US EditionSenators told Secret Service had flagged gunman as suspicious hour before Trump rally shooting
- The Secret Service labeled the potential gunman as "suspicious" before the Trump rally shooting, with evidence of his searches for images of the Republican, leading to calls for the Secret Service head to resign.
- Wyoming Senator John Barrasso disclosed that the Secret Service lost sight of the suspect in the crowd after spotting him an hour before the attack.
- The 20-year-old gunman was seen on a building's roof 20 minutes before the shooting, as reported by ABC News and other US media outlets.
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Secret Service had marked Thomas Crooks as 'threat' minutes before assassination attempt on Trump
Just 10 minutes before United States former president Donald Trump climbed over the stage and eventually got bruised in an assassination attempt, the Secret Service had received a warning against shooter Thomas Michael Crooks and had designated him as a "threat". The agency had also received a warning regarding a “character of suspicion” being present on the ground more than an hour before the deadly shooting which took place on Saturday (July 1…
Secret Service Identified Gunman as Suspicious 1 Hour Before Shooting, Senator Says After Briefing
WASHINGTON—The Secret Service told lawmakers on July 17 that the gunman was identified as being suspicious one hour before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, according to Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) who was at the briefing. “He had a range finder and a backpack. The Secret Service lost sight of him,” the senator said in a statement posted on X. “Someone has died. The President was almost killed,”…
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