Assassination Attempt On Donald Trump: Gunman Brought Down, His Head Blown Off (graphic pics)
The gunman suspected in the attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday was shot and killed by Secret Service, sources told The Post.
The shooter, identified only as a white male, was in an elevated sniper position located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium in Butler, Pa. as he spoke to a campaign crowd, sources said.
The gunman has not yet been identified because it appears he wasn’t carrying identification on him, sources said. He was not an attendee at the rally.
An AR-style rifle was recovered at the scene, sources told the Associated Press.
At least one attendee is also dead, a local prosecutor said. Two spectators were critically injured, Secret Service said.
Bystander footage captured in the aftermath of the gunfire shows what appears to be a deceased man in light-colored military fatigues splayed out on a rooftop a few hundred feet from the rally stage.
BBC News interviewed several Trump supporters outside the event who described seeing a suspicious person “bear crawling” up the roof of a nearby building ahead of the shooting.
“He had a rifle — you could clearly see him with a rifle, absolutely,” said one man, describing the suspect getting into position.
He claimed his group, who was about 50 feet away from the structure, frantically tried to point out the man to nearby cops but said it “didn’t seem like they knew what was going on.”
The witness said the armed man was positioned on the roof “3-4 minutes” before he started firing.
“Next thing you know, five shots rang out,” he said.
He also said he saw the moment the Secret Service fired the fatal shots that took the gunman’s life.
“They blew his head off. The Secret Service blew his head off,” the supporter told the outlet.