A new video shot by a rally participant shows the attempted assassination of former president trump before a sniper shot the shooter dead after he opened fire.
Jon Malice filmed this footage as he and his family watched the campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvanianext to the American Glass Research (AGR) building, which Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to climb to get a clear view of Trump, who was shot in the ear in the shooting. One bystander was killed and several others were injured in the incident.
Crooks, 20, appears to have fired eight shots before being killed by a sniper.
“I noticed that two minutes before the shooting started, people were starting to say, ‘Hey, he’s climbing here, he’s crawling, he’s doing this, he’s doing that,’” Malice told Fox News. “We just ignored that because we thought it was someone trying to get a better view.”
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Video shot by a rally attendee shows the attempted assassination of former President Trump before a sniper shot and killed the shooter after he opened fire. (Fox News)
“I would say three, then maybe five (shots),” he added. “And then I heard the two shots fired by snipers.”
A source told Fox News that one shot came from a local sniper, while the other came from a Secret Service sniper, which ultimately was the fatal shot.
Malice, a military veteran, said he was surprised by the lack of security around the event site.
“One of the first things I noticed when I got there was that none of us had been screened,” he said. “We’re all along the fence. We all have a view of the stage. We can see Trump.”
Malice also said that all witnesses near the AGR building did not have to go through metal detectors because they were outside the rally site, despite having a clear, up-close view of Trump.
A video captured by Malice was taken by a dash cam.
“We were just looking for a parking spot because everything was blocked,” Malice said when asked to explain what he saw when the video was taken. “But on this particular road, I noticed a lot of cars were parking there. So we kept driving and we thought it was safe. And, as I was watching my videos later, I noticed someone who looked like a crook crossing the street and I zoomed in on him.”
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Crooks, 20, appears to have fired eight shots before being killed by a sniper. (Fox News)
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“It turned out to be him,” he said. “So this is a video of him, we think he was getting out of his vehicle. There was a gray Hyundai, looked like a Sonata, that was parked there… He wasn’t wearing anything. He was just in his regular clothes. No backpack or anything. He was just walking toward the building. And then about two minutes later, someone else took a video of him on this side of the building, through the fence.”
Malice said a video he has shows Crooks pointing his rifle at him.
“Right before he was shot by the Secret Service, he turned around and stood up,” he said. “I have a picture of him with his rifle raised and pointed toward me and the other guys standing behind the tree, and at that point the Secret Service shot him.”
He also said he was surprised that the Secret Service was not present on the roof where Crooks was stationed.
