Nonilex
#SecretService was told police could not watch building used by #TrumpRally shooter
Local police alerted the Secret Service before #Trump’s rally Sat that they lacked the resources to station a patrol car outside a key building where a gunman later positioned himself, acc/to local & federal #LawEnforcement.
Nonilex
The #SecretService ofcl confirmed that positioning an officer outside the bldg was considered one of the ways to protect against the risk that the agency prepares for at all public events — that a shooter on high ground has a clear line of sight on the president or other senior ofcls being protected. The bldg, owned by Agr Int’l, was just outside the #security perimeter for Sat’s #Trump rally.
Nonilex
Richard Goldinger, the DA in #Butler County, PA, where the #Trump rally took place, said the #SecretService “was informed that the local police dept did not have manpower to assist w/securing that building.”
Goldinger’s account was confirmed by a Secret Service ofcl briefed on the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity….
Nonilex
Authorities from many jdxs were on the ground Sat, & ofcls are still determining how the bldg was guarded—& how Thomas Matthew Crooks reached the roof. But the warning from local #LawEnforcement of insufficient manpower adds to questions about whether there was adequate #security….
Crooks… used an AR-style rifle that was purchased legally by his father in 2013. Authorities confirmed his father purchased >12 guns over the yrs, but it was not clear how many of those he still owned….
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