Associated Press
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one the agency’s core duties.
The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue,” the agency said.
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former President was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a man wearing gray camouflage lying motionless on the roof of a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show grounds, where Trump’s rally was held. A different image shows Crooks wearing a gray T-shirt with a black American flag on the right arm and a bloody wound to his head.
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Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
7 comments
Michael K
July 14, 2024 at 8:32 am
One news source reported that a bullet hit Trump’s teleprompter, and it was a shard of glass that hit him.
Not Woke
July 14, 2024 at 8:50 am
So? It was an attempted assassination. That’s all that matters.
Not Woke
July 14, 2024 at 8:52 am
So the head of the Secret Service is saying she wants 30% of the members to be female. Now is she recruiting the best and the brightest for the job or is this more DEI? You know what DEI stands for right? Didn’t Earn It.
otoh
July 14, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Are you this upset by the Secret Service’s long history of not hiring based on the ‘best and the brightest’? Why the sudden panic? 100% of hires had to be men—brighter or dimmer—for over a century! BTW, there’s the institutional sexism you pretend not to understand.
Pray
July 14, 2024 at 9:05 am
I thought GOP always blames mass shooters as mentally ill because everyone has right to own AR 15. Thoughts and prayers when they hire them to stage stuff like this to keep attention on the Convict thoughts and prayers
Not Woke
July 14, 2024 at 9:18 am
Staged huh? What zombie news propaganda did you read that from?
otoh
July 14, 2024 at 7:56 pm
100%, trying to distract from Project 2025