Trump shooting witnesses say they tried to warn police of rooftop gunman
Multiple witnesses say they saw Donald Trump’s suspected shooter climbing on the roof of a Pennsylvania building moments before shots were fired at the former president during a campaign rally Saturday.
Several rally attendees, speaking to media outlets in the aftermath of what being called a failed assassination attempt on Trump, said they even tried to alert police at the Butler, Pa., event before the shooter opened fire.
Easton Smith, who was outside of the rally’s security perimeter, told CBS affiliate WKBN that he saw a man climbing up to the building’s roof but “didn’t know what he was doing.”
Smith told the outlet that he and others nearby were “trying to alert cops and police there was a guy crawling on the roof,” when they spotted the suspected shooter’s rifle.
“After that, a couple shots fired off,” he said.
Another witness, Greg Smith, told BBC News that he also saw that the suspected shooter had crawled to the top of the building, which was located outside the event but had a straight view of the stage where Trump was speaking, backed by an audience of rally supporters.
He said he alerted police to the gunman but was confused when Trump carried on with his remarks.
“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why is Trump still speaking, why have they not pulled him off the stage’… the next thing you know, five shots ring out.”
Witness tells BBC he saw gunman on top of a building located just outside Trump rally
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Smith told the BBC that he first spotted the gunman about five minutes into Trump’s speech.
“We noticed the guy bear-crawling up
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