Shocking video shows would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks crawling onto the roof from where he shot former President Donald Trump — as onlookers frantically point him out to nearby police officers.
Video shared on X captured concerned rally-goers in Butler, Pennsylvania noticing Crooks, 20, crawling onto the roof of a manufacturing plant around 400 feet from where Trump was speaking and growing increasingly frustrated as cops ignore their alarm throughout the 52-second clip.
“Look they’re all pointing,” the man behind the video camera says, with people pointing and looking straight at Crooks, who can be seen clearly on the roof.
“Yeah, someone’s up on the top of the roof. There he is right there,” he says, as others cry out: “Right here, right on the roof!”
Trump can be heard giving his remarks in the background as the camera zooms in on Crooks lying down on the roof on his belly.
Several people can be seen looking at and remarking about the gunman — but cops appear to take no action to confront Crooks, and Trump was allowed to continue speaking.
“Officer!” a man can be heard yelling before a woman jumps in, shouting in a panicked tone: “He’s on the roof!”
Another person then calls out, “He’s getting up now!” as Crooks can be seen in the footage scooting himself forward on his stomach.
Crooks appears completely within the frame for a large chunk of the nearly minute-long video, during which police seemed largely unresponsive to attendee’s concerns.
It was not immediately clear whether the police officers the rally-goers were calling to, who were not pictured in the video, took any immediate action.
The video emerged amidst reports that a local cop spotted Crooks just moments before he tried to kill former president Donald Trump — but failed to stop him.
After rallygoers spotted Crooks on the manufacturing plant roof one officer climbed a ladder to investigate, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
The officer – whose department had been enlisted by the Secret Service to help with security — encountered Crooks, who pointed his AR-style rifle at them.
The cop then backed down the ladder, and Crooks immediately took aim and loosed about eight shots at the former president – grazing him in the ear, killing a hero volunteer firefighter in the crowd and gravely wounding two others, the source said.
Immediately after he took fire, Secret Service agents took Crooks out.
It was not immediately clear Sunday why Crooks targeted the former president.
There was no known manifesto or clear motive posted online by the gunman as of Sunday, according to law enforcement sources.