Secret Service had marked Thomas Crooks as 'threat' minutes before assassination attempt on Trump
Thomas Crooks aims at Trump from the roof and the latter gets escorted after suffering injury.
Just 10 minutes before United States former president Donald Trump climbed over the stage and eventually got bruised in an assassination attempt, the Secret Service had received a warning against shooter Thomas Michael Crooks and had designated him as a "threat".
The agency had also received a warning regarding a “character of suspicion” being present on the ground more than an hour before the deadly shooting which took place on Saturday (July 13) at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to the New York Post.
According to The Post, Crooks was not holding a gun in his hand when the warning was issued against him.
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“He was identified as a character of suspicion because [he had] a rangefinder as well as a backpack. And this was over an hour before the shooting actually occurred,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said, in a press conference.
“So, you would think over the course of that hour, you shouldn’t lose sight of the individual. Somebody ought to be following up on those sorts of things. No evidence of that happening at all," he added.
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Sniper clicks photos of suspicious Crooks an hour before shooting
The sniper present at the rally also seemed suspicious of Crooks as he took images of the 20-year-old gunman, who was seen crawling on the ground and apparently finding the best spot to shoot at Trump.
The sniper clicked the image at around 5:30 p.m. (local time) and informed the higher officials about him.
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In the image, Crooks is seen wearing glasses, a grey T-shirt and sporting long brown hair. The T-shirt had popular YouTube gun channel Demolition Ranch's representation.
Just 26 minutes before the shooting, the same sniper clicked Crooks for the second time and shared it with the command centre.
While addressing a rally in Pennsylvania, bullets were suddenly fired towards Trump which grazed his right ear, killed one person in the crowd and left two others critically injured. The shooter was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
(With inputs from agencies)