Witness says he saw gunman on roof near Trump rally | BBC News |

Mr Smith was listening from outside the rally and said he saw the gunman around five minutes into Trump's speech.

"We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50ft away," he said. "He had a rifle, we could clearly see a rifle.

"We're pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we're like 'Hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle'... and the police did not know what was going on."

Mr Smith said he tried to alert the authorities for three to four minutes, but thought they probably could not see the gunman because of the slope of the roof.

"Why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs here?" he asked. "This is not a big place. "[It's a] security failure, 100% security failure."

He said he later saw the agents shoot the gunman: "They crawled up on the roof, they had their guns pointed at him, made sure he was dead. He was dead, and that was it - it was over."

Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, said agents had "neutralised the shooter" and "quickly responded with protective measures".

The incident is being investigated as an attempted assassination.

A crowd member was killed and two others were critically injured, the service added.

The shooter was taken out by a secret service sniper positioned behind the stage of candidate Trump. Easy shot in the head ... he was later named as 20 year-old, registered as a Republican, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Trump is ready for the Republican Convention to be named as official winner of the primaries.

Joe Biden: "No place for violence like this in America ... it is sick, sick."

Mr President ... your role in foreign policy is much more than just sick. 😡 Hundreds of thousands have been murdered post 9/11 and continues on this very day by ally Israel in the Gaza genocide. Violence goes around and around.

There is no place in America for hateful foreign policy you have put in place under President Barack Obama and continued since 2021. Two wars creating more chaos in Europe and the Middle East.

'Sapere aude'