Fox News revealed on Saturday, a full week after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, that a local sniper team did indeed fire a shot during the incident.
It was disclosed that while a Secret Service sniper successfully neutralized the assailant with a rare and precise shot, an attempt by a local police sniper to intervene unfortunately missed.
“A source familiar with the investigation tells me that, look, it took a single shot to kill the would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks. And that shot came from a secret service counter-sniper that the source says he described the shot as a one in a million type of shot. The counter-sniper could only see the top of the scope, his eye and forehead, because the lip of the AGR building that Crooks was on was obscuring that view. We’re also told a local police sniper took a single shot as well, but missed,” Fox News reporter Bryan Llenas reported.
The shot was not taken by the counter sniper team photographer that day.
— Bryan Llenas (@BryanLlenas) July 20, 2024
The shots were fired from a building approximately 150 yards away from the former President, where he was standing on stage.
The building had a direct view of the President.
According to federal law enforcement sources, Crooks snuck onto the roof while a sniper team from Butler Township emergency services unit was keeping watch from the windows of the same building for any suspicious activity.
Initially, it was believed that Crooks used a ladder to gain access to the roof.
However, no ladder was found at the scene, leading investigators to suspect that he may have hidden his father’s AR-15 near an AC unit and climbed onto the roof using the AC unit instead.
Video via FOX News:
BREAKING: Fox News reports that a local sn*per team *did* fire a shot during the assas*ination attempt on Donald Trump.
The development appears to confirm that there were indeed three separate sho*ters as the incident unfolded.
According to Fox, a local sn*per tried taking… pic.twitter.com/3B0K7GV6ki
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 20, 2024
During the attack, it was initially unclear how many shooters were involved as the situation unfolded.
According to a CBS report, “A U.S. Secret Service sniper stationed in a building behind the former president fired one round, killing the gunman, according to multiple law enforcement officials. Two federal law enforcement officers told CBS News the Secret Service team that ultimately killed the shooter was located on a building behind Trump’s left shoulder — with a view that was not blocked by the tree, the CBS analysis shows. That team was initially directed to go another way, so the snipers had to reorient themselves before taking down the gunman, CBS News’ Charlie de Mar reported.”

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