Video shows would-be assassin open fire on Trump from rooftop
A video captured the moment a would-be assassin opened fire on former president Donald Trump from a rooftop during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday — before Secret Service snipers killed him seconds later.
Video obtained by TMZ shows the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, laying on his belly while taking aim and firing at the former president from a rooftop about 130 yards away from the rally in Butler, just outside of Pittsburgh.
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Trump was hit in the ear in the assassination attempt, in a chaotic and shocking incident set to supercharge political tensions ahead of the US presidential election.
The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood streaked across his face after the shooting, while the shooter and a bystander were killed and two spectators were critically injured.
