The gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump fired eight clear sh0ts at the former president before Secret Service snipers took him out.
20-year-old Thomas Crooks opened fire on Trump’s campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 from a rooftop just 400ft away from the stage where he was speaking. Trump was sh0t in the ear, one rallygoer was killed and two others were injured.
New footage of the incident has revealed Crooks launched bullets from his AR-15-style rifle into the rally in under six seconds before snipers fired two countersh0ts, including the one that killed him.
Terrified witnesses were seen screaming and running for their lives as sh0ts were fired from the AGR building where Crooks had positioned himself, the video obtained by Fox News showed.
Crooks then pointed his gun towards the crowd just seconds before the second sniper sh0t, witness John Malice, who captured the video, has claimed.
Malice claims that witnesses began to notice Crooks scaling the building ‘about two minutes before the shooting started’.
He recalled how some bystanders noted how he was ‘climbing up here’ and ‘crawling around’, but told Fox that ‘we just kind of ignored it because we thought it was some person trying to get a better view’.
However, the crowd’s response quickly changed after Crooks was spotted with a gun just moments before he fired at Trump.
‘Let’s get out of here’, one witness screamed as the crowd frantically rushed through the field, Malice’s video showed. Another yelled: ‘He’s got a gun on the roof.’
Watch the video below..
KILL SHOT: Listen to the moment PA gunman tried to take Trump’s life in new video obtained by FOX News. pic.twitter.com/cE8FMqJlNv
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