The ease with which the shooter was able to get close to Trump is “astonishing,” the prosecutor for Butler County, Pennsylvania, where the events occurred, said today.
“Frankly, I’m surprised he was able to get up on that roof and shoot,” the prosecutor said. Richard Goldingeron MSNBC.
“I know we had law enforcement in this building, so it’s even more surprising that he was able to get up there,” he said, indicating that it was a glass factory.
Security services reported that theThe sniper fired from an elevated position outside the perimeter of the meeting, about 150 meters away, before being shot down. A video published by the American site TMZ shows the shooter lying on his stomach, on the roof of a building and holding a rifle.
“I hope the investigation will establish how this happened, but yes, the most surprising thing to me is that while we have a former president on site, someone can come within 140 meters, get on a roof and shoot,” the prosecutor insisted.
The American federal police, the FBI, which identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, acknowledged that it was “surprising” that Crooks was able to shoot multiple times before being “neutralized.” According to a senior law enforcement official, quoted by CNN, The perpetrator of the shooting that took place last night at former President Donald Trump’s rally had been identified outside the event. Local law enforcement had thought he was acting suspiciously near metal detectors.
According to the source, the authorities had announced over the radio that they would keep an eye on him and that the information would also be passed on to the secret services.
Later, several people alerted law enforcement at a site outside the event location, saying they saw an armed man on the roof.