BOSTON – The country is still reeling from the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Senator Ed Markey expressed his concerns about the shooting on Tuesday. “Thank God he survived,” Senator Markey said on Cape Cod. “What a tragedy that it has occurred.”
Law enforcement officials told CBS News that moments before the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, a police sniper spotted the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthews Crooks, sitting outside of the building he used in his attack, and took a picture of him.
After Crooks was seen looking through a rangefinder, the police sniper immediately alerted the command post. Crooks was spotted again with a backpack, and police backup was called — but by the time officers responded, Crooks had scaled the building and positioned himself above and behind the local snipers inside the building.
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