thinking, ’Why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage?”– all captured on live television and on mobile phones – will become a moment in US history; one which, months away from the presidential election, may yet change the course of history, too.At that exact moment, Trump was directing his audience to a chart depicting illegal immigration numbers.
Very quickly, phone video emerged of the suspected shooter lying on the tin roof of a barn, having been shot dead by Secret Service snipers. The would-be assassin was later identified as a 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania, Thomas Matthew Crooks.The barn was within close proximity of Trump’s podium, about 125 metres. The Secret Service is investigating how Crooks was able to get so close to the former president, armed with an AR-style rifle, and injure him.
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