Secret Service Chief: ‘Sloped Roof’ Used by Trump Shooter Prevented Agency From Securing Area

Published on July 16, 2024

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said that the sloped roof of the warehouse building from which a would-be assassin fired at former President Donald Trump was too dangerous for Secret Service agents to secure. Over the past weekend, questions have emerged about whether the Secret Service or local law enforcement did enough to secure the area around a Pennsylvania rally where the former president was speaking. FBI officials said that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired at the former president from an elevated position on a warehouse building about 400 feet away. Witnesses have told media outlets, including The Epoch Times, that they saw the suspect on the roof of the building before gunfire erupted, which grazed the former president’s ear and left one victim dead and two others injured....

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