Ryan Nobles is a correspondent covering Capitol Hill.
The gunman in July's assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump gained access to the roof he fired from by getting atop an air-conditioning unit, a source briefed on the investigation into the shooting told NBC News on Tuesday. Trump was shot in the ear on July 13 during a rally in Butler, Penn., one rallygoer was killed and two others were wounded before a Secret Service counter-sniper shot and killed the 20-year-old gunman.
Multiple witnesses say they saw Crooks on the roof moments before the shots rang out, and a local police officer climbed up, saw him with a gun and radioed a warning. But that warning never made it to the Secret Service agents protecting Trump, the agency’s director testified, and around 40 seconds later the shots were fired. Investigators have said they believe Crooks used a gun with a collapsable barrel that allowed him to move through the crowd with the weapon undetected.
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