A startling new video taken from the perspective of one of the victims of the attempted shooting of Donald Trump shows a disturbing figure running across a rooftop moments before shots were heard.
The clip, obtained by Fox, It was taken by James Copenhaver, an assistant from Butler, Pennsylvania. meeting who was seriously injured in the attempted murder.
It shows a figure appearing on the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building, across from where Trump spoke on July 13.
In the video, the figure appears for about a second and then again around the 2:50 mark.
Shooter Thomas Crooks, 20, is known to have fired his hail of bullets just three minutes after the video was taken.
A startling new video taken from the perspective of one of the victims of the attempted shooting of Donald Trump shows a haunting figure running across a rooftop moments before shots rang out.
One of them grazed Trump’s ear, according to the presidential candidate, while firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, died while trying to protect his family.
Copenhaver, 74, suffered “life-altering injuries” but was recently discharged from hospital.
He is still recovering at a rehabilitation center, according to his attorney, who said he was hit in the arm and abdominal area.
“He almost saw or heard something whizzing past him, which we assumed was a bullet,” attorney Joseph Feldman said.
“He felt it in his arm and he looked down at his arm… and he felt pain at first, but at that point he didn’t even realize he had been shot a second time. It could have been shock.”
David Dutch, 57, was the fourth person injured and was reportedly shot twice and underwent two surgeries.
Crooks was fatally shot by a sniper shortly afterwards, but questions remain about the security breaches that allowed him to carry out the attack.
The lone gunman was identified as a suspicious person prior to the shooting and was seen wandering around the scene of the event in the hours leading up to it.
The clip shows a figure appearing on the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building across from where Trump was speaking on July 13.
The video was taken by James Copenhaver, a protester in Butler, Pennsylvania, who was seriously injured in the attempted murder.
A disturbing video filmed by someone in the crowd appears to show Crooks stalking a building that he would scale 60 minutes later to get the perfect vantage point from which to target Trump.
According to the FBI, he managed to reach the roof of the AGR building by climbing over HVAC equipment and pipes and jumping across several roofs.
Police became aware of a suspicious individual near the protest site about 90 minutes before the shooting began and took photographs of Crooks at the scene.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was forced to resign amid backlash over the gaffes.
The FBI is still trying to investigate the motive for Crooks’ attack. A classmate told DailyMail.com that he had already been investigated for threatening to “shoot up” his school when he was just 15.
The incident was not taken seriously at the time, but is now being investigated by the agency.
