Depending on how the details of the shooting pan out, but I presume the guy only managed to sneak a handgun in.
So if the plan was to aim to only deliver a flesh wound with a handgun at long range, as a false-assassination plan had a huge chance of becoming an accidental real-assissination because there ain't no way to guarantee that level of accuracy.
It was a dude who climbed up a roof behind the rally and had a clear shot with a rifle from around 150 yards away. Secret service fucked up big time, intentionally or unintentionally. Eye witness account is circulating on Twitter saying people were frantically pointing the shooter out to police for a couple minutes before he fired.
It was a guy on a nearby roof with a rifle mounted on a bipod, now dead. BBC interviewed someone who claims to have alerted police/secret service to his suspicious presence on the roof before the shooting began. More details:
Depending on how the details of the shooting pan out, but I presume the guy only managed to sneak a handgun in.
So if the plan was to aim to only deliver a flesh wound with a handgun at long range, as a false-assassination plan had a huge chance of becoming an accidental real-assissination because there ain't no way to guarantee that level of accuracy.
It was a dude who climbed up a roof behind the rally and had a clear shot with a rifle from around 150 yards away. Secret service fucked up big time, intentionally or unintentionally. Eye witness account is circulating on Twitter saying people were frantically pointing the shooter out to police for a couple minutes before he fired.
Jesus, what a huge fuck up, wouldn't have thought them letting something like that slip through was even a possiblity.
It was a guy on a nearby roof with a rifle mounted on a bipod, now dead. BBC interviewed someone who claims to have alerted police/secret service to his suspicious presence on the roof before the shooting began. More details:
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1812274936096178683