BUTLER, PENSILVANIA.- The alleged shooter who wounded the US presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was outside the event grounds, a local prosecutor said Saturday, adding that the suspect was dead.
“I don’t know how he would have gotten to where he was, but he was outside the compound. And I think that’s something we’re going to have to figure out how he got there,” Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said, adding that one rally attendee had died and another was in critical condition at the hospital.
“We saw a man bear-crawling up onto the roof with a rifle,” the alleged witness continued. “I stood there pointing at him for two or three minutes, and the Secret Service was watching us. The next thing I knew, five shots rang out.”
“The Secret Service blew his head off. They crawled up to the roof and made sure he was dead,” he says.
An expert, a colonel and former member of the secret service, interviewed by the Univision network said he did not understand how the alleged shooter could have accessed the roof of that building in the perimeter that must have been controlled by the secret service since days before the event.
He also said the alleged attacker must have required extensive sniper training and also an ability to maintain emotional control at a time like this.
After being escorted out of the venue, Trump said he was hit by a bullet in the right ear, but that this would not stop him from continuing with his agenda. His campaign announced that he will be in Milwaukee on Monday for the official Republican Party nomination.
The expert also said that it cannot be ruled out that there is some kind of connection between this attack and an act of international terrorism.
