Iconic Secret Service Sniper Team Photo Doesn’t Show Agents Who Shot Would-Be Assassin
By Fox News // July 17, 2024
four counter-sniper teams were overlooking the event
(FOX NEWS) – The widely circulated photograph showing a pair of U.S. Secret Service counter snipers on a rooftop overlooking Saturday’s Trump rally does not show the agents who neutralized the threat, authorities said.
There were four counter-sniper teams overlooking the event, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News Digital, two from the USSS and two local teams.
The photo shows the “second team,” he said, which did not fire the fatal shot.
The Secret Service took down Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin, after he killed a spectator and critically wounded two others minutes after former President Donald Trump took the stage. The Republican candidate was struck in the ear and went to a nearby hospital for treatment.
A local marksman also engaged the suspect but did not fire the fatal shot, Butler County officials have confirmed.
Butler Country District Attorney Richard Goldinger told Fox News that officer had been placed on a routine administrative leave, standard procedure for all police-involved shootings.
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