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Alleged Trump shooter spotted by law enforcement nearly 30 minutes before shots fired, sources say
WPXI ^ | 7/15/24 | Channel 11

Posted on 07/15/2024 2:36:59 PM PDT by hardspunned

BUTLER, Pa. — Channel 11 news uncovered dramatic new details Monday in the moments leading up to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Thomas Crooks was spotted by law enforcement on a roof nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, killed a former fire chief, and injured two others in the crowd.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 30minutes; assassinationattempt; donutwatch; leos; police; secretservice; thomascrooks
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30 minutes!
1 posted on 07/15/2024 2:36:59 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned
I would think that is more than enough time to shoot him.

I am just curious if there is any way the family of the man who died could sue? Probably not.

2 posted on 07/15/2024 2:38:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: hardspunned

Bonino talked about this in his morning show


3 posted on 07/15/2024 2:39:18 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: nickcarraway

Enough time to STOP AND QUESTION HIM!!!!! SHEESH


4 posted on 07/15/2024 2:39:22 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the goo"d times when people starved)
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To: hardspunned

“Alledged”.......unbelievable


5 posted on 07/15/2024 2:39:48 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: hardspunned

Spotted or directed? At this point, nothing would surprise me. My parent’s and grandparent’s LEOs no longer exist.


6 posted on 07/15/2024 2:39:49 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: hardspunned

If this information is accurate, along w/other readings claiming some woman yelled at the shooter to get down. It solidifies there were others involved. This isn’t a lone wolf incident.


7 posted on 07/15/2024 2:40:26 PM PDT by Son-Joshua ( )
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To: hardspunned

The Secret Service is going to have trouble spinning all the evidence that’s coming out.


8 posted on 07/15/2024 2:40:37 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: hardspunned

“There is a guy on the roof with a rifle in range of the podium where the President is about to speak.”

“Let’s wait and see what he’s up to.”


9 posted on 07/15/2024 2:40:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: hardspunned

Where was Crooks hiding that the people nearby didn’t see him until 2 minutes before the shooting?


10 posted on 07/15/2024 2:41:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: goodnesswins

Channel 11′s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters. According to Ford’s sources, one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person. We have learned from our sources the person in that picture is Thomas Crooks. We’re told it’s not clear if Crooks had a gun with him at that point.

According to multiple sources, a law enforcement officer had also previously seen Crooks on the ground and called him in as a suspicious person with a picture prior to 5:45 p.m. Our sources tell us an officer checked the grounds for Crooks at that point, but did not see him where the first picture was taken.

26 minutes after the second picture of Crooks was taken by law enforcement and the information called in, shots were fired from the roof of the American Glass Research building. Seconds later, a Secret Service sniper returned fire and killed Crooks.


11 posted on 07/15/2024 2:41:08 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Son-Joshua

I agree. A lot of evidence is coming out.


12 posted on 07/15/2024 2:42:08 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: nickcarraway

“is any way the family of the man who died could sue? Probably not”

They are saying it was his father’s rifle.....given that, I don’t see why a civil suit couldn’t be brought.


13 posted on 07/15/2024 2:42:13 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Son-Joshua

And yet, the FBI said this guy acted alone. I sure hope there is a complete investigation and not a white wash.


14 posted on 07/15/2024 2:42:16 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (")
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To: hardspunned

If this is accurate we have incomprehensible incompetence or something worse.


15 posted on 07/15/2024 2:42:21 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: hardspunned

Overheard at the FBI, “what do you mean he missed?” ,


16 posted on 07/15/2024 2:42:47 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: hardspunned

I believe that the Treasury agents that they used to replace the SS members ent off the guard Jill Biden were sent to kill President Trump.


17 posted on 07/15/2024 2:42:53 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: laplata

Sounds more like a Hanlon’s Razor type of situation - if there was a conspiracy, it wouldn’t be this stupidly executed.

Defund movement has had very real effect on LE.


18 posted on 07/15/2024 2:44:34 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: V_TWIN
If true, this would certainly change the narrative...

I'm being tongue-in-cheek while waiting to see if this is credible or not.

19 posted on 07/15/2024 2:44:59 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: hardspunned

Tell me again this was NOT an ordered hit..go ahead, try and convince me..because after this, I have ZERO doubt, ZERO this was an ordered hit..you see this schmuck on a roof for THIRTY MINUTES PRIOR, heck Trump was not even there yet..remember, he was late for the rally..Trump is always basically late for his rallies, sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes longer..so this piece of sh*t was on a roof for thirty minutes and the cops didnt go up there to ask “Hey whatcha doing up there can you come down here a minute”


20 posted on 07/15/2024 2:46:06 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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