The district attorney of Butler County, Pennsylvania, Richard Goldinger, has refuted claims made by acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe regarding the monitoring of the rooftop where a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Trump. Goldinger clarified that the local snipers assigned to the July 13 rally were stationed at a window with a different vantage point than the one mentioned by Rowe during his Senate hearing testimony.
Goldinger explained that the snipers from the Butler and Beaver ESU teams were positioned on the second floor of a building adjacent to where the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was located. Their assigned vantage point did not allow them to see Crooks on the roof of another building, as monitoring that specific rooftop was not part of their duties.
