Secret Service: Shooter fired from elevated position outside Trump rally

Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement the suspected shooter fired "multiple shots toward the stage" at former President Trump's Pennsylvania rally. One spectator was killed and two were critically injured. Ivanka Trump posted on social media thanking the public for love and prayers for her father.

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[benjibanks]

3 snipers set up exactly across from where the shooter was? How didn't they see him with the best high powered scopes money can buy? It's like they waited until he fired his shots before they took him out.

[rstevens]

People are saying this rooftop was only 200 yards away how did the Secret Service miss that when they secured the area before the rally? Something is really wrong here

[stopdroproll]

Canadian here: all I have to say is good luck America! You're going to need it!

[mjdntn]

Secret Service is worthless. How could they allow someone get that close with a gun?

[ghshinn]

Who's going to investigate the investigators?

[votered]

Secret service and pa state police should be ashamed.

[jamescampbell]

Some guy on tv now saying he and others told law enforcement that the guy was climbing on the shed with a rifle and they ignored them. Hmmm.

[jivetalk]

So, how in the wide world of sports did a guy get on a roof within 250 yards of a former President with a weapon?

[RightWingGamerYT]

No matter which political side you’re on, if you don’t feel something from this, I feel sorry for you. Prayers go out to Donald Trump and the innocent bystanders that were hit.

[collincolston]

The Secret Service dropped the ball on this. Spectators could see a man on the building and were notifying police. No way should anyone have been allowed on a rooftop anywhere in the vicinity of the president.

[hogman]

Where was the secret service on this???

[WasntYourFaultYouHaveToLetMeGo]

Secret Service didn't do their jobs properly. How did they allow that suspect to even get up there?

[RandyMartin-jxyi]

Stop the criticism and pray for this man and others involved America, they need you right now !!!

[TraceguyRune]

400 feet is just a tad bit longer than a football field. How did the Secret Service fail this badly?

[everwatchingalwayshere]

Jfk but they missed and killed there shooter before he got arrested this time

[DanielLopes-kvsp]

Secret service heard the shots and did not quickly respond until Trump ducked down.

[raymondperez]

They took forever to get trump off stage they are supposed to rush him off quickly, was all this real??or great marketing..

[joyceevans]

I feel for the person who lost their life and the injured person,
We have to be careful when we threaten and wish harm on others.

[raymondturpin]

Very odd that a high point wasn't covered by the Secret Service.

[BillyDoty-vt]

What security detail of that level isnt going to see a man crawling up to the top of a roof overlooking the one person they are supposed to protect? People were interviewed telling police the man was up there and pointing at secrete service pointing at the assassin! Next level incompetence by who ever was over the security detail and the birds eye zone in particular,