A body camera video has surfaced showing local law enforcement and a U.S. Secret Service agent when They identify the attacker’s body behind the assassination attempt to the former president Donald Trumpon July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Released by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley in the red social Xseveral officers can be seen on the roof from where Trump was shot from more than 400 feet away, according to CBS News.
The body of the attacker, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was also seen on the ceiling along with traces of blood.
Equally, The deceased is heard to match the description of the suspect in the photos that were released before the shooting..
“A Beaver County sniper saw and sent the pictures, this is him,” the deputy says in the video, referring to the shooter’s body.
“I don’t know if you got the same photos as me?” an officer asks the agent about the photos.
“I think so, he (the shooter) has his glasses on,” the officer responded during the exchange.
The officer adds that The sniper “sent the original photos, and saw him (the shooter) arrive on a bicycle, leave the backpack and then lost sight of him”.
Kimberly Cheatle, director of the United States Secret Service, He resigned on Tuesday after criticism arising from the security errors at the Butler rally, the network reported. NBC.
Cheatle, who had been in office since August 2022, faced numerous calls for his resignation and several investigations into how the attacker was able to get so close to the Republican presidential candidate during the outdoor rally.
The republican candidate for the next US presidential electionTrump was rushed out of the hospital during a rally.
Ultimately, one person in the audience, the shooter, died and two more people were injured, while a bullet also hit the former president’s ear.
