Eyewitnesses’ reports on Trump rally shooting have raised crucial questions ‘if a potential threat was overlooked’.
Eyewitnesses report seeing the suspect shooter on the roof adjacent to Donald Trump’s rally, where an assassination attempt was made on the Republican Presidential candidate, raising serious concerns about security lapses.
Another eyewitness told the BBC that he was ignored by both the police and Secret Service after pointing out a suspicious man with a rifle climbing onto a barn “barely 50 feet away” as Trump was speaking.
Reports said that the shooter was positioned only “400 to 500 meters”, quoting eyewitnesses.
An eyewitness told BBC that he informed both the police and Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle adjacent to Trump’s rally but his frantic calls for help were ignored. The shooter was neutralized by the Secret Service counter-sniper team, few seconds after he opened fire.
Probably 5 to 7 minutes of Trump speaking, we noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building…50 feet away from us. So we’re standing there pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. We can clearly see him with a rifle. We are pointing at him. The police are there running around on the ground,” the man told BBC, adding that the security didn’t pay any heed to them even after he was pointing “at the barn for 2-3 minutes.”
Another eyewitness, who was present only “100 feet away” from the former US president told ABC News, “I was a heartbeat away from Trump. He was talking and having a good time.”
He further added that after the third shot, “things got serious.” “We had no idea what to do or whether to run.”
Source: BBC, Other Media
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