So now the shooter was found with a receipt from Home Depot for a ladder......This guy was allowed to carry a ladder through a secured zone, the police/secret service saw him using a RANGE FINDER, radioed it in even. Shooter then made multiple trips through said secured zone, which many civilians noticed as suspicious, the police/sniper teams were inside the shooter's building because the slope of the roof was dangerous according to the director of the secret service, yet the outward facing Sniper teams were on top of a taller building with a steeper pitch than the shooter's roof, Supposedly sniper teams were inside the same building the shooter set the ladder up on and scaled the building's roof.......and not one person stopped this kid and asked WTF he was doing with a range finder, ladder, backpack.......
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-shooter-made-home-depot-visit-prior-assassination-attempt-report
The 20-year-old would-be assassin who fired at former President Trump in Pennsylvania over the weekend was found with a Home Depot receipt for a ladder, sources
told NBC News.
Investigators discovered the item on
Thomas Matthew Crooks after he was fatally shot by Secret Service agents on Saturday.
Officials are now trying to determine if Crooks used the ladder to access the roof of the building from which he blasted Trump in the ear, sources told the outlet.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news...access-to-roof-in-trump-assassination-attempt
As government officials continue to investigate what took place Saturday when a gunman fired multiple shots toward former President Donald Trump,
The Associated Press reports officers were warned by rally attendees of a man acting suspiciously.
Citing an unnamed law enforcement source, rally attendees also advised officers that the gunman, later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, used a ladder to gain access to the rooftop he used to fire multiple rounds toward Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sniper-picture-trump-rally-shooter-rangefinder-assassination-attempt/
A sniper from a local tactical team deployed to assist the U.S. Secret Service at former President Donald Trump's
rally on Saturday took a picture of the
gunman and saw him looking through a rangefinder minutes before he
tried to assassinate the former president, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the events told CBS News.
The sniper was one of three snipers, members of local tactical teams, who were stationed inside the building that the shooter used in the attack, the officer said. The operations plan had them stationed inside, looking out windows toward the rally, scanning the crowd. The details about the three snipers were first reported by the local news outlet BeaverCountian.com.
One sniper inside spotted the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, according to the officer who spoke to CBS News. The sniper observed Crooks as he returned to the building, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one of the local snipers took a picture of Crooks.
Next, the local sniper observed Crooks looking through a rangefinder, an instrument routinely used by marksmen to determine the distance of a target, and he immediately radioed to the command post, according to the local law enforcement officer. The local sniper also attempted to send the photo of the gunman up the chain of command.
The command post, according to multiple law enforcement officials, served as a central hub to streamline communications between U.S. Secret Service and the local officers from nearby state and county police forces. It is unclear if the command post received the alert.
