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The shooter's ability to get on a rooftop nearly 150 yards from Trump with a clear line of sight is prompting numerous questions over how the Secret Service handled security at Saturday's rally.
Rooftop Koreans or Roof Koreans refer to the Korean American business owners and residents during the 1992 Los Angeles riots who armed themselves and took to the rooftops of local businesses to defend themselves.
A counter sniper shot and killed Thomas Matthew Crooks in the seconds after he opened fire from a rooftop some 150 yards (135 meters) from the stage. Secret Service agents threw themselves on top ...
The rooftop where a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally was identified by the Secret Service as a potential vulnerability in the days before the event, two sources ...
The shooting began at 10:14 a.m. in downtown Highland Park, with the shooter firing a rifle from the rooftop of the Ross Cosmetics building, [5] a local store on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and 2nd Street. [6] The gunman had gained access to the elevated position by using an unsecured ladder attached to the building. [7]
After the assailant was declared "down", agents helped Trump get up. Blood was visible on his ear and face. He asked the Secret Service agents to let him get his shoes. [96] According to Trump, the agents "hit me so hard that my shoes fell off, and my shoes are tight". [97] They also offered to put him on a stretcher, but he declined. [98]
“We can see the presence up on the rooftop," Horsey said, pointing at a sniper above Champions Square. "So, I kind of felt like this is probably one of the safest places to be in the city.” Joe Horsey said the pregame crowd was larger than he expected but he also found the “energy lower than a normal football game.”
A Secret Service sniper shot dead the gunman at the scene. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, died in the shooting while trying to protect his family at the rally.