A witness who witnessed and alerted the authorities about the gunman claimed that Donald Trump was speaking and was not removed from the period even after the authorities were informed of the incident.
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” We noticed the man crawling, keep crawling, up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us”, the testimony told BBC after the killing at Trump’s rally on Sunday.
He claimed that the officers had been informed, but that they “did n’t know what was happening.”
” I’m thinking to myself,’ Why is Trump also speaking? Why have n’t they let him off the stage? I’m standing there pointing at him for two, three days, Secret Service is looking at us from the top of the house, I’m pointing at that ceiling, just standing there like this, and next thing you know, five bullets band out”, he said.
The witness claimed that they witnessed the gunman climbing up the roof.
” We’re standing that, we’re pointing at the man crawling up the roof. … We is plainly see him with a rifle”, he said.
Questioning the security arrangements at the former US president’s rally, the witness said “why were n’t the Security Service on all of the roofs”?
The gunman was located outside the event basis, according to a nearby attorney.
” I do n’t know how he would have reached where he was, but he was outside the grounds.” And I believe we will have to figure out how he got it, according to Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger.
Trump was shot in the right ear and was visibly bleeding. He was later informed that he was “fine” and underwent a medical check-up.
The investigation’s direct investigator is now the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI has taken over as the lead federal law enforcement agency in the research into the incident involving past president Donald Trump that took place earlier today in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to the FBI.
