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WASHINGTON — <\/span>The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure<\/a> former President Donald Trump at a rally<\/a> Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one of the agency\u2019s core duties.\"Stormont\"Stormont2,048 \u00d7 1,152<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The gunman, who was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage<\/a> from an \u201celevated position outside of the rally venue,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n

An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a man wearing gray camouflage lying motionless on the roof of a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show grounds, where Trump\u2019s rally was held.<\/p>\n

The roof was less than 150 meters (yards) from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target. For reference, 150 meters is a distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M16 assault rifle in basic training. The AR-style rifle, like that of the gunman at the Trump rally, is the semiautomatic civilian version of the military M16.<\/p>\n

The FBI on Sunday identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The Secret Service did not have a speaker at a late-night news conference where FBI and Pennsylvania State Police officials briefed reporters on the shooting investigation. FBI Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek said it was \u201csurprising\u201d that the gunman was able to fire at the stage before he was killed.<\/p>\n

Members of the Secret Service’s counter-sniper team and counterassault team were at the rally, according to two law enforcement officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to discuss details of the investigation.<\/p>\n

The heavily armed counterassault team, whose Secret Service code name is \u201cHawkeye,\u201d is responsible for eliminating threats so that other agents can shield and take away the person they are protecting. The counter-sniper team, known by the code name \u201cHercules,\u201d uses long-range binoculars and is equipped with sniper rifles to deal with long-range threats.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said his department and the Secret Service are working with law enforcement to investigate the shooting. Maintaining the security of presidential candidates and their campaign events is one of the department\u2019s \u201cmost vital priorities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn this violence in the strongest possible terms and commend the Secret Service for their swift action today,\u201d Mayorkas said. \u201cWe are engaged with President Biden, former President Trump and their campaigns, and are taking every possible measure to ensure their safety and security.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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