Secret Service Did Not Know Trump Shooter Had Gun Until Shots Fired: Official

Published on July 30, 2024

The Secret Service counter-snipers and personnel guarding former President Donald Trump on July 13 were both unaware that a man on the rooftop of a nearby building had a gun, the agency’s top official said on Tuesday. “Neither the Secret Service counter-sniper teams, nor members of the former president’s security detail, had any knowledge that there was a man on the roof of the AGR building with a firearm,” Ronald Rowe Jr., the Secret Service’s acting director, told senators on Capitol Hill in Washington. “It is my understanding that those personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until they heard gunshots,” he added. “Prior to that, they were operating with the knowledge that local law enforcement was working an issue of a suspicious individual prior to the shots being fired.”...

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