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— ‘It is now believed that Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old suspect, was spotted by law enforcement officials on the roof of a glass research company at 5.45pm, nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired …

… a police officer with the county’s emergency services warned a command center that a man with a range-finder had been scoping out the roof of the building that would become Crooks’s reported firing position [and had] later returned with a backpack.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/trump-shooting-butler-pennsylvania