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By Stephanie Kelly
The Secret Service said it didn’t have a presence on the roof where a 20-year-old gunman shot at Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday because of the slope of the roof.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in a television interview that part of the reason the agency did not place a police officer on the roof of the building where Thomas Matthew Crooks took aim at the former president because of the grade of the roof.
Two FBI investigators scan the roof of AGR International Inc, the building adjacent to the Butler Fairgrounds, from which shooter Matthew Thomas Crooks fired at former US president Donald Trump.Credit: Getty Images
Local police were instead stationed inside the building by the Secret Service to help spot threats, the Washington Post reported.
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