State Police Warned Secret Service About Trump Shooting Suspect, Pennsylvania Chief Says

Published on July 24, 2024

Local law enforcement had alerted the U.S. Secret Service to a suspicious individual before the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month, said the chief of the Pennsylvania State Police. During questioning before the House Homeland Security hearing Tuesday, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris revealed new details about the security failure that led to the assassination attempt on former President Trump, which left one person dead and two injured. Col. Paris said that “there was a text thread going” with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, who had seen suspected gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks and reported him as a suspicious person before the incident....

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