Less than 150 metres appear to have separated former US president Donald Trump, his would-be assassin and the Secret Service shooters who took him out.
A video posted to social media and geolocated by the Associated Press shows the body of a person wearing grey camouflage lying motionless on the roof of a building at AGR International Inc, a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show Grounds where Trump’s rally was held.
The roof where the person lay was less than 150 metres from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target.
Based on its own analysis, CNN put the distance at roughly 120 to 150 metres.
From that distance, US Army recruits must hit a scaled human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M-16 rifle, the military equivalent of the civilian …