Law enforcement shot photos of the would-be assassin before the gunman shot bullets at Donald Trump.
Bodycam video released Tuesday by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office shows what appears to be a Secret Service agent with heavily armed law enforcement officers on the roof from which Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at the former president on July 13.
The men compared photos of Crooks taken just before the shooting, when his suspicious behavior attracted attention from authorities guarding the Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The conversation took place feet from the would-be assassin’s body. Crooks was not visible, but the rifle seen in the video and a trail of blood on the gently sloping roof provided the grisly context.
“A Beaver County sniper came and sent the pictures out. This is him,” a local officer told the agent, referring to the body.