The U.S. Secret Service and FBI on Thursday responded to a video recorded by James Copenhaver, one of many victims wounded in a July 13 assassination try towards former President Trump, exhibiting a determine shifting throughout the roof of the constructing gunman Thomas Crooks shot from.
The video that Copenhaver shared completely with Fox Information Digital was taken at 6:08 p.m. on July 13, minutes earlier than Crooks fired a minimum of eight gunshots at 6:11 earlier than counter snipers killed him.
“The Secret Service is dedicated to raised understanding what occurred earlier than, throughout, and after the assassination try of former President Trump to make sure that by no means occurs once more,” the company informed Fox Information in a press release. “That features full cooperation with Congress, the FBI and different related investigations.”
The FBI informed Fox Information it’s conscious of the video however has no additional remark.
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Crooks killed 50-year-old Corey Comperatore — a father and volunteer hearth chief — and critically wounded 74-year-old James Copenhaver and 57-year-old David Dutch in his try to assassinate the previous president. As a result of Trump turned his head on the final second to have a look at a projection display displaying immigration statistics, a bullet sliced Trump’s ear, however he was rushed out of the rally in any other case unscathed.
Regulation enforcement officers have been working to piece collectively a timeline of occasions since that night to find out how and why Crooks was in a position to perform the assassination try.
Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s workplace launched textual content messages obtained by way of a public data request exhibiting that regulation enforcement was conscious of a suspicious particular person close to the rally web site roughly 90 minutes earlier than gunfire started and took photographs of Crooks round 4:36 p.m.
FBI officers informed reporters throughout a press name on Monday that Crooks gained entry to the roof of the AGR constructing by climbing HVAC tools and piping. He then traversed a number of rooftops earlier than he discovered his place on high of the AGR constructing, the place he had a direct line of sight to the previous president.
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Main as much as the capturing, on July 6, Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, researched how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from the late President John F. Kennedy when Oswald assassinated the previous president in 1963.
On July 7, he traveled to the rally web site and spent roughly 20 minutes within the space, based on Kevin Rojek, particular agent in cost on the FBI’s Pittsburgh area workplace.
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On the day of the rally, Crooks parked his car and flew a drone between about 3:50 p.m. and 4 p.m. about 200 yards from the place the previous president can be talking on July 13. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified throughout a July 17 congressional listening to that Crooks had been on the rally web site for about 70 minutes the morning of the assassination try.
Fox Information’ CB Cotton and Seth Andrews contributed to this report.
