Dramatic new video of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump shows the moment Secret Service agents fire on a gunman on a rooftop hundreds of yards away.
The footage shows officers standing on top of a building above the protest stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, as shots ring out.
We see one of the guns recoil as Donald Trump grabs its ear and is carried off stage after pumping his fist in the air and shouting “fight, fight, fight.”
The failed assassin was shot dead along with a member of the crowd at 6:15pm on Saturday night in a terrifying scene.
Dramatic new video of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump shows the moment Secret Service snipers on a rooftop fire at the gunman hundreds of yards away.
Witnesses reported seeing a man with a rifle climb onto the roof of a building 400 feet away. An AR-style rifle was found at the scene.
The suspect fired at least eight shots from outside the security zone, an incident that immediately prompted calls for an investigation into the security lapse.
A witness to the killing said he alerted Secret Service agents to a man with a gun on a nearby roof minutes before they opened fire.
The witness, identified only as Greg, told the BBC he saw the suspected gunman climb onto a roof outside the event and was stunned by the lack of action from officers.
The footage shows officers on top of a building above the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, as shots rang out. Photos show officers on the roof
Police stand over the gunman’s body on a building across from the rally site
Blood can be seen coming from Donald Trump’s ear, where he says he was shot
An extraordinary photo shows Donald Trump on the ground at Butler Show Grounds in Pennsylvania on Saturday after he was injured in a shooting that left two people dead
Blood can be seen coming from Donald Trump’s ear, where he says he was shot
An extraordinary photo shows Donald Trump on the ground at Butler Show Grounds in Pennsylvania on Saturday after he was injured in a shooting that left two people dead
“I thought to myself, ‘Why is Trump still talking, why didn’t they take him off the stage?’” he said. “The next thing you know, five shots go off.”
He added that he saw the Secret Service “blow his head off.”
After Trump was shot, he assured the crowd he would leave, then issued a statement from the hospital detailing what had happened to him.